A10345:1574
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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Hart. Because that the style sometime is so peculiar to his own author, that his work may thereby easily be known even by a man of mean judgement: as in Tertullian, Apuleius, Pliny, Suetonius, and other such, not to reckon up all.
Hart. Because that the style sometime is so peculiar to his owne autour, that his worke may thereby easily bee knowne euen by a man of meane iudgement: as in Tertullian, Apuleius, Plinie, Suetonius, and other such, not to recken vp all.
Rainoldes. Why? May not an other mans style be so like to Tertullians, or any such, that you shall not be able to discern between them.
Rainoldes. Why? May not an other mans style be so like to Tertullians, or any such, that you shall not be able to discerne betweene them.
Hart. It may be perhaps: but that is rare and hard. And therefore the learned man (whom you mentioned) aSixtus Senensis, affirmeth, that of all the tokens, and conjectures, by which the right works of authors may be known from counterfeit and forged, the diversity of style doth seem to be most sure and evident. For though it be easy for every crafty cozener to take upon himself the country, and kindred, and times of any author, and follow his points of doctrine too: yet there is nothing harder then to counterfeit an other mans style. By the style (saith he) I mean not that outward skin of the words, but the shape of the oration, the frame of the speech, the joining and continual order of the parts, the form of elocution, the figures of speaking, the art of disposing, the method of handling, & other things which are proper to every well spoken author. For as every man hath a peculiar feature of body to himself, and a peculiar countenance, and a peculiar voice, and a peculiar natural colour, and other several marks whereby he doth differ from other men, and is unlike them: so all ecclesiastical writers have certain properties peculiar to them selves, which never do agree or seldom to any other: such, as is a gorgeous show in Antiochus, an exquisite diligence of speech in Basil, a tragical loftiness in Gregory Nazianzene, a clean and unforced elegance in Chrysostom, a singular pure facility in Cyprian, a French-like stateliness of utterance in Hilary, a grave and sharp copiousness of brief sayings in Ambrose, in Jerome a flourishing variety of things & words, in Austin clauses ending like, and members falling like, in Gregory a gate (as I may say) of sentences answering one an other in measures interchangeably, and other things of