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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The second Council of Lyons.

THis Council was compos'd of the Archbishops of Lyons and Vienna, and twelve Bishops, and was held under the Sons of Clotarius in the year 567. It made six Canons.

By the first it is order'd, That the Differences of the Bishops of one Province shall be determin'd * 1.1 by the Judgment of the Metropolitan, and the Bishops of that Province; and that if the Bishops who are at odds be of different Provinces, then two Metropolitans shall accommodate the mat∣ter.

The second orders that all the Donations made to Churches shall continue good, tho they be not drawn up with all the Formalities which the Laws require.

The third declares, That those who take or detain Freemen by force shall be Excommuni∣cated.

The fourth, That he who is Excommunicated by his Bishop, shall not be receiv'd into Communi∣on until he be Absolv'd.

The fifth, That Bishops shall not take away from the Clergy the Revenues that are given them by their Predecessors.

The sixth, That Letanies shall be said in all the Churches and Parishes in the first Week of Sep∣tember, as before Ascension-day.

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* 1.1

The second Council of Lyons.

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