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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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