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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. Yet Pope Innocentius doth not bring that difference between the Jews and you, that your holy unction is made of oil, and balm, where theirs was made of oil & myrrh with other spices. He knew that the difference of this or that ingredient in the stuff of it would not clear your Church from Judaizing in the kind of the purgation, that is, the rite whereby you sanctify Priests and altars. No more, then if you should sacrifice a dog, and say that you do not therein as the Jews did, because they did sacrifice, not dogs, but sheep & oxen. As for the difference by which the Pope severeth your unction from theirs, that yours doth work and figure an other thing then theirs did: first, it wrought as much in their altars, as in yours, for any thing that I know. Secondly, it figured in their Priests the gifts of the holy ghost: which he saith it doth in yours. Thirdly, were it so that it had an other either work or meaning with you then with them, as after a sort it hath, both in respect of hhim, who ordered theirs; and ithe cause, why: yet might the ceremony be Jewish notwithstanding. For (I trust) you will not maintain but it were Judaism for your Church to sacrifice ka lamb in burnt offering, though you did it to signify, not Christ that was to come, las the Jews did, ⟨p. 573⟩but that Christ is come, and mhath by his passion both entered in himself and brought in others to his glory. At the least, S. Peter ndid constrain the Gentiles to Judaize, (as you term it,) when they were induced by his example and authority to allow the Jewish rite in ochoice of meats. Yet neither he, nor they allowed it in that meaning, which it was given to the Jews in. For it was given them