A10345:1577
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. And by the same words of Sixtus you may see, that he, in saying so, disproveth his own reason, and proveth the reason of the Centuries. For the epistles of the Popes which they endi•e of bastardy, are very like in style each of them to other: so like as though all had been spit out of one mans mouth. Now the authors of them are said to have been, not two or three Popes, whose children might be like; but two or three and thirty with the advantage, Clemens, Evaristus, Telesphorus, Hyginus, Anicetus, Soter, Calixtus, Urbanus, Pontianus, Anterus, Fabianus, Cornelius, Lucius, Stephanus, Dionysius, Felix, Eutychianus, Gaius, Marcellinus, Sylvester, and more, beside the fourteen whose names you alleged out of Stapleton and Canus. Hereupon the bCenturies infer that those epistles are falsely fathered on them: because the whole shape and frame of their speech doth openly bewray that one and the same man was author of them all. For it cannot be (say they) that so many Bishops should have the same speech, no not though they had been accustomed of purpose to likeness of style. And this is their reason of the likeness of style: which cTurrian, while he striveth to laugh it out as foolish, confirmeth as most sound, by saying that the style is wont to be a sure token whereby mens own works are discerned from counterfeits, as they have been in Austin, Jerome, Ambrose, Cyprian, Tertullian, and others. Which could not be so, but that the styles of men have their peculiar properties, wherein they differ each from other, as their bodies do in feature, colour, voice, countenance, and other marks whereby we know them. And you shall not lightly ••nde three men, that have bodies like in all respects: much less three and thirty. So the blindness, which you thought to show in the Century writers, as heretics, is fallen on the heretical Jesuit who reproveth them. Yea, as dthe Syrians, when they went about to take Elisaeus, were stricken with blindness, and led into the midst of the city of Samaria: so the blind Jesuit, while he sought to beat down a truth in the Centuries, hath fallen into ⟨p. 512⟩