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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

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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
the Prophet hath said that thou wilt saue preserue them that put their trust in thee My whole hope and confidence is in thee I stand in need of thy aid and defence Be vnto me oh Lord as a shield and buckler against those roaring Lyons that go about to deuoure me And as thou didst deliuer Moses out of the hand of Pharaoh Susanna from false iudgement and Daniel from the Lyons denne so deliuer me from their hands Giue vnto my soule the grace and gift of perseuerance and grant that they who are yet blind may haue their eyes opened and at length attaine to the knowledge and wisedome of the truth made knowne in thy Gospell In respect of thee oh my God I make account of nothing I leaue and forsake all things and hope not for any thing but thy glory The honours which I had in mine owne countrey I vtterly despise the dignity which I haue hitherto possessed I am quite forgetfull of and forgo my quondam Prouinciall who ordained me to be his successour My friends and all my kindred for thee I contemne and willingly reiect for euer For those things that were aduantage vnto me the same I account losse for Christs sake and do iudge them to be dung that I might win Christ and be found in him with S Paul And I will follow the true doctrine of Christ saying If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his owne life also hee cannot be my Disciple I confesse vnto thee my Lord and my King and I giue praise vnto thee my God and Sauiour for that thou hast deliuered me from perdition and from the tongues of them that speake lyes Be a succour vnto me and a tower of defence in the face of mine enimies that I may constantly abide the slaunders and backbitings wherewith I know they swarme and are full Wherefore oh most merciful God and louing Father who in the multitude of thy mercies dost put out of thy remembrance the sins and iniquities of such as confesse vnto thee by the grant of thy pardō make void the imputation of all former offences Looke fauourably vpon thy seruant and giue vnto me that with true confession and contrition of heart begge remission of my sins Refresh and renew in me oh Father whatsoeuer the diuelish fraud and deceipt of the Church of Rome hath distained and corrupted and win a member of thy redemption to the body and vnity of the true reformed Church We the Pastours Seniours and Deacons of the Church of Rochel whose names are here vnderwritten do witnesse and make it knowne that Martin Bartox hath made a summary confession of our faith and publickely discouered vtterly renounced the errours of the Romish Church before a great company of Gods faithfull seruants being then present reioycing and congratulating his conuersion we witnesse further that we haue seene and heard to be performed whatsoeuer is herein made mention of or set forth From this Citty of Rochel Pastors I. Merlnius H. Colomozius S. Loumaeus L. Cerclerus Seniors Chalmotius Cl. Heralts I. Farnoulius I Bodierus I. Dournes Durantius Deacons I. Agrestsns A. Maquinus FINIS Mich. 7. 8. Exod. 2. Gene. 39. Ionas 2. Exod. 2. Exod. 12. Gen. 33. Gen. 41. Math 11 28. Esa 1. 18. Ioh 12. 3. Luk. 22. Gal. 2. 11. Luk. 15. Luk. 15. Luk. 19 Luk. 15. Iohn 5. 12. Iohn 5. 24. Rom. 3. 24. Iohn 3. 13. Ephe. 2. 6. Col 1. 13. Dan. 9. 2. Thes 2. Atha in Symb. Psal 2. 7. Hebr. 1. 3. Ioh. 1. 15. Atha in Symb. Idem in Symb. Num. 23. 19. Malac. 2. 6. Gen 1. 1. Hebr. 1. 2. 11 3. Ioh. 1. 3 Luk 18. 19 Tho 1. q6 Ar. 2. 2. in Aug. vt supra Hebr. 2. 16. Mat. 1. 16. Luke 2. 1. Dio de di no. Ioh. 1. 14. Math 1. 16. Luke 2. 1. Ari. 1 de coel text 32 2. text 17 tom 2. Gal 4. 5. Gen. 3. 6. 1. Cor. 15 22. Rom. 5. 12. Quisquis P. filij ver● P. ad l. i● Gal. 4. 5. Ioh. 3. 16. Rom. 5. 9. Luke 19. 10. Math 18. 12. Col. 2. 3. Math. 17. 5. Irenaeus cap. 34 lib. 4. aduers heres Lib. 2. anim● text 4. 6. 10. 2. Aug. de Trini lib. 3. cap. 10. Chr. P●ze P. 8. in disp coen● Domini Ioh. Cal. lib. 4. cap 17 Sect 12. 13. vsque ad 20. Ft in eodem lib ca. Sect. 18. The 4. cause of his seperation Cal. lib. 4. cap. 17. a Sect. 14. vs ad 50. Math. 18. Tho. 3. p. q. ●8 Ar. 2. 5. Deut 1. 9. 12. 32. Rcu 22. 18 Luke 21. 33. Hebr. 7. 7. Gen. 27. 27. 40. 48. 15. Rom. 1. 25. Tho. 3. P. q. ●6 5 5. Exod. 25. 10. Vsque ad 25. 2. Sam. 6. ●6 vsque ad 11. Ioh 12. 3 Isa 66. 1. Act. 1. 11. The. 3. 75. 8. 2. Kin. 22. 10. 11. 12. The fifth cause of his separation Luk. 1. 36. 1. Pet. 2. 22. Ioh. 1. 15. Ephes 1. 22. Colos 1. 18. Colos 2. 10. Ephes 1. 21. Psal 8. 8. Ephe. 1. 21. Math. 4. 11. Sexta Synod Ambr. l. de incar Dom. ●ap 7. Luk 2. Ioel. 2. Cant. 8. 2. Isa 55. 4. Math. 5. Iohn 7. Luk. 2. Act. 1. 1. Cor 6. The first cause of his separation from the Romish Church The second cause of his separation 2. Tim. 2. Io. Caluin in ini tio Institut Ep. ad Regem Fran. Heb. 2. Psal 118. 105. Psal 32. Psal 108. Luke 15. 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