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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. Onuphrius might say so, and (as he thought) safely, because it was not likely, that we should see Maximus in the Popes library to disprove his saying. But it is disproved by your own 1Andradius. Who discoursing hereof, to show that it is not certain that Honorius did first condemn the heresy of the Monothelites, though Platina, and Sabellicus, and Blondus, and Aeneas Siluius say he did: for Theophanes, (saith he) and Anastasius, historians much ancienter then they, do write that John the fourth Pope after him was the first who did it. And Maximus (as it is well noted by Torrensis a singular ⟨p. 289⟩learned man, having purposely undertaken to clear Honorius of that heresy, made not any mention of his condemning it: though, if it had been so, he must have known it needs, and could not have omitted it. Now, this yTorrensis, whom Andradius praiseth, hath alleged that whole place of Maximus touching Honorius: whereof the sum is this, that the secretary of Honorius, who wrote the very epistle that he was charged by, and knew belike his meaning best, expounded part thereof in a good sense, that it might seem sound. And this is that Maximus 1in the Popes library, by which your Onuphrius doth take it to be 2plain, (or at the least would have us take it,) that Honorius did never subscribe to that heresy, yea, that of a certainty he did condemn it. But see what difference between men. Andradius, who alloweth the secretaries exposition which Maximus alleged to clear Honorius of that heresy, yet thinketh it plain by that place of Maximus, that he did not condemn it. Torrensis, a friend of the Popes too, declareth, that a part of the epistle of Honorius is helped reasonably by the secretaries exposition: but it fitteth not another part thereof, in which it is plain by his own words, that he was a Monothelite. So Torrensis who had access to the Popes library as well as Onuphrius, hath showed that Onuphrius did mean to steal a lye by sending us to Maximus in the Popes library. As for Maximus himself, he was loth, for good will both to Honorius and the truth, that the heretics should boast (as