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A20602	The second manifesto of Marcus Antonius de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalatio [sic] wherein for his better satisfaction, and the satisfaction of others, he publikely repenteth, and recanteth his former errors, and setteth downe the cause of his leauing England, and all Protestant countries, to returne vnto the Catholicke Romane Church: written by himselfe in Latine, and translated into English by M. G.K.	De Dominis, Marco Antonio, 1560-1624.; G. K., fl. 1623.	1616 (1616)	STC 7001; ESTC S109786	30,635	70

Saints themselues is giuen vnto them 20 Our aduersaries chiefly vrge two arguments against this our worshipping of holy Images which they thinke so strong as that they imagine we can by no meanes auoyde them and free our selues from the crime of Idolatry and by these they confirme their Schisme to be lawfull The one is the commandement of God forbidding Images to bee made The other that they who doe adore the true God in any externall signe which is a pure creature cannot be excused from extreame Idolatry for they say with Caluine that the Calfe was made by the children of Israell Exod. 32. 4. to represent the true God And in this poynt especially Raynolds the English man an earnest Puritane strengtheneth and foundeth his Treatise of the Idolatry of the Romane Church But I doe not doubt neither can the learned Aduersaries doubt that the most auncient holy Fathers and the Catholicke Church it selfe did know the commandements and the History of the Calfe and neuerthelesse without all difficulty or any scruple they vsed holy Images in euery place with worship and honour But this disputation becommeth not this little booke and I hope I shall haue oportunity hereafter to confute at large Raynolds booke of the Idolatry of the Church of Rome by the authority of which booke England doth now chiefly defend her Schisme In the meane space let me change a fewe words with them I desire them to remember the works of Salomon who indued with heauenly wisedome beautified the Temple which he built not onely with those Images and artificiall workes which God himselfe had commanded to be made such as were the Cherubims c. but also of his owne deuise added many Images and engrauen trees and beasts as brasen Bulles Palmes and Pomegranets and adorned also his throne with Lyons and Lyons whelpes of gold 3. Reg. 10. 19. 20 c. Therefore Salomon vnderstood and expounded vnto vs sufficiently that the precept of the Decalog forbidding grauen Images was neither perpetuall nor yet forbidden by the diuiue naturall law which prohibiteth the adoration of Latria towards Images but onely of the law of God positiue for a time and conditionall to be kept then and so long as there was present danger of committing Idolatry by hauing Images Now because there is no danger of committing Idolatry in Images by vs who are well instructed Therefore that prohibition of the Decalog which forbiddeth similitudes to be made hath no place amongst vs and for this cause the Iconomochi abollishing the vse of holy Images and breaking them and abusing them vnreuerendly were in all times accounted by the Catholick Church for pestilent wicked hereticks and reckoned amongst the Enemies of Christian religion 21 It is most certaine that the children of Israell committed Idolatry in the adoration of the Calfe but I will neuer graunt that the Calfe did onely represent vnto them the true God And it is most false and against the true sence of the holy Scripture to affirme that the Israelites did adore the true God in that Calfe They adored the golden Calfe it selfe and erring most wickedly they thought that it had the Diuinity of the true God And I doe not doubt but that I shall easily demonstrate this out of most plaine places of the holy Scripture in his time and place and then I will dissolue the subtill reasons of Caluin and Reynolds and shew that the true God may euen in corporall signes be adored with compleat Latria without all danger of committing Idolatry to the end that it may more manifestly appeare that the English are grosly deceiued while they dreame by the fopperies of Reynalds to triumph ouer the Catholick Romane Church as fallen into Idolatry and therefore iustly forsaken by them Seeing there is neither euill circumstance nor scandall in our vse of holy Images because we liue not amongst Idolaters and are or may be sufficiently instructed about their lawfull worship how farre it is different from true Latria therfore we may lawfully fall downe before an Image and so adore with true Latria the primatiue patterne if it be to be adored with true Latria As the children of Israell did when they adored God in the cloud at the dore of the Tabernacle and did not adore the cloud Exod. 33. 10. and when they adored him in the fire 2. Paralip 7. 3. and yet herein they did not commit any Idolatry though they adored God in corporall signes They therefore who condemne such like adoration as truly and properly Idolatricall are ignorant of all true and sollid Diuinity Therefore in vaine doe the Protestants cauill at this Idolatry to defend their Schisme and seperation from the Romane-Church and hereby first they pollute themselues with manifest heresie and remaine true Schismaticks for that herein there was no lawfull cause of seperation 22 They doe obiect vnto vs a most open Idolatry in adoring the B. Sacrament for that we adore it with true Latria and by this also our Aduersaries doe excuse themselues from Schismes But they are much deceiued for we are most certaine that the reall and corporall presence of the body and blood of our Lord Iesus Christ in the holy mysteries of the Eucharist is present we adore the very body of Christ which is to be adored with true Latria of it selfe by reason of the hypostaticall vnion lying hid vnder the formes of bread and wine but this question doth not belong vnto this place Wee suppose this reall and corporall presence which supposition is assured vnto vs by faith for that we take it from the Gospell Christ saying when hee held the Bread in his hands This is my body according to the promise he had made saying Ioan. 6. 51. The bread which I will giue is my flesh Wherefore our aduersaries cannot so much as imagine that we in this adoration are guilty of Idolatry and therefore they cannot aleage it in any excuse of their schisme But they are not only truly and properly Schismaticks but also hereticks and therefore I was bound of necessitie to forsake them vnlesse I would haue consented vnto their errours 23 They impute vnto vs secret Idolatry for that we place a spirituall confidence in salt water oyle and the like after exorcismes and benedictions But these things they heape together to the intent that they may disgrace and defame vs and excuse their schisme by what meanes soeuer for they know well that we doe not put any certaine confidence in these things as if we thought that these creatures receiued any certaine and infallible force or power by our exorcismes and benedictions and we doe not call these things Sacraments but holy things which we vse for the increase of our deuotion and put all our confidence in God alone who hearing the prayers of his Church doth distribute his gifts by these creatures through the vertue of the same prayers and benedictions of his Church And the greatest part of these and such like rites we haue receiued

haue sought to diminish it for at last that losse must needs before God be glorious to me also Wherefore I doe first confesse and truly and sincerely out of my owne conscience doe giue testimony that I did not write the intent of my departing from the Romane Church and the Rockes and the Sermon out of sincerity of heart or out of a good conscience or faith not fained but that I might couer with some excuse my shamefull departure and be more gratefull and acceptable to hereticks to whom wretch that I was I ranne in hast and with whom I familiarly conuersed The ten yeares labour which in the booke of the intent of my departing I boasted of were not spent in mature deliberations graue and aduised Counsels or other discreete discussions of the truth but contrariwise mispent in vaine vnprofitable and malicious purposes and preparations how I might boldly vent and put in practise my hereticall lyes and inuentions thereby to satisfie my malitious anger insomuch as my vocation to doe it was not a Diuine vocation but a deuillish suggestion stirred vp in me not by the holy Ghost but by a wicked spirit a spirit of giddines worse then was that of Saules And I do not doubt to attribute my returne back againe to a true Diuine vocation the holy Ghost calling me to returne vnto my Mother the Catholicke Romane Church 4 I said that the manners of the Court of Rome did cause mee alwayes to abhorre it This I acknowledge to haue bin wickedly spoken for neither then nor yet is wanting in Rome very many notable examples of piety and all Christian vertues which may both delight and incite religious mindes to further deuotion I said that by forbidding the reading of bookes written against the Doctrine of Rome there arise some euill suspitions which gaue credit to the writing of hereticks and made men beleeue that there is some thing in them secretly which Catholicks are not able to answere This I confesse to haue beene iniuriously spoken of me against the Catholicke faith who found in the bookes of hereticks false hereticall scandalous and pestiferous Doctrine from the reading whereof the faithfull are to be kept least it infect their soules Neither is it a thing befitting priuate men to read such bookes but the iudgement in matters of such alwayes did and now doth belong vnto the Shepheards who finding venomous Pastures should remoue their sheepe as farre from them as they can Moreouer the arguments of hereticks are deceitfull Sophisticall and easie to be answered I said that the Doctrine of those who opposed themselues against the Romane Church did either nothing or little differ from the Doctrine of the auncient Church and this is false for the opinions wherein they differ from Catholicks are wholly differing from the Doctrine of the auncient Church and nothing can more connince them then the authority of the auncient Church from which they by their nouelties haue so farre departed that worthily for this respect they are condemned for hereticks by the Church of Rome It is therefore detestable and I detest that which I said that their Doctrines were therefore condemned onely by the Church of Rome because these things they said were repugnant vnto the sensuality and corrupt manners of the Court of Rome I said also that at Rome they coyned new articles of faith by maine force And this I said truly against my conscience for I neuer obserued it at any time and I certainely know that it cannot be obserued by any man For the declarations and explications made by holy Church touching articles and mysteries of faith collected out of Diuine Scriptures and traditions of the Fathers and out of the very rules of faith cannot any wayes be termed new coyning of articles Moreouer I endeauoured to take away the title of Catholicke and vntuersall from the Church of Rome in which I erred very much for by the Catholicke Romane Church is vnderstood not onely that speciall and perticular Church which is at Rome but also the whole multitude and company of all the Churches adhearing vnto the Church of Rome in the vnity of faith and in obedience to the Pope in what place soeuer they be yea in the vtmost confines of the earth And it is most true and was approued by me both by word of mouth as England it selfe may witnesse and by writing in my Treatises of the Ecclesiasticall Common-wealth in that part which I heare is lately set forth in Germany that no Church is Catholicke but the Romane and such as are vnited vnto her For all other congregations of Christians being stayned with heresies and deuided and seperated by Schisme from the Romane Church are and be excluded from the Catholicke vniuersall and true Church of Christ and being as it were blinded together with their blinde Guides doe rush and runne headlong into the bottomlesse pit of perdition which I wickedly affirmed of the Romanes to their great wrong For from the Church of Rome at all times a most glorious light of pure and incorrupted faith came forth and doth at this present lighten all other Churches of Christ whatsoeuer But I remember that in the preface of the bookes of the Christian Common-wealth among other things I vsed some words in which I seeme to put and place in the Catholicke Church all them who haue receiued Baptisme in the name of the Blessed Trinity and in so saying althought the words sound euill and make the hereticall Churches true and sound members of the true Catholicke Church which is most false and hereticall yet my meaning was vtterly to exclude the Arrian Nestorian and Eutichian heresies and all hereticall Churches condemned in former times and to retaine them onely that were Orthodoxall But herein I was deceiued in that I esteemed that there were many more Orthodoxall Churches then are for I erroniously beleeued that many Churches which are infected with the heresies of these later Times and deuided by Schisme did appertaine vnto the Catholicke Church which although it be called Catholicke for that it is vniuersall yet vniuersality doth not comprehend any but those that be Orthodoxall and true beleeuing and dilated ouer all the world and continuing in the Catholicke vnity with the Romane For the vniuersality of the Romane Church consisteth not onely in the perpetuall and neuer interrupted or to be interrupted continuance and firmenesse of faith but is also vniuersall because her Identicall or selfe same faith and soueraigne gouernement hath beene dilated and spread ouer all places and into Nations after the comming of Christ for which respect euen in these later times and ages it is to be called Catholicke no lesse then it was in the times of the auncient Fathers seeing that the faith of the Romane Church is dilated in these our times into the farthest and most vast or remote Regions of the East and West and euen to the vttermost confines of the earth So that her children trauelling too and fro from

the rising of the Sunne vnto the setting thereof professing the faith of Christ and offering cleane sacrifices doe especially at this time fulfill that which our Lord spake by the mouth of Malachie saying chap. 1. ver 11. From the rising of the Sunne vnto the goinng downe thereof great is my name amongst the Gentiles and in euery place it is sanctified and a pure oblation is offered vnto my name Neither was it a lesse iniury and slaunder when I said that I clearly saw innumerable nouelties errors in the Court of Rome which nouelties errors I doe neither see nor yet did euer see and I acknowledge and confesse that it was most false that at Rome there was then or now are any errours by which any destruction of soules may follow or the peace of the Church be disturbed or publique scandalls committed For in truth all the peace all the tranquility of the Catholique Church and the eternall saluation of Soules after God is to be attributed to the care and trauell of the Church of Rome I said that the mightier Bishops vnder the Pope were Bishops onely in name and this saying containeth in it both falshood and wrong and therefore I doe condemne it as euill spoken for they be true and lawfull Bishops made by lawfull ordination I said that the others who were not great men and Princes in temporall things had lost the proper dignity and power of Bishops and this truly is a slaunder for the Hierarchicall subordination was alwayes necessarie in the Church much more I condemne as an heresie those words where I said that vnder the Pope was no more a true Church for as I said and seriously affirmed before onely the Church of Rome with her adherents is the true Church of Christ and the others are not Churches And in fewe words to comprehend much I perceiued that in my former intention I chiefly indeauoured to weaken the supremacie of the Pope and in so doing I confesse that I haue spoken against the faith of the whole Catholique Church and haue erred greeuously For it is euident both by the very institution in the Gospell and by the Apostolicke tradition and the dcfinitions of holy Synods and generall Councels and very many decrees of the Pope and also the common testimony of the Fathers and Ecclesiasticall Histories that the Bishop of Rome was instituted chiefe head of the whole Church immediatly by Christ our Lord as a singular Oracle vnto whom both the East and West Churches in all doubts of Faith should haue recourse for instructions definitions and other sound doctrine in matters of Faith as vnto a Master giuen them from heauen who by his office should teach the Church And any one that is but meanly read may easily finde out very many examples where the Popes of Rome established remooued corrected taught condemned absolued deposed restored and reprehended according to ther office euen the Patriarchs and Prymats of the East And thus reprehended they humbly heard and simply obayed the Popes without resistance or repugnance And to be short it is manifest by the confession of the whole Church that all the spirit of Christ for so much as doth belong vnto the decision of matters of faith doth rest vpon one Supreame visible head of the Church which is onely the Pope and chiefe Bishop St. Peters successour 5 I doe ingenuously confesse that the booke which I called The Rockes of Christian shipwracke did much displease me presently after it was set forth for I wrote it in hast without either study or examining what I did The intent which I had in writing of it was onely to flatter allure the English by all meanes possible to conceiue a good opinion of me at my first comming and so I had no regard whither that I writ and printed were true or no But my desire was to say that which might please the Enemies of the Catholicke Church and especially the ignorant common people And when the doctrine contained in this little booke was by the King and some of the Nobility objected against me at my preparing to depart from England I did euen then in expresse words detest it and afterwards prepared my selfe with all my force to resist the greater part of the heresies which were in it All which heresies I doe now againe reject detest and abhorre and they are these That the Pope of Rome is not the Vicar of Christ vpon earth nor visible head of the whole visible Church of Christ That hee hath no power in temporall thinges That an implicit faith profiteth nothing but much hurteth the faithfull That the Excommunications of the Law are vaine threats That the precepts of the Church binde not vpon paine of mortall sinne That the vnity of the Church is not to be sought for from one onely visible head That the Pope is a deadly Enemy of vniuersall Church That the Masse is not a true sacrifice That the Ceremonies of the Masse are Apish toyes That there is no Transubstantiation That Auricular confession with absolution is not a true Sacrament That there is no Purgatory That Satisfaction after the fault forgiuen is not necessary for the remission of the punishment That there be no Indulgences but of things enjoyned for penance That Saints are not to be prayed vnto That the worship of Images and Reliques are not lawfull That there is no merrit of eternall life by workes These and the like errours and manifest heresies not so much mine or newly inuented by me as by the olde and new hereticks whose fancies and madnesse haue beene from time to time by the Church in generall Counsels condemned for they are miserable Rockes vnto which if any approach they are assured to suffer a lamentable shipwracke of faith and eternall saluation And therefore I departed from them as farre as I might and least I should be vtterly destroyed by them in England it was necessary for me to depart from thence and to returne to the Church of Rome the true port of Catholickes with the which Church I reject detest and accurse all the afore said errours and all others opinions whatsoeuer if there be any more in those bookes which doe not agree with the faith expressed in the Church of Rome and in the sacred Counsels especially in the Counsell of Trent and I doe constantly affirme and embrace the contrary verities viz. That the Pope is by the institution of Christ his Vicar vpon earth and the visible head of the whole militant Church which hath alwayes beene visible with full power receiued from God to rule and gouerne her That he hath also indirect power in temporall matters for the better aduancement of spiritual That an implicit faith is profitable and many times necessary viz. when the explicit faith of some articles is not required vnder penalty That the excommunications according to the Law or de facto pronounced are of force and ought to be feared as brought into the Church with great