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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(l) Be it as it will, the Book of Judges is anci∣ent.] To prove that this Book was not compo∣sed till after the Captivity, they commonly in∣stance in these words in Chap. 18. Vers. 30, 31. Untill the day of the Captivity of the Land; and in these, In those days there was no King in Israel. Words, say they, which demonstrate that this Book was written after the Captivity, and in the time when they had Kings in Israel. But the Captivity spoken of in this place, is not that of Babylon, but the Captivity that happened in

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the time of Heli, when the Ark was taken by the Phllistines, and the Idol of Micah was de∣stroyed, as it is observed in this place of the Book of Judges. And as for these words, In those days there was no King in Israel, they don't necessarily suppose that there were any when this Author lived, and perhaps they were added by Ezrah.

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