A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
About this Item
Title
A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
Author
Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
Publication
London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,
MDCXCIII [1693]
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms
Church history.
Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.
Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69887.0001.001
Cite this Item
"A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
Pages
SERAPION Bishop of Thmuis.
VVE must not confound this Serapion, whom we now write of, with the famous Serapion Abbot in the Territory of Arsinoe, though he was a Monk and Abbot as well as the other; * 1.1 but this Serapion was Ordain'd towards the Year 340. Bishop of Thmuis a City of Egypt, in the Pro∣vince of Sceta, by St. Athanasius, as we find in his Epistle to Dracontius. St. Jerom says, That this Bishop deserv'd the Name of a Scholar because of his Eloquence; That he was St. Anthony's Friend, and had the honour to be a Confessor under Constantius, that is to say, to Suffer for the Defence of the Faith of the Council of Nice, and the Innocence of St. Athanasius. 'Tis probable, that 'tis he, whose Name is read among the Subscriptions of the Letter from the Council of Sardica: 'Tis he also
descriptionPage 59
who wrote to St. Athanasius about the Death of Arius, as we learn by the Answer of this Father, which is directed to him. St. Jerom, says, That he wrote a Book against the Manichees, a Treatise of the Titles of the Psalms, and many very useful Letters: We have no more extant, but his Trea∣tise against the Manichees, publish'd by Canisius, wherein he proves, That Vice or Evil, is not a Substance, and that our Nature is not Evil of it self: Which he proves chiefly, because many very wicked Persons do afterwards become very pious and vertuous. This is the Subject of this little Treatise. The Arguments in it are very Solid, but the Stile is very Simple and without Art.