Rainolds died in 1607. Bishop Hall speaks of Rainolds as being near to a miracle in his prodigious treasury of knowledge; John Milton refers to him .always as "our famous l>r. Raynolds;" and Wood, in his Athena Oxon.
■ ills him ••the very treasury of erudition." llallam. in his Constitutional Hist, of England, calls him
if not altogether, the most learned man in England" (i. 297), and in his Literary Hist. of Europi (i. 560 i, " I le in,, -i eminently learned man of the queen's reign." He published a number of separate sermons, treatises againsl the Church of Rome, and some other theological productions, of which there is a complete list
in W lil///'//o Oxon. ii. ii 19), We have room here
to mention mdy. Sea Theses di s. Scriptura <i Ecdesia (bond, lost i: Ruppelse,1586; Lond. 1602, 8vo ; in Eng- lish, 1598, 12mo ; 1609, Ito): ///. ,,'/,,//,/, qftht Confer- enct i><tir<in ./"//// Rainoldes <iml John Hart touching th< II,, i, I '/,,'/ Faith oftht Church, etc. (1584, 1588, 1598,
: Latin. Oxoa 1619, I I. : Oraii ties duce in ColL Corp. Christi (Oxon. 1587, 8vo l: — D< Romance Ec- clesia Idololatria in Culth - iquiarum, Ima-
ginum, Aqua, Salts, Olei,etct 1596, Ito): Thi Overthrows of Stagi Plages, by the Way of Controversy betwixt D. Gager ami />. Rainoldes, etc. (1599, 4to; Middleburgh, L600, Ito; Oxf. 1629, Ito); see Collier. Hist, of Dra- matic Poetry, iii. 201, and his Bibl. Account of Early Kn'/li.-ih Literature (1865), s. v. " Rainoldes ;" Archceol. Nov. 1841, p. 11 1 :— Defend oftht Judgment of the Reformed Churches tint u Mm, may lawfullie not only j, nt await his Wif for her Adultirie, but <ih,> marrie Another, etc I 1609 l I, Ito) : — Censura Librorum Apo- cryphorum I • '• ris Teslami „tl i < tppenheim, ltil 1. -J vols. -Ito; very rare); not only in this work, but in the Hampton Court Conference also (where, by the way, he sided with the Puritans), Rainolds protested against the reading of apocryphal lessons in the public service
of the Church: — The Prophesii <•/ Obadiak, ser us
(Oxon. 1613, 4to) : — Orationes duodecim [including The Sum mi of th Conference, etc.] in Coll. Corp. Christi ( ltil 1. Hi-js, Svni: the first oration was published in an English transl. by J. Leicester i Lond. 1638, l2mo >:— The Original of Bishops and Metropolitans (1641, Ito):— Judgment concerning Episcopacy, whether it I" God's Or- dinana (Lond. 1641, 4to): — Prophesii ofHaggai, fifteen sermons (1649, 4to). See the literature quoted in Alli- bone, Vict, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v. : Middle- ton. Evangel Biog.voL ii ; Soames, Hist, oj (hi (lunch of England inthi Elizabethan Reign (see Index); Froude, Hist, of England (see Index in vol. xii I.
Rainor, Mix/ns. a minister of the .Methodist Episcopal Church near the opening of our century, was admitted to the work of the itinerancy in 1790, and travelled in Dutches- (N.Y.) Circuit with Peter Mori- arty, under the superintendence of fret born Garrettson (q. v.). In 1791 he was colleague of Lemuel Smith at Hartford. Conn. In 17'.e_' he labored at Lynn. Sub- sequently he travelled the Elizabethtown (N.J.) and Middletown (Conn.) circuits. In 1795 be withdrew from the conference, and afterwards from the Church. He was a young man of promise, and acceptable among the people as a preacher. After bis withdrawal from the Methodist Church, he joined the Protestant Episco- pal Church, and afterwards became a CTniversalist. See Stevens, Memorials of New England Methodism, p. 127,
Rainssant, Jean Firmin, a noted French Bene- dictine monk, was born at Suippes, near Chalons-sur- Marne. in 1596, ami took the monastic vow in 1613 at Verdun. In 1627 he became prior of BreuiL in the diocese of Rheiras, and so distinguished himself by austerity and purity that he was by cardinal Richelieu selected in 1C30 as one of the thirty who were to reform the Clugny Congregation. In 1633 he became prior of Ferrieres, in Gatinais; but alter the union of the ClugniaCS and Maurists ceased in Hill, he gave the preference to the last congregation. In bib") he was elected prior of the abbey of St.-( o rmain-di IS- 1 'i • s. at
1 '.iris. In 1651 he was elected visitor of the province of Bretagne. ( to his very first journey in the country he fell from his saddle and broke a leg; from the in- juries thus sustained be sickened and died. Nbv.8, 1651, in the convent of Lehon, near Dinan. He contributed largely to the literature on monasticism in later mediae- val linns: and whatever he wrote is valuable to the student of this subject, because Rainssant freely con- fessed the failings of the ascetics of the Church of Rome, and earnestly Bought their reform. We bave not room here to insert a b-t of his writings, but refer to Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. dm nth. xli. 197, and Le Cerf, Biblioth. dts Auteurs d\ la Congregation </V St. Maur.
Raisins (diplBS, tsimmukim, 1 Sam. xxv, 18; x\\. 20; 2Sam. xvi, 1; l Chron. xii, 20) signifies dried -rapes, or rather cake- made of them, such as the Italians still call simmdki. Crapes are often thus preserved for food i Numb, vi, 3). See Grape; Vine.
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Raisse, Arnold, a French theologian, was born at Douai near the opening of the 17th century. He was canon of the Church of St. Peter, and as such had am- ple opportunity to explore the vast treasures of this church and neighboring churches and monasteries for the ecclesiastical history of the Low Countries. He died in 10-14, leaving a large material for the history of the saints in the Netherlands, and its stores have not yet been fully exhausted. His other writings are of no special interest now. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gene- rale, s. v.