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 160 ALEXANDER. tics ; and he has added three difl'ertations, wherein he has roiiec~ted what relates to the life, manners, error?, and de- fenders of St. Cyprian. The hiftory of the fourth century is fo very exienfive, that Alexander has found matter for three volumes, and forty-five diiFertations ; they were printed at Paris in 1679. In the three following years he publifhed his hiftory of the fifth, fixih, fcventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth centurifs ; and that cf thj eleventh and twelfth cen- turies in if 83: in thefe volumes are feveral differtations againft: Mr. Daiile, and i'n fume of them lie treats of the dif- putes between the princes anainfths writings in O O 1684. However he published the fame year the hilloiy of the thirteenth and fouiteenth centuries, in which he con- tinued to defend the njrhts of kin/s againA th? pte tension's of O _/ O that court. He at laft completed his work in 168*), by pub- lifhing four volumes, which contained the hiftory of the fifteenth and fixteenth centuries. In 1689, he publifhed a work, in the fame method, upon the Old Teftament, in fix volumes 8 vo. In 1678, he publifhed three diflertations, the firft concerning the fuperiority of biflv-ps over prefbyters, sgainft Blondel; the fecond concerning the celibacy of the clergy, and reconciling the hiftory of Paphnutius with the canon of the council of Nice ; and the third concerning the Vulgate verfion of Scriptures. The fame vear he printed a differtation concerning facramental confeflion againlt Mr. Paille, in 8vo. In 1682, he wrote an apology for his difier- tatioh upon the Vulgate tranflation, againft Claudius Frafien. He publifhed likewife about this time, or fome time before, three diflertations in de'ence of St. Thomas Aquinas; the firft againft Henfchenius and Papebroch, to fhew that the office of the holy facrament was written by him ; the fecond was inform of a dialogue between a Dominican and a Fran- rifcan, to confute the common opinion that Alexander of Halts was St. Thomas Aquinas's mafter, and that the latter borrowed his " Secunda Secundae" from the former : the third is a panegyric upon Aquinas, in 169.;, he publifhed his ral Divinity, according to 'he Order of the Catechifm of the Council of Trent." This L.vin work, confiftmzof ten octavo volumes, was printed at Paris and at Venice in 1698 : in 1701 he added another volume j. and they were all printed together at pans, in tuo volumes folio, in 1/03, with a coJIe5tion of Latin letters, which hau been printed feparately. In 1703, he publifhed " A commentary upon the four Gofpels," in folio; 3 and
 * Theologia dogmatica," in five books, or "Pofitive and mo-