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 Rome under Damasus.

IN the Year 370, Pope Damasus assembled a Council at Rome, in whose Name a Synodical Letter was written against the Arians, produced in Greek by Theodoret, B. VI. of his History, Ch. 23, and * 1.1 by Sozomen, B. II. Ch. 22. and published in Latin by Holstenius. It is address'd to the Bishops of Illyricum, and not to the Bishops of the East, since these last are mentioned in the Third Person. This Synod confirms the Faith of the Council of Nice; and declares that Auxentius Bishop of Milan was condemned by the Bishops of France. It excommunicates those who do not believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one and the same Divinity, and one and the same Substance. It observes, That the Council of Ariminum, could not prejudice the Decisions of the Council of Nice, because those who made the Creed of Ariminum, protested afterwards against what they had done, and also because nei∣ther the Bishop of Rome, whose Judgment was chiefly to be waited for, nor Vincentius of Capua, nor many other Bishops, did ever consent to the Decision of the Council of Ariminum. Lastly, they say, That they hope that the Bishops who hold not the Doctrine established by the Nicene Creed, should quickly be deprived of their Bishopricks, and they exhort the Bishops of Illyricum constantly to de∣fend the true Faith.

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* 1.1

Of Rome, under Da∣masus, 370.

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