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<HEAD>THE RECANTATION OF Cornelius O Donnel, PRIOR of TRIM, As it was by him &s;olemnly deliver'd in the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>Trim</HI> (Renouncing the Errors of the ROMAN CHURCH) upon <HI>Sunday Aug.</HI> 14. together with the Motives inducing him thereunto.</HEAD>
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<P>_GOod People, con&s;idering my now appearing here this day in a way differing from my Profe&s;sion for|merly in the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Church, it becomes nece&s;&s;ary for Publick &s;atisfaction that &s;omething be declared as to the Manner, Rea|&s;ons and Grounds of it, which I cho&s;e to be done among&s;t you here at <HI>Trim,</HI> rather than
<PB N="2" REF="2"> El&s;ewhere; This being the very Place unto which (by a Power Forreign to you, and by me now di&s;claimed) I have been appointed Prior) (that being among&s;t tho&s;e with whom I once was) a dignity of E&s;teem, the <HI>Prior</HI> of <HI>Trim</HI> re|puted among&s;t the mo&s;t Eminent of that kind in this Kingdome. This gives you the repute then had of me among tho&s;e whom I at that time conver&s;ed with: So therein you &s;ee what my former Profe&s;&s;ion was, and way of life, be|ing one in Communion with the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> and a <HI>Regular</HI> of the <HI>Dominican</HI> Order of Friars; in which way I continued about twen|ty years, and in Order hereunto my Education hath been mo&s;t in Forreign Parts, as at <HI>Rome; Naples,</HI> &amp;c. being but lately return'd to this my Native Country of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and here received with tho&s;e re&s;pects, and that Tru&s;t already mention'd.</P>
<P>Ambition of greatne&s;s is not therefore (you &s;ee) the Motive to this Change; for I cannot now propo&s;e to my &s;elf great things rationally, as I had no rea&s;on to deny my &s;elf any hopes of ri&s;ing yet higher then I have done, had I gone on and continued in that Cour&s;e where|in I was formerly; nor is Liberty, and a being out of the Narrow Rules of a Regular Order any inducement to me in this, for I know not
<PB N="3" REF="2"> where liberty even to licentiou&s;ne&s;s is to be had more then in the way of my Conver&s;ation formerly; not that I &s;ay 'tis &s;o there profe&s;&s;edly and by Publique Allowance, yet to be &s;o in ef|fect and generally, and with much connivance and impunity al&s;o is what cannot be denyed; of which I could wi&s;h heartily that others al|&s;o in that cour&s;e would con&s;ider &s;eriou&s;ly and &s;ea&s;onably; nor that, nor any thing in that kind was a Per&s;ua&s;ive to me in this, but what only is grounded on con&s;cience and care of Salvation, to which all &s;ini&s;ter ends of Ambiti|on or Liberty, or any thing el&s;e of that nature mu&s;t give place.</P>
<P>Under the&s;e thoughts of this Change, I have long laboured with &s;ome conflicts and trouble of mind, and &s;ometime of hazard to my Per&s;on al&s;o: for during my time at <HI>Na|ples,</HI> having incon&s;iderately expre&s;&s;ed my &s;elf in &s;ome things whereby jealou&s;ies were rai&s;ed of me, which had like to have brought me into the Inqui&s;ition, had I not recollected my &s;elf by a &s;ea&s;onable contraction made of what had &s;o pa&s;&s;ed me; and herein I acknowledge my weakne&s;s in not rather &s;tanding it out then and in After trialls; for thereby, and by temp|tations after of quiet and advantage, I did for a time &s;ilence con&s;cience, and was content to
<PB N="4" REF="3"> run on as formerly, and &s;o re&s;olved I came to this my native Soyl, and here accordingly ac|cepted of that preferment before mentioned then offered and conferr'd upon me. But here it plea&s;ed God to look on me in his mercy a|gain, not &s;o leaving me to my &s;elf, and having brought me hither to a place of more liberty for declaring my &s;elf &s;o, as I could not do be|fore, and finding here al&s;o means for my ful|ler information in the truth, then in my former condition, I have therefore through that grace of God which hath opened that way &s;o for me, now laid hold on this happy opportunity for it, and do rejoyce that I may with this freedom and &s;afety declare my &s;elf in all the&s;e in this place, and at this time before you.</P>
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<P>But in the very entrance on this I find my &s;elf the Publick Di&s;cour&s;e of all; all mouthes open again&s;t me, &s;ome malici|ou&s;ly, others over-credulou&s;ly to my great &s;candal and di&s;|couragement, and a&s;per&s;ed with &s;candalous &s;urmizes, &s;uch as untill this occa&s;ion were never known. But if I &s;o &s;uffer, I know I am not alone in it, and I know him who a&s;&s;ures me of a ble&s;sing, while othe s &s;o cur&s;e. <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed are ye,</HI> &s;aith Chri&s;t, <HI>when all men &s;hall revile you, and per&s;ecute you, and &s;hall &s;ay all manner of evil of you fal&s;ely for my &s;ake,</HI> Math. 5. ver&s;e 11. But whatever men &s;ay of me, or whatever I have been, I, &s;hall by the Grace of God approve my &s;elf in my conver&s;a|tion &s;o as not to be a &s;candall to the Truth now profe&s;&s;ed by me; nor &s;hall I, I hope be a reproach to the Church which I de&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e now to be received into, thereby hoping in time to &s;top the mouths of Traducers to their own &s;hame.</P>
<P>And now (Good People) having given you &s;ome Ac|compt
<PB N="5" REF="3"> of my &s;elf as to my life, I beg your further patience, while I add &s;ome thing of the Motives to this Change; &s;ome only I offer of many, that I be not too tedious to you.</P>
<P N="1">1. One was the con&s;ideration of that (as I conceived un|limited Pow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r a&s;&s;umed and p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">act<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ed by the Pope for di&s;|pencing with inc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us Marriages in the greate&s;t nearne&s;s of blood, &s;o as by &s;uch a di&s;pen&s;ation purcha&s;ed with mony an Uncle might be allowed to marry his N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ce, if not a Bro|ther h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s S &s;ter. This I know to be contrary to Gods Law in expre&s;s terms, and how any mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tall man or creature could di&s;pence with the D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne Law of the &s;upreme God I cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d not under&s;tand; for to di&s;pence with a Law is (we know) an Act of Prerogative, &s;uch as is exe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ci&s;ed by a Super<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">our o|ver an Inferiou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and how that &s;upremacy wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch the Pope challenged on Earth &s;hould ri&s;e &s;o much higher, was I pro|fe&s;s above me to conceive, and what I thought not fit nor &s;afe to &s;ubmit my rea&s;on and faith unto.</P>
<P N="2">2. I was further told, and mu&s;t have believed as a nece&s;&s;a|ry Article of Faith, that in con&s;ecrating the Ho&s;t in the ho|ly Euchari&s;t, and after the prolation of the&s;e words of Con|&s;ecration, <HI>Hoc e&s;t enim Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pus meum,</HI> the nature of Bread and Wine thence further cea&s;ed to be, and that thereby a real tran&s;ub&s;tantiation is made of the natural Body and Blood of Chri&s;t as he was born of the Ble&s;&s;ed Virgin <HI>Mary</HI> his Mo|ther, and as he was after offered on the Cro&s;s, and the lea&s;t Particle, even to <HI>minimum naturale</HI> of that Bread hath Chri&s;t wholy and entirely in it, and that where&s;oever con&s;ecrated, although in Millions of places at once, and at the greate&s;t di&s;tances; and that the Bread alone without the Cup is &s;uf|ficient and comprehen&s;ive of both, and that Bread alone is to be admini&s;tred to the People exclu&s;ively to their taking of the Cup, and the Ho&s;t &s;o con&s;ecrated is to be adored of all even as Chri&s;t him&s;elf, and with the &s;ame divine and &s;u|preme Wor&s;hip commonly termed <HI>Satreia.</HI> This is what I then thought of that Sacrament, wherein I found many things &s;ticking.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="6" REF="4">1. For how could tho&s;e words, <HI>hoc e&s;t corpus meum,</HI> al|though very plain for a Real Pre&s;ence, reach yet to a Corpo|rall Pre&s;ence, e&s;pecially con&s;idered as when <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> words were pronounced by Chri&s;t him&s;elf in the fi &s;t In&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ution; for was that B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ead and Wine at that v <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y time Chri&s;ts very Body and Blou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> naturally? Did he h ld h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m&s;elf in his own hands? and did he him&s;elf e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t him&s;elf? was he him&s;elf then crucified before he was cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cifi d? or was it not then a &s;igne only of what was to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">one to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">im after when he &s;hould be crucified, as it is now to us of his having been already crucified?</P>
<P N="2">2. And if that be &s;o, and not &s;uch change be made as is &s;ugge&s;ted, but that the con&s;ecrated Bread and Wine are Bread and Wine &s;till, and in the former nature after Con&s;e|cration; what then do we after Con&s;ecration in adoring that for Chri&s;t him&s;elf, and as him&s;elf, which is not him&s;elf, only Sacramentally? This could not be (as I conceived, without danger, at lea&s;t of Idolatry, in adoring a Creature for God.</P>
<P N="3">3. I &s;aw not how Chri&s;t having appointed Bread and W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne both, and not one alone to be delivered to all, and that he hath &s;aid particularly of the Cup, <HI>Drink ye all of this,</HI> which he did not &s;ay of the Bread, as fore&s;eeing &s;ome Injury would be offered to that part of his ble&s;&s;ed In&s;titution above the other, in taking this the Cup away, and denying it to &s;ome, the Laity, while the other the Bread, and admini&s;tred to all; I &s;aw not (I &s;ay) how that could con&s;i&s;t with that &s;acred In&s;titution of Chri&s;t or Lord, who&s;e actions in that are to be for our Imitation, as is his command for our obedience.</P>
<P N="4">4. I could not under&s;tand how Chri&s;ts Body being a natu|rall Body as ours, and in all things like ours (pre&s;ent glory ex|cepted) and &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uld yet be infinitely multiplyed, and in &s;e|veral infinite places at once, contrary to the nature of a true Body &s;uch as Chri&s;t is; How can that multiplication of Bo|dies con&s;i&s;t with one Body only? nor did what I heard in that of G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ds Omnip t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ncy &s;o &s;atisfy; for where is it found and &s;een, that God w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uld do &s;o. And Miracles are not to be
<PB N="7" REF="4"> multiplied unnece&s;&s;arily, or according to our fancies, be&s;ides what is further to be &s;aid in it.</P>
<P N="5">5 That which was impo&s;ed on our Faith concerning Pur|gatory was a &s;cruple al&s;o to me, that being a place &s;aid to be for Soules after death, there to be purged from Sins by fire and &s;ufferings, &s;o grievous as that all the &s;ufferings in this life is &s;aid to be nothing in compari&s;on; Pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gatory fire being no way e&s;teemed &s;hort even of Hell it &s;elfe, both Torments only differing in duration, Hell Torments being eternall, the other but Temporary.</P>
<P N="1">1 But that Death &s;hould be a time for reforming, which is the worke of this life only, is what is contrary to Scripture.</P>
<P N="2">2 That the &s;tate of the Soules of tho&s;e who are for Hea|ven (for &s;uch only are &s;aid to be for Purgatory) others, ha|ving Hell for their Place, that I &s;ay &s;uch Soules which after this life are for Bli&s;&s;e and Peace &s;hould be for Torments un|&s;peakable, is what is al&s;o contrary to Scripture <HI>Revel.</HI> 14.13. Where Saint <HI>John</HI> &s;aith, <HI>[I heard a voice from Heaven &s;aying unto me, Write; Ble&s;&s;ed are the Righteous which dye in the Lord from hence forth; yea &s;aith the Spirit, that they re&s;t from their Labours and their works doe follow them]</HI> &s;o &s;aith the Spi|rit of God whom I am to believe rather then any other Spirit that tells me the contrary.</P>
<P N="3">3 Nor doe I finde in Scripture &s;uch a place as that of Pur|gatory is &s;aid to be.</P>
<P N="4">4 Nor is that Great virtue of purging from Sin given to a|ny fire, or any other thing, that being peculiar only to the Blood of Chri&s;t, which, &amp; which only, purgeth us from all &s;in.</P>
<P N="5">5 And all con&s;idered I had ju&s;t cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect that all that of Purgatory was but a corrupt de&s;igne; Fir&s;t, for ad|vantage, which was infinite, by purcha&s;ing on that ground Indulgences and Ma&s;&s;es, and other the like. Secondly, that it might be a politique de&s;igne for making up the Popes greatne&s;s, both in giving him a Supremacy of Power in Pur|gatory as on Earth, and further by fa&s;tning all men and their
<PB N="8" REF="5"> Intere&s;ts unto him, as one in who&s;e power is there after peace by a &s;peedy deliverance out of tho&s;e &s;corching flames and Torments un&s;peakable.</P>
<P>I will not trouble you with more of this kind at pre&s;ent, having I doubt gone too farre already, only know that this and much more &s;o &s;ticking with me, I could not be &s;o want|ing to my &s;elf as not to &s;eek Peace and Salvation where I might find it, and not being &s;atisfyed of having it where till now I had in vain expected it.</P>
<P>And now Right Reverend Father in God my Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>Meath,</HI> in who&s;e hands I thus put my &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f, being within your Dioce&s;s, and Charge, I humbly de&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e tha you would accept of this my humble acknowledgement of former Er|rors which I now <HI>Renounce,</HI> and he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e I lay down at your feet what before I e&s;teem'd mine H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nour, this Patent of my Prior&s;hip of <HI>Trim,</HI> with which I ca&s;t off at once all of that k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd, and kneeling, I humbly beg to be rece<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om|munion with you, and that I may have y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur B <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">g a d Pray<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs to God for me, that he would co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y is G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ace to walk before him for the futu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e an&s;wera<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cy now given me.</P>
<P>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l which as from my &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lf is f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eely and cordially he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e un|der mine own hand acknowledged, and thus pre&s;ented to your Lord&s;hip.</P>
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<P>Memorandum, <HI>That in the</HI> 14th <HI>of</HI> Augu&s;t 1664. <HI>b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing the Lords day, the above Delaration &s;igned by</HI> Cornel us &ocirc; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nnel <HI>late Prior of</HI> Trim <HI>in the County of</HI> Meat <HI>was by him&s;elf open|ly read in St.</HI> Peters <HI>Church at</HI> Trim <HI>in a full Congregation af|ter Publique Prayers and Sermon, and w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s after by him&s;elf de|live<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed into the hand of the Lord Bi&s;hop of</HI> Meath; <HI>and that he the &s;aid</HI> Cornelius &ocirc; Donnel <HI>having been then pre&s;ented to the Bi&s;hop by Dr.</HI> Amor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e Jones <HI>Arch-Deacon of</HI> Meath. <HI>He was thereupon publickly received with a Solemn Benediction.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Richard Hodgkin&s;on,</HI> living in <HI>Thames-&s;treet</HI> over again&s;t <HI>Baynards-Ca&s;tle.</HI></P>
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