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 Gerunda.

THis Council which was held at Gerunda on the 18th of June in the Year 517, was compos'd of the Metropolitan of Tarraco, and six Bishops of that Province, who made ten Canons in this Assembly.

By the first it is ordain'd, That the same Order of Celebrating Mass and Divine Sevice which is observ'd in the Church of the Metropolitan, shall be follow'd in all the Provinces of Tar∣raco.

By the second, That in the Week which follows the Feast of Pentecost, Abstinence shall be us'd, and Letanies shall be said, from Thursday until Saturday.

By the third, That the second Letanies shall begin on the first day of November, provided that if that day happen to be Sunday, they shall be put off to Thursday next, and then they shall end on Sa∣turday; and that during this time there shall be Abstinence from Flesh and Wine.

By the fourth, That Baptism shall be administred only at Easter and Whitsuntide, and that at the other Festivals the sick only shall be baptiz'd, to whom Baptism ought never to be deny'd at any time whatsoever.

By the fifth Canon it is ordain'd, That Children shall be baptiz'd whenever they are presented, if they be sick, or cannot suck the breast.

By the sixth, All the Orders of Clergy-men who are oblig'd to Celibacy, from Bishops down to Sub-deacons, are forbidden to cohabit with their Wives, or if they will dwell with them, they are commanded to have with them one of their Brethren, who can give testimony of their Conti∣nence.

The seventh forbids Clergy-men who have no Wives, to keep any of the Female Sex to govern their House, unless it be their Mother or their Sister.

The eighth forbids to admit any of those into the Clergy, who have had Carnal dealing with a Woman, after the death of their Wife.

The ninth declares, That if any Person falling sick, desires and receives the Benediction of Pe∣nance, which is call'd the Viaticum, and is given at the receiving of the Communion; and after∣wards being in health will not submit to publick Penance, That such a Person may be admitted into the Clergy, if he be not convicted of a Crime.

In the tenth it is ordain'd, That the Bishop shall recite every day the Lord's Prayer, after Mattins and Vespers.