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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

by Christ nor his Apostles The Greeke Priests do vse leauened bread Therefore it may be said that if they be various in the matter there can be no truth found in the forme For the determinate matter hath her determinate forme and the determinate forme also her determinate matter But they adde and diminish at their pleasures contrary to the rules and commandements of God who saith You shall not adde to the word that I speake vnto you nor take from the same And moreouer What I command thee that onely doe neither adde thou any thing nor diminish God reprehends such as are bold and audacious in this behalfe saying I protest vnto every man that heareth the words c. If any man shall adde c. See how God reproues the bishop of Rome all his Popish Priests complices that walk against Gods cōmandemērs for the word of the Lord endureth and he himselfe saith Heauen earth shall passe away but my words shall not passe a-away Therefore that God that true and euerlasting God will send vnto them sodaine ruine and destruction Amongst other ceremonies which the Papists do vse one is after consecration of the bread to blesse the same bread with the signe of the crosse and certaine words c. Now I demand of them if it be lawfull for the creature to blesse the Creator For benediction as Saint Paul saith is alwaies from the greater to the lesser The lesser is blessed of the greater as he affirmeth in expresse words Hebr. 7. 7 For the father giues his blessing to the sons as Isaac did to Iacob and Esau and Iacob to the sonnes of Ioseph his sonne And it is commonly obserued that the father at the very point of death giues his blessing to his sonnes but the sons which are the lesser although they reuerence and honour the father do not yet giue him benediction By which I conclude that the Papist Priests as inferiour ought not to blesse Christ their superiour and if they do it in their Masse as they terme it they blesse not Christ the Creator but the bread the creature and so they worship the creature not the Creator as Saint Paul saith They haue turned the truth of God into a lye and worshipped and serued the creature much more then the Creator Neither ought we to beleeue that Christ is in their hands when the words are pronounced by them For many are consecrating the Sacrament at once and the body of Christ being but one in number is not in many sacrifices For the body of Christ is natural and keepeth a place and is not giuen in many places at one time But the Papists reply to this saying that the body of Christ is there sacramently not totally But this is a very idle distinction and a slanderous boldnesse to say they haue Christ in that manner in their hands at the Sacrament For if as they confesse Christ haue a chiefe place in heauen and yet is in the Sacrament with the same really as he is heauen it would follow God in times past who was figuratiuely in the Arke was couered with a Table of gold and so the Arke was honored and had in admiration that the Priests might with feare come vnto it For when Vzzah as the Arke of God was carried out of the house of Abinadab with a godly zeale put his hand to the Arke The Lord was very wroth and smote him in the same place for his fault and there he died by the Arke Therefore Dauid that day feared the Lord and said How shall the Arke of the Lord come to me and durst not bring the Arke of the Lord to himselfe If this be so how dare the Romish Priestes pronounce Christ himselfe with his Diuinity and Humanity to descend into their hands Or if the true body of Christ were in the sacrifice or the sacrifice it selfe were the true body of Christ how comes it that brute beasts haue place there For many times the flies goes vpon it and other insensible creatures as is daily seene and made manifest And I my selfe often celebrating the Masse haue seene flies vpon the Sacrament consecrated and made holy Therefore we may not beleeue the true body of Christ to be there Sometimes also by negligence of the Priests part of the sacrifices haue fallen vpon the ground and bene troden vnder foote And I am a faithfull and true eye witnesse that in the yeare of our Lord 1595 in a Church which the Order of the most holy Trinity hath at Turol whereof I was chiefe a certaine religious man as they call him celebrating the Sacrament turned the chalice vpside downe and the consecrated wine as they say was part sprinckled on the earth and part shed vpon the Altar And for these mischaunces there are certaine rules set downe in the Missall of Rome ordaining punishments to such Priests by whom they happen or befall Also in the Emperours Cathedrall Church of S. Paul in the yeare of our Lord 1580. the theeues stole away a siluer Casket where the consecrated Sacrifices were vsually kept and threw the sacrifices themselues vpon the ground and vpon the Altar In the yeare of our Lord 1586 in the Monastery of S. Sauiour at Fraga theeues a●so tooke away the chest where the Sacrifices were kept and they were throwne vp and downe Therefore we may not beleeue the body of Christ to be there For if as they grant the body and bloud remaine vnder those formes so long as they continue vncorrupt and if also laid vpon the ground as is aforesaid they be vncorrupt and so are troden vnder foote then Christ must likewise be troden vnder foote which is a most grosse absurdity Sometimes also as I haue seene wormes haue bred in those their sacrifices If then we hold their opinion it must needs be that they beingendred out of the body of Christ not out of the bread because there as they say the bread is not Haec de Accidentibus Because if by miracle as they hold they continue and abide of themselues then they ought to be kept by miracle without any corruption for there is no greater reason for the one then for the other nor of the body of Christ Otherwise the body of Christ should change the forme and the very wormes should partake of the body bloud of Christ and from thence haue originall beginning which is most false and vnworthy Therefore it is to be said that nothing is there more then the bread it selfe Moreouer let there be two sacrifices of bread put together sod and made at one time of one meale fire and water and let the one be consecrated and made holy and the other vnconsecrated and we shall see their corruption to be alike It therefore followes that the one hath no more in it then the other neither is the body of Christ more in the consecrated forme of bread then in that which is vnhallowed