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.

RUSTICUS Deacon of the Church of * 1.1 ROME.

THis Rusticus is famous in the History of the three Chapters, which he boldly defends against the Judgment of Pope Vigi•…•…, by whom he was Depos'd. He has left us a Treatise in the Form of a Dialogue, written against the Acephali, wherein he proves that there are two Natures in Jesus Christ, and that this Doctrine is far enough from the Error of Nestoria••••. He says, en passant, that the Son does not proceed from the Holy Spirit, but 'tis not certainly known, Whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son as from the Father. This Treatise is written with much exactness and clear∣ness: In it he mentions a Discourse which he had written against the Acephali and the Nestorians, and promises a Treatise in Defence of the three Chapters; but these Works are now lost. That of which we have now spoken, was printed in divers Collections of Works against the Hereticks, and in the Bibliotheques of the Fathers. Some have thought that this is only a Translation, but there is no probability of that, for Rusticus himself was a Latin, and the Work it self discovers sufficiently that it is an Original, and not a Translation.

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  Rusticus Deacon of the Church of Rome.