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scripture_n	father_n	person_n	trinity_n	2,522	5	9.8786	5	false

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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

nothing that might have turned to her Danger and Destruction This man a Fryar and therefore hated and most suspected having also a Knife prepared for that purpose not in a Scabbard which might have made his excuse probable but naked and concealed in his Sleeve which if it had been found about him he would questionless have been put to death immediately All these are such clear Arguments of the particular Providence of God that they cannot be denyed neither could it otherwise be but that God blinded the Eyes of the Enemy that they could not see nor know him For as we have said before although some do absurdly ascribe this unto Fortune or Chance yet none can refer the whole matter to no other cause but the will and holy purpose of God And indeed I could not believe this to have been done otherwise unless I should captive or submit my understanding to the obedience of Christ who determined by these miraculous means to deliver and set at liberty the City of Paris which as we have heard was in great danger and extremity and to punish the notorious sins of that King and to deprive him of this life by such an unhappy and infamous kind of death and we truly not without great inward grief have oft-times foretold that as he was the last of his name and family so was he like to have and make some strange and shameful end of his life And that I have several times said this thing not only the Cardinals Joiosa Lenocortius and Parisiensis but also the Orator at that time here resident can sufficiently testifie For we mean not to call the dead to attest our words but the living some whereof at this very present do yet well remember them But whatsoever we have been forc't to speak against this unfortunate King we would by no means have it thought to be intended against the noble Realm of France which we shall embrace and foster hereafter as we have hitherto always done with all Fatherly love honour and affection This therefore which we with grief have spoken concerns the Kings person only whose unhappy and unlucky end deprives him also of those honourable Offices and Respects which this holy Seat the tender Mother of all Faithful but especially of Christian Princes is wont to pay to Emperours and Kings which we most willingly would likewise have bestowed on him if the holy Scriptures in this case had not altogether forbidden it There is saith St. John a Sin unto Death I say not that any should pray for it which may be understood either of the Sin it self as if he should say for that Sin or for the remission of that Sin I will that none should pray because it is not pardonable Or else which comes to the same sence for that Man who committeth such a Sin unto Death I say not that any should pray for of which Sin our Saviour himself has spoken in St. Matthew saying That he that sinneth against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven neither in this World nor in the World to come where he setteth down three sorts or kinds of Sins to wit against the Father against the Son and against the Holy Ghost and that the two first are less heinous and pardonable but that the third is altogether unpardonable All which difference proceedeth from the distinction of the attributes as the Schools teach us out of the holy Scriptures which severally are appropriated to every several person of the holy Trinity For although as the Essence of all the three Persons is but one so also is their Power Wisdom and Goodness as we have learned out of S. Athanasius his Creed when he says The Father Almighty the Son Almighty and the Holy Ghost Almighty yet by attribution Power is ascribed unto the Father Wisdom unto the Son and Love unto the Holy Ghost whereof every several as they are termed Attributes are so proper unto every several person that they cannot be attributed and referred unto any other By the Contraries of which Attributes we come to discern the distinction and greatness of sin The Contrary to Power which is attributed to the Father is weakness or infirmity and therefore that which we do amiss through infirmity or weakness of Nature is said to be committed against the Father the opposite unto Wisdom is Ignorance through which when any Man sinneth he is said to sin against the Son and therefore what we commit through natural infirmity or ignorance is more easily forgiven us The third Attribute which is the Holy Ghost's is Love and hath for its contrary ingratitude a Vice most detestable and odious which causeth Men not to acknowledge the Love of God and his benefits bestowed upon them but to forget despise yea and to hate them and from hence at last it comes to pass that they prove obstinate and impenitent And thus to sin against God is far more dangerous and dreadful than if it were done either through Ignorance or Natural Infirmity and therefore it is termed a sin against the Holy Ghost and because such Sins are seldom and hardly and not without great abundance of grace pardoned in some sort they are said to be unpardonable Whereas final impenitence only is really and simply unpardonable For whatsoever is done amiss in this life although it be against the Holy Ghost yet by repentance it may be wipt out or done away before we dye but they that persevere therein till death are excluded from all grace and mercy hereafter And therefore for such Sins or Sinners the Apostle hath forbidden to pray after their decease Now therefore because we understand not without great grief that the aforesaid King departed this life without repentance or impenitent to wit in the communion and fellowship of Hereticks for all his Army was made up almost of none other but of such men and that by his last Will he commended and made over his Crown and Kingdom to the Succession of Navar long since declared an Heretick and Excommunicated as also in his extremity and now ready to yield up the Ghost desired of him and such as he was then standing by that they would revenge his death upon those whom he judged to be the cause thereof For these and such-like manifest Tokens of his impenitency we have decreed not to solemnize his death with Funerals not that we presume any thing by these concerning Gods secret Judgment against him or his Mercies towards him who could according to his good pleasure convert and turn his Heart even when his Soul was leaving the Body and deal mercifully with him but this we have spoken being thereunto moved by these external signs and tokens God grant that all being admonished and warned by this fearful example of Heavenly Justice may repent and amend and that it may further please him to continue and accomplish that which he hath thus mercifully begun for us as we firmly hope he will to the end we may give everlasting thanks to him that hath delivered his Church from such great and imminent dangers When his Holiness had thus ended his Speech he brake up the Consistory and dismist them with his Benediction THIS Speech is taken from that Printed at Paris in the Year 1589. the Year of the Kings Death by Nicholas Niuelle and Rollin Tierry and set forth with approbation of three Doctors of the faculty of Paris as followeth Nous soubsignez Docteurs en Theologi●●de la faculté de Paris certifions avoir confere ceste Harangue pronouncee par sa sainctete avec l' exemplaire Latin envoye de Rome avoir trouve conforme l' un à l' autre BOVCHER DECREIL ANCELIN FINIS