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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Title: 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.
Author: Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,; MDCXCIII [1693]
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The First Council of Carthage, against Coelestius.

COELESTIUS came from Rome, to Carthage, with a Design to be there ordained * 1.1 Priest in the Year 411. But his Error being discovered by Paulinus the Deacon, who for∣merly had been a Reader in the Church of Milan, he was put off to a Council of Carthage, held about the latter end of the Year 411, or the beginning of 412. by Aurelius Bishop of Carthage. He was particularly asked, Whether he believed original Sin. He would never ac∣knowledge it as a matter of Faith; and affirmed, before the Council, that several Catholicks held, That Children were not born in Sin, but in the same State wherein Adam was, before he had offended God. The Bishops of this Council being not able to make him alter his Opi∣nion, Excommunicated him, and he was forced to leave Africa. St. Augustin relates some Fragments of the Acts of this Council, in the Second Book of Grace, and Original Sin. Ma∣rius Mercator hath also written the History of that Council.

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* 1.1

Council I. of Carthage against Coelestius, in ccccxj.

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