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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

or forgiuenesse thereof I will that none should pray because it is not pardonable Or else in the same sence for that man who committeth such a sin vnto death I say not that any should pray for Whereof our Sauiour himself hath spoken in S. Matthew saying that he that sinneth against the holy Ghost shal not be pardoned neither in this world nor in the world to come Where he setteth down three sorts or kinds of sin to wit against the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost and that the two first are lesse hainous and pardonable but that the third is altogether vnpardonable and not to be remitted All which difference proceedeth from the distinction of the attributes as the Diuines teach vs which seuerally are appropriated vnto euery seuerall person of the holy Trinitie And although as the essence of all the three persons is but one so also is their power wisedome and goodnesse as we haue learned in the symbole of Athanasius where he saith almightie is the Father almighty is the Sonne and almighty is the holy Ghost yet by attribution power is ascribed vnto the Father wisdome vnto the Sonne and loue vnto the holy Ghost whereof euery seuerall as they are tearmed attributes so are they so proper vnto euery seuerall person that they can not be attributed and referred vnto any other By the contraries of which attributes we come to discerne the distinction and greatnesse of sinne The contrary to power which is onely attributed vnto the Father is weaknesse and therefore that which we do amisse through infirmity of nature is said to be committed against the Father The opposite vnto wisdome is ignorance and blindnes through which when any man sinneth he is said to sinne against the Sonne therefore that which we commit through naturall infirmity and ignorance is more easier forgiuen vs. The third attribute which is the holy Ghostes is loue and hath for his contrary ingratitude and vnthankfulnesse a vice most detestable and odious which causeth men not to acknowledge the loue of God his benefites bestowed vpon them but to forget despise yea and to hate them Whereout briefly and finally proceedeth that they become altogether obstinate and impenitent And this way sinne is committed against God with greater danger and perill then if it were done through ignorance and weakenesse of the flesh and therefore it is tearmed a sinne against the holy Ghost And because such sinnes are seldome and difficultly pardoned and not without great abundance of grace in some sort they are said to be vnpardonable whereas altogether through vnrepentance onely they become simply vnpardonable For whatsoeuer is done amisse in this life although it be against the holy Ghost by repētance it may be wipt out and defaced before death but they that perseuere therein till death are excluded from all grace and mercy hereafter And therefore for such sinners and sins the Apostle hath forbidden to pray after their deceasse Now therfore because we vnderstand not without our great griefe that the said king is departed out of this world without repentance and impenitent in the companie to wit of heretickes for all his armie was made almost of none other but of such men and that by his last will he hath commended and committed his crowne and kingdome to the succession of Nauarre long since declared an hereticke and excommunicated as also in his extremitie and now readie to yeeld vp his ghost desired of him and such like as he was there standing by that they would reuenge his death vpon those whom he iudged to be the cause thereof For these and such like most manifest tokens of vnrepentance we haue decreed not to solemnize his death with funerals not that we would seeme to coniecture by these any thing concerning the secret iudgements of God against him or his mercies who could according vnto his good pleasure in the departing of his soul from the body conuert and turne his heart and deale with him mercifully but this we haue spoken being thereunto moued by these exteraall signes and tokens God grant therefore that all being admonished and warned by this feareful example of heauenly iustice may repent and amend and that it may further please him to continue and accomplish that which he hath mercifully begun in vs as we do put our trust in him to the end we may giue euerlasting thankes to him to haue deliuered his Church from such great and imminent dangers Whereof when his Holinesse had spoken he brake vp the Consistorie hauing giuen his blessing let them al depart Whether that the Pope in this his Oratiō applauded or approued the Friars murtnering his Prince I would rather the learned reader should be iudge thereof then my selfe his wisdome doubtlesse was too great to approue by any cleare and direct sentence so vile and detestable a fact Howbeit this I can witnesse that it was commonly spoken by many in Rome that had the Friar bene a Franciscan as he was a Dominican he might haply haue bene then declared a Saint And this is most certaine which my selfe liuing in the court of Rome saw that as it were to retaine a pious memory of such a deed the Friars picture was drawne on paper together with the Kings in one square or quadro in Italian and publikely sold without controlement to my knowledge which many admired to see Besides this likewise is true that M. William Reynolds then being in the Low countries to whō as to my speciall friend I sent a copie of the Oration esteemed it so did many others as an approuing of the Friars act For returning me an answer to my letter he gaue me heartie thankes for it saying that I could not haue gratified him with any thing more then by sending him the approbation of the Sea Apostolicke which came in very good season he being at that time writing his Rossaeus Peregrinus a booke of such a like subiect If any desire to know how I should light on a copie thereof when as it is most true that neither the Cardinall whose office it was to haue noted the Popes oration was not prouided of paper nor inke as he should haue bene had any such occasion of vsing it bene thought of before and therefore was not taken by any as Cardinall Bellarmine saith well let him vnderstand that the Oration and Consistory being ended and the Pope departed toward his chamber certaine Cardinals among which if my memory faile me not were Cardinall Gallo and my most honorable patron Cardinall Borromeo Archbishop of Millan who are yet liuing with a greedie desire flocked about Cardinall Alan there in the chamber intreating him that he would cal to remembrance and write what they had heard there spoken to the end they might after at more leisure reade and consider it better and that so worthy a speech of his Holinesse might not perish Cardinall Alan crauing pardon besought them not to impose on him a matter of such difficultie for

offended departed and refused to come to the Court for the space of a moneth after Was this apprehension and execution for any hainous crime trow ye Thus stood the case Certaine Sbirri or Sergeants were sent from the Gouernour to the pallace of Cardinall Farnesius he being absent twelue miles off at Grotta ferrata to apprehend some other of his familie of baser condition who finding the partie in the open Court together with one of his fellowes they laide hands on him the partie and his fellow and the two Sbirri striuing and strugling each with other an English mastife dogge whereof the Cardinall made great reckoning fell on the Catchpols of himselfe and the meane while they gat out of their hands The sayd gentleman seing this stir came to them and demanded how they durst be so bold to make such an attempt in that place and whether they knew where they were and in whose house which being priuiledged as a sanctuarie ought better to be respected of such as they were and such like words The Sbirri departed with complaint to the Gouernour who hasteneth to the Pope and informeth him in such sort as the gentleman by his commandement was presently taken and executed as is aboue said and so should the dog bene hanged too if he could haue bene found but he was secretly conueyed away And this loe was the crime for which he lost his life as was bruited and knowne through all the citie and was besides told me by such of the family as had reason not to be ignorant of the businesse at which fact many grudging said The Pope might more fitlie haue bin called Leo then Clement Well if for relating these truths any man be offended let him blame certaine silie soules whose fond importunitie hath vrged me thereto for that they thinke and will sometime say that the Pope his actions are irreprehensible he cannot commit a mortall sinne nor command vniustly as if he were more then a mortall man halfe a God or so confirmed in grace that he could no way erre as was the Mother of God But the more prudent sort will easily grant that he is a man subiect to humane infirmities and not so confirmed in grace as that he cannot erre in his morall actions that is a priuiledge they know rather proper to the Mother of God then common to Christs Vicars which if I be not deceiued was neuer yet granted to any of them Marie some of these prudentes apud semetipsos dare boldlie auouch that if Peters successour shal at any time excommunicate a Prince fallen into schisme heresie or apostacie or other crime adiudged by him to deserue so to be censured and thereupon depriueth him of his Regall scepter deposeth him of all temporall dominion and disposeth of his territories to some other whom he shall iudge better to deserue the same or authoriseth subiects to raise tumults and take armes against such a one and absolueth them of their fidelitie and natural allegiance or inciteth other neighbour Kings and Princes by mightie power to inuade his dominions or finallie whatsoeuer he command in this or the like sort they are bound forthwith to obey him and his sentence what perill soeuer may fall vnto them for it though by so doing they are to lose their liues who as they imprudently thinke hath in such a case so supreme authoritie ouer him as exceedeth all limits is so directed by the holy Ghost that he cannot command iniustly so omne nimium vertitur in vitium this loe is the prudence of some imprudent Catholickes who headlonglie without due consideration runne on themselues and animate others to run through ouer blind obedience to their vtter destruction but this point of obedience resteth now to be more largely discussed It cannot be denied but that obedience is a morall vertue whereas it is a part of iustice whose office is to render to euery one that which is his the speciall obiect of which is the secret or expresse precept of the superiour to whom euery inferiour both by the law and ordinance of God and nature ought in all things lawfull not to be refractarie but subiect obedient Yet it may so happen againe that for two respects a subiect or inferiour may not be bound alway to obey his superiour the one is by reason of the precept of a higher power commanding contrary as vpon that of S. Paul Qui potestati resistunt ipsi sibi damnationem acquirunt Rom. 13. They that resist power the same get to themselues damnation The Glosse saith Si quid iusserit Curator c. Ang. in ser 6. de verbis Domini to 10. If the Curator or gouernour command and thing against the Proconsul art thou to do it Againe if the Proconsul command thee one thing and the Emperour an other thing is it to be doubted that contemning the one thou art to serue and obey the other Then if the Emperour one thing and God command an other thou art bound to obey God and not the Emperour So semblably if the Pope command one thing and the holy Ghost in Scriptures an other who doubteth which is to be obeyed or disobeyed The other is when the superiour commandeth any thing wherein the inferiour is not subiect vnto him exceeding the limits of his power all power whatsoeuer vnder the cope of heauen being contained within certaine limits which no powerable person is to exceede Here if any obiect S. Paul teaching children and seruants to obey their parents and maisters in all they cōmand Coloss 3. Filij obedite parentibus per omnia and Serui obedite per omnia dominis carnalibus children obey your parents in all things seruants obey in all things your carnall maisters therefore the Pope is to be obeyed in all things I answer them that it is to be vnderstood in all things that appertaine to the right of parents maisters and as farre as they haue power to command as maisters their seruants in seruile things Tho. 2.2 q. 104. c. 5. and parents their children in domesticall affaires belonging to their paternall care for neither can they command such as are vnder them to keepe virginitie or to marry or to enter into religion to go in pilgrimage or such like if they should the inferiour is not bound to obey No more can the Pope albeit he hath plenit udinem potestatis in Ecclesia iustly command any thing wherein he hath no power nor any persons which are not subiect vnto him for that none is to be reputed a superior Tho. 2.2 q. 67. ar 1. but in respect of them ouer whom as ouer subiects he receiueth power whether he hath it ordinary or by commission Neither are Religious men who vow obedience to their superious bound of necessity to obey them in all whatsoeuer lawfull things they command albeit in way of perfection they may but onely in such as appertaine to their regular conuersation or according to their rule which

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