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 COUNCILS of Constantinople.

FOR the better understanding the History of the Council of Constantinople, which is called the * 1.1 Second General Council, we must distinguish Three Assemblies of Bishops held at Constantinople at Three several times.

The First was held in the Month of May in the Year 381. In was compos'd of all the Bishops of the Eastern Empire, except Egypt. Meletius of Antioch presided in the Assemble, and confirmed St. Gregory Nazianzen in the See of the Church of Constantinople. There is some probability that in this Synod the Canon was made, wherein the Election of Maximus is condemned, who endeavou∣red to invade the See of the Church of Constantinople, and also the Canon wherein the second place of Honour is granted to the Bishop of Constantinople. However this be, Meletius died before the end of this Synod, his Body was carried back to Antioch, and the Eastern Bishops chose in his room Flavia∣nus, contrary to the Promise that was made while Meletius was alive, That no Person should succeed in the room of the Bishop that died first.

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* 1.1

Of the First of Constanti¦nople, 381.

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