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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. They thought so, (I grant,) good men, and well meaning, abused by the craft of the Scribes and Pharisees: who, to win the people thereby the more easily unto their opinions, did utter them in Moses words, though with an other sense then Moses. As, that which mhe meant of lawful oaths, and vows; nthey turned it to unlawful: oof punishment by public judgement; pthey turned it to private revengement. But this shift of theirs, (which Christ doth but allude unto, as notorious,) did carry S. qAustin away with such a prejudice: that he thought this also to be written in the law, (because *it cometh in, as the rest,) Thou shalt hate thine enemy; whereas the law rcommandeth men to love their enemies, and to do them good. The less marvel is it, if he were deceived in the former points. In the which yet afterward he saw his error and corrected it. For, when the Manichees, who condemned the God of the old Testament as contrary to the new, did reason out of this place that Christ reproveth sundry points in the law of Moses: she answered that Christ reproveth not the law, but them who mistook it, who thought that the forbidding of murder and adultery did touch, not the affections and lusts, but acts only. And though it came not then into his mind neither, that the law saith not, Thou shalt hate thine enemy: tyet he considered, that it could not otherwise be meant in the old Testament, then, as in the new we must hate our enemies, or rather Gods enemies, hate u