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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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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Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
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London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,
MDCXCIII [1693]
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Church history.
Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.
Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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COELESTIUS.
COELESTIUS, Pelagius his Country-man and Disciple a 1.1, was guilty of the same Errors; yea, he carried them farther, and maintained them with greater Boldness. He was * 1.2 of a subtil and cunning Temper b 1.3. He included his whole Doctrine in six propositions, which Hilary of Syracuse sent to S. Augustin, who refutes them in the Eighty ninth Epistle. They are related likewise by Marius Mercator; and were condemned in the Synod of Palaestine where, Pelagius himself was constrained to Anathematize them. S. Augustin published, and withal answered eight Definitions, or Reasonings of this Author. He presented a kind of Confession of Faith to Pope Zosimus, out of which S. Augustin produces some Fragments in the fifth, sixth, and twenty third Chapters of the second Book of Grace, and Original Sin.
Notes
a 1.1
Coelestius, Pelagius his Country-man and Disciple.] S. Jerom says that he was of Scotland or Ireland; that he was a Disciple of Pelagius, and afterwards Head of the Pelagians. Marius Mercator says that he was of a good Family, and born an Eunuch, and wanted no Lear∣ning.
He was of a subtil and cunning Tem∣per.] S. Jerom in his Letter to Ctesiphon ob∣serves that his Disciples said that he went over the Thorns of Logick. He professeth to despise him much, and calleth him ignorant Calumnia∣tor, in his Preface upon Jeremy. But S. Augu∣stin, in his Book to Boniface, Chap. 3. takes notice that he had a great deal of Wit.