us, on the subject of
the Invocation and worship of the Virgin Mary?

[Footnote 131: The edition of his works which I have used was
published at Mentz in 1609; and the passages referred to are in
vol. vi. between pp. 400 and 500.]

Taking every one of the one hundred and fifty psalms[132], Bonaventura
so changes the commencement of each, as to address them not as the
inspired Psalmist did, to the Lord Jehovah, the One only Lord God
Almighty, but to the Virgin Mary; inserting much of his own composition,
and then adding the Gloria Patri to each. It is very painful to refer to
these prostitutions of any part of the Holy Book of revealed truth; but
we must not be deterred from looking this evil in the face. A few
examples, however, will suffice.

[Footnote 132: It is curious to find the Cardinal Du Perron, in
his answer to our King James, declaring that he had never seen
nor met with this Psalter in his life, and he was sure it was
never written by Bonaventura; alleging that it was not mentioned
by Trithemius or Gesner. The Vatican editors, however, have set
that question at rest. They assure us that they have thrown into
the appendix all the works about the genuineness of which there
was any doubt, and that Bonaventura wrote many works not
mentioned by Trithemius, which they have published from the
Vatican press. Of this Psalter there is no doubt. See Cardinal
Du Perron, Replique a la Rep. du Roi de Grand Bretagne. Paris,
1620, p. 974.]

In the 30th psalm. "In thee, O Lord, have I trusted; let me not be
confounded for ever," &c., the Psalter of the Virgin substitutes these
words: [In te, Domina, speravi; non confundar in aeternum, &c. &c. In
manus tuas, Domina, commendo spiritum meum, totam vitam meam, et diem
ultimum meum.--P. 480.]

"In thee, O Lady, have I trusted; let me not be confounded for ever: in
thy grace take me.

"Thou art my fortitude and my refuge; my consolation and my protection.
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"To thee, O Lady, have I cried, while my heart was in heaviness; and
thou didst hear me from the top of the eternal hills.

"Bring thou me out of the snare which they have hid for me; for thou art
my succour.

"Into thy hands, O Lady, I commend my spirit, my whole life, and my last
day.--Gloria Patri," &c.

In the 31st psalm we read, "Blessed are they whose hearts love thee, O
Virgin Mary; their sins shall be mercifully blotted out BY THEE...."
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