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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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But I will plead with our Autoniane / upon matter confessed▪ Here with us when as papistry reigned / I pray ⟨p. 27⟩you how doth that book / which was called the Bishops book / made in the time of King Henry the eight / whereof the Bishop of Winchester is thought to be either the first father / 1or chief gatherer / how doeth it (I say) sharply reprove the florentine council / in which was decreed the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome / and that with the consent of the Emperor of constantinople / and of the Grecians? So that in those days our learned / ancient fathers / and Bishops of England / did not stick to affirm that a general council might err. But me thinketh I hear another man despising all that I have brought forth / and saying. These which you have called councils / are not worthy to be called councils / but rather assembles / and conventicles of heretics I pray you sir / why do you judge them worthy of so slanderous a name? Because (saith he) they decreed things heretical / contrary to true godliness / and sound doctrine / and against the faith of christen religion. The cause is weighty / for the which they ought of right so to be called. But if it be so that all councils ought to be despised / which decree any thing contrary to sound doctrine / and the true word / which is according to godliness: forasmuch as the mass / 2such as we have had here of late / is openly against the word of God / forsooth it must follow of necessity / that all such councils / as have approved such masses / ought of right to be fled / and despised / as conventicles / ⟨image 28⟩and assembles of men that stray from the truth.
But I wyl plead with our Autoniane / vpō matter confessed▪ Here with vs when as papisttie reagned / I pray ⟨p. 27⟩you howe doth that booke / whiche was called the Bishoppes booke / made in the time of King Henry the eighte / whereof the Bishoppe of Winchester is thought to be either the first father /