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.

Of the Apostolick Sees.

EUlogius Patriarch of Alexandria, had written many things to St. Gregory in favour of the See of St. Peter; St. Gregory observes to him in his Answer, that they were the more grateful to him, because they were written by one, who sits also in the Chair of St. Peter himself, and that he had done an Honour to himself, by endeavouring to do one to the See of Rome: That he should know, that the Church was solidly founded upon the Firmness of the Prince of the Apostles, from whence he had his Name of Peter, and that to him, the Truth it self said, I will give thee the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; to whom he also said, when you are Converted, strengthen your Brethren: with∣out forgetting these other words, Simon, Son of Jona, lovest thou me? feed my sheep: That upon this account, though there were many Apostles, yet there was but one See of the Prince of the Apostles, which was raised in Authority above the rest, because of the Primacy which he founded: That this See is in three places, at Rome, the place where he finish'd his Course; at Alexandria, whether he sent his Evangelist St. Mark to supply the place; and at Anti∣och, where he continued seven years; but that these three Sees are but one See, which belongs to

St. Peter, on which three Bishops now sit, which are in effect but one, in him who pray'd, That they may be one, as I am in the Father, and the Father in me, B. 6. Ep. 37.