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REYNOLDS (RAINOLDS), JOHN: Puritan divine; b. at Pinhoe (4 m. n.e. of Exeter), Devonshire, 1549; d. at Oxford May 21, 1607. He probably entered Merton College, Oxford, but in 1563 received a scholarship at Corpus Christi (probationary fellow, 1566; full fellow, and B.A., 1568); he there became tutor to Richard Hooker (q.v.), Greek reader (an important office), 1572-73-78; resigned his fellowship in 1586; was then appointed to a temporary lectureship; became dean of Lincoln, 1593; and president of Corpus Christi, 1598. He was one of four Puritan representatives (and the chief one) at the Hampton Court Conference (q.v.), at which he is credited with suggesting to King James the desirability of a new translation of the Bible (see BIBLE VERsioNs, B, IV., 6). Of this work he was made a participant, being one of the committee which had in charge the translation of the prophets, but he did not live to see the completion of the task. He was celebrated for his great learning, remarkable memory, sound judgment, lofty character, uprightness, piety, and regard for his students. Among the works published by him are: Sex theses de sacra Scriptura et ecdesia (London, 1580); The Summe of the Conference between John Rainolds and John Hart touching the Head and the Faith of the Church (1584); De Romance ecclesim idolatries (1586); The Overthrow of Stage-Players (1599). The following were issued after his death: Defence of the Judgment of the Reformed Churches that a Man may lawfullie not onlie put awaie his Wife for her Adulterie but also marry another (1609); Censures librorum APocryphorum Veteris Testaments (1611); The Prophecie of Obadiah opened and explained (1613); The Judgment of Doctor Reignolds concerning Episcopacy, whether it be God's Ordinance (1641); and Sermons on the Prophecies of Haggai (1648).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: R. Crackanthorpe, Defenaio ecclesia Anglicans;, chap. lxix., London, 1625; D. Neal, Hiat. of the Puritans, i. 252, ed. J. Toulmin, Bath, 1793; W. H. Frere, The English Church (1558-IB2B), pp. 296 sqq., ib. 1904; R. G. Usher, The Reconstruction of the English Church, New York, 1910; DNB, x1vii. 180-182.

RHEES, riz, RUSH: Baptist; b. at Chicago Feb. 8, 1860. He was educated at Amherst (A.B., 1883), where he was Walker instructor in mathematics in 1883-85, and at Hartford Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1888. After being pastor of the Middle Street Baptist Church, Portsmouth (1889-92), he was associate professor of NewTestament interpretation at Newton Theological Institution (1892-94); professor of the same subject (1894-1900); and president of the University of Rochester since 1900. He has written The Life of Jesus of Nazareth: A Study (New York, 1900).

RHEGIUS, ri'ji-us (RIEGER), URBANUS: German Reformer; b. at Langenargen (17 m. e. of Constance) in the latter half of May, 1489; d. at Celle (23 m. n.e. of Hanover) May 27, 1541. He received his first education at Lindau, whence he went to Freiburg, where he came under strong humanistic influence, also associating much with Eck, the subsequent opponent of Luther. When Eck

was called to a professorship at Ingolstadt in 1510, Rhegius followed him. After 1512 he devoted increased attention to theology, still under Eck's guidance, and in 1518, while visiting Constance, he wrote his first theological treatise, the De dignitate sacerdotum, from a strictly orthodox Roman Catholic point of view. In 1519 he was ordained to the priesthood at Constance, and at the beginning of the controversy between Luther and Eck took the side of his teacher. By Mar., 1520, however, his position had for some unknown reason so veered that he could be termed a friend of Luther. He can not, however, at that time have changed his attitude decidedly, for in the same year he was called to Augsburg as cathedral preacher in place of GJcolampadius, who had entered the monastery of St. Brigitta. He was forced to leave late in 1521 for openly supporting Luther, and he then lived at Argen and Tetnang, and preached for a time at Hall in the valley of the Inn. In 1524 he published his Ob das near testament yetz recht verteutacht sey, in reply to the attack of Hieronymus Emser (q.v.) against Luther's translation of the Bible in his Auss was grund vnnd ursach Luther's dolmat8chung .

dem gemeinen man. billig vorbotten sey (Leipsic, 1523), and in the same year returned to Augsburg as a private citizen. During his absence friction between the old faith and the new movement had led to riot and even to conspiracy, until the demands laid on the vacillating city council forced it to take a firm stand and finally to check the uprising. Rhegius now became pastor of St. Anne's; on Christmas Day, 1524, he administered the Lord's Supper under both kinds; and in 1526 he married. In the eucharistic controversy, except for a brief period of practical subscription to Zwinglianism, Rhegius adhered to the position of Luther, swayed, no doubt, by fear of the dangerous radicalism of the Anabaptist movement, which both he and his colleagues vainly sought to check. His feeble efforts to effect a mediation between Lutheranism and Zwinglianism were equally fruitless; religious dissension of all kinds steadily increased, and the civil authorities were timid and wavering.

The diet of 1530 ended the career of Rhegius at Augsburg. On the day after his arrival (June 17) the emperor demanded that all Protestant preaching cease at once, and Rhegius was dismissed with the other preachers. Toward the end of August he accepted the invitation of Ernest the Confessor (q.v.), duke of Liineburg, to become pastor at Celle, and, after having brought about a conference between Melanchthon and Butzer, he took with him a series of articles to be submitted to Luther, whom he met at boburg in an interview which made a deep impression upon him. In the territory of L(ineburg, though it was already won for the Lutheran cause with the exception of the capital, much remained to be done by Rhegius, who was appointed superintendent in 1531. In this same year he preached at Lilneburg and issued a church order, though it was not firmly established until Sept., 1532. As superintendent Rhegius took special pains to provide the congregations with efficient preachers and to rouse those aheady in office to the proper discharge of their duties. His activity extended even beyond