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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

a true Bishop which doctrine amongst many other father Bazquez maintained being one of the society of the Iesuits which comming straight way to the eares of the Bishop he caused both him and them to be presently called beforehim And because amongst many other reasons that haue moued me to this separation from the Church of Rome this of the vsurped power of the Pope hath of long time bene the chiefest I thought it my part to say something of his tyranny of his name and hypocrisy But for that this little labour hath bene onely vndertaken by me to satisfie mine owne minde and to make some declaration thereof vnto others lest I should be tedious and troublesome to the Readers I will for this time pretermit the further handling of these things yet God willing in their place and time shall they be particularly expressed more at large imitating the doctrine of Saint Paul who after his owne conuersion did conuert his brethren which Christ also our heauenly Schoolmaister doth teach vs saying to Peter Now thou art at length conuerted strengthen thy brethren And I my selfe conuerted am bound in duty to do the same yet in the meane time reade Doctour Caluin li. 4. Institut Cap. 6 7. 11. Of Purgatory and the Sacraments INsomuch as I am now determined to imbrace the truth of the reformed Church I do with stedfast resolution looke into the sentences thereof being consonant and agreeable vnto the Gospell of Christ lest the words of the Lawyers may be inferred against me who hold this opinion That it is a foule dishonorable thing for any that liues in the common-wealth to be ignorant of that law in which he is conuersant And so there is no other Church allowed of more then the Church militant and triumphant But amongst the Papists Purgatory is ordained the third Church which I vtterly deny and abiure For as Saint Paul saith Christ is the purger of our sinnes and sitteth at the right hand of the Maiestie in the highest places Besides hell and heauen there is no middle place found in the holy Scriptures where our soules should rest or be detained The opinion which the Papists hold of Veniall sinnes and the ceremonies by which the same is absolued I wholly disalow as vile and excreable nor is there any other then mortall sinne which is onely washed away by true contrition of heart by the mercy of God and the shedding of the bloud of Christ as Saint Paul saith The Sacrament also of extreme vnction by mediation of which as the Papists dreame the reliques of sinnes mortall are taken away is a very idle and ridiculous matter and no Sacrament For if it were a Sacramēt the redemptiō of Christ were imperfect and in vaine which is against the truth of Gods word which saith The Lord is mercifull and righteous and our God is full of compassion The Lord preserueth the simple I was in misery and he sauedme I reiect also the Sacrament of Confirmation and the rest which the Pope hath ordained and onely reuerence and embrace the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper instituted by our Sauiour By this I am instructed in the rules of Christ and by this I am more and more strengthened and confirmed in him Of Auricular confession AVricular confession which the Papists call the Sacrament of Penitence is very foolish For this tyrannicall confession is neither found in the law of nature nor in the Law of God but in the diuell and the Popes kitchin to increase their fare and delicacies Neither did the Apostles teach the same or Saint Iohn Baptist as Caluin directly proueth And Chrysostome also maintaineth whose words Con. 3. t. 2. Pag. 1371. are these Why dost thou blush and art ashamed to tell thy sinnes Take heed thou reueale them not to any man lest he vpbraid thee nether confesse them to thy fellow seruant lest he publish them but vnto him which is the Lord who hath care and charge ouer thee And againe Tell thy faults only vnto me priuately God here speaketh that I may heale thy disease and deliuer thee from sorrow Which words because they are repugnant and contrary to that great beast are by the commandement of the Inquisitors taken away and blotted out in the booke called Index expurgatorius Many in the same manner of confession haue reuealed their sins willingly to their Confessours and the Confessour to the Iudges and others A certaine Bishop of Girona in the time of Iames the second king of Arragon being his Confessour reuealed his confession to the Pope and the king forthwith cut out his tongue I my selfe can faithfully witnesse that being many times present at the talke communication of Confessours they haue so foolishly behaued themselues and so openly in their talke reuealed the sinnes that haue bene confest vnto them priuately by the penitents that their names and persons haue easily become knowne to me and perhaps to many others that haue heard the conference And although there be diuers lawes ordained by the Pope to punish Confessours thus offending they yet commit this crime of reuelation and which is worse without a summe of money the Penitents haue no grant of absolution as appeares in the bookes of Taxes c. By which feare many euen in the very act of confession do conceale the truth till they be compelled to confesse the same I could speake much of this matter and point it out with my very fingar but I will obserue my oath and with good aduice forbeare to relate it In this matter of auricular confession the Confessours are wont to seduce and auert the minds and affections of women from God and to turne and conuert them to their owne lusts and filthinesse To proue this true I present as witnesses those Confessours that haue bene punished by iudgement of the Inquisition for such abhorred and abhominable wickednesse and such as haue bene adiuged to punishment and by sentence of the Prelats and others for being found guilty of the like misdemeanours For by auricular confession many monstrous enormities arise and are begotten To auoid the imputation of tedioulnesse I will not continue to make any longer discourse or discouery of the errours of the Church of Rome But with all my heart with all my minde and with all my soule I reuerence and confesse all things whatsoeuer our new reformed Church doth allow and embrace And if any of the Church of Rome shall vpbraide me that I haue falsely and perfidiously fallen from the same I answere with Saint Ambrose In leauing it I forsake not Christ Him onely no man ought to forsake or change to whom it is worthily said Lord to whom shall we flie Thou hast the words of euerlasting life For the faith of the Church is commanded chiefly to be sought for in which if Christ haue habitatiō it may vndoubtedly be chosen and followed But if the people be perfidious and the maister an