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EST some should think I have represented the Apostacy (as it is often called) of the Archbishop of Spalato with too much Ten

derness, I think it is proper here to fubjoin what our Learned Dr.Cofin, Bishop of Durham, says of him, in his History of Popish Transubstantiation, Printed at London, in 1676. p. 13. ) VII. "Το "these also we may justly add, that FaC mous Prelate Antonius de Domino Arch

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bishop of Spalato, a Man well versed in "the Sacred Writings, and the Records " of Antiquity; who having left Italy (when he could no longer remain in "it, either with Quiet or Safety) by the "Advice of his intimate Friend Paulus

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Venetus, took Sanctuary under the Pro"tection of King James of Blessed Memory, in the Bosom of the Church of England, which he did faithfully follow " in

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But being daily vexed with many Af" fronts and Injuries, and wearyed by "the unjust Persecutions of some fowr " and over-rigid Men, who bitterly de"claimed every where against his Life

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and Actions, he at last refolved to return into Italy with a fafe Conduct. " Before he departed, he was, by Order "from the King, questioned by some com" miffionated Bishops, what he thought " of the Religion and Church of England, " which for fo many Years he had owned " and obeyed, and what he would say of "it in the Roman Court: To this Query " he gave in Writing this memorable "Answer, I am resolved, even with the " Dange Danger of my Life, to profess before the Pope himself, that the Church of England " is a True and Orthodox Church of Chrift. " This he not only promised, but faith"fully performed; for though, foon after "his Departure, there came a Book out " of the Low-Countries, falfly bearing his "Name, by whose Title many were de"ceived even among the English, and "thereby moved to tax him with Apostacy, and of being another Ecebolius; "yet when he came to Rome, (where he was most kindly entertained in the kindly

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"Palace of Pope Gregory the Fifteenth, "who formerly had been his FellowStudent) he could never be perfuaded by the Jefuites and others, who daily thronged upon him, either to fub"scribe the hew-devised Tenets of the "Council of Trent, or to retract those "Orthodox Books which he had printed " in England and Germany, or to renounce "the Communion of the Church of Eng" land, in whose Defence he constantly

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perfifted to the very last. But presently "after the Deceafe of Pope Gregory, he was imprisoned by the Jefuites and "Inquifitors in Castle St. Angelo, where, by being barbarously used, and almost starved, he foon got a Mortal Sickness, " and died in a few Days, though not "without Sufpicion of being poysoned. "The Day following, his Corps was, by "the Sentence of the Inquisition, tyed to "an Infamous Stake, and there burnt to "Ashes; for no other Reason, but that " he refused to make Abjuration of the

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Religion of the Church of England, " and subscribe some of the lately-made Decrees of Trent, which were pretfed upon him as Canons of the Catholick "Faith. I have taken Occasion to infert "this Narration, perhaps not known to

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many, to make it appear, that this "Reverend Prelate, who did great Ser"vice to the Church of GOD, may justly (as I said before) be reckoned amongst the Writers of the Church of

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"England.

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