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.

SABBATIUS.

SABBATIUS, a Bishop in Gaul, at the request of a Virgin that was Consecrated to God, whose Name was Secunda, wrote a Book of Faith against Marcion, Valentinus, Aëtius, and * 1.1 Eunomius; wherein he demonstrates both by Reason and Testimonies of Holy Scripture, That there is but one only God who made Heaven and Earth out of nothing: He proves also that Jesus Christ was very Man, having had a real Body, subject to the same infirmities with our's, to the necessity of Eating and Drinking, to Weariness, Sorrow, Sufferings and Death. He oppo∣ses these Truths to the Errors of Marcion and Valentinus, who admitted two Principles, and affirmed that Jesus Christ had onely the Similitude of Flesh: He sheweth against Aëtius and Eunomius, That the Father and the Son are not two different Natures, nor two Divinities, but that they have but one and the same Essence; That the Son proceedeth from the Father, and yet is co-eternal with him. This is what Gennadius saith of this Author, whom he places among those who flourished in the beginning of the Fifth Century.

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• * 1.1

  Sabbatius.