A new history of ecclesiastical writers: [electronic resource] : containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament; and the lives and writings of the primitive fathers; an abridgment and catalogue of all their works; censures determining the genuine and spurious, a judgment upon their style and doctrine, and the various editions of their writings: to which is added, a compendious history of the councils; and many necessary tables and indexes. / Written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin, Doctor of the Sorbon, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Paris. ; Volume the first, containing the authors that flourished in the three first ages of the church.