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.

JOHN of Scythopolis.

I Have read, says Pl••ti••••, a Treatise of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Scythopolis. Sch•…•…stious, against the Deserters of the Church against Eutyches and Dioscorus, and those of their Sect, who ••ould not confess that Jesus * 1.1 Christ subsisted in two Natures. A Patriarch, call'd Juli••tus, had pray'd him to write this Treatise, which contains twelve Books; the Style of this Author is clear and chast, and he makes use of proper terms for an Historical Style. He opposes stoutly the Error, and does not misapply the Te∣stimonies of Holy Scripture. He makes use of Logical Arguments when they may be useful to his Cause. The Author, whom he refutes in this Work, had industriously conceal'd his Name, and put no other Title to his Work, but A Treatise against Nectorius, to entice the Simple by this Fraud to the reading of his Book. 'Tis probable that Basil of Cilici•• was the Author of this Work, since he wrote afterwards a Book in form of a Dialogue against the Treatise of John of Scythopolis.

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  John of Scythopo∣lis.