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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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in dispensations with boys, dispensations with bastards, dispensations with idiots, that they may have the charge of souls; dispensations with murderers, with adulterers, with Simoniacs, that they may keep their benefices; dispensations for pluralities, that one may have twenty; dispensations for non-residence, that they need never come unto them; to be short, in reseruaes, accesses, regresses, coadiutories, unions, preventions, permutations, and a thousand such devises belonging to the market of benefices and bishoprics. Secondly, by dealing with the Church causes: wherein they have received appeals from all quarters, that they might fish in troubled water; they have fetched persons a thousand miles off by citations to their consistory; they have disturbed the peace and discipline of the Church by sending legates a latere, by putting matters to their delegates, by privileging men from laws, and exempting inferiors from their superiors regiment; they have multiplied human decrees, and made them snares to catch fowls, laws, that none shall marry in this or that degree of carnal kindred, ⟨p. 390⟩or 3spiritual; canons, that men whose persons have such or such a blemish shall not ascend to priestly orders; vows, of pilgrimage, of chastity, of poverty, of obedience, of Nunrie, Moonkry, Fryery; which all they have released for money; yea, they have released oaths, solemn oaths, and have given licences to commit perjury: they have made sale of forgiveness of sins, and merchandise of mens souls: they have turned repentance into pains of penance, and penance into mines of silver and gold: they have proclaimed Jubilees of pardons plenary (as they call them) to all who came to Rome every hundred year, and visited Churches there *devoutly: these Jubilees they have abridged from an hundred years to fifty, from fifty to thirty three, from thirty three to twenty five; & because all Christians came to not Rome for them, they have sent their peddlers abroad with p•ckes of pardons, that all might buy them at their doors: they have reserved cases and crimes of greatest value, as Simony, Sodomy, offence of Church-liberty, from which none might absolve but they: and, to absolve men upon doing of penance, they have built at Rome a Papal exchange called the Penitentiary, where these absolutions are sold at certain rates: