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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ADVERTISEMENT Concerning this TRANSLATION.

THE Author's PREFACE.

PART I.

PART II.

THE CONTENTS OF THE First Volume.

A Preliminary Dissertation ABOUT THE AUTHORS OF THE BIBLE.

SECT. I.

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BIBLIOTHECA PATRUM: OR, A New Ecclesiastical History OF THE First three Centuries of CRISTIANITY. CONTAINING An Account of the LIVES and WRITINGS of the Primitive FATHERS, with Censures upon all their BOOKS, determining which are Genuine, and which Spurious.

Of the Letter supposed to be sent by Jesus Christ to King Agbarus, and of that of Agbarus to Jesus Christ.

Of some Letters attributed to the Virgin Mary.

Of the Counterfeit Gospels.

Of the counterfeit Acts of the Apostles, and of the false Revelations.

Of the Epistle to the Laodiceans, and some others attributed to St. Paul.

Of the Epistle of St. Barnabas.

Of the Liturgies that are falsely attributed to the Apostles.

Of the Apostles Creed.

Of the Canons and Constitutions attributed to the Apostles.

Cf several Books attributed to Prochorus, Linus, and Abdias, and of the Acts of the Passion of St. Andrew.

Of the Books of the Sibyls, Mercurius Trismegistus, and Hystas∣pes: Of the Letters of Lentulus and Pilate, concerning Jesus Christ: Of the Epistles of Seneca to St. Paul, and of those of St. Paul to Seneca: And of a Passage in the History of Josephus.

HERMAS.

S. CLEMENS ROMANUS.

S. DIONYSIUS the Areopagite.

St. IGNATIUS.

S. POLYCARP.

PAPIAS.

QUADRATUS and ARISTIDES.

AGRIPPA.

HEGESIPPUS.

S. JUSTIN.

MELITO.

TATIAN.

ATHENAGORAS and HERMIAS.

THEOPHILUS Bishop of ANTIOCH.

APOLLINARIUS, or, APOLLINARIS of HIERAPOLIS.

DIONYSIUS of CORINTH.

Pinytus, Philippus, Modestus, Musanus, and Bardesanes.

S. IRENAEUS.

Victor, Polycrates, Theophilus of Cesarea, and Bachillus of Corinth.

Several Writers, of whom nothing remains, and who were little known amongst the Ancients.

SERAPION of ANTIOCH.

RHODON.

PANTAENUS.

S. CLEMENT of ALEXANDRIA.

Miltiades; The two Apollonii; And two Anony∣mous Authors, who wrote against the Heresies of Mon∣tanus and Artemo.

TERTULLIAN.

CAIUS.

HIPPOLITUS.

GEMINIANUS or GEMINUS.

ALEXANDER.

JULIUS AFRICANUS.

MINUTIUS FELIX.

AMMONIUS.

ORIGEN.

AMBROSE and TRYPHON, Disciples of ORIGEN.

BERYLLUS.

Saint CYPRIAN.

PONTIUS.

CORNELIUS.

NOVATIAN.

Saint MARTIALIS.

SIXTUS or XYSTUS.

Saint GREGORY THAUMATURGUS.

St. DIONYSIUS of Alexandria.

THEOGNOSTUS

ATHENOGENES.

DIONYSIUS Bishop of Rome.

MALCHION.

ARCHELAUS.

ANATOLIUS.

VICTORINUS.

PIERIUS.

METHODIUS.

PAMPHILUS.

LUCIAN.

PHILEAS.

ZENO Bishop of Verona.

ARNOBIUS.

LACTANTIUS.

COMMODIANUS.

JULIUS FIRMICUS MATERNUS.

Of the COUNCILS that were Held in the First Ages of the Church.

Of false Decretals Attributed to the first Popes.

An Abridgment of the Doctrine, Discipline, and Morality of the Three First Ages of the Church.

An Abridgment of the Doctrine.

An Abridgment of the Discipline.

An Abridgment of the Morality.

ADVERTISEMENT.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE AUTHORS OF THE Old Testament.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE of the Authors of the NEW TESTAMENT.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE Ecclesiastical Authors That are Mentioned in this Volume.

A TABLE of BOOKS that belong to the Old Testament, Canonical, Apocryphal, and Lost.

A TABLE OF BOOKS that belong to the New Testament.

A TABLE Of all the Ecclesiastical Writers Mentioned in this Volume.

A TABLE of all the Writings of Ecclesiastical Au∣thors, according to the Order of their Argu∣ments, that are mentioned in this Volume.

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF AUTHORS NAMES mentioned in this Volume.

A General Index of the Principal Matters.

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THE CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF THE Names of the Authors mentioned in this Volume.

AN Alphabetical TABLE OF THE COUNCILS.

BIBLIOTHECA PATRUM: OR, A NEW HISTORY OF Ecclesiastical Writers. TOME II.

EUSEBIUS of Caesarea.

CONSTANTINE the first Christian Emperour.

JUVENCUS.

RHETICIUS.

EUSTATHIUS Bishop of Antioch.

PETER of Alexandria.

ALEXANDER Bishop of Alexandria.

St. ATHANASIUS.

JACOBUS NISIBENUS.

MARCELLUS of Ancyra.

HOSIUS.

JULIUS.

ASTERIUS.

THEODORUS.

TRYPHILIUS.

HELIODORUS.

DONATUS, and Vitellius and Macrobius his Disciples.

St. ANTHONY.

St. PACHOMIUS.

ORSIESIS.

THEODORUS.

The MACARII.

SERAPION Bishop of Thmuis.

EUSEBIUS EMISENUS.

BASIL of Ancyra.

LIBERIUS.

St. HILARY.

LUCIFER CALARITANUS.

VICTORINUS of Africk.

St. PACIANUS.

GREGORY of Baetica.

PHAEBADIUS.

St. OPTATUS.

ACACIUS of Caesarea.

PHOTINUS.

AETIUS and EUNOMIUS.

GEORGE of Laodicea.

The APOLLINARII.

TITUS of Bostra.

DIDYMUS of Alexandria.

PETER of Alexandria.

LUCIUS.

AQUILIUS SEVERUS.

EUZOIUS.

St. CYRIL of Jerusalem.

St. EPHREM the Syrian, Deacon of Edessa.

DAMASUS, Bishop of Rome.

St. BASIL.

St. GREGORY NAZIANZEN.

St. GREGORY NYSSEN.

St. CAESARIUS.

St. AMPHILOCHIUS.

MAXIMUS.

EUSEBIUS VERCELLENSIS.

MELETIUS.

DIODORUS Bishop of Tarsus.

HILARY the Deacon.

PRISCILLIAN and Matronianus, Tiberianus and Dictinius his Disciples.

ITHACIUS, or IDACIUS.

FAUSTINUS.

PHILASTRIUS.

TIMOTHY of Alexandria.

NECTARIUS.

GELASIUS of Caesarea.

SIRICIUS.

SABINUS.

AMBROSE of Alexandria.

THEOTIMUS.

EVAGRIUS of Antioch.

St. AMBROSE Bishop of Milan.

St. EPIPHANIUS.

PHILO CARPATHIUS.

Q. JULIUS HILARION.

OF THE COUNCILS Held in the Fourth AGE of the CHURCH.

Of the pretended COUNCIL of Sinuessa.

Of the COUNCIL of Cirtha.

Of the COUNCIL of Alexandria, under Peter Bishop of that Church.

Of the COUNCIL of Eliberis or. Elvira.

Of the Pretended COUNCIL of Carthage against Caecilian.

Of the COUNCIL of Rome.

Of the COUNCIL of Arles.

Of the COUNCILS of Ancyra and Neo-Caesarea.

Of the First COUNCIL of Alexandria against Arius.

Of the pretended COUNCIL of Bithynia for Arius.

Of the Second COUNCIL of Alexandria against Arius: held in the presence of Hosius.

Of the COUNCIL of Nice.

Of the pretended COUNCIL of Antioch against Eustathius.

Of the SYNOD of Caesarea.

Of the pretended COUNCIL of Tyre against St. Athanasius.

Of the SYNOD of Jerusalem.

Of the COUNCIL of Constantinople against Marcellus of Ancyra.

Of the COUNCIL of Constantinople against Paul Bishop of that City.

Of the COUNCIL of Alexandria in behalf of St. Athanasius.

Of the COUNCIL of Rome, under Pope Julius, in behalf of St. Athanasius.

Of the COUNCILS held at Antioch.

Of the COUNCIL of Antioch.

Of the COUNCIL of Milan.

Of the COUNCIL of Cologne against Euphratas.

Of the COUNCIL of Sardica.

Of the First COUNCIL of Sirmium.

Of the Second COUNCIL of Sirmium.

Of the COUNCIL of Arles.

Of the COUNCIL of Milan.

Of the COUNCIL of Biterrae, or Beziers.

Of the Third COUNCIL of Sirmium.

Of the COUNCIL of Antioch.

Of the COUNCIL of Ancyra.

Of the Fourth COUNCIL of Sirmium.

Of the Fifth COUNCIL of Sirmium.

Of the COUNCIL of Ariminum.

Of the COUNCIL of Seleucia.

Of the COUNCIL of Constantinople.

Of the SYNOD of Melitine.

Of the SYNOD of Antioch.

Of the COUNCIL of Alexandria.

Of the COUNCIL of Paris.

Of the COUNCIL of Italy.

Of the COUNCIL of the Egyptian Bishops, held at Antioch.

Of the COUNCIL of Antioch under Meletius.

Of the COUNCIL of Lampsacus.

Of the COUNCIL of Singedunum, Compos'd of Arian Bishops.

Of the SYNODS held by the Semi-Arians.

Of the SYNOD of Tyana.

Of the COUNCIL of Gangra.

Of the COUNCIL of Laodicea.

Of the COUNCIL of Rome under Damasus.

Of the COUNCIL of Rome against Ursicinus.

Of the COUNCIL of Valence.

Of the COUNCIL of Antioch for restoring Peace in that Church.

Of the COUNCILS of Constantinople.

Of the Second COUNCIL of Constantinople.

Of the Third COUNCIL of Constantinople.

Of the COUNCIL of Aquileia.

Of the COUNCIL of Saragosa.

Of the COUNCIL of Sida in Pamphylia.

Of the COUNCIL of Bourdeaux.

Of the COUNCIL of Capua.

Of the COUNCILS of Rome, and of Milan, against Jovinian.

Of the COUNCIL of the Novatians held at Sangarus.

Of the First COUNCIL of Carthage.

Of the Second COUNCIL of Carthage.

Of the COUNCILS of Cabarsussa and Bagaïs.

Of the COUNCIL of Hippo.

Of the COUNCIL of Carthage, in the Year 394.

Of the COUNCILS of Carthage, in the Year 397.

Of the COUNCIL of Carthage held in the Year 398, call'd the Fourth.

Of the COUNCIL of Carthage in the Year 399.

Of the COUNCIL of Carthage in the Year 401, commonly call'd the Fifth.

Of the COUNCIL of Constantinople, in the Year 394.

Of the COUNCIL of Alexandria, in the Year 399.

Of the COUNCIL of Cyprus, at the same time.

Of the COUNCIL of Turin.

Of the COUNCIL of Toledo.

An Abridgment of the Doctrine of the Fourth AGE of the Church.

An Abridgment of the Discipline of the Fourth AGE of the Church.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORS Mentioned in this VOLUME.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE of the COUNCILS held in the Fourth Age of the Church.

A TABLE of all the Writings of the Ecclesiastical Authors mentioned in this Volume.

A TABLE of the Acts, Professions of Faith, and Canons of the Councils mentioned in this Volume.

A TABLE of all the Genuine extant Writings of the Ecclesiastical Authors, according to the Order of their Arguments, that are mentioned in this Volume.

COMMENTARIES AND DISCOURSES Upon the Holy Scripture.

A General INDEX of the Principal Matters con∣tained in the Second Volume.

ADVERTISEMENT.

ERRATA in the French Text.

CORRIGENDA.

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PREFACE.

ERRATA.

Proper Names mistaken.

CONTENTS of the Third Volume.

BIBLIOTHECA PATRUM: OR, A NEW HISTORY OF Ecclesiastical Writers. TOME III. PART I.

EVAGRIUS PONTICUS.

MARK.

SIMPLICIANUS, Bishop of Milan.

VIGILIUS of Trent.

PRUDENTIUS.

DIADOCHUS.

AUDENTIUS.

SEVERUS ENDELECHIUS.

FLAVIANUS.

S. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM.

Opinions of S. Chrysostom upon several moral Principles. Of the Love of God.

Of the Love of our Neighbour.

Of Alms-deeds.

Of Riches and Poverty.

Of Forgiving, and against Revenge.

Of Fasting.

Upon this; That Man is obliged to doe all for God, and to direct all his Actions to him alone.

Of the necessary Dispositions to communicate worthily.

Of Prayer.

Of Attention in Prayer.

Of Humility, against Pride.

Of Christian Watchfulness.

Against Covetousness.

Of Meekness, and against Anger.

Against Envy.

Against Drunkenness.

Against Swearing and Blasphemies.

Concerning Publick Shows and Stage-plays.

Of Balls and Gaming.

Of the Dignity and Qualifications of the Ministers of Jesus Christ.

Upon the Usefulness and Excellency of a Monastick Life.

Of the State of Marriage, and of the Duties of Married Persons.

Of the Education of Children, and the Duties of the Master of a Family.

Of Afflictions.

Of Death.

Christian Maxims which S. Chrysostom lays down and maintains in his Sermons.

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Antiochus and Severianus of Gabala.

ASTERIUS AMASENUS.

ANASTASIUS.

CHROMATIUS, Bishop of Aquileia.

GAUDENTIUS, Bishop of Brescia.

JOHN of Jerusalem.

THEOPHILUS of Alexandria.

THEODORUS of Mopsuesta.

WORKS of THEODORUS of Mopsuesta, cited by Facundus, by the Fifth Council, col. 4. by Photius and Gennadius.

PALLADIUS.

P. INNOCENT I.

Saint JEROM.

RUFINUS.

SOPHRONIUS.

SEVERUS SULPICIUS.

Saint PAULINUS.

PELAGIUS.

COELESTIUS.

NICEAS.

OLYMPIUS.

BACHIARIUS.

SABBATIUS.

ISAAC.

PAULUS OROSIUS.

LUCIANUS, AVITUS, EVODIUS, SEVERUS.

MARCELLUS MEMORIALIS.

EUSEBIUS.

URSINUS.

MACARIUS.

HELIODORUS.

PAULUS.

HELVIDIUS and VIGILANTIUS.

St. AUGUSTIN.

The First TOME of St. Augustin's Works.

The SECOND TOME.

The Second Classe.

The Third Classe.

The Fourth Classe.

The THIRD TOME.

The FOURTH TOME.

The FIFTH TOME.

The SIXTH TOME.

The SEVENTH TOME.

The EIGHTH TOME.

The NINTH TOME.

The TENTH TOME.

ZOSIMUS.

BONIFACE I.

SYNESIUS.

POLYCHRONIUS.

Councils Assembled, From the Beginning of the FIFTH CENTURY, To the YEAR 430.

The Canons of a Council, supposed to have been held at Rome under Pope Innocent I.

The Council of Milevis.

Of the Councils held by St. Chrysostom at Constantinople and at Ephesus, in the Years 400, and 401.

A Council assembled in the Year 403. in a Suburb of Chalcedon, called, The Oak, in which St. Chrysostom was Condemned.

The Council of Carthage, in the Year 403.

The Council of Carthage, in the Year 404.

The Council of Carthage, in the Year 405.

The Council of Carthage, in the Year 407.

Two Councils of Carthage, in the Year 408.

The Council of Carthage, in the Year 409.

The Council of Carthage, in the Year 410.

The Council of Ptolemais.

The Conference at Carthage.

The Council of Cirta, or Zerta.

The First Council of Carthage, against Coelestius.

The Conference of Jerusalem.

The Council of Diospolis.

A Second Council of Carthage against Pelagius and Coelestius. The Council of Milevis against the same.

The Council of Carthage, held about the latter end of the Year 417.

The Council of Carthage in the Year 418.

Of the Council of Tella, or Zella, and of some other Councils of Africa.

Councils of Carthage in the Years 418. and 419. Concerning the Cause of Apiarius.

The Council of Ravenna, in 419.

The Council of Carthage, in the Year 420.

The Council of Constantinople, in the Year 426.

The Council of Carthage, in the Year 427. against Leporius.

The Council of Constantinople, in the Year 428.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORS Mentioned in the Third VOLUME. Giving an Account of their Names, Time of their Birth, their Country and Employments, Time when they Flourished, and the Time of their Deaths.

A CHRONOLOGICAE TABLE of the COUNCILS held in the Fourth Age of the Church.

A TABLE of all the Works of the Ecclesiastical Authors mentioned in this Volume.

A Table of the Acts, Professions of Faith, and Canons of the Councils, mentioned in this Volume.

A Table of all the Writings of the Ecclesiastical Authors mentioned in this Volume, according to the Order of their Arguments.

A General INDEX. Of the Principal Matters contained in the Third Volume.

ERRATA.

Proper Names Mistaken.

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The CONTENTS of the Fourth Volume.

An Alphabetical Table of the Ecclesiastical Authors contained in this Second Part of the Third Tome.

An Alphabetical Table of the Councils.

BIBLIOTHECA PATRUM: OR, A NEW HISTORY OF Ecclesiastical Writers. TOME III. PART II.

ATTICUS Bishop of Constantinople.

TICHONIUS.

LEPORIUS.

S. ISIDORE of Damiata.

Of the Letters of S. Isidore upon the Holy Scripture.

Of his Letters of Doctrine.

Letters concerning the Discipline of the Church.

Letters of Pious Advice and Instruction.

Letters concerning the Discipline and Life of the Monks.

JOANNES CASSIANUS.

S. NILUS.

The Author of the Confessions of Faith, attributed to RUFINUS.

POSSIDIUS.

URANIUS.

S. COELESTINE.

S. CYRIL Patriarch of Alexandria.

MARIUS MERCATOR.

ANIANUS.

JULIAN.

NESTORIUS.

JOHN▪ Bishop of Antioch, ACACIUS of Beraea, and PAUL of Emesa.

The Bishops of NESTORIUS's Party.

EUTHERIUS Bishop of Tyana.

THEODOTUS Bishop of Ancyra.

The Orthodox Bishops of S. Cyril's Party.

S. SIXTUS III.

PROCLUS.

CAPREOLUS.

ANTONIUS HONORATUS Bishop of Con∣stantina in Africa.

VICTOR of Antioch.

VICTOR of Marseille.

SEDULIUS.

PHILIPPUS SIDETA.

PHILOSTORGIUS.

NONNUS.

SOCRATES.

SOZOMEN.

THEODORITUS.

ANDREW Bishop of Samosata.

HELLADIUS Bishop of Tarsus, MAXIMINUS Bishop of Anazarbum, and IRENAEUS Bishop of Phoenicia.

S. LEO.

S. HILARY Bishop of Arles.

S. VINCENTIUS LIRINENSIS.

S. EUCHERIUS.

PETRUS CHRYSOLOGUS.

MAXIMUS TAURINENSIS.

VALERIAN.

VICTOR CARTENNENSIS.

S. PROSPER.

Of the Author of the Books, Of the Calling of the Gen∣tiles, And, Of the Epistle to Demetrias.

FLAVIAN, and several other Bishops, who wrote the Letters or Records about the Affair of Eu•yches.

Several Letters of divers Bishops.

BASILIUS Bishop of Seleucia.

TIMOTHEUS AELURUS.

CHRYSIPPUS.

VIGILIUS DIACONUS.

FASTIDIUS PRISCUS.

DRACONTIUS.

EUDOCIA the Empress, and PROBA FAL∣CONIA.

TYRSIUS RUFUS ASTERIUS.

PETRONIUS.

CONSTANTINUS, or CONSTANTIUS.

PHILIPPUS.

SYAGRIUS.

ISAAC.

SIMEON STYLITES.

MOSCHIMUS, or MOCHIMUS.

ASCLEPIUS, PETER, and PAUL.

SALVIAN.

ARNOBIUS, junior.

HONORATUS, Bishop of Marseille.

SALONIUS and VERANUS.

PAULINUS PETROCORIUS.

MUSAEUS.

VINCENTIUS.

SYRUS.

SAMUEL.

CLAUDIANUS MAMERTUS.

PASTOR.

VOCONIUS.

EUTROPIUS.

EVAGRIUS.

TIMOTHEUS.

EUSTATHIUS.

THEODULUS.

EUGENIUS.

CEREALIS.

SERVUS DEI.

IDACIUS.

VICTORIUS.

GENNADIUS, Patriarch of CONSTANTINOPLE.

ANTIPATER of Bostra.

HILARUS or HILARIUS, Bishop of Rome.

SIMPLICIUS, Bishop of Rome.

FAUSTUS, Bishop of Ries.

RURICIUS, DESIDERIUS, and some Others.

APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS, Bishop of Clermont.

JOANNES TALAIA, or TALAIDA.

JOHN, a Priest of Antioch.

JOANNES AEGEATES.

VICTOR VITENSIS.

VIGILIUS TAPSENSIS.

FAELIX III. Bishop of Rome.

The Author of the Memoir concerning the Affair of ACACIUS.

GELASIUS I.

ANASTASIUS II.

PASCHASIUS, a Deacon of the Church of Rome.

JULIANUS POMERIUS.

GENNADIUS.

NEMESIUS, AENEAS GAZAEUS.

GELASIUS CYZICENUS.

The Author of the Books Attributed to S. DIONY∣SIUS the Areopagite.

The History of the COUNCILS. Held from the Year 430, to the End of the Fifth Age.

Of the I. Council of Ephesus.

THE HISTORY OF THE COUNCIL of CHALCEDON, and other Precedent Councils.

Of the COUNCIL of RIES, Held in 439.

The I COUNCIL of ORANGE.

The COUNCIL of VASIO.

The II COUNCIL of ARLES.

The COUNCIL of ANJOU.

The III COUNCIL of ARLES.

The COUNCIL of CONSTANTINOPLE, An. 459.

The Letter of Lupus Bishop of Troyes, and Eu∣phronius Bishop of Augustodunum to Thalassius Bishop of Anjou.

The COUNCIL of TOURS.

The COUNCIL of VENNES.

The Council of ROME under Pope Hilarius.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORS CONTAINED In the Second Part of the Third Volume of the New History of Ecclesiastical Writers.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE COUNCILS Spoken of in this Volume.

A TABLE of the Works of the Ecclesiastical Authors mentioned in the Second Part of the III Volume of this New History of Ecclesiastical Writers.

A TABLE Of the Acts, Letters and Canons of the COUNCILS Spoken of in this Volume.

A TABLE of the Works of the Ecclesiastical Writers, who died since the Year 430, disposed ac∣cording to the Order of the Matters they treat of.

An INDEX of the Principal Matters contained in this FOURTH VOLUME.

ERRATA to the Fourth Volume.

A Catalogue of some Books lately Printed and to be Sold by Abel Swal and Tim. Childe, at the Unicorn at the West End of St. Paul's Church-yard.

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The CONTENTS of the Fifth Volume.

Of the Lives and Writings of the Ecclesiastical Authors that Flou∣rished in the Sixth Century, viz.

COUNCILS Held in the Sixth Century.

An ALPHABETICAL TABLE of the Author's Names and Councils in this Volume.

BIBLIOTHECA PATRUM: OR, A NEW HISTORY OF Ecclesiastical Writers. TOME IV.

Pope SYMMACHUS.

AVITUS Bishop of Vienna.

ENNODIUS Bishop of PAVIA.

HORMISDAS.

St. FULGENTIUS.

EUGIPPIUS.

FERRANDUS a Deacon.

JOHN MAXENTIUS.

TRIFOLIUS.

ADRIANUS.

LAURENTIUS.

MARCELLINUS.

AEGIDIUS, or GILES the Abbot.

ORENTIUS.

BOETIUS.

EPIPHANIUS SCHOLASTICUS.

THEODORUS the Reader.

SEVERUS.

JOHN of Scythopolis.

BASIL of Cilicia.

JOHN the First, Bishop of Rome.

FELIX the Fourth, Bishop of Rome.

BONIFACE the Second, Bishop of Rome.

JOHN the Second, Bishop of Rome.

AGAPETUS Bishop of Rome.

St. EPHREM Patriarch of Antioch.

PROCOPIUS of Gaza.

The Anonymous Author of an Exposition of the Octateuque.

The Monk Jobius.

JUSTINIAN.

DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS.

CASSIODORUS.

St. BENEDICT.

Pope SILVERIUS.

The Pope VIGILIUS.

CAESARIUS Bishop of Arles.

PONTIANUS.

LEO Archbishop of Sens.

TROJANUS Bishop of Santones.

NICETIUS Bishop of Treves.

AURELIANUS.

TERRADIUS.

ARATOR.

JUSTINIANUS and JUSTUS Bishops of Spain,

APRIGIUS.

ARETAS.

ZACHARIAS Bishop of Mitylena.

CYRILLUS of Scythopolis.

FACUNDUS.

VICTOR of Capua.

RUSTICUS Deacon of the Church of ROME.

PRIMASIUS.

JUNILIUS.

LIBERATUS.

VICTOR of Tunona.

PAULUS SILENTIARIUS.

PELAGIUS the First.

AGNELLUS.

LEONTIUS.

FORTUNATUS.

BANDONINIA.

St. GERMANUS Bishop of Paris.

MARTINUS of Bracara.

PASCHASIUS.

JOANNES SCHOLASTICUS Patriarch of Constantinople.

GREGORY of Tours.

GILDAS.

EVANTIUS.

FERREOLUS.

SEDATUS and CHRYSIPPUS.

PELAGIUS the Second.

EULOGIUS.

JOHN the Faster.

JOHN of Biclarum.

ANASTASIUS SINAITA.

EVAGRIUS.

St. JOHN CLIMACUS.

JOHN of Raithu.

St. GREGORY.

Concerning Baptism.

Of the Unction, that is used at Baptism, or Confir∣mation.

Of the Consecration of the Eucharist.

About Penance.

About the Indissolvableness of Marriage.

Of the Vacancy of an Episcopal See.

Concerning the Elections and Ordinations of Bishops.

Of the Authority and Usefulness of Councils.

Of the Primacy and Rights of the Bishop of Rome.

Of the Apostolick Sees.

The Form of Ecclesiastical Decisions.

Against the Title of Universal Patriarch.

Of the Rights and Authority of the Metropolitans.

About the Pallium.

About the Title of Cardinal.

Of the Pope's Deputies.

The Pope's Legats.

Of the Functions of Arch-deacons, Deacons, Sub-deacons, and other Clergy-men.

Of the Use of Ecclesiastical Revenues.

Of the Patrimony of St. Peter.

Of the Celibacy of Clergy-men.

Against Simony.

Of the Submission due to Princes.

Of Ecclesiastical Moderation.

Of the Duties to which Bishops are obliged.

Of the Penance of Clergy-men.

Of Excommunication.

Rules concerning the Monks.

Of an Abbot.

Of the Exemption of Monasteries.

Of the Uniting of Monasteries.

Rules for the Monasteries of Nuns.

The Consecration of Churches.

The Uniting of Bishopricks.

The Translation of Bishops.

Rules concerning Christian Slaves.

Of the Veneration due to Reliques.

Of the Use of Images.

Of divers Ceremonies of the Church of Rome.

Of the last Judgment.

The Letters of St. Gregory against the Defenders of the three Chapters.

Against the Donatists.

The Affair of Maximus of Salonae.

The Mission of Austin the Monk and his Collegues into England.

Of some Letters attributed to St. Gregory, which are either uncertain or supposititious.

PATERIUS.

St. LEANDER Bishop of Sevil.

LICINIANUS and SEVERUS Bishops of Spain.

DINAMIUS.

EUTROPIUS.

MAXIMUS Bishop of Saragosa.

EUSTRATIUS Priest of Constantinople.

ANDRONICIANUS.

LUCIUS CHARINUS.

METRODORUS.

HERACLIANUS Bishop of Chalcedon.

LEONTIUS Bishop of Arabissa.

OF THE COUNCILS HELD In the Sixth Age.

Of the COUNCILS at ROME under Pope Symmachus.

Of the Council of Agatha.

The first Council of Orleans.

The Council of Tarraco.

The Council of Gerunda.

The Council of Epaone.

Of first Council of Lyons.

The Council of Lerida, or Ilerda.

The Council of Valentia in Spain.

The fourth Council of Arles.

The Council of the Bishops of Afric held at Carthage under Boniface Bishop of that City, in the Year 525.

The second Council of Orange.

The second Council of Vasio.

The Council of Rome under Boniface the Second.

The second Council of Toledo.

A Conference held at Constantinople between the Ca∣tholicks and Severians.

The second Council of Orleans.

The Council of Clermont in Arvernia, in the Year 535.

The third Council of Orleans.

The Council of Barcelona held in the Year 540.

The fourth Council of Orleans held in the Year 541.

The fifth Council of Orleans.

The Council of Arvernia under King Theodobertus.

The Council of Tutella.

The History of the Council of Constantinople under Mennas, held in the Year 536.

The History of the second Council of Constantinople, which is commonly call'd the fifth General Council.

The fifth Council of Arles.

The second Council of Paris in the Year 555.

The third Council of Paris.

The Edict of Clotharius.

The first Council of Bracara.

The Council held at Santones.

The second Council of Lyons.

The second Council of Tours in the Year 567.

The second Council of Bracara in 572.

The fourth Council of Paris.

The fifth Council of Paris.

The Synod of Antisiodorum.

The first Council of Mascon in the Year 581.

The third Council of Lyons.

The second Council of Valentia held in 583.

The second Council of Mascon held in 585.

The third Council of Toledo.

The Council of Narbo in the Year 589.

The first Council of Sevil in 590.

The Council in Arvernia.

The Council of Poitiers.

The Council of Metz in the Year 590.

The Assembly of Bishops at Nanterra.

The Council of Caesar Augusta.

The Council of Toledo, held in the twelfth Year of the Reign of Reccaredus, the Five hundred ninety seventh of Jesus Christ, consisting of thirteen Bishops of Spain, It was National.

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

The Council of Barcelona under the same King held in 599, consisting of twelve Bishops.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE Ecclesiastical Writers Which are mention'd in this Volume.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE COUNCILS Held in the Sixth Age, Which are mention'd in this Volume.

A TABLE OF ALL THE WRITINGS OF THE Ecclesiastical Authors Mention'd in this Volume.

A TABLE of the CANONS and ACTS of the COUNCILS held in the Sixth Age of the Church.

A TABLE OF THE WORKS OF THE Ecclesiastical Writers Of the Sixth Age, According to the Order of their Subject Matter.

AN Alphabetical INDEX OF THE Principal Matters contain'd in the Fifth Volume.

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The CONTENTS of the Sixth Volume.

Of the Lives and Writings of the Ecclesiastical Authors that Flourished in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries, viz.

An Alphabetical Table of the Ecclesiastical Writers of the Se∣venth and Eighth Centuries.

An Alphabetical Table of the Councils, held in the 7th and 8th Centuries.

The AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.

IBLIOTHECA PATRUM: OR, A NEW HISTORY OF Ecclesiastical Writers. TOME V.

S. ISIDORE of Sevil.

BRAULIO, Bishop of Saragosa.

S. COLUMBANUS.

CUMIANUS or CUMINUS.

HESYCHIUS.

EUSEBIUS, Bishop of Thessalonica.

BONIFACE IV.

JOHN PHILOPONUS.

THEODOSIUS, CONON, EUGENIUS, THEMISTIUS and THEODORUS.

NICIAS.

ANTIOCHUS.

JOHN, Bishop of Thessalonica.

GREGORY of Antioch.

JOHN, ARAUSIUS, HELLADIUS, JUSTUS, NONNITUS and CONAN∣TIUS, Bishops of Spain.

BONIFACE V.

MODESTUS, Bishop of Jerusalem.

GEORGE of Alexandria.

HONORIUS.

SOPHRONIUS.

JOANNES MOSCHUS.

GEORGIUS, Sirnamed PISIDES.

EUGENIUS, Bishop of Toledo.

APOLLONIUS, Presbyter of Novara.

JOHN IV.

THEODORUS I.

MARTIN I.

S. MAXIMUS.

ANASTASIUS, Disciple of Maximus.

ANASTASIUS, Apocrisiarius of Rome.

THEODOSIUS and THEODORUS.

THEODORUS.

PETER of Laodicea.

THALASSIUS, a Monk.

ISAIAH, Abbot.

THEOFRIDUS, Abbot.

DONATUS.

VITALIANUS.

S. ELIGIUS.

AGATHO.

LEO II.

BENEDICT II.

DREPANIUS FLORUS.

ILDEPHONSUS, Bishop of Toledo.

TAIO, or TAGO.

LEONTIUS, Bishop in Cyprus.

MARCULPHUS.

COSMA of Jerusalem.

PANTALEO.

S. JULIAN of Toledo.

THEODORUS of Canterbury.

FRUCTUOSUS.

CEOLFRIDE.

ADELMUS.

ADAMAN.

APONIUS.

CRESCONIUS.

JOANNES MONACHUS.

DEMETRIUS CIZICENUS.

Memoirs of the Schism of the Armenians.

JOHANNES NICAENUS's Memoirs upon Christ's Birth, directed to Zachary, a Christian of Armenia.

S. OWEN.

COUNCILS Held in the Seventh Century.

A Conference held in 601. in England, in Worcestershire, between Augustine the Monk, and the British Bishops.

Assembly of Bishops held at Challon, upon the River Saone, in 603.

A Council of Toledo, held under King Gondemare, in 610.

Council of Egara, under King Sisebut, held in the year 614.

Council V. of Paris.

Council held in France, about the same Time as the former, of which the Place is unknown.

Council II. of Sevil.

Council of Rheims, under Sonnatius.

Council IV. of Toledo.

Council V. of Toledo, held in 636.

Council VI. of Toledo, of the Year 638.

Council VII. of Toledo.

Council of Lateran against the Monothelites under Martin I.

Council III. of Constantinople, 6th. General.

Council of Challon upon the River Saone.

Council VIII. of Toledo.

Council IX. of Toledo.

Council X. of Toledo, in 656.

A Conference held in Northumberland, in 664.

Council of Merida.

Council of Autun.

Council of Hereford in England.

Council XI. of Toledo.

Council IV. of Braga.

Council XII. of Toledo

Council XIII. of Toledo.

Council XIV. of Toledo.

Council XV. of Toledo.

Council of Saragosa.

Council XVI. of Toledo.

Council XVII. of Toledo, held in 694.

Council held at Constantinople, Anno 692, called Quini-Sextum, or In Trullo.

OF THE Ecclesiastical Writers Which FLOURISHED In the VIII Age of the CHURCH.

BEDE.

JOHN, Patriarch of Constantinople; and AGATHO, Deacon of the same Church.

GERMANUS, Patriarch of Constantinople.

BONIFACE of Mentz.

GREGORY II.

GREGORY III.

ZACHARY Bishop of Rome.

ANDREAS CRETENSIS.

ANASTASIUS.

EGBERT of YORK.

St. JOHN DAMASCENE.

S. CHRODEGAND, Bishop of Metz.

STEVEN II.

WILLIBALD.

JOHN Patriarch of Jerusalem.

GODESCHALCUS.

AMBROSIUS AUTPERTUS.

PAUL I.

STEPHEN III.

ADRIAN I.

PAUL Deacon of Aquileia.

CHARLEMAGNE.

ALCUIN.

ETHERIUS.

PAULINUS of Aquileia.

THEODULPHUS Bishop of Orleans.

LEO III.

Some Greek Authors against the Iconoclasts.

ELIAS Cretensis.

GEORGE SYNCELLUS and THEOPHANES

Councils held in the Eighth Century.

The Assembly of Barkhamstead in the Kingdom of Kent.

Councils held in England about the matter of Wilfrid.

A Council of Rome under Gregory II.

A Council of Germany under Carloman.

The Council of Lestines.

A Council of Rome held under Pope Zachary.

The Council of Soissons.

The Second Council of Rome under Zachary.

The Council of Cloveshaw.

The COUNCIL of VERBERIE.

The COUNCIL of VERNEUILLE.

The COUNCIL of METZ.

The COUNCIL of COMPEIGNE.

The Second COUNCIL of NICE for Images, The Seventh General.

The Council of NORTHUMBERLAND.

The COUNCIL of AQUILEIA.

The COUNCIL of RATISBONE.

The COUNCIL of FRANCKFORT.

A COUNCIL of Rome under Pope LEO III.

The COUNCIL of Aix-la-Chapelle against FELIX.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORS That Flourished In the Seventh and Eighth Centuries of the Church.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE of the Councils held in the VII and VIII Centuries of the Church.

A TABLE of the Works of the Ecclesiastical Writers of VII and VIII Centuries of the Church.

A Table of the Acts, Letters and Canons of the Councils held in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries.

A Table of the Works of the Ecclesiastical Writers of the Seventh and Eighth Centuries; disposed according to the Order of the Matters contained in them.

AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF THE Principal Matters Contained in the Sixth Volume.

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A TABLE of the CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.

CHAP. II.

CHAP. III.

CHAP. IV.

CHAP. V.

CHAP. VI.

CHAP. VII.

CHAP. VIII.

CHAP. IX.

CHAP. X.

CHAP. XI.

The Council of Aix la Chapelle, held in 809.

The Sixth Council of Arles, in the year 813.

The Council of Mentz, in the same year.

The Council of Rheims, in the same year.

The Third Council of Tours, in the same year.

The Second Council of Chalons, in the same year.

The Council of Aix la Chapelle, in the year 816.

The Council of Celichith in England, in the same year.

The Council of Aix la Chapelle, in the year 817.

The Council of Thionville.

The Capitularies, or Sanctions of Lewis the Godly.

The Sixth Council of Paris, held in the year 829.

The Council of Aix la Chapelle, in the year 836.

The Council of Thionville.

The Council of Verneuil.

The Council of Beauvais.

The Councils of Meaux, in 845. and Paris, in 846.

The Capitularies of King Charles the Bald.

The Council of Mentz held Anno 847.

The Council of Pavia.

The Council of Soissons, Anno 853.

The Council of Verbery, anno 853.

The Council of Rome, under Leo the IV.

The Third Council of Valence.

The Council of Quiercy.

The Council of Metz.

The Council of Savonieres.

The Council of Coblentz.

The Second Council of Tullium, or Toul.

The Council of Worms.

The Second Council of Douzy.

The Council of Ravenna.

The Council of Troyes.

The Council of Fismes.

The Council of Cologne.

The Council of Mentz.

The Council of Metz.

The Council of Vienna.

The Council of Tribur.

The Council of Nantes.

A LETTER from the Clergy of Ravenna to Charles the Younger.

The LETTER of the Bishops of Germany to John the VIIIth.

CHAP. XII.

CHAP. XIV.

CHAP. XV.

CHAP. XVI.

CHAP. XVII.

Chronological Tables, And other Necessary INDEXES & TABLES.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE Authors of the Church IN THE NINTH CENTURY.

A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesiastical Writers of the Ninth Century.

A TABLE of the Acts, Letters and Canons of the COUNCILS held in the Ninth Century.

A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesiastical Authors of the Ninth Age; disposed according to the Subjects they treat of.

An ALPHABETICAL TABLE of the Ecclesiastical Authors of the Ninth Age.

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE of the COUNCILS held in the Ninth Age of the Church.

A General INDEX of the Principal Matters con∣tained in this Volume.

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND Right Reverend Father in God, HENRY, Lord Bishop of LONDON; AND ONE Of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, &c.

TO THE READER.

A Table of the Contents OF THE TENTH CENTURY.

CHAP. I.

Simeon Metaphrastes.

John Cameniates.

Constantine Porphyrogenetta.

Hippolitus the Theban.

Eutichius Patriarch of Alexandria.

Nico of Armenia.

Nicephorus the Philosopher.

Moses Bar-Cephas.

CHAP II.

An Account of the Roman Wers in the Tenth Century.

John IX.

John X.

Leo VII.

Agapetus II.

John XII.

John XIII.

Benedict VI.

John XV.

Gregory V.

Ratherius Bishop of Verona.

ATTO Bishop of Verceil.

LUITPRAND.

CHAP. III.

FULCUS Arch-Bishop of Rheims.

HERVEUS Archbishop of Rheims.

The Writings of Gerbert.

FLODOARD Prebendary of Rheims.

An ADVERTISEMENT to the following Addition.

The ADDITION.

AURELIAN Clerk of the Church of Rheims.

BERNERUS Monk of S. Remy of Rheims.

GAUTIER Archbishop of Sens.

Of the other Bishops of FRANCE.

ODO Abbot of Cluny.

JOHN Monk of Cluny.

ODILO Abbot of Cluny.

ABBO Abbot of Fleury.

AIMOIN Monk of Fleury.

STEPHEN Abbot of Lobes.

FULCUIN Abbot of Lobes.

HERIGER Abbot of Lobes.

ALDEBOLD Bishop of Utrecht.

ALBERT Abbot of Gemblours.

ODILO Monk of S. Medard at Soissons.

GERARD Abbot of S. Medard at Soissons.

JOHN Abbot of Arnulphus at Metz.

HELPERIC or CHILPERIC Monk of S. Gal.

BERTHIER Priest of Verdun.

ADSO Abbot of Luxeüil.

LETALDUS Monk of S. Memin.

CHAP. IV.

S. ULRIC Bishop of Augsburgh.

ADALBERO Bishop of Augsburgh.

The two ADALBERTS, who were Saints.

BRUNO Archbishop of Cologn.

ROGER Monk of S. Pantaleon.

RATHBOLDUS Bishop of Utrecht.

HILDEBERT Archbishop of Mentz.

WILLIAM Archbishop of Mentz.

BONNO Abbot of Corbey in Saxony.

WALTRAMNUS Bishop of Stratsburg.

SOLOMON Bishop of Constance.

UTHO Bishop of Stratsburg.

NOTGER the Stammerer.

WITICHINDUS Monk of S. Corbey in Westphalia.

ROSWIDA a Nun.

REGINALDUS Bishop of Eichstadt.

THIERRY Archbishop of Triers.

OTHLO Bishop of Metz.

UFFING or UFFO Monk of Werthin.

CHAP. V.

CHAP. VI.

Chronological Tables And other Necessary INDEXES & TABLES FOR THE Tenth Century.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE Ecclesiastical Writers IN THE TENTH CENTURY.

A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesi∣astical Writers of the Tenth Century.

A TABLE of the Acts, Letters, and Canons of the COUNCILS held in the Tenth Century.

A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesiastical Authors of the Tenth Age of the Church; disposed according to the Subjects they treat of.

An ALPHABETICAL TABLE of the Ecclesiastical Authors of the Tenth Century.

An ALPHABETICAL TABLE of the COUNCILS held in the Tenth Age of the Church.

A General INDEX of the Principal Matters con∣tained in this Volume.

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To the Reader.

A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.

CHAP. II.

CHAP. III.

Hugh Bishop of Langres.

Durandus Abbot of Troarn.

Guitmond Arch-bishop of Averse.

Alger Deacon of Liege and Monk of Cluny.

S. Anselm Arch-bishop of Canterbury.

CHAP. IV.

CHAP. V.

CHAP. VI.

CHAP. VII.

HUMBERT, by the Grace of God, Cardinal Bishop of the Holy Church of Rome, PETER Arch-bishop of Melphi, FREDERICK Deacon and Chancellor, to all the Sons of the Catholick Church Greeting.

CHAP. VIII.

CHAP. IX.

CHAP. X.

CHAP. XI.

An Addition of some other Authors who wrote in the Eleventh Century.

To these may be added the nameless Writers of the same Age, who compos'd the following works, viz.

CHAP. XII.

CHAP. XIII.

The Councils of France.

The Synod of Arras, held in the Year, 1025.

The Council of Bourges, held in the Year, 1031.

The Council of Limoges held in the Year, 1031.

Divers Councils held in France, A. D. 1040.

The Council of Rheims held in the Year, 1049.

The Council of Tours, held in the Year, 1060.

The Council of Soissons, held in the Year, 1092.

Divers Councils held in Normandy. The Council of Rouen, conven'd, A. D. 1050.

The Council of Lisieux, held A. D. 1055. and that of Rouen in 1063.

The Council of Rouen held, A. D. 1072.

The Council of Rouen, held, A. D. 1074.

The Council of Lillebonne, held, A. D. 1080.

The Councils of the Province of Aquitaine. The Council of Narbonne, held in the Year, 1054.

The Council of Toulouse, held, A. D. 1056.

The Councils of Germany. The Council of Dortmund, held in the Year, 1005.

The Council of Selingenstadt, held, A. D. 1023.

The Council of Mentz, held, A. D. 1069.

The Council of Mentz, A. D. 1071.

The Council of Erford, A. D. 1073.

The Councils of England. The Council of Aenham, held in the Year, 1010.

The Laws of the Kings Ethelred and Canut.

The Council of London, held in the Year, 1075.

The Council of Winchester, held, A. D. 1076.

The Council of London, held, A. D. 1102.

The Councils of Spain. The Council of Leon, held in the Year, 1012.

The Council of Coyaco, held, A. D. 1050.

The Council of Elna in Roussillon, held, A. D. 1065.

CHAP. XIV.

Chronological TABLES, And other Necessary INDEXES and TABLES.

chronological table of 11th century writers

A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesiastical Writers of the Eleventh Century.

A TABLE of the Acts, Letters and Canons of the COUNCILS held in the Eleventh Century.

A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesiastical Authors of the Eleventh Century; disposed according to the Subjects they treat of.

An Alphabetical TABLE of the Ecclesiastical Authors of the Eleventh AGE.

An Alphabetical TABLE of the COUNCILS held in the Eleventh Age of the Church.

A General INDEX of the Principal Matters contained in this Volume.

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THE PREFACE.

A TABLE of the CONTENTS.

An Alphabetical Table of the Ecclesia∣stical Writers of the Twelfth Century.

An Alphabetical TABLE of the Coun∣cils held in the Twelfth Century.

AN Historical Account OF THE CONTROVERSIES IN RELIGION AND OF OTHER Ecclesiastical Affairs, IN THE Twelfth CENTURY.

His Works.

Of the Pannormia of Ivo.

Of the Decretum of Ivo.

The Contents of the XVII Parts of the Decretal.

CHAP. II.

CHAP. III.

The Letters of Innocent II are very many.

We have but three Letters of Celestine II.

The Letters of Pope Lucius II. are about Ten.

The Letters of Eugenius III. are in a far greater number.

CHAP. IV.

CHAP. V.

CHAP. VI.

CHAP. VII.

CHAP. VIII.

CHAP. IX.

CHAP. X.

CHAP. XI.

GEFFREY Abbot of VENDOME.

HILDEBERT Bishop of Mans, and afterwards Arch bishop of Tours.

GUIBERT Abbot of Nogent.

SIGEBERT A Monk of Gemblours.

HONORIUS SOLITARIUS A Scholastick Divine of the Church of Autun.

ERNULPHUS or ARNULPHUS Bishop of Rochester.

St. BRUNO and GUIGUE, Priors of the Carthusian Monastery at Grenoble.

St. NORBERT.

STEPHEN HARDING Abbot of Cisteaux.

BRUNO Bishop of Segni.

MARBODUS Bishop of Rennes.

ARNULPHUS Bishop of Lisieux.

PETER de CELLES Bishop of Chartres.

JOHN of SALISBURY Bishop of Chartres.

PETER of BLOIS Arch-Deacon of Bath.

STEPHEN Bishop of Tournay.

The Authors who wrote against the Albigeois and Vaudois.

CHAP. XII.

CHAP. XIII.

The Writers of General History.

Historians of England.

Historiographers of the Crusade.

Writers of Chronicles, and particular Histories.

Writers of Relations of the Lives and Miracles of Saints.

CHAP. IV.

CHAP. XV.

CHAP. XVI.

CHAP. XVII.

CHAP. XVIII.

The Second General Council of Lateran.

The Third General Council of Lateran.

CHAP. XIX.

The Council of Valence held in the Year 1100.

The Council of Poitiers held in the Year 1100.

The Council of Anse.

The Council of Troyes.

The Council of Beauvais held in the Year 1114.

The Council of Rheims held in the Year 1115.

The Council of Toulouse held in the Year 1119.

The Council of London held in the Year 1125.

The Council of London held in the Year 1127.

The Council of London held in the Year 1138.

The Council of Rheims held in the Year 1131.

The Council of Rheims held in the Year 1148.

The Council of Tours held in the Year 1163.

The Council of Cassel in Ireland.

The Council of Avranches held in the Year 1172.

The Council of London held in the Year 1175.

The Synod of York held in the Year 1195.

The Council of Montpellier held in the Year 1195.

CHAP. XX.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES, And other Necessary Indexes and Tables.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE Ecclesiastical Writers IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY.

A TABLE OF THE WORKS OF THE Ecclesiastical Writers IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY.

A TABLE OF THE ACTS, LETTERS, and CANONS OF THE COUNCILS HELD IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY.

A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesiastical Writers of the Twelfth Century; disposed according to the Subjects they Treat of.

A GENERAL INDEX OF THE Principal Matters Contained in this VOLUME.

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THE TRANSLATOR TO THE READER.

ADVERTISEMENT.

A TABLE of the CONTENTS of the ELEVENTH VOLUME.

An Alphabetital TABLE of the Authors mentioned in this Volume.

An Alphabetical TABLE of the Councils in the Thirteenth Century.

A HISTORY OF THE Controversies in Religion, And other AFFAIRS transacted in the CHURCH DURING THE Thirteenth Century.

CHAP. II.

CHAP. III.

CHAP. IV.

CHAP. V.

CHAP. VI.

The Council of Sens in the Year 1198.

The Council of Dalmatia, in the Year 1199.

The Council of London in the Year 1200.

The Council of Lambeth, in the Year 1206.

The Constitutions of Cardinal Gallo, drawn up in the Year 1208.

The Council of Avignon in the Year 1209.

The Council of Paris, in the Year 1212.

The Council of Montpellier in the Year 1215.

The Fourth General Lateran Council, Held under Pope Innocent III. in the Year 1215.

The Council of Melun in the Year 1216.

The Council of Oxford, in the Year 1222.

The Council of Mentz in the Year 1225.

The Council of Narbonne in the Year 1227.

The Council of Toulouse in the Year 1229.

The Council of Chateau Gonthier in the Year 1231.

The Council of Beziers in the Year 1233.

The Council of Arles, in the Year 1234.

The Council of Narbonne, held about the Year 1235.

The Council of Tours in the Year 1236.

The Council of London in the Year 1237.

The Council of Cognac in the Year 1238.

The Council of Tours in the Year 1239.

The Council of Laval in the Year 1242.

The first General Council of Lions in the Year 1245.

The Council of Beziers in the Year 1246.

The Council of Valenza in the Year 1248.

The Council of Saumur in the Year 1253.

The Council of Alby in the Year 1254.

The Council of Bourdeaux in the Year 1255.

The Council of Beziers in the Year 1255.

The Council of Ruffec in the Year 1258.

The Council of Montpellier in the Year 1258.

The Council of Cologne in the Year 1260.

The Council of Arles in the Year 1260.

The Council of Cognac in the Year 1260.

The Council of Lambeth in the Year 1261.

The Council of Cognac in the Year 1262.

The Council of Bourdeaux in the Year 1262.

The Council of Nants in the Year 1264.

The Decrees of Engelbert Arch-Bishop of Cologne in the Year 1266.

The Council of Vienna in Austria in the Year 1267.

The Council of London in the Year 1268.

The Ordinance of St. Lewis in the Year 1268.

The Council of Chateau-Gonthier in the Year 1268.

The Council of Angers in the Year 1269.

The Council of Sens in the Year 1269.

The Council of Compeign in the Year 1270.

The Council of Avignon in the Year 1270.

The Council of St. Quentin in the Year 1271.

The Council of Rennes in the Year 1273.

The Second General Council of Lions in the Year 1274.

The Council of Saltzburg in the Years 1274 and 1281.

The Council of Arles in the Year 1275.

The Synodal Statutes of Robert de L'Isle Bishop of Durham in the Year 1276.

The Council of Saumur in the Year 1276.

The Council of Bourges in the Year 1276.

The Council of Langeis in the Year 1276.

The Council of Ponteaudemer in the Year 1279.

The Councils of Avignon in the Years 1279 and 1282.

The Council of Redding in England in the Year 1279.

The Council of Buda in the Year 1279.

The Council of Angers in the Year 1279.

The Synodal Statutes of Sifroy Arch-Bishop of Cologne in the Year 1280.

The Synodal Constitutions of Geofrey of Saint Brice Bishop of Saintes in the Years 1280, and 1282,

The Constitutions of Gautier Bishop of Poitiers in the Years 1280, and 1284.

The Council of Lambeth in the Year 1281.

The Council of Tours in the Year 1282

The Synodal Statutes of the Diocess of Nismes, Publish'd about the Year 1284.

The Council of Ravenna in the Year 1286.

The Council of Bourges in the Year 1286.

The Synodal Canons of Peter Bishop of Exeter in the Year 1287.

The Council of Wirtzburgh in the Year 1287.

The Council of L'Isle in Provence in the Year 1288.

The Synodal Statutes of Gilbert Bishop of Chichester, Publish'd in the Years 1289 and 1292.

The Council of Nogarol in the Year 1290.

The Council of Saltzburgh in the Year 1291.

The Council of London in the Year 1291.

The Council of Saumur in the Year 1294.

The Synodal Statutes of Robert of Winchelsea Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Publish'd in the Years 1295, and 1300.

The Synodal Constitutions of Guy de Neuville Bishop of Saintes, Publish'd in the Year 1298.

The Council of Roan in the Year 1299.

CHAP. VII.

CHAP. VIII.

CHAP. IX.

CHAP. X.

A Chronological TABLE For the Thirteenth CENTURY.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE Ecclesiastical Writers OF THE Thirteenth CENTURY: And of their WORKS.

A Chronological TABLE of the COUNCILS held in the Thirteenth Century, and of their Acts, Let∣ters, Canons, &c.

A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesiastical Writers of the Thirteenth Century; disposed according to the Subjects they Treat of.

A General INDEX of the Principal Matters contained in this Volume.

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PREFACE.

A TABLE of the CONTENTS.

An Alphabetical Table of the Ecclesiastical Authors of the Fourteenth Age of the Church.

An Alphabetical TABLE of the Councils hold in the Fourteenth Age of the Church.

AN Historical Account OF THE CONTROVERSIES IN RELIGION AND OF OTHER Ecclesiastical Affairs, IN THE Fourteenth CENTURY.

CHAP. II.

CHAP. III.

CHAP. IV.

CHAP. V.

CHAP. VI.

CHAP. VII.

Of the Council of Melun held in 1300.

The Synodal Decrees of Wichboldus Archbishop of Colen, in 1300.

Synodl Constitutions made at Bayeux about 1300.

Th Council of Ausche in 1300.

The Council of Compeigne in 1301.

The Council of Nogarol in 1303.

The Council of Compeigne, in 1304.

The Council of Ausche in 1308.

The Council of Presburg in Hungary, in 1309.

The Council of Sal•••urg in 1310.

The Council of Colen in 1310.

The General Council of Vienne in Dauphine, held in 1311.

The Council of Ravenna in 1311.

The Council of Ravenna in 1314.

The Council of Ravenna in 1317.

The Council of Paris in 1314.

The Council of Saumur in 1315.

The Council of Nogarol in 1315.

The Councils of Senlis in 1316. and 1317.

The Councils of Sens in 1320. and of Paris in 1323.

The Councils of Valladolid, in the Diocess of Palenza in Castile in 1322. and of Toledo in 1323.

The Council of Toledo in the Year 1324.

The Council of Colen in the Year 1322.

The Council of Avignon in the Year 1326.

The Council of Avignon in the Year 1337.

The Councils of Marsac in the Years 1326. and 1330.

The Councils of Senlis in 1326. and of Compeigne in 1329.

The Councils of Alcala [or Complutum] in 1326. and of Pennasiel in 1302.

The Council of Ruffec in 1327.

The Council of Salamanca in the Year 1335.

The Council of Roan in 1335.

The Council of Bourges in the Year 1336.

The Council of Chateaugonthier in 1336.

The Council of Toledo in the Year 1339.

The Council of Noyon in the Year 1344.

The Council of Paris in the Year 1346.

The Council of Toledo in 1347.

The Council of Beziers in the Year 1351.

The Council of Toledo in 1355.

The Council of Angers in 1365.

The Council of Lavaur in the Year 1368.

The Council of Narbonne in 1374.

The Council of Saltzburg in 1386.

The Council of Palenza in 1388.

COUNCILS held in England, in the Fourteenth Century.

The Council of London in 1321.

The Council at London in 1328.

The Council of Lambeth held about the Year 1330.

The Council of Macclesfield in 1332.

The Councils of London in 1341. 1342. and 1343.

The Councils of Lambeth in 13 and of Macclesfield and Lambeth in the Year 1362.

The Council of York in 1367.

CHAP. VIII.

CHAP. IX.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Of the Fourteenth AGE of the CHURCH.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE Ecclesiastical Authors Of the Fourteenth AGE, and their WORKS.

A Chronological TABLE of the COUNCILS held in the Fourteenth Century, and of their Acts, Let∣ters, Canons, &c.

A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesiastical Writers of the Fourteenth Century; disposed according to the Subjects they Treat of.

An INDEX of the Principal Matters contained in this Volume.

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PREFACE.

A TABLE of the CONTENTS.

An ALPHABETICAL TABLE of the Ecclesia∣stical Writers in the Fifteenth Century of the Church.

An Alphabetical Table of the Councils held in the Fifteenth Century of the Church.

AN HISTORY OF THE CONTROVERSIES AND OTHER Ecclesiastical Affairs Transacted in the Fifteenth Century.

CHAP. II.

CHAP. IV.

CHAP. V.

CHAP. VI.

The Council of Oxford, in the Year 1408.

The Council of Saltzburg, in 1420.

The Council of Collen, in 1423.

The Council of Paris, in 1429.

The Council of Tortose, in 1429.

The Council of Angers, in 1448.

The Council of Soissons, in 1456.

The Council of Toledo, in 1473.

The Council of Sens, 1485.

The Council of Roan, in 1445.

CHAP. VII.

CHAP. VIII.

CHAP. IX.

A DISSERTATION ABOUT THE Author of the Book, CONCERNING THE Imitation of JESUS CHRIST.

SECTION I.

SECTION II.

SECTION III.

SECTION IV.

SECTION V.

SECTION VI.

SECTION VII.

SECT. VIII.

SECTION IX.

SECTION X.

SECTION XI.

SECTION XII.

SECTION XIII.

A Chronological TABLE OF THE Ecclesiastical History of the Fifteenth Century.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE Ecclesiastical Writers OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, AND Of their Genuine WORKS.

A Chronological TABLE of the COUNCILS held in the Fifteenth Century, and of their Acts, Let∣ters, Canons, and Chapters.

A Chronological TABLE of the Eccesiastical Wri∣ters, of the Fifteenth Century, Rang'd according to the Order of the Matters handled in them.

A TABLE of the Principal Matters contain'd in this History of the Fifteenth Century.