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A20606	The rockes of Christian shipwracke, discouered by the holy Church of Christ to her beloued children, that they may keepe aloofe from them. Written in Italian by the most reuerend father, Marc Ant. de Dominis, Archb. of Spalato, and thereout translated into English; Scogli del christiano naufragio, quali va scoprendo la santa chiesa di Christo. English	De Dominis, Marco Antonio, 1560-1624.	1618 (1618)	STC 7005; ESTC S117489	73,138	191

Mat. 28.20 1. Tim. 3.15 to whom the continuall assistance of the Spirit of my Spouse is promised and not to the Romane I that am the pillar and ground of truth yet dare not be so bold as to assure my children that this infolded faith sufficeth them namely to beleeue vnder generall termes whatsoeuer I beleeue How then shee now swarming with errours and falshood and being nothing but ambition and auarice how dares shee bee thus bold My beloued Saint Paul would not haue his Corinthians thinke 2. Cor. 1.24 that hee would beare dominion ouer their faith which hee did sweetly instill into them and not thrust it vpon them by command and domineering But Rome will haue euery man will hee nill hee by all meanes to beleeue and rest in whatsoeuer shee determineth and commandeth and to subscribe his beleefe to all that shee beleeueth and maintaineth or rather to whatsoeuer shee inuenteth and imagineth though indeed herselfe beleeue it not nor hold it for any point of faith but for a matter of state vpō this point of policy she taketh order that those inuentions which shee knoweth to bee no matters of faith but onely to serue her ambition and couetousnesse must be giuen out for points of faith Rome cannot abide that yee my children should bee zelous in seeking to know what it is that yee are to beleeue for by such enquiry you would discouer her trickes and therefore shee telleth you that you are safe if yee haue this enuelopped faith and beleeue all that shee beleeues And if so be any of you make a stand vpon any particular beeing one of those articles which shee in point of policy hath inuented and which shall hereafter be declared by me in my descry of these Rockes then she presently mufleth vp your eyes and blindeth you and sendeth to you her owne attendants the Priests and Friers preachers and confessors who wholly depending on her are all at her deuotion they declare vnto you that Rome hath decided the point to be an article of faith And thus when yee are bound to beleeue all that the Church of Rome beleeueth and maintaineth that is whatsoeuer she teacheth and auoucheth as fit to be held and beleeued ye must needs play at hoodman-blind and being loaden with dangerous scruples stumble vpon the rocke of many an error and fiction and so incurre miserable shipwracke There is indeed a kinde of vnweeting obedience which is holy and good nay necessary but vnfolded which concerneth the fundamentall articles of my faith Such as are the vnitie of the Godhead and Trinitie of persons in one essence and nature the incarnation of the Word with the conioyning of two distinct natures the diuine and humane in the one onely diuine person of my Spouse Christ that he suffered and shed his blood and gaue his life vpon the Crosse for my redemption that he rose againe by his owne power and that hee ascended and is glorified in heauen where he remaineth my true Mediatour and continuall Aduocate with the Father and that he is to bee iudge of all men to giue to euery one according to his owne workes either life or death euerlasting In the beleeuing these and other such Articles euery childe of mine must yeeld his eyes closed vp by obedience without curiositie or recalling them to the principles of humane reason For these are the fundamentals wherein all Catholique Christendome is well resolued and setled with absolute agreement But in many other points either necessary or not necessary to saluation there is danger 2. Cor 21. that ye may be deceiued For oftentimes Satan transformeth himselfe into an Angel of light Therefore euery of you that hath any heart and spirit at all ought to open his eyes and looke well into that which is propounded to him to be beleeued either by implication or expresly and to examine it with Christian and sober diligence whether that which your Preachers and confessors and writers teach you concerning spiritual things who too often vnder the name of my Ministers are wolues in sheepes-cloathing and nothing els but the ministers of humane ambition and auarice be conformable to the holy Scriptures and vnto my refined and throughly-established iudgement mine I say that is of the Vniuersall Church such as I was for the first foure or fiue vncorrupted ages and still am also in regard of my selfe but not such as the Romane by vsurping my name doeth disguise and vaunt herselfe to be For if you shall walke on blindfold vnder this enfuddling faith after blinde guids ye shall they and you too hit vpon the rocks and tumble into the infernall pit For these respects which I haue named Rome would faine haue you remaine still muffled vp with this cloudy faith and to keepe you in your spirituall blindnesse she hath depriued you of the vse of holy Scripture shee will not suffer it to be imparted to all the people in the vulgar tongues she prohibites it she hinders it Verily a most horrible crueltie God commanded not onely Moses not Aaron onely and the rest of the Priests not onely the Scribes and doctors of the Law and Pharisees but generally all his people that they should alwayes haue the Scripture before their eyes In this is stored vp your daily bread but in stead of making you abound with this bread those whom you call your spirituall fathers take it from you and so may yee starue for them Nay in stead of this bread they put into your hands either the stones of strange doctrines which are marueilous hard for you to chew as that you are to spend your liues for the maintenance of the Pope's humors or else the scorpions of errors and falshood which bite and sting your very soules or at the most the course browne-bread of their pamphlets concerning Christian doctrine and other manuels which they name spirituall Wherein because they can doe no lesse for then should they appeare to bee open professed wolues there are set downe some good foundations of many good Catholick verities but vnder the crust of this good wheaten-bread the course crumbe is deliuered to you or rather the poison of the manifold errors and superstitions of humane if not diuelish doctrine thereby to cherish in your simple soules such reuerence and obedience to the Pope Prelates Priests and Friers as their ambition and auarice gapeth after As for other bookes which discouer these their iugglings Rome doeth slanderously bruit them to be hereticall and prohibiteth them by vaine and childish terrors of excommunications and all this that ye may not open your eyes but remaine blinde for euer Looke well to this ¶ The fourth Rocke Excommunication IT is a wonderfull or rather miserable deuise and craftie tricke of the Popes for the mainteining their tyrannie ouer your soules and making themselues to be reuerenced feared and held for gods vpon earth that they proiect to beare you in hand that the keyes giuen me by Christ