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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A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE of the Authors of the NEW TESTAMENT.

With the Names of the Authors, their Country, and Employments, Time of their Birth, Time when they Flourished, and time of their Deaths.

  • ST. MATTHEW, Publican, converted by Jesus Christ, and made an Apostle, wrote his Gospel about the 39th year of the common Ac∣count.
  • St. MARK, Disciple of St. Peter, wrote about the Year 43, or perhaps several years after.
  • St. LUKE, Physician of Antioch, wrote his Gospel about the Year 56. of Jesus Christ. The Acts were written afterwards, towards the Year 58.
  • St. JOHN, Son of Zebedee, Apostle of Jesus Christ, and the beloved Disciple, wrote his Gospel about 100 years after the Birth of Jesus Christ.
  • The Revelation in the Year 95.
  • The time of his Epistles uncertain. Died in the Year 101. after the Birth of Jesus Christ, in the 68th year after his death.
  • SAUL or PAUL, of the Tribe of Benjamin, of the City of Tarsus, converted in the Year 34.
  • Wrote his two Epistles to the Thessalonians in the Year 52.
  • In the Year 56 to the Galatians and Corinthians.
  • In the Year 57 to the Romans.
  • In the Year 62 to the Ephesians, the Philippians, the Colossians, the Hebrews, and Philemon.
  • In the Year 63 the first Ep. to Timothy, and that to Titus.
  • In the Year 64. the Second to Timothy. Suffered Mar∣tyrdom in Nero's Persecution, in the Year 64.
  • St. JAMES, Kinsman of our Lord, made Bishop of Jerusalem after the Death of Jesus Christ.
  • Time when he wrote his Epistle uncertain. Died in the Year 63.
  • St. PETER, Son of Jona, Chief of the Apostles, wrote his first Epistle in all probability, about the Year 43 or 44. and the second a little before his death. Suffered in the Year 64. in Nero's Persecu∣tion.
  • St. JUDE, Son of Alpheus, called also Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus, wrote after St. Peter's death.
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