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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

haue sought to diminish it for at last that losse must needs before God be glorious to me also Wherefore I doe first confesse and truly and sincerely out of my owne conscience doe giue testimony that I did not write the intent of my departing from the Romane Church and the Rockes and the Sermon out of sincerity of heart or out of a good conscience or faith not fained but that I might couer with some excuse my shamefull departure and be more gratefull and acceptable to hereticks to whom wretch that I was I ranne in hast and with whom I familiarly conuersed The ten yeares labour which in the booke of the intent of my departing I boasted of were not spent in mature deliberations graue and aduised Counsels or other discreete discussions of the truth but contrariwise mispent in vaine vnprofitable and malicious purposes and preparations how I might boldly vent and put in practise my hereticall lyes and inuentions thereby to satisfie my malitious anger insomuch as my vocation to doe it was not a Diuine vocation but a deuillish suggestion stirred vp in me not by the holy Ghost but by a wicked spirit a spirit of giddines worse then was that of Saules And I do not doubt to attribute my returne back againe to a true Diuine vocation the holy Ghost calling me to returne vnto my Mother the Catholicke Romane Church 4 I said that the manners of the Court of Rome did cause mee alwayes to abhorre it This I acknowledge to haue bin wickedly spoken for neither then nor yet is wanting in Rome very many notable examples of piety and all Christian vertues which may both delight and incite religious mindes to further deuotion I said that by forbidding the reading of bookes written against the Doctrine of Rome there arise some euill suspitions which gaue credit to the writing of hereticks and made men beleeue that there is some thing in them secretly which Catholicks are not able to answere This I confesse to haue beene iniuriously spoken of me against the Catholicke faith who found in the bookes of hereticks false hereticall scandalous and pestiferous Doctrine from the reading whereof the faithfull are to be kept least it infect their soules Neither is it a thing befitting priuate men to read such bookes but the iudgement in matters of such alwayes did and now doth belong vnto the Shepheards who finding venomous Pastures should remoue their sheepe as farre from them as they can Moreouer the arguments of hereticks are deceitfull Sophisticall and easie to be answered I said that the Doctrine of those who opposed themselues against the Romane Church did either nothing or little differ from the Doctrine of the auncient Church and this is false for the opinions wherein they differ from Catholicks are wholly differing from the Doctrine of the auncient Church and nothing can more connince them then the authority of the auncient Church from which they by their nouelties haue so farre departed that worthily for this respect they are condemned for hereticks by the Church of Rome It is therefore detestable and I detest that which I said that their Doctrines were therefore condemned onely by the Church of Rome because these things they said were repugnant vnto the sensuality and corrupt manners of the Court of Rome I said also that at Rome they coyned new articles of faith by maine force And this I said truly against my conscience for I neuer obserued it at any time and I certainely know that it cannot be obserued by any man For the declarations and explications made by holy Church touching articles and mysteries of faith collected out of Diuine Scriptures and traditions of the Fathers and out of the very rules of faith cannot any wayes be termed new coyning of articles Moreouer I endeauoured to take away the title of Catholicke and vntuersall from the Church of Rome in which I erred very much for by the Catholicke Romane Church is vnderstood not onely that speciall and perticular Church which is at Rome but also the whole multitude and company of all the Churches adhearing vnto the Church of Rome in the vnity of faith and in obedience to the Pope in what place soeuer they be yea in the vtmost confines of the earth And it is most true and was approued by me both by word of mouth as England it selfe may witnesse and by writing in my Treatises of the Ecclesiasticall Common-wealth in that part which I heare is lately set forth in Germany that no Church is Catholicke but the Romane and such as are vnited vnto her For all other congregations of Christians being stayned with heresies and deuided and seperated by Schisme from the Romane Church are and be excluded from the Catholicke vniuersall and true Church of Christ and being as it were blinded together with their blinde Guides doe rush and runne headlong into the bottomlesse pit of perdition which I wickedly affirmed of the Romanes to their great wrong For from the Church of Rome at all times a most glorious light of pure and incorrupted faith came forth and doth at this present lighten all other Churches of Christ whatsoeuer But I remember that in the preface of the bookes of the Christian Common-wealth among other things I vsed some words in which I seeme to put and place in the Catholicke Church all them who haue receiued Baptisme in the name of the Blessed Trinity and in so saying althought the words sound euill and make the hereticall Churches true and sound members of the true Catholicke Church which is most false and hereticall yet my meaning was vtterly to exclude the Arrian Nestorian and Eutichian heresies and all hereticall Churches condemned in former times and to retaine them onely that were Orthodoxall But herein I was deceiued in that I esteemed that there were many more Orthodoxall Churches then are for I erroniously beleeued that many Churches which are infected with the heresies of these later Times and deuided by Schisme did appertaine vnto the Catholicke Church which although it be called Catholicke for that it is vniuersall yet vniuersality doth not comprehend any but those that be Orthodoxall and true beleeuing and dilated ouer all the world and continuing in the Catholicke vnity with the Romane For the vniuersality of the Romane Church consisteth not onely in the perpetuall and neuer interrupted or to be interrupted continuance and firmenesse of faith but is also vniuersall because her Identicall or selfe same faith and soueraigne gouernement hath beene dilated and spread ouer all places and into Nations after the comming of Christ for which respect euen in these later times and ages it is to be called Catholicke no lesse then it was in the times of the auncient Fathers seeing that the faith of the Romane Church is dilated in these our times into the farthest and most vast or remote Regions of the East and West and euen to the vttermost confines of the earth So that her children trauelling too and fro from

foundation they haue forsaken the foundation it selfe and the gold and siluer and pretious stones which they vainely brag of and vaunt to be theirs are more base then the filth and mire in the streets vnlesse they be built vpon the true foundation which is Christ There is one foundation not two foundations one Church not two one Christ not two If Christ be our foundation which they cannot deny then he is not theirs They haue made another Church deuided and seperated from ours and that cannot be the Church for that the Church is one and not two He that will be a member of that Church must needs be without the true Church of Christ 26 I confesse that the English Protestants deceiued me before that I had exactly considered the nature of a schisme for when I obiected schisme vnto them some answered that it was not their fault that they did not communicate with the Church of Rome they were ready to be in vnion but the Pope would not receiue them into his communion but reiected them with an anathema This excuse seemed to me for a time to be iust and reasonable but after I begun out of this ground in my priuate arguments and publike Sermons to vrge an vnion which vpon their words seemed to me somewhat easily to be concluded and so thrust my finger further into the wound then I perceiued that in England they did not vse the English confession or authorised articles for a rule of their faith which as they affirmed were very modest But the Confession of Caluin and many grosse errours of Luther And this I perceiued more euidently when I looked into the counterfeit Sinod of the Protestants at Dort in which the puritanicall articles of Caluine by consent of the English Agents were confirmed with the good liking of the English sect And if the English confession which is deuided into certaine articles doth not include in them those puritanicall articles of Dort why did they giue their consent and voyces vnto the Caluinian excesses in the name of the English sect Moreouer how can they which professe themselues mortall Enemyes to the Church of Rome be thought to desire an vnion with the Church of Rome and that the defect of agreement is not on their parts How can they cast the causes of schisme vpon the curses of Rome and Councell of Trident when before the said curses they had deuided themselues by schisme from the Catholicke Church and by such a schisme as in some respect was farre worse and more foule then was the schisme which was first raised by Luther and increased by Caluine For that England at the beginning abstained from the opinions of Luther and Caluine neither did they charge the Church of Rome either with heresie or Idolatry which the Lutherans and Caluinists made the pretext of their schisme and yet neuerthelesse without any apparent cause long after they yealded vnto the common schisme of these hereticks And now at this time the Englishmen for the most part doe not onely commend and defend the deuision and seperation made but striue by all force to maintaine it for they flye backe from vnion cast away charity and doe all they can to hinder peace and brotherly Loue in such sort as that many of them say they will sooner and more willingly enter into allyance or league with the Turks then with the Papists Call you this a minde ready to agree or to make an attonement is it likely to be true that the fault is not theirs why they doe not communicate with the Romane Church No it cannot possibly be that the vnion whereof I had some hope should take effect except they doe first detest all heresies and heretickes and beleeue aright with the Catholicke Roman Church and be conioyned vnto it in perfect Charitie 27 Henry the 8. made little difference but with the Pope onely whose primacie he denied with an hereticall spirit and moued with some distempered humours violently tooke vnto himselfe onely the Ecclesiasticall supremacie and carried himselfe more modegatly in other things which belonged vnto the faith and diuine seruice and ceremonies of the Catholicke Religion Vnder Edward his sonne a childe and much more vnder Elizabeth they departed not onely from the Pope the Vicar of Christ and supreame Pastor of the whole Christian slocke but also the diuine seruice and worship of God was taken away from the Catholicks by maine force and iniury and forbidden by the publique secular lawes What was there any lawfull Synode first called were the obiections against the Catholicks examined and discussed were their answers heard were they conuicted of any errour or impiety in Religion was the iudgement giuen by any competent Iudge No such matter Doth not the same violence the same iniury the same impietie continue for what labour and paines doe they who haue the chiefe charge of their Religion in England such as it is daily take least that the diuine anncient pious and prescript seruice should be restored vnto Catholicks And are not they then in the fault that the Schisme is not taken away They vrge Reformation yet Reformation although it be iust and necessary if it be done with Schisme is a most foule hatefull deformation That is reformed which continuch the same in substance Therefore the Catholicke Religion and her substantiall exercises ought to haue remained in England and if any thing therein had been to be reformed it should haue beene put vnder a lawfull reformation seruatis seru●●ndes without taking away necessaries And they should not haue brought in another Religion and suppressed the former or thrust it into a corner thereby to make two contrary and repugnant Religions so as the first is not reformed but as much as in them lyeth lestroyed and a new forged Moreouer there cannot be two Religions of Christ but one onely which is ours as I haue shewed because there is but one Church one foundation and one Christ 28. Therefore when amongst other euils I saw my selfe enuironed on euery side with an inuetterate Schisme and that there was no hope of vnion an Altar being erected against an Altar and disioyned from the charity of the Church I neither ought nor could stay with them any longer with a safe conscience Wherefore the remorse of conscience compelled me to returne vnto the Catholicke Church My Agar hearing the voyce of the Angell reprouing her and saying Returne vnto thy Mistris and humble thy selfe vnder Gen. 16. 9 her hand was forced of necessity to returne vnto the most holy Church her Mistris Moreouer my slight could bring me nothing but shame and destruction God commaunded me to be humble vnder the hand of my Mistris and in this thing especially it behooued me to follow God I wish to God that they vnto whom I foolishly fled would acknowledge their most miserable spirituall estate not onely for their heresies but also for their lamentable Schisme from which as I haue shewed them they cannot be