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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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in doctrine, we may see by those monstrous heretics, of whom S. John saith, gthey went out from us but they were not of us. Wherefore sith both the chosen and the called may err, the one, to their trial; the other to their destruction; and the church militant consisteth of none but of the called and the chosen: that which I proposed is proved sufficiently, that the militant church may err not only in manners but in doctrine also. If any man for proof thereof require examples: he hath the churches of hGalatia, of iCorinth, of kPergamus, of lThyatira, of mSardis, and of nLaodicea. All the which (to omit examples of our own time) the scripture witnesseth to have erred, some of them in manners, some in doctrine, some in both. Yea, the very church of oEphesus it self, which Christ showed to John in the figure of pa candlestick, because it held the light of life: which Timothy abode in, when Paul wrote unto him, that pthe church is the pillar and ground of the truth: even this church of Ephesus was impaired so greatly by qleaving of her ⟨p. 698⟩first love, that Christ did therefore threaten her r