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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

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

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

God all the dayes of my life I likewise desire those on whom God hath powred his grace hauing miraculously preserued them in his Church with constancy and perseuerance without hauing diuorced themselues or committed apostacie as I haue done to praise God with all their hearts and continually to giue him thanks for it is a most great miracle which proceedeth not from their owne force and vertue but from the holy and liberall hand of God our Father Wherefore let them perseuere in louing of God and flie from finne and vices and being of a good courage the kingdome of Antichrist will fall and that of Iesus Christ shall be established but before that hapneth the diuell will enforce himselfe more then euer he did to make warre against the Church Behold wherefore if euer the children of God haue had need of prudence and wisedome surely to direct their vncertaine paths according to the word of God it is now in this pitifull and sorrowfull time wherein Satan enimy vnto all righteousnesse and godlinesse seemeth to haue so much authoritie euen ouer the elect that if they were not miraculously aided and defended by the holy and liberall hand of God our Father they should not onely be vtterly cast downe but the earth would soone be reduced vnto the same state that Sodome and Gomorra was in times past Let prayer therefore accompanied with true repentance be our refuge vnto him who will neuer forsake his inheritance and that will cause the assaults of Antichrist to perish as he once drowned Pharaoh in the sea To make an end I beseech you pray vnto God for me and if any one among you haue any bookes which in times past haue beene printed in my name in diuerse languages bookes full of iests lies and false suppositions I desire they may be burnt and consumed to ashes I will not likewise passe ouer in silence that in the confutation of those bookes and in some histories wherein mention is made of my fall there are some clauses ignorantly set downe which I impute not so much to the inconsiderate zeale of the Authors as to mine owne fault which God would iustly punish and correct hauing placed me vpon the scaffold of his wrath and indignation as I had most iustly deserued If you aide me with your prayers vnto God and if you be imitators of that great mercy which he hath shewed this day vnto me which I beseech you beare in minde I will praise God for your pietie and pray vnto him to continue his mercy towards you and yours with long life and happy dayes The prayer of king Manasses when he was prisoner in Babylon O Lord Almightie God of our fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob and of all the righteous seed of thine elect which hast made heauen earth with all their ornaments which hast bound the sea by the word of thy commandement which hast shut vp the deep and sealed it by thy terrible and glorious name whom all doe feare and tremble before thy power for the Maiestie of thy glory cannot be borne and thine angry threatning towards sinners is importable but thy mercy is vnmeasurable and vnsearchable for thou art the most high Lord of great compassion long suffering and most mercifull and repentest for mans miseries Thou O Lord hast promised of thy great mercy to giue grace of repentance and mercy vnto those that haue sinned against thee and hast appointed repentance vnto those that are sinners that thou mightest saue them by the greatnesse of thy compassions Thou therefore O Lord which art the God of the iust hast not appointed repentance vnto the iust as to Abraham Isaac and Iacob nor for those that haue not sinned against thee but for me that am a sinner for I haue sinned aboue the number of the saud of the sea my transgressions are exceeding many and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of the heauens For the multitude of mine vnrighteousnes I am bowed downe with many and great sinnes and cannot lift vp my head neither haue any release but onely in thy free mercy for I haue prouoked thy wrath and done euill before thee I haue not done thy will neither kept thy commaundements but haue most wickedly committed sinne and iniquitie in thy presence and wilfully multiplied sinne vpon sinne Now therefore O Lord I bowe the knees of my heart beseeching thee of grace and mercie I haue sinned O Lord I haue sinned done euill before thee but I humbly beseech thee forgiue me O Lord forgiue me and destroy me not in the multitude of mine vnrighteousnesse be not angry with me for euer by reseruing euill for me neither cast me into the bottomlesse pit of hel for thou art the God euen the God of them that repent And in me I beseech thee shew foorth thy goodnesse in sauing me that am vnworthy in the multitude of thy great mercie and I will praise thee all my life long for euer for all the powers of heauen praise thee and thine is all glory for euer and euer Amen The Conuersion of a Doctor in Spaine SEeing Almighty God who is the chiefest goodnesse and felicity and maketh his grace and goodnesse communicable to other things hath participated himselfe in things we see not and touching the Diuinity to the Son by generation contrary to the opinion of Arrius and Samosatenus and to the holy Ghost by proceeding contrary also to Macedonius and Eunomius arch-heretiques euen according to his infinite Essence without any distinction or deuiding of the same and to be equall with him in deity stance Therefore the Sonne begotten of the Father and not made and the holy Ghost which proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne as from one beginning haue the same essence in number and inseparable nature with the Father contrary to the opinion of the Valentines which faine more then one yet his Persons viz. of the Father of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost are in number distinguished and deuided contrary to the Sabellians who dreame they are all but one Person For the Person of the Father is one of the Son another and of the holy Ghost another But of the Father the Sonne and the holy God there is but one Diuinity one equall glory and one coeternall Maiesty God himselfe is immutable in his counsels neither can he be any way hindered or deceiued in the same By reason whereof it comes to passe that whasoeuer happeneth the same he hath determined from eternity who in things that we see by his word as he saw good hath created all things of nothing and made and disposed in order the heauens the earth the sea and whatsoeuer is therein contained by his euer-liuing Sonne working with the Father who also by his infinite and consubstantiall power and vertue viz. by the holy Ghost administers all things in his diuine Prouidence In this participatiō God remaines in himselfe imparting his Essence to other