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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	catholic_n	church_n	communion_n	2,927	5	9.4030	5	false

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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

against the true faith And so Gyprian maketh the Catholicke Church a Roote a Lib. de s●●p Pralater ● Fountaine a Sunne so that as the braunch hath life from the roote the Brooke hath water from the Fountaine the rayes light from the Sunne euen so the sincerity of faith cannot be had but by coniunction to the Catholicke Church They therefore who haue seperated themselues from it cannot receiue the verity of faith but of necessity they must fall into errours for they be trees without a roote they be Brookes without a Fountaine and Rayes without a Sunne Wherevpon the Fathers in many places by these and the like reasons doe manifestly proue that Schisme doth at length breake out into heresie For hee who doth refuse to haue communion with the Catholick Church he also will refuse to learne of it the verities of Faith of which shee onely is the keeper and conseuer Therefore very well did Augustine conclude That an inuetterate Cont. Cr●scon lib. 2. cap. 7. Lib. 1. epist 6. Schisme is euen heresie it selfe And rightly did Cyprian finde in euery Schisme this heresie at least that by it are taken away these two articles out of the Creed I beleeue the holy Catholick Church and the remission of sinnes For they that beleeue the holy Catholicke Church to be the true Church of Christ cannot depart from the same if they so beleeue But if they doe depart certainly they doe not beleeue that the Catholicke Church is the true Church of Christ So Augustine saith that the Donatists had turned the● 〈…〉 Schisme into an heresie And Ambrose approuing his fact who had fled from the Churches of the Luciferites a●● haue now done from the English said Hee thought there was no faith in the Schisme for though they kept the faith to God yet they did not keepe it to the Church whose limbes they suffered as it were to be deuided and members to be rent in pieces for seeing Christ d●● sufer for the Church and the Church is Christs body they seeme not to beleeue Christ who make his passion voyde and teare his body in peeces 33. Should I therefore haue stayed among Schismatickes and hereticks with such danger vnto my soule God forbid I repent me with all my heart that I haue remained so long amongst them and haue taken vp and vsed wicked Armes against my Mother the Catholicke truth and haue written bookes of the Ecclesiasticall Common-wealth full of heresies which I sincerely hete and detest and was a Souldier in that gracelesse Campe to the perpetuall infamy of mine owne name And now it doth both grieue and vexe me that I haue beene the Author of so great wickednesse Therefore with all humility and reuerence I aske and craue pardon and forgiuenesse for my wicked offence of God Almighty of Christ our Sauiour and of the Pope his Soueraigne and chiefe Viccar vpon earth and doe wholy submit my selfe and faults vnto the great clemency of the same Pope who sitteth supreme Iudge of vs all and not to be iudged of any vpon Earth for that he representeth the person of Christ in his Church And euen as our Lord himselfe doth open willingly his bosome of mercy vnto him that is penitent so am I in good hope that I shall bee receiued into the armes of the Clemency of his holinesse The example of St. Cyprian against Stephen the Pope much reproued and condemned in the Catholicke Church some times confirmed me in my wickednesse of striuing and resisting against the supreme Pastor But now my foule fall hath taught me to my losse that those Bishops wander and goe astray from the right path of Faith who doe refuse to be guided by the only Pole-starre which is the Pope of Rome to follow wandering fiery Meteors to their destruction Would to God euen as the diuine Cyprian by the effusion of his owne blood for Christ did wash away the staine of his former Audacity so I heartily desire that there might be giuen vnto me who in the multitude and hainousnesse of my faults haue surpassed incomparably his fall the oportunitie and grace to deface and blot out my foule staines and filthinesse and beare witnesse of the truth of the Catholicke faith with the shedding of my very blood which staines and filthinesse I am most ready 〈◊〉 the helpe of God when Inke should faile to signe with my proper blood to the praise and glory of God the Exaltation of the holy Catholicke Church and to the honour and dignity of the Apostolike Sea which God grant At Rome 24. Nouembris Anno. 1622. FINIS