their new psalmes of their owne Such a psalter is this and suche psalmes here hath M. Fovvler made if not worse then they were as worthy to be forbidden as they and to be auoyded of al true Christians who are as I said to learne of the Lord him self how to offer this sacrifice of prayer to him and it is our duetie both to thanke him that it hath pleased him to become our teacher and also to suffer our selues to be taught of him yea and to harken to that which is sayd and by the spirit of God taught vs. Coloss 3. Let the vvord of Christ dvvell in you plenteously in all vvisedom teaching and admonishing your ovvne selues in psalmes and himnes and spirituall songes singing vvith grace in your hartes vnto the Lord c. Prayse god TO THE CHRISTIAN Reader FOwler addeth vnto his fiddle whiche he calleth a Psalter an admonition It may I trust be as lawefull for me nowe in the ende of this booke to adde a few words in way of a necessary admonition VVhen the Pope sheweth himselfe liberal in giuinge of Pardons to them which will pray so as he appointeth them when papists are busie to make vs Psalters and such prety instrumentes whereon to pray a man woulde thinke that both he they were become very deuoute But euen these very same men when this word prayer is most busie in their mouthes haue in their hartes hands fowle bloody practises to cut the throates of theÌ„ whom they doe allure to pray with them In which they do not so closely work but God of his goodnes doth discouer theÌ„ blessed be his name for it He doth bevvray vnto vs that blood thrist vvhich lieth in their hartes For they do in dede secretly labor practise the sheding of our blood the murthering of vs all whilest they doe allure vs to pray as they prescribe vs And therfore iust cause we haue novve to complaine on these enemies as Dauid doth vppon his Psal. 55. The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter yet warre was in his hart His words were more gentle then oyle yet they were swords VVe may likevvise complaine as he doth Psal. 120. My soule hath to longe dwelt with him that hateth peace I seeke peace when I speake thereof they are bent to warre In these practises of the seede of Cain that is of these romish catholikes for so they vvil be called vve do se that fulfilled vvhich vvas foretold vs by our Sauior Christ Ioh. 16. That whosoeuer killeth you will thinke that he doth God seruice Thus are the childreÌ„ of God forevvarned that they shall finde enemies so deuout cruell that they shall thinke them selues to do good and acceptable sacrifice to God in slaying killing of them This is an opinion vvhich is putte into their mindes by the deuill that old murtherer liar in this murthering the murtherers do this their seruice to the deuil him selfe The old persequutinge Pagans thus serued their Gods that is the deuill him selfe in bloody slayinges and murtheringes of Christians In deede it is the delight of the deuil to smell the sauor of such sacrifices And therfore euen among the Pagans and Idolaters the deuill that olde murtherer hadde sovved this delusion that they vvere induced to thinke it to be a most acceptable seruice to their Idolls to offer vnto them men vvomen children in slaine sacrifice like beasts Yea some of theÌ„ did doate herein so egregiously that they spared not their ovvne sonnes and daughters but made vnnaturall slaughters of their naturall children to the deuil him selfe in their Idols And this vvas amonge them a thinge so common and horrible that euen of this their cruell inhumanity did some olde doctors and vvryters of Christes church gather argumentes to proue those Idols false deuils and their vvorshippe Idolatry and to dravv those Idolaters from their barbarous infidelitie to the faith of Christ The same pagans also vvere taught by the deuill their schoolemaister to thinke sometime that it vvas meete for them to pacifie their gods and to procure them selues felicity by makinge of hauocke and cruell slaughters of the godly olde Christians The same murtherer the deuill vvhich vvrought these mischiefes then doth vse still his olde pranckes and doth sturre vp papistes novv to practise the like inhumaine cruell slaughters vpon the poore flock sheepe of Christ as he did by Pagans then They thinke it an acceptable seruice sacrifice to their god But it is only a pleasing seruice to the deuill of hel and the deuill it is vvhom papistes do serue herein They thinke by these meanes to extinguish the faith the religion true profession of Christ that their popish Idols may keepe the place of God and be counted and vvorshipped as God only and alone vppon earth vvherein they serue the deuill himselfe to the vttermost of their povver Many are the vnnaturall slaughters vvhich not onelie before vs but euen in our age papistes haue made in Fraunce at Merindoll Paris and through that vvhole realme in Flaunders also and Spayne England and else vvhere as the histories of our age doe beare testimony But if that God vvhom Papists vvorship be such a cruel belly god that he is best pleased vvhen men are slayne for his pleasure vve may safely say then that that vvhich the Papists doe vvorshippe vvith such seruice is the very deuill of hell For the Lord God the maker of heauen and earth God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ the onely true liuing God accepteth no such seruice no such sacrifice and he vvill in his appoynted time call these butchers and men quellers to as fearefull an accompte for these their cruell doings as once he called Cain for the slaughter of his brother Abell Yea let them proceede they shall but fill vppe the measure of their sinnes that vpon them as Christ sayth may come all the righteous blood that vvas shed vpon the earth from the blood of Abell the righteous vnto the blood of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias c. But you vvill say these men be deuoute in their prayers They doe pray so did Cain so did Doeg make a semblance of praying and sacrificing but this vvas but the counterfetting of these cast-avvayes And the Papists do think that vvhilest they do thus nourish this vnsatiable malice and deuise of these bloody massacres in their heartes yet that they doe pray so vvell theÌ„selues that they may allure others to pray vvith them But in these their thoughtes they do erre and are deceaued For the Lord him selfe sayeth by the Prophet Isai 1. VVhen you shall stretch out your hands I will hide mine eyes from you and though you make many prayers I will not heare for your hands are full of blood The prayers therfore of these bloody papists are not hearde thankes be to God for it But let vs al vvhich do professe the religion of Iesus Christ in truth be admonished vvith care and diligence to practise right prayer acceptable to God by Iesus Christ our Sauior and not forget that vvhilest vve do pray papistes haue still their secrete practises to cut all our throates and therefore let vs be prepared for them Psal. 72. He shall redeeme their soules from deceite violence deere shal their blood be in his sight â—sal 25. â—nst Pij v. â—sai 2. Matth. 10. 2. Cor. 11. Marc. 12. Thâ— Psal. â— Matt Ber. in Serm. 1â— Ri. de s â—ict ex Io. â—ath Epiph. contra her lib. 1. to 3. Hierâ— Ioel. Act. â— Act. 13. Mathâ— Hieron in epist. ad Ephes lib. 2. cap. 3. Math. 21 Marke 1 Iacob 1. Ioan. 15. De verb. Ap. serm 14. Rom. 8. August in Epi. Ioan. tract 1. Petr. a soto August Hyâ—ognost Libr. 1. de praepar Euang Concil Trident Rom. 6. â—ath 20. Cip. serm de mort Vit. patr Rom. 16. Heb. 1. Epiph. li. 3. tom 2. Act. 7. Ioan. 15. 1. Tim. 2. Hieron in Ierem. 23. To. 2. concil cap. Grec Synod Cl. Alex. Matth. 23.
Iesu did Iesus Christ euer giue them commission thus to vse his name or did he euer make this psalter Lette them shew this by the holy Scriptures If he did not then lette them tell vs if any of his Apostles or disciples did make this psalter or did deliuer this psalter to vs and did tell vs on their creadite that it was the psalter of Iesus If neither Christ Iesus him selfe nor any of his Apostles nor disciples did deliuer this psalter to vs from whom then did it come who did make it who can assure vs that it is as they saye the psalter of Iesu Who was so bolde with the name of the Lord Iesus to put it to this psalter as though it were made by Iesus We know that there haue ben some olde deceauers which haue published their owne forgeries in the name of Iesus as there haue bene also manye double dealers which haue foysted out their falshoodes vnder the name of good men which haue bene of greate creadite in the Church of god Surely our Papistes coulde not haue picked out a more glorious name then is this name of Iesu vnder which they mighte haue sette foorth this their new founde psalter But this to do is to the authors thereof a thing most daungerous For it maketh them guiltie of taking the glorious name of Iesus in vaine and sheweth that they haue no deutifull regarde of the glory due to the Lord Iesus and to his most glorious name S. Paule intreating Philip. 2. how the Lorde of glorie Iesus Christ did for our sake humble him selfe and became obediente to the death euen the death of the crosse sayth also that now God hath highly exalted him and giuen him a name aboue euery name that at the name of Iesu euery knee shoulde bowe of thinges in heauen and thinges in earth and thinges vnder the earth and that euery tonge shoulde confes that Iesus Christ is the Lorde vnto the glorie of God the father Thus doth the holy Apostle teach that God hath giuen to Iesus a name a dignitie and power aboue all names dignities and powers For all power in heauen and earth is giuen vnto him He is so aboue all that they all must bowe the knee at the name of Iesus which as Hierom sayth Non ad genua corporis sed ad subiectionem mentis inclinationem animae cordisque obsequium pertinet doth not pertaine to the bowinge of the knee of the bodie but it pertaineth to the subiection of the mind the bowinge of the soule and obedience of the harte for all must obey him and be subiect to Iesus to the will maiestie power of Iesus Christ Sithence this glorie is due and to be giuen to our Lorde Iesus and to his glorious name howe dare Papistes be thus bolde to vse and abuse it to filthie sectes of their owne setting foorth to brotherhoodes to pardons feastes Masses mattens psalters such like thinges as they deuise them selues vnder that most holy name to gette creadite to their falshoodes and sale to their marchaundise Now we Christians do know by the doings and preachings of Iesus which are sette foorth vnto vs by the most true witnesses of him that is by his holy Apostles and disciples we do by their witnes perceaue that Iesus made no such brotherhoodes feastes Masses mattens howres Euensonges pardons no such psalters for if he had they woulde haue made some mention of them Yea and by the comparing of that which they did truely write of Iesu with these forgeries of Papistes we see the contrariety betwene them so greate that their first most auncient and true writinge doth sufficiently condemne these popish nouelties and this new psalter as a noueltie of falshoode and errour I call it a noueltie as it is If Papistes will disproue me then lette them show what Apostle what auncient apostolique man what approued auncient catholique doctor what auncient generall councell hath commended vnto vs this psalter as the Psalter of Iesu If any shewe vs but if none then is it a noueltie deuised either by that secte of Iesuites or els it may be that Fowler now wanting worke to occupie his presse for his olde maisters which were wont to sette him on worke haue spente their stoare and do not occupie him so freashely as they haue done and him selfe desireth hath deuised with some of his brethren how to make this psalter and so it maye be called Fowlers psalter but not the psalter of Iesus He doth adorne his worke with this braue title Certaine deuoute and Godly petitions commonly called Iesus psalter What deuotion and godlynes is in them shall hereafter appeare But lette M. Fowler tell vs when did this common callinge beginne I saye when did it beginne and among whom It must haue a large compasse that is common Is it ynough to make it common because now the Papistes doe call it common or because M. Fowler doth by his printe call it common Truely this is but a straighte narrow and shorte common but euen such a common is this as is their catholicisme In this their psalter they do as truely name common as they do in the rest of their religion name Catholique for there is no truth in either of thē Neither is this psalter so commonly called nor their religion Catholique but onely so called by them selues It seemeth also that the worke of this psalter did fall out shorter then M. Fowler thought it would and therefore he hath filled vp aboue three score leaues of his booke as in one of his copies is to be seene though it be lefte out in the lesser booke with a certaine new deuised Imagerie so the sithence wordes fayled him he might yet fill vp his booke with some thing to feede the eyes of his simple reader that is with a new stampe of Imagerie This his workemanshippe of Imagerie he doth adorne with this title Godly contemplations for the vnlearned He doth also for confirmation of this his worke adde a sentence out of Basill which he turneth into English meeter yet cannot this his whole worke of Imagerie be warranted by that sentence of Basill For it speaketh of such Imagerie onely as is reported vnto vs by historie But there are among the images made by M. Fowler some whereof we haue no reports by historie In what historie doth he reade that the Lorde God almightie which made both heauen and earth did in the creatiō of them shew him selfe in the likenes of an aged person with a crowne vpon his heade It was wont to be among popish painters a triple Popelike crowne but with M. Fovvler it is nowe but a single crowne not so much as a close crowne such as kinges monarches do weare but euen such a one as it pleaseth M. Fowler to put vpon his head Who taught M. Fowler to be thus bold with the Lorde God to make such a base and earthlie image of his glorious and heauenlie Maiesty Let vs looke
before this our age that is the Psalter of Iesu which M. Fowler doth say doth containe fifteene principall petitions which tenne times repeated make also thrise fiftie Thus is the misterie made vppe which M. Fowler brotched to vs when in the accompt of the Psalmes of Dauid he did deuide the number of thē into thrise fiftie And all this is but to shewe the reader that these Psalters as M. Fowler doth temper them do agree in name and number though in nothing els But we thinke not that this agreement in name number only either can or doth make this newe Psalter of M. Fowlers a perfect Psalter cōsidering how this Psalter of M. Fowlers trimming doth differ from that sound Psalter of Dauid from the doctrine of god M. Fowler doth tell vs that in his Psalter and Inuocation the glorious name of Iesu is called vppon foure hundred and fifty tymes Tell vs not how often but how wel you doe call vpon this name most holy glorious in deede For it is not in inuocation ynough to pronounce the letters and syllables of the worde Iesu but we must looke into that name by faith and so by faith feede on the vertue sauing health and power of Iesu that it may encorage vs to call vpon him in faith and sure confidence knowing that he and he only yea he and none other vnder heauen but he is giuen to men by whome they must be saued which thing S. Peter preacheth in that sermon Act. 4. a part of which M. Fowler doth cite If I should find falt with his trāslation he would say that I did but picke quarrells But to the matter If nothing at all be giuē to men wherby they must be saued then are all men dāned but there is one and but onely one thing for all giuen whereby men must be saued that one thing as Peter doth there tell vs is the Lord Iesus Other name power or thing there is none in which men must be saued but that one onely name vertue and power the Lord Iesus And if as Augustine sayth we must be saued in this name doubtles that is no saluation which is promised without this name And therefore doth S. Peter say that there is no saluation in any other for among men there is giuen none other name vnder heauen wherby we must be saued This trāslation semeth to expresse the mynd and purpose of S. Peter somewhat more plainly then that of M. Fowlers where he doth translate In the which it behoueth vs to be saued What preaty thing it is that M. Fowler would cōuey vnder this terme behoueth I know not and therfore I leaue it But the minde of S. Peter is to teache vs that Iesus is that person by whom only and alone the good pleasure of God is to saue men and by whom onely they must be saued that shall be saued To perceaue this is not onely to name Iesus but to haue true vnderstanding of faith in Iesus Without this true vnderstanding faith to sownd out or to pronounce the name of Iesus doth profit no more men now then it did the old exorcists and coniurers yea or the deuills which pronounced that name or the olde hereticks which did also retaine that name in their heresie and pronounced it with their lippes And therefore M. Fowler your assuring of your reader to find such commoditie by your Inuocation which with you cōsisteth onely almost in the often and bare pronouncing of the name Iesus is not so sure as you woulde seeme to make it You tell vs also that our sauiour hath taught vs in the Gospell of S. Iohn that we should make our petitions in his name In deede we doe heare our Sauiour Iesus say in that holy Gospell written by S. Iohn 14. chapter VVhatsoeuer ye aske in my name that will I doe that the father may be glorified in the sonne If ye aske any thing in my name I will doe it For to this as to one ende are true Christians ordeined that whatsoeuer sayth Christ Ioan. 15. ye shall aske of the father in my name he may giue it you and againe Ioan. 16. Verely verely I say vnto you whatsoeuer ye shall aske the father in my name he will giue it you These and the like precepts of prayer and promises of obtaining our requests we knowe that the same sonne of God our most gracious Lorde Iesus hath made to vs and in them we doe rest But what meaneth that which followeth in this Psalter of M. Fowlers in these words which Iesus he doth meane is the Mediator of our saluation It is true verely M. Fowler that Iesus is the onely alone Mediator meane and worker of our saluation as the former saying of Peter doth teach But M. Fowler this is not all that is in Iesus In these your wordes you doe leaue out a peece of the office and dignitie of our Sauiour Christ Iesus And herein you doe followe some of your olde popish masters who to finde out some place for the intercession of their Sainctes are bolde to spoyle Christ of one peece of his office and to bestowe it on Sainctes For they saye that Christ is our Mediator of saluation but thoffice of intercession they do commit to saincts who they say do make intercession for vs But we doe learne in the holy Scriptures that as Iesus Christ alone is the Mediator of our saluation by whome we are saued so is he our Mediator of intercession for it is he which maketh intercession for vs That same very place which M. Fovvler citeth out of the Gospell of S. Iohn in which he sayth that our Sauiour doth say that we should make our petitions in his name teacheth that Iesus is the Mediator also of intercessiō For to make our petitions in his name is to acknowledge him to be our intercessor S. Paule likewise speaking of the most happy state in which the faithful doe stand before God by the redēption which they haue by Christ Iesus sayeth amonge other things It is God that iustifieth who shal cōdemne It is Christ which is deade yea or rather which is risen againe he meaneth which iustifieth And of Christ his office towards vs he continueth saying who is also at the right hand of God and maketh intercession for vs. Here the holy Apostle teacheth vs so to looke to Iesus Christ that we may knowe that as it is he which died for vs did rise againe ascende is at the right hande of God for our saluation euen so he it is also that maketh intercessiō or request for vs And in the epistle to the Hebrues the 7. chapter the Apostle speaking of the euerlasting priesthood of Christ saith wherfore he is able perfectly to saue them that come vnto God by him seing he liueth euer to make intercession for thē He saith likewise afterward He. 9. That Christ is entred into heauē to appeare now in the sight of God for vs
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 daūce after his pipe In his fourth petitiō 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 euidētly 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 companiō 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 ▪ 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 cōsciences either to make our prayers to thē 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
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