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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60324	The Catholick cause, or, The horrid practice of murdering kings, justified, and commended by the Pope in a speech to his cardinals, upon the barbarous assassination of Henry the Third of France, who was stabb'd by Jaques Clement, a Dominican Fryar : the true copy of which speech, both in Latin, and also faithfully rendred into English, you have in the following pages.; De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English & Latin	Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590.; Clemens non Papa, Jacobus, ca. 1510-ca. 1555.	1678 (1678)	Wing S3931; ESTC R21677	10,825	47

Nature and the ordinary Course thereof speaketh the Prophet viz. that none shall believe it when it shall be told them But we give credit unto it whilst we consider the omnipotency of God and by submitting our own understandings to the obedience of Faith and the Commands of our Saviour Christ and by these means what was incredible before by Nature becometh credible by Faith We therefore that as meer Men cannot believe Christ to be born of a Virgin when this is further added that it was wrought supernaturally by the operation of the Holy Ghost then we truly assent to it and faithfully believe it So likewise when it is said that Christ is risen again from the dead naturally we believe it not but when it is affirmed that this was done by the Power of the Divine Nature which was in him then we readily and without any kind of doubting believe it In the same manner though to natural Reason and human Capacity it may seem a thing incredible or altogether improbable that such a mighty King should be murder'd in the midst of his Army environ'd round with his Guards and Souldiers by a poor simple weak Religionist or Fryar Yet considering on the other side the great and grievous sins of this King and the special Providence of the Almighty herein and by what a strange and wonderful way he hath accomplished his most just Will and Judgment against him then we fully and most firmly believe it and therefore this great and miraculous work we are to ascribe to a particular Providence of God only not as those that erroneously referr all things unto some ordinary Causes or unto Fortune or such-like accidentary Events but as those who more nearly observing and looking into the Course of the whole matter do easily see that there were many things intervening in it which could not have been brought to pass and dispatched without the special help of God And truly the state of Kings and Kingdoms and all other such rare and weighty Affairs should not be thought to be Governed of God rashly and unadvisedly there are some Instances in holy Writ of this nature and none of them can be referred unto any other cause but God only but yet there is none wherein the coelestial operation more appeareth than in this whereof we are now aspeaking We read in the first Book of Macchabees ch 6. how Eleazar run himself upon a certain Death to kill the King that was an Enemy and a Persecutor of the People and Children of God For in the Battel espying an Elephant higher and more stately than the rest whereon It was like the King rode with a swift pace casting himself into the midst of his Enemies Troops here and there making his way by force he came to the Beast at last and went under her and thrust his Sword into her Belly and slew her who falling with the great weight of her Body press'd him to death and kill'd him out of hand Here in this Instance we may see something not unlike to ours viz. as to zeal valiantness of mind and the issue of the Enterprise but in the rest there is no Comparison to be made Eleazar was a Souldier exercised in Weapons and trained up in Wars set in Battel emboldned with courage and inflamed withrage and anger This a Fryar not inured to fighting and so abhorring blood by the Order of his Profession that perhaps he could not abide the cutting of a Vein He knew the kind of his Death as also the place of his Burial namely that he should be Entombed under the fall of the Beast and so buried in the midst of his triumph and victory This Man lookt for a certain death and expected nothing but unknown and most cruel torments and did not doubt before but that he should want a Grave to rest within But there be many other things wherein these two Instances can suffer no comparison The famous History of the holy Woman Judith is sufficiently known who determined with her self God no doubt immediately moving her to it that she might deliver the City and the People of God to murder Holophernes the General and chief Commander of the Enemies Forces which she most effectually accomplished Wherein although appear many and most manifest signs of Heavenly direction yet far greater Arguments of Gods Providence are to be seen in killing of this King and the delivering of the City of Paris far more difficult and harder to be brought to pass than was the Enterprise of Judith For this holy Woman discovered her intention to some of the Governours of the City and passed thorow in sight and presence of the Elders and Princes of that place and by that means was not subject unto their examination and searching which is always us'd so strictly in time of Siege and War that a Fly can hardly without examination escape them She being come to the Enemy through whose Company and Watches she was to go and oftentimes searched and examined being a Woman and carrying no Letters nor Weapons about her from whence any suspicion might arise and with all yielding reasons of her coming thither and abandoning her Relatives was easily discharged and not only upon the forementioned causes but also for her Sex and exquisite beauty being brought before this lewd and unchast Prince she might perform that which she had determined before This is Judith scase But this religious man undertook and perform'd a matter of greater weight encompassed with so many Impediments Difficulties and Dangers that no subtilty of Man no Humane Policy nor any Worldly Wisdom but only the clear and visible Providence of God and his special Aid could bring it to pass First Letters commendatory were to be procur'd of the contrary party then was he constrained to go thorow that Gate of the City that led to the Enemies Camp the which without doubt was so narrowly kept and watched in the extremity of that Siege that every triflle bred suspicion and none were suffered to go forth without narrow searching before touching their Letters Messages Business and Affairs they had But he a wonderful thing passed through the Watch unexamined yea with Letters credential unto the Enemy which if they had been intercepted by the Citizens without any delay and further tryal he should have been executed presently And therefore this is a manifest Argument of Gods Providence But this is a far greater Miracle that he without searching went also through the Enemies Camp by divers Watches and sentinels and which is more through the Kings Guard du Corps and finally through the whole Army which was made up mostly of Hereticks he being a Religious Man and clade in the Habit of his order which was so odious a Garb to those men that they either killed or severely treated all those Fryars whom they found in those places which not long before they had taken about Paris Judith was a Woman and nothing odious yet examined often she carried