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 the Egyptian Bishops, held at Antioch.

THE Emperour Jovian, a most pious Prince, being at Antioch in the Year 363, desir'd of St. Atha∣nasius * 1.1 and the Egyptian Bishops, who were come to wait upon him in that City, that they would explain to him the Faith of the Church. These Bishops being assembled, propos'd to him no other Creed but that of the Council of Nice, and rejected the Error of the Macedonians who denied the Divinity of the Holy Spirit. It is commonly thought that this Council was assembled at Alex∣andria: But it appears by the Letter which it presented to the Emperour, related by Theodoret Ch. 3. of the 4th. B. of his History, That it was compos'd of some Egyptian Bishops, representing all the other Bishops of their Province, who had deputed them: Which plainly shews, That this Council was held out of Egypt, in the place where the Emperour was, that is, in Antioch, where 'tis certain St. Atha∣nasius came to wait upon Jovian.

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* 1.1

Of the E∣gyptian Bi∣shops held at Antioch, 363.

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