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A20606	The rockes of Christian shipwracke, discouered by the holy Church of Christ to her beloued children, that they may keepe aloofe from them. Written in Italian by the most reuerend father, Marc Ant. de Dominis, Archb. of Spalato, and thereout translated into English; Scogli del christiano naufragio, quali va scoprendo la santa chiesa di Christo. English	De Dominis, Marco Antonio, 1560-1624.	1618 (1618)	STC 7005; ESTC S117489	73,138	191

Mat. 28.20 1. Tim. 3.15 to whom the continuall assistance of the Spirit of my Spouse is promised and not to the Romane I that am the pillar and ground of truth yet dare not be so bold as to assure my children that this infolded faith sufficeth them namely to beleeue vnder generall termes whatsoeuer I beleeue How then shee now swarming with errours and falshood and being nothing but ambition and auarice how dares shee bee thus bold My beloued Saint Paul would not haue his Corinthians thinke 2. Cor. 1.24 that hee would beare dominion ouer their faith which hee did sweetly instill into them and not thrust it vpon them by command and domineering But Rome will haue euery man will hee nill hee by all meanes to beleeue and rest in whatsoeuer shee determineth and commandeth and to subscribe his beleefe to all that shee beleeueth and maintaineth or rather to whatsoeuer shee inuenteth and imagineth though indeed herselfe beleeue it not nor hold it for any point of faith but for a matter of state vpō this point of policy she taketh order that those inuentions which shee knoweth to bee no matters of faith but onely to serue her ambition and couetousnesse must be giuen out for points of faith Rome cannot abide that yee my children should bee zelous in seeking to know what it is that yee are to beleeue for by such enquiry you would discouer her trickes and therefore shee telleth you that you are safe if yee haue this enuelopped faith and beleeue all that shee beleeues And if so be any of you make a stand vpon any particular beeing one of those articles which shee in point of policy hath inuented and which shall hereafter be declared by me in my descry of these Rockes then she presently mufleth vp your eyes and blindeth you and sendeth to you her owne attendants the Priests and Friers preachers and confessors who wholly depending on her are all at her deuotion they declare vnto you that Rome hath decided the point to be an article of faith And thus when yee are bound to beleeue all that the Church of Rome beleeueth and maintaineth that is whatsoeuer she teacheth and auoucheth as fit to be held and beleeued ye must needs play at hoodman-blind and being loaden with dangerous scruples stumble vpon the rocke of many an error and fiction and so incurre miserable shipwracke There is indeed a kinde of vnweeting obedience which is holy and good nay necessary but vnfolded which concerneth the fundamentall articles of my faith Such as are the vnitie of the Godhead and Trinitie of persons in one essence and nature the incarnation of the Word with the conioyning of two distinct natures the diuine and humane in the one onely diuine person of my Spouse Christ that he suffered and shed his blood and gaue his life vpon the Crosse for my redemption that he rose againe by his owne power and that hee ascended and is glorified in heauen where he remaineth my true Mediatour and continuall Aduocate with the Father and that he is to bee iudge of all men to giue to euery one according to his owne workes either life or death euerlasting In the beleeuing these and other such Articles euery childe of mine must yeeld his eyes closed vp by obedience without curiositie or recalling them to the principles of humane reason For these are the fundamentals wherein all Catholique Christendome is well resolued and setled with absolute agreement But in many other points either necessary or not necessary to saluation there is danger 2. Cor 21. that ye may be deceiued For oftentimes Satan transformeth himselfe into an Angel of light Therefore euery of you that hath any heart and spirit at all ought to open his eyes and looke well into that which is propounded to him to be beleeued either by implication or expresly and to examine it with Christian and sober diligence whether that which your Preachers and confessors and writers teach you concerning spiritual things who too often vnder the name of my Ministers are wolues in sheepes-cloathing and nothing els but the ministers of humane ambition and auarice be conformable to the holy Scriptures and vnto my refined and throughly-established iudgement mine I say that is of the Vniuersall Church such as I was for the first foure or fiue vncorrupted ages and still am also in regard of my selfe but not such as the Romane by vsurping my name doeth disguise and vaunt herselfe to be For if you shall walke on blindfold vnder this enfuddling faith after blinde guids ye shall they and you too hit vpon the rocks and tumble into the infernall pit For these respects which I haue named Rome would faine haue you remaine still muffled vp with this cloudy faith and to keepe you in your spirituall blindnesse she hath depriued you of the vse of holy Scripture shee will not suffer it to be imparted to all the people in the vulgar tongues she prohibites it she hinders it Verily a most horrible crueltie God commanded not onely Moses not Aaron onely and the rest of the Priests not onely the Scribes and doctors of the Law and Pharisees but generally all his people that they should alwayes haue the Scripture before their eyes In this is stored vp your daily bread but in stead of making you abound with this bread those whom you call your spirituall fathers take it from you and so may yee starue for them Nay in stead of this bread they put into your hands either the stones of strange doctrines which are marueilous hard for you to chew as that you are to spend your liues for the maintenance of the Pope's humors or else the scorpions of errors and falshood which bite and sting your very soules or at the most the course browne-bread of their pamphlets concerning Christian doctrine and other manuels which they name spirituall Wherein because they can doe no lesse for then should they appeare to bee open professed wolues there are set downe some good foundations of many good Catholick verities but vnder the crust of this good wheaten-bread the course crumbe is deliuered to you or rather the poison of the manifold errors and superstitions of humane if not diuelish doctrine thereby to cherish in your simple soules such reuerence and obedience to the Pope Prelates Priests and Friers as their ambition and auarice gapeth after As for other bookes which discouer these their iugglings Rome doeth slanderously bruit them to be hereticall and prohibiteth them by vaine and childish terrors of excommunications and all this that ye may not open your eyes but remaine blinde for euer Looke well to this ¶ The fourth Rocke Excommunication IT is a wonderfull or rather miserable deuise and craftie tricke of the Popes for the mainteining their tyrannie ouer your soules and making themselues to be reuerenced feared and held for gods vpon earth that they proiect to beare you in hand that the keyes giuen me by Christ

open neither vntill they come vnto my notice and yet these men would most fondly inflict actuall punishments for faults vnreuealed to them and vpon Delinquents vtterly vnknowen Let no man therefore bee afraid of these Excommunications iniure although they bee ipso facto vpon the very deede or latae sententiae vpon the generall sentence which is an errour nor is it possible that such Excommunications should worke ipso facto neither doth God hold any man for excommunicate vntill hee be namely bound and actually excommunicate Let euery one bee affraid of sinne though neuer so secret and let him looke for punishment from God but let him not feare any excommunication of mine vnlesse it be actually brandished out against him by his lawfull Prelate and that vpon good cause nor can this third Excommunication otherwise worke any whit vpon the soule Moreouer I aduise you that if a Prelate excommunicate any of you and that vpon iust cause for some offence deseruing excommunication if he doe not either by word or deede declare with which of these three Excommunications he doth strike you this his excommunicating though it be speciall and actuall is either none at all or at the most it is to bee vnderstood of the second and not of the third Neither can that stand which the new Canonists auouch that by the indefinite name of Excommunication the greater is to be vnderstood For they confound the second with the third which notwithstanding are most different one from anothers and they would haue the second to bee the greater because it taketh away Ecclesiasticall conuersation from the excommunicate party It must be vnderstood therefore of the second but as not amounting vnto the third which third is the true Excommunicatio maior the grand excommunication For it is true that in the later the former are included but not the later in the former Besides this you are to vnderstand that by my rules taught me by my Spouse none of these Excommunications especially the third can be of force but when the crime is grieuous publique notorious and very scandalous and such as giueth first very great offence to God and moreouer much scandall to the Church And hee that is cleere in his owne conscience and knoweth that hee doth not offend in the sight of God and that the act for which he is excommunicated especially by the Excommunication in iure onely is not of it selfe abhominable nor repugnant to Gods Law let him neuer feare any excommunication at all as making him guilty before God Whilst therefore a Prelate commandeth or forbiddeth any act of its own nature indifferent which is neither commanded nor forbidden by the word of God and imposeth this his command vnder paine of Excommunication you may laugh in your sleeues at it For the not obeying a Prelate in such things as in their owne nature are indifferent seldome amounteth to a mortall sinne and though it were mortall yet it is not such as can deserue the third Excommunication And so when you heare Excommunications thundred out for reading of bookes for not paying of pensions for punishing Priests and wicked Friars according to law with ciuill punishments and such like causes you may take such Excommunications to be made in iest and neede not bee afraid of them for I hold them to bee nothing worth neither was it euer my mind that this sword of mine should euer serue the turne either for temporall affaires or for the priuate ends of my Prelats Take also this with you which is one of my principall ordinances concerning Excommunications that none can excommunicate any other then those that bee in proper subiected to him and of his Diocesse And so the Bishoppe of Rome cannot excommunicate those that are out of the Diocesse of Rome And whosoeuer excommunicateth any that are not subiect vnto him his Excommunication holds not and in this case the Popes thunderbolt is of no more force then that of the Bishop of * A pety Bishopricke in Italy in the dominions of Venice Caurole Indeede any Bishop vpon great cause may deny to another Bishop his communion that is his communication and brotherly complying and spirituall correspondence So also may any particular Church deny its communion to another and this may bee called a fourth kinde of Excommunication but it hath no operation vpon the soule nor is exercised with any power or iurisdiction of one Church ouer another and the action it selfe is meerely negatiue not positiue nor operatiue namely when vpon euidence or deepe suspicion of anothers spirituall corruption mutuall correspondence is shunned And yet in this sort of Excommunication there is very great danger inasmuch as vpon it foule turbulent schismes doe ensue This Rocke as you see becommeth very dangerous vnto you whilest it makes you stumble vpon feares and terrors which withhold you from many actions that would bee profitable and commodious to you and also it maketh you run headlong into the actions of blindefold obedience whence indeede commeth your ruine seeing they will not suffer you to walke in the high-way of your saluation but amuse you in the by-wayes of eternall perdition and hold you in subiection to an Idoll and to him that would haue you deeme him a god vpon earth ¶ The fift Rocke The Commandements of the Church THis is a very great Rocke or rather a maine Sea of Rocks and shelfes heaped vp together and appointed for the spirituall ruine of you my deere Children The ambition of Popes hath hitherto vsurped a Law-making power through my whole family and would haue me bound vnder paine of mortall sinne to obserue their lawes Verely it belongeth to mee in my Synods and Councels to set down certaine practicall rules concerning rites and outward worship which rules are nothing else then certaine good directions and publique instructions requisite and necessary for the establishing of good order for the preuenting of confusion and for the increase of piety But I neuer pretended that they should haue the very nature of lawes but onely of good ordinances and therefore my will was to call them Canons that is to say Rules but not Lawes nor Commandements vnlesse I procure the secular power to giue them the force of lawes From which secular powers Christ hath not freed either mee or any of you as hee hath freed vs from the legall Ceremonies and from the yoake and burden of that law which beeing no part of the Decalogue perteyneth to the gouernment of the soule there yet remayning most full power in Princes and Magistrates as farre as concerneth temporall gouernment whereto all the sort of you are subiect not onely by constraint and for feare but also for conscience-sake as Saint Paul instructeth you True it is Rom. 13.5 that there is also an obedience due vnto the spiritual Ouerseers but this is to be vnderstood of following their good instructions in matter of faith and concerning Christian life Neither was it the minde of Christ to