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 18, 2024.
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SERVUS DEI.
THe Bishop Servus Dei hath Written against those that say, That Jesus Christ did not see his Fa∣ther in this Life with his bodily Eyes, until after his Resurrection from the Dead and Ascen∣sion, * 1.1 when he was translated into the Glory of his Father; and that that Vision was the Reward of his Sufferings. He shews, I say, against these Opinions as well by Testimonies of Holy Scripture, as by Rational Argument; That our Lord Jesus Christ did always see the Father and Holy Spirit with his bodily Eyes, from the very time of his Conception by the Holy Ghost, and Birth of
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•…•…e Virgin; and that this Priviledge was granted him upon the account of the intimate Union that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 was between the Humane and Divine Nature. This is all Gennadius saith of this Author. Th•• Common Opinion of Divines is, That the Humane Nature of Jesus Christ did always enjoy 〈◊〉〈◊〉 clear Vision of God, which they call the Beatifick Vision; but they do not believe, that he saw 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with his bodily Eyes. The Vision of God is Spiritual, in which the bodily Eyes have no share. It is also Question'd, whether they may not be able to do it, thro' the infinite power of God. If 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Author believed, that Jesus Christ saw the Divine Nature with his bodily Eyes, he must be very gross in his conceptions. Saint Austin had confuted him long before, but it may be he will say, as the Schoolmen do, and understand by the Bodily Eyes, the Humane intellectual faculty in Jesus C••••ist.