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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. He meant all Bishops: not all the Bishops of one Church, but the Bishops of all Churches. Which is evident by his words, and the intent whereto he spake them. For to stir up Basil, and make him glad and willing to do the office of a Bishop, which he had undertaken, he telleth him, that Christ when he said to Peter, Dost thou love me? Feed my sheep, did thereby show how deer his sheep are unto him, and therefore would surely give great reward to Pastors who feed them, and guide them. For why did he shed his own blood, (saith Chrysostom) but even to purchase those sheep, the care of whom he committed to Peter and to Peters successors. Whereupon he goeth forward, and declareth what that charge is, which Christ gave to Peter and to all Pastors by that commission Feed my sheep. So that both the course of Chrysostom• speech, and the drift of his reason, and the person whom it implieth, S. Basil, Bishop, not of Rome, but of Caesarea, do manifestly show, that he meant, by naming [the successors of Peter] all Pastors of the flock, all Bishops of the Church of Christ. And this is so clear, that qFather Robert himself (in his Roman Lectures) doth not only grant it, but also prove it by two reasons: one, out of rAustin, that Peter was a figure of the Church, that is to say, he represented all Pastors, when Christ said to him, feed my sheep: an other, out of sLeo, that Peter is an example and as it were a pattern, the which all Pastors ought to follow. How much the more shameful is the ignorance ⟨p. 281⟩of your Doctors, if they knew it not; the wilfulness, if they knew it: who bear men in hand that Chrysostom doth prove the Popes supremacy by those successors. Wherein the oversight *of your Rhemists is great: but a pair of Jesuits, Cani•ius and Busaeus, do go beyond their fellows. For tthey, amongst many sentences of the Fathers, the worst of them as fit as this to prove the Papacy, do set out this as the best; and triumph of it, as of a peerless proof, by giving it a special note in the margin: