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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Rules for the Monasteries of Nuns.

ST. Gregory had a very particular Care of the Nuns, B. 3. Ep. 9. He would not permit any Mo∣nasteries of Nuns to be founded unless a sufficient Revenue were secured for them, B. 8. Ep. 63. B. 7. Ind. 1. Ep. 6. He forbids them to be built near the Monasteries of Men, B. 9. Ep. 20. Wo∣men ought not to lodge in the Monasteries of Men, B. 8. Ep. 21, 22. The Nuns ought not to go forth, even for their Affairs, B. 3. Ep. 9. He forbids most strictly to choose young Abbesses, B. 3. Ep. 11. An Abbess ought to be chosen out of the Nuns of the Monastery, B. 6. Ep. 12. The Bishop ought to confirm the Election of the Abbess, and instal her, B. 6. Ep. 12. The Abbess has Right to Admister the Goods of the Monastery, B. 6. Ep. 12. In the Monasteries in Nuns there ought to be an Oratory; they ought to be subject to the Jurisdiction of the Bishop, they ought not to go forth. He that takes care of their Affairs ought to be an•…•…ent, and of a good Life, B. 2. Ind. 11. Ep. 59. B. 3. Ep. 9. B. 6. Ep. 12. He forbids the Seculars to enter into the Monasteries of Nuns, B. 4. Ep. 4.

St. Gregory reproves the Custom of an Abby, wherein the Abbess did not relinquish her Secular Habit, B. 7. Ep. 2. Ind. 7.