Preached at St. Pauls

              preached at S pauls PSAL 904 90.14 9014 904 90.4 0 SATISFIE US EARLY WITH THY MERCY THAT WE MAY REJOYCE AND BE GLADALL GLAD ALL OUR DAYES imy have made a rule in the councel of trent that no scrip- ture TTHEYshallbeexpoundedbutaccordingtotheunanimeconsent of the fathers but in this book of the psalms it would trouble them to give many examples of that rule that is of an unanime consent of the fathers in the interpretation thereof in this psalme psalmo bellarmine in his exposition of the psalms finds himselfe himselfe perplexed he sayes and sayes truly hieronymus constancer constanter con stanter affair affir mat augustinus constancer constanter con stanter negate S hierome doth confidently and constantly affirme and S augustine with as much confidence and constancy deny that this psalme psalmo and all that follow to the hundredth psalme psalmo are moses psalms and written by him and this diverse constancy in these two fathers S hierome and S augustine shake the constancy of that canon which binds to a following of an unanime consent for that cannot be found bellarmine ex- pedites himselfe himselfe herein that way which is indeed their most ordi- nary way amongst their expositors expository Exposi tors which is where the fathers dif- fer to adhere to S augustine so he doth in this point though most of the ancients of the christian church most of the rabbins of the jews most of the writers in the reformation take it to be moses psalme psalmo and that way runs the greatest streame streamed streame and nearest to a concurrence and thus far I1 have stopped upon this consideration whether this be moses psalme psalmo or no that when it appears to be his psalme psalmo and that we see that in the tenth verse of this psalm mans life is limited to seventy years or at most to eighty and then remem kemem 1