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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

the creede of Athanasius when hee saith the father is omnipotent the Sonne omnipotent and the holy Ghost omnipotent yet by way of attribution vnto the Father is ascribed power to the Sonne wisdome and to the holy Ghost loue each whereof as they are called properties are so proper to euery person as they cannot be put vpon another and by the contraries of these properties wee come to knowe the difference and weight of sinne the contrarie to power which is the attribute of the Father is weakenes so that whatsoeuer we commit through infirmitie and weakenes of our nature may be said to be committed against the Father the contrarie of wisdome is ignorance through which when a man offendeth he is saide to offend against the Sonne so that those sinnes which are committed either through mans frailty or ignorance may easily obteine a pardon but the third which is loue the propertie of the holy Ghost hath for his contrarie ingratitude a most hatefull sinne whereby it commeth to passe that man dooth not acknowledge Gods loue and benefites towards him but forgetteth despiseth and groweth in hatred of them and so at length becommeth obstinat and impenitent and this way men offend more grieuously and dangerously toward God then by ignorance or infirmitie therefore these are called sinnes against the holy Ghost which because they are not so often so easily forgiuen not without a greater measure of grace they are reckoned in a sort vnpardonable when as notwithstanding onely by reason of mans impenitence they are absolutely and simply vnpardonable for whatsoeuer is committed in this life though it be against the holy Ghost yet by a timely repentance it may be blotted out but he that perseuereth vnto the end leaueth no place for grace and mercy for such an offence or for a man so offending the Apostle would not that after his death we should pray And now for that vnto our great griefe we are giuen to vnderstand that the foresaide King dyed thus impenitent as namely amidst a knot of hereticks for of such people he had mustered out an army and likewise for that vpon his death-bed hee bequeathed the succession of his Kingdome to Nauarra a pronounced and excommunicate heretick and euen at the last point and gaspe he coniured both him and such like as were about him to take vengeance of those whome he suspected to be the authors of his death for these and such like manifest tokens of impenitencie our pleasure is that there shall no dead mans rites be solemnised for him not for that we doo in any sort preiudice the secret iudgement and mercy of God toward him who was able according to his good pleasure euen at the very breathing out of his soule to turne his heart and haue mercy vpon him but this we speak according to that which came into the outward apparance Our most bountifull Sauiour grant that others being admonished by this fearefull example of Gods iustice may returne into the way of life and that which hee hath thus in mercy begun let him in great kindnes continew and accomplish as we hope he will that we may yeeld vnto him immortall thankes for deliuering his Church from so great mischieues and dangers Dixit insipiens And hauing thus definitely spoken he dismissed the Consistorie with a blessing O terque quaterque beati MARTINE MAR-SIXTVS This foule defence a Frenchman late defied And wisely wrote his censure of the same His censure pleasd yet one of Rome replied A homeborne Iudge could not the cause defame The French were parciall for their Henries sake Why then quoth he twere good some stranger spake With that they spied and calde and causd me stay And for I seemd a stranger in their ey I must be iudge twixt France and Rome they say And will quoth I nor can I iudge awry Sixtus was Pope and popish was your King I both dislike list how I like the thing A reply against the former Apologie COnsidering in my minde both often and earnestly and bending my thoughts to muse vppon those things which by the instinct of Satan are lately come to light me thinkes I may rightly inuert that saying of the Prophet Abacuk A word is spoken in our daies which no man will beleeue that it should be vttered The King of France is done to death by the hands of a Monke a deede prophane and irreligious but yet I speake of a sinne exceeding that the deede is remitted excused defended commended extolled and that by the mouth of the Pope heare O heauens and hearken O inhabitants of the earth whether such a thing hath bin in your daies or yet in the daies of your fathers When I call to minde the fact of the Monk I detest and abhorre him but when I heare the voyce of the Pope as one that had seene a monster I stand in a maze and wonder at him and surely good cause there is to wonder I thought it had been incident to man onely to commit sinne but to commend sinne I iudged it proper only to y e diuell therfore Satan auaunt but these are the latter dayes iniquitie must needes abound Was it not enough to disturbe the common peace to alienate the hearts of the Commons to stirre vp a restles and factious Rebell to muster out a league of mutinous and riotous conspirators to discountenance and ouerbeare a lawfull King to weaken to disauthorize and last of al most furiously to murder him but presently they which stand in the gate must laugh at it the drunkards make songs of it and thou thy selfe Sixtus like a parasite vpon a stage applaudest vnto it factum pol optime there there so should it goe but accursed be they which reioyce in iniquitie and woe be to them which call euill good Notwithstanding howsoeuer the Apologie of so hatefull a fact were execrable yet if it had bin vndertaken but by some smooth tongd Iesuit or pettie Priest or had but one Frier clawed another I could in some sort haue suppressed my griefe with silence for what is it that hath thus incited me a forrainer to the countrey a straunger to the cause saue as it generally concerneth the whole Church what is it I say that thus hath prickt mee foorth to so austere a censure and contradiction but for that I find the fact excused where specially it ought to haue been condemned for that I finde it commended where it ought to haue béen seuerely punished for that no meaner man then Sixtus himselfe the Arch-priest and Prelate of the Romish Sinagogue the Uicegerent of Christ the porter of heauen the Supporter of all Christendome hath vndertaken so damnable a defence This is it I say which hath made me a confuter which how well I haue performed or whether I haue performed it or no it mattereth not I haue sufficiently confuted whatsoeuer I haue but published or barely translated nor needeth an ill fauoured face a Poet to stand

not dreame of and little doubted he to lye vnburied besides many other poyntes of difference that are betweene them And well knowne likewise is the famous story of the holy woman Judith who to set free her owne besieged city and people of God took in hand an enterprise God doubtles directing her thereunto about the killing of Holofernes then generall of the enemies forces and in the end she did effect it in which attempt albeit there are both many and manifest tokens of a superior direction yet in the death of this King and deliuerance of the citie of Paris wee may see far greater arguments of Gods prouidence in as much as in the iudgement of man it was more difficult and impossible than that for that holy woman opened her purpose to some of the gouernours and in their presence and by their sufferance passed through both the gates and garde of the city so that she could not be in danger of any search or inquisition which during the time of assault is wont to be so straight that scarce a fly may passe by vnexamined but being amongst the enemies through whose tentes and seuerall wardes she must needes passe after some triall and examination for that she was a woman had about her neither letters nor weapons from whence might grow any suspition and rendring very probable reasons of her comming to the campe of her flight and departure frō her countrey men she was licensed to passe without any let so that as well for those causes as for her sex and excellent beautie shee might be admitted into the presence of so vnchaste a gouernour vpon whom being intoxicate with wine she might easily wreake her purpose This did shee but ours a man of holy orders did both assay and bring about a worke of more weight full of more encombrances and wrapt in with so great difficulties dangers on euery side as it could be accomplished by no wisdome nor humane policy neither by any other meanes but by the manifest appointment and assistance of God it was requisit that letters of commendation should be procured from them of the contrary faction it was necessary that hee should passe out by that gate of the citie which lead vnto the enemies campe which doubtles was so warded in that troublesome time of the siege that nothing was vnsuspected neither was any man suffered to passe to fro but after a most streight inquiry what letters he conueyed what newes he carried what busines what weapons hee had but hee a wondrous thing passed through the watches without all examination that with letters of credence to the enemy which if the citizens had intercepted without all repriuall or further iudgement he had surely dyed this was an euident argument of Gods prouidence but a greater wonder was that that the same man soone after without all examination passed through the campe of the enemies likewise through the sentinells and seuerall watches of the Souldiers and through the garde which was next the body of the King and in a word through the whole armie which for the most part was compact of hereticks hee himselfe being a man of holy orders and clad in a Friers weede which in the eyes of such men was so odious that in the places adioyning to Paris which a little before they had surprised whatsoeuer Monkes they tooke they either slaughtered or else most cruelly intreated Iudith was a woman therefore no whit hated and yet often examined neither carried she ought about her which might indanger her but this man was a Monke and therefore detested and came very suspiciously with a knife prouided for the feate and that not closed vp in a sheath which had been more excusable but altogether naked and hid in his sleeue which had they bolted out there had been no way but present execution these are al so manifest tokens of Gods especial prouidence as no exception can be taken against them nor could it otherwise be but that God euen blinded the eyes of the enemies least they should discrie him for as before we said albeit some there bee who vniustly ascribe these things to chance and fortune we notwithstanding cannot be perswaded to referre them to any cause but to the will of God nor truely should I otherwise thinke but that I haue subdued mine vnderstanding to obedience in Christ who after so wonderfull a manner prouided both to set at libertie the citie of Paris which then we vnderstoode to be many wayes in great perplexity and distresse as also to auenge the most heynous misdeedes of the King and to take him out of the world by so vnhappy and reprochfull a death truely we did heretofore with some griefe foretel that it would in time fal out that as he was the last of his house so was he like to come to some strange shamefull end which not onely the Cardinalls of Ioyeuse of Lenoncort and Paris but the Embassadour likewise which then was liedger with vs can wel auouch I spake for why we cal not the dead but men aliue to witnes of our words which all of them full well remember notwithstanding howsoeuer wee are now enforced to pleade against this haples King wee doo in no wise touch the Kingdome and royall state of France which as we haue heretofore so still hereafter we will prosecute with all fatherly affection and honorable regarde but this we haue spoken of the kings person onely whose infortunate end hath depriued him of all those rites which this holy seate the mother of all the faithfull and specially of christian Princes is wont to performe to Emperours and Kings after their decease which for him likewise wee had solemnised but that the Scripture in such a case dooth flatly forbid vs. There is saith Saint Iohn a sinne vnto death J say not for that that any man shall pray which may be vnderstoode either of the sinne it selfe as if he should say for that sinne or else for the remission of that sinne I will not that any man should pray because it is vnpardonable or that which sorteth to the same end for that man who committeth a sinne vnto death I wil not that any man should pray of which kinde likewise our Sauiour Christ in Matthew maketh mention that to him which sinneth against the holy Ghost there is no remission either in this world or in the world to come where hee maketh three sortes of sinne against the Father against the Sonne and against the holy Ghost the two former are not so grieuous but pardonable but the third is not to be forgiuen al which difference as the schoolemen out of the Scriptures deliuer it ariseth out of the diuersitie of the properties which are seuerally ascribed to the seuerall persons of the trinity for albeit as there is the same essence so there is the same power wisdome and goodnes of all the persons as we learne out of