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.

A TABLE of the Works of the Ecclesiastical Writers, who died since the Year 430, disposed ac∣cording to the Order of the Matters they treat of.

Treatises about the Truth of Religon, against the Heathens and Jews.

• THE Letters of S. Isidore Pelusiota.
• 17 Letters of S. Cyril, concerning the Worship of God in Spirit and in Truth.
• A Confutation of Julian's Books against the Christian Religion.
• 12 Discourses of Theodoret concerning the Cure of the Heathens False Opinions.
• 10 Discourses of Providence.
• Vincentius Lerinensis his Memoir.

Treatises of the Trinity.

• S. Isidore's Letters. S. Cyril's, Thesaurus, Eugeni∣us, and Cerealis's Confession of Faith.
• Fausius. Of the Generation of the Son.
• 12 Books of the Trinity, by Vigilius Tapsensis.
• His Writings against Varimadus, Faelician, and Palladius. His Conferences between Arius, and Athanasius.
• Paschasius of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit.

Treatises upon the Incarnation.

• Leporius's Retractations.
• S. Isidore's Letters.
• 7 Books of Cassian upon the Incarnation.
• The Greatest part of S. Cyril's Works.
• Theodotus's Sermons. Proclus's Sermons.
• A Treatise of Capreolus.
• Theodoret's Writings, and Letters.
• The Writings of Andrew Bishop of Samosata.
• The Letters of several Eastern Bishops in the Collections published by F. Lupus.
• The Writings of Eutherius of Tyana.
• S. Leo's Letter to Flavian, and some others.
• Faustus's Letter to Gratus, and Faelix.
• The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon and Ephe∣sus, with the Letter and Pieces written on that Subject.
• The Encyclical Code.

Treatises about Grace and Freewill.

• S. Caelestine's Letter and Aphorisms.
• Some of S. Leo's Letters.
• Marius Mercators Treatises.
• Julian's Treatises. S. Prosper's Works.
• The Treatise of the Vocation of the Gentiles, and the Epistle to Demetrias.
• The Works of Faustus Reiensis.

About the Nature of the Soul.

• Three Books of Claudianus Mamertus.
• Faustus's Treatise upon the same Subject.
• Nemesius's Treatise of the Nature of Man.
• A Treatise of the Immortality of the Soul, by Aeneas Gazaeus.

Treatises upon several points of Loctrine.

• S. Isidore's Letters.
• The Confessions of Faith attributed ••o Rufinus.
• Sentences taken out of S. Austin, by S. Prosper.
• Gennadius's Treatise of Ecclesiastical Doctrines.
• The Treatises concerning the Name of God, and the Coelestial Hierarch attribut••d to S. Dionysius.

Treatises against Hereticks.

• Theodoret's last Book of Heretical Fables
• Vincentius Lerinensis's Memoir.
• ...
  Against the Nestorians.
  • Three Books of Cassian upon the Incarnati••n.
  • The greatest part of S. Cyril's Books.
  • M. Mercator's Memoirs and Collections.
  • Extracts of Nestorius's Sermons, and other Vri∣tings.
  Against the Pelagians.
  • S. Caelestine's Letter and Aphorisms, about Gr••ce.
  • M. Mercator's Treatises.
  • Julian's Treatises for the Pelagians.
  • S. Prosper's Works.
  • Pope Gelasius's Treatise against the Pelagians.
  Against the Eutychians.
  • Theodoret's Eranistes.
  • His Chapters against S. Cyril.
  • Vigilius Taps. 5 Books against Eutyches.
  • P. Gelasius's Treatise against Eutyches and Nesto∣rius.

Books concerning Discipline.

• Atticus's Letter to Calliopius. S. Isidore's Letters
• S. Caelestine's Letter to the Bishops of the Pro∣vinces of Vienna, and Narbon.
• Other Letters of his to the Bishops of Apulia, and Calabria.
• Some of S. Cyril's Letters.
• Some of Theodoret's.
• The greatest part of S. Leo's Letters.
• Salvian's Books to the Catholick Church.
• The Letters of the Bishops Hilary, Simplicius, Faelix III. and Gelasius.
• Sidonius's Letters, which we have abridged.
• P. Gelasius's Treatise of the binding power of an Anathema.
• The Treatise of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy attributed to Diomysius.
• The Acts of the Council of Ephesus, and chiefly that which is said in the first Action, about the manner of proceeding against Nestorius, with the Decrees, and six Canons made in the 7th Action.
• ...

• The Decrees of the Council of Ries.
• 30 Canons of the Council of Orange.
• 10 Canons of the Council of Vasio.
• 56 Canons of the II Council of Arles.
• The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, and chiefly the Actions of Carosus and Dorotheus, the Decrees made in the 7, 8, 9, and follow∣ing Sessions, and particularly in the 15th, which contains 30 Canons.
• The Constitution of the Council of Constantino∣ple under Gennadius concerning Simony.
• 13 Canons of the Council of Tours.
• 16 Canons of the Councils of Venice.
• The Councils of Rome under the Bishops Hilari us, Simplicius, and Gelasius.

Critical Works upon the Scripture, and other Ecclesiastical Writings.

• Tictionius's 7 Rules for the Explication of the Scriptures.
• S. Isidore's Letters upon the Scripture.
• Theodoret's Prefaces to his Commentaries.
• The two first Chapters of the Writing of Eu∣therius of Tyana.
• S. Eucherius's Treatise of Spiritual Forms.
• Gelasius's Treatise of Apocryphal Books.
• Gennadius of Ecclesiastical Writers.
• Gelasius's Decree concerning the Canonical and Apocryphal Books.

Commentaries upon the Holy Scripture. Upon GENESIS.

• S. Cyril's Glaphyra.
• Theodoret's Commentary on the Penteteuch, and the three following Books.

Upon the PSALMS.

• Theodoret's Commentaries.
• S. Prosper's Commentary upon the 50 last Psalms.
• Arnobius Junior, Commentary on the Psalms.

On the Books of SOLOMON.

• Salonius and Veranus's Explication of the Proverbs of Solomon, and mystical Explication.

Upon the PRROPHETS.

• S. Cyril's Commentary upon Isaiah, and the 12 Minor Prophets.
• Theodoret's Commentary upon all the Prophets great and small, except Isaiah.

Upon the EVANGELISTS.

• Victor of Antioch's Commentary on Mark.
• S. Cyril's Commentary upon S. John's Gospel.

Upon S. PAUL's Epistle.

• Theodoret's Commentaries upon all S. Paul's Epi∣stles.

Historical Books.

• Cassian's Conferences.
• S. Nilus's Relation of the Persecution of the Monks of Mount Sinai.
• Possidius's Life of S. Austin.
• Uramius's Life of Paulinus.
• M. Mercator's Memoirs against the Pelagians and Nestorians, as also the Pieces collected by him.
• The Fragments of Philostorgius's Church History.
• The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret.
• The History, Entituled, Philotheus.
• Theodoret's four first Books of Heretical Fables.
  • His Letter to Sporatius.
  • Several other Letters of his.
• Irenaeus's Tragedy, of which we have some Fragments.
• Hilary Bishop of Arles's Life of Honoratus.
• S. Prosper's Chronicon.
• Constantius's Life of S. German.
• Paulinus's six Books of the Lite and Miracles of S. Austin.
• Idacius's Chronicon and Kalendar of the Coss.
• Victor Vitens••s's History of the Persecution of the Vandals.
• Victorius's Paschal Cycle.
• The Memoir about the Affair of Acacius.
• The History of the Council of Nice, by Gelasius Cyzicenus.
• The Acts of the Councils of Chalcedon and E∣phesus, and other pieces which concern them
• The Book of Circular Letters.

POEMS.

• Victorinus's Poem upon the Hexa-emeron.
• Sedulius's Poem upon the Life of Jesus Christ.
• Nonnus's Paraphrase of the Gospel of S. John.
• Hilary Bishop of Arles Poem upon the Hexa-emeron.
• Dracontius's Poem upon the same.
• Homer's Cento's. Virgil's Cento's.
• Asterius's Comparison of the Old and New Testament.
• Mamertus's Hymn. Pange Lingua.
• Sidonius's Panegyrick, and other Poems.

Books of PIETY, MORALITY, and DIVINITY.

• S. Isidore's Letters. S. Nilus's Treatises.
• Cassians Institutions of the Monks and Confe∣rences.
• The Consolatory Letters of Antoninus and Hono∣ratus.
• S, Leo's Sermons.
• S. Eucherius's Treatise in praise of Solitude.
  • His Treatise of the Contempt of the World.
• Two Books of Instructions.
• The Homilies of Maximus of Turin, and Valeri∣an Cemeliensis.
• Victor Cartennensis's comfort in Adversity.
  • His Treatise of Repentance.
• The Sermons of Basil of Seleucia.
• A Treatise of the Christian Life, by Fastidius Priscus.
• Salvian's Works.
• Julian Pomerius's Books of the Contemplative and Active Life.

Books concerning a Monastick Life.

• S. Isidore's Letters. Cassians Institutions of Monks, and his Conferences. S. Nilus's Works. The∣odoret's Philotheus, or Religious History.
• S. Eucherius concerning Solitude, and contempt of the World.
• Rules for Monks, by Vigilius the Deacon.