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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Subject terms: Church history.; Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.; Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
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About Penance.

ST. Gregory has written a Letter expresly against those who believ'd, that after a Penance of three years, one might take his ease, and commit the same Crimes with impunity. There he lays down this excellent Maxim, That true Penance does not only consist in bewailing sins past, but in abstaining from them for the future. Poenitentia est co•…•…ssa flere, & iterum plangenda declinare.

The Clergy who had committed any Crimes, were put under Penance, and shut up in Monaste∣ries, to receive there Corporal Punishment, B. 1. Ep. 18. B. 2. Ind. 11. Ep. 28. B. 3. Ep. 9.

A Clergy-man, who being depos'd, did perform the Duties of his Function, was to be put under Penance all the rest of his Life: yet it was lawful for the Bishop to receive him to Lay-Communion after a long Penance, B. 4. Ep. 5.

A Clergy-man falling into sin, and being put under Penance, can never hope to enter again into the Clergy, B. 1. Ep. 18, & 43. B. 3. Ep. 26.

There is not the same reason of an Abbot who is a Priest, who after his Penance, may be restor'd to his Dignity of Abbot, but not to that of Priest, B. 4. Ep. 4. One who is only an Abbot, and not a Priest, shall continue depos'd for ever, Ib. Ep. 16. A Priest deposed may be made an Abbot, and have the Care of Monasteries, Ib. Ep. 17.