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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. S. Gregory affirmeth it to be pa new, a proud a pompous, a profane, qa rash, perverse, foolish, abominable, rwicked, and ssuperstitious title: ta name of singularity, of arrogance, of blasphemy. The Council of Chalcedon was a company of six hundred Bishops and thirty, sound in religion, and zealous of the glory of God. You must pardon me, if I discredit rather the word of one Gregory: then think that six hundred and thirty such Bishops did offer to commit so great iniquity and folly. For neither is there any proof of that offer in any part of the Council, which is wholly extant: and that which made uGregory to misreport the Bishop of Constantinople, might induce him likewise to misreport these Bishops too. Wherein his affection may be the more suspected, because xhe saith farther, that it was offered to his predecessors not only by the Council, but also by the Fathers following. The names (it is likely) of these Fathers following should have been forth coming, if they had been at hand, the matter being so important. Howbeit if they, and the Council both, had not only offered it, but given it also: yet might they have given it in respect of lesser preeminence then the Papacy. Which it must needs be the Council should have done: for else they had contraried ytheir own decrees and actions. And zthe Pope himself gave it to the Patriarch of Constantinople, as a title of honour (I trow) and not of power. Wherefore the first title, put upon the Fathers of the Council of Chalcedon, inferreth not the Popes supremacy. Much less doth the next, alleged out of Cyprian. For although Cornelius, a godly Bishop of Rome, be there named Bishop of the Catholic Church: yet is he so named, not