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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11432	A warning to take heede of Fovvlers psalter, giuen by Th. Sampson	Sampson, Thomas, 1517?-1589.	1578 (1578)	STC 21685; ESTC S102972	50,039	111

for our sinnes 1. Ioan. 4. Thus doth the spirite of God lay forth that loue before vs in which lyeth our life Of this loue S. Paule hauing a right good taste wryteth Gal. 2. I liue sayth he by the faith of the sonne of God who loued me and hath giuen him selfe for me In this loue which Christ Iesus beareth to vs is the very life of the faithfull and therfore to it they must they do looke As we reade Apoca. 1. vnto him that loued vs and washed vs from our sinnes in his blood made vs kinges priestes vnto God his father vnto him be glory dominion for euermore Thus are we taught to taste the loue wherewith Iesus Christ hath loued vs our selues howsoeuer either he loued his mother or she loued him In the thirteenth petition he hath put in this patche Make me patiently to suffer iniuries and rebukes in recompense of my disobedient hart to thee To suffer iniuries and rebukes for Christes sake patiently and for well doinge is a blessednes And can not this suffice Maister Fowler but he must also make his patience a recompense to God for the disobedience of his hart Of this his conceipte of recompencing God for sinne I haue spoken before and the lesse shall I neede to speake of it now because M. Fowler him selfe also euen in this same petition belike misdouting his owne recompencinge of God for his own sinnes doth flee to the recompence which the Lorde Iesus hath made for vs and sayeth Let thine obedience recompence for my obstinacy thine abstinence for my superfluity thy meekenes and thy patience for my pride irefull hart enmity thy charity for my malice thy deuotion for my dulnes thy louinge hart for my vnkindnes thy holy death for my wretched life for all my misery These are the words of M. Fowler in this same thirteenth petition in which he doth require the Lord Iesus to make the recompence for all his sinnes and misery And what is it then wherefore he woulde him selfe make recompence by his patience He sayeth for his disobedient hart But for this he prayeth the Lord Iesus to make recompence He seemeth in these wordes not to trust to the value of recompencing by his owne patience but prayeth that the pacience of the Lord Iesus may be a recompence for his owne pride irefull hart and enmity You see nowe once againe how contrary M. Fowler is to himselfe in this petition what a iarre this contrariety doth make in this his Psalter In deede the recompence which he woulde him selfe make by his patience for the disobedience of his own hart is farre out of tune and soundeth vnsauerily in the vnderstandinge of any true christian But this recompence which he findeth that Iesus hathe made for his elect is a sweete sauour of life to the soules of true christians agreeth with the saying of the Prophet Isai 53. He set or made his life for a sacrifice of sinne This recompence which Iesus Christ hathe made that which M. Fowler would himself make can not be coupled together For Iesus alone and only made the iust and full recompence for the sinnes of all them whiche are to be saued In the last that is in the fifteenth petition M. Fowler addeth This inuocation and Psalter of thee by the mediation of thy most entirely beloued mother purchase to me gratious life blessed ending free from debte and deadly sinne I beseech thee and after my bodily death euerlasting life with endlesse blisse and felicity M. Fowler must first proue that this is the Psalter of Iesus before he can thus call and commend it or attribute such force vnto it as he doth And lette the reader marke how M. Fowler him selfe as it were doubting of the value vertue or force of this his Psalter ioyneth to it as a poore help to helpe it forwarde the mediation of the blessed virgin Mary For he woulde haue his Psalter to be of valure to purchase for him by the mediation of the blessed virgin Mary Of her mediation we knowe nothinge as I haue said before we do trust only to the mediatiō of her most gracious sonne our good Lorde Iesus who is the one so the only Mediator betwene God and man For we are taught by S. Paul that there is one God and one Mediator betwene God man euen the man Christ Iesus But M Fowler like a slouēlike apoticary mingleth this his Psalter the mediation of the virgin Mary both together to the ende belike that if the one failed the other might serue the turne And he prayeth that this his medly may purchase first gracious life This tearme gracious which he vseth teacheth vs whatsoeuer he meaneth by gracious life that it is the worke of Gods free grace and therefore commeth not by purchase either of this Psalter or of the mediation of the virgin Mary He addeth that by this mingle he would purchase blessed endinge free from debte and deadely sinne Touchinge the payment of his debtes it may be that M. Fowler thinketh to prouide some poore helpe by printing of this Psalter and that the good vent thereof may be a great helpe to him if he be in debte But it is harde dealing to get the money of true men for false ware It is more hard to lay such snares of deceit to intrappe the simple soules of Christians as M. Fowler doth for getting of money to paye his debtes Whatsoeuer M. Fowler dreameth of payment of his debtes we knowe the payment and satisfaction for al our sinnes is the price which Iesus Christ payed in his most pretious bitter and bloody death suffred on the crosse for vs That onely maketh vs free other freedom purchased either by this Psalter or by the mediation of the Virgin Mary or any other way which M. Fowler and his fellowes can deuise we know none we wil none We doe by Gods grace knowe that freedome into which we are called by Iesus Christ who as he onely coulde so he hath most gratiously made vs free In that fredom by his grace we doe and shall stand By this mingle M. Fowler would purchase also life euerlasting He thinketh but simply and basely of life euerlasting which doth thinke that it may be purchased by such a filthy fiddle as is this Psalter or by such a mingle mangle as Fowler maketh But we haue learned and doe beleue that life euerlasting is as I sayd before the gifte of God thorough Iesus Christ our Lorde It is his gifte it is not by this Psalter nor by the mediation of the Virgin Mary to be purchased We doe giue vnto God the glorie and prayse due of and for the gifte of life euerlastinge by Iesus Christ We will not seeke it by any other meanes nor goe about to purchase that our selues which is thus gratiously and freely giuen vnto vs Thus endeth this Psalter sayth Maister Fowler and yet he addeth an admonition a poynt of

content our selues therefore we leaue Saincts to M. Fowler In the eight petition he putteth in this peece VVhen I offende thee smite me not with sodaine death I beseeche thee and in the fifteenth petition he prayeth likewise from sodaine death and vnforeseene Lorde preserue me What meaneth M. Fowler to aske this one thinge thus twise Woulde he haue the worlde vnderstande that he is afrayed of death and afrayed to dye He feareth death sayeth Cyprian that is vnwillinge to goe to Christ M. Fowler maketh by his Psalter a shew as though he were well acquainted with the name of Iesus and is he I say afrayd to die Then he is not well acquainted with Iesus himselfe how busie so euer he be with his name For that feare is of want of faith in Iesus verely This feare hath bene seene in some cloisterers if all be true that they doe wryte which doe wryte the liues of cloysterers For of cloysterers we may see some which haue earnestly desired the puttinge of of death and the prolonging of life But yet other of them haue corrected this feare in them selues by faith as they wryte of Hylarion who feeling him selfe to be afrayed of death sayed to him selfe O soule thou hast serued Christ these fourescore yeares and art thou now afrayed to goe out Exi quia misericors est that is Go out for he is mercifull This correction of feare by faith in Christ is much better then M. Fowlers feareful prayer But this tearme vnforeseene death may giue vs occasion to thinke that M. Fowler and such as he is do lead a very secure and carelesse life which doe neuer foresee death That manne that so leadeth his life that he doth not in his life time foresee his death draw on him dayly is maruelously misled Blinde he is which can not foresee death which is daily seene and dull he is whome so many warninges of death giuen can not prepare to death The life of a christian hath in it a continuall premeditation and foresight of death that death which is so foreseene rightly shall not I trow be suddaine when it commeth Neither shall any death be suddaine to him or vnforeseene of him that is both godly and dayly prepared to dye Therefore let M. Fowler acquaint his hearte with that desire which the Apostle had in his breast when he desired to be loased and to be with Christ And let him teache his reader that lesson after that he hath well digested it him selfe which the holy Apostle teacheth 2. Cor. 5. That is that the faithfull doe sigh desiringe to be clothed with their house which is from heauen They haue their desire that mortalitie might be swallowed vppe of life and to remoue out of the body and to dwell with the lord If M. Fowler will learne to acquainte him selfe well with the godly desires of the faithfull truely then he shall not neede to make this petition of his either single or double as nowe he doth The first parte of the ninth petition is Iesu graunt me grace for to remember perfectly the daunger of death and the great accōpt which I must giue to thee and to dispose me that my soule may be acceptable to thee to thy glorious mother the blessed virgin Mary The right remembraunce of death is very necessary and profitable to the liuing But it is straūge that M. Fowler prayeth Iesus so to dispose him that his soule may be acceptable to him and to his glorious mother the virgine Mary It is sufficient truely that our soules be made acceptable to God our father by the Lorde Iesus for so be they sufficiētly accepted to saluation they which are made so acceptable can not but be welcome to the companie of that blessed virgine Mary to the Saincts which are in heauen with her to all the Angells also why Iesus shold make our soules which by his owne grace are accepted to saluation acceptable to his mother I knowe not vnlesse M. Fowler thinketh that the thing which Iesus Christ doth accept his mother may or wil mislike But I thinke not so euell of that blessed virgin Mary whatsoeuer M. Fowler doth For I thinke that she doth rather adore the grace of her sonne Iesus by which he doth accept our soules to saluation then either mislike it or ioyne with him in the office and authority of acceptinge It followeth in the same petition Then with the assistance of thy glorious Angell Sainct Michaell deliuer me from the daunger of my ghostly enemie This name of the holy Angell we know we know also that the deliuerer of the faithfull from their ghostly enemy the deuill is Iesus Christ alone for he thorough death did destroy him that hadde the power of death that is the deuill as the Apostle sayeth Heb. 2. And S. Iohn sayth 1. Ioh. 3. That for this purpose the sonne of God appeared that he might loase the workes of the deuill he it is by whom only it is that the God of power treadeth Sathan vnder the feete of the faithfull Why doth M. Fowler flee from this grace and power of the Lord Iesus to S. Michaell We knowe not who hathe assigned S. Michaell the Archangell to this office to be a deliuerer of soules in daunger of death from the daunger of the Ghostlie enemie If Maister Fowler listeth to make him selfe bolde to assigne offices to Aungelles in heauen it is but a popishe pryde It followeth And thee my good Aungell I beseeche than to helpe me And what doe you saye Maister Fowler to your badde Aungell will you saye nothing to him you do dreame in popery that euery manne hath his two Angells that is his good Angell his bad Angell as al the worlde knoweth But in the worde of trueth we doe learne by it we know that God hath appointed his Aungelles to be ministringe spirites sent forthe to minister for their sakes which shall be heires of saluation but that each man hath his seuerall Angell appoynted to helpe him I doe not yet certeinly know But I will leaue this question to the time and place of more full knowledge And in the meane tyme till I doe know it I would faine learne of M. Fowler where he hath learned to pray to his good Aungell or to any Aungell We knowe that the holy Angells doe not suffer men to adore or worship them Apoca. 21. Howe will they then admit that men should pray to them Will M. Fovvler pray to them whether they will or no Prayer is a seruice which we are taught to doe to God to whom Christ Iesus commaundeth vs to pray But neither Iesus nor his Apostles did euer teache vs in any place to pray to our good Angell Who then hath taught Maister Fowler to praye to his good Angell for helpe thus solemnly Let M. Fowler tell vs this in trueth or els we will turne it ouer to him selfe as one of his owne dreames and forgeries In