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 18, 2024.
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Of the COUNCIL of Cirtha.
THE Violence of the Persecution being a little abated in Africk in the Year of Jesus Christ 305, some Bishops of Numidia assembled at the beginning of the Month of May in the City of * 1.1Cirtha, in the House of one Donatus, because the Churches were not yet restor'd. The occasion of this Synod was the Ordination of a Bishop into the See of this City of Numidia in the room of Paul. The Bishops which were present there were Secundus of Tigisis, Donatus of Mascula; Ma∣rinus of Aquae Tibilitanae, Donatus of Calama, Purpurius of Limata, Victor of Garbis, Felix of Ro∣tarium, Nabor of Centurio, and Secundus the younger. A Bishop call'd Menalius would not be present for fear of being accus'd and convicted of having sacrificed to Idols. These Bishops, who were afterwards
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the Heads of the Donatist Faction, accus'd one another mutually in this Council, and all of them fearing lest they should be convicted of the Crimes of which they had accus'd one another; they * 1.2 pardon'd one another, referring themselves to the Judgment of God: After which they ordain'd Silvanus Bishop of Cirtha. You have the Acts of this Council in St. Austin in his Third Book against Cresconius, Chap. 27.