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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14777	A moderate defence of the Oath of Allegiance vvherein the author proueth the said Oath to be most lawful, notwithstanding the Popes breues prohibiting the same; and solueth the chiefest obiections that are vsually made against it; perswading the Catholickes not to resist souerainge authoritie in refusing it. Together with the oration of Sixtus 5. in the Consistory at Rome, vpon the murther of Henrie 3. the French King by a friar. Whereunto also is annexed strange reports or newes from Rome. By William Warmington Catholicke priest, and oblate of the holy congregation of S. Ambrose.	Warmington, William, b. 1555 or 6.; Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.	1612 (1612)	STC 25076; ESTC S119569	134,530	184

perennes illi gratias agamus In quam sententiam cum dixisset Pontifex dimisit Consistorium cum benedictione LAVS DEO An Oration of Pope Sixtus the fift vpon the death of King Henry the third in Rome in the full assemblie of the Cardinals 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 which no man will beleeue when it shall be told him The French King is slaine by the hands of a Friar for vnto this it may fitly be compared although the Prophet spake of another thing namely of the incarnation of our Lord which exceedeth and surmounteth all other wonders and miracles whatsoeuer as also the Apostle S. Paul referreth the same words vnto the resurrection of Christ When the Prophet sayd a worke his mind was not to signifie by it some common or ordinarie thing but a rare notable matter and a deede worthy ro be remembred as that of the creation of the world The heauens are the works of thine hands And againe He rested the seauenth day of all the works which he had made When he saith I haue wrought with these wordes the holy Scripture is wont to expresse things not come to passe by casualtie fortune or accident but things befallen by the determined prouidence will and ordinance of God as our Sauiour sayd The works which I do ye shall do 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 he followeth the vse and order of the other Prophets who for the certainty 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 things to come onely of possibilitie For which certaintie the Prophet Isay long before prophesying of the death of Christ hath thus spoken He was led as a sheepe to the slaughter and like a dumbe lambe before his shearer so opened he 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 atchieued without the particular prouidence and disposition of the Almightie A Friar hath kild a King not a painted one or drawne vpon a peece of paper or pictured vpon a wall but the King of France in the midst of his armie compassed and enuironed round about with his Guard and Souldiers which truely is such an act and done in such a manner that none will beleeue it when it shall be told them and perhaps our posterity and the age to come will account and esteeme it but a fable That the king is dead or else slaine it is easily to be beleeued but that he is kild and taken away in this sort is hardly to be credited euen as we presently agree vnto this that Christ is borne of a woman but if we adde vnto it of a woman virgin then following naturall reason we can no in wise assent vnto it Euen so we lightly beleeue that Christ died but that he is risen vp againe from death to life it falleth hard vnto mans vnderstanding and therefore not lightly digested That one is wakened againe out of a sleepe extasie or a sound because it is not against nature we naturally beleeue it but to be risen againe from death it seemeth so vncredible vnto the flesh that S. Paule disputing in Athens of this point was misliked greatly and accused to be a setter forth of new Gods so that many as S. Luke witnesseth did mock him and many for the strangenesse of the doctrine sayd We will heare thee againe of this thing Of such things therefore which befall not according to the lawes of nature and the ordinarie coursse thereof speaketh the Prophet That none shall beleeue it when it shall be told them But we giue credit 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 becometh credible by faith therfore we that beleeue not after the flesh that Christ is borne of a virgine yet when there is added vnto it that this was done supernaturally by operation of the holy Ghost then truly we agree vnto it and faithfully beleeue it So likewise when it is said that Christ is risē againe from the dead as we are flesh onely we beleeue 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 beleeue it In the same maner whē it shal be told vs that such a mighty King was kild by a poore simple and a weake Friar euen in the midst of his armie and enuironed with his Guard and Souldiers to our naturall reason and fleshly capacitie it will seeme vncredible yet cōsidering on the other side the great grieuous sinnes of this King and the speciall prouidence of the Almightie herein and by what accustomed wonderfull meanes he hath accomplished his most iust will and iudgment against him then most firmely we will beleeue it Therfore 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 euents but as those who more neere obseruing and looking in the course of the whole matter easily see that here in this befell many things which could in no wise haue bene brought to passe and dispatched without the speciall helpe of God And truely the state of Kings and kingdomes 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 thereof yet there are none wherein the celestiall operation more appeareth then in this whereof we speake at this present We reade in the first booke of the Macchab. chap. 6. 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 Elephant more excellent then any of the other beasts whereupon it was like that the king was with a swift course casting himself in the midst of the troups of his enemies here and there making a way perforce came to the beast at last and went vnder her and thrust his sword in her belly and slue her who falling with the great weight of her body prest him to death