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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Title: 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.
Author: Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,; MDCXCIII [1693]
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Subject terms: Church history.; Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.; Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
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The III COUNCIL of ARLES.

THIS Council was assembled about the Year 455. Octob. 30. to determine the difference which was between Faustus Abbot of Lerins, and Theodorus Bishop of Forum. July, about the Priviledges of the Monastery of Lerins. Here it was decreed that the Clergy, who Minister at the Altar, should be Ordain'd by Theodorus only, or by him whom he Com∣missions, that they shall receive the Chrism from him: If there be any Novices, he shall confirm them, and they shall not admit strange Clergymen to the Sacrament but by his Order, but all the Laymen of the Monastery should be subject to the Abbot only, and the Bishops shall not be con∣cerned with them, nor shall Ordain any of them against the consent of the Abbot.