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A20605	A sermon preached in Italian, by the most Reuerend father, Marc' Antony de Dominis, Archb. of Spalato, the first Sunday in Aduent, anno 1617. In the Mercers Chappel in London, to the Italians in that city, and many other honorable auditors then assembled. Vpon the 12. verse of the 13. chapter to the Romanes, being part of the Epistle for that day. First published in Italian by the author, and thereout translated into English; Predica fatta da Monsr. Marc' Antonio de Dominis, Arcivo. di Spalato. English	De Dominis, Marco Antonio, 1560-1624.	1617 (1617)	STC 7004; ESTC S109795	31,116	84

shales of these superfluous and superstitious deuotions What now adayes carrieth away the noise in their pulpits what but the Papacie Purgatory and Indulgences and other the like superstitions Here one extolls a certaine Image of the blessed Virgin to bee seene in his Church which makes miracles Gods plenty but these feates are either imagined or dreamed of or else contriued by imposture There another stands vpon the commendation of a certaine wodden wonder-working Crucifixe making a moster of it with a troope of lighted Torches about it and the more to endeare it hee withdraweth the Curtaines but seldome and openeth the Shrine at a few set times in the yeere Otherwhere others doe the like and all for the same end namely to allure the simple people to flocke to them and so to worke vpon their purses O misery of corruption O night of darkenesse I passe now to the third generall error and it is this That the thunderbolt of excommunication darted out by the Pope is euermore very terrible and that it strikes deepe wounding the soule and tumbling it downe-right into hell if the Popes commands be not obeyed True it is that euery Bishop within his owne Bishopricke no lesse then the Pope within the Bishopricke of Rome hath power to excommunicate grieuous and scandalous offenders either debarring them of Ecclesiasticall communion with other Christian people vntill they amend or if the case bee desperate casting them out of the Church and cutting them off from the body of Christ as dead and rotten members But whensoeuer such Excommunications are sent out without iust yea and most weighty cause they more hurt him that thundereth them out then them against whom they are bent It must needes therefore be a great folly to stand in feare of the Popes Excommunication whensoeuer hee threatens in this sort Either beleeue whatsoeuer I say or I will excommunicate you Either admit me to be supreme Lord of all the world both in spirituall and temporall matters or you shall be excommunicated Either acknowledge and worship mee for a god vpon earth or you shall bee held for Excommunicate To bring his owne ends to passe he worketh in this sort hee compelleth men both to beleeue and also to performe whatsoeuer he please hee forelayeth meanes to keepe simple ouerfearefull men in awe so that they shall not dare to stand out in their owne defence against his Tyrannie By these vaine terrors he taketh away the vse of many excellent bookes therefore prohibited because they lay open his collusions Neuerthelesse this rule is certaine and infallible whosouer walking vprightly in the sight of God with sincerity of heart and honest intention readeth bookes not out of carnall curiosity but out of desire to learne and to discerne betweene truth and falsehood and to the end that hee may not alwaies remaine blind let him not feare a whit nor make any account of such Excommunication which can neuer separate any man from God vnlesse hee hath in his owne heart first separated himselfe from him Without doubt the Pope maketh great vse of this scarcrow feare of his Excommunications as a fit engine to enforce many a falsehood and to hide out of the way many truths for the vpholding of his owne most vndue and vsurped greatnesse This indeede hath bene his weapon wherewith hee long since hath layde about him but it hath beene retorted backe vpon him by many holy men who haue not spared to laugh at his false thunderclaps bolted out by great abuse without necessity or iust cause at all and haue made him to giue ouer with shame enough Let vs now therefore render our thankes to God who hath rescued vs de ore Leonis out of the mouth of the Lion and de nube erroris out of the cloud of error so that the enemy cannot leade vs into such deepe darkenesse as he yet doth many soules miserably captiuated to him And therefore to vs Nox praecessit The night is past Dies autem appropinquauit But the day hath approached To these foure nights there are as many daies correspondent The first is of the knowledge of God and of the holy Christian faith the shadowes being discharged and the veiles taken away by the comming of Christ when that which lay hidde vnder types and darke resemblances was manifested by the light of the Gospel Neither was it without mysterious signification that at the very passion of Christ the veile of the Temple was rent from the toppe downe to the bottome For the sacred mysteries of God were not now to remaine any longer curtayned vp inasmuch as at the appearing of the Sunne of righteousnes all those cloudes and darkenes vanished away cleere reuelation beeing then made to vs of the vnity in Nature and trinity in Persons in God and of the Redeemer the true and naturall Sonne of God in whom are two Natures the one diuine the other humane subsisting in the diuine Person of the Word He is in substance and cleere signification the foreshadowed spotlesse Lambe of God He is the true Sacrifice which was hidden and veyled in the sacrifices of the old Law the most precious sacrifice offered vp vpon the altar of the Crosse for our sinnes whereto no other sacrifice is now to succeed Rom. 12. besides the reasonable seruice of our soules and bodies and perpetuall thankesgiuing and adoration of his most holy name The second day is the day of Grace with full remission of all our sinnes in holy Baptisme the Church beeing sanctified and cleansed by the Lauer of water in the Word Of those that receiued Christ by the preaching of the Apostles Saint Paul said Ephes 5. Yee were sometimes darkenesse but now yee are light in the Lord who commanded light to shine out of darkenesse To the Gentiles the light of Nature and to the Iewes the Law did point at what ought to be done but neither the one nor the other gaue grace and strength to worke well Rom. 8. as Saint Paul prooueth Hebr. 10. For that Nature beeing corrupted was ouer nimble to runne headlong into sinne But the grace of Christ helpeth our naturall weakenesse and helpeth vs to bee set free and preserued from sinne and therefore Hic dies appropinquauit The day hath approached The third day is the day of watchfulnesse diligence and care The wild and sauage beasts watch most of all in the night time forraging then for their prey On the contrarie man r●●oseth himselfe in the night and goeth about his businesse in the day time Psal 104.20 Posuisti tenebras facta est nox in ipsa pertransibunt omnes bestiae Syluae c. Thou madest darkenesse and it is night wherein all the beasts of the Forest creepe forth The young Lions roare after their prey and seek their meat of God When the Sunne riseth they retire and couch in their dennes It is not so with man For when the Sunne is vp then Exibit homo ad opus suum

wherein the Church Militant is employed tendeth to Spirituall things which are not seene And surely in Sea voyages amidst the maine where no land marke can bee seene for the direction of the shippe the onely certaine meanes of guidance for Nauigation consisteth in the vsing of a good Compasse hauing a Needle well touched with the Loadstone as also in hauing a Ship mans Card or Sea mappe iustly quartered and coasted Hee that without these or with a false Compasse or Mappe saileth out of all sight of shoare may bee saide to wander in vtter darkenesse and midnight though it be at noone-tide And contrary wise hee that is furnished with a true Compasse though hee saile in the deepe of Sea and of night yet hee enioyeth the day and cleareeth his passage at all occasions Now for the difference of the Reformed Shippes and the Romane it is not in the bottome nor in the tackeling but onely in the Compasse The Romane shippe is a good Vessell well built not rotten nor fallen in pieces it is well furnished with Masts with Yards with Cordage with Cables with Anchors it hath an excellent Sea-mappe the passengers and common souldiers in it are all vnder the colours of one and the same Generall our Sauiour Christ And in these there is no difference betweene this Ship and the reformed But I finde one maine difference betweene them whence also arise an innumerable other disparities and it is that the Pilot who sits at the sterne of the Romane ship hauing throwne aside the ordinary Compasse and leauing the vse of the approoued Sea-mappe hath out of his owne capricious conceit deuised a new Card and contriued a new-found Compasse of his owne whose needle hath no aspect toward the Pole or touch at all of the Load-stone Suteable also hereto hath he out of his owne head framed certaine Cardinall windes which serue onely for his Card. Nay which is worse then this hee hath intruded into the possession of gouerning the helmes of all the shippes that roade in his company and from euery of them hee hath taken away the vse of the ordinary Compasse and beating the Marriners and ouer awing them by tyranny who otherwise would doe well and performe their office aright will haue no nay but all those shippes must daunce attendance after his And so for that hee vseth no true Compasse nor Carde hee ringleads them all to wracke and they follow him fast enough without light through the thickest darkenesse For the vnfolding of this Metaphore I say in a word that the Bishoppe of Rome at this present and for many ages past leauing the trauailers true Sea-card the holy Scriptures and the vnmooueable North-Pole the aime at Heauen and heauenly things and propounding to himselfe one onely Port his owne greatnesse and temporall pompe hath in his deuised Compasse quartered out his owne counterfeit windes which must blow for that hauen they are dominion ouer all other Churches mastery ouer the Keyes infallibility of his iudgement and authoritie in things Temporall euen ouer Princes And as for the poore passengers and common souldiers who are transported and blindly clapt vp vnder the hatches in these wandring shippes he hath to amuse them added in his false Card many bastard windes painted out in guilded and flourished lines namely our owne and others merits Inuocation of Saints religious worship of Images the treasure of Indulgences efficacie of Masses and of Priestly absolutions Agnus Dei's hallowed Beads holy Water By these and other such windes neuer found in the ancient true Compasses and whereof the ancient Pilots of the holy Church neuer heard any newes by these blasts will hee haue his followers to saile whereby they are caried headlong into many most important errors The onely cause of all this mischiefe is that Archpilot For if hee were remooued or could bee perswaded to leaue his owne monstrous Chimericall Compasse and to betake himselfe to the vsuall and auncient guide presently defacing all those false windes verily the goodly fleete of the Catholique Church would easily bee set right and holding the safe and sure way as the Reformed Companies haue done would approach to the true hauen of eternall blisse True it is that these Reformed Churches beeing misledde by this wandring guide did sometime follow that vaine and deceitfull Compasse But at length they haue better bethought themselues and casting out that strange intruding Pilot they haue yeelded vp their shippe to bee gouerned by their owne true Steersemen such as God himselfe hath ordayned And so vsing the infallible Card of the holy Scriptures and the true Compasse quartered out into the foure auncient Cardinall windes of the foure first generull Councels and seconded with the vnder-windes of the holy Fathers they make an happy voyage and without wandring arriue at the appointed hauen of saluation And this is the miserable night of manifold errours wherein so many poore soules suffer themselues to bee hoodwinked and lulled asleepe from which yet we are rescued by the Almighty hand of God And therefore let vs yeelde him all possible thankes that This night is passed If I should here enlarge my selfe and insist vpon the consideration of these forged misguiding blasts to display all the particular errors which make this cloudie night I might encomber my selfe in a confused Chaos out of which I could not get in many dayes much lesse in the little portion of time allotted to this Exercise Yet I can doe no lesse now then touch some of the most principall and vniuersall of them out of which as from a roote all the particular errors doe spring It is very much behoouefull to the Pope for the mainteining himselfe in the forged greatnesse of his vniuersall Vicarship of Christ to holde the people in the deepest darknesse of ignorance and blindnesse that possibly may be To this purpose one maine article which he causeth to be taught in all the Churches subiect to him stands him in great stead namely that for the sauing of mens soules an implicite faith sufficeth whereby a man beleeueth all to be trueth whatsoeuer the holy Catholique Romane Church beleeueth and mainteineth And by this meane the Pope layeth open a way for himselfe to perswade the silly people already blinded with this credence to beleeue and receiue whatsoeuer hee imposeth on them for his owne aduantage and to make them admit for an article of faith that hee is the onely vicar of Christ that he cannot erre in cathedra iudging out of his chaire that he is the Lord paramount of the whole Church that the keyes and treasure of holy Church are in his hands onely that he hath power to depose Kings from their Thrones and to discharge their subiects of their oath of fealtie and infinite other such fopperies for the maintenance whereof many wretches cast away their soules And by degrees it will come to that passe one day that he will make himselfe to be adored for a God vpon earth By this engine of implicite