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.

EUTROPIUS. * 1.1

EUtropius Bishop of Valentia in Spain, while he was yet an Abbot of a Monastery, wrote a very use∣ful Letter to the Bishop of Licimanus, of whom we have spoken, wherein he enquires of him, Why the Unction of Chrysm is given to Infants who are baptiz'd. He wrote also a Letter to Peter Bishop of Iturbica, concerning the Distinction of Monks, which contains wholesome Advices, and very useful for them. These are the words of St. Isidore in his Book of Illustrious Men, Chap. 32. The last of these two Letters was publish'd by Holstenius, in the Addition to the Code of the Rules of Be∣nedict of Aniana. It is not entituled, De Distinctione Monachorum, as is noted in the Text of Isi∣dore, which probably is corrupted, but De Districtione Monachorum & ruina Monasteriorum. There he shows that the Monks must be reprov'd with candor, and oblig'd to observe their Rule with ex∣actness and rigor. This Letter is written in a very plain style.

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  Eutropius.