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 17, 2024.
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SEDULIUS.
COELIUS SEDUIUS* 1.1, a Christian Poet, composed, under the Empire of Theodosius II. and Valentinian III. about the Year 430. an Heroick Poem, of the Life * 1.2 of Jesus Christ: It is entitled, Opus Paschale, A Paschal Work, because that Jesus Christ is our Passover. It is divided into Five Books; The First begins at the Creation of the World, and runs through the most remarkable Histories of the Old Testament. The Three others contain the Life of Jesus Christ. This Work is dedicated to an Abbot called Macedo∣nius. It hath been reviewed and published by † 1.3Turcius Asterius. Arator, Cassiodorus, Fortu∣natus and Gregorius Turonensis, mention it as an excellent Poem. He put it himself after∣ward into Prose, [and adding it to the former Four in Verse, made the Work to contain Five Books;] we have them both, with an Acrostick Hymn, which contains the Life of
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Jesus Christ in short. This Author had a Genius, the Style of his Poem is Noble and Great, his Notions are Poetical, and his Verses very passable. It is not necessary to advertise [the Reader,] that this Sedulius is different from him who made the Commentary upon all S. Paul's Epistles, which is nothing properly but an Extract of the Commentaries of others. Since he quotes Authors much later than the Poet Sedulius, and among others S. Gregory the Pope, and Venerable Bede. It is evident that he lived a long Time after. This is he who was an Englishman and Co-temporary with Bede.
The Poem of Sedulius hath been printed by Aldus Manutius in 1502. at Basil [in 1528, 1534. and with the Notes of Antonius Nebrissensis] in 1541. and ••••th been put into the Bibliotheca Pa••••••m [Tom. 6.]