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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. Neither do I charge them as wilful wresters of it. It may be that Canus read it in some other,i and Cope in Canus, and you in Cope: and thus by tradition you are deceived from hand to hand. Remember Christs sentence. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. But this may suffice for a taste of your corrupting the writings of the Fathers, before they came to the print. Now, how you have used ⟨p. 210⟩them since they were printed: let your setting forth of Cyprian, first at Rome, and then at Antwerp, be an example. In the time of Cyprian, the church of Christ was troubled with the heresy of the Novatians, or (as they called themselves) kPuritans: a faction of men, who thinking all impure and unclean, which had fallen in the time of persecution, though they repented after, refused to communicate with them; and thereupon did separate themselves from the society of the Catholic church and assemblies of the faithful as unclean also, for that they received into their fellowship and communion, upon repentance, such as had fallen. Against these Novatians, the firebrands of schisms and dissensions in the Church. S. Cyprian hath written a notable treatise ltouching the unity of the church: wherein he doth instruct and exhort Christians to keep the unity of spirit in the bond of peace, and be at concord among them selves. And, to win this of them by reasons and persuasions out of the holy scripture; as among the rest he bringeth sundry figures wherein is represented the unity of the church, as the ark of Noah, the coat of Christ, the house of Rahab, the lamb of the Passover: so among the figures he placeth Peter first, in that our Saviour said to him, Thou art Peter, and on this stone will I build my church, &, To thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven, & again, Feed my sheep. For albeit Christ, saith he, gave 1equal power to all the Apostles, after his resurrection, and said, As my father sent me, so I send you; receive ye the holy Ghost; whosoevers sins ye remit, they are remitted to them, & whosoevers sins y• retain, they are retained: yet to declare unity, he disposed by his authority the original of that unity beginning of one. No doubt, the rest of the Apostles were the same that Peter was,