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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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Hart. What one point, that toucheth the substance of the Popes supremacy?
Hart. What one point, that toucheth the substance of the Popes supremacie?
Rainoldes. First, their sovereign power over all Princes, that they may depose them: and that themselves are subject to none, not to the Emperor. For eNicolas the third saith, that the monarchy of both powers (he meaneth ecclesiastical and civill) belongeth in the city of Rome to the Pope by the donation of Constantine: who thought it unmeet that an earthly Emperor should have dominion there, where God had set the Prince of Priests. And fBoniface the eighth proclaimeth himself to be set of God over nations, & kingdoms, to pluck up, and to root out, and so forth, even to judge the Princes of the earth. Which ordinance of Boniface (renewed, and approved by gLeo the tenth,) hath been put in practise accordingly by sundry of them. Many kings, and Emperors deposed by their sentence (as hyour own writers boast) have felt the proof thereof: and we have seen lately their will in our Queen, and *her father of famous memory, though God hath blessed where they cursed, and held them up whom they deposed. But the second sort of Popes were so far from claiming this power over all Princes, that they claimed it not over any. Neither were they monarchs of the civil power in Rome, (as I ihave proved,) by Constantine's donation: but subject to the Emperor, to whom that sovereignty belonged, as they acknowledged. For