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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

be wiped out how at that notable occision and famous slaughter surnamed the great massacre being but a stripling boy hee bathed and embrued his hands with innocent bloud which doubtlesse hath since béen so well repayed vpon the heads of the murtherers as fewe of them consorted in the worke whom God did not after marke out with some notable iudgement in so much as euen the Catholiks themselues haue obserued that most of them came to euill ends some of them being afterward endited conuicted and hanged vp for malefactors others desperatly murthering and hanging themselues and they who were inriched by the spoyle dying so beggerly so miserable and poore as not a peny was left to buy a halter but for thē who were the slaughter-masters and ringleaders of that ryot it is playne and manifest how God hath plagued and scourged them considering how the Guize himselfe was prickt stabd to death the Duke of Ioyeuse was slayne in the battaile at Coutraz the late King Henry murthered with an infectious knife and Charles the 9. his brother as some say poysoned or dyed as others report of a fluxe of bloud which at his mouth his eares and nostrils yea at euery passage both vpward and downward issued from him euen as it were vomitting out in his death the bloud which in his life hee had so egerly suckt and certainly God plagued the house of Valoys for that of foure brethren wherof three successiuely raigned no seede was left to sit vpon the throne I speake not of the Marshall d' Retz of Catharine d' Medices Queene Mother and monster of France nor many other moe whose deaths albeit they were suspected yet for that they were doubted I leaue them as matters of vncertaintie But wonderfull it is to consider how manifestly God alwayes auenged himselfe vppon the Leaguers and other French persecuters During the rage and furie agaynst the Saints which were in Prouence in Merindol and Cabriers which was soone after the yeare 1530. how did God note out the chiefe persecuters with some apparant memorable iudgement The Lord of Reuest high President of y e Parliament at Aix ran mad and dyed Lewis d' Vaine was drowned in the riuer of Durance Bartholomeus Cassaneus was striken with a sodayn death Miniers Lord of Opede being not able to voyd it was burnt with his owne vrine and with much impatience and blasphemie consumed away Ihon de Roma a Iacobine Monke and chiefe Inquisitor in this persecution rotted peece meale and dyed in such stench as being dead men were fayne with a hooke to dregge him into a ditch Soone after all this succéeded Henry the second King of France a grieuous oppressor of the Church who aduancing himselfe at the Turney was striken with a speare into the brayne and dyed after him succeeded Francis the second who after one yeares raigne and little more was taken away by an Impostume in the head I speake not of Francis the olde Duke of Guize who was slaine by Poltrat with a dag before Orleans neither of the Marshall of Saint Andrewes who dyed before Dreux nor of the Constable of France who was slayne at Paris nor speake I of the late Cardinall of Lorraine shamefully strangled with a corde nor of Francis of Valoys whom some report to haue dyed of a venereous contagion others gather by the arraignement of the Lord of Salceede that he was subtilly and secretly made away but as they were profest enemies and persecuters of the Church so were they scourged for their crueltie and what shall befall the remainder since of so cursed a crue so many still remayne I cannot I dare not prophecie but sure I am that God is iust and will not tolerate so foule offenders to triumph in impunitie Neuerthelesse what I haue sayd to this ende haue I sayd it that all the world might see that they were not the offences you dreame of for which GOD deliuered vp this King to so open a iudgement not for reciding or falling away from you but rather for cleauing too fast vnto you for that foolish and indulgent loue he carried toward you and for his mortall hate agaynst y e Church and Saints of God whom as with other he persecuted so with other he perished so that whatsoeuer his offences were wee all confesse he was a grieuous offender But how then shall Peters successor therefore say to a Monke as the holy Ghost sometyme sayd to Peter Arise and kill Was there no choyce no discretion no difference to bee made Harke Sixtus a Poet can teach thee wit Etsi ego indignus qui haec patiar tu tamen indignus qui faceres Euery man is not meete to execute iustice vpon euery offender suppose thy father had deserued death yet art thou an vnfit man to appeale him but more vnfit to bee his executioner What if Saul deserued to bee depriued of his kingdome yet was not euery priuate man to lay vnhallowed hands vppon him and graunt wee that Henry had heynously offended will it therefore in reason followe that euery miscreant Monke shall dare to pray vpon him Saint Paule could not beare it that a Bishop or man of a spirituall profession should be a striker and may he be a murtherer Nay your selues deliuer vp to the secular authoritie whō before ye haue for heresie endited and condemned to shew that ye may pollute your hands with no bloud no not of most capitall transgressors and may yee bath your hands in innocent bloud We knowe he had highly offended the Maiestie of GOD but in regard of you we dare auouch him innocent But suppose he had as deepely offended you the positiue lawes giue this fauour to an offender that notwithstanding hee hath been alreadie arraigned endited condemned and at the place of execution stand readie to be executed yet he that shall offer violence to slay him shall stand as lyable to lawe as if he had slayne another man Is there such fauour affoorded to an offender after iudgement and may ye murther him whom ye neuer condemned neuer conuinced neuer accused It was requisite that before your rigorous and deadly execution ye should depose and depriue him from al kingly titles and authoritie did ye euer so depriue him It was expedient that before that depriuation yee should first excommunicate him for while he was a member of the Church he must néedes be the head of his kingdome did yee euer excommunicate him Before yée could proceed to the Ecclesiasticall censure agaynst him ye should first haue conuinced him as worthie of it did ye euer so conuince him Where was hee conuented when was it pleaded who were the witnesses what were the crimes obiected against him Forsooth he refused to assist the quarrell of the League a shamefull vntrueth he onely preuented the practises against his person which were coloured by the quarrell of the League Yea but he caused the Guize be slaine who was y e Champion of the Church good reason