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A14602	Martine Mar-Sixtus A second replie against the defensory and apology of Sixtus the fift late Pope of Rome, defending the execrable fact of the Iacobine frier, vpon the person of Henry the third, late King of France, to be both commendable, admirable, and meritorious. VVherein the saide apology is faithfully translated, directly answered, and fully satisfied.	R. W., fl. 1591.; Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.; Wilson, Robert, d. 1600, attributed name.	1591 (1591)	STC 24913; ESTC S119314	34,762	46

there was to doo it because the Champion of the Church had conuerted his forces which were bestowed for the Church defence to maintaine vphold a ciuill quarrell as namely the subuersion of the king and inthroning himselfe in the kingdome beside all this I speake not of that foule indignitie which he offered the King when he forced him out of Paris such a presumptuous and trayterous deede as could not bee punished with lesse then death but howsoeuer the King had trespassed yet being a King he ought to be solemnely endited and not secretly bought and sould his cause should be formally heard and not closely smothered his iudgement should be publikely notified and not in a corner contriued his person should be arrested not murthered Notwithstanding sith God in his secret counsaile had so decreed it let vs beare it as we ought and lay the fault of so foule a murther where in right equitie we ought You did foretel it that he was like to come to some strange shameful end but whose was the shame a riotous ruffen hath beset the way an innocent is intrapped his mony is takē his life lost his body shamefully māgled say foolish Apologizer whose is the shame Is this a proofe to approue the murder of a King Suppose y e tower of Silo had fallen vpon his head is he therfore a greater sinner I tel ye no hast thou not read it that al things come alike to all and that the same condition is to the iust and to the wicked and that many times the wicked liue in prosperity and dye in peace that their horne is exalted as the Cedar in Lebanon as Tabor among the mountaines when iust and vpright men are as a bottle parcht in the smoake when such as Iob ly scraping vpon a dunghill did not Pilate sit vpon the bench when Christ stoode at the barre were not the Apostles martyred the Prophets murdered the sauiour of the world crucified All cut off by strange and shamefull ends yet no man can conuince either him for a Sinner or them for malefactors and why then should Henry so dying be adiudged to die a reprobate Ah Sixtus now doost thou speake as Antichrist now doost thou vsurpe the sword and seate of Christ art thou already come to iudge the quick and dead Is there no remission for his sinne no pardon to be expected no praiers to be powred no hope but hell Uile murderers how delight ye in bloud not content to kill the body but to adiudge the soule did yee see his soule descending to the lower partes did ye heare him desperately crying my sinne is greater then I am able to beare Did yée heare God pronounce the sentence vpon him depart accursed but where then is Sixtus and where is Clement if Henry be in hell full well ye teach vs to despaire of your selues who endeuour to rob vs of so rich a hope but rather had I yee should burne me for an heretick at a stake then enroll me for a Saint in your Calender vncharitable vnchristian wretches condemning for reprobates vnto euerlasting death whose names God hath written in the book of life and canonizing for martirs whom Turkes and Pagans would detest as murderers but what ground had Sixtus to charge him with finall impenitency Who euer saw so deepe into his soule Who knew what sobbes what groning what secret griefe might harbor in his heart But neither did hee sorrow so in silence as no signe of repentance was left behinde in the presence of the standers by who with watery eyes beheld him he made an humble confession of his faith powred out his praiers to God receaued the Sacrament confessed himselfe to a Frier desired pardon for his sinne besought God if it might bée to lengthen his dayes that for his life past hee might make some amends sée sée what signes of impenitencie what tokens of distrust are here After that bethinking what might become of his people he bequeathed them into the hāds of Nauarra whom he specially charged to be carefull ouer them yea but he cried for vengeance vpon the authors of his death euen a little before his death So cried Dauid vpon his death-head against Ioab and Shimei charging his Sonne Salomon that for the offences they had committed against him hee should not suffer them to goe to their graues in peace and yet was Dauid neuer charged with impenitence as Henry is for the same reason ye might first haue inquired whether it were in his hands to pardon them or no for Dauid doubtles if he could haue pardoned Ioab or Shimei had neuer exclamed for vengeance on them but it lay not in his power to pardon them such offences as are committed against our priuat state or particular person wée may and must forgiue them yea though they be seuenty seauen times committed but an indignity offered to the person of a King toucheth euen God himselfe because they represent the maiesty of God for which God graceth them with a title of his owne I haue said it yee are Gods therefore in reason the remission of such offences must be resigned vp onely to God could not Dauid pardon Shimei which had but barely railed on him and must Henry either pardon a crue of damnable conspirators which so prophanely murdered him or must he be adiudged to dye impenitent But how know ye he did not pardon them Because he coniured Nauarra and such as stoode about him to take vengeance of those whome he surmised to bee the authors of his death yea so he might and yet pardon them to for when Christ saith forgiue his meaning is not that euery notorious offender should be acquit from outward censure of lawe for that were to peruert iustice and to ouerthrow all ciuill discipline but to forgiue him is to intreate God for him that his body being punished to the example of other his soule at the great iudgement might be saued and certainely if he might punish a traitor in his life I see no reason why he might not as well doo it at the poynt of death for why the time cannot alter the nature of the action but if it were iniustice to remit him before hee could not with equitie pardon him then therefore well might he say to Nauarra as Dauid said to Salomon Suffer not those murderers to goe to their graue in peace yet be translated to Heauen as Dauid was wherof wee nothing doubt but though his sinnes were as red as scarlet his hands all steyned with the bloud of Martyrs yet through the aboundant grace of him who forgaue vnto Paule those many afflictions he said vpon the Church we assure our selues that mercy is shewed vnto him and all is washed away as white as snowe yea but what will ye say if beside all this he bequeathed the succession of his Kingdome to Nauarra a pronounced and excommunicate heretick must we not then say he dyed in his sinne Yea

by and rime vpon it it selfe at a bare sight will shew it selfe let me speake it without offence in a case so weightie and grieuous from a person so learned and famous I haue not heard a more artles and slight defence wherein if you looke for proofes it is drie and barren if for stile it is harsh vnpleasant and vntrimmed if for method confused and independent if for matter loose impertinent Stultorum plena sunt omnia not a wise word in a whole Oration and yet sometimes I heare him discoursing like a graue Diuine profoundly sometime florishing like an Orator with Tropes and figures brauely sometime as one inspired with a propheticall spirit diuinely sometime me thinks I heare the ghost of Aquinas very scholastically sometime one quoting Scriptures learnedly and at the shutting vp of all one praying like a Saint deuoutly but the diuell had Scripture Caiphas did prophecie and Iudas made many a prayer but what is that to come neere to God with thy lips giue me thy heart In the front and entrance of this painted processe to stirre vp the mindes of the hearers not so much to attention as to admiration a place in Abacuk to vse but his owne phrase is vsurped A worke is done in your dayes which no man will credit when it shall be reported The application whereof if it poynted to the impossibilitie of the work in the sequell of this discourse I wil make it plaine that it was both false and friuolous and to compare it with the incomprehensible mysterie of Christes incarnation I tell thee Sixtus it was blasphemous but if thou didst onely respect the rarenes the foulenes and deformitie of the worke then mightest thou iustly say A worke is done in our dayes and who will beleeue our report Such a barbarous murther committed vpon the sacred person of a Prince Scythians and Cannibals will hardly beleeue it and the posteritie perhaps will repute it for a fable and so in regard of that detestation which euery man at the first hearing will conceaue I graunt it was a worke incredible but when I call to minde on the other side and consider the Authors of the worke when I heare that the rebellious and bloud-thirstie Leaguers had contriued it that Sixtus himselfe the high Priest of Rome had dispensed for it and that a murtherous and wretchles Iacobine did performe it then all is credible and probable enough we are easily drawne to beleeue it And surely I see nothing therein but as in a matter of ordinary euent nothing so exceeding the reach of mans capacitie nothing so declining from the common course of nature and of the world for which you should compare it with the incarnation and resurrection of Christ and in euery leafe to cry out A worke is done in our dayes and who will beleeue our report Nay rather who will not beleeue it It is no strange or vnusuall thing to see your hands distayned with bloud your lawes are written in bloud your rising vp in armes it is for bloud your courtes of Inquisition are for bloud you muse you meditate you hunger and thirst for nought but bloud or if that adde any wonder to the worke or make it more incredible that it was wrought in the bloud of a King yet for that the assiduity of euery thing taketh away the admiration I cease to wonder at that to indeed the elder adges did so admire and reuerence the person of a King that but to touch the Lords annoynted was irreligious and prophane but see the calamitie of our times wherein there is nothing more vsuallie thought of with lesse remorse attempted or with more boldnes atteyned then the slaughter of Kings and Princes it beseemeth not the Sea of Rome to shoote at euery shrub they haue learned to ayme at fayrer markes they I say whose practicall and pragnatical heads can speculate of nothing else but Kings and Kingdomes to dispose depose to place and displace what men or by what meanes they like or list and as easily they proceede to practise vpon a Prince as vpon the head of a meaner man the bleeding wounds of Orange and Conde yet crying for vengeance from Heauen can witnes well that these practises are no nouelty or if they list but recount the sundry and successeles attempts against the Crowne and person of our Soueraigne Elizabeth they must sound a retrait and cease for shame to cry A worke is done in our dayes past beliefe impossible incredible but what is it then that maketh this worke so incredible so strange and wonderfull was it for that it was atchieued by a Monke Indeed it was a worke vnfitting that profession but neither was it in regarde of nature vnpossible neither in regarde of their common practise strange or vnprobable for why His accesse being as free as it was too free his minde being as malicious and his toole as sharpe as another mans I see no reason why hee might not strike as deepe a stroake and yet no rule in nature violate but neither was it so strange or vnwonted but that your diuelish practises doo daily patterne and match it who was it that tempered and presented an empoysoned cup to Iohn King of England but Simon of Swinstead a Cistercian Monk of the order of the Bernardines Who made away young Charles the Sonne of Phillip now King of Spayne but the accursed Friers of the order of Saint Iherome For how would they spare to suck the bloud of the Sonne who imposed it as a penance vpon the Father to suffer a veyne in his body bee cut to voyde out a little heretick bloud Or tell me else how oft of late your predecessors and your selfe haue hallowed the hands of Priests and Iesuites to offer violence and most vnreuerently to rampe vpon the person of our Queene why therefore Sixtus albeit the worke were odious and accursed yet was there neither wonder nor nouelty in it onely this was rare and wonderfull to heare that Sixtus should be a patron and defender of it But let vs proceede and come to his narration A Monke saith Sixtus hath slaine a King Make roome good people heare comes a figure A Monke hath slaine a King not a painted King where note that Kings are of two sorts either painted Kings or liuing Kings not one figured out vpon a peece of paper or vpon a wall where wee learne agayne to our great comfort that Kings are paynted two wayes either vpon a peece of paper or vpon a wall but he hath slaine the King of France in the middle of his armie hedged in and garded on euery side Claudite iam riuos sat dixit And brauely was it spoken but alacke that such a figure should haue such luck This figure in rethorick we call a Preoccupation the speciall vse and grace whereof is to preuent an obiection and yet not euery one but such as iustly might arise or els to preuent a false vnderstanding of our