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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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]
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Of the COUNCIL of Milan.

LIberius being informed of the Fall of his Legates, sendeth Lucifer Bishop of Calaris, to wait up∣on * 1.1 the Emperour, and desire of him a new Synod. The Emperour granted him one, and caus'd it to meet at Milan in the Year 355: But it did not answer the Pope's Expectation. The Emperour caus'd the Bishops of the East and the West to be Summoned to it; but yet it was compos'd only of the Western Bishops. There came almost 300 to it. Thither they brought Eusebius of Verceilles, and Lucifer of Calaris, who was the Pope's Legate, together with Pancratius the Priest, and Hilary the Deacon. These were invited to the Synod, and were urged to subscribe the Condemnation of St. A∣thanasius: They answer'd, That they must First handle Matters of Faith; That they saw in the As∣sembly some Hereticks, or such as were suspected of Heresy; That in the First place they must make profession of the Faith contain'd in the Nicene Creed. Dionysius of Milan took Pen and Paper, to write down and sign the Creed: But presently Ursacius and Valens took them by force out of his hands. Thereupon there arose a great Tumult, the People were put in a Commotion, and the Bishops withdrew to the Palace, where they were press'd to sign a Letter written in the Emperour's Name against St. Athanasius. There were but few Bishops who could resist the Emperour's Sollicita∣tions, and those who were so stedfast as to do it, viz. Eusebius of Verceilles, Dionysius of Milan, and some others, were sent into banishment. Baluzius in his new Collection of Councils, has cau∣sed the New Acts of this Council to be printed, taken out of the Life of Eusebius of Verceilles, published by Ughellus in the First Tome of his Italia Sacra; but there is no probability that they are Authentical.

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* 1.1

Of Milan, 355.

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