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A20601	M. Antonius de Dominis Archbishop of Spalato, declares the cause of his returne, out of England. Translated out of the Latin copy, printed at Rome this prese[n]t yeare; Marcus Antonius de Dominis archiepisc. Spalaten. sui reditus ex Anglia consilium exponit. English	De Dominis, Marco Antonio, 1560-1624.; Coffin, Edward, 1571-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 7000; ESTC S120942	32,270	106

hold and professe the contrary to these heresies defined by the same for it is most certayn that in the decrees of the holy Roman Church reason is not seuered from authority the schoole doctrin especially in articles religion to be altogether conformable to the sense or doctrine of the holy Fathers This further I confesse that I haue without cause complained in my books of the Court of Rome as if it had vsurped authority belonging to others for vnles that Church out of her lawfull authority ouer Archbishops Bishops keep them both in order the violating of all lawes will easely follow by their dissension It is truly the greatest happines of the Church when her inferiour Pastors vnder one most vigilāt Pastour receaue and execute from him who hath supreme authority ouer all reformation of life and the charge of sound and sincere doctrine And truly should not the mild and Fatherly care of the holy Inquisition watch attentiuely ouer our Lords flocke the scabbed sheep would find no cure and that most wicked infectiō would soone farre neere spread it selfe The ordinary armour of that tribunall are sound doctrine and instruction full of charity and not these others which I out of my exulcerated mind haue with so many falsityes and slaunders exaggerated but in case the festered soares doe not yield to lenitiue medicines then is it both fit and necessary that the Phisitian apply more sharp and corrosiue plaisters 7. But now euen the inward fyre of the diseases of my mynd did rage almost by miracle after the entrance of Gregory the fifteenth to the gouernment of the Church whose eminēt piety singular wisdome and continuall sanctity of a most innocent life I indeed belieued to haue aduaunced him to that high honour I began to thinke of some more healthfull course the holy ghost enlightning me with the beames of his grace in so much that now the dangers of my soule in the state I liued in beganne to shew themselues euery day more cleerly vnto me and I now wōdered that I had gone so farre in folly and errour that I would conioyne my selfe with them who were heretikes playne and absolute scismaticks Such in tymes past was the guilefull deceite of a few Arrians in the Councell of Arimini that by secret collusion they had as it were drawne almost all the Catholikes into Arianisme tunc sayth S. Hierome Hieron cōtra Luciferianos totus mundus ingemuit miratus est se esse Arrianum then all the world groaned and merueyled to see it selfe become Arrian so alas much worse it befell me that I saw wondered and lamented my selfe an heretike amongst heretiks scismatick amōg scismaticks And that the Englishmen cōplayne not of me that I doe them wrong but that they may know my departure from thē return to my mother the holy Catholike Church to haue been lawful for iust cause I am constrained to lay open their heresy and schisme with which it was no way cōuenient that I should be further entangled or taynted 8. In England if we speake of Religion are many sects there are Puritās or rigid Caluinists there are more moderate who call themselues only Protestants Reformed there are Anabaptists those deuided into diuers sects neither want there Arrians Photinians such like raffe of lewd mē who albeit they be not allowed openly to professe their errours yet are they not banished the land nor punished at home but are tolerated whiles in the mean time they spread their poyson infect others that the Anabaptists hold many heresies none that is not an Anabaptist will deny but they in Englād freely haue their conuenticles and his Maiesty himselfe one day told me that lately in London at the assēbly of the Anabaptists a woman had made a sermon ministred their Sacramēts The heresies of the Puritans are notorious to wit that there is no free will God to be Author of sinne God merly because so it pleaseth him to damn many Christ not to haue dyed for al to haue vndergon the punishment of hel that infants baptized be dāned c. the more moderate Protestants although they goe about touching points of doctrine to free themselues in some sort from heresy because they doe not admit entirely the heresies eyther of Caluin or Luther if they follow the pure doctrine of the English Church which they call Reformed yet can they not so escape or rid their hands from Puritans and Anabaptists with whome they fully communicate and if any Anabaptist or Puritan come to their Ecclesiastical Conuenticles they neither auoid him nor exclude him yea almost all the Puritan Ministers handle and minister the very Sacraments of the false English Church vnto all commers at least vnto all Caluinists And if Acacius of Constantinople for that he had communicated with Peter Mogge an heretick of Alexandria if all the East Church for persisting in communion with Arrius was separated by a long anathema or curse from the Roman and West Church how much more are the Protestants of England to be esteemed for heretikes because they continually communicate which heretikes neyther do they cōdemne them or deny them their company but rather admit them al that will communicate in their ceremonies rites and Sacraments with the English Church Doth not the deformed Church of England publickly and plainly professe cōmunion Ecclesiastical league or fryendship with Geneua the mother of Puritans and all other forrayn Caluinists Are there not euen in London the Kinges Citty and that by publicke graunt of the King Churches of the French Flemish and Italian Caluinists which hate and abhorre the doctrine profession rites of England yet are most deerely beloued sisters of the English Synagogue And by them Puritanisme is especially maintayned and set forward in Englād Moreouer with the Lutherās polluted with very many heresies the English Sinagogue is most ready to communicate and labours all that it can to the end that these mōsters of many heads may like Hercules hydra agree in one body and a vnion as they terme it be made of all the reformed Churches but of purging the faith and doctrine of these different sects rooting out their heresies no care is had yet the Lutherans hate the Sacramentaries cane peius angue Other heresies of Englishmen concerning faith good workes and iustification as also the B. Sacrament priuate Masses Merits of good workes praying vnto Saints worshipping of holy Images holy rites and ceremonyes the soules of the departed and the like which they out of an hereticall spirit doe condemne and abolish and which I with the same spirit in part haue once condemned and abolished I meane not now further to discusse somewhat I meane as much as this place requires I shall after touch and more els where in a larger worke I come to their schisme 9. Sure I am that the English Sect which the deformed English men call the Reformed

M. ANTONIVS DE DOMINIS ARCHBISHOP OF SPALATO Declares the cause of his Returne out of England Translated out of the Latin Copy printed at Rome this presēt yeare Vnus Dominus Vna Fides Vnum Baptisma Ephes 4. One Lord One Fayth One Baptisme Permissu Superiorum M.DC.XXIII To the Reader THIS may seeme a small worke good Reader for so great a scādall as hath beene giuen by the Authour but it is an abridgement only of another more large ample that is to ensue and yet in this thou mayst perceiue how men may so farre be transported by vnbridled passions as to fall into open schisme heresy on the other side thou mayst see also the force and efficacy of Gods grace in recalling of sinners by true repētance to his loue and fauour Let the one of these ballance the other and let the latter cancell the fault of his committed errour 1 Cōsilium Profectionis 2. Cōsilium Reditus That was wicked pernicious and detestable this is vertuous exemplar and laudable The latter counsayle is alwayes wont to be more ponderous graue and iudicious then the former especially when as the forformer is recalled by the latter His reuolt you will say was scandalous True But now Vna eadēque manus vulnꝰ opēque tulit He hath in part made amēds for his former fault by his submissiue confession and this learned Prelate as an vnlearned Mynister stiled him Hall in his honour of the maryed clergy pag. ●5 that had honoured the English Church with a Dalmatian Pall that had passed ouer the Alpes to leaue Rome that was so potent a Protestant as none of al our Bandogges durst fasten vpon him hath now withdrawn both Pall Honour from that Church hath left Englād is returned ouer the Alpes to Rome againe like a bandog indeed hath fastened himselfe on the English wolues bites so hard as he makes them bleed further makes all Protestants to see their weaknes if yet they haue eyes to see Hall ibid. in the answer to the aduertisment that the whole Region of Deuines and those so incomparable that may set Rome to schoole could not defend themselues from open Schisme and Heresy nor perswade one man he such a one as offered himselfe freely into their hands to remaine continue amongst them Magna est veritas praeualet Thou mayst further see with what care and sincerity our Aduersaries write agaynst vs how they examine the matters they handle how little truth learning how much lies detractiōs forgeries passionate fancies are regarded By these base means shameful shifts must heresy be mantained Catholiks impugned iniured all vertue depressed troden vnder foote Let the example of one be a warning vnto all let the Retreate of this seduced Bishop make men looke on what ground they stand not hazard their saluation bought with the ransome of our Sauiours bloud vpon the false Heretical and Schismaticall opinions of these times The Cause of M. Antonius de Dominis his Returne out of England EXCELLENTLY as all other thinges doth the holy Ghost by the mouth of Saint Paul reckon amongst the works of the flesh contentions emulations angers debates dissentions and sects these vnfortunate fruits of this wicked tree I hauing tasted or rather out of the corrupt disease of my minde greedily deuoured haue now thought requisite after the holesome receite of Gods grace to cast vp agayne and make a perfect euacuation of this contracted filth This that I might the more safely and readily doe and my selfe openly reprehend and condemne the manifold errours that haue ensued of the wicked resolution of my former bad departure I resolued with my selfe the best course to be leauing the schoole of errours falsities and heresies to returne of myne owne accord to the holy Roman Church the one only pillar and singular foundation of truth and mother of all Catholikes frō which so wickedly I had departed therefore first of all I will explicate this reprehension condemning and detestation of my errours past after that I will recount other causes for which I was to leaue England and other hereticall countreyes and to returne agayne to the holy Catholike Roman Church 2. It is a most ancient disease of our corrupt nature as it were by inheritance conueighed from our first parent vnto all his posterity that when we erre and doe agaynst that which is commaunded we eyther coyne friuolous excuses Genes 3. The woman whome thou hast giuen me c. or else defend our faultes and with the counterfeit garment of iustice and vertue labour all we can to maske and couer them This to haue befallen vnto me I doe both confesse lament The disease of my soule wherewith I was sicke before my departure was in that I trusted to much to my own prudence agaynst that wholesome counsayle of the Wise-man Prouerb 3. ne innitaris prudentiae tuae and out of the confidence of my small wit being of so small reach I iudged too rashly of matters of Fayth besides this a certaine frenzy of rage not that which some ignorant companions only wise in their owne conceit obiected vnto me when I was to returne out of England for that forsooth certayne Promotions which in vayne I thirsted after were denyed me but altogeather caused of my vnreasonable impatience whiles I tooke it most grieuously to be vnder them of whome in the Booke of the causes of my departure I haue without all cause complayned these things carryed me vpon the shelfs and sands these did beate my barke agaynst the rocks these sharpened my wit to pestiferous thoughts these were the cause why I fondly feigned errours of the Roman Church wherby I might excuse my departure these finally cast me on those extreme coastes vvhere I went and that I might seeme to haue done well and in some sort endeauour to auoyd the imputation of imprudency and rashnes and of heresy also first for defence of my departure I set forth my purpose and intention in the same then other volumes and bookes fraught with such things as eyther the art of feigning or forging suggested or the wisdome of the flesh did prompt vnto me and vvhiles the sicknes boyled in my brest within and the stings of wrath did pricke my exulcerated mynd the itch of my tongue and pen did breake forth into an impostume Many things which heretikes enemyes of the Sea Apostolike did belieue affirme and professe seemed to me now blinded by my selfe to be credible some to be true when as yet I had neuer brought these controuersies to the touchstone of true diuinity nor had throughly discussed them for I had not ended any part of the Ecclesiasticall Commonwealth in which I had determined to treat of points of religion and rules of fayth nor yet had I so much as begunne it howsoeuer in the booke of the cause of my departure I sayd that I had already finished