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.
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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.
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Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
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London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,
MDCXCIII [1693]
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Church history.
Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.
Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
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"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.
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Of the pretended COUNCIL of Tyre against St. Athanasius.
THE Emperour call'd a Council in the Year 335, in the City of Tyre, to judge the Cause of * 1.1 St. Athanasius. He wrote a Letter to the Bishops of this Synod, wherein he exhorts them to settle Peace and Concord in the Church: He recommended it to them to Judge justly and without Prejudice, and threatned those with banishment who would not appear at the Council. He sent thither Count Dionysius with Guards to hinder any Disorder. This Council consisted of Sixty Ea∣stern Bishops or thereabouts. St. Athanasius came thither with Forty Bishops of Egypt; he was forc'd to appear there as a Criminal. Several Accusations were propos'd which could not be prov'd, and so they insisted upon that of the Chalice, which they alledg'd he had caus'd to be broken in
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Maraeotis by his Priest Macarius. The Council sent Deputies to the places to inform themselves of the Truth or Falshood of this Story. But since the Deputies were the greatest Enemies of St. Atha∣nasius, who could not fail of returning their Information to his Disadvantage, he thought himself obliged to retire, and appeal to the Emperour. Some time after, the Deputies returning with an In∣formation, which they had made as they would themselves, the Synod pronounced against him a Sen∣tence of Condemnation and Deposition.