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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

Persons but not his Person that he cannot communicate for if it were to be communicated the distinction of persons would be takē away But God who is only good did participate himselfe vnto men when he cōmunicated his word full of grace truth He took not vpon him the nature of Angels as Paul saith but humane nature In this first communication God is in himselfe but in his second after a sort without himselfe Such a one did Dionysius Areopagita regard him to be when he said This we dare speake for truth that almighty God suffered on earth by the power and force of charity viz. he was not in himselfe Of this participation S. Iohn writes and the other Euangelists And seeing God made nothing in vaine this communication also was made for some purpose For it was to take away the sinne committed by our first parents and by propagation Christ accepted past ouer and transmitted vnto mankind By reason whereof as Paul saith we are all borne the sonnes of wrath because we all sinned in Adam Wherefore the right which we had to the inheritance of eternall life before the fall of Adam we afterwards lost as the Lawyers teach But God that as a father loueth vs the sonnes of adoption decreed in his vnchangeable counsell to send forth his Sonne made of a woman and made vnder the law for what loue exceeds the loue of a father that we might receiue the adoption of the sonnes And as Iohn witnesseth God so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten Son c. by whose coming and participation Saint Paul saith We are saued from wrath and redeemed The Sonne of God is also communicated vnto vs that he might instruct vs in his holy wisedome and vnderstanding because in him are had all the treasure of wisedome and knowledge For he was the chiefe Maister and teacher when he was appointed by God the Father that all should receiue vnderstand from him the doctrine of truth for thus God spake of him This is my wel-beloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased heare him Besides Let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of this bread c. By which it manifestly appeares that it continues to be bread And the very Priests of Rome themselues after consecratiō of the Sacramēts which according to their opinion is euē the body of Christ not bread vse the signes of the crosse vpon the same Sacrament calling it an holy ✚ Sacrament a pure ✚ Sacrament an vndefiled ✚ Sacrament the sanctified ✚ bread of eternall life and the cup of ✚ euerlasting saluation So that they name it bread and yet are contrary to themselues The same truth teacheth that holy father Irenaeus saying Now it is no common bread but the Eucharist consisting of two things that is earthly and heauenly In which words he expresly teacheth the bread to remaine there still Moreouer the forme of the body of Christ is the soule for Aristotle saith that Anima est actus corporis physici potentiâ vitam habentis But it cannot be said that the substantiall forme of bread is conuerted into the soule Therefore the same substance of the bread remaineth Further if the substantiall forme of bread be conuerted into the body of Christ it would then follow the body of Christ to consist of two formes which is most false Also the Accident without the substance cannot be ministred or giuen but there the Accidents are seene tasted smelt c. Therefore the substance is giuen The refuge of the Papists is to make it a miracle by which the whitenesse of the bread continues and other accidents thereunto belonging But it is a false reply for it is not found in the holy Scriptures neither was it needfull that Christ should worke such a miracle Saint Augustine saith These things may be honoured as religious but to worke wonder or astonishment they cannot as miraculous Also the accidents are alwaies destroyed by the corruption of the substance But as I will make manifest hereafter the very accidents of bread are destroyed in time therefore transubstantiation of the bread is not giuen By reason whereof the Papists at their times renew such sacrifices reserued in their Vestries or other places appointed to keepe their holy things and reliques that is euery weeke in Sommer time but in the Winter time at 15 daies And this is done to take away the scandall of their corruption Therefore Transubstantiation is not giuen In a matter so plaine and euident I neither desire to spend much time nor to be too tedious or troublesome to the readers But if any shall be desirous to reade more concerning this point let them looke vpon Christophorus Pezeline and Iohn Caluin who very manifestly and learnedly teach the truth and make it cleare and apparant to the eyes and vnderstanding of such as are blind and ignorant Of the Corporall absence of Christ in the Sacrament BEcause it is the ground and foundation of the tyrannicall monarchy of the Papists to blind the eyes of the faithfull which according to their enchaunting speeches beleeue the body and bloud of Christ to be really in the consecration of many sacrifices and as they say in euery one of them and in the cup and chalices I will speake somewhat by the way against their false opinions not to the satisfaction of them that reade for of this matter they may peruse the Institutions of Doctour Caluin c. but to expresse mine owne minde I say first The Papists do adde and detractmany times from the words of the true text to confirme and establish their owne inuentions as it is to be seene by the Inquisitors who adde to the Gospell of Christ what may serue their owne purpose For Christ doth thus admonish vs by Math. Chap. 18. before cited If thy brother trespasse against thee go and tell him his fault betweene thee and him alone c. If he heare thee not t●ke yet with thee one or two witnesses If he will not vouchsafe to heare them tell it vnto the Church The Church of Rome to these words of Christ addeth praeter causam fidei but for faith or religions sake so that they take away and cut off the meaning of the Gospell and contradict Christ himselfe so charitably admonishing and exhorting So do they contradict Saint Hierome Saint Ambrose and many other holy Fathers and many times adde and detract from the very words of the holy Scripture as manifestly appears in that vnchristianlike booke intituled the Index expurgatorius But now to returne to our purpose The Church of Rome to the words of Christ saying This is my body addeth for which Christ neuer pronounced nor Saint Peter whatsoeuer Thomas affirmeth And if the Priest pronounce not for among the Papists he sinnes hainously Also the Church of Rome addeth that the bread of consecration ought to be vnleauened which precept was neither deliuered

Sometimes also poyson as they say is put into that Sacrament that so men may be bereaft of their liues as it is read of the Emperour Henry the 7 and of Pope Victor the third whereof the first losse his life by the Sacrament of bread poysoned by his Consessour the last by wine transsubstantiate Therefore we must conclude that the body of Christ is not there or otherwise the body of Christ to be the instrument of sin and the meanes of euill which is blasphemy This corporall absence Christ hath manifestly shewne saying The poore you shall haue alwaies with you Me you shall not haue alwaies Christ also speaketh of the absence of his humanity for his Diuinity fils both heauen and earth in which humanity he shall not come vnto vs till the day of iudgement Moreouer the Papists affirme that the matter of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ought to be determinate They are also possessed with many mad imaginations saying this is a true Proposition Out of bread becomes the body of Christ And this also is false Of bread becomes or is made the body of Christ These are words of exceeding folly and dotage and are differing and repugnant to themselues although Thomas expound them supernaturally In conuersions also that which is conuerted is corrupted and that into which the conuersion is had is begotten and ingendred Thus after their opinion we must say that Christ is so begotten and ingendred which is an heresie The Diuell getteth much and enlargeth his power and number by the idolatry of the Church of Rome which he still perswades them to maintaine and so they will vntill it shall please God of his infinite goodnesse and mercy to open their eyes and make their vnderstanding perfect that they may truly see and reade the booke of God for they yet liue in error and darknesse But if they would looke vpon and heare the booke which Hilkiah the high Priest found in the house of the Lord they would do as that godly king Iosiah did in the 18. yeare of his Monarchy who as soone as Shaphan the Chancellor had shewed it and read it to the king and that he had heard the words of the booke of the Law he was so moued therewith that he rent his clothes and wept before God and crauing pardon at Gods hands humbled himselfe destroyed the idols and walked according to the will and word of the Lord. I was also much troubled in minde about the power of the Pope when he doth those things which almighty God neither doth or can do For although God be omnipotent and nothing is vnpossible with him he yet worketh no sinne or euill neither is there any guile found in his mouth neither can he do that which is wrapt or encombred with controuersies and contradictions But the Pope takes vpon him to do this for if any come vnto him and desire the reliques of some Saint as of Hermolaus or any other he will answer that he hath none because his bones are dispersed But he takes the bones perhaps of some reprobate and wicked person and blesseth them and baptised in the name of Hermolaus he deliuereth them to him that makes suite for the same and then the bones of him are worshipped whose soule in hell is cruciated And thus it begets scandall and contradiction that the bones of any wicked or idle persons are the bones of some Saints or others at his pleasure I obserued the power couetousnesse and tyranny of the same Pope I beheld his exceeding pompe and pride and with these things and many more of this nature my minde was much tormented For seeing Christ is the fulnesse of all grace in that he endues the Church with spirituall grace and vnderstanding we ordaine him to be the head thereof with S. Paul saying He hath made all things subject vnder his feete and hath appointed him ouer all things to be the head of the Church And seeing both Men and Angels are ordained to enioy Gods glory euen as of men so also of the Angels he may rightly be called the head For the mysticall body of the Church doth not onely consist of men but of Angels But of all this multitude and number Christ is the head for that his seat is neere vnto God and doth partake of his gifts not onely more absolutely then men but more perfectly also then the very Angels so that from his influence both men and Angels receiue their benefits As Saint Paul witnesseth saying He hath set him at his right hand in the heauenly places farre aboue all principality and power and might and domination and euery name that is named not in this world onely but also in that that is to come and hath put all things vnder his feete And so S. Matthew saith Behold the Angels came and ministred vnto him And albeit the Angels themselues lacke faith Quia non per fidem sed per speciem ambulant and the Church is the congregation of the faithfull neuerthelesse Christ is their head There fore besides that diuine wisedome which Christ had from the beginning he had also a humane knowledge notwithstanding the position ofsuch as deny that there be two sorts of wisdomes in Christ which in the sixth Synode is held a thing damnable for as S. Ambrose saith God did assume the perfection of humane nature in the flesh tooke vppon him the sence of man but not the pride of carnall sensualitie But to the sence of man appertaineth an humane knowledge created Therefore in Christ is giuen that experimentall knowledge of which S. Luke speaketh So did loel prophetically see him taught saying to the people Reioyce in the Lord your God for he hath giuen you the raine of righteousnesse c. And the spouse saith I will leade thee and bring thee into my mothers house and there thou shalt instruct me And Isaias I haue giuen him for a Prince and a maister vnto the people comprehending these two things namely that he was a Redeemer and a Maister for whereas he termes him a Prince he meanes him to be a Redeemer but calling him Maister he signifies him an instructer or teacher Christ therfore is endued with all these sciences by which mē were instructed by him as out of Mathew opening his mouth he taught his Disciples and out of Iohn Iesus ascended into the Temple and taught the people and as it is written in Luke They found him sitting in the Temple c. By two wayes then he taught the people that is by example and words For Iesus began to do and afterwards to teach the true and simple doctrine without any kind of commixtion Seeing therefore Christ came to teach mankind and to redeeme them with his most pretious blod my selfe being one among the rest to be redeemed and taught through his vniuerse and exceeding goodnesse was at the length called to the true

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