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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

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

the Father in whom such treasures are hidden But these thinges are repugned by the Papistes who say that such certaintie of assurance cannot be without arrogancie presumption But as we must not presume of any thing to be in our selues yet we must presume of all thinges in God for in trueth we are not for any other cause bereaued of all vaine glorie but onely to the end that we should be glorified in him On the other side behold and see with what affection those miserable and ignorant persons I speake specially of Ecclesiasticall persons are mooued and ledde they easily permit both them selues and others to be ignorant negligent and carelesse of the true Religion which is taught vs by the holy Scriptures and which ought to be resolutely and firmely held among all men and thinke that it is no great matter what Fayth euery man holdeth nor whether he holdeth with God or Christ so that with an inueloped or imposed Fayth as they tearme it they submit their censures to the iudgement of the Church and care not though the glory of God be poluted by euident Blasphemies so that no man speaketh a word against the authoritie of our Mother the holy Church that is according to their meaning the Sea of Rome And therefore they fight and contend with such rigour and boldnesse for the Masse Purgatorie Pilgrimage and such trifles in such maner that they denie that true pietie can be obserued if all those thinges be not beleeued and holden for infallible rules of our saluation although they prooue nothing by the word of God Wherefore I pray you but onely because their Belly is their God the Kitchin their Religion and the World their Paradise which being taken away they are not onely perswaded that they can be Christians but which is more no men and although some of them liue delicately and in great aboundance and others liue barely and votarely in pouertie gnawing of Crustes neuerthelesse they liue all by one Pot which without such aydes would not onely waxe cold but wholly be frozen vp And therefore he which among them hath most care of his Belly is the most zealous in their Fayth To conclude they haue all one selfe-same purpose and intent either to maintaine their Kingdome or their Bellies and there is none of thē that sheweth the least apearance in the world of true zeale and yet they cease not to Slaunder and with Fire Sword Water and all other mischiefes to pursue and persecute the doctrine of Trueth either to make it odious or suspected But if we were permitted to speake as boldly and as well as they I am perfwaded that their hotnesse wherewith they boyle so terribly against vs would be somewhat cooled for to say trueth that which the blind world at this day honoureth in those idle Bellies is onely a faigned vizard of Hipocrifie which vnder the shadow of the Church would hide their couetousnesse to beare rule seeking for the Church of God in the beautifulnesse of Houses and other exteriour ornamentes thinking that the vnion of the Faythfull consisteth and is contayned in those exteriour thinges which are transitorie and corruptible and not rather in righteousnesse and trueth Wherefore according to the word of God we hold the Sea of Rome to be the Seate of Antechrist which eleuateth and opposeth it selfe against that of the Sonne of God which vnder a false title of Religion at this day tiranniseth ouer all the world liuely representing that Seate of Impietie whereof the Prophet Daniel and the Apostle S. Paul haue spoken whereof we say the Pope is the Captaine which hath prophaned the Holy Temple of God by horrible abhominations in such sort that therein there rather appeareth an Image of Babilon then any shew of the holy Citie of God But some men will obiect and aske mee Did not you before your reuolt know these great impieties and mischiefes viz. that all the Romane sect is but a King dome of Vntruethes where the name of the eternall God is villanously prophaned and the Lordes honour impudently giuen vnto Idoles I answere that I knew it hauing a hundred and a hundred times published and preached it vnto the World but in trueth I confesse that I neuer did so pertinently vnderstand nor marke so well the horrible Sacrileges of Antechrist as I did while I conuersed familiarly with them in Rome where euery man attendeth his owne profite and pleasures and not the seruice of Iesus Christ We must not then feare that by leauing the Church of Rome we diuorce our selues from the Church of God for the communion of the Church was not ordained to that end that it should be a place for to draw vs to idolatry impietie ignorance of the true God and other wickednes but rather to retaine vs in the feare of God and in the obedience of the truth We do truly withdraw our selues from Poperie and not from the Church we shun and flie from idols but not from the true Church we will withdraw our selues from the tyrannie of the Pope and not from the true Christian common wealth from the plague and not from life ready to reunite our selues with them when Antichrist and the mischiefe which he hath brought into it shall be driuen away In the meane time the house of God shall be my habitation the Lord my portion and his Sonne my Pastor he will cause me to rest in his parkes of assurance he will restore my afflicted soule and will preserue me if it pleaseth him from the bloudy hands of those that seeke my vtter ruine and ouerthrow All you that haue done as I haue done and haue suffered your selues to runne headlong into mischiefe and which as yet liue in the kingdome of Antichrist with a contaminated and defiled conscience and vnquietnesse of spirit for I thinke and beleeue certainly that it is impossible for a man that hath knowne the impieties of Papistrie where the bloud of Christ is bought and sold where his onely propitiatorie sacrifice offered for our sinnes is esteemed to be insufficient to deface them where the merits of men are equalized with the merits of Iesus Christ I beleeue that his soule is alwayes in paine and that if he stayeth long there in the end he will feele an executioner in his conscience which will neuer suffer him to liue in peace night nor day I beseech you most humbly in the name and fauour of Iesus Christ to abandon and leaue the synagogue of Sathan and to reunite and ioyne your selues to this Church of God vnited and conioyned in faith with the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles in the word of God which is faithfully preached and the Sacraments duly and purely administred It is into his lap that I yeeld my selfe it is vnto the guard of his pietie that I haue recourse beseeching him with all humilitie to receiue and admit me into the communion of his children hauing determined to liue with them by the power of my

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