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The sum of the conference between John Rainoldes and John Hart touching the head…The summe of the conference betwene Iohn Rainoldes and Iohn Hart touching the head…
The sum of the conference between John Rainoldes and John Hart touching the head and the faith of the Church. Wherein by the way are handled sundry points, of the sufficiency and right expounding of the Scriptures, the ministry of the Church, the function of priesthood, the sacrifice of the mass, with other controversies of religion: but chiefly and purposely the point of Church-government ... Penned by John Rainoldes, according to the notes set down in writing by them both: perused by John Hart, and (after things supplied, & altered, as he thought good) allowed for the faithful report of that which past in conference between them. Whereunto is annexed a treatise entitled, Six conclusions touching the Holy Scripture and the Church, written by John Rainoldes. With a defence of such things as Thomas Stapleton and Gregory Martin have carped at therein.The summe of the conference betwene Iohn Rainoldes and Iohn Hart touching the head and the faith of the Church. Wherein by the way are handled sundrie points, of the sufficiencie and right expounding of the Scriptures, the ministerie of the Church, the function of priesthood, the sacrifice of the masse, with other controuerises of religion: but chiefly and purposely the point of Church-gouernment ... Penned by Iohn Rainoldes, according to the notes set downe in writing by them both: perused by Iohn Hart, and (after things supplied, & altered, as he thought good) allowed for the faithfull report of that which past in conference betwene them. Whereunto is annexed a treatise intitled, Six conclusions touching the Holie Scripture and the Church, writen by Iohn Rainoldes. With a defence of such thinges as Thomas Stapleton and Gregorie Martin haue carped at therein.
Londini: printed by John Wolfe, 1584Londini: printed by Iohn Wolfe, 1584
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And Guicciardin's report of him is confirmed by two Italians mo, xJovius, and yOnuphrius. Who, though in certain of the Popes lives, they do blanch their histories, of love and devotion; yet they consent with Guicciardin in Alexander the sixth: saving that, where Guicciardin saith he would have poisoned one Cardinal at his last supper, they say that he intended to have poisoned sundry. Now these were sworn friends to them, of whom they wrote: they were not Lindans, and Bolseckes. They sought not of malice what they might write against them: but they wrote the truth by zthe law of history. They did not misreport them to revenge themselves. 1Calvin had touched Bolsecke: the Popes had not so them. They were not requested and sued to by Protestants to set forth their works in print against the Popes: as Bolsecke was by Papists (2 his Lords and friends,) against Calvin. If I had gone about to touch in such sort your Popes with odious matters: I could have made mention of a young stripling acreated Bishop by a Pope; and an other, bwhom a Pope made his first Cardinal; and cLucretia, a Popes daughter, he liker to Tarquinius, then she to Lucretia; and dAloisius, ⟨p. 343⟩a Popes son, worthy of his father; with eother villainies more notorious; all proved by more credible witnesses then Bolsecke's. But I neither ripped up all that I might, (many things they have done, which a shamefat adversary would be loth to open:) neither did I speak of any thing but that, which your selves do, or must, confess of necessity. And therefore when I spake of faithless wicked Popes I said not a word either of