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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

be in sundry places at one time at least sacramentally neither can that be impugned but out of humane philosophie and apparently only And to conclude we doe not say that bread is made a body which was not before but we say that the bread is transubstantiated into the body of Christ which body was before the consecration of the bread so likewise the body of Christ borne of the Virgin Mary was before this transubstantiation and by conlecration the Bread is transubstantiated into it Truly they deuise out of their owne heads these heresies something grossely for he is an hereticke who maintaineth heresie directly But if they aske of vs what we thinke of the verity of the body of Christ of his ascention of his Incarnation they shall receiue from vs a true beliefe in all these things although we affirme some things whereon they thinke errours may follow which we truly denie and they will neuer be able to proue Theologically the contrary Wherefore as for heresie they cannot make or alleage any pretext from hence why they haue iustly and rightfully seperated themselues from our Church 11. The milder sort of English Protestants who are not infected with Puritanisme doe not much charge the Roman Church with heresie and yet thereby they doe not free themselues from the crime of Schisme but they talke much of Idolatrie and the pressing of new articles of faith vpon them wherein they contend that the Roman Church and her adherents that is to say the very Catholicke Church hath reuolted from the true faith And by this they doe principally defend the equitie of their seperation They esteeme that it is manifest Idolatry to worship and pray vnto Saints and to reuerence Reliques and Images but most of all to adore the blessed Sacrament They say likewise there is a secret Idolatry in the confidence we put in the salt water and oyle and other things exercised and blessed They complaine that the Catholicks thrust vpon them new articles in so many definitions made in the councell of Trent about Iustification workes merits purgatory Indulgences c. But these are vaine words if wee Catholicks were truly Idolaters we should not only be hereticks but much worse also then many hereticks and then we were worthily to be auoyded and to be cast out from the socyetie of all faithfull people But I maruell how he that is well in his wits can impute Idolatry vnto them who daily professe themselues to beleeue in one God and are ready to shed their blood for this foundation of faith who continually preach that Gods worship is not to be giuen to any pure ereature So this is but a vaine Calumniation If for the inuocation of Saints the worship of Images the adoring of the blessed Sacrament they suspect vs to become guilty of Idolatry let them but seeke search and know what we thinke of the vnity of the true God and what of the not giuing diuine honour vnto creatures and then they shall easily finde themselues to be notorious fooles who thinke that we be Idolaters that is adorers of creatures with diuine worship neither should they breake out into schisme vntill they first finde in vs true Idolatry 12. None of vs at any time said that holy men already dead or Angels were to be worshipped with diuine worship we are not yet become such fooles Vigilantius obiected this against the Catholicks in old time but slanderously as S. Hierome writing against him doth declare As in other things so in this wee haue approued masters viz. the old Fathers we doe not dissent we donot depart we do not disagree from them we willingly embrace and diligently put in practise whatsoeuer wholsome catholick precepts the Fathers haue left conferning the Saints as Origen lib. 8. contra Celsum Epiphanias heres 79. Augustm epist 44. Et lib. de quantitate auimae ca. 34. Et lib. de vera relig ca. 55. Et contra faustum lib. 20. ca. 21. C●rit● Alex. lib. 6. contra Iulian. Theodoret in hist Sanctorum Patrum ca. 24. whose words I cice not at large because this little booke doth not beare it From whence therefore haue these blinde masters receiued new eies seeing that long before they were the holy Catholike Church was perfectly adorned with most bright and glorious lights 13 Vnto the honour of Saints belong the Feasts which are celebrated in memory of them praising God and giuing him thankes that he hath preferted mortall men to that high degree of Sanctitie neither is it a new thing in the Catholicke Church to celebrate festiuall daies yeerely in the honour of Saints It is an ancient thing which may worthily be referred vnto an Apostolike tradition besides the Lords day to celebrate the birth-dayes of the Saints with festiuall solemnities for I see it is approued by the ancient custome of the Catholicke Church I finde Cyprian lib. 3. cpist 6. to haue vsed diligence that the dayes on which the Martyrs lost their liues for the faith should be carefully set downe that on such dayes saith he we may make oblations and sacrifices for their commemorations S. Iohanes Chrysostome serm in Martyrem Pelagiam and S. August psalm 88. part 2. in the end doe exhort the people to celebrate deuoutly the solemnities of the Saints wherefore I cannot but much wonder at the new scruples of the Protestants who will seeme to know more then is true whilest they esteeme that the feasts of all the Saints and also of the blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God and of the Apostles and most famous Martyrs ought to be abrogated although in England they haue left somewhat in this kinde yet very little 14 They say it is all one to pray vnto Saints that be dead and to haue many Gods and that the inuocation of Saints and worshipping of Images doth not differ from the customes of the heathen for which cause they hate vs very much But it were easie for vs if this place would beare a longer disputation about the inuocation of Saints to refell all the slaunders of these hereticks for first they are compelled if they will giue credit vnto the holy Scriptures to grant that the soules of the Saints doe make intercession vnto God for vs mortall men euen in particular and it is very well knowne that the faithfull in this life doe finde helpe before God by the prayers of the just men here vpon earth for Moyses many times auerted the anger of God from the people of Israel and God perswadeth the friends of Iob ca. 42. 18. to procure Iob to pray for them that they might obtaine remission of their folly Paul many times commendeth himselfe to the prayers of the faithfull Ephes 6. 19. Colos 4. 3. 1 Thess 5. 23. 2 Thess 3. 1. Heb. 13. 18. c. and they may learne if they will that the Saints deceased whose soules liue before God and raigne with Christ make intercession for the liuing of the millitant Church Hierom. 15. 1. Ezechiol 14. 14.

reason and by lawfull authority that the Pope may excommunicate the faithfull wheresoeuer they are That the precepts of the Church binde vnder paine of mortall sinne That the vnity of the Church dependeth chiefely of one onely visible head of the same Church That the Pope is the true and lawfull Pastor of the whole Church and according vnto his obligation is zealous of the good of Christs flocke by daily thirsting after and most carefully procuring their eternall saluation That in the Masse is offered a true proper and propitiatory sacrifice vnto God That the ceremonies of the Masse instituted by the holy Fathers and Pastors of the Church by the inspiration of the holy Ghost are holy mysticall profitable and ought to be obserued and kept That in the Sacrament of the Alter there is transnbstantiation that is to say a conuersion of all the substance of bread into the body and of wine into the blood of our Lord Iesus Christ That in the sacramentall absolution which the Priest vseth in absoluting from sins is exercised the true and proper power of binding loosing sins which our Lord hath deliuered or giuen to the Ministers of his Sacraments in the Church That there is a Purgatory after that manner and sort which the holy Romane and Apostolicke Church doth affirme it to be That satisfaction is of great power after the fault remitted for the remission of the punishment also That the vse of Indulgences in the Catholicke Church vnto whom Christ hath giuen authority to bestowe them is very auncient very profitable and approued by the authority of holy Councels That we may not onely lawfully pray vnto Saints but also that it is a good and profitable thing to flye for helpe vnto their prayers and ayde That the worship of Images and Reliques is good lawfull and profitable and cannot be rejected without the blot of heresie That the merrit of eternall life dependeth vpon good workes Also I often times loathed and despised the later generall Councels which be of high authority in the Church especially the Councels of Florence and Trent and sometimes that of Constance And by my meanes it came to passe that a certaine History of the Councell of Trent was published whereof I could haue no certaine knowledge for that it was iustly suspected of forgerie and in these things also I confesse that I haue maliciously erred and now affirme that all the most wholsome decrees of these Councels are worthy of credit and ought to be embraced 6 In a certaine Sermon of mine on the first Sonday of Aduent made at London in the Italian tongue and printed I published almost the same errours which I repeated after in the booke of the Rockes all which I doe now deepely detest In that Sermon I faigned a certaine darke night of Popish errours and of the Church of Rome when in very deede in the onely Church of Rome and in the Churches connexed vnto her is a true and cleare Sunne-shining day and out of her especially in England there is a perpetuall night and most obscure darknesse The light of truth and the true and right vnderstanding of the Scriptures which is in the Church of Rome driueth farre from her the mistes of all these errours wherewith wretched England being ouer-clowded walketh as a blinde man groping for the wall at mid-day I said in the same Sermon and I repeated the same in the little booke of the Rockes that Peter was neuer at Rome yet notwithstanding I know that this is a grosse and an ignorantlye and therefore I doe ingenuously confesse that it ought to be rejected of all men I made the Apostles equall in founding and ruling the Church when yet euen out of the very Gospels and Apostolicall tradition the Supremacie of Peter aboue them is apparant I said that the Bishops succeeded the Apostles with equall power and that they were Bishops of the vniuersall Church in grosse when as they are but Pastors of perticular Churches in their sole particular cares or charges the generall Primacie belonging vnto him who succeeded Peter which is the Pope I said that holy water graynes crosses holy Images the Popes or Bishops benediction Stations habites girdles belts the visitations of Churches Altars Beades Processions and the like were meere toyes when yet it is certaine that the vse of almost all these things is well approued and very auncient in the Catholique Church and ought to be preserued together with the vse of other things of later times added as prouokements to piety aad deuotion I affirmed that there were onely two Sacraments Baptisme and the Supper when yet the Catholicke Church illuminated by the holy Ghost plainely teacheth and defineth that there are seuen true Sacraments All which and whatsoeuer other heresies condemned by the Catholicke Romane Church I also condemne and the things contrary to them being defined by the same I also with a firme faith beleeue holde and professe For most certaine it is that in the decrees of the holy Romane Church reason is not seperated from authority and that the Doctrine of the Schoolemen is altogether consonant vnto the sence of the holy Fathers especially in articles of faith I also confesse that I did vndeseruedly in these little Pamphlets complaine of the Court of Rome as if she had vsurped other mens rights for except she preserue by her lawfull authority ouer them the Bishops and Archbishops in their duties there would presently follow a generall violation of her lawes by them And the Church is then very happy when all her perticular Pastors vnder the most vigilant and highest Pastor doe readily receiue and execute both reformation in manners and the custody of sound and sincere Doctrine from him who hath the soueraigne authority And verily except the benigne and paternall care of the holy Inquisition had watched seriously ouer our Lords flocke the scabbed cattell should not receiue any cure but the filthy Canker would daily encrease The ordinary Armour of that Tribunall is found Doctrine and charitable instructions and not those instruments which out of a minde corrupted with malice in my Pamphlets I haue exagerated by lyes and slaunders and yet sometimes when rotten vlcers cannot be cured with gentle medicines it is both fit and necessary that the Physitians should vse more forceable remedies 7 But when the inward burning of the infirmities of my minde was alayed almost by a miracle about the beginning of the Popedome of the most holy Gregory the 15. whose rare piety singular prudence and continuall holinesse of life was such as that I doe not doubt but that it was cause of his aduancement to that high dignity the holy Ghost illuminating me with a certaine diuine light my minde began to thinke vpon wholsome courses And then the dangers into which I had cast my soule began also euery day more clearely to muster themselues in troupes before me and I did wonder how I had fallen into so great madnesse and errour as to

Apoc. 5. 8. and 8. 3. And it is likewise recorded in holy Scriptures that God doth grant many things in lauour of his Saints deceased Gen. 26. 45. 24. Exod. 32. 13. 3. Reg. 18. 36. 1. Paral. 29. 18. 3 Reg. 11. 12. 32. 34. 15. 4. and 4. Reg. 8. 19. 19. 34. 20. 6. and Isa 37. 35. Looke vpon the Comentaries which are called Chrisostomes hom 2. psalm 50. Christ admonisheth vs to make friends of the Mammon of iniquitie Luc. 16. 9. That when you shall fasle they may receiue you into the eternall tabernacles and by vertue of this place S. Augustine de cuutate dei lib. 21. ca. 27. doth attribute much vnto the intercession of Saints 15 This intercession of Saints the Fathers acknowledge admit and confirme and of Angels the Ladder of Iacob is knowne Gen. 28. 12. other mysteries of Angels are knowne Heb. 1. 14. See Origen against Celsus lib. 8. of the Angels attending on vs and Augustine cpist 122. and of the Angell-keeper the Scriptures speake very plainly Gen. 48. 16. Exod. 23. 20. Psal 33. 8. Math. 18. 10. Act. 12. 15. and the Fathers most manifestly Greg. Wissen de vita Moysis Basil vpon the psal 33. Hierom in Math. ca. 18. c. And if euery one haue by him the Angel of our Lord why should he not call vpon him for helpe I my selfe heard in England with great pleasure one of my Chanons of Windsor preaching before the King and expressely affirming that there was no cause why euery faithfull man should not turne himselfe vnto his Angel-keeper and say O holy Angel-keeper pray for me Of the intercession and Ministeries of Angels for our benefit you may also see other Fathers as Anthony the father of Monckes epist 2. ad Arsenoitas Anastatius of Synay in Herem lib. 5. Antiorhus the Abbot hom 61. Chrysostome de incomprehons des Nat. hom 3. and hom in Martyres agiptios Hierom epist 1. Cirill Alex. apud Anastasium Nicenum quest 91. Theodoret in the same place Damoscen lib. 1. Paralel ca. 7. c. 16 But of the intercession of the other Saints we haue the common consent of the Fathers See Cyprian lib. de mortalitate Hierom against Vigilantius Aug. de baptismo lib. 5. ca. 17. lib. 7. ca. 1. and de verbis Apostoli Serm. 47. and Serm. 46. of the Saints and lib. 9. of his confessions cap. 3. lib. de cura pro mortuis cap. 16. and against Fanstus lib 20. ca. 21. and in his Meditations cap. 20-Leo the great Serm. of St. Laurence Gandentius Brix serm 17. Greg. the great lib. 7. indict 2. epist 53. Bernard vpon Cant. Cantic serm 77. I omit innumerable others that be later Seeing the Scriptures the Fathers and the vniuersall consent of the Church doe certainly affirme that the Angels and soules of holy men deceased doe pray for the liuing and in particular why then should not euery faithfull man be incouraged to pray vnto them whom he knoweth for certaine to pray for vs in heauen 17 Wherefore it is most certaine that this inuocation of Angels and Saints desiting them to pray for vs and to ioyne prayer with vs as St. Chrysost speaketh Serm. in Sanctum Meletium cannot be denyed And we haue very notable examples for vs to pray vnto the blessed Virgin the Mother of God that she would make intercession for vs vnto her Sonne Ireneum lib. 5. 19. Athan. in Euang. de Deipara Nazaanzen orat in Cyprian Basil Selenciae Orat. 1. de verbo incarnat Aug. serm 1. de Anunciat Cosmam Hierosolymi Sophronium item Hyerofalymi orat 6. de Angelom excellencia 18 And likewise the most ancient practise of the Church doth confirme the imsocation of other Saints besides the blessed Virgine so that the inuocation of Saints may be derined from an Apostolicall Tradition for the inuocation of Saints was alwayes in vse and neuer reprehended of any one who was not accounted an hereticke It would be too long here to rehearse the Fathers who prayed vnto Saints or them that affirme they are to be prayed vnto I haue performed it at large in another place and this perpetuall custome of calling vpon the Saints to pray for vs and to helpe vs with their prayers was neuer reprehended but rather the contrary errour was condemned by St. Hierome against Vigilantius which condemnation the whole Church approued Therefore by the iudgement of all the holy Church our new Vigilantians are to be condemned whose rashnesse is very great whilest they imagine a crime of Idolatry in our inuocatiō of Saints Neither haue these Vigilantians any sollid argument or obiection to make against this inuocation All their obiections I haue answered fully in another place as also I thinke that I haue sufficiently defended the veneration of holy Reliques in another place which Reliques God hath confirmed to be gratefull vnto him by manifest myracles 19 But our aduersaries doe constantly affirme that in the worship of holy Images we commit Idolatry and for this cause they pretend that their departure from vs is iust but this their pretext is most vaine neither can they by this free themselues from the foule brand of filthy Schisme for if we reuerence holy Images with any proper honour besides the honour and worship which is due to the first patterne that is not the honour and worship of Latria nor that true adoration which is due to God alone Therefore when wee most clearely professe that godly honour and the worship of Latria is due neither to Saints nor to their Reliques or Images why doe they obiect vnto vs Idolatry the vse of Images doth belong vnto Ecclesiasticall ceremonies but as much as concerneth these things the safe certaine and infallible rule to know whither they be lawfull or no is the practise and vse of the primitiue Church so that all those rites be lawfull and good which either the Apostles themselues or Apostolicall men haue instiuted or else haue allowed with silence or expresse leaue But it is most certaine that the Christian Church yea the most auncient and vniuersall with a full consent without any opposition or any contradiction hath worshipped and reuerenced pictures and holy Images Iohn Damascenus hath collected great store of testimonies in the three Orations which he wrote for Images and so did the Fathers of the seauenth generall Synod and after-them many learned Catholicks of later times Therefore what vpstart Nouice dare condemne that which the most holy and learned Fathers haue commended taught and practised that which the Catholick Church it selfe taught by the Apostles and hath kept in all times that which God himselfe hath also diuers times confirmed with myracles Are not they then according to the saying of St. Augustine most insolent and mad who doe not Epist 118. retaine and keepe deuoutly but cast away and reiect the vse of Images together with their due honor when neither the worship of Latria which is due to God nor of Dulia which is due vnto the