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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

thinges because they are vsuall vnto thée but to compare the eternall counsell of the redemption of mankinde which onely was committed vnto the seconde person of the Trinitie onely of him suscepted with the vngodly and detestable conspiracie of the murthering of a Prince And to equall the cafuall audacitie of an imaged and bloudie butther vnto the reuerende myracles of our Lordes natiuitie death and resurrection Anoyde impietie auoyde blasphemie infect not the holy Lambe with thy poysoned breath What hast thou left vntouched whome hast thou spared what hath not Mahomet nowe to obiect vnto vs what hath the Iewe any longer to holde his peace Loc yée Christians if the Sarrisins the Indians and the Barbarous people of Calico inueigh most bitterly against you they haue borrowed it of the Bishoppe of Rome Diddest thou lacke prophane examples Sixtus to compare them vnto thy villaynie that thou hadst a refuge vnto most holy and diuine comparisons I am glad sir Bishoppe that the world hath béene voide vntill thine age of such hainous and publicke murthers that both were reserued vnto thy time to wit hee that durst attempt such a detestable acte and he that was not ashamed to command it Come forth all yee whome the religious antiquity hath seperated from the worlde to bee adicted vnto celestiall meditations whome the sonne neuer saw but throwe some narrowe ristes bring shutt vp in high walles and iron doores Arise I say and come forth Sixtus calleth you vnto villennie to the murthering of Kings and princes now the gates are kept no longer by a seuere and frowning porter And those bars and doores that kept you from the frendly imbrasing of your fathers and the swéete kisses of your affectionated mothers are nowe fréely remoued and opened vnto you to shed by treacherye and treason the bloud of your parents and dearest frends I was determined Sixtus to leaue thy lies surmises and false accusations vntouched But I am prouoked to the contrarie through thy impudency which deserueth no smal indignation as those may easely iudge that are somewhat acquainted with our estat and affaires Dost thou say that Monkes and Friars were kild or at the least ill vsed in the Kings Camp I would to God it had beene so if it be lawful and godly to desire it But at the least I wish that all this idle and vnprofitable cattle should haue béene pounded and imprisoned then our Prince should liue yet worthy of a longer life and then as a fearfull hare thou durstest not tread vppon the body of the dead Lion and deride our griefe and mishappe As if all the world knew not that vnto these slaues he neuer was harde where as oftentimes he was vnto his most familiar friendes seuere Truely his vntimely facillity hath hurt him hauing had as yet no experience how much hipocrisie and deceite there lay hidden vnder a Friars hood As if thy selfe didst not know that hee alwayes had with him two Friers in his armie whose help he alwayes vsed in his diuine seruice Let me be vndon and cast away if I would not haue wisht a Friars wéede and forsaken my counsellers gowne if by that meanes I coulde haue perswaded him to the best Truly none were so mighty in the Realm whose welfare and cōmodity nay not his owne hée esteemed not lesse then these peoples delights and pleasures onely Thou hast no lucke Sixtus with thy lie it will not forge thou mightiest more easier haue made the worlde beleeue any thing els The enemy himselfe dare not say that Friars were ill vsed as long as he liued Here I woulde make an end if I were but certified of one pointe Resolue mee Sixtus of this I inquire no further causes of the murthered Prince it sufficeth mee to knowe that thou hast commaunded it thy will shall stande for a lawe But wherefore dost thou persecute his shadowe wherefore doest thou accuse him of obstinacy impenitency vnthankefulnesse and to haue sinned against the holy Ghost Why doest thou compare him with Cain and Iudas By what iustice or equitie canst thou doe this when hee lay vppon his death bedde did hee doubt of Christian faith Did hee deny the euerlasting Sonne of the eternall GOD Hath hee neglected the auncient customes of the Church and the most comfortable Sacramentes vnto those that he in their extremity Yet once againe herein thou art a notable lier Why dost thou force mee so oftentimes to repeate the remembraunce of my bitter griefes It is certaine that the godly Prince as soone as the Phisitions and Surgeons had bounde vp his wounde and had laide him vppon his bedde hauing a little slepte vppon his paine and griefe that hee pronounced with his owne mouth his Prayers and with a loude voice made confession of his faith and of the feeling which hee had of his redemption adding therevnto these wordes vnto GOD. If it bee to thy glory O GOD and the commoditie of my people graunte mee I most humbly desire first pardon for my sinnes and then some longer dayes of life But if it bee otherwise I thanke thee most highly O Father that thou doest barre mee hence forth from the thraldome of sinne whereby wee moste oftentimes procure thy wrath against vs. And therefore I am readie most willingly to come where thou callest me Hauing made an ende of his Prayers he sendeth for his brother the King of Nauarre and for the chiefest of his army and vnto his brother he commendeth the charge of the Realme and the gouernment of his subiects the Lawes of France importing as much and repeted oftentimes these words whereby he charged him to haue a speciall care to kéepe Christes flocks in vnity and concord and as he was heire vnto the crowne that he likewise would be heire to godly and ancient institutions Desiring this most earnestly at his hands with a solemne protestatiō shewing that this had bin his only desire from his childhood They al depart very sorrowful whervpō he confesseth his sins in the eare of a priest hauing craued pardon of God for his offences he had a sensible féeling that they were forgiuē him for Christs sake And nowe ready to communicate of his sacred body openly that al might hears it that grace which he had fréely receiued of God in the forgiuenes of his sins that same he frankly imparteth to al his enemies nay to them that had béene the conspirators of his death his murtherers And thus hauing receiued his last due farewell departed ioyful glad out of this worlde not without the great griefe of all the standers by bewraying the inward sorrowe with outward abundant teares Here Sixtus I sée no tokens of desperation no signes of impenitencie And I thinke not that thou art so farre voyde of al reason as to compare a most Christian prince vnto K. Saule But let him be cōpared yet to him so that he heare no bitterer words suffer greater torments Beholde with what words Gods indignation vpon this impious king is expressed The spirite of the Lorde is gone from Saule saith the prophet And in another place the Lord speaketh vnto Samuel saying How long wilt thou lament ouer Saul when I haue cast him off that he shall not raigne Doth he saie that he is miserable vnhappie worthy of eternal damnation God forbid When the scripture speaketh of his death marke the most christian wordes of Dauid directed vnto the vnluckie yongman who boasted but falsely that hee with his owne handes had slaine the Prince in the battell How wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy the annointed of the Lord And in many other places who shall stretch forth his hands vpon the Lords annointed and shall be innocent Answere Sixtus is not thy oration crueller whereby thou commaundest wilfull and publike murther in praisnig it or say that this example is not to be folowed and to be abolished by thine authoritie Saule was slaine in the battell an Amalekite his enemy had doone it here is nothing that was forbidden by lawe yet the Lorde hath reuenged the death of his annointed Sée further what the holy Chronicles tell of Ioab and Ammon being murthered although vngodly kings authors of abhominations and hated of God Sée reade and peruse all the sacred and prophane histories and thou shalt finde that not onely the lawe of nature of men and aboue all Gods ordinances but also the seuere and horrible examples of the punishmēt therof debarre impious and bloodie handes from the annoynted bodies of kings and Princes Rome fertile alwayes in all villanie hath féene of twelue her Emperors eight murthered wyth the sword but none vnreuenged He Sixtus therefore that succéedeth shall be I hope the reuenger and that which thou hast now long agone knowne by other histories thou shalt come to learne it ere long by thine owne Auoyde therefore thou Bishop and be prowde with this answere Go vnto the Indians or in some other corner of the world a iust punishment is reserued for thée vnder some greater ennemy FINIS

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