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A69887	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.; Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques. English. 1693	Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.; Wotton, William, 1666-1727.	1693 (1693)	Wing D2644; ESTC R30987	5,602,793	2,988

and directed to the Bishops of Italy France and Germany he therein implores their Assistance and cites his Adversary to a Council that his Cause might be determin'd there The fifth Letter is imperfect 't is a dedicatory Epistle of some Work directed to a Bishop These particular Letters are follow'd by a Synodical Letter which Ratherius publish'd in a Synod which he held after his last re-establishment in order to instruct his Clergy who were very ignorant He recommends to them at first the getting by heart the Apostle's Creed that which was sung at Mass and the Creed of S. Athanasius He explains to them the mysteries of the principal Festivals of the year exhorts them to say Mass and to communicate on the Festivals and Sundays and advertizes those who would enter into Priests Orders of what they ought to know and practice in order to their Ordination which he reduces to these heads They must bring Certificates out of the Church Registers whether they be free-born and of the same Diocess If they are born Slaves they must produce their Letter of Freedom and if they be of another Diocess Letters of recommendation from their Bishop call'd now Letters Demissory They must learn by heart and be able to explain the Creed the Lord's Prayer and to read distinctly and to explain the Epistle and Gospel They must know how to adminster the Sacraments of Baptism of Pennance and of Extream Unction and how to perform the Ceremonies for the Burial of the Dead and for the Blessing of Holy Water Thay must be well vers'd in Singing and in the Calender and they must have a Martyrology and a Penitential He adds that he would not admit any into Priests Orders unless they had spent some time in his City either in a Monastery or under the Discipline of some Learned Man and were men of some Learning themselves He informs his Clergy that the Ecclesiastical Revenues being divided into four parts whereof only one belong'd to them they ought not to encroach on those which belong'd to the Bishop to the Poor and to Building He orders that a Regular observation should be made of Lent every day alike except Sundays that during Advent they should abstain from eating of Flesh and from the celebration of Marriage He requires that abstinence in the last case should likewise be observ'd in the Octaves of Easter and Whitsontide in the time of publick Prayers in the Vigils of all the Festivals on all Fridays and Sundays that they should fast till † One of the Popish Canonical hours None all the Passion-Week that on Easter Eve no Priest should say Mass before ten a clock nor solemnly Christen any before that hour He declares that the Priests can enjoyn Pennance and give Absolution for secret Sins but for publick Offences they ought to apply themselves to the Bishop Lastly he would have them omit the Festivals which fell out in Lent except those of the Virgin Mary the Apostles and the Saints whose bodies lay interr'd in their Church There is inserted in this Synodical Letter a discourse containing likewise several Advices and Instructions for Ecclesiasticks the which is attributed to Pope Leo IV. and S. Ulric 'T is very plain that 't is foreign to this subject but 't is difficult to determine whose piece it is The Treatise of Ratherius entituled a Journal of his Travel to Rome is a piece wherein he threatens his Clergy to go to Rome and impeach them there that so he might reduce them to their Duty He tells them that tho they might be very sensible that he design'd to go to Rome yet they were ignorant of his design in going That he did not go thither to put up his Prayers there having read in the Gospel that the time is come when Men shall no longer Worship God on this Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem and that God being a Spirit he ought to be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth which every one might do at home in his own Closet That he did not go thither by the Emperor's Order having receiv'd no such orders from him but only to send his Soldiers thither That he did not go thither to learn any thing since the Scripture gave him sufficient instructions what to do but that he went thither to the Synod of Bishops which were to meet at Rome by the Emperor's Order to know of them how he should behave himself in the Discipline of his Church and particularly whether he might tolerate his Clergy's having Women amongst them He observes that he could apply himself to no place so properly as to Rome for instruction how he ought to demean himself in that case For says he where can one be better inform'd of the discipline of the Church than at Rome There are the most eminent Doctors in the World 'T is there the Heads of the Universal Church do flourish 'T is there they examine the constitutions of Episcopacy and the institutions of other Ecclesiasticks There they approve of those that ought to be received and reject those that ought to be rejected Nothing that is disannull'd there can be of force elsewhere and nothing which is ordered there can be abolished Whither then can I better apply my self for the Cure of my Ignorance than to the source and fountain-head of all Wisdom To this Consideration he adds the Equity and Justice of the Emperour and the personal Deserts of Pope John viz. the Twelfth of that Name who scarce deserved such an Encomium and the hopes that they would call a general Council which he wishes might prove beneficial to the Church He explains the question he would propose to them namely whether those who infring'd and openly contemn'd the Canons ought to be endur'd in the Church He adds that he would not so much as mention the Injuries he had formerly suffer'd from them nor those which they still continued to heap upon him but that he knew not how to refrain speaking of that which passed in the last Synod which he held wherein he had not the Liberty of Reforming his Clergy and in which there was not the least notice taken of his Synodical Letter He enlarges himself very much on the necessity there was of observing the Canons and was extremely concern'd upon the account that these Canons prohibited the Clergy who had been guilty of such Crimes from Celebrating or discharging their Ministerial Functions For says he if they do not confess their Faults they are in danger of being Damn'd and if they do confess them these Canons prohibit them from discharging their Functions Since the Case stands thus the Church would be unprovided of Ministers since the Number of the Wicked was so great He exhorts them to Repentance and to recite a Prayer which he says he met with in the Psalteries wherein God is to be implored for their Salvation and Conversion through the Intercession of the Virgin and all the Saints However forasmuch as the Difficulty still

not willing to forsake their Errors to make those Charitable Severities which are made use of to recover them to pass for insupportable Violences and unheard of Cruelties by aggravating them and representing them in such an odious manner as is proper to stir up Indignation The Principles which he lays down in the following Part are very agreeable with those of the Protestants In the First Article he opposes those who will have it determined where the Truth is by the Judgment of the greater Number Jesus Christ saith he is the Truth as Tertullian hath a long Time since affirmed and 't is he that we ought to consult This being so are they not to be pitied who judge of the Force and Authority of a Doctrine only by the Number of those who approve it without considering that our Lord Jesus Christ chose ignorant and poor Men whom he made use of to convert all the World He required that Millions of Men should yield themselves up to the Doctrines of these Twelve Thus hath the Truth always triumphed although it were among the smallest Number and whosoever he be that despairing to prove what he affirms to be true flies to the Authority of the Multitude he confesses himself vanquished The great Number may affright but cannot perswade There are but few that shall be saved S. Stephen Phineas Lot and Noah had the Multitude against them yet who had not rather be on their Side than on that which did oppose them 'T is not saith the same Author that I bear not a due respect to the Multitude but it is to that which proves what it teacheth and not to that which will not suffer us to examine and search out the Truth 'T is to that which doth not condemn with Severity but correct with Gentleness not to that which loves Novelties but to that which preserves the Truth which they have received from their Ancestors But what is this Multitude which you object against me It is the Throng of Men corrupted by Flatteries and Prisons 'T is the Number of ignorant Men who have no Understanding to guide them It is a crowd of weak and fearful Men who suffer themselves to be conquered They are the Souls which preferr the Pleasures that Sin affords us in this Life which are momentary before Eternal Life and Glory So that when you object to me this Multitude to gain Credit to a Lye you do but discover the extent of Wickedness and the great Number of the Miserable The Second Chapter is of like Nature with this First In it he opposes those who maintain That it is needless to search the Holy Scripture that we may know what we ought to believe either because it is sufficient for every one to believe what his own Reason teacheth him or because in searching for the Truth in Scripture we meet with more Obscurity and Uncertainty Our Author cannot approve of this Advice He saith That being perswaded of the Truth of the Mysteries and trusting in the Help of Jesus Christ who hath promised to those who seek after the Truth that they shall certainly find it he seeks after the Truth in the manner that he ought he shall find it without mistaking that he puts himself into a Condition of proving what he teacheth of instructing the Faithful confuting Hereticks and convincing himself of the Truth and confirming the Doctrines so as none can doubt of them Would you have me saith he neglect the Study of Holy Scripture whence then will you have Knowledge necessary to support your Faith It is dangerous for this Life to be ignorant of the Roman Laws and 't is no less dangerous for another Life to be ignorant of the Oracles of our Heavenly King The Scripture is the Nourishment of the Soul Suffer not then the inward Man to die with Hunger by depriving him of the Word of God There are too too many who inflict mortal Wounds upon the Soul suffer them to seek Medicines for their Maladies and Griefs But there are say you things which pass our Understand I own it but the Scripture teaches us That we must search and that there are things that we cannot comprehend And as it would be a kind of Impiety to desire to throughly comprehend it so it is to have a kind of Contempt for the Divine Truths to lay aside wholly the search into them Every one ought to know what it is he adores as it is written We know what we worship But it is a Madness to enquire how much After what manner By what Means and where we must adore him In sum they who discourage others from reading and studying the Holy Scripture under a Pretence That they ought not to dive into Things too profound do it because they are afraid that they should be convinced of their Errors by it So when they find themselves pressed by convincing Testimonies of Holy Scripture they give a Sence clear contrary to the Words and if they find but one Word which can be brought to their Opinion although it be nothing to the Sence of the Place they must use it as an invincible Demonstration We must own that these Principles are not ill although Men may offend in the Application they make of them In the other Chapters he answers the Objections which the Aegyptians made against the Eastern Bishops and opposes some of their Expressions such as these The Word hath suffered in an impassible manner The Word hath suffered in the Flesh. He hath delivered several Expressions agreeable to those of Nestorius In sum He hath written with much Elegancy and Reason This Work is a Doctrinal Treatise and not a Collection of Sermons It is in Tom. 2. of Athanasius's Works under the Name of that Father and since it hath been printed at the end of Tom. 5. of Theodoret's Works put out by F. Garner at Paris in 1684. There are also some of this Bishop's Letters in F. Lupus's Collection THEODOTUS Bishop of Ancyra THEODOTUS Bishop of Ancyra a City of Galatia whom Gennadius calleth Theodorus was one of the greatest Adversaries of Nestorius He was present at the Council of Ephesus Theodotus of Ancyra where he courageously delivered his Opinion against him Gennadius says That he made a Treatise on purpose to confute him and that that Work was very Logical but that it was not sufficiently grounded upon the Authority of Holy Scriptures but lays down several Arguments before he comes to Scripture-proofs This description agrees well to the two Sermons of Theodotus upon the Feast of the Nativity preached in the Council of Ephesus and which are recited in the Acts of that Council where he proves by several Arguments That Jesus Christ is God and Man and that it is truly said That God is born of a Virgin There is also a 3d. Sermon preached at Ephesus upon S. John's day where he likewise speaks against the Errour of Nestorius The beginning of it is remarkable wherein he compares a Bishop to