Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	charity_n	faith_n	theological_a	1,167	5	12.5725	5	true

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

three diuine or Theologicall vertues this he might haue learned in his pops Primer lately printed and haue named them faith hope and charitie Wherein they doe speake more like Diuines then M. Fowler doth either like a Diuine or good Philosopher Amonge the Philosophers them selues he might haue found more vertues then foure He might also haue done somewhat for the helpe of his simple Reader for whose pleasure he hath made this Psalter if he had told him what those vertues were and why they be called Cardinall vertues For a simple man may thinke that they are so called of the Romish Cardinals a sect of men most voyd of vertues as by their particular doings may be easily founde out And to speake of the vertues needefull to a Christian there are many more then foure which a christian is to learne in the blessed booke of God the holy Scripture I meane So M. Fowler in this peece of his Psalter striketh but like a bungeling fidler not cleane not full but striketh very shorte and doth but fumble dally with them whom he would haue dauÌ„ce after his pipe In his fourth petitioÌ„ he teacheth them which are minded to play on his Psalter to say Graunt me the spirite of penaunce contrition confession satisfaction to obtaine thy grace from filthy sinne to purge me Trewe penaunce we doe know and pray that it may be truly practised we do also know those tearmes which M. Fowler doth vse They are the same by which the popishe schoolemen doe set foorth their three partes of their Sacrament of penaunce But this their deuise is already so euideÌ„tly vndone and the filthe and forgery thereof so vnfolded by the learned wryters of our age that I will no further meddle therewith then to referre the reader to the readinge of the fourth chapter of the thirde booke of the Institutions of M. Caluin which if he will diligently read ouer he shall perceaue that in this popish partition is no perfect penance that this peece of worke as M. Fowler doth penne it is vnmeete to haue place in the prayer of a trewe Christian howe meete soeuer it be to be placed in this Psalter of M. Fowler And where he addeth that by this parted Penaunce he might obtaine Gods grace he knoweth not verily what grace meaneth For as the Apostle teacheth If grace be of workes it is no more grace he falleth from grace that doth by his workes thrust on him selfe to gaine deserue merite and gette grace In the fifte petition he teacheth vs to pray thus The catholike obseruances of the church make me to kepe truely What he meaneth by these catholike obseruaunces I dare not take on me to iudge I knowe them not But if he doe by them meane those fiue commaundementes of the church which his frend companioÌ„ M. Vaws hath set foorth in his Catechisme in which he doth but bungel and woulde faine imitate the Iesuites in their Catechisme Yf these be the catholike obseruances of the church of which M. Fowler speaketh or if he doe meane those preceptes of the church which his Pope Pius hathe packed together in his newe Primer I aunswere thus First we do deny that they be catholike Then that they be any obseruaunces of the true church of Christ As for that romish church which both hath and doth take vppon her to deliuer such commaundementes as God did neuer giue to his church we doe abhorre that proude harlot and all her commaundementes neither hath a Christian any warraunt of Gods worde to assure his conscience either to make this petition whiche is here sette downe by M. Fowler nor promise to be hearde if he make it and therefore it is to be lefte to the deuisers of it And surely this his petition doth not agree with the first pece of the next petition followinge that is Make my soule obedient to holy doctrine He whose soule is made obedient to holy doctrine doth detest all suche vnholie doctrines and obseruaunces as men doe deliuer out of their owne deuises suche as are the commaundementes and obseruaunces of the catholike churche of Rome and he prayeth God to keepe him from them he can not praye to keepe or obey them In the seauenth petition he hathe put in this for a prayer Thy blessed mother be mediatrice for me and purchase me a contrite hearte for that I haue offended thee You haue heard before howe Maister Fowler hath called the Lord Iesus the Mediator of saluation as though this were all that is in the Lord Iesus â–ª And you haue heard how I haue proued that our Lorde Iesus is the Mediator of our saluation and is also our Mediator of intercession Now Maister Fowler as though Iesus the onely Mediatour did not content him findeth vs out a newe Mediatour the Virgine Marie whome he will haue to be a mediatrice for him and a purchaser for him But we christians do knowe no other Mediator nor purchaser for vs but one euen that one only Lord Iesus the sonne of the virgin Mary for he is the Mediator betwene God and man euen that man Christ Iesus Iesus is as the Apostle calleth him He. 12. the Mediator of the New Testament The Gospell word of the New Testament doth teach vs to know Iesus to be the Mediator of al them which do appertaine to the New Testament are receaued into that couenaunt of life It doth not assigne vs any other Mediator not the virgin Mary not any Sainct nor Angell We dare not take this office from the sonne and giue it to the mother we will not forsake the sonne who is our certaine sure and only Mediator and go to the mother who hath no such office committed vnto her We learne also that a contrite harte is wroughte in the electe by the spirite and word of god We doe not knowe howe the virgine Mary can purchase this for vs Againe in that petition he placeth these wordes All thy Sainctes pray for me that I be not separate from thee and their blessed fellowshippe in the heauenly city Thoughe it be graunted to M. Fowler that the Sainctes in heauen doe pray for vs yet hathe he giuen vs no warrant of the worde of God to assure our coÌ„sciences either to make our prayers to theÌ„ or to pray the Lord Iesus to speake to them or to appoint them to pray for vs The Lorde Iesus prayed for Peter that his faith might not faile if it had failed he had bien separated from the Lorde Christ Lette them therefore whiche feare this separation pray the Lorde Iesus to be euen so good to them in this point as he was to Peter For Christ prayed not for the Apostles only but for all them which shal beleue in him truly I pray not for these alone sayth he but for all them also which shall beleue in me through their worde Ioh. 17. We know that the Lorde Iesus him selfe maketh intercession for vs and with that we doe

deliuer vs from that dampnation which through our sinnes we doe deserue eueÌ„ by that recompence which he hath already made for vs in his owne most bitter death and bloody passion It is the blood of Christ which through the eternall spirite offered him selfe without spotte to God which purgeth our conscience from dead workes to serue the liuinge god It is Iesus Christ who hath appeared once to take away sinne by the sacrifice of him selfe Heb. 9. Now as the same Apostle sayth Heb. 10. Where the remission of these thinges is there is no more offeringe for sinne and I say where the recompence for sinne is thus made by Iesus there is no more recompence to be made for sinne How dare Fowler then teache vs to require to haue a firme purpose in vs to make our selues a recompence for this which Iesus only both coulde doe and also did fully sufficiently for vs What is this else but to aske of Iesus a firme purpose to renounce and forsake him It is nothing else verely but to forsake the redemption which we haue in Christ Iesus to repose our selues vppon our owne making of recompeÌ„ce to pray as Fowler teacheth But what Prophet what Apostle or Sainct did euer so pray or taught vs to pray That which none hath done euer Fowler now dare do Dauid prayeth humbly to the Lorde in his Psalter that he will forget and forgiue the faults of his youth Psal. 25. And he reioyceth that the Lord hath forgiuen him his sins that he hath forgotten theÌ„ that he hath remoued them from him as farre as is the East from the West that he hath throwne them into the bottome of the sea Psal. 103. Dauid prayeth not to haue a firme purpose to make recompence for his sins but resteth in the blessed remission of his sinnes giuen him by God of his free goodnes mercy through Christ Iesus And againe Dauid in the Psal. 31. confesseth of him selfe this I acknowledge my sinne vnto thee neither hide I mine iniquitie for I thought I will confesse against my selfe my wickednes vnto the Lorde and thou hast forgiueÌ„ the iniquity of my sinne Thus doth Dauid in his Psalter singe an other manner of Psalme then Fowler doth in this his Psalter For the true Prophet Dauid prayeth for forgiuenesse of his sinnes and reioyceth in this that God did forgiue him which is such a thinge to be desired that Dauid sayth immediatly in that Psalme Therefore shall euery one that is godly make his prayer vnto thee c. What accompt then shall we make of Fowler who prayeth not for this but cleane contrarie to this for he will haue a firme purpose to make him selfe a recompence for his owne sinnes Surely neither is this prayer of Fowlers like to that of the godly nor him self godly in this praying For if euery one that is godly prayeth for forgiuenes of sins Fowler is vngodly who prayeth not for forgiuenesse but for a firme purpose to make a recompense for his sinnes The holy children of God are all most holily taught by Iesus our very Iesus and Sauior to pray Forgiue vs our trespasses This is an other manner of thing then to pray for a firme purpose to make our selues recoÌ„pense for our sinnes Simple is he that will forsake that forme of prayer which Iesus Christe hath taught and holy Dauid vsed in his Psalter Dauid I say who was that sweete Psalme singer of Israell 2. Sam. 23. will follow this faithles fiddle of Fowler Simple is he that will forsake that recompense which Iesus Christ hath once made for him trust to a recompense of his own making This were fowly to fal from Christ to runne headlong into the dungeon of despaire Al the Angels heauenly spirites in heauen all the men in earth can not make such a recompense Onely Iesus Christ Iesus I say alone was able to make and did make the full recompense for sinne did it fully for the faithfull therfore he hath founde euerlasting saluation for them which shal be saued as the Apostle sayth Heb. 9. which truely he could not haue gayned vnles the recompense which he made for them had bene fully sufficient Now to take this work of making recompense into our owne handes is either to deny or to dout of the fulnes of that recompense which Iesus Christ hath made for vs and this to doe is to robbe Iesus of his glory and the robber doth robbe him selfe of comfort and saluation in Christ so doth but deceaue him self and double his owne sinne damnation Yet thus woulde M. Fowler haue his Reader to pray to Iesu to haue not onely his purpose but his firme purpose to make him self recompense for his sinnes which is to robbe Iesus of his glory to be him self a deceit to him self to make his way to most spedy certein damnation If M. Fowler mistrust the recompense which Iesus hath made and doth desire to make his owne recompense for his owne sinnes then doth he not beleue that Iesus hath made either any recompense at al or not a full recompeÌ„se for his sinnes which is a point of plaine infidelitie Such as floweth in the Romish Catholike Church This peece of poyson lyeth in this Psalter of M. Fowlers euen this robbing of Iesus in M. Fowler his Psalter of Iesus An other petition followteh containing these wordes Graunt me the seuen giftes of the holy Ghost the eyght beatitudes the foure Cardinall vertues and in receiuing of the Sacrament deuoutly to dispose me M. Fowler delighteth him selfe greately in sett numbers and yet he is no good Arithmetrician When he speaketh of the seuen gifts of the holy ghost he should haue tolde his Reader what they be and where he learned that there be but seuen Surely we knowe that there are many more giftes then seauen which the holy Ghost doth giue to the elect children of God I say many more Likewise I saye of the Beatitudes of which he speaketh as though there were no more but eight It may be that I am so ignorant that I doe not know to what places of the holy scriptures M. Fowler had his eye in these his set numbers Therefore let him name the places him selfe proue to vs if he can either that they do containe these precise numbers of seauen or eight and no more or that there be no more giftes of the holy Ghost but seauen nor more beatitudes but eight In the meane tyme the Christian Reader which loueth with godly reuerence to searche the Scriptures in searchinge shall finde that there be many more giftes of the holy Ghost then seauen many more beatitudes then eight Let not him therfore be thus abridged of his blessednes by Maister Fowler if he doe loue sanctification and blessednes M. Fowler seemeth also to haue some smattering of Philosophy in telling vs of foure cardinal vertues But some of his Maisters in teaching vertues haue spoken of the

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