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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68325	A notable sermo[n] of ye reuerende father Maister Hughe Latemer whiche he preached in ye Shrouds at paules churche in Londo[n], on the. xviii. daye of Ianuary. 1548.	Latimer, Hugh, 1485?-1555.	1548 (1548)	STC 15291; ESTC S108309	16,311	64

A notable Sermō of y e reuerende father Maister Hughe Latemer whiche he preached in y e Shrouds at paules churche in Londō on the .xviii. daye of January 1548. The. iiii Sermon QUecūque scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt All thinges which are writtē ar writen for our eruottion knowledge All thinges that are writtē in Goddes boke in the Byble boke in the booke of the holy scripture are written to be oure doctrine I told you in my first sermon honorable audiencē that I purposed to declare vnto you ii thinges The one what sede shuld be sowen in Gods field in Goddes plough land And the other who should be the sowers That is to say what doctrin is to be taught in Christes church congregacion and what men shoulde be the teachers and preachers of it The fyrst part I haue told you in the thre sermōs past in which I haue assaied to sette furth my plough to proue what I coulde do And now I shal tel you who be the plowers for Gods worde is a seede to be sowen in Goddes fielde that is the faythful cōgregacion the preacher is the sower And it is in the gospell Exiuit qui seminat seminare semen suum He that soweth the husbanman the plowghman wente furth to sowe his seede so that a preacher is resebled to a ploughmā as it is in a nother place Nemo admota aratro manu et a tergo respiciens aptus est regno Dei No man that putteth his hand to the plough and loketh backe is apte for the kingdō of god That is to say let no preacher be negligente in doinge his office Al be it this is one of the places y t hath ben racked as I toulde you of rackyng scriptures And I haue bene one of thē my selfe y t hathe racked it I crye God mercye for it haue bene one of them that haue beleued and haue expounded it agaynste relygious persons that would forsake theyr ordre which they had professed and woulde go out of theyr cloyster whereas in deed it toucheth not monkerye nor maketh any thing at all for any such matter But it is directlye spoken of diligente preachyng of the worde of God For preachyng of the Gospel is one of Goddes plough workes and the preacher is one of Goddes plough men Ye may not be offended wyth my similitude in that I compare preachynge to the laboure worke of ploughinge the preacher to a ploughman Ye maye not be offended wyth thys my similitude for I haue ben selaundred of some personnes for suche thynges It hath bene saied of me Oh Latimer nay as for him I wil neuer beleue hym whyle I lyue nor neuer trust him for he lykened our blessed Ladye to a saffrone bagge where in deede I neuer vsed that similitude But it was as I haue sayd vnto you before nowe accordinge to that whiche Peter sawe before in the spirite of prophesy and sayed that there shoulde come afterwarde men Per quos via veritatis maledictis afficeretur there shoulde come felowes by whō the waye of truth should be yll spokē of and sclandred But i case I had vsed this similitude it had not bene to be reproued but myght haue bene wythout reproche For I might haue sayed thus as the saffrone bagge that hath bene full of saffron or hath had saffron in it doth euer after sauoure and smel of the swete saffron that it conteyned so oure blessed Ladye which conceyued bare Chryste in her wombe dyd euer after resemble the maners and vertues of that precious babe which she bare And what had oure blessed Ladie bene the worse for thys or what dishonour was thys to our blessed Ladye But as preachers must be ware and circumspect y t ther geue not any iust occasion to be sclaundered and yll spokē of by the hearers so must not the auditours be offended without cause For heauen is in the gospel likened to a musterde seede It is compared also to a piece of leauen as Chryst saith that at the last day he wyll come lyke a thiefe what dishonoure is this to God or what derogation is thys to heauen Ye maye not then I say be offended wyth my similitude for because I lyken preaching to a ploughmans laboure a prelate to a ploughman But now you wyll aske me whom I cal a prelate A prelate is that man what soeuer he be y t hath a flocke to be taughte of hym who soeuer hath any spirytuall charge in the fayethfull congregacion and who so euer he be that hath cure of soule And wel may the preacher and the ploughman be lykened together Fyrst for theyr labour of all ceasons of the yere For there is no tyme of the yere in whiche the ploughman hath not some speciall worke to do as in my countrey in Lecester Shire the ploughe man hath a tyme to set furth and to assaye his plough and other tymes for other necessary workes to be done And thē they also maye be likened to gether for the diuersitie of workes varietie of offices y t they haue to do For as the ploughmā first setteth futth his plough and thē tilleth hys lande and breaketh it in furroughes and sometyme ridgeth it vp agayne And at an other tyme harroweth it clotteth it somtyme doungeth it hedgeth it diggeth it and weedeth it pourgeth and maketh it cleane So the prelate the preacher hath many diuers offices to do He hath fyrst a busie worke to bringe his parishioners to a tyght fayth as Paule calleth it And not to a swaruinge fayth but to a fayeth that enbraceth Christ and trusteth to hys merytes a lyuely faith a iustifiyng fayth a faith that maketh a man righteous wythout respecte of workes As ye haue it werie wel declared and set furth in the Homily He hath thē a busie worke I say to bringe his flocke to a ryght fayth and then to cōfirme them in the same fayth Nowe castynge them downe wyth the lawe and with threateninges of God for synne Nowe rydginge them vp a gaine with the gospel and wyth the promyses of Gods fauoure Nowe wreding them by tellyng them their faultes makynge them forsake synne Nowe clottinge them by breakyng theyr stony hartes and by making them supple herted and makynge them to haue hertes of fleshe that is soft hertes and apt for doctryne to enter in Nowe teachyng to knowe God ryghtely and to knowe theyr duetie to God and to theyr neyghboures Nowe exhorting them whē they knowe theyr duetye that thei do it and be dilygente in it so that they haue a continuall worke to do Great is theyr busynes and therefore greate shoulde be their hyre They haue great laboures and therfore they ought to haue good liuynges that they maye comodiously feade theyr flocke for the preachyng of the woorde of God vnto the people is called meat Scripture