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A02641 The repentance of Iohn Haren priest and his returne to the Church of God; publickly by him recited in the French Church at Wezell, in the presence of the senate, conposed of the ministers and the people assembled togeather vpon the 7. day of March, Anno. 1610. Likewise, the recantation of Martine Bartox, at Rochell, sometimes Doctor of Diuinitie in Spaine, vicar prouinciall and visitor of the order of the holy Trinitie for the redemption of prisoners in the Kingdomes and Crowne of Arragon. Translated out of the Latine and French, into English. Haren, Jean.; Bartox, Martin. aut 1610 (1610) STC 12769; ESTC S120641 42,616 62

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Persons but not his Person that he cannot communicate for if it were to be communicated the distinction of persons would be takē away But God who is only good did participate himselfe vnto men when he cōmunicated his word full of grace truth He took not vpon him the nature of Angels as Paul saith but humane nature In this first communication God is in himselfe but in his second after a sort without himselfe Such a one did Dionysius Areopagita regard him to be when he said This we dare speake for truth that almighty God suffered on earth by the power and force of charity viz. he was not in himselfe Of this participation S. Iohn writes and the other Euangelists And seeing God made nothing in vaine this communication also was made for some purpose For it was to take away the sinne committed by our first parents and by propagation Christ accepted past ouer and transmitted vnto mankind By reason whereof as Paul saith we are all borne the sonnes of wrath because we all sinned in Adam Wherefore the right which we had to the inheritance of eternall life before the fall of Adam we afterwards lost as the Lawyers teach But God that as a father loueth vs the sonnes of adoption decreed in his vnchangeable counsell to send forth his Sonne made of a woman and made vnder the law for what loue exceeds the loue of a father that we might receiue the adoption of the sonnes And as Iohn witnesseth God so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten Son c. by whose coming and participation Saint Paul saith We are saued from wrath and redeemed The Sonne of God is also communicated vnto vs that he might instruct vs in his holy wisedome and vnderstanding because in him are had all the treasure of wisedome and knowledge For he was the chiefe Maister and teacher when he was appointed by God the Father that all should receiue vnderstand from him the doctrine of truth for thus God spake of him This is my wel-beloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased heare him Besides Let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of this bread c. By which it manifestly appeares that it continues to be bread And the very Priests of Rome themselues after consecratiō of the Sacramēts which according to their opinion is euē the body of Christ not bread vse the signes of the crosse vpon the same Sacrament calling it an holy ✚ Sacrament a pure ✚ Sacrament an vndefiled ✚ Sacrament the sanctified ✚ bread of eternall life and the cup of ✚ euerlasting saluation So that they name it bread and yet are contrary to themselues The same truth teacheth that holy father Irenaeus saying Now it is no common bread but the Eucharist consisting of two things that is earthly and heauenly In which words he expresly teacheth the bread to remaine there still Moreouer the forme of the body of Christ is the soule for Aristotle saith that Anima est actus corporis physici potentiâ vitam habentis But it cannot be said that the substantiall forme of bread is conuerted into the soule Therefore the same substance of the bread remaineth Further if the substantiall forme of bread be conuerted into the body of Christ it would then follow the body of Christ to consist of two formes which is most false Also the Accident without the substance cannot be ministred or giuen but there the Accidents are seene tasted smelt c. Therefore the substance is giuen The refuge of the Papists is to make it a miracle by which the whitenesse of the bread continues and other accidents thereunto belonging But it is a false reply for it is not found in the holy Scriptures neither was it needfull that Christ should worke such a miracle Saint Augustine saith These things may be honoured as religious but to worke wonder or astonishment they cannot as miraculous Also the accidents are alwaies destroyed by the corruption of the substance But as I will make manifest hereafter the very accidents of bread are destroyed in time therefore transubstantiation of the bread is not giuen By reason whereof the Papists at their times renew such sacrifices reserued in their Vestries or other places appointed to keepe their holy things and reliques that is euery weeke in Sommer time but in the Winter time at 15 daies And this is done to take away the scandall of their corruption Therefore Transubstantiation is not giuen In a matter so plaine and euident I neither desire to spend much time nor to be too tedious or troublesome to the readers But if any shall be desirous to reade more concerning this point let them looke vpon Christophorus Pezeline and Iohn Caluin who very manifestly and learnedly teach the truth and make it cleare and apparant to the eyes and vnderstanding of such as are blind and ignorant Of the Corporall absence of Christ in the Sacrament BEcause it is the ground and foundation of the tyrannicall monarchy of the Papists to blind the eyes of the faithfull which according to their enchaunting speeches beleeue the body and bloud of Christ to be really in the consecration of many sacrifices and as they say in euery one of them and in the cup and chalices I will speake somewhat by the way against their false opinions not to the satisfaction of them that reade for of this matter they may peruse the Institutions of Doctour Caluin c. but to expresse mine owne minde I say first The Papists do adde and detractmany times from the words of the true text to confirme and establish their owne inuentions as it is to be seene by the Inquisitors who adde to the Gospell of Christ what may serue their owne purpose For Christ doth thus admonish vs by Math. Chap. 18. before cited If thy brother trespasse against thee go and tell him his fault betweene thee and him alone c. If he heare thee not t●ke yet with thee one or two witnesses If he will not vouchsafe to heare them tell it vnto the Church The Church of Rome to these words of Christ addeth praeter causam fidei but for faith or religions sake so that they take away and cut off the meaning of the Gospell and contradict Christ himselfe so charitably admonishing and exhorting So do they contradict Saint Hierome Saint Ambrose and many other holy Fathers and many times adde and detract from the very words of the holy Scripture as manifestly appears in that vnchristianlike booke intituled the Index expurgatorius But now to returne to our purpose The Church of Rome to the words of Christ saying This is my body addeth for which Christ neuer pronounced nor Saint Peter whatsoeuer Thomas affirmeth And if the Priest pronounce not for among the Papists he sinnes hainously Also the Church of Rome addeth that the bread of consecration ought to be vnleauened which precept was neither deliuered