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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

THE SECOND MANIFESTO OF MARCVS ANTONIVS DE DOMINIS Archbishop of Spalatto 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. LVKE 22. 26. Egressus foras fleuit amare LIEGE By Guilliaume Houius with permission of Superiours 1623. Marcus Antonius de Dominis Archbishop of Spalatto declareth the cause why he left England MOst excellently as he doth all other things hath the holy Ghost by the mouth of St. Paul numbred vp amongst the works of the flesh contentions emulations anger quarrels discentions and Gal. 5. 20. sects for I haue had too much triall in my selfe of the vnhappy fruit of this vnluckie tree And now hauing receiued a potion of Diuine grace for my recouery must vomit out that filthinesse which before through the sicknesse of my minde and corruption of my taste I had greedily deuoured which that I might the more safely and speedily performe and correct my selfe in publicke before all the world and condemne to the pit of hell my infinite errours sprung from the wicked intention of my first going into England I haue taken that good counsell first to leaue the Schoole of errours lyes and heresies and then of mine owne free will to returne to the holy Romane Church the one and onely piller and excellent ground of Catholicke truth and the Mother of all Catholickes from whom I had most wickedly departed First therefore I will prosecute this my correction condemnation and detestation of my errours and afterwards I will declare the other causes why I left England and all other hereticall Countries whatsoeuer and returned to the holy Catholick Romane Church 2 It is the most auncient disease of our corrupt humane nature descended from our first Father vnto all his posterity that when we fall into any errour or slide into any vice we doe either finde out filthy excuses as the woman which thou gauest me to be my fellow Deu 3. 2. companion gaue me of the tree and I did eate or else we defend our faults and endeuour to couer them with a counterfait cloake of Iustice and honesty and I confesse that this was my case for which I am very sorrie The disease of my minde in which before my departure from the Romane Church I languished was that contrary to the wholesome counsell of the wise man I trusted too much to mine owne prudence and Pro. 3. 5. out of the confidence of my owne wit being no body I would giue very rash iudgement in matters of faith vnto which also was ioyned a certaine frenzie of anger Not that which some weake Schollers at my going out of England imputed vnto me because I was denied vaine pretended dignities but it proceeded altogether out of mine owne vnreasonable impatience by taking in euill part to be made subiect to others of whom I did vndeseruedly complaine in my booke of the cause of my departing These things draue me vpon the quicke sands and shallowes these cast me vpon the Rockes these sharpened my wit to inuent pestiferous cogitations these made me vainely to pittie the errours of the Romane Church thereby to excuse my departure from it these made me to transcend all limits And that I might seeme to haue done well in leauing the Church of Rome and auoide by some meanes the brand of impudencie rashnesse and heresie in defence of my departure I set forth first an exposition of mine intent and afterwards certaine volumes and little bookes into which I thrust what the Art of counterfaiting and dissimulation had inuented and aduice of the flesh suggested And so as long as the inward disease increased and the spurres of anger pricked my exulcerated minde the itching of my tongue and pen brake forth into madnesse and now my vnderstanding being darkened many things which the Enemies of the Apostolicall sea transported with heresie did beleeue affirme and professe seemed vnto me credible and some-things also true as long as I did not try the Doctrine in controuersie by the touchstone of true Diuinity nor perfectly discusse them for at that time I had neither finished nor yet begun some of the parts of the Ecclesiasticall Common-wealth in which I had purposed to treat of the decrees and rules of faith howsoeuer in the booke of my intent of leauing the Romane Church I affirmed that I had them all ready for the Presse and being thus blinded and relying rashly more vpon the false accusations of the heretickes then vpon the truth of the Catholick faith I wrote the little bookes of the intent of my depaerture from the Romane Church and the Rockes of Christian shipwracke and a certaine Sermon stuffed with errours and heresie and out of my then conceiued hatred which for the most part I bare to the holy Romane Church the Apostolicall sea and the Pope I affirmed these things and many more to be true which before I writ them I knew to be false and hereticall and afterwards in some part corrected them and with my whole heart detested them euen when I writ them and now also I abhorre and detest these little bookes because they containe manifest heresies against Catholicke truthes and are repugnant to sound Doctrine that is to say to the Doctrine which the holy Catholicke Romane Church doth and hath alwayes maintained against which Doctrine whatsoeuer I haue spoken or written that I doe wholy condemne and detest and by the grace of God I will more amply and largely condemne and detest it in the confutation of my bookes of the Ecclesiasticall Common-wealth and of the other bookes which I haue written for I doe wholly submit my selfe and all my bookes to the most holy iudgement and censure of the holy Romane and Apostolicke sea the chiefe of all Churches whatsoeuer 3 In the meane space it is necessary in this my second and truly sound determination to detest that intention of my vnhappy departing from the Romane Church and the infamous Rockes shipwracks chiefly to my selfe and heretiques and not of Catholicks and also that Sermon Neither will I be ashamed by pulling off my garments which I had forged to my selfe to lay open my nakednesse because I haue not beene ashamed against all right and honesty to breake forth into vaine lyes manifest slaunders and silthy heresies The stinging and venome of the Scorpion is cured by the bruising of the same Scorpion which pricked and if the voluntary contrition and bruising of my selfe Diascor lib. cap. 44. may heale the venomous wounds of others if any be wounded by me I will esteeme this my bruising humiliation and mortification most happy Let the glory of the Catholicke Church and of the Apostolicall sea remaine vnmoueable although it be with the losse of whatsoeuer I haue in this life seeing I

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