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.

Of the Education of Children, and the Duties of the Master of a Family.

S. Chrysostom being yet in his Retirement, and sensible of the little care that Fathers took to bring up their Children well, employs part of the Third Book against those that found fault with a Monastick Life, to complain of that miscarriage; and goes so far as to affirm, That a Father who breeds up his Child ill, is more cruel than he that puts him to death; because he makes him liable to eternal Damnation, which is infinitely worse than loss of life. This matter is handled likewise in the Homilies concerning Hannah; where he shews, That not only Fathers, but Mo∣thers also are obliged to give their Children good Education. In the 60th. Homily upon S. Mat∣thew, he blameth the Carelesness of Parents in the choice of a Tutour. Lastly, In the 21st. and 22d. Homilies upon the Epistle to the Ephesians, he admonishes Fathers to be less sollicitous about their Children's getting School-learning; and to take more care that they be taught Piety and the Christian Religion. Read the 59th. Homily upon S. Matthew; the 9th. upon 1 Tim. and the 1st. upon Rom. where he discourseth of the Duties of a Master in a Family, in relation to his Wife, Children and Servants. He observes in the 15th. Homily upon the Epistle to the Ephesians, That a Mistress is not to abuse her Maid-servants. See also the 16th. Homily upon the 1st. Epistle to Timothy.