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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

Churches which our Lord had assembled in the Dukedomes of Inlyers Cleaue and Bergh hindring diuers sinister enterprises pretended against them The rigor which they vsed against me was great and my life was in danger if the hatred of the Ecclesiasticall persons which were the cause of my mischief had had as much place and force as the benignitie and prudence of the noble Princesse of Lorraine had power to defend and preserue me from their cruelties Being in my sorrowfull Prison abandoned of all the World when it seemed that I was at the poynt of death and that Heauen and Earth had conspired togeather and agreed to worke my ouerthrow and destruction I desired my God to let me know the cause of his wrath and anger conceaued against me who sufficiently made me vnderstand by his holy Spirit that my apostacie was the only cause thereof I lamented my euill I fainted vnder the burthen of my anguish I washed my Bedde with teares and watered my Couch with weeping and without longer delay I made a Vow agreeable and pleasing vnto God which was that if he would vouchsafe to deliuer me out of Prison and to restore me to my friendes againe that in the first reformed Church according to the word of God which I should come vnto I would certifie vnto it my affliction my desire which was to cry God mercie to extirpe the Scandale proceeded of my Apostacie by the way of humilitie repentance The Lord which doth all things iustly heard my Prayer he receaued my request he graunted my desire he brake my bands and of a Prisoner made me free It is reason therefore that I performe my Vowes I haue not done like Ionas who in stead of going to Niniue the great Citie tooke the way to Tarsis nor like the wife of Lot who looking backe whē she went out of Sodoma Gomora was turned into a Piller of Salt Our Lord also saith That hee which putteth his hand to the Plough looketh backe is not good for the kingome of heauen therfore I esteemed the things of this world hurtfull and a hinderaunce vnto the couers of my vacation taking my way straight to this Church which had ingendred me in Christ with teares in my eyes and griefe of heart not so much with the feeling of my temporall afflictions as for that I haue offended I asked two things of her the one if that the way of Repentance should yet be open vnto me and the other what penaunce I deserued or should submit my selfe vnto to deface the euill which I had committed Shee made me answere that God neuer shutteth the Gate of his Church against any man truely repenting and hauing considered my teares and complaintes and the effectes of my contrition she did charitably comfort and instruct me I am with ioy and gladnesse of spirit come out of Babilon Mother of Confusion which had lifted me vp in pride against God and his Church which fostered in my foule not onely a perpetuall dolour and anguish but an executioner which neuer let me rest in peace night nor day For the which infinitely I thanke my God that in my old age and before I goe downe into the Sepulchre after hee had fatherly punished mee with so long and horrible Imprisonment he hath this day restored me to my Mother his Church to be a Temple and Habitation of his Spirit in the vertue whereof I beseech him to blesse and sanctifie my steppes to his glorie and to make me capiable to be and continue his most humble and obedient seruant Oh happie Prison which hath deliuered my soule from destruction and taking me by the hand to lead and conduct me by the pathes of Iustice to the Peace of the Elect Who would not admire the great effectes of the prouidence of God who in most desperate thinges can withdraw the shadow of darknesse to illuminate and direct our vncertaine steppes to follow his will Behold how it happeneth many times that that which we thinke would be most hurtfull vnto vs turneth vnto our great profit For the Prison out of the which I am deliuered without any blot of mine honour hath done that in me which the Prison in Babilon sometimes wrought in King Manasses So that I will not cease euery day to giue thankes vnto our good God who euen in the multitude and greatest force of my afflictions did alwayes support and vpholde my Soule in such libertie that it seemeth that how strong and great soeuer my troubles were they had power onely to ouercome and master my particular Passions and to eleuate my Spirit to Heauen to make me so much the more capiable to obtaine of God the assuraunce of his mercie by dispoyling me of the transitorie corruptible thinges of this world to the end to eleuate and stirre mee vp to thinges glorious and eternall For as much trouble and disquietnesse as my imprisonment procured vnto my bodie so much and more force and resolution it added vnto my soule It is true that Pietie is weakened by too great Felicitie but the Crosse and Persecution accompanied with a good Conscience maketh it become an assured Bulwarke against all the effortes and forces of the Diuell And in trueth we see that those whom God punisheth grieuously in this world for the most part are they whom he instructeth most fauourably in such maner that to speake properly the euils which God sent me and which I indured patiently were no euils vnto me but sharpned and stirred vp my spirit to soueraigne good Certainely that which Plato sayth is very true That those that are in griefes and anguishes haue the functions and faculties of the Soule more excellent then in time of prosperitie But that which maketh me most to woonder is that as much as my afflictions separated me from the House of God and the companie of the Faithfull so much it seemeth that they augmented and increased the former affection which I had to reunite my selfe thereunto and to leaue Papistrie A good man can not shunne aduersities but hee may well surmount and vanquish them and Although he seemeth vnto men to be wholly abandoned and reiected so it is that in the middle of his troubles he alwayes enioyeth a perfect felicitie the which hath sworne to be so loyall vnto him that whatsoeuer hapneth vnto him shee is alwayes with him shee is alwayes within him and maintayneth his Soule in such an estate that in what condition soeuer shee findeth her selfe to be shee is alwayes like vnto her selfe being so highly eleuated aboue the accidentes of humaine thinges that shee can not receiue any hurt or disgrace Seing then that the word of God teacheth vs that hee which hath publikely offended the Church ought to confesse and acknowledge his fault openly and for that the Order of Ecclesiasticall discipline in the Church of God practiseth the same I haue desired that my returne into the House of God should be publikely made and in