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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

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

the middle of this notable congregation of the Children of God in this Towne of Wezel● and that not onely because of the knowledge which I haue of so many Prerogatiues which our Lord hath giuen it as being the auncient receptacle of poore afflicted Christians hauing purged it from the darkenesse of errours ignorances of the Romish Wolfe for the space of 70. yeares and more and miraculously defended and preserued it from a thousand and a thousand outrages ambuscadoes and sinister enterprises of Tirantes whereof I am partly an eye-witnesse And thus much more for that I know that at this present and in this notable companie there are yet many of you that know that the subiect and ground of the anger of those that persecuted mee proceedeth from this that duering the time of my continuance in the seruice of the noble House of Cleaue I did charitably succour the afflicted Churches which Antechrist and his supporters sought and inforced them selues to ruinate and ouerthrow Knowing then that with the cause of my afflictions the cause of fauouring of your Churches and particularly of that which our Lord hath assembled in this Towne was ioyned I assure my selfe that you will haue compassion of the griefes which I feele at my heart for hauing offended God that in respect of me you will doe as God presently doth who hauing opened the eyes of my vnderstanding hath taken my sinnes and cast them behind his backe hee hath throwne them into the deepe Sea that he might not lay them any more to my charge whereof not onely the holy Ghost beareth me witnesse but by the ordinarie ministerie which it hath pleased him to establish in his Church giueth me euident and manifest assurances beseeching you to haue pittie on mee and casting from before your eyes the scandale which I haue committed restore me to that alacritie of spirite which in times past my heart enioyed when holding each other by the hands we ascended with ioy to the Mountaine of the Lord seeking the God of lacob with Songes and Thankes-giuing because he had made vs members of his Sonne Christ Iesus whereby in this temporall life you shall do that which God doth in the spirituall life in comforting the afflicted and such as are truely stricken with vnfeigned sorrow remorse of their sinnes for as by his goodnesse and bountie he relieueth and strengthneth them so he that loueth clemencie and mercie maketh himselfe worthy and capiable both of the Joue of God and the world Let your hearts then be mooued with my sigthes by bereauing your selues of the remembrance of my faultes therein shew your selues as strong as my wickednesse is great my brused bones shall reioyce my tongue shall openly sing the prayse of the Lord my closed lippes shall open againe highly to thunder foorth his Iustice I will teach his wayes to those that transgresse to the end that such as haue done as I haue done against the Lord may willingly conuert I am assured that you will graunt my request for I perceiue your bowels to be mooued and proane to mercie your countenaunces are witnesses vnto me of your charitic and your teares of the griefe you haue in your hearts I likewise will neuer beleeue that there is any man in this holy assemblie that will be an Imitator of the rudenes and inhumanitie of the brother of the Prodigall child that murmured at the liberalitie vsed by his father when he receiued his brother home againe The House of God is great and wide and his Tablemost rich to receiue nourish vs all Our Lord saith that the Shepheard reioyced to haue found his lost Sheepe The Woman that had lost her Groat reioyced with her friendes for the finding of it againe and the good Father for his Sonne which had offended him so many and so often times And will not you reioyce with the holy Angels for the honour which God hath done vnto me this day to haue receiued me into his Church from the which Sathan enimie to Iustice and truth had separated me almost destroied me if God had not bin merciful vnto me But he hath lost his prey he hath spent his time in vaine he remembred not that God is my Father that his Christ is my Mediator he knew not that the holy Ghost had registred me in the booke of Life and in the cathalogue of the Elect whose fall is not eternall Therefore that I may no more fall into those snares and nettes I haue withdrawne my selfe into the house of God into the fort of the Lord to be made his household Seruant and a member of his Sonne willingly forsaking the raigne of the Pope whose doctrine religion to say truth is no other thing but auncient paganisme mixed with Iudisme and couered with the cloake of Christianitie which treadeth vnder foete the knowledge of the soueraigne God and the mercies of his sonne Christ Iesus For when men make the simple people beleeue that the Sonne of God in whom consisteth the wel-spring of life hath not fully satisfied the Iustice of God his Father but hath onely obtayned the first grace for vs that is to say the occasion or cause of Merite and that it resteth now in vs to be carefull not to lose the occasion to obtaine the rest Is it not a most impudent boldnesse to dispoyle Iesus Christ of his vertue seeing the Scripture witnesseth for him that all those that beleeue in him are iustified And those hel-houndes teach that there proceedeth no other benefite vnto vs from him but onely that hee hath made vs an ouerture and way to be iustified contrarie to the expresse word of God which teacheth vs That whosoeuer hath the Sonne of God hath life also Whosoeuer beleeueth hath past from death to life is placed in Heauen with him is already transported into the kingdame of God and hath obtained saluation And these miserable abused Papistes not contenting themselues therewith bereaue God of a great part of his Prayses to transferre them vnto men But tell me I pray you What thing is more agreeable to the Christian fayth then to acknowledge and confesse our selues to be destitute of all vertue to be clothed therewith by God voyde of all goodnesse to be filled therewith by him slaues to sinne to be deliuered by him blind to be illuminated by him weake to be sustained by him to bereaue our selues of all maner of glory that he onely may be glorified and we in him Further what is more proper vnto Faith then to assure our selues that God is our benigne and louing Father when Christ is acknowledged to be our Brother and Mediatour then to expect all good and prosperitie from him whose loue and fauour is so much shewed extended vnto vs that he spared not his Sonne but exposed him vnto death for vs then to rest in a certaine assurance and hope of saluation and of life eternall when we know that Christ hath been giuen vs by