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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

only for soules in purgatory They haue a reason for this their assertion but I passe it ouer because that M. Fowler him selfe doth seeme to encline to the iudgement of those his maisters For in the petitions of his Psalter he maketh mention only of such soules as are in purgatory But if there be no purgatory at all then are there no soules in purgatory to be prayed for A vaine petition then it is in this Psalter and a needelesse diligence when M. Fowler sheweth him selfe so diligent in praying for the soules in purgatory Yea and it is more then vaine to abuse the glorious name of Iesu and of his bitter passion to this his vanity of purgatory Nowe lette vs consider whether there be such a purgatorie in which soules doe suffer as they saye the paines of scorching broyling or burninge till they be purged from their sinnes and relieued by the charitable deedes of the liuinge yea or no. Let vs see who they were that did first speake of purgatory and how it passed from them to some of the olde christian wryters which doe make mention thereof but very doubtfully and diuerslie in their wrytinges So shall it appeare vppon what fainte groundes purgatorie is founded First it is graunted that purgatory can not be proued by any place of the holy Scripture It is I say graunted by one Archepapist of this our age and also by an olde writer of good antiquitie But the holy Scripture is the rule whereby our prayers are to be framed and it is the worde of trueth which doth truely teach vs of the true being of thinges So that vnles God in his word did teach vs that there were a purgatory we are not to beleue that there is any And againe vpon that which God doth promise vs in the holy Scripture we must grownd our faith in the prayers which we do make to god For if we wil dewly regarde Gods good will with trust that he will heare our prayers and graunt our requests we must haue both a promise of hearing and a rule warrantinge the rightnes of our requestes in the most holy worde of God without which we can not truely haue any faith or assurance of the hearing of our prayers without this knowledge we can make no true prayer It is no true prayer therefore which those men seeme to make which haue no vnderstanding of Gods wil nor trust in his promises Turkes Iewes and Papistes doe prate in their ignorance and vnbeleefe but that prating is not right praying Now then let vs admitte it as a trueth which is as you haue hearde confessed that there is no holie Scripture no word of God to warrant vs this purgatory then haue we by the worde of God no assurance to assertaine vs that there be any soules in purgatory nor commaundement of God giuen to vs to praye for soules in purgatorie nor promise to beleue that our prayers made for them can do them good If we haue no assurance nor certeinety hereof we can not pray for soules in purgatory Wil you know then from whence this opinion of purgatorie doth come The first and most auncient promoter thereof was so farre as I learne not God but Plato the Philosopher a man which did not truely know god His opinion of purgatorie as Eusebius doth reporte it is the most auncient recorde that I haue red Virgill the Pagan Poette hath spoken also of such a thinge as purgatory is fained to be but from Plato it should seeme to be conueyed to other who accordinge to their fantasie layed the first platforme of a purgatory euen that whereon the Papistes haue builded this their purgatorie Which building by the papistes is not yet so handsomely cowched together but that their owne fathers assembled in the last councell of Trent thought good by waye of correction to giue this admonition to them of their seete that they do not hereafter in their sermons before the common people handle the hard and dark questions touching purgatory and that they shoulde not meddle with such vncerteyne thinges touching purgatory as are thought to be false They do also forbid them to handle those thinges touching purgatory which doe sauor of curiositie or concerne supersticion or sauor of filthy lucre And those fathers as popishe as they were doe yet commaunde them whome they may cōmaund that they let these thinges alone as offences By this forbidding nowe it appeareth that before this time the purgatory Proctors vsed to publishe suche thinges of purgatory and for it as this councell now forbiddeth else why doth it now forbid them And so by the wordes of Papistes them selues we may perceaue that they haue had among them such Proctors for their purgatory as haue handeled it so corruptly that they them selues are ashamed thereof and do forbid the like and yet do these popish fathers in that councell vnderproppe this purgatory by their authoritie still But if they did meane in good earnest to take from their purgatory all such thinges as are vncerteine and false or curious or superstitious and such as serued for filthy gaine or lucre let them I say pare al these thinges from their purgatorie in good earnest and surely they shall leaue to their Pope then such a simple purgatory as is not able to be a sufficient pinfold to impounde a poore pigge But as is sayd they and their fathers will needes maintaine their purgatory for they haue taken in hande the defence thereof and it serueth so well for their purse and purpose that it deserueth their defence They saye that their Churche hathe learned it of the holie Scriptures But I saye naye and some of their owne men and their elders also doe saye naye as is touched before Neither doe they them selues shewe vnto vs any one place of the holie Scriptures in whiche we are taught the same purgatorie on which they doe conclude This nowe is the manner of the catholike church as papistes call their romishe Church in their councelles to conclude canons and articles of the faith without any Scripture They tell vs that they haue it also of the auncient tradition of the fathers hereof the reader shal be informed more hereafter Againe they say that this purgatorie is deliuered to them in holie councelles A man would thinke that these Tridentine Prelates did meane some of the first auncient holy coūcells as that first councell holden at Nice or that at Ephesus or some of the other olde holy councells But there is no mention made in any of them either of this purgatorie or of the soules in it or howe they are to be releued by the doinges of liuinge men Yea if searche be made in the Tomes of the councelles it will be founde true I thinke that the first general councell which did set this purgatory on foote by concluding thereon was that late councell begonne by Pope Eugenius at Ferrara continued and ended at Florence about the yeare of our Lord 1439. 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