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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Concerning Baptism.

ST. Gregory proves, That Baptism does truly and perfectly pardon sins; that it does not only in appearance expiate them, as some think, but it really remits them, altho it leave the Man sub∣ject to Passions, Book 9. Epistle 39. He approves the Opinion of Leander Bishop of Sevil, who re∣mark'd, that it was indifferent to use three Dippings in Baptism, or one only. He adds, that we must follow the Custom of the Church where we are, Lib. 1. Ep. 41.

He would have no Body forc'd to receive Baptism. Ibid. Ep. 45.

He permits Baptism to be given to the Jews, on Sunday or a Festival, if they cannot conveni∣ently wait till Easter, after they have been made to observe a Fast of forty days: But if they be willing to wait till Easter, his Opinion is that they should not be baptiz'd before, Lib. 7. Ep. 24.

As to the Validity of the Baptism of Hereticks, and the manner of receiving them into the Church, he says as it follows here, when he was consulted by Quirinus and the Catholicks of Iberia, That according to the Tradition of the Church, those who have been baptiz'd by Hereticks in the Name of the Trinity, are receiv'd into the Church, either by Unction with Chrysm, or by Imposi∣tion of Hands, or by a bare Profession of the Faith: That in the West the Arians are receiv'd into the Church by laying Hands upon them; that in the East this is done by Unction with Chrysm; that the Manophysites and other Hereticks are receiv'd there by making only a sincere Profession of the Catholick Faith: That the Bonosians, who did not believe in Jesus Christ, and the Cataphrygians who did not believe as they should in the Holy Ghost, but thought Montanus to be him, and the He∣reticks like them, are baptiz'd when they re-enter into the Church, the Baptism which they have re∣ceiv'd not being true, since it was not given in the Name of the Trinity, Book 9. Ep. 61.

The Monks must not be Sponsors, B. 3. Ep. 40.

When it is uncertain whether a Person has been baptiz'd or confirm'd, we must baptize or con∣firm them, rather then suffer them to perish in this doubt, B. 12. Ep. 32.