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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

not dreame of and little doubted he to lye vnburied besides many other poyntes of difference that are betweene them And well knowne likewise is the famous story of the holy woman Judith who to set free her owne besieged city and people of God took in hand an enterprise God doubtles directing her thereunto about the killing of Holofernes then generall of the enemies forces and in the end she did effect it in which attempt albeit there are both many and manifest tokens of a superior direction yet in the death of this King and deliuerance of the citie of Paris wee may see far greater arguments of Gods prouidence in as much as in the iudgement of man it was more difficult and impossible than that for that holy woman opened her purpose to some of the gouernours and in their presence and by their sufferance passed through both the gates and garde of the city so that she could not be in danger of any search or inquisition which during the time of assault is wont to be so straight that scarce a fly may passe by vnexamined but being amongst the enemies through whose tentes and seuerall wardes she must needes passe after some triall and examination for that she was a woman had about her neither letters nor weapons from whence might grow any suspition and rendring very probable reasons of her comming to the campe of her flight and departure frō her countrey men she was licensed to passe without any let so that as well for those causes as for her sex and excellent beautie shee might be admitted into the presence of so vnchaste a gouernour vpon whom being intoxicate with wine she might easily wreake her purpose This did shee but ours a man of holy orders did both assay and bring about a worke of more weight full of more encombrances and wrapt in with so great difficulties dangers on euery side as it could be accomplished by no wisdome nor humane policy neither by any other meanes but by the manifest appointment and assistance of God it was requisit that letters of commendation should be procured from them of the contrary faction it was necessary that hee should passe out by that gate of the citie which lead vnto the enemies campe which doubtles was so warded in that troublesome time of the siege that nothing was vnsuspected neither was any man suffered to passe to fro but after a most streight inquiry what letters he conueyed what newes he carried what busines what weapons hee had but hee a wondrous thing passed through the watches without all examination that with letters of credence to the enemy which if the citizens had intercepted without all repriuall or further iudgement he had surely dyed this was an euident argument of Gods prouidence but a greater wonder was that that the same man soone after without all examination passed through the campe of the enemies likewise through the sentinells and seuerall watches of the Souldiers and through the garde which was next the body of the King and in a word through the whole armie which for the most part was compact of hereticks hee himselfe being a man of holy orders and clad in a Friers weede which in the eyes of such men was so odious that in the places adioyning to Paris which a little before they had surprised whatsoeuer Monkes they tooke they either slaughtered or else most cruelly intreated Iudith was a woman therefore no whit hated and yet often examined neither carried she ought about her which might indanger her but this man was a Monke and therefore detested and came very suspiciously with a knife prouided for the feate and that not closed vp in a sheath which had been more excusable but altogether naked and hid in his sleeue which had they bolted out there had been no way but present execution these are al so manifest tokens of Gods especial prouidence as no exception can be taken against them nor could it otherwise be but that God euen blinded the eyes of the enemies least they should discrie him for as before we said albeit some there bee who vniustly ascribe these things to chance and fortune we notwithstanding cannot be perswaded to referre them to any cause but to the will of God nor truely should I otherwise thinke but that I haue subdued mine vnderstanding to obedience in Christ who after so wonderfull a manner prouided both to set at libertie the citie of Paris which then we vnderstoode to be many wayes in great perplexity and distresse as also to auenge the most heynous misdeedes of the King and to take him out of the world by so vnhappy and reprochfull a death truely we did heretofore with some griefe foretel that it would in time fal out that as he was the last of his house so was he like to come to some strange shamefull end which not onely the Cardinalls of Ioyeuse of Lenoncort and Paris but the Embassadour likewise which then was liedger with vs can wel auouch I spake for why we cal not the dead but men aliue to witnes of our words which all of them full well remember notwithstanding howsoeuer wee are now enforced to pleade against this haples King wee doo in no wise touch the Kingdome and royall state of France which as we haue heretofore so still hereafter we will prosecute with all fatherly affection and honorable regarde but this we haue spoken of the kings person onely whose infortunate end hath depriued him of all those rites which this holy seate the mother of all the faithfull and specially of christian Princes is wont to performe to Emperours and Kings after their decease which for him likewise wee had solemnised but that the Scripture in such a case dooth flatly forbid vs. There is saith Saint Iohn a sinne vnto death J say not for that that any man shall pray which may be vnderstoode either of the sinne it selfe as if he should say for that sinne or else for the remission of that sinne I will not that any man should pray because it is vnpardonable or that which sorteth to the same end for that man who committeth a sinne vnto death I wil not that any man should pray of which kinde likewise our Sauiour Christ in Matthew maketh mention that to him which sinneth against the holy Ghost there is no remission either in this world or in the world to come where hee maketh three sortes of sinne against the Father against the Sonne and against the holy Ghost the two former are not so grieuous but pardonable but the third is not to be forgiuen al which difference as the schoolemen out of the Scriptures deliuer it ariseth out of the diuersitie of the properties which are seuerally ascribed to the seuerall persons of the trinity for albeit as there is the same essence so there is the same power wisdome and goodnes of all the persons as we learne out of

to the resurrection of Christ when the Prophet speaketh of a worke he will not be vnderstoode of any vulgar or ordinary matter but of some rare some famous and memorable exploite as where it is saide of the creation of the world The heauens are the workes of thy hands and againe the seauenth day hee rested from all the workes which hee had made but where hee saith It is done it is vsuall in Scripture to vnderstand such a thing as falleth not out by blinde chance by hap hazard by fortune or at all auentures but by the expresse wil prouidence disposition gouernement of God as when our Sauiour saith Yee shall doo the workes which J doo and greater then these shall yee doo and many such like places in holy Scripture but where he saith it was already done he speaketh after the manner of other Prophets who for the certainty of the euent are wont to foretell of things to come as if they were already past for the Philosophers say that things past are in nature of necessity things present in a state of now being and things to come to be merely contingent that is their iudgement in regarde of which necessitie the Prophet Esa foretelling a long time before of the death of Christ said euen as after it was saide againe hee was lead as a sheepe to the slaughter and as a Lambe before the shearer hee opened not his mouth And such a thing is this whereof wee now intreate this which hath happened in these our dayes a worke famous memorable and almost incredible a worke not wrought without the speciall prouidence and gouernement of the almightie a Monke hath slaine a King not a painted King one figured out vpon a peece of paper or vpon a wall but the King of France in the middle of his army being hedged in with his campe and garde on euery side which in deede is such a worke and so brought about as no man will beleeue it when it shall be reported and the posterity perhaps will repute it for a fable That a King should dye or should be slaine men are easily induced to thinke it but that he should thus bee cut off the world will hardly beleeue it as that Christ should bee borne of a woman we do easily acknowledge it but if ye adde further that he was borne of a Virgin my humane wit cannot subscribe vnto it likewise that Christ should dye it is as easily beleeued but being dead to rise againe because that to a naturall habit once wholy lost there is no retiring back againe in the reach of mans capacity it is vnpossible and by consequence incredible that a man out of his sleepe out of his sicknes out of a sowne or of an extasie should recouer himselfe againe for that in the course of nature such things are vsuall in humane reason we accord vnto it but a dead man to rise againe in the iudgement of the flesh it seemed so incredible that when Paule made mention thereof amongst the Athenian Philosophers they vpbraided him as a setter forth of strange Gods and other as Luke reporteth laughed at him and said we will heare thee about this matter againe therefore in such things as are not wont to fall out according to the custome of nature and common course of the world the Prophet saith that no man will beleeue when report shall bee made but yet when we remember Gods omnipotent power and captiuate our vnderstādings to the obedience which is through faith and to the will of Christ we are brought to beleeue for by this meanes that which naturally was vncredible is become credible therefore I which according to man doo not beleeue that Christ was borne of a Virgin yet when it is further added that it was done by the working of the holy Ghost aboue the compasse of nature I do verily assent and giue credence to it and when it is said that Christ rose againe from the dead according to mans wit I cannot yeeld vnto it but when it is saide againe that it was done by a diuine nature which was in him then doo I most assuredly beleeue it In like manner albeit according to the wisdome of the flesh and mans vnderstanding it be incredible or at least very vnprobable that so mighty a Prince in the middest of his campe so garded with such an armed troupe should bee slaughtered by the hands of one poore silly Frier yet when I call to minde on the other side the most heinous misdemeanour of the King the particular prouidence of the Almighty ruling in this action and how strangely and wonderfully God executed his most iust decree against him then doo I verily and stedfastly beleeue it for why We may not referre so notable and strange a worke to any other cause then to the especiall prouidence of God as we vnderstand that some there bee who ascribe it to other ordinary causes to fortune and chance or some such like accidentary euent but they which narrowly looke into the course of the whole proceedings may clearely see how many things were brought about which without the speciall supply of a diuine assistance could neuer be atchieued of any man And certainely wee may not thinke that God dooth loosely gouerne the state of Kings and Kingdomes and other so excellent and weighty affaires there are in the holy stories of the bible examples of this kinde to none whereof we can assigne any other author then God but there is none wherein more clearely shineth the superiour working of God then this which now we haue in hand Wee reade that Eleazar to the end hee might destroy the persecuting King and enemy of Gods people did put himselfe in danger of ineuitable death When as beholding in the conflict one Elephant more conspicuous then the rest vpon which the King was like to bee hee rushed violently amidst the route of the enemies and making way on both sides came to the beast gat vnder him and slew him with his sword which in the fall fell downe vpon him and crushed him to death and heare for zeale for valor of minde and for the issue of the thing attempted we finde some resemblance and equality but for the rest no one thing comparable Eleazar was a profest Souldier trained vp in armes and in the field one purposely pickt out for the battaile and as it oft falleth out inraged with boldnes and fury of minde whereas our Monke was neuer brought vp in such broyles and martiall encounters but by his trade of life so abhorring from bloud that happely hee could scarce indure to see himselfe let bloud hee knew before both his manner of death and place of buriall as that more like one swallowed vp into the bowels then pressed down by the fall of the beast he should be intombed in his owne spoyles but this man was to looke for both death and tortures more bitter than death such as hee could

happely will say he did not compare them for the honestie but only for the difficultie and wonderment of the work and certainly for ought I see hee standeth not much vppon the honestie thereof enough it is for him to wonder at the boldnes of the aduenture for no other commendation hee giueth to his Monke then a man might well affoord to a ryotous and desperat ruffen Therefore since it cannot bee prooued to bee so honest let vs trye what courage and valour what difficulties and wonders abounded in it that it should bee not onely compared but preferred aboue the hardie aduentures of Iudith and Eleazar in regarde of whome a base and ruffenly Fryer is not onely ioyned to susteyne the comparison as a competent match or corriuall but most highly magnified as exceeding matchles and supereminent for so sayth Sixtus that albeit for zeale and valour of minde and for the issue of the thing attempted there were some resemblance or equalitie betweene them yet for the rest there was no one thing comparable But wonderfully hath his holines ouershot himselfe for let vs suppose those examples to bee as Canonicall as some would they were and see then not onely to the persons themselues compared but vnto the spirit of GOD how foule an indignitie is offered when the holy Ghost in Scripture proposeth to our view some famous example as a patterne of imitation it lightly commendeth such a one as no president of antiquitie before neyther of the posteritie to come shall bee able to affoord the like as who can either rayse vp from the memorie of the dead or summon out an example from men aliue to match with Iobe in patience with Moses in meekenes with Abraham in faith with Dauid in courage with Samson in might And if Sixtus hauing searched through the Scripture for some rare example and mirror of magnanimitie did picke out and choose Eleazar for the best I would knowe what warrant his worship had in a Cloyster of Monkes a nest of Fryers in a den of Diuells to shewe a better but what did Fryer Clement so renowned or aduentrous that Eleazar came so short of him If ye marke but the manner of proceeding and passing forward to the worke Eleazar did farre surpasse him for let Sixtus bee iudge and tell mée whether hée did more desperatly aduenture himselfe which to breake into the middle of an Armie had no other way but as a knowne and open enemie through rankes and millions of men to make passage with his sworde or hée who as a supposed friend came sneaking in a Fryers weede vnarmed vnharnest vnweaponed with a fauning looke with a letter of passeport in his hande with a string of Beades at his side with a Crucifixe at his breast with all habiliments of his profession so as no matter of suspition of feare of doubt was ministred to indanger him I would knowe of Sixtus who did aduenture most Yea but sayth he Eleazar was a profest Souldier trained vp in armes and in the field whereas our Monke was neuer brought vp in such broyles and therefore in him it was more admirable whatsoeuer was atchieued I answer agayne that as hee was a Souldier so his attempt was more martiall and Souldierlike so was it executed without all colour in the forme and person of a Souldier brauely by dint of sword vndauntedly in the broade and open field valiantly and who can admire a close and priuy murderer whose practises are so abhorring both from humanitie as nature detesteth them for abhominable and courage condemneth them as arguments of vndoubted cowardice and certainely I see not what manhood is required to slaughter a man in his Chamber which euery base and timorous minde may accomplish yea euen he which cannot endure to see himselfe let bloud for vnto such kinde of reuenge no man for shame proceedeth but he who in great faintnes and weakenes of minde continually meditateth of flight and escape yea but saith Sixtus againe Eleazar knew both his manner of death and place of buriall why therefore should I thinke that his attempt was more couragious for where the hope of life is lesse the aduenture and courage vndoubtedly is more but hee knew so certainely of his death that he could likewise diuine of his graue but hardly I brooke to heare of so foule an vntrueth that your Frier was so sore afraide of certaine death and vncertaine torments for why your factors and agents in the cause had prouided a double medicine to salue that feare for so wisely they wrought to prouoke this parricide to resolue vpon execution that notwithstanding the aduenture in sight were perilous yet both in regarde of that policy which they had at home contriued as also of the furtherance and assistance which in the campe of the King they expected there was a double comfort ministred at home they had so prouided that so many within the walls of Paris as were either knowne or suspected to be by nere affinity allyed or by affection carried to fauour either the King or any his ayders and associates that so many should be apprehended and laid vp as pledges and hostages for the safe returne of the Frier which doubtles would so bridle the fury of the Kings friends that notwithstanding himselfe before were murdered yet to ransome the liues and liberties of their friends they would bee content to dismisse the Frier send him back to Paris againe they perswaded him that in the Kings own campe there was abundāt hope of present assistance to be supplied for if it so fel out that the King were dispatcht then so many of his traine as secretly fauored the League would be present and at hand to assist him but the contrary part would be so amazed at the suddaine alteration that euery man would rather apply his wittes how to saue himselfe then to execute reuenge vpon the malefactor and so our brother Clement could not choose but scape this most infallibly is the trueth this was the perswading and proceeding with the Frier who in a fooles paradice and conceite of a certaine returne tanquam asinus ad caedem went forward to his worke which howsoeuer it succeeded vnluckily yet out of doubt better fortune was expected in regarde of which expectation I affirme that there was neither imminent danger nor certaine feare therefore could not the aduenture be so ventrous that Captaine Eleazar with Frier Clement should change a corselet to put on a cowle But as we haue compared him with Eleazar let vs ioyne and match him with Iudith I speak not of a matrimoniall coniunction for Clement was a votary neuer wedded to a wife neuer furnisht with any part of a family saue onely a few children but I speake of a ioyning in comparison for what though comparisons bee odious yet Eleazar must goe downe and Iudith must stoope to aduance a bloudy Frier to the skies therefore as his holines had commended Eleazar so dooth he likewise extoll Iudith but both

the creede of Athanasius when hee saith the father is omnipotent the Sonne omnipotent and the holy Ghost omnipotent yet by way of attribution vnto the Father is ascribed power to the Sonne wisdome and to the holy Ghost loue each whereof as they are called properties are so proper to euery person as they cannot be put vpon another and by the contraries of these properties wee come to knowe the difference and weight of sinne the contrarie to power which is the attribute of the Father is weakenes so that whatsoeuer we commit through infirmitie and weakenes of our nature may be said to be committed against the Father the contrarie of wisdome is ignorance through which when a man offendeth he is saide to offend against the Sonne so that those sinnes which are committed either through mans frailty or ignorance may easily obteine a pardon but the third which is loue the propertie of the holy Ghost hath for his contrarie ingratitude a most hatefull sinne whereby it commeth to passe that man dooth not acknowledge Gods loue and benefites towards him but forgetteth despiseth and groweth in hatred of them and so at length becommeth obstinat and impenitent and this way men offend more grieuously and dangerously toward God then by ignorance or infirmitie therefore these are called sinnes against the holy Ghost which because they are not so often so easily forgiuen not without a greater measure of grace they are reckoned in a sort vnpardonable when as notwithstanding onely by reason of mans impenitence they are absolutely and simply vnpardonable for whatsoeuer is committed in this life though it be against the holy Ghost yet by a timely repentance it may be blotted out but he that perseuereth vnto the end leaueth no place for grace and mercy for such an offence or for a man so offending the Apostle would not that after his death we should pray And now for that vnto our great griefe we are giuen to vnderstand that the foresaide King dyed thus impenitent as namely amidst a knot of hereticks for of such people he had mustered out an army and likewise for that vpon his death-bed hee bequeathed the succession of his Kingdome to Nauarra a pronounced and excommunicate heretick and euen at the last point and gaspe he coniured both him and such like as were about him to take vengeance of those whome he suspected to be the authors of his death for these and such like manifest tokens of impenitencie our pleasure is that there shall no dead mans rites be solemnised for him not for that we doo in any sort preiudice the secret iudgement and mercy of God toward him who was able according to his good pleasure euen at the very breathing out of his soule to turne his heart and haue mercy vpon him but this we speak according to that which came into the outward apparance Our most bountifull Sauiour grant that others being admonished by this fearefull example of Gods iustice may returne into the way of life and that which hee hath thus in mercy begun let him in great kindnes continew and accomplish as we hope he will that we may yeeld vnto him immortall thankes for deliuering his Church from so great mischieues and dangers Dixit insipiens And hauing thus definitely spoken he dismissed the Consistorie with a blessing O terque quaterque beati MARTINE MAR-SIXTVS This foule defence a Frenchman late defied And wisely wrote his censure of the same His censure pleasd yet one of Rome replied A homeborne Iudge could not the cause defame The French were parciall for their Henries sake Why then quoth he twere good some stranger spake With that they spied and calde and causd me stay And for I seemd a stranger in their ey I must be iudge twixt France and Rome they say And will quoth I nor can I iudge awry Sixtus was Pope and popish was your King I both dislike list how I like the thing A reply against the former Apologie COnsidering in my minde both often and earnestly and bending my thoughts to muse vppon those things which by the instinct of Satan are lately come to light me thinkes I may rightly inuert that saying of the Prophet Abacuk A word is spoken in our daies which no man will beleeue that it should be vttered The King of France is done to death by the hands of a Monke a deede prophane and irreligious but yet I speake of a sinne exceeding that the deede is remitted excused defended commended extolled and that by the mouth of the Pope heare O heauens and hearken O inhabitants of the earth whether such a thing hath bin in your daies or yet in the daies of your fathers When I call to minde the fact of the Monk I detest and abhorre him but when I heare the voyce of the Pope as one that had seene a monster I stand in a maze and wonder at him and surely good cause there is to wonder I thought it had been incident to man onely to commit sinne but to commend sinne I iudged it proper only to y e diuell therfore Satan auaunt but these are the latter dayes iniquitie must needes abound Was it not enough to disturbe the common peace to alienate the hearts of the Commons to stirre vp a restles and factious Rebell to muster out a league of mutinous and riotous conspirators to discountenance and ouerbeare a lawfull King to weaken to disauthorize and last of al most furiously to murder him but presently they which stand in the gate must laugh at it the drunkards make songs of it and thou thy selfe Sixtus like a parasite vpon a stage applaudest vnto it factum pol optime there there so should it goe but accursed be they which reioyce in iniquitie and woe be to them which call euill good Notwithstanding howsoeuer the Apologie of so hatefull a fact were execrable yet if it had bin vndertaken but by some smooth tongd Iesuit or pettie Priest or had but one Frier clawed another I could in some sort haue suppressed my griefe with silence for what is it that hath thus incited me a forrainer to the countrey a straunger to the cause saue as it generally concerneth the whole Church what is it I say that thus hath prickt mee foorth to so austere a censure and contradiction but for that I find the fact excused where specially it ought to haue been condemned for that I finde it commended where it ought to haue béen seuerely punished for that no meaner man then Sixtus himselfe the Arch-priest and Prelate of the Romish Sinagogue the Uicegerent of Christ the porter of heauen the Supporter of all Christendome hath vndertaken so damnable a defence This is it I say which hath made me a confuter which how well I haue performed or whether I haue performed it or no it mattereth not I haue sufficiently confuted whatsoeuer I haue but published or barely translated nor needeth an ill fauoured face a Poet to stand