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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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For of the one side he is loth to grant the truth, lest it should prejudice the title of the Pope: yet loth of the other side to deny it also, because *he feareth the people. mFirst therefore he saith, that the keys (which signify the full power of government ecclesiastical) were given to Peter only. Then, he confesseth, nthat all the Apostles were sent by Christ, with full power, yea with power most full, and equal unto Peters power. From hence he turneth back, and taketh up his old song, othat Christ gave all power ecclesiastical to Peter only, and so by him to others. Which string because it giveth a very sweet sound: phe harpeth on it often. Afterward, either doubting the conscience of weak Catholics, or the evil tongues of Calvinists, who favour the Apostles, and cannot hear them so debased: he saith qthat the Apostles were sent immediately of God with full power unto all nations. Yet by and by falling again unto his giddiness, (through some pang belike of 7his holiness displeasure, which might be stirred by such speeches:) he pronounceth, rthat the spring of honour and power is derived from Peter alone to all the rest. And thus he goeth on, through the whole discourse, (both in this, and the rest of his Doctrinal Principles,) interfering as it were at every other pace, and hewing hoof against hoof. But so will ⟨p. 119⟩the Lord confound the tongs of them who do build up Babylon. Yet here, for these cuttings wherewith he gasheth himself, he thinketh that they may be healed with a distinction taken up in Cardinal Turrecremata's shop, of a twofold power, the one Apostolic, the other Bishoply: the rest of the Apostles to have been inferior to Peter in the Bishoply, though equal in the Apostolic; and all to have received the Apostolic power immediately of Christ, the rest (as namely James) their Bishoply power of Peter. But two learned Friars, Sixtus Senensis, and Franciscus Victoria (men of better reading and judgement then either he, or Turrecremata) have cast off this quirk as a rotten drug, before Stapleton took it up.