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.

(d) The Consent of all Nations.] 'Tis certain, that not only the Jews were always of opinion, that these Books were written by Moses, but also that all People have considered Moses as the Au∣thor of the Law and Religion of the Jews. 'Tis the unanimous Consent of all Nations, and all Men, no one ever questioning the Truth of it before these last Ages. Huetius maintains, that all Religions have borrowed their Theology out of the Books of Moses, whose History they have purposely altered and disguised, to accommodate it the better to their Fables. He pretends, for Instance, That Adonis of the Phaenicians; that Mercury, Osiris, Serapis, Anubis, and the other Gods of the Aegyptians; that Zoroaster of the Persians, and the Divinities of the Western Na∣tions; that Cadmus, Apollo, Priapus, Aesculapius, Prometheus, and the other Gods of the Graecians; that Janus, Faunus, Vertumnus, Evander of the Latins; in a word, that all these Fabulous Deities, were taken out of the Books of Moses, but dis∣guised according to the Pagan manner, and put into a new Dress. But these Conjectures being only Probabilities, and no more, cannot serve to demon∣strate a Truth, which does not need such Sup∣ports, as being clearly established upon indispu∣table Principles.