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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

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

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

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

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

excused because they haue seperated themselues vniustly and without cause from the true Church of Christ which is our Catholicke Romane Church And this thing terrisieth me for Schismaticks exclude themselues from being the sonnes of God as Cyprian affirmeth saying They haue not God Ioh. 11. 52. De●●● ●● 〈◊〉 to their Father who will not haue the true Church for their mother Christ died to gather into one the sonnes of God which were dispersed Therefore the death of Christ did not onely worke and doth worke the redemption of men but also the vnion of the Church Before the death of Christ the children of God were deuided and scattered some vnder the law of Moyses others vnder the law of nature all were deuided one from another into seuerall congregations But now since the comming of Christ the diuine wisedome would that all his faithfull beleeuer and true children by faith should make one onely societie throughout the whole world vnder their Captaine and Emperour Iesus Christ and serue him in his warres vnder the standard of the holy Crosse with the same colours and Ensignes of the Sacraments And this society and vnity is a notable effect of the death of Christ which death hath brought to passe that disagreeing Sects innumerable formes of Rites and Religions amongst themselues opposite should ioyne together into a Christian vnity by him Who is our peace and hath made both one and this by the Ephe. 2. 14. Lib. 3. Hexem Crosse whereupon Anastasius of Mount Sinay saith that these words Let waters be gathered into one place are to be vnderstood of the Church assembled together of diuers people and Nations and Sects vnder the vnity of faith For which cause Christ also said of his Crosse If I be exalted from the earth I will draw all Ioh. 12. 32. things vnto my selfe Athanasius in his Treatise of the Incarnation of the word of God sayeth Our Lord exalted in the Crosse stretcheth forth both his armes to invite vnto himselfe onely both the Nations of the Iewes and Gentiles that by embracing them he might gather them both into his bosome but there is but one onely bosome betweene the armes of our Sauiour 29 And Athanasius in the same place thinketh that it is not without mysterie that Christ did choose the death of the Crosse and not the cutting off his head by which his precursor St. Iohn Baptist lost his life nor the deuiding of his body into parts which I saie suffered that in his death he might without dismembring keepe his body whole and intire and take away all excuses from Schismaticks who desire to deuide the Church into parts And Christ our Lord was so pleased with this vnity that with a most seruent prayer in the very last night of his life he required of his Father that he would not suffer his Disciples and the other beleeuers to depart from this vnity and said twice that the cause why he Ioan. 17. 11. 20. 21. prayed for the preseruation of this vnity was That the world may beleeue that thou hast sent me But our Aduersaries nothing considering these things as much as lyeth in them would haue the death and crosse of Christ to be without this most excellent fruit of vnity and by deuisions and schismes giue vnto the Iewes and Pagans occasion to speake ill of and to blaspheme Christ by saying that he was not the sonne of God nor sent by God seeing the vnion which he ordained did not continue but now and then was broken into parts The Church of Christ is one house and one family he who shall withdraw himselfe from this family or goeth out of this house doth not appertaine vnto the family of Christ but is excluded from saluation euen as they who were without the Arke perished in the flood Gen. 8 The Protestants haue cut off themselues from the body of Christ which is the sole Catholicke Romane Church with her inseperable adherents Therefore there be not members of Christ nor is Christ their head neither are they partakers of his holy spirit or gifts They are rotten members and already cut off for that they haue by their owne free will impiously cut off themselues from the body They are branches cut off from the Vine good for nothing but for the fire Neither can he saith St. Augustine be partaker of Diuine charity who is an enemie of vnity 30 By Schisme they haue inenrred the losse of all spirituall goods if they thinke they possesse any If I speake saith St. Paul with the tongues of men and Angels 1 Cor. 13. 1. and haue not charity I am nothing it doth profit me nothing c. According to these words of St. Paul St. Augustine saith that Schismatickes doe not profit 〈◊〉 1. de Bapt. ●● 〈◊〉 4. 〈◊〉 2. by doing good workes Cyprian affirmeth the same many times saying Although a man be slaine for the name of Christ after he is out of his Church and deuided from vnity and charity he cannot be crowned in his death and repeateth the same lib. 1. epist 1. and vnto Iuba●●num and in his bookes de Simplicitate Praelethrum or de vnitate Ecclesiae and de oratione dommica Chrisostom in epist ad Ephes hom 11. followeth him and saith the same 31 I wish they would consider what a horrible sin they haue committed by making this damnable seperation For that Schisme is the destruction of holy Church according to the words of Christ saying Euery Kingdome euided against it selfe be made desolate Luk. 11. 17. Galat. 5. 15. And S. Paul saith Take heed how you bite one another least you be consumed one with another and St. Lib. depoenit ●● 4. Ambrose proueth that this wickednesse of destroying the Church may be that sinne against the holy Ghost which Christ said is not remitted neither in this Mat. 12. 31. 3 〈◊〉 6. world nor in the world to come So that wicked harlot had rather to haue the childe destroyed then to be restored into the bosome of the owne mother and therefore cryed against her be it neither mine nor thine 〈◊〉 10. ● but let it be deuided So Schismatickes least the faith should be conscrued aliue and whole in the bosome of the true mother the Church doe what they can to deuide it that it may be dead to them both But they labour in vaine to the verifying vpon themselues this saying He that breaketh the hedge a Serpent shall byte him And it is no wonder that in these dayes the English are fallen into many heresies and that Puritanisme doth so much raigne amongst them although at the first seperation they were not polluted with the Lutheran or Caluinian heresies For Ireneus doth excellently Lib. ● cap. 40. li. 4. ca. 43. teach that they who are cut off from the Church doe not drinke of the Fountaine of the spirit of God but digge vnto themselues olde Cisterns and fall into most filthy errours