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 Celibacy of Clergy-men.

ST. Gregory took it ill that the Sub-deacons of Sicily were oblig'd to abstain from their Wives, ac∣cording to the Custom of the Church of Rome. This Law appear'd to him harsh and unreasona∣ble, because they found not Continence establish'd by any Law for them, and they were not oblig'd to keep it before they were Ordain'd, he fear'd lest something worse should happen if this yoke were impos'd upon them. He orders that none shall be Ordain'd for the future who do not promise to live in Continence. He declares that those who have observ'd the Prohibitions made three years ago deserve to be commended; but he would not have those Deposed who had broken them, altho he forbids to promote them to Holy Orders.

He declares in Letter 34 of Book 3. That he will put in Execution the Order of the Pope his Pre∣decessor, about the Continence of the Sub-deacons, and that those who are married shall be oblig'd to abstain from it, or else to forsake the Service of the Altar. He would not have the Wives pu∣nish'd of those who desir'd rather to quit the Service then renounce them, nor the Women hindred from marrying again after their death. He orders that for the future no Sub-deacon shall be made who is not oblig'd before hand to observe Celibacy.

He enjoyns the Bishop of Tarentum who had a Concubine, voluntarily to resign the Bishoprick, and to do a reasonable Penance, if he had kept Company with her since he was a Bishop, B. 2. Ind. 11. Ep. 4.

He forbade Clergy-men very severely to keep strange Women in their Houses, and also exhorted them not to keep those which are excepted by the Canons, B. 1. Ep. 50. B. 7. Ind. 2. Ep. 39. B. 3. Ep. 26. B. 11. Ep. 42 & 43.

He implores the Authority of the Prince against disorderly Clergy-men who kept Women in their Houses, B. 9. Ep. 64.

He forbids to Ordain a Deacon Bishop who had a very young Daughter, by whose Age it mani∣festly appeared that he had not long observ'd Continence, B. 8. Ep. 11.