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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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Rainoldes. That is, in Christ crucified, as S. Paul doth mean it: not in the 1wood, the 2gallows, the 3tree, 4to which you make your prayer. For God forbid that we should rejoice in any thing, saving nin the Lord: whose redeeming of us by suffering death upon the cross, because it was a stumbling block to the Jews; S. Paul saith othe cross was a stumbling block, by a *figurative speech, meaning (as him self doth open it) pChrist crucified. And so he calleth Christs blood, qthe blood of the cross; and the preaching of his gospel, rthe preaching of the cross; and persecution rising of it, spersecution for the cross: and against them who rejoiced in circumcision and the law, he saith that he rejoiceth not but in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. But, to the purpose of my question, if they of your Church, who reformed your Service-books, thought, that of the prayers which we do mislike they might abolish some and retain others: what if amongst the feasts which others do mislike, they, who reformed our ceremonies, retained the annunciation and purification of the virgin, though they abolished the conception, nativity, and assumption? Chiefly seeing that in those, which they retained, they regarded the honour of Christ conceived and presented, as your selves acknowledge: in those, which they abolished, they removed the superstitious worship of a creature, as the thing witnesseth. For both they were supposed to be feasts instituted to a Saints honour, as they were indeed: neither is there any thing of them in the scriptures, that men might be edified by that whereof the memory was celebrated in them: and they maintain corrupt opinions, touching the virgin, with derogation to Christs honour. For