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.

NICEAS.

THE Account which Gennadius gives of this Author is this.

Niceas, Bishop of some Town in Romania, hath written after a plain and easy manner, six Books of Instructions * 1.1 for those that were preparing for Baptism. The First is concerning the Dispositions of Catechu∣mens, who desired to be baptized. The Second of the Errors of the Gentiles. He observes that in his time they put into the number of the Gods one Melchidius, a House-keeper, because of his Liberality; and one Gadarius, a Peasant, because of his Strength. The Third Book is of Faith in one only God. The Fourth is against Calculating of Nativities. The Fifth is concerning the Creed. The Sixth concerning the Victim of the Paschal Lamb. The same Author writ a Letter to a Virgin that was fallen into Sin. Which Discourse may serve for an Exhortation to all those that commit Sin. This Author lived about the beginning of the Fifth Century.

And this is all that, we know of him.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Niceas.