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A49701	The preaching bishop reproving unpreaching prelates Being a brief, but faithful collection of observeable passages, in several sermons preached by the reverend father in God, Mr Hugh Latimer, Bish. of Worcester, (one of our first reformers, and a glorious martyr of Jesus Christ) before K. Edw. the sixth; before the convocation of the clergy, and before the citizens of London, at Pauls. Wherein, many things, relating to the honour and happiness of the king (our most gracious soveraign) the honourable lords, the reverend judges, the citizens of London, and commons of all sorts, but especially, the bishops and clergy are most plainly, piously and pithily represented.	Latimer, Hugh, 1485?-1555.	1661 (1661)	Wing L576; ESTC R217646	45,387	134

unto them none be so foolish to do it to the Stock or Stone or to the Image it self but it is done to God and his Honour before the Image And though they should abuse it these Blanchers whould be ready to whisper the King in the ear and to tell him that this Abuse is but a small matter and that the same with all other Abuses in the Church may be reformed easily it is but a little Abuse say they and it may be easily amended But it should not be taken in hand at the first for fear of trouble or further Inconveniences the People will not bear sudden Alterations and Insurrection may be made after sudden Mutations which may be to the great Harm and Lofs of the Realm Therefore all shall be well but not out of hand for fear of further business These be the Blanchers that have hitherto stopped the Word of God and hindred the true setting forth of the same There be so many put offs so many put by 's so many respects and considerations of worldly wisdom And I doubt not but there were Blanchers in the old time to whisper in the ear of good King Hezekiah for the maintenance of Idolatry done to the Brazen Serpent as well as there has been now of late and be now that can blanch the abuse of Images as other like things But good King Hezekiah would not be so blinded he was like to Apollo fervent in Spirit he would give no ear to these Blanchers he was not moved with these worldly respects with these prudent Considerations with these Policies he feared not Insurrections of the people He feared not lest his people would not bear the Glory of God but he without any of these respects or Policies or Considerations like a good King for Gods sake and for Conscience sake by and by plucked down the Brazen Serpent and destroyed it utterly and beat it to powder He out of hand did cast out all Images he destroyed all Idolatry and clearly did extirpate all Superstition He would not hear these Blanchers and worldly wise men but without delay followeth Gods Cause and destroyeth all Idolatry out of hand This did good King Hezekiah for he was like Apollo fervent in spirit and diligent to promote Gods Glory And good hope there is that it shall be likewise here in England for the Kings Majesty is so brought up in knowledge vertue and godliness that it is not to be mistrusted but that we shall have all things well and that the Glory of God shall be spread abroad through all parts of the Realm if the Prelates will diligently apply their Plow and be Preachers rather than Lords But our Blanchers which will be Lords and no Labourers when they are commanded to go and be resident upon their Cures and preach in their Benefices they will say What! I have set a Deputy there I have a Deputy that looketh well to my Flock who shall discharge my duty A Deputy quoth he I looked for that word all this while And what a Deputy must he be trow ye Even one like himself he must be a Canonist that is to say one that is brought up in the study of Popes Laws and Decrees one that will set forth Papistry as well as himself and one that will maintain all Idolatry and Superstition and one that will nothing at all or else very weakly resist the Devils Plow yea happy it is if he take no part with the Devil and where he should be an enemy to him it is well if he take not the Devils part against Christ. But in the mean time the Prelates take their pleasures they are Lords and no Labourers but the Devil is diligent at his Plow he is no unpreaching Prelate he is no Lordly Loyterer from his Cure but a busie Plow-man so that amongst all the Prelates and among all the pack of them that have Cure the Devil shall go for my money for he still applieth his Business Therefore ye Unpreaching Prelates learn of the Devil to be diligent in doing your Office Learn of the Devil And if ye will not learn of God and good men for shame learn of the Devil ad erubescentiam vestram dico I speak it for your shame if you will not learn of God nor good men to be diligent in your Office learn of the Devil Howbeit there is now very good hope that the Kings Majesty being by the help of good governance of his most Honourable Counsellors trained and brought up in Learning and Knowledge of Gods Word will shortly provide a remedy and set an order herein which thing that it may so be let us pray for him pray for him good people pray for him ye have great cause and need to pray for him Amen Part of the First Sermon Preached by the Reverend Father Master Hugh Latimer before our Late Soveraign Lord of Famous memory King Edward the Sixth within the Preaching place in the Palace at Westminster 1549. the Eight of March Rom. 15. Quaecunque scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt IN Taking this Part of Scripture most Noble Audience I played as a Truant which when he is at School will chuse a Lesson wherein he is perfect because he is loath to take pain in studying a new Lesson or else feareth stripes for his sloathfulness In like manner I might seem now in my old age to some men to take this part of Scripture because I would wade easily away therewith and drive my matter at my pleasure and not to be bound to a certain Theam But ye shall consider that the foresaid words of Paul are not to be understood of all Scriptures but only of those which are of God written in Gods Book and all things which are therein are written for our Learning The Excellency of this word is so great and of so high dignity that there is no earthly thing to be compared do it The Author thereof is great that is God himself Eternal Almighty everlasting The Scripture because of him is also Great Eternal most Mighty and Holy There is no King Emperor Magistrate and Ruler of what state soever they be but are bound to obey this God and to give credence unto his Holy Word in directing their steps ordinately according to the same Word Yea truly they are not only bound to obey Gods Book but also the Ministry of the same so far as he speaketh sitting in Moses Chair For in this world God hath two Svvords the one is a Temporal Svvord the other a Spiritual The King correcteth Transgresson vvith the Temporal Svvord yea the Preacher if he be an Offender But the Preacher cannot correct the King if he be a Transgressor of Gods Word vvith the Temporal Svvord But he must correct and reprove him vvith the Spiritual Svvord fearing no man setting God only before his eyes under vvhom he is a Minister to supplant and root up all Vice and

well of you I would then speak well of you But London was never so ill as it is now In times past men were full of pity and compassion but now there is no pitty for in London their Brother shall die in the streets for cold he shall lie sick at the door between stock and stock I cannot tell what to call it and perish there for hunger was there any more unmercifulness in Nebo I think not In times past when any rich men died in London they were wont to help the poor Scholers of the Universities with exhibition When any man died they would bequeath great sums of money toward the relief of the poor When I was a Scholer in Cambridge my self I heard very good report of London and knew many that had relief of the rich men of London but now I can hear no such good report and yet inquire of it and hearken for it but now charity is waxen cold none helpeth the Scholer nor yet the poor And in those dayes what did they when they helped the Scholers Marry they maintained and gave them livings that were very Papists and professed the Popes Doctrine and now that the knowledge of Gods Word is brought to light and many earnestly study and labour to set it forth now almost no man helpeth to maintain them O London London repent repent for I think God is more displeased with London then ever he was with the City of Nebo Repent therefore repent London and remember that the same God liveth now that punished Nebo even the same God and none other and he will punish sin as well now as he did then and he will punish the iniquity of London as well as he did them of Nebo Amend therefore And ye that be Prelates look well to your Office for right prelating is buisy labouring and not lording Therefore preach and teach and let your Plough be going Ye Lords I say that live like Loiterers look well to your Office the Plough is your Office and Charge if you live idle and loiter you do not your duty you follow not your vocation let your Plough therefore be going and not cease that the ground may bring forth fruit But now me thinketh I hear one say unto me wot you what you say is it a work is it a labour how then hath it hapned that we have had so many hundred years so many unpreaching Prelates lording Loiterers and idle Ministers Ye would have me here to make answer and to shew the cause hereof Nay this Land is not for me to plough it is too stony too thorny too hard for me to plow They have so many things that make for them so many things to say for themselves that it is not for my weak team to plough them They have to say for themselves long customes ceremonies authority placing in Parliament and many things more And I fear me this Land is not yet ripe to be plowed For as the saying is it lacketh withering this Geare lacketh withering at leastwise it is not for me to plow For what shall I look for among Thorns but pricking and scratching what among Stones but stumbling what I had almost said among Serpents but stinging But thus much I dare say that since lording and loitering hath come up preaching hath come down contrary to the Apostles times for they preached and lorded not and now they lord and preach not For they that be Lords will not go to plough it is no meet office for them it is not seeming for their Estate Thus came up lording loiterers thus crept in un-preaching Prelates and so have they long continued for how many unlearned Prelates have we now at this day And no marvel for if the Ploughmen that now be were made Lords they would clean give over ploughing they would leave off their labour and fall to lording too outright and the Ploughstand And then both Ploughs not walking nothing should be in the common-weal but hunger For ever since the Prelates were made Lords and Nobles the Plough standeth there is no work done the people starve They hawk they hunt they card they dice they pastime in their Prelacies with gallant Gentlemen with their dancing minions and with their fresh Companions So that ploughing is set aside And by their lording and loitering preaching and ploughing is clean gone And thus if the Ploughmen in the Country were as negligent in their Office as Prelates be we should not long live for lack of sustenance But they that will be true Ploughmen must work faithfully for Gods-sake for the edifying of their Brethren And as diligently as the Husbandman ploweth for the sustentation of the body so diligently must the Prelates and Ministers labour for the feeding of the Soul Both the Ploughs must be still going as most necessary for man And wherefore are Magistrates ordain'd but that the tranquility of the Common-weal may be confirm'd limiting both Ploughs But now for the fault of unpreaching Prelates me-think I could guess what might be said for excusing of them They are so troubled with Lordly living they be so placed in Palaces couched in Courts ruffling in their rents dancing in their Dominions burdened with Ambassages pampring of their panches like a Monk that maketh his Jubilee mounching in their mangers and moiling in their gay Mannors and mansions and so troubled with loitering in their Lordships that they cannot attend it They are otherwise occupied some in Kings matters some are Ambassadours some of the privy Counsel some to furnish the Court some are Lords of the Parliament some are Presidents and Comptrollers of Mintes Well well Is this their duty Is this their Office Is this their calling should we have Ministers of the Church to be Comptrollers of the Mintes Is this a meet Office for a Priest that hath cure of Souls is this his charge I would here ask one question I would fain know who controlleth the Devil at home at his Parish while he comptrolleth the Mint If the Apostles might not leave the Office of preaching to be Deacons shall one leave it for minting In this behalf I must speak to England Hear my Country England as Paul said in his first Epistle to the Corinthians chapt 6. For Paul was no sitting Bishop but a walking and a preaching Bishop But when he went from them he left there behind him the Plough going still for he wrote unto them and rebuked them for going to Law and pleading their causes before Heathen Judges I speak saith he to your shame is there not a Wiseman c. So England I speak it to thy shame is there never a Noble man to be a Lord President but it must be a Prelate is there never a Wiseman in the Realm to be a Comptroller of the Mint I speak it to your shame I speak to your shame if there be never a Wiseman make a Water-bearer a Tinker a Cobler a Slave a

Page Comptroller of the Mint Make a mean Gentleman a Groom a Yeoman make a poor begger Lord President Thus I speak not that I would have it so but to your shame if there be never a Gentleman meet nor able to be Lord President For why are not the Noblemen and Young Gentlemen of England so brought up in knowledge of God and in learning that they may be able to execute Offices in the Common-weal The King hath a great many of Wards and I trow there is a Court of Wards why is not there a School of Wards as well as there is a Court for their Lands why are they not set in Schools where they may learn or why are not they sent to the Universities that they may be able to serve the King when they come to age If the Wards and Young Gentlemen were well brought up in learning and in the knowledge of God they would not when they come to age so much give themselves to other vanities And if the Nobility were well trained in Godly learning the people would follow the same train For truly such as the Noblemen be such will the people be and now the only cause why Noblemen be not made Lord Presidents is because they have not been brought up in learning Therefore for the love of God appoint Teachers and School-masters you that have charge of Youth and give the Teachers Stipends worthy their pains that they may bring them up in Grammer in Logick in Rhetorick in Philosophy in the civil Law and in that which I cannot leave unspoken of the Word of God It is as unmeet a thing for Bishops to be Lord Presidents or Priests to be Minters as it was for the Corinthians to plead Matters of Variance before Heathen Judges It is also a slander to the Noblemen as though they lacked wisdome and learning to be able for such Offices or else were no men of conscience and not meet to be trusted A Prelate hath a charge and cure otherwise and therefore he cannot discharge his duty and be a Lord President too for a Presidentship requireth a whole man and a Bishop cannot be two men A Bishop hath his Office a flock to teach to look unto and therefore he cannot meddle with another Office which alone requireth a whole man He should therefore give it over to whom it is meet and labour in his own business as Paul writeth to the Thessalonians Let every man do his own business and follow his calling Let the Priest preach and the Nobleman handle the temporal matters Moses a marvellous man a good man Moses was a wonderful fellow and did his duty being a married man we lack such as Moses was VVell I would all men would look to their duty as God hath called them and then we should have a flourishing Christian Common-weal And now I would ask a strange question who is the most diligent Bishop and Prelate in all England that passeth all the rest in doing his Office I can tell for I know him who it is I know him well But now I think I see you listning hearkning that I should name him There is one that passeth all the other and is the most diligent Prelate and Preacher in all England And will ye know who it is I will tell you it is the Devil He is the most diligent Preacher of all other he 's never out of his Diocess he is never from his Cure you shall never find him unoccupied he is ever in his Parish he keepeth residence at all times ye shall never find him out of the way call for him when you will he is ever at home the diligentest Preacher in all the Realm he is ever at his Plow no Lording nor Loytering can hinder him he is ever applying his business you shall never find him idle I warrant you And his Office is to hinder Religion to maintain Superstition to set up Idolatry to teach all kind of Popery He is ready as can be wished for to set forth his Plow to devise as many ways as can be to deface and obscure Gods Glory Where the Devil is resident and hath his Plow going there away with Books and up with Candles away with Bibles and up with Beads away with the Light of the Gospel and up with the Light of Candles yea at Noon-daies Where the Devil is resident that he may prevail up with all Superstition and Idolatry Censing Painting of Images Candles Palms Ashes Holy water and new Service of mens devising as though men could invent a better way to honour God with than God himself hath appointed Down with Christ's Cross up with Purgatory Pick-Purse up with him the Popish Purgatory I mean Away with Cloathing the Naked the Poor and Impotent up with decking of Images and gay garnishing of stocks and stones Up with mans Traditions and his Laws down with Gods Traditions and his most holy Word Down with the old Honour due to God and up with the new gods honour But here some men will say to me What Sir are ye so privy of the Devils Counsel that ye know all this to be true Truly I know him too well and have obeyed him a little too much in condescending to some Follies And I know that he is ever occupied and ever busie in following his Plow I know by St Peter which saith of him Sicut Leo rugiens circuit quaerens qu●m devoret He goeth about like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devour I would have this Text well viewed There was never such a Preacher in England as he is Who is able to tell his diligent Preaching who every day and every hour laboureth to sow Cockle and Darnel that he may bring out of form and out of estimation and room the Institution of the Lords Supper and Christ's Cross. The Devil by the help of that Italian Bishop yonder his Chaplain hath laboured by all means that he might to frustrate the Death of Christ and the Merits of his Passion And they have devised for that purpose to make us believe in other vain things as to have Remission of sins for praying on Hallowed Beads for drinking of the Backhouse Bole as a Canon of Walton Abbey once told me that whensoever they put their Loave of Bread into the Oven as many as drank of the Pardon-Bole should have pardon for drinking of it A mad thing to give pardon to a Bole Wo worth thee O Devil wo worth thee that hast prevail'd so far and so long that hast made England to worship false gods forsaking Christ their Lord wo worth thee Devil wo worth thee Devil and all thy Angels When the Kings Majesty with the Advice of His Honourable Council goeth about to promote Gods Word and to set an Order in matters of Religion there shall not lack Blanchers that will say as for Images whereas they have been used to be Censed and to have Candles offered