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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

to offer vnto all Kinges and Emperours which wee most willingly would likewise haue bestowed vpon him if the holy scriptures in this case had not altogether forbidden it There is saith S. Iohn a sin vnto death I say not that any should pray for it which may be vnderstoode both of the sin it selfe as if he shoulde say for that sin or for the remission or forgiuenes therof I will that none should pray because it is not pardonable Or else in the same sense for that man who committeth such a sin vnto death I say not that any should pray for Whereof our Sauiour himselfe hath spoken in S. Mathew saying that he that sinneth against the holie Ghost shal not be pardoned neither in this worlde nor in the world to come Where he setteth downe thrée sorts or kindes of sinne to wit against the Father the Son 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 Al which difference procéedeth from the destinction 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 thrée persons is but one so also is their power wisedome and goodnes as we haue learned in the symbole of Athanasius where he saith almighty is the father almighty is the Sonne and almighty is the holy Ghost yet by attribution power is ascribed vnto the Father wisedome vnto the Sonne and loue vnto the holie 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 greatnes of sinne The contrary to power which is onely attributed vnto the Father is weaknes and therefore that which we doe 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 is said to sinne against the Sonne therefore that which we commit through naturall infirmity and ignorance is more easier forgiuen vs. The thirds attribute which is the holy Ghostes is loue hath for his contrary ingratitude and vnthankefulnes a vice most detestable and odious which causeth men not to acknowledge the loue of God and his benefites bestowed vpon them but to forget despise yea and to hate them Whereout brieflie and finally procéedeth 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 therfore it is termed a sin against the holy Ghost And because such sinnes are seldome and difficultly pardoned and not without great aboundance of grace in some sorte they are said to bee vnpardonable whereas altogether through vnrepentance only they become simply vnpardonable For whatsoeuer is done amisse in this life although it be against the holy ghost by repentance it may be wipt out defaced before death but they that perseuere therin til death are excluded from all grace mercy hereafter And therefore for such sinners and sinnes the apostle hath forbidden to pray after their decease Now therefore because wée vnderstand not without our great griefe that the saide king is departed out of this worlde without repentance and impenitent in the company to wit of heretickes for all his army was made almost of none other but of such men and that by his last wil 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 extremity and nowe ready to yéelde vp his ghost desired of him and such like as he was there standing by that they would reuenge his death vppon those whome hee iudged to be the cause thereof For these and such like most manifest tokens of vnrepentance we haue decréed not to solemnize his death with funeralles not that we would séeme to coniecture by these any thing concerning the secrete iudgementes of God against him or his mercies who could according vnto his good pleasure in the departing of his soule from the body cōuert and turne his heart and deale wyth him mercifully but this we haue spoken being thereunto mooued by these externall signes and tokens God grant therefore that all being admonished and warned by this fearefull example of heauenly iustice may repent and amende and that it may further please him to continue and accomplish that which he hath mercifully begunne in us as we do put our trust in him to the end we may giue euerlasting thanks to him to haue deliuered his church from such great imminent dangers Wherof when his holines had spoken he brake vp the Consistorie hauing giuen his blessing let them al depart ANTISIXTVS THe ages past haue séene many that vnnaturally haue rebelled against their country and with violēce defiled their hands with the blood of their princes and parents but none yet that euer approoued or commended the facte But nowe of late and in our dayes a notorious murtherer is come forth the B. of Rome knoweth the cruell and bloody crime and reprooueth not the offendor but prayseth him This therefore is false Sixtus although it bée an oldé saying that villanie and mischiefe is more easier committed then excused whether I compare thée with Papinian or rather with Caracalla both notable tyrantes yet it will holde in none of them both With right then may I saye with thée fact um est opus in diebus nostris there is wroght a worke in our dayes to the eye and eare most detestable and gréeuous and horrible to be remembred and spoken of The greatest and mightiest king of Europe lieth ouerthrowen and slaine by the treacherous fraude of a friar But doost thou tearme this a worke onely Nay rather thou shouldest haue called it a most hainous execrable and cruell act and therefore the more hainous that not one of the common people but thou the ruler of christendome Christ his vicar the gate of heauen hast bene the aduocate defender and commender of this great offence Truely who can suffer the hands of priests which by their laws should be harmelesse and vndefiled of all christen blood although most guilty to be embrued and stayned wyth the blood of a prince Who should not curse and detest the bloody butchar of the father of his country Haue not the incensed and angrie people reason then to crie torture torture and all things else wherewith such cruell monsters are to bée punished Yet this is but small Sixtus and that which thou thinkest to be the greatest part of this villanous acte is the least Thou wyth it onely art to be charged because thou alone art sounde that commendest priuse murtherers and praisest manslaughter and not onely giuest licence

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