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A68221	Antisixtus An oration of Pope Sixtus the fift, vppon the death of the late French King, Henrie the third. With a confutation vpon the sayd oration, wherein all the treacherous practises of the house of Lorraine, are largely described and layde open vnto the view of the world, with a briefe declaration of the kings death, and of many other things worthy the noting, which neuer yet came to light before. Translated out of Latin by A.P.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.	1590 (1590)	STC 14002; ESTC S114241	39,544	58

and lust and that therefore all things were readie easie vnto her But that all things crost the Friar that in euery thing was great trouble and trauell but yet more daunger that he alone surely without any bodies helpe or induction had conceiued secretly the boldnesse of this desperate enterprise That he had not only to go through the watches of the ennemie but by the Citizens straight wardes Sentinels and if his face his words or his pace had bewrayed there any token of vnconstancie which oftentimes is séene in those that doe attempt high and great matters he had to looke for nothing but for present death destruction Here if the letters had béene found about him he had no lesse to feare the like of those that were ignorant of the matter and being besiedged were afeard of euery trifle So that as Homere sayth as Aeneas was carryed by the helpe of Neptune out of the battell euen so Sixtus leadeth this Fryar through the Citie the Campe couered with a cloud that he could not be séene of any body I maruaile that he hath not set him vpon the winges of angels to carry and bring him in safetie to the kinges tente I appeale vnto your authoritie O honourable and reuerent antiquitie what is become of shamefastnesse Who thinkes now a dayes a lie to be a discredite Come to heare a historie not a fable Clement by a great summe of money by further hope by a notorious harlot was solicited taketh counsell with the chiefe conspirators of the kings death and it is knowen now who were present at that instant who were the coūsellers who were the furtherers It were iniurious that our posterity should be deceiued depriued of the memory of this cruell act and as I hope cre long of the example of the execution thereof They did counterfaite letters from certaine prisonners vnto the King bewraying some great matters to be declared by the mouth of the Fryar the which when he had receiued taketh the knise which he had made and poysoned to kill the king withall and goeth out of the Cittie but first hauing lest charge that all those that were suspected might be kept within that by these meanes the life of a bloodie murtherer should be in safetie with the danger of thousande innocents if he should haue fallen a liue in the enemies handes This is the first part of this miracle these are the diuine motions this is the celestiall inspiration and this the infallible argument of the present assistance of Gods power He commeth in the kings campe no man letting him and at that troublesome time when Fryars onely were frée and had onely safe conduct to goe where they would themselues But why goe I about to spend my time in confuting Sixtus his lyes where so many blasphemies doe offer themselues before me All these are toyes of the common people Let euery mans vertue separate and distinguish him from the common sort but the Bishop of Rome let him be knowen by his notorious and extraordinarie villanies It is an old saying where lawfull things are onely permitted vnto gouernours there they command by intreatie a Priest doth not differ from a Lay-man but onely in libertie of offending It is sayth hee speaking of the murthering of the Prince a most famous and a memorable act and not atchieued without the particular prouidence and disposition of the Almightie pardon me Oeuerlasting holy and omnipotent God pardon me Opietie and naturall affection rehearsing wordes which are impious and full of blasphemie what Sixtus if thou hadst onely sayde that this befell by his permission vnto whom it is casie to hinder all thinges although it be true it were not godly and lesse godly for thée to affirme this that knowest not all thinges that are present and therefore the more that thou callest in witnesse and defence of thy villanyes him whom thou callest good and almightie Hei thou Doctor in Israell art thou ignorant of this that all good things are ascribed vnto God only and that all the rest is attributed vnto our selues Who can suffer then that vnto the same God who is good onely onely omnipotent the bloudie offence of an outcast from all man kinde is referred And yet thou doest estéeme it but small to saye that the King was slaine not onely by thy knowledge but by thy counsell not dissembling at it but commaunding it and hauing set a side all celestiall and infernall care that it hath béene thy will onely and procurement that at thy pleasure such a haynous and execrable murther was committed in France Doe the heauens heare this and suffer it for whom are the gulphes of the earth the vnluckie rockes and the fearefull whirlpooles and déepes of hell reserued Lightnings and thunderbolts should be wanting if no part of these villanies were left vnpunished Nowe long agone my eares are hardened and acquainted with these execrable wordes And what is all this which I haue sayde but vulgar and common nothing worthie of high Ioue his anger nothing notorious nothing pontificiall I would willingly follow childrens fashions when they are to drinke a medicine they inuent delayes they leaue nothing vndoone they turne the cup and oftentimes put it vnto their mouth to taste it then they shake their heads as if they were angry they aske for swéet things to ouercome or to mitigate the bitternesse of the potion But finally they being wearied with the continuall cryings of the standers by turning their head aside stopping their nostrels do not drinke the medicine but powre it in The like happeneth vnto me at this time I would if I might Sirtus passe by thy horrible blasphemies impious wordes wherewith thou hast polluted by an abhominable comparison of a most villainous offence the holy mysteries of our Sauiors birth and buriall I would to God that Christian eares had only hard it who are déeper grounded in religion better perswaded of faith who neuer would haue giuen credite to thy impious Dration if it were vnknowen to the Barbarians Heathen and Turkes who will hereafter make a mocke of the true Christian doctrine by thy authoritie Sixtus and example Art thou not ashamed that thou being the Pastor of the redéemed flocke by whose guiding it draweth the water of life out of the holy well whose wordes should haue sounded nothing but that which was sainct pure and godly that thou the liuely interpretor of the written lawe of God and the seuere punisher of blasphemies and of those that falsefie and corrupt the sense of the holy Scriptures and moreouer of those that abuse or vse too fréely wordes taken out of the booke of GOD I will not say hast deluded the Prophetes and Apostles hast called in doubt the trueth of the hystorie hast corrupted the holy Scriptures wrested and falsefied them by a false interpretation by godly examples hast coulloured impious offences and hast protected them by thine authoritie these are but small

ANTISIXTVS An oration of Pope Sixtus the fift vppon the death of the late French King Henrie the third WITH A Confutation vpon the sayd Oration wherein all the treacherous practises of the house of Lorraine are largely described and layde open vnto the view of the world with a briefe declaration of the Kings death and of many other things worthy the noting which neuer yet came to light before Translated out of Latin by A. P. LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe 1590. An Oration of Pope Sixtus the fift vpon the death of King Henry the third in Rome in the full assemblie of the Cardinalles COnsidering oftentimes with my selfe and applying my whole vnderstanding vnto these things which now of late by a iust iudgement of God are come to passe I thinke I may with right vse the words of the Prophet Abacuck saying I haue wrought a worke in your daies and none will beleeue it though it be told them The French King is slaine by the hands of a Friar for vnto this it may fitly be compared although the Prophet spake of an other thing namely of the incarnation of our Lord which excéedeth and surmounteth all other wonders and miracles whatsoeuer as also the Apostle S. Paul referreth the same wordes vnto the resurrection of Christ When the Prophet sayde a worke his minde was not to signifie by it some common or ordinarie thing but a rare and notable matter and a déede worthie to be remembred as that of the creation of the worlde The heauens are the workes of thine handes And againe He rested the seauenth day of all the workes which he had made When he sayth I haue wrought with these wordes the holy Scripture is wont to expresse thinges not come to passe by casualtie fortune or accident but things befallen by the determined prouidence will and ordinance of God as our Sauiour sayde The workes which I doe yée shall doe also and yet greater and many more such like wherewith the holy Scriptures are replenished And that he saith that it is done in times past herein hee followeth the vse and order of the other Prophets who for the certentie of the euent are wont to prophesie of things to come as if they were past alreadie For the Philosophers say that things past are of necessitie things present of being and thinges to come only of possibilitie For which certaintie the Prophet Isaie long before prophisying of the death of Christ hath thus spoken He was led as a shéepe to the slaughter and like a dumme lambe before his shearer so opened hée not his mouth c. And this whereof we speake at this present and which is come to passe in these our dayes is a famous notable and an vncredible thing not done or atcheiued without the particular prouidence and disposition of the Almightie A Friar hath kilde a King not a painted one or drawen vpon a péece of paper or pictured vpon a wall but the King of France in the midest of his armie compassed and enuiconed round about with his Guard and Souldiers which truely is such an act and donne in such a manner that none will beléeue it when it shall be tolde them and perhaps our posteritie and the age to come will account and estéeme it but a fable That the king is dead or else slaine it is easily to be beléeued but that he is kild and taken away in this sort is hardly to be credited euen as we presently agrée vnto this that Christ is borne of a woman but if we adde vnto it of a woman virgine then following naturall reason we can in no wise assent vnto it Euen so we lightly beléeue that Christ died but that he is risen vp againe from death to life it falleth harde vnto mans vnderstanding and therefore not lightly digested That one is wakened againe out of a sléepe extasie or a sound because it is not against nature we naturally beléeue it but to be risen againe from death it séemeth so vncredible vnto the flesh that S. Paule desputing in Athens of this point was nushked greatly and accused to be a setter soorth of new Gods so that many as S. Luke witnesseth did mocke him and many for the strangenesse of the doctrine saide We will heare thée againe of this thing Of such things therefore which befall not according to the lawes of nature and the ordinarie course thereof speaketh the Prophet That none shall beléeue it when it shall be tolde them But wee giue credite vnto it by consideration of the omnipotencie of God and by submission of our vnderstanding vnder the obedience of faith and seruice which we owe vnto our Sauiour Christ And by these meanes this that was incredible by nature commeth credible by faith therefore we that beléeue not after the flesh that Christ is borne of a virgine yet when there is added vnto it that this was doone supernaturally by operation of the holy Ghost then truely we agree vnto it and faithfully beléeue it So likewise when it is saide that Christ is risen againe from the dead as wee are flesh onely we beléeue it not but when it is affirmed that this was done by the power of the diuine nature which in him was then without any doubting we beléeue it In the same manner when it shall be tolde vs that such a mightie King was kilde by a poore simple and a weake Friar euen in the middest of his arnne and enuironed with his Guardo and Souldiers to our naturall reason and fleshly capacitie it will séeme vncredible yet considering on the other side the great and grieuous sinnes of this King and the speciall prouidence of the almightie herein and by what accustomed and wonderfull meanes he hath accomplished his most iust will and iudgement against him then most firmely we will beléeue it Therefore this great miraculous worke I may but onely ascribe it vnto the particular prouidence of God not as those that referre all things amisse vnto some ordinarie causes or vnto fortune or such like accidentarie euentes but as those who more néere obseruing and looking in the course of the whole matter easely sée that here in this befell many things which could in no wise haue béene brought to passe and dispatched without the speciall helpe of God And truely the state of Kings and kingdoms and all other such rare and weightie affaires should not be thought to be gouerned of God rashly and vnaduisedly In the holy Scripture some are of this kind and none of them can be referred vnto any other thing but vnto God the only author therof yet there are none wherein the celestiall operation more appeareth then in this whereof we speake at this present We read in the first booke of the Machab. the 6. chap. how Eleazar offered himselfe vnto a certaine death to kill the king that was an enemie and persecutor of the people and children of God For in the battell espying an Eliphant more excellent then any