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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 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 composed 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 Ezeckiel Chapt. 33. Vers 11. J am liuing saith the eternall God and I take no pleasure in the death of a Sinner but rather that he should returne from his vvickednesse and liue Apocalips Chap. 18. Come foorth of Babilon my people least you be partakers of her sinnes and so be punished vvith her for her sinnes hath mounted vp vnto Heauen and God hath determined to punish her iniquities Translated out of Latine and French into English LONDON Printed for H. Rockit at S Mildreds Church in the Poultrie and N. Bourne at the Royal Exchange 1610. The Repentance of Iohn Haren and his returne to the Church of God publickely by him recited in the French Church at Wezell in the presence of the Senate composed of the Ministers and the people assembled togeather vpon the 7. day of March Anno. 1610. To the faythfull Christians of the Netherlandes that haue abandoned the abuses of the Church of Rome to liue in puritie sinceritie of conscience IOHN HAREN wisheth health and prosperitie DEarely beloued Breathren in the Lord This Treatise which I imbolden my selfe to present you withall belongeeh truely and directly vnto you in regard of the subiect and matter therein contained for although that by my fall beastly Apostacie I haue offended all the world neuerthelesse I know and am assured that the Churches in the middle whereof I haue been nourished from my youth vpwards and whom I serued many yeares in the worke of the Lord haue been most afflicted if you will vouchsafe to read it you shall therein see and manifestly behold most great effectes of the prouidence of God towards his elect who for a certaine time being seduced by the malice practise of the Diuell fell not onely into great tempestes and shipwrackes but into horrible and scandalous laborinthes of troubles but yet not so low but that falling into the armes of their nourse which is the Church of God they haue been relieued and comforted againe For the fall of the Elect is not eternall You shall also therein perceiue how that in thinges which seeme most doubtfull and wholly desperate and when in outward appearance wee are as it were at the poynt of death and vtter destruction our Lord hath vsed and is alwayes ready to put foorth his hand to defend and preserue those that are his Who would euer haue thought that Moses being abandoned by his Mother and put into the Water in a Basket should haue been the Deliuerer of the people of God And that Ioseph sold by his breathren mourned for by his father for dead cast into a miserable Prison should saue his Father and Breathren from most great Famine place them in the best part of Egipt Who would haue thought that Jonas cast into the Sea and swallowed yea as it were buried in the belly of the Whale should haue been the sauer of the great citie of Niniue and a figure of the Messias And that I being cast into a sorrowfull and miserable Prison wherein I remained for the space of 8. yeares and more wholly without hope of deliuerance from thence wherein Antechrist of Rome had caused me to be throwne at the instance and motion of his Legate Coriolanus the Plague of all Germinie for hauing bindred his cruel purposes desseignes against the Churches on this side God moststrong powerfull good by his most mighty arme contrary to all humane expectation hauing broken my Bandes and deliuered my soule out of the danger of death yea of eternall death should charitably deliuer me into the handes of his Church to the end I should serue him the rest of my dayes iustly and holily For the which while I liue I will neuer cease to yeeld prayse and thankes-giuing vnto God You shall likewise know by this Discourse the great virtue force efficacie of Prayer made in Fayth whereby we obtaine of God much more good then we dare aske or demande at his hands What could the Mother of Moses desire more when her Child was put into the Water but onely that God would preserue it from death But by her Praier she obtained much more for he being found by Pharaos Daughter he was not onely deliuered out of danger and committed to his owne Mother to be noursed but waxing great he was adopted for the Sonne of the Kings daughter What could the people of God cruelly afflicted by the Egiptians desire more but that God haueing toucht the heart of Pharao he should permit and suffer them to depart out of Egipt to serue him in the land of their Fathers But he did more for them for deliuering them out of the miserable seruitude tirannie of Pharao he inriched them with the spoyles and riches of the Egiptians whom afterward he drowned and vtterly ouerwhelmed in the Sea thereby declaring his Iustice in punishing of those that afflict his people What could lacob likewise when he left the house of Laban his Father in law haue desired more when he prayed vnto God to deliuer him from the feare which he had of his brother Esau but that he might passe freely safely on his way but God not onely graunted him that but much more for when his brother met him he not onely receiued and entertained him courteously but offered to beare him company on the way And what could Joseph being a Prisoner more desire of God but onely his enlargement and deliuerance from thence which at last he obtained and much more for he was made Lieutenant and Gouernour of all Egipt But I for my part haue receiued more grace and fauour then all they for the billowes of the tempestes of the soueraigne God had not onely subiected my life to a miserable temporall captiuitie wherein not onely the Pope and his supports determined to destroy me and to make me vnprofitable vnto the world during the rest of my dayes but Sathan enimie to my Soule had made and seduced me to become one of the most filthy Apostates that euer was heard of and for that cause my heart was continually vexed with most cruell troubles mine owne corruption made warre against me and my torments put me in feare and doubt that God had wholly reiected and barred me out of the Kingdome of Heauen I found my selfe to be in continuall feare for want of Fayth repentance thinking in that abusiue of troubles that by incredulitie I should vtterly be cut off from the loue and fauour of

God Yet I was not destitute of the Spirit of Prayer for in my greatest troubles and aflictions lifting vp mine eyes vnto Heauen I often times sayd Hath the Lord cast me off for euer Is his louing kindnesse withdrawne for euermore Hath the most mercifull God forgotten to be pittifull hath he by reason of his anger shut vp his compassion And often times sighing and speaking vnto my soule I said Oh my soule Why art thou abashed why doest thou tremble within me Repose thy trust in God and hope in him he shall yet be praysed and magnified in thee when with a benigne countenance onely he easeth thy torment The Father of mercie the God of all consolation did not reiect my prayer he receiued my request and heard me in Heauen He brake my bandes and of a Captiue set me free and at libertie He dealt not with me as I deserued nor rewarded me according to my iniquities For that as farre as the Heauens are distant from the Earth so much hath his mercie been aboundant vnto me With the same affection that a Father is mooued towardes his Child with the same hath the Lord been mooued towardes me Let my Soule blesse him and all the partes and members of my body prayse his holy name He hath saued me out of the Pitte and withdrawne my life from death Hee hath pardoned all my Iniquities and healed my Inf●●●●ties The Lord doth right and iustice vnto all those 〈…〉 iniuries and persecutions I will not therefore doe 〈…〉 who sayling in the middle of the Seas and after a th●●sand dangers safely arriueth at his desired Hauen without considering or marking the hand of the Pilote that stirred the Shippe I will diligently acknowledge in this my deliueraunce the hand of God the prouidence of the Lord and THE Repentaunce of IOHN HAREN and his Conuersion from the Church of Rome to the true Church of God openly published and made by him in the French Church remayning in Wezell in the presence of the wise and discreete Senat of the same place the 7. day of March Anno. 1610. MY Lordes and louing Breathren in the Lord at my comming out of my sorrowfull Prison wherein I haue been violently holden for the space of eight yeares vpwardes for suckering your Churches passing by this towne of Wezell to goe 〈…〉 friendes I haue imboldned my selfe to salute you and to giue you to vnderstand many thinges which concerne the honour and glory of God the edification of his Church and the saluation of my soule Truely if it were not for the assurance that I haue of your pietie towards God and Christian charitie towards your Neighbours I durst not haue been so bold as I am at this present to certifie you of the miserable estate whereinto my sinnes haue brought mee but assuring my selfe that you will be imitators of the Mercie of God and of the Grace of his Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a Sinner but that he should conuert and be saued it maketh me doe that vnto you which the diseased person doth vnto the Phisition which is to discouer the Griefes of my heart and the Wounds of my soule Beloued breathren in mee you see and behold the paterne and spectacle of the iust Iudgement of God vpon man who hauing acknowledged Iesus Christ for my Sauiour trode his Word vnder my feete and made no account of his holy Ordinaunces and therefore God as a iust Iudge set me vpon the scaffold of his Wrath and Indignation because I would seeme to be Wise in my selfe forgetting the indignitie and miserie of my estate I haue grieued the holy Ghost which had registred mee in the Cathalogue of the blessed certainely I had been most happie if at the issuing foorth of my Mothers Wombe I had been buried without euer seeing the light of this World seeing that by my sinnes I haue subiected my vncertaine dayes vnto so many outrages and griefes For is there any man that hath receiued more benefites at the holy and liberall handes of God our Father then I Who from my youth vpwardes was brought vp and nourished in the most excellent Schooles that are in Christendome hauing had a Father that spared no thing to bring me vp in Learning Vertue and Pietie and that shewed me an example of Constancie and Fidelitie hauing suffered death for professing the name of the Lord. But as if God had done me wrong to continue his graces and great mercies vnto me I became the most filthy beastly Apostate that euer was in the World I say the most filthy for consider I pray you the Apostacies which were in times past in the auncient Church specially during the tenne great Persecutions from Nero to Constantine the great and the eleuenth which was vnder Iuhan that wicked Apostate which caused so many Reuoltes in the Church and when so many great persons made shipwracke of the Fayth Consider also the Apostacies that haue been committed in our dayes and you shall see if you can sinde the like to mine That a Seruant of God nourished and brought vp at the feete of true Doctors the Sonne of a Martire one that preached the Ghospell 17. or 18. yeares and that with edification in the time of Persecution when the Swordes of Tirantes made all publike places in the Netherlandes redde with humaine blood I reputed my selfe not onely happy to beleeue and anounce Iesus Christ but with the losse of my goodes to indure all sortes of oprobyes and slaunders for his name in and by whom I beleeued and spake And yet neuerthelesse afterward with so great scandale hauing made my selfe a Disciple of Antechrist Who would not be abashed and abhorre such an offence And therefore it is that I openly cry out and confesse that my Sinne is not like vnto other mens sinnes for if any man sinneth by ignoraunce or infirmitie hee shall finde a Mediatour which will pray for him and it shall be pardoned but who shall be my Mediatour I haue offended God and all his Seruantes I haue scandalized his people and haue made my selfe vnworthy of the commiseration of honest men Therefore the dolors of death eternall haue compassed me about and the tempestes of my iniquitie haue abashed me for the Arrowes of Almightie God haue wounded my soule in such maner that no part of my Flesh nor any of my Vaines are whole so much my mischiefe increaseth my Heart panteth and beateth in my breast with griefe my Bones are weakened by reason of the great distresse which I indure by meanes of my wicked action Behold how those that abandonate them-selues vnto Vanities are forsaken of God and of their owne grauitie It is a horrible thing to fall into the handes of the liuing God and to abiure his Trueth once knowne What shall I doe shall I despaire Must I at my departure out of this life attend and expect the reward of Cain and ludas and say with those miserable Apostates

My Sinnes are greater then the Mercie of God No I will not despaire for I know the eternall God is good that his Mercie surmounteth all the Heauens that he desireth not the death of a Sinner but rather that he should repent and be saued and that incessantly he pardoneth and forgiueth his elect He pittieth true repentant sinners be they neuer so miserable and great offenders and where Sinne aboundeth his Grace super-aboundeth I haue met with my Mediatour the Sonne of God my soueraine Sacrificator who can and will haue compassion of my infirmities but more then that his voyce and his example sommon induce yea and lead me to approch neere vnto him Come vnto mee sayth hee all you that are heauie laden and wearie and I will refresh you And againe Come now saith the Eternall if your Sinnes were as redde as Scarlet I will make them as white as Snow and if they were as redde as Vermilion I will make them white like Wooll When a man of credite speaketh wee beleeue him how much more then ought we to beleeue the mouth of him that can not lie It is hee that sanctifieth my afflictions to the ende that they should not bee the entry vnto eternall paine I haue likewise set before mine eyes an infinite number of examples of his pietie towardes Sinners The poore Publican casting downe his eyes to the ground crauing mercie of Iesus Christ returned home iustified The sinfull woman washed our Sauiours feete with her teares and hauing wipt them with her haire obtayned pardon of her finnes The poore Theefe being hanged vpon the Crosse desiring to be saued and calling vpon Iesus Christ assended from the Crosse into Paradise S. Peter hauing three times denied his good Maister after he had bewayled his sinnes with humilitie and repentance lost not the grace of an Apostle but was reestablished in his estate and vocation I call to minde great and inorare sinnes cruelties and wicked Apostasies committed against God and his Prophets by King Manasses who neuer the lesse being Prisoner in Babilon and finding his Conscience to be much pressed with the feeling of his wickednes after he had confessed his faultes vnto God he was receiued into mercie Jonas flying away frō the face of God from his presence in Tarsis because he would not follow his vocation was cast into the Sea and after being miraculously deliuered out of the Whales belly went to Ninine to declare his Commission All these examples haue made me know that God is exceeding good to those that seeke him who pardoneth all our infirmities hee is so good that hee will neuer reward vs according to our sinnes for he is prompt to Mercie and slow to Anger and hee is the perfection of all goodnesse Vp then my soule and prayse God and thou Sathan my aduersarie present no more vnto mee the inormitie of my apostacie thinking to astonish my conscience for the mercifull God of my continuall complaintes hath heard my voyce he hath receaued my request and hath graunted me more then I asked him All my enemies shall be ashamed and confounded neither could Sathan be both my Iudge and my Accuser for it was God whom I had offended who onely is my Iudge If therefore he is my Iudge who dares take vpon him to condeme me If he be with me who can be against me and if my Iudge will be my Aduocate and my Intercessor why should I feare the power and force of the Diuell Tirants although they sought to assayle me And therefore being in this sortresolued I determine to doe two thinges The one following the example of the Prodigall Childe to returne to my Countrie and my Fathers house againe I know he is mercifull and that although by my sinnes I haue lost his fauour yet he will neuer leaue nor loose his bountie I will willingly forsake the company and fellowship of those filthy Beastes with whom I haue so long time conuersed which is the Kingdome of the Romane Antechrist the Sonne of perdition that lifteth and opposeth himselfe against the Kingdome of the sonne of God and that vnder a false title of Pietie at this day tiraniseth ouer all the world desiring to satisfie his couetous humour with crueltie and ambition I will willingly abandon that sorrowfull habitation so odious and infamous and will put on the Roabe of Humilitie to present my Father with a true and sinceere contrition and confession of my faultes and offences My contrition shall be a disliking and detestation of my sinnes committed a trouble of Conscience apprehending and feeling in my Soule the wrath and anger of God which I haue incurred and deserued by my offences which would cause me to despaire if I were not strengthned an other way which is by a true and liuely faith in the mercie of God by the which after I haue truly duely confessed my sinnes I depose my selfe by faith to mount vp vnto the throane of grace to obtaine one drop of the Blood of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Secondly I haue sayd within my selfe I will seeke the face of God But where shall I find it but there where his Word is faythfully preached and the Sacramentes truely administred This Church so well marked was once my Mother she conceaued and brought me foorth to Christ my Sauiour she had giuen me many faire great prerogatiues for she had committed vnto me the keeping of her Spouses Flocke but I was one of those foolish Shepheardes of whom the Prophet Ezecheel in his 13. Chapter of his Reuelations speaketh which follow their owne fantasies and haue no care to execute their Offices and Vocations and therefore God the iust Iudge was angrie with me he dispoyled me of his fauours which were the singuler giftes graces wherwith he had indowed me in my youth and hath made me eate with Beastes as he did the Prodigall Child Yet I can not forget the loue which once she bore me and therefore I haue aproched vnto her againe hoping that she will be a follower of the bountie of God to wardes me asking two things of her The one that she will vouchsafe to pray vnto God for me for as issue of all enterprises dependeth vpon the fauour of God without the which we can doe nothing it is reason and very fitte to begin so holy a worke with the inuocation of his holy name The other that in this great perturbation of Spirit whereunto my intemperaunce hath brought me she will vouchsafe to giue me counsell and aduise for that from hence-foorth I will no more be wise in mine owne conceite but onely in God in whom consisteth the spring of Life and Wisedome I was then in an obscure and blacke Prison wherein Antechrist of Rome had caused me to be cast without any hope euer to come out againe My Accusations were That beeing Seruant to the Dutchesse of Cleaue I had been a Fauteur Mediator for the

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