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Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs…Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs…
Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs of Christ, D. Nicolas Ridley late Bishop of London, and M. Hugh Latimer sometime Bishop of Worcester, during the time of their imprisonments. Whereunto is added. A treatise against the error of transubstantiation, made by the said reverend father D. Nicolas Ridley. M.D.LVI.Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs of Christe, D. Nicolas Rydley late Bysshoppe of London, and M. Hughe Latymer sometyme Bysshoppe of Worcester, during the tyme of their emprysonmentes. Whereunto is added. A treatise agaynst the errour of transubstantiation, made by the sayd reuerende father D. Nicolas Rydley. M.D.LVI.
Strasbourg: printed by the heirs of W. Rihel, 1556
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From may be / to be in deed / 1is no good argument / but from being / to may be / no man doubteth / but it is a most sure argument. But now that councils have sometime erred / it is manifest. Howe many councils were there in the east part of the world / 2which condemned the Nicene council? and all those which would not forsake the same / they called by a slanderous name (as they thought) Homousians. Was not Athanasius / Chrysostom / Cyril / Eustachius / men very well learned / and of ⟨image 27⟩godly life / 3banished / and condemned as famous heretics / and that by wicked councils? Howe many things are there in the Canons and constitutions of the counsels / which the papists them selves do much mislike? But here peradventure one man will say unto me: We will grant you this in provincial councils / or councils of some one nation / that they may sometimes err: Forasmuch as they do not represent the universal church / but it is not to be believed / that the general and full councils have erred at any time. Here if I had my books of the counsels / or rather such notes as I have gathered out of those books / I could bring something which should serve for this purpose. But now seeing I have them not / 4I will recite one place only out of S. Austen / which (in my judgment) may suffice in this matter in stead of many. Who knoweth not (sayeth he) that the holy scripture is so set before us / 5that it is not lawful to doubt of it / and that the letters of Bishops / may be reproved by other wiser men's words / and by councils: and that the counsels themselves / which are gathered by provinces and countries / do give place to the authority of the general and full councils: and that the former general councils are amended by the latter / when as by some experience of things / either that which was shut up / is opened / or that which was hid is known. Thus much of Augustine.
From maie bee / to bee in deede /