A10777:94
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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I have no more to say in this matter / for you your self have said all that is to be said.1 That same vehement saying of S. Augustine. I would not believe the gospel / &c. was wont to trouble many men / as I remember I have read it well qualified off Philippe Melanchthon / but my memory is altogether slippery. This it is in effect. The church is not a judge / 2but a witness. There were in his time that lightly esteemed the testimony of the church / and the outward ministry of preaching / and rejected the outward word it self / sticking only to their inward revelations. Such rash contempt of the word / provoked and drove S. Augustine into that excessive vehemence. In the which / after the bare sound of the words / he might seem to such as do not attain unto his meaning / that he preferred the church far before the gospel / and that the Church hath a free Authority over the same: but that godly man never thought so. It were a saying worthy to be brought forth against the Anabaptists / which think the open ministry to be a thing not necessary / if they any thing esteemed such testimonies. I would not stick to affirm / that the more part of the great house / that is to say of the hole universal ⟨p. 23⟩church / may easily err And again / I would not stick to affirm / that it is one thing to be gathered together in the name off Christ / and another thing / to come together with a Mass off the Holy ghost going before. For in the first Christ ruleth / in the latter the devil beareth the swing: and how then can any thing be good that they goo about? from this latter shall our Six Articles come forth again into the light / they them selves being very darkness. But it is demanded / 3whether the sounder or better part of the catholic church / may be seen of men / or no? S. Paul sayeth:4 The Lord knoweth them that are his. What manner of speaking is this in commendation of the lord / if we know as well as he who are his? Well / thus is the text: The Sure foundation of god standeth still / and hath this seal: the Lord knoweth them that are his / and let every man that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Now how many are there of the hole Catholic church of England which depart from iniquity?