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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20595	A declaration of the reasons which moued Marcus Antonius de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato or Salonas, primate of Dalmatia and Croatia, to depart from the Romish religion and his countrey. Written by himselfe in Latine, and now for the populare vse translated; Marcus Antonius de Dominis, Archiepiscopus Spalatensis, suae profectionis consilium exponit. English	De Dominis, Marco Antonio, 1560-1624.; W. S., fl. 1617.	1617 (1617)	STC 6999; ESTC S116248	16,073	35

perpetuall assistance which PAVL calleth the Pillar and ground of Veritie But now our Romanistes haue drawne this article of Faith in lesser bounds That the Catholicke Church now is to be taken for none other than the Court of Rome it is propounded to be beleeued by a firme Faith that in it only yea in the Pope alone the whole Spirit of CHRIST maketh residence and whatsoeuer of old time hath bene said for the honour of the vniuersall Church of CHRIST with great injury to the Church is wholly applyed to the Court of Rome many things are reduced to the articles of Faith wherof we neuer had any institution of CHRIST wherby the soules of the Faithfull are miserably deceiued and so the Blinde with their blind leaders rush headlongs in the gulfe of perdition These things among many other haue grieued me exceedingly doe yet stir vp in my spirit an incredible dolour But I wil cease now particularly to recount the innumerable nouelties of the Court of Rome and these moste pernicious erroures whereby a Boucherie of soules is wrought the vigour of Church Discipline is broken the propagation and purging of Religion is hindered and innumerable offences are brought in the Church the ciuill peace of Christians is troubled bloody warres stirred vp amongst them kingdoms are ouerthrown horrible schismes are made in the Churches and most grieuous calameties do arise which all I haue exactly obserued I will cease now I say to recount them because I haue fully treated of all these matters in my large worke Of the Ecclesiasticke Republicke which I haue in readinesse and shall giue to bee Printed in Germanie as first commodioufly occurreth to mee in this my journey all that worke Of the Ecclesiasticke Republicke I comprehende in ten Bookes In the first whereof I search out the forme of this Republicke and doe determine that the Church vnder CHRIST appertaineth to a most perfect Monarchie and that not the lesse the Ministers of CHRIST on earth by CHRISTS own institution are most farre from an earthly Monarchie do gouerne the Church with an Aristocratie or choise gouernment not without some mixture of a democratie or popular gouernment and consequently I shew that the Primacie of Peter is contrary to the Euangel institution of Christ In the second booke I consider the gouerners Ministers of the Ecclesiasticke Republick who they are what succession can be giuen to the holy Apostles what is the institution of Bishops wherein they differ from Presbyters who are the inferiour Ministers and what force holie Order haue in this Republicke In the thirde I doe expound what is the Hierarchie to bee found among the Bishops and Gouernoures of this Republick and I do teach that there is no praeheminence nor subjection among Bishops by diuine right but that degrees of places among them are distinguished by the constitutions of the Church only And consequently I doe treat of the Election Confirmation Consecration or Ordination of Bishops and of the power of Metropolitanes Primates and Patriarches In the fourth I examine the Priuiledges of the Church of ROME and doe proue that neither in her selfe nor in her Bishop nor Clergie shee hath anie praeheminence giuen her of CHRIST aboue other Churches but if anie shee hath had or nowe hath shee hath taken it from the helpes and furtherances of men In the fifth I doe vndertake to search out the proper power of the CHVRCH and doe prooue that it is meerelie Spirituall and so I remooue farre from the CHVRCH all Earthlie IVRISDICTION And then consequently I dispute of the force and operation of Sacramentes and of Ecclesiasticall Censures In the sixth I compare the power of the Laitie and of the Church that the difference betwixt the Ecclesiasticke and Temporall Republicke may appeare and I doe shewe that Christian temporall Princes may doe many thinges in the Church but the Church in temporall thinges and especially towards Kings may doe nothing at all I treat also of the temporall Kingdome of CHRIST of the power of the Laitie whence it is and of how large extent of the Immunities of the Church and Church-men of Inuestitures of the Monarchie of SICILL and such like In the seuenth I consider the inward direction of the Ecclesiasticke Republicke which is by faith and I inquire for the true rule of faith and so I dispute of the Word of GOD of the authoritie of the Church and of the Pope ouer it of Councels of Haeresie of Schisme and such like In the eight I consider the externall gouernement of the Church by Lawes Canons and Iudicatories Thereafter I discusse howe farre Canons doe oblish of dispensations of commandes enjoyning fasting prayer and such like In the ninth I come to the temporall goods of the Church and I expound at length how sparing the sustentation of the Ministers should bee whence it should bee taken and howe Church goods should be guided I treat also of Tithes of Benefices of dominion ouer Church-goods of the vse and abuse of Church-rents of Pensions of Commendas and Testaments of the Clergie In the tenth and last I vndertake to expound the libertie of the Church that wee may see what way this Republicke is free And consequently I treat of Priuiledges and persons priuiledged of the abuse of priuiledges of exemptions and persons exempted of the subjection of Moncks and such like This was the fruit of my painfull studies for while vpon the occasions before named I did griedily reade holy Scripture the Orthodox Fathers the holy Canons and Volumes of Councels mine eyes being opened and I inflamed with a zeale to explaine the trueth to others and to my selfe I could not but write those thinges I obserued and this my much writing hath begotten this worke the summe whereof I haue rehearsed I saw therefore plainly and did perceiue that in our Churches wee had gone farre astray from the right path both in Doctrine and Discipline What then should I doe more in the mids of a wicked froward nation If as reason craueth I would haue gouerned mine owne Church according to the ancient discipline of the Catholick Church and propone true and Catholick doctrine I should by that meanes hasten vpon mine head great stormes horrible tempests frō Rome for euē already at Rome great hatred was hatched fostered against mee because they had vnder-smelled my labours in writing against their opinions for which I was often admonished rebuked by the Popes Nuncio lying at Venice it was therfore much better to take the wings of a doue to withdraw my selfe fly away to the wildernes where I might wait vpon him who will deliuer me from the weaknes of spirit from the tempest rather than remaining among the blind willingly blinding my selfe I should leade the blind to perdition What are the Bishops vnder the Romane Popedome In temporall things indeed where the benefices are fat they shine in wordly dignitie they are

in much patience in tribulation in necessities in straites in laboures through glorie and shame through infamie and good fame for I seeke not my selfe nor mine owne but those things which are IESVS CHRISTS That rather doeth grieue me if I doe not obviate calumnies it may easily come to passe that in the mindes of the Godly a great fruite of aedification shall bee stayed which they might take of my counsell and that many ignorant of the reasons of my departing in place of aedification shall vnwittingly offende at me by vnjust calumnies which they will heare To these I will open the reasons of my departing and make them manifest to all men that I may profite them That this my change of place is of GOD and not of man neither may I neither ought I to call in question I knowe wee should not easily trust euery Spirit but should trye them if they bee of GOD as we are well admonished by IOHN the beloued Disciple of CHRIST Therefore in these tryalls beside the often accesse to the Father of Lightes which I learued of CHRIST in these ten yeeres before named it is most certaine as GOD and my Conscience beareth me recorde that no mans perswasion of whatsoeuer sort came to my eares in this purpose I had none to stirre me vp none to perswade me I had vse of no mans counsell nor did cōmunicat it to any creature Neither yet let any suspect that I did drawe my reasons on t of the Bookes of Protestants which are contrary to the doctrine of ROME for GOD is my witnesse I did vehemently abhorre those Bookes discharged by ROMANE Inquisition which indeed if any Praelate addicted to the Court of ROME did detest I did it out of measure beeing possessed from my childhood with foolish feares and since now I am not a childe but neare vnto threescore yeeres of age let any who listeth assay whereinto he can perswade me without weightie reasons I did euer sway the inclinations thoughts of my heart after the rules which the Holie Spirit in Sacred Scripture did praescribe to the whole Church by whose direction the holie and reuerende Fathers euer much esteemed by the Catholicke Church did instruct the Faithfull which holie Fathers also beside the inward motions of the Holie Spirit were the onlie and chiefe authors of this my purpose Why then should I suspect this worke to bee of an euill spirit From which suspicion that also maketh me free that before GOD who tryeth the heart and reynes I know that in my deliberation I did neuer direct my minde to humane or worldlie respectes not vnto Ecclesiasticall dignities which might beseeme mine estate for I was alreadie a Bishop and that not of the basest sort but the chiefest in my natiue Prouince to wit The Archbishop of Spalato the Primate of two Kingdomes Dalmatia and Croatia of as great aestimation in our Churches Prouinces I am not ashamed to confesse the trueth as anie other And if the dignities of Rome had beene pleasant to me I had euer an easie accesse to them But the manners of the Court of Rome which I euer disliked made me euer to abhorre it Yet not the lesse in great and publicke affaires the Sea of Rome did vse my labours to the Emperour and Archdukes as is manifest by the Popes Brieues and the Letters of the Emperour and Archdukes which I yet keepe My well-deseruing also at the hand of the State of Venice my natiue Soueraigne did procure vnto me their great fauour whereby I might both hope for and expect the benefite of a better fortune if the desire of greater Grandour had possessed me I looked not to worldlie commodities which I had in that aboundance as might more than suffice a moderate spirit such as I euer had which I doe ascribe to the grace of GOD. In this change of my place I doe gladlie embrace the losse of all my dignities and riches because as I haue said I seeke not mine but the thinges of IESVS CHRIST Therefore neither the counsels of men nor the vndaunted affection nor worldlie necessitie nor euent neither anie miserable accident which vseth to ranuerse men and their estate moued mee to depart but whence it was I will ingeniously declare without faining or dissimulation For the most part from my childhood I was brought vp among the Iesuits in holy study according to the common doctrine of the Schoole-men and the receiued opinions of the Church of Rome for which opinions proper to Rome imprinted and fixed in my mind more by authoritie than by reason with the miserable captiuing of my vnderstanding I was for a long space most resolued to die for I counted it execrable about these opinions to admit the smallest doubt or ambiguitie of mind or thought let be of speaches and being bound vp in this cōmon reuerence of them if at any time any thought had crept in against them or my studies had suggested any doubt I resolued to vse violence against mine owne reason as the custome is in matters of Faith and to turne my minde and thoughts another way rather than I should admit the least doubt against these articles of Faith which I tooke for certaine and were set out to vs by our teachers to bee moste certaine I confesse I did feele continually some sparks of the inward Spirit which neuerthelesse I resisted yet I could neuer freely acquiesc neither free my selfe of a great suspicion which held me in perplexitie after I had made some progresse in the studies of Diuinitie Which suspicion was greatly augmented in mee by so exact so rigorous and intestine businesse of Rome whereby I perceiued they did moste narrowly take heede that no booke written against our doctrine should bee helde or read by any of vs for I supposed that these bookes were justly discharged the common sort lest the people who are destitute of judgement and discretion shold be exposed by reading of them to the danger of drinking in of Haeresie But in that they were altogether discharged Students and men of great learning and well affected to the Catholicke Religion I did euer judge as reason will teach euery man that matter was greatly to bee suspected especially seeing the Court of Rome suffered vs not to haue any vse of these bookes euen after wee had compleet our course in the studie of Diuinitie and taken degrees therein yea and after our promotion to Bisshoprickes This suspicion did yet more increase where I sawe our Masters and Professors in their publicke handling of the controuersies by word or writ claime this authoritie to themselues to bee trusted in all that they sayde that those wordes and sentences which they did repeate were the wordes and sentences of the aduersaries and in the meane time the hearers were discharged vnder the fearefull paine of Excommunication to reade the vvritinges of the Aduersaries In ryding suppressing and destroying vvhereof they make so great businesse as justlie it is to bee