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 Council of Osca, or Huesca, a City of the Pro∣vince of Tarraco; held under the same King in the Year 598.

THIS Council made two Canons.

The first ordains, That the Bishops shall hold an Assembly every Year, of the Abbots, Priests and Deacons of their Diocese, to give them Precepts and Advice about the way and manner * 1.1 wherein they ought to live.

The second, That the Bishops shall carefully examine, Whether the Priests, Deacons, Sub-deacons, and Clergy live chastly: That if any one is suspected of Incontinence, In∣formation shall be given of it, either by the Deposition of the Clergy, or the Testimony of the Notaries, or by examining the behaviour of the Women, with whom he is said to keep Company, or by any other ways which may be useful to discover this sort of Crimes; that on the one hand, no person may be blacken'd upon false Reports; and on the other, no Crime may be palliated by false Excuses.

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The Coun∣cil of Osca in 598.

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