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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

excused because they haue seperated themselues vniustly and without cause from the true Church of Christ which is our Catholicke Romane Church And this thing terrisieth me for Schismaticks exclude themselues from being the sonnes of God as Cyprian affirmeth saying They haue not God Ioh. 11. 52. De●●● ●● 〈◊〉 to their Father who will not haue the true Church for their mother Christ died to gather into one the sonnes of God which were dispersed Therefore the death of Christ did not onely worke and doth worke the redemption of men but also the vnion of the Church Before the death of Christ the children of God were deuided and scattered some vnder the law of Moyses others vnder the law of nature all were deuided one from another into seuerall congregations But now since the comming of Christ the diuine wisedome would that all his faithfull beleeuer and true children by faith should make one onely societie throughout the whole world vnder their Captaine and Emperour Iesus Christ and serue him in his warres vnder the standard of the holy Crosse with the same colours and Ensignes of the Sacraments And this society and vnity is a notable effect of the death of Christ which death hath brought to passe that disagreeing Sects innumerable formes of Rites and Religions amongst themselues opposite should ioyne together into a Christian vnity by him Who is our peace and hath made both one and this by the Ephe. 2. 14. Lib. 3. Hexem Crosse whereupon Anastasius of Mount Sinay saith that these words Let waters be gathered into one place are to be vnderstood of the Church assembled together of diuers people and Nations and Sects vnder the vnity of faith For which cause Christ also said of his Crosse If I be exalted from the earth I will draw all Ioh. 12. 32. things vnto my selfe Athanasius in his Treatise of the Incarnation of the word of God sayeth Our Lord exalted in the Crosse stretcheth forth both his armes to invite vnto himselfe onely both the Nations of the Iewes and Gentiles that by embracing them he might gather them both into his bosome but there is but one onely bosome betweene the armes of our Sauiour 29 And Athanasius in the same place thinketh that it is not without mysterie that Christ did choose the death of the Crosse and not the cutting off his head by which his precursor St. Iohn Baptist lost his life nor the deuiding of his body into parts which I saie suffered that in his death he might without dismembring keepe his body whole and intire and take away all excuses from Schismaticks who desire to deuide the Church into parts And Christ our Lord was so pleased with this vnity that with a most seruent prayer in the very last night of his life he required of his Father that he would not suffer his Disciples and the other beleeuers to depart from this vnity and said twice that the cause why he Ioan. 17. 11. 20. 21. prayed for the preseruation of this vnity was That the world may beleeue that thou hast sent me But our Aduersaries nothing considering these things as much as lyeth in them would haue the death and crosse of Christ to be without this most excellent fruit of vnity and by deuisions and schismes giue vnto the Iewes and Pagans occasion to speake ill of and to blaspheme Christ by saying that he was not the sonne of God nor sent by God seeing the vnion which he ordained did not continue but now and then was broken into parts The Church of Christ is one house and one family he who shall withdraw himselfe from this family or goeth out of this house doth not appertaine vnto the family of Christ but is excluded from saluation euen as they who were without the Arke perished in the flood Gen. 8 The Protestants haue cut off themselues from the body of Christ which is the sole Catholicke Romane Church with her inseperable adherents Therefore there be not members of Christ nor is Christ their head neither are they partakers of his holy spirit or gifts They are rotten members and already cut off for that they haue by their owne free will impiously cut off themselues from the body They are branches cut off from the Vine good for nothing but for the fire Neither can he saith St. Augustine be partaker of Diuine charity who is an enemie of vnity 30 By Schisme they haue inenrred the losse of all spirituall goods if they thinke they possesse any If I speake saith St. Paul with the tongues of men and Angels 1 Cor. 13. 1. and haue not charity I am nothing it doth profit me nothing c. According to these words of St. Paul St. Augustine saith that Schismatickes doe not profit 〈◊〉 1. de Bapt. ●● 〈◊〉 4. 〈◊〉 2. by doing good workes Cyprian affirmeth the same many times saying Although a man be slaine for the name of Christ after he is out of his Church and deuided from vnity and charity he cannot be crowned in his death and repeateth the same lib. 1. epist 1. and vnto Iuba●●num and in his bookes de Simplicitate Praelethrum or de vnitate Ecclesiae and de oratione dommica Chrisostom in epist ad Ephes hom 11. followeth him and saith the same 31 I wish they would consider what a horrible sin they haue committed by making this damnable seperation For that Schisme is the destruction of holy Church according to the words of Christ saying Euery Kingdome euided against it selfe be made desolate Luk. 11. 17. Galat. 5. 15. And S. Paul saith Take heed how you bite one another least you be consumed one with another and St. Lib. depoenit ●● 4. Ambrose proueth that this wickednesse of destroying the Church may be that sinne against the holy Ghost which Christ said is not remitted neither in this Mat. 12. 31. 3 〈◊〉 6. world nor in the world to come So that wicked harlot had rather to haue the childe destroyed then to be restored into the bosome of the owne mother and therefore cryed against her be it neither mine nor thine 〈◊〉 10. ● but let it be deuided So Schismatickes least the faith should be conscrued aliue and whole in the bosome of the true mother the Church doe what they can to deuide it that it may be dead to them both But they labour in vaine to the verifying vpon themselues this saying He that breaketh the hedge a Serpent shall byte him And it is no wonder that in these dayes the English are fallen into many heresies and that Puritanisme doth so much raigne amongst them although at the first seperation they were not polluted with the Lutheran or Caluinian heresies For Ireneus doth excellently Lib. ● cap. 40. li. 4. ca. 43. teach that they who are cut off from the Church doe not drinke of the Fountaine of the spirit of God but digge vnto themselues olde Cisterns and fall into most filthy errours