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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,; MDCXCIII [1693]
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Of the Functions of Arch-deacons, Deacons, Sub-deacons, and other Clergy-men.

THe Officers of Bishops ought to be Clergy-men, B. 4. Ep. 4. An Arch-deacon is answerable for the Moveables of the Church, B. 1. Ep. 10. The Title of Arch-deacon was so considerable, that a Bishop having a design to be reveng'd upon an Arch-deacon, would Ordain a Priest against his Mind, on purpose to turn him out of his place. St. Gregory concern'd himself against this Bi∣shop, and threatned to deprive him of the Pallium, and depose him, if he did not restore the Arch-deacon, B. 1. Ep. 19. B. 2. Ep. 14, 15, 17, 37.

St. Gregory grants to an Arch-deacon of Gap the use of the * 1.1 Dalmatica, B. 7. Ind. 2. Ep. 112.

St. Gregory in a Synod forbids to put the Deacons upon singing in the Church: They should be employ'd in the Service of the Altar, and the Distribution of Alms. The Sub-deacons should sing the Psalms and read the Lessons, and the Inferior Orders should not be employ'd in these Functions but in case of necessity, B. 4. Ep. 44.

The Vidame was an Officer who took care of the Revenues of the Bishop of Rome, B. 1. Ep. 11. There is frequent mention in the Epistles of St. Gregory, of the Defensores, i. e. Wardens, who were the Clerks that took care of the Patrimony of the Roman Church.

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* 1.1

Dalmati∣ca is a long white Gar∣ment, without sleeves, set off with Purple∣knaps. Spelm. Gloss.

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