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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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When that would not s•rue, (for the new Emperor was stain by Henry in the field;) his own natural children were raised against their father: first Conrad, the eldest; then Henry, the next. Which Henry spoiled him at last of the Empire, and brought ⟨p. 375⟩him to such misery, that he was fain to beg meat and drink of the Bishop of Spier, in a Church which him self had built, promising to earn it, by doing there a clerks duty, for he could serve the quire. And not obtaining that, he pined away, and died for sorrow. This dreadful example of Henry the third advanced much the credit of the Popes authority. The more, because that when *Vecilo, the chiefest Bishop of the Germans, had denied in the time of those stirs and troubles, that the Emperor might be deprived of his crown and kingdom by the Pope: there was a Council gathered, in which (the Popes legate being present at it) Vecilo 4was condemned of heresy for that opinion. For when the doctrine also was received (besides the practise) that the Pope might lawfully depose kings and Emperors: it made the tallest cedars of Libanus to shake, and to fear *the bramble, least fire should come out from him and consume them. Which appeared in Henry the fourth, the next Emperor. zWho, though he began to tread his fathers steppes, and took Pope Paschal prisoner, whereby they grew to composition confirmed by the Popes oath, that Bishops and Abbots chosen by free voices should be invested with ring and staff by the Emperor without Simony, and being so invested might lawfully receive consecration of their archbishop; but he who were chosen by the clergy, and people, and not invested by the Emperor, should be consecrated of no man: yet when he was set at liberty again, and breaking his covenants […] with open perjury, condemned both the grant which he had made to the Emperor, and the Emperor himself, and that with the consent of many Bishops of sundry prou•••es in *