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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

the Father in whom such treasures are hidden But these thinges are repugned by the Papistes who say that such certaintie of assurance cannot be without arrogancie presumption But as we must not presume of any thing to be in our selues yet we must presume of all thinges in God for in trueth we are not for any other cause bereaued of all vaine glorie but onely to the end that we should be glorified in him On the other side behold and see with what affection those miserable and ignorant persons I speake specially of Ecclesiasticall persons are mooued and ledde they easily permit both them selues and others to be ignorant negligent and carelesse of the true Religion which is taught vs by the holy Scriptures and which ought to be resolutely and firmely held among all men and thinke that it is no great matter what Fayth euery man holdeth nor whether he holdeth with God or Christ so that with an inueloped or imposed Fayth as they tearme it they submit their censures to the iudgement of the Church and care not though the glory of God be poluted by euident Blasphemies so that no man speaketh a word against the authoritie of our Mother the holy Church that is according to their meaning the Sea of Rome And therefore they fight and contend with such rigour and boldnesse for the Masse Purgatorie Pilgrimage and such trifles in such maner that they denie that true pietie can be obserued if all those thinges be not beleeued and holden for infallible rules of our saluation although they prooue nothing by the word of God Wherefore I pray you but onely because their Belly is their God the Kitchin their Religion and the World their Paradise which being taken away they are not onely perswaded that they can be Christians but which is more no men and although some of them liue delicately and in great aboundance and others liue barely and votarely in pouertie gnawing of Crustes neuerthelesse they liue all by one Pot which without such aydes would not onely waxe cold but wholly be frozen vp And therefore he which among them hath most care of his Belly is the most zealous in their Fayth To conclude they haue all one selfe-same purpose and intent either to maintaine their Kingdome or their Bellies and there is none of thē that sheweth the least apearance in the world of true zeale and yet they cease not to Slaunder and with Fire Sword Water and all other mischiefes to pursue and persecute the doctrine of Trueth either to make it odious or suspected But if we were permitted to speake as boldly and as well as they I am perfwaded that their hotnesse wherewith they boyle so terribly against vs would be somewhat cooled for to say trueth that which the blind world at this day honoureth in those idle Bellies is onely a faigned vizard of Hipocrifie which vnder the shadow of the Church would hide their couetousnesse to beare rule seeking for the Church of God in the beautifulnesse of Houses and other exteriour ornamentes thinking that the vnion of the Faythfull consisteth and is contayned in those exteriour thinges which are transitorie and corruptible and not rather in righteousnesse and trueth Wherefore according to the word of God we hold the Sea of Rome to be the Seate of Antechrist which eleuateth and opposeth it selfe against that of the Sonne of God which vnder a false title of Religion at this day tiranniseth ouer all the world liuely representing that Seate of Impietie whereof the Prophet Daniel and the Apostle S. Paul haue spoken whereof we say the Pope is the Captaine which hath prophaned the Holy Temple of God by horrible abhominations in such sort that therein there rather appeareth an Image of Babilon then any shew of the holy Citie of God But some men will obiect and aske mee Did not you before your reuolt know these great impieties and mischiefes viz. that all the Romane sect is but a King dome of Vntruethes where the name of the eternall God is villanously prophaned and the Lordes honour impudently giuen vnto Idoles I answere that I knew it hauing a hundred and a hundred times published and preached it vnto the World but in trueth I confesse that I neuer did so pertinently vnderstand nor marke so well the horrible Sacrileges of Antechrist as I did while I conuersed familiarly with them in Rome where euery man attendeth his owne profite and pleasures and not the seruice of Iesus Christ We must not then feare that by leauing the Church of Rome we diuorce our selues from the Church of God for the communion of the Church was not ordained to that end that it should be a place for to draw vs to idolatry impietie ignorance of the true God and other wickednes but rather to retaine vs in the feare of God and in the obedience of the truth We do truly withdraw our selues from Poperie and not from the Church we shun and flie from idols but not from the true Church we will withdraw our selues from the tyrannie of the Pope and not from the true Christian common wealth from the plague and not from life ready to reunite our selues with them when Antichrist and the mischiefe which he hath brought into it shall be driuen away In the meane time the house of God shall be my habitation the Lord my portion and his Sonne my Pastor he will cause me to rest in his parkes of assurance he will restore my afflicted soule and will preserue me if it pleaseth him from the bloudy hands of those that seeke my vtter ruine and ouerthrow All you that haue done as I haue done and haue suffered your selues to runne headlong into mischiefe and which as yet liue in the kingdome of Antichrist with a contaminated and defiled conscience and vnquietnesse of spirit for I thinke and beleeue certainly that it is impossible for a man that hath knowne the impieties of Papistrie where the bloud of Christ is bought and sold where his onely propitiatorie sacrifice offered for our sinnes is esteemed to be insufficient to deface them where the merits of men are equalized with the merits of Iesus Christ I beleeue that his soule is alwayes in paine and that if he stayeth long there in the end he will feele an executioner in his conscience which will neuer suffer him to liue in peace night nor day I beseech you most humbly in the name and fauour of Iesus Christ to abandon and leaue the synagogue of Sathan and to reunite and ioyne your selues to this Church of God vnited and conioyned in faith with the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles in the word of God which is faithfully preached and the Sacraments duly and purely administred It is into his lap that I yeeld my selfe it is vnto the guard of his pietie that I haue recourse beseeching him with all humilitie to receiue and admit me into the communion of his children hauing determined to liue with them by the power of my

knowledge of his diuine will and pleasure and by his assistance I began to open the eyes of my vnderstanding and to purge and seclude my selfe from those mists and errors of the Romish Church by which my minde before was too much caried away and obscured I obserued againe that from time to time there was a continuall mutabilitie and various changing of opinions among the Prelats for what was one day receiued and allowed by authoritie was the next day prohibited and vtterly disanulled as it is plainely to be seene in Indice expurgatorio For whatsoeuer seemed to taxe the errors of the Priesthood the same by commandement of the Inquisitors and of the Church of Rome was forthwith razed out and extinguished Secondly because if the Bishops at any time gaue power and authority to any for the preaching of the word of God they did not graunt him free libertie of speech but prescribed him a forme of preaching as my selfe can witnesse by their Commissions granted to me in that behalfe which is manifestly knowne to be a thing repugnant to the truth For as Paul saith The word of God is not tied or limited but they limit the same saying We giue you authoritie for the preaching of the word of God so farre forth as you do it according to the opinions of the holy Fathers and to the decrees of the most holy Councell of Trent When as notwithstanding neither the opinions of the Fathers or of the Councels agree amongst them neither are they alwayes true But if they do agree and are true they are as is aforesaid euery where altered by them and changed And if according to their iudgements the word of God should be expressed the truth would sometimes be made more manifest and apparent But in this they are contrary to them selues as that most learned man Iohn Caluine hath rightly and learnedly set downe I am an eye witnesse saith he of the tyranny of the Bishops and Inquisitors for I haue often heard very learned men preach amongst them but because those things that haue bin preached were displeasing to the tyrannous Inquisitors and Bishops the same preachers and learned men haue bene compelled euen in the same Church and that against their owne consciences by their commandements and authoritie to speake against themselues and to preach another doctrine contrary to the truth For instance whereof Father Lobo a famous preacher whose name is well knowne in Spaine and Italy at Rome in the beginning of Pope Gregory the 13 in his Sermon was heard to vtter these words It is of more weight and efficacie and of greater profit and vtility with God to heare his word then the Masse But the same preacher forthwith by the commandement of that great beast the Pope was compelled to make his publicke recantation and yet for all this he was depriued of his authoritie of preaching and enioyned to other penances Let God arise and iudge his cause who saith Viuus est sermo meus My word is a liuing word and Dauid lest he should fall did place the word of God A Lanterne vnto his feete by which also the heauens were framed and which endureth for euer To heare the same word by which all things were made and is the fountaine of wisedome the publicans and sinners assembled themselues together and the people preassed vpon Christ to heare the word of God of which all things were made for it is the fountaine of wisedome Ezekiel admonished the sonnes of Ammon the mountaines of Israel and the dry bones to heare the word of the Lord God by mediation whereof the bones came together bone to his bone and behold the synewes and the flesh grew vpon them and the skinne couered them Christ also calleth them happy and blessed that heare the word of God What the word of God makes loose and free that these tyrants do bind and tye to limits and compasse When Iohn Baptist was in prison he preached the same word which as the Lord saith we ought not any way to oppugne or resist In the yeare of our Lord 1597. Valentine Cortazer being Inquisitor the twentieth day of Iune comming to visit the city of Liria entred the same in his accustomed pompe and vanitie and did impose vpon me the charge and duty of preaching a Sermon of Faith And vpon Sonday the 22 day of the same moneth and yeare Aderat Inquisitor Ecclesiae pro Tribunali sitting in great maiestie and as the manner is Lecto mandato praeceptorum de accusatione I ascended the place of preaching and hauing saluted the Inquisitor began my Sermon After I had past ouer many things in praise and commendation of the Inquisitors and Inquisition I spake thus to the Auditorie Remember deare brethren and be mindfull of those words which I spake vnto you in Lent time in a Sermon touching brotherly correction for two Lents I was their Preacher You are bound as I then told you euery one of you to correct and admonish your brother secretly betweene you and him But if after admonishment he continue still in his wickednesse then tel and acquaint the Church therewith Yet before brotherly correction you are not tied to denounce him Marke this well This I speake vnto you in the name and behalfe of the liuing God Hauing made an end of my Sermon I was inuited by the Inquisitor with all kindnesse and courtesie to take my dinner with him which being ended he began to fall into commendation of my Sermon but vtterly to condemne that brotherly admonition saying That it is not admitted in matters of faith with which the Inquisition hath to do and takes notice of I replied with the very words of Christ in defence thereof but was compelled to hold my peace and the Sonday following constrained to preach of him that they hold and terme accursed in the presence of the Inquisitor and lay open his mind and pleasure against Gods word and to say that brotherly correction had no part or place in such matters as were contained in the Edict Do but see and behold how the word of God is tied and bound by these people of Antichrist And this whilest I was one of their number and company drew my mind into diuerse and sundry distractions Of Transubstantiation MY soule also was grieuously troubled about Transubstantiation of bread and wine into the body and bloud of Christ for this among other things alwayes seemed vnto me a matter of much difficultie And Saint Paul teacheth the contrary speaking of the Lords supper he alwayes nameth bread saying As aften as you shall eate of this bread and drinke of this drinke c. Againe Whosoeuer shall eate of this bread c. Also by this it followes that the Pope doth falsly intrude himselfe to be the head of the Church as is proued by this reason The Primitiue Church and that which flourished for many yeares knew no other head but Christ nor had any vniuersall

Bishop But the Primitiue Church euen according to the opinion of the Papists was the true Church Therefore the true Church ought to knowe or acknowledge no head but Christ nor any vniuersall Bishop It is also thus proued by authority Gregory Bishop of Rome wrote against Iohn Patriarch of Constantinople saying He that shall name himselfe the vniuersall Bishop may be called the forerunner of Antichrist And the Councell of Carthage forbiddeth the Bishop of Rome to be called the vniuersall Bishop as Gratianus witnesseth in these words But now no not the Bishop of Rome may be called vniuersall What should I speake of the Synode of Chalcedon whose arguments are so many and so euident against the Sea of Rome that the same must either needs fal from her high pride and dignity or the whole authority of her Councell be vtterly suppressed as here manifestly appeares in that the same Synode is held and celebrated onely by the Emperors command without either the presence or authoritie of the Bishop of Rome as in those times euen vnto the yeare of our Lord 900 as Cusanus witnesseth their Councels were not vsuall to be assembled but by the direction of Caesar And Pope Leo as Thomas affirmeth following the same custome submitted himselfe to the opinion and iudgement of the Emperour Christ the true Bishop as in this world he took vpon him no person of state so he appointed no dominion or Empire among his Apostles but with graue words pacified them muttering somewhat among themselues of principality so that he drew their thoughts and cogitations vnto another forme of life farre differing from the Princes of this world and openly affirmed that such as would be the first and greatest in the kingdome of heauen must humble themselues amongst men And whosoeuer will be great among you let him be your seruant Christ euer taught and exercised humility saying I haue left you an example euen as I do so also do you Christ had not where to lay his head and will not one Pallace suffice the Bishop of Rome Christ refused the condition of Regall dignity being offered and will not one Crowne content the Bishop of Rome Is it not enough that he possesseth Italy vnlesse with his triple Crowne he command the world Christ departed away into a mountaine himselfe alone that they should not make him a king declaring his kingdome not to be of this world And shall this glorious Vicar in the name of Christ with such honor and superfluity possesse his kingdome in this world Or shall he thinke men will continue so besotted and miscaried in this difference and vnlikelinesse of things as to be perswaded that he beares the place and office of Christ here vpon earth or rather not of Antichrist Boniface the third was the first that tooke vpon him the name of vniuersall Bishop about the yeare 600 which name was neither giuen him by Christ nor from heauen but by that tyrant and parricide Phocas the Emperour From that troublesome fountaine did arise the great floud of Papistrie and that proud name had first beginning And yet in those dayes the Popes did not as now they do presently ascend to the top and height of dignity but by degrees did steale into rule and dominion For Boniface the 8 after he had by cunning and sedition crept into the Papall place made Emperours and Kings to feare him going about to depose and raise vp to authoritie whom he pleased So he thought himselfe both King and Emperour in so much as when the Iubilee was first granted he shewed himselfe openly the first day to the people attired in his Pontificall vestments and the day following in his armor and coate of male and in the presence of all the people with a loude voyce he commanded himselfe to be proclaimed Caesar Which vanity Baldus Antoninus Arch-bishop of Florence Salo and many others doe maintaine by their false doctrine saying that Emperours and Kings are but the Popes substitutes and that the Bishops of Rome had both the power of spirituall and temporall gouernement They ground their false opiniō vpon the power of Christ which power they pretend to haue as his Vicars for Christ saith All power is giuen vnto me both in heauen and in earth and so by consequence both the swords for he is named King of Kings Lord of Lords and in diuers places of the Scripture is called King and Emperour Ezechiel giues him both names and the Magicians and Pilate call him King But I demand this of these Antichrists that if they imitate Christ in this why they do not follow him in humility For although Christ had the power of rule and command yet he in respect of his humility vsed them not but rather affirmed his kingdome not to be of this world But if the Pope do not imitate Christ he is not his Minister his Vicar nor successour As the lewes boasted before Christ that they were of the seed of Abraham so the Pope glories in the succession of Christ and of Peter But the same answere that Christ giues vnto the Iewes he giues also to the Pope as you may read in Iohn 8. Chap. the 37 verse to the very end of the same Chapter But the Pope saith they are called the Seruants of seruants and so named for their humility So that may suffice To this I answere that vnder a faire shew lye hid foule intēts He carries the name of humility but his deedes are cleane contrary Is he the seruant of seruants that holdeth his foote forth for Kings and Emperous to kisse and do reuerence to Is he the seruant of seruants that is carried vpon mens shoulders Is he the seruant of seruants that makes such daily boast of his kingdome and authority Is he the seruant of seruants that saith he hath authority from heauen and the fulnesse of power to make iustice of iniustice Is he the seruant of seruants that saith he is like vnto the Sun and the Emperour like the Moone No but he is rather to be called an Harpy crowned or a deuouring Hiena that vnder a faigned shew of humility worketh death and cruelty Sedition and controuersy oftentimes troubles the minds of such as aspire vnto that vaine dignity and contend for the Papall seat and authority and the place in which stands much scandall when schismes and deuisions arise in the Church in the very act of election Many times this fals out for proofe whereof reade Plato and Illescas in the History of the Bishops If then the election of this present Pope Clement the 8. be diligently examined it was in like manner very irregular the people did much murmure at it By reason whereof vnlesse I be deceiued the Diuines are very doubtfull concerning his election For at Vall-Solet a place where the king of Spaines Court is in the yeare of our Lord 1602. Theses Theologicae apparuerunt teaching Pope Clement the 8. not to be held