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.

COMMENTARIES AND DISCOURSES Upon the Holy Scripture.

Books of Criticism.

• EUsebius's Treatise of the Places in the Holy Land.
• —Evangelical Canons and Letter to Carpianus.
• Eustathius of Antioch's Discourse of the Pythoniss, or Witch of Endor.
• St. Gregory Nyssen's Treatise on the same Subject.
• Fragment of St. Athanasius's Festival Epistle.
• St. Athanasius's Abridgment of the Scriptures.
• —Book to Marcellinus upon the Psalms.
• St. Gregory Nyssen's Treatise upon the Inscriptions of the Psalms.
• Questions upon the Old and New Testament, believed to be written by Hilary the Deacon.
• St. Ambrose's Preface upon St. Luke.
• St. Epiphanius of Weights and Measures.
• —Physiologus.
• —Of the Twelve Precious Stones on the Breast of the High-Priest.
• —Of the Life and Death of the Prophets.

Upon the Old Testament.

• Victorinus's Tract upon the beginning of Day.
• St. Basil's Commentary upon the beginning of Genesis.
• —Two Homilies upon the Creation of Man.
• —A Homily upon Paradise.
• St. Gregory Nyssen of the Creation of the World.
• —Of the Formation of Man.
• —Of the Life of Moses.
• St. Hilary's Commentary upon the Psalms.
• Translation of the Psalms in Verse, by Apollinarius.
• Twenty Two Homilies of St. Basil upon the Psalms.
• St. Gregory Nyssen's Homily on the fifth Psalm.
• St. Basil's Homily upon the sixth Chapter of Proverbs.
• —Commentary upon the sixteen first Chapters of Isaiah.
• St. Gregory Nyssen's Homily upon Ecclesiastes and the Canticles.
• Victorinus's Poem upon the Maccabees.
• St. Ambrose's Treatise of the Creation of the World, and the rest that follow in the First Volume of his Works.

Upon the New Testament.

• Juvencus's Paraphrase of the Gospels in Verse.
• St. Hilary's Commentary on St. Matthew's Gospel.
• St. Gregory Nyssen upon the Lord's Prayer, and upon the Beatitudes.
• St. Athanasius upon these Words of our Saviour, Who∣ever shall blaspheme, &c.
• —Fragments upon these Words of our Saviour, My Soul is heavy even unto Death, &c.
• Commentaries upon all the Epistles of St. Paul, attri∣buted to St. Ambrose, but believed to belong to Hilary the Deacon.
• St. Gregory Nyssen's Homily upon the fifteenth Chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians.
• Didymus's Commentary upon the Canonical Epistles.
• St. Ambrose's Commentary upon St. Luke's Gospel.
• —Letters 7th. 8th. 27th. and the five following, also 43d. 44th. 50th. 65th. and the nine following.

Historical Discourses.

• Eusebius's Apology for Origen.
• —Chronicon.
• —Ecclesiastical History.
• —Treatise concerning the Martyrs of Palaestine.
• —Books of the Life of Constantine.
• —Of the Names of Places in the Holy Land.
• —Panegyrick upon Constantine.
• Constantine's Letters and Edicts.
• —Harangue to the Council of Nice.
• Juvencus's Poem of the Life of Jesus Christ.
• St. Athanasius's Historical Treatises.
• —Apologetick to Constantius.
• —Letters to the Egyptians, and to the Orthodox.
• —First Apology.
• —Second Apology.
• —Historical Treatise to those that lead a Mona∣stick Life.
• —Letter to Serapion, upon the death of Arius.
• —Discourse of Synods.
• —Letters of Lucifer.
• —Letters to the Bishops of Egypt Arabia, &c.
• —Letters of the Council of Alexandria.
• —Letter to Jovian.
• —Letter to the Africans.
• —Letter to John and Antiochus.
• ...

• —Letter concerning the Opinion of Dionysius of Alexandria.
• —Letter concerning the Decision of the Council of Nice.
• —Epistle to Palladius.
• —Conference with the Arians.
• —Life of St. Anthony.
• Hosius's Letter to Constantius.
• Julius's Letter to the Eastern and Egyptian Bishops.
• Liberius's Letters.
• St. Hilary's Treatise of Synods.
• —Discourses to Constantius.
• —Fragments.
• —Conference against Auxentius.
• Peter of Alexandria II. his Letters.
• St. Cyril's Letter upon the Apparition of the Cross.
• Damasus's Letters.
• The greatest part of the Letters of St. Basil.
• St. Gregory Nazianzen's Discourses 7th. 25th. 26th. 30th. 41st. and some others.
• —His Panegyricks, which are Sermons 6th. 10th. 11th. 18th. 19th. 20th. 22d. 23d. and 24th.
• —First Poem upon his Life.
• —Discourse upon Bishops.
• —His Testament.
• St. Gregory Nyssen's Funeral Orations and Panegyricks.
• —Letter to Flavianus.
• Eusebius Vercellensis his Three Letters.
• Marcellinus and Faustinus, Luciferians, their Petition ad∣dressed to the Emperours Valentinian and Theo∣dosius.
• St. Ambrose's Letters 20th. 22d. and 24th.
• —Panegyrick on Theodosius and Valentinian.
• Philastrius of Heresies.
• St. Epiphanius of Heresies.
• —An Abridgment of it by himself.
• —His History of the Lives and Deaths of the Prophets.
• Hilarion's Chronicle.