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.

SAMUEL.

THE Relation which Gennadius gives of this Author, is this: He saith, That Samuel▪ a Priest of the Church of Edessa, wrote in the Syrian Tongue several Books against the * 1.1 Enemies of the Church, principally against the Nestorians, Eutychians, and Tim••theans, all different Hereticks▪ which he hath often described as a Beast with Three Heads, and con∣futes them by the Doctrine of the Church, and the Authority of Holy Scripture, demon∣strating against the Nestorians, That the Word is God-Man, and not a mere Man born of the Virgin; against the Eutychians, That God took real Flesh in the Womb of the Virgin, that he had it not from Heaven, and that his Flesh was not formed out of condensed Air; and against the Timotheans; That the Word was made Flesh, but so, that he retain'd his Substance, as well as the Humanity, its Nature. He was made One Person by the Union, and by the mixture of the Two Natures. He is said to be yet at Constantinople, for it was in the begin∣ning of the Empire of Anthemius, that I heard this news of him, and his Works. Anthemi∣us began his Reign in the Year of Christ 467.

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  Samuel.