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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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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Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
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London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,
MDCXCIII [1693]
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Church history.
Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.
Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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HERACLIANUS Bishop of Chalcedon.
THis Author compos'd twenty Books against the Manicheans. His style was concise, free from useless words, sublime, and of a neatness supported by the Majesty of the Expressions, be∣cause * 1.1 he mix'd the Attick Dialect with ordinary Discourse. He overthrows the Book which the Manichees call their Gospel, the Treatise of Gyants, and their Treasure. He mentions those who had written against these Hereticks before him, viz. Egemenius, who had written the Dispute of Arche∣laus against Manes; Titus, who thinking to refute Manicheus, had written against Addas; George of Laodicea, who had us'd the same Arguments with Titus; Serapion Bishop of Thumis, and Diodo∣rus
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of Tarsus, who had opposed the Manicheans in a Work of five and twenty Books, in the seven first whereof he thought to attack their Gospel, altho he refuted the Book of Addas, to which they * 1.2 gave the Title of Measures. Heraclianus confirm'd in a few words what seem'd to him most weak in the Works of these Authors, supplied what appear'd to him forgotten, and repeated the best things they had said, adding to them what came into his own mind. This Author was nervous in his Reasons which he improv'd by the help of other Sciences. He overthrew the Fables of the Mani∣cheans, and refuted solidly their Errors. This Work was address'd to a Christian call'd Achillius by whom he was desir'd to refute in publick Writings the Heresie of the Manicheans which spread in the World. Photius has noted the Emperor under whom this Author liv'd, but he is not to be found among those that are printed. His Work is lost; we have taken what we have said out of Photius in Code 85.