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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

Sometimes also poyson as they say is put into that Sacrament that so men may be bereaft of their liues as it is read of the Emperour Henry the 7 and of Pope Victor the third whereof the first losse his life by the Sacrament of bread poysoned by his Consessour the last by wine transsubstantiate Therefore we must conclude that the body of Christ is not there or otherwise the body of Christ to be the instrument of sin and the meanes of euill which is blasphemy This corporall absence Christ hath manifestly shewne saying The poore you shall haue alwaies with you Me you shall not haue alwaies Christ also speaketh of the absence of his humanity for his Diuinity fils both heauen and earth in which humanity he shall not come vnto vs till the day of iudgement Moreouer the Papists affirme that the matter of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ought to be determinate They are also possessed with many mad imaginations saying this is a true Proposition Out of bread becomes the body of Christ And this also is false Of bread becomes or is made the body of Christ These are words of exceeding folly and dotage and are differing and repugnant to themselues although Thomas expound them supernaturally In conuersions also that which is conuerted is corrupted and that into which the conuersion is had is begotten and ingendred Thus after their opinion we must say that Christ is so begotten and ingendred which is an heresie The Diuell getteth much and enlargeth his power and number by the idolatry of the Church of Rome which he still perswades them to maintaine and so they will vntill it shall please God of his infinite goodnesse and mercy to open their eyes and make their vnderstanding perfect that they may truly see and reade the booke of God for they yet liue in error and darknesse But if they would looke vpon and heare the booke which Hilkiah the high Priest found in the house of the Lord they would do as that godly king Iosiah did in the 18. yeare of his Monarchy who as soone as Shaphan the Chancellor had shewed it and read it to the king and that he had heard the words of the booke of the Law he was so moued therewith that he rent his clothes and wept before God and crauing pardon at Gods hands humbled himselfe destroyed the idols and walked according to the will and word of the Lord. I was also much troubled in minde about the power of the Pope when he doth those things which almighty God neither doth or can do For although God be omnipotent and nothing is vnpossible with him he yet worketh no sinne or euill neither is there any guile found in his mouth neither can he do that which is wrapt or encombred with controuersies and contradictions But the Pope takes vpon him to do this for if any come vnto him and desire the reliques of some Saint as of Hermolaus or any other he will answer that he hath none because his bones are dispersed But he takes the bones perhaps of some reprobate and wicked person and blesseth them and baptised in the name of Hermolaus he deliuereth them to him that makes suite for the same and then the bones of him are worshipped whose soule in hell is cruciated And thus it begets scandall and contradiction that the bones of any wicked or idle persons are the bones of some Saints or others at his pleasure I obserued the power couetousnesse and tyranny of the same Pope I beheld his exceeding pompe and pride and with these things and many more of this nature my minde was much tormented For seeing Christ is the fulnesse of all grace in that he endues the Church with spirituall grace and vnderstanding we ordaine him to be the head thereof with S. Paul saying He hath made all things subject vnder his feete and hath appointed him ouer all things to be the head of the Church And seeing both Men and Angels are ordained to enioy Gods glory euen as of men so also of the Angels he may rightly be called the head For the mysticall body of the Church doth not onely consist of men but of Angels But of all this multitude and number Christ is the head for that his seat is neere vnto God and doth partake of his gifts not onely more absolutely then men but more perfectly also then the very Angels so that from his influence both men and Angels receiue their benefits As Saint Paul witnesseth saying He hath set him at his right hand in the heauenly places farre aboue all principality and power and might and domination and euery name that is named not in this world onely but also in that that is to come and hath put all things vnder his feete And so S. Matthew saith Behold the Angels came and ministred vnto him And albeit the Angels themselues lacke faith Quia non per fidem sed per speciem ambulant and the Church is the congregation of the faithfull neuerthelesse Christ is their head There fore besides that diuine wisedome which Christ had from the beginning he had also a humane knowledge notwithstanding the position ofsuch as deny that there be two sorts of wisdomes in Christ which in the sixth Synode is held a thing damnable for as S. Ambrose saith God did assume the perfection of humane nature in the flesh tooke vppon him the sence of man but not the pride of carnall sensualitie But to the sence of man appertaineth an humane knowledge created Therefore in Christ is giuen that experimentall knowledge of which S. Luke speaketh So did loel prophetically see him taught saying to the people Reioyce in the Lord your God for he hath giuen you the raine of righteousnesse c. And the spouse saith I will leade thee and bring thee into my mothers house and there thou shalt instruct me And Isaias I haue giuen him for a Prince and a maister vnto the people comprehending these two things namely that he was a Redeemer and a Maister for whereas he termes him a Prince he meanes him to be a Redeemer but calling him Maister he signifies him an instructer or teacher Christ therfore is endued with all these sciences by which mē were instructed by him as out of Mathew opening his mouth he taught his Disciples and out of Iohn Iesus ascended into the Temple and taught the people and as it is written in Luke They found him sitting in the Temple c. By two wayes then he taught the people that is by example and words For Iesus began to do and afterwards to teach the true and simple doctrine without any kind of commixtion Seeing therefore Christ came to teach mankind and to redeeme them with his most pretious blod my selfe being one among the rest to be redeemed and taught through his vniuerse and exceeding goodnesse was at the length called to the true

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