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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

the rising of the Sunne vnto the setting thereof professing the faith of Christ and offering cleane sacrifices doe especially at this time fulfill that which our Lord spake by the mouth of Malachie saying chap. 1. ver 11. From the rising of the Sunne vnto the goinng downe thereof great is my name amongst the Gentiles and in euery place it is sanctified and a pure oblation is offered vnto my name Neither was it a lesse iniury and slaunder when I said that I clearly saw innumerable nouelties errors in the Court of Rome which nouelties errors I doe neither see nor yet did euer see and I acknowledge and confesse that it was most false that at Rome there was then or now are any errours by which any destruction of soules may follow or the peace of the Church be disturbed or publique scandalls committed For in truth all the peace all the tranquility of the Catholique Church and the eternall saluation of Soules after God is to be attributed to the care and trauell of the Church of Rome I said that the mightier Bishops vnder the Pope were Bishops onely in name and this saying containeth in it both falshood and wrong and therefore I doe condemne it as euill spoken for they be true and lawfull Bishops made by lawfull ordination I said that the others who were not great men and Princes in temporall things had lost the proper dignity and power of Bishops and this truly is a slaunder for the Hierarchicall subordination was alwayes necessarie in the Church much more I condemne as an heresie those words where I said that vnder the Pope was no more a true Church for as I said and seriously affirmed before onely the Church of Rome with her adherents is the true Church of Christ and the others are not Churches And in fewe words to comprehend much I perceiued that in my former intention I chiefly indeauoured to weaken the supremacie of the Pope and in so doing I confesse that I haue spoken against the faith of the whole Catholique Church and haue erred greeuously For it is euident both by the very institution in the Gospell and by the Apostolicke tradition and the dcfinitions of holy Synods and generall Councels and very many decrees of the Pope and also the common testimony of the Fathers and Ecclesiasticall Histories that the Bishop of Rome was instituted chiefe head of the whole Church immediatly by Christ our Lord as a singular Oracle vnto whom both the East and West Churches in all doubts of Faith should haue recourse for instructions definitions and other sound doctrine in matters of Faith as vnto a Master giuen them from heauen who by his office should teach the Church And any one that is but meanly read may easily finde out very many examples where the Popes of Rome established remooued corrected taught condemned absolued deposed restored and reprehended according to ther office euen the Patriarchs and Prymats of the East And thus reprehended they humbly heard and simply obayed the Popes without resistance or repugnance And to be short it is manifest by the confession of the whole Church that all the spirit of Christ for so much as doth belong vnto the decision of matters of faith doth rest vpon one Supreame visible head of the Church which is onely the Pope and chiefe Bishop St. Peters successour 5 I doe ingenuously confesse that the booke which I called The Rockes of Christian shipwracke did much displease me presently after it was set forth for I wrote it in hast without either study or examining what I did The intent which I had in writing of it was onely to flatter allure the English by all meanes possible to conceiue a good opinion of me at my first comming and so I had no regard whither that I writ and printed were true or no But my desire was to say that which might please the Enemies of the Catholicke Church and especially the ignorant common people And when the doctrine contained in this little booke was by the King and some of the Nobility objected against me at my preparing to depart from England I did euen then in expresse words detest it and afterwards prepared my selfe with all my force to resist the greater part of the heresies which were in it All which heresies I doe now againe reject detest and abhorre and they are these That the Pope of Rome is not the Vicar of Christ vpon earth nor visible head of the whole visible Church of Christ That hee hath no power in temporall thinges That an implicit faith profiteth nothing but much hurteth the faithfull That the Excommunications of the Law are vaine threats That the precepts of the Church binde not vpon paine of mortall sinne That the vnity of the Church is not to be sought for from one onely visible head That the Pope is a deadly Enemy of vniuersall Church That the Masse is not a true sacrifice That the Ceremonies of the Masse are Apish toyes That there is no Transubstantiation That Auricular confession with absolution is not a true Sacrament That there is no Purgatory That Satisfaction after the fault forgiuen is not necessary for the remission of the punishment That there be no Indulgences but of things enjoyned for penance That Saints are not to be prayed vnto That the worship of Images and Reliques are not lawfull That there is no merrit of eternall life by workes These and the like errours and manifest heresies not so much mine or newly inuented by me as by the olde and new hereticks whose fancies and madnesse haue beene from time to time by the Church in generall Counsels condemned for they are miserable Rockes vnto which if any approach they are assured to suffer a lamentable shipwracke of faith and eternall saluation And therefore I departed from them as farre as I might and least I should be vtterly destroyed by them in England it was necessary for me to depart from thence and to returne to the Church of Rome the true port of Catholickes with the which Church I reject detest and accurse all the afore said errours and all others opinions whatsoeuer if there be any more in those bookes which doe not agree with the faith expressed in the Church of Rome and in the sacred Counsels especially in the Counsell of Trent and I doe constantly affirme and embrace the contrary verities viz. That the Pope is by the institution of Christ his Vicar vpon earth and the visible head of the whole militant Church which hath alwayes beene visible with full power receiued from God to rule and gouerne her That he hath also indirect power in temporall matters for the better aduancement of spiritual That an implicit faith is profitable and many times necessary viz. when the explicit faith of some articles is not required vnder penalty That the excommunications according to the Law or de facto pronounced are of force and ought to be feared as brought into the Church with great

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

from Apostolicall Tradition and succession from the most ancient Church which who so followeth cannot erre and he who contemneth and reiecteth such things is to be cast out as an haire-brained enemy of the Church Tertullian lib. de Baptismo setteth downe the vse of hallowed oyle August epist 119. numbereth also oyle amongst holy things The consecration of water for baptisme hath beene kept time out of minde in the Church for Cyprian lib. 1. epist vlt. maketh mention of the water and oyle of consecration and anoynting We haue in Optatus Miliuitanus That the holy Lib. 2. c●●e Par ent Temples if they were polluted by any meanes were wont to be hallowed againe with exorcismes and washing of the walls St. Basil deduceth from tradition Lib. de Spirita Sanct. ca. 27. the vsuall rite of annointing the baptized with oyle Antiquity teacheth that the signe of the crosse was wont to be vsed in the hallowings and consecrations of all things Iustin quest 118. Nazianzen Orat 1. against Iulian and in the Orat. at the Funerall of his Father Chrysost 55. in Matheum August tract 118. in Ioan. and serm 3. of the Annunciation and serm de tempore 181. cap. 3. Areopagita and others There are perhaps amongst vs some Rytes not so ancient in which we vse hallowed and consecrated things but seeing the Primatiue Church instructed by the Apostles feared no danger of secret Idolatry when she vsed consecrated oyle and the like why should we now feare who attribute no more vnto these consecrated things then the old Antiquity did vnto theirs Therefore to runne into schisme for these things is great impiety These rites are good seeing most of them are instituted by the Apostles and others sprung forth from the deuotion of Catholicke Churches and all are in no part contrary to faith but rather consonant vnto faith There was in old time diuersity of rytes and ceremonies in diuers Churches and yet they did not therefore depart from a mutuall Communion For as Sozominus saith They esteemed it to be friuolous and that worthily that they who agree together in the principall heads or points of Religion should be seperated one from another for the difference of a Ceremony Therefore the seperation of the English by which they haue deuided themselues from the true Catholicke Church and broken out into a manifest schisme is friuolous rash and impious And to communicate with them in diuine matters is to consent vnto their most wicked and pestiferous schisme 24 I will not here for feare of being too long dispute of the supposed new articles whereupon they ground their complaints and endeuour to excuse their schisme But will reserue this matter to be handled in another place Now I aske them this question Whither they thinke that those which they call new articles be contrary to faith or no if they should be contrary to faith then they should be heresies and should make vs heretickes worthily to be auoyded and to be seperated from the Communion of the catholicke Church But I haue proued already that there is no heresie in the Catholicke Roman Church and the Kings Maiestie of great Britaine and many learned men in that kingdome haue confessed that the Church of Rome doth not faile or erre in fundamentall points of faith and I haue already proued before that there is no true article which is not fundamentall and to be firmely beleeued therefore it maintaineth no articles which are contrary to the Catholicke faith and since they be not contrary to the true faith but containe the true faith they cannot minister a iust cause to begin a schisme But Protestants say the Church of Rome doth seperate and deuide vs from her because we respect those articles But I am sorry and lament that they had made a most foule and grosse schisme before any thing was spoken of concerning these articles which they call new Therefore it is great folly in them to alleage these new articles as a cloake for their schisme for the effect cannot goe before his cause I defend that they haue made a schisme without cause and by this I knew that they were manifest schismatickes and therefore haue departed from them And those same articles which Protestants affirme to be new may be euidently demonstrated out of Scriptures Traditions and Fathers to be true and the contrary articles which they set downe may be conuinced out of them to containe manifest heresies If the sence of the first Authors be retained for some milder Protestants now of late in matters of Controuersie as I haue heard doe vse fauourable explications not much dissonant from Catholicke doctrine by which they seeme to tend to a pious Reconciliation Who without a pernitious errour or rather plaine heresie can put all his saluation in faith only and exclude the necessitie of good workes and absolutely denie our merits and affirme that grace once had cannot be lost and that the iust cannot sinne They who hold with tooth and nayle that these and the like are articles of faith and that the contrary are heresies doe without question erre in matters of faith and declare themselues to be hereticks and by consequence are worthily numbred amongst hereticks by Catholicks in their definitions Therefore not any heresie of the Church of Rome or her manifest or secret Idolatry could giue an occasion vnto the Protestants schisme Neither can they obiect schisme vnto the Roman Church for she made not the schisme but they made it and she endured it for from her Luther and Caluin and the rest seperated themselues first and not she from them When they obstinatly reiected the Iudgement of the Church then they made a schisme Then they deuided the Coate of Christ then they errected one Altar against another then they forsooke the true Church 25 Besides the causes before rehearsed and examined they also pretended for their schisme a necessitie of Reformation in the Church But I could neuer yet see any reformation amongst them but to say the truth I obserued many deformations for the care of conscience is vtterly neglected and cast away amongst them some few accepted the rest haue no scruple of conscience to commit adultery violent extertion treacherie against their neighbours cosenage vsury as people who haue impiously abollished auricular confession fastings penance and such like holy exercises And suppose that they had found amongst vs any thing to be reprehended either in our manners or in our actions or in our gouernment that should not be imputed to the defects of the Church but vnto particular men whose actions are not allowed but reproued by Catholicks neither ought they to haue raised a filthy schisme for those smaller matters when the foundation of faith remained firme stable and vnshaden in the Church of Rome And suppose that we had builded vpon it Wood stubble or Hay as it is said in 1. Cor. 3. 12. Yet we should not be excluded from saluation But the Protestants haue left the