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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

A DECLARATION OF THE REASONS WHICH MOVED MARCVS ANTONIVS 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 EDINBVRGH PRINTED BY ANDRO HART 1617. TEMPUS THE TRANSLATER imparteth his obseruation to the READER RECEIVE CHRISTIAN READER a proofe of the force of Trueth and a praesage of the ende of that worke God is about to doe in these last Ages A man brought vp in the Learning of Aegypt and inchaunted with the Sorceries of Babel without the helpe or counsell of any Protestant by occasion of Popish tyrannie searching the trueth findeth out their errour in Doctrine and abuses in Discipline and conuinced of both first in his minde forsaketh their opinions and now in his body fleeth from their society This is not like to the change of Apollinaris and Arrius of olde or of Carier in our time whose miscontented humour for hopes disappointed made them alter their opinion But more like to that of Paulus Vergerius Bisshop of Iustinople whom vnjust suspitions at the first burdened with a secret fauour of Lutheranisme for purging whereof he intended a refutation of Luthers doctrine But while he wrangled with the Trueth to ouer-come it hee was taken captiue of it and leauing his Place and Dignities rendered himselfe at Tubing to our Profession The ground of our praesage is GODS Trueth in Times accomplishment wherein Prouidence goes on with remarkeable degrees of persons and places not without some respect to the periods of time Hee raysed Wickleff from their Schooles Iohn Husse from their Pulpits Martin Luther from their Cloysters and nowe Marke Antonie from their Arch-episcopall Chaire The places haue the like gradation Great Britaine seemeth too faire from Rome to waken them by Wickleffs crye Therefore it sounded nearer in Germanie And nowe Dalmatia looking ouer the Venetian Gulffe assureth Italie that her next Aduertiser shall bee within her bowels Jt was more than a Poeticall licence to applye Sybillas Oracles of CHRIST to Saloninus the sonne of Pollio for keeping in memorie his victorie in taking in Salonas But this our Saloninus maketh large restitution and applyeth the Oracles of GOD to the owne purpose As the Clergie hath gone before so Princes doe follow The King of Great Britaine with most of the Princes of Germanie stand out alreadie against Rome The ambiguitie of France will resolue in ende in an open departure And the temporizing of Venice importeth more the want of occasion than of will and resolution The Romane Empire did stretch out it selfe by degrees proceeding from the middes to the extremities as circles goe out from the Center And at the extremities againe their ruine began and went backe to the heart The fall of their Spirituall Monarchie shall keepe the same course The periods of time haue their owne obseruation The Iewish solemnitie of Iubilee not brought in the Church till the thirteenth Age was then tyed to the Centenarie number and that their joye hath since proued to be like the song of the Marmaide before a storme for soone after Wickleff beganne to trouble their mirth and in the ende of that Age Iohn Husse made them some more businesse till in the 1415. yeere the holy Fathers at Constance by a Punicke Faith brought him to the fire An hundreth yeeres after him Luther renewed his song with greater boldnesse and in the 1517 yeere gaue out his Propositions against the Pope from which time they haue perswaded themselues and cuen to this daye assure their followers that Luthers doctrine can stand no longer than an hundreth yeeres This present yeere closeth that period and while they looke for an euanishing of that Doctrine beholde euen from themselues it receiueth againe a newe light anewetestimonie We holde with Plato the fatalitie of Periods but Pythagoras numbers are too weake a grounde for such a necessitie Or if wee shall take anie numbers it must bee these of sinne and in sinne more the degrees than the numbers The Amorites sinnes must come to the height and the Iewes must fill their cuppe before their punishment The Pharisees of our time doe mightily to fill out their measure The pryde and filthinesse of Sodome the whordomes of Babell are now multiplyed exceedingly and the greatest sinne euen that to death is become an epidemicke disease among their Clergie Pope Iohn the 22. can denye the trueth Leo the tenth can scoffe at it Gardinerus can confesse it at his death but with this addition That it must rather still be impugned than the state of Rome decay All their wittes runne vpon this one poinct but all their meanes turne vpon them The cruelty of their Inquisition The tyranny of their Prohibitions Their impudency in falsifying wordes and writs giue them but a moments aduantage But euen from these shall come their rnine Alye hath no more strength than for the time it is spoken and credulously embraced but the eternall force of Trueth hath more than a momentanie preuailing What then resteth for them but that they giue place to the fatality of their estate since they will not giue place to the Trueth And for vs while Rome is renting in it selfe take heede that we be not diuided Whosoeuer now casteth in the apple of strife in the Reformed Church proueth an enemy to GOD and an improfitable friend to Antichrist Let vs stande still and beholde the worke of the LORD and bee sure while wee imagine wee haue left Babel that we haue first forsaken Aegypt W.S. MARCVS ANTONIVS DE DOMINIS Arch-Bishop of SPALATA expoundeth the purpose and reasons of his departing LEst this my departing suddaine and vnexpected of all others but to my selfe by a long and more than ten yeeres aduising resolued vpon and by exquisite deliberation brought to ripenesse should cause wondring among these of our Profession and should produce some badde effectes through my default in these who are ignorant of the proceeding I thought it necessarie by a timous praeoccupation to expound the reasons of this my not-hastie but well-aduised departing For surely I doe foresee there shall not be lacking many traducers who according to the custome will take occasion of this my departing to reuile and burden me with calumnies Which thing I confesse before GOD doeth not much trouble mee For with the Apostle PAVL I count little to be judged of men Let me bee a Foole for CHRISTS cause let me bee vyle buffetted rayled vpon persecuted blasphemed and counted the off-scouring of the worlde yea and accursed so that I may satisfie the LORD IESVS CHRIST and profite my brethren in the Ministerie of CHRIST I should contemne all these thinges For ont glorie is the testimonie of a good conscience that in simplicitie of heart and sinceritie of GOD and not in fleshly wisedome but by the grace of GOD I haue changed my place It is my parte indeed as the Minister of GOD to shewe my selfe