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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. Pope Nicolas, endeavouring to prove his supremacy by records of Councils, some impudently forged, as the Council of Sinuessa; some lewdly misexpounded, as *the Council of Chalcedon: not knowing what to say well of the Council of Nice, doth shape this answer to it, for lack of a better. But as a drunken man that hath a giddy head, intending to go one way sometimes, doth reel an other: so fareth it with him. For, in saying that they took example of the form of the Church of Rome for that which they would give to the Church of Alexandria: he granteth that as the Bishop of Alexandria had but the preeminence of all thereabout, no more had the Bishop of Rome. And seeing that example is allowed therein, and made a pattern of the rest: it followeth that the Council thereby did decree that the Bishop of Rome should keep within those limits. Which to be the purport of that Nicene canon: not only singular authors, eRufinus, and fCusanus, but a ggeneral Council also hath declared. In deed the very sticking of your own men in it, like birds in the lime, may show that in the sight of sense and common reason it maketh directly against the Popes supremacy. ⟨p. 658⟩For hGratian having set it down, as he found it, Let the old custom hold in Egypt, Libya, and Pentapolis, that the bishop of Alexandria have rule of all these; 1because the Bishop of Rome too hath the like custom: the gloss on him expoundeth it, like, 7that is, like in some things, because they both depose Bishops; 3or say, the Bishop of Rome, that is, of Constantinople. Of which expositions, the former being dangerous, that any may depose Bishops, beside the Pope: a gloss upon that gloss alloweth the later of Constantinople, & saith it is