Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.
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The manners of the antient Christians . Extracted from a French author. By John Wesley, M. A. Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford.
Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- E-books
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Short historical catechism containing an abridgement of sacred history, and of the Christian doctrine. Taken from the French of Abbé Fleury.
Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- E-books
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Lessons for children, selected from the word of God to which is added, Fleury's Historical catechism; or, an abridgment of sacred history.
Date: 1789- E-books
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Four discourses upon the excellency and usefulness of ecclesiastical history Viz. I. Of the subject matter of ecclesiastical history; the stile, chronology, doctrine, discipline, manners, and method of writing it. II. Of the government of the church, and of the superiour and inferiour clergy. The method of studying divinity and antiquity. Of the knowledge and eloquence of the fathers, and of the doctrine of the trinity. III. Of the rise and decay of learning; of relicks, pilgrimages, superstitions, temporalities of the clergy, riches of churches, the corruption of manners, incontinence of the clergy, simony, penances, censures, the deposing of kings, succession of bishops, councils, schools, monasteries, ceremonies, propagation of the faith, with an apology for the five first centuries. IV. Of the authority of bishops, translations, erections, appeals, extension of the pope's authority, immunities of the clergy, temporal power of the church, and inconveniences from thencearising. Of legates, pecuniary subventions, rigour against hereticks, indulgencies, and the necessity of telling the whole truth. By the Abbot Fleury, sub-preceptor to the King of Spain, and to the Dukes of Burgundy and Berry. Made English from the French original.
Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.Date: 1721- E-books
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Discourses on ecclesiastical history under the following heads: viz. I The matter of ecclesiastical history. II. Rules of Chronology. III. Of Bishops and Clerks. IV. Of the inferior Clergy. V. The Doctrine of the Trinity. VI. The Method of studying. Vii. The Knowledge of the Fathers. Viii. The Necessity of studying Antiquity. IX. The Fall and Decay of Learning. X. The Incontinence of the Clergy. XI. The Deposing of Kings. XII. The Succession of Bishops. XIII. of discipline, Manners, Martyrs, Monks, &c. Reliques, Pilgrimages, Superstitions, Simony, Penances, Censures, Councils, Monasteries, Ceremonies, &c. By Mr. Fleury, an Abbot; Formerly Subpreceptor to the King of Spain, and the Dukes of Burgundy and Berry. Written originally in French, and now done into English.
Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.Date: 1721