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.

LAURENTIUS. * 1.1

LAurentius Bishop of Novaria liv'd at the beginning of the sixth Age: He wrote a Discourse which Trithemius calls A Book of two Times, of that which pass'd from Adam until Jesus Christ, and of that which shall continue from Jesus Christ to the end of the World. This Work indeed begins with the distinction of these two Times, but Penance is the Subject of it: It has been printed under the Name of a Homily upon Penance, yet it is not a Homily.

The same Author wrote some Homilies: There is one in the Bibliotheque of the Fathers concern∣ing Alms, and Father Mabillon has publish'd one about the Cananean Woman in the second Tome of his Analecta. The Style of this Author is very simple.

Some think that this Laurentius is the Archbishop of Milan, whom Ennodius praises, but there is no certain proofs of it, and the Translation from the Bishoprick of Novaria to the Archbishoprick of Milan, which must necessarily be suppos'd, renders the thing very improbable.

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  Lauren∣tius.