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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

may answer them thus and say What Sirra I perceive you are a weary of Us and our Posterity Doth not God say in such a place that a King shall write out a Book of Gods Law and read it Learn to fear God And why That he and his might reign long I perceive now thou art a Traytor Tell him this Tale once and I warrant you he will come no more to you neither he nor any after such a sort And thus shall your Grace drive such Flatterers and Claw-backs away You have heard how a King ought to pass the time He may learn at Solomon What was Solomons Petition Lord said he Da mihi cor docile he asked a docible heart a wise heart and wisdom to go in and to go out So your Grace must learn how to do of Solomon You must make your Petition now study now pray Now when God had given Solomon wisdom he sent him by and by occasion to occupy his Wit For God never gave a Gift but he sent occasion at one time or other to shew it to Gods Glory As if he send Riches he sendeth poor men to be helped with them One Word note here for Gods sake and I will trouble you no longer Would Solomon being so Noble a King hear two poor women They were poor for as the Scripture saith they were together alone in a House they had not so much as one servant betwixt them both Would King Solomon I say hear them in his own person Yea forsooth And yet I hear of many matters before my Lord Protector and my Lord Chancellor that cannot be heard I must desire my Lord Protectors Grace to hear me in this matter That your Grace would hear poor mens Suites your self Put them to none other to hear let them not be delayed The Saying is now that Money is heard every where if he be rich he shall soon have an end of his Matter Hear mens Suites your self I require you in Gods behalf put it not to the hearing of these Velvet-Coats these Up-skips I cannot go to my Book for poor Folkes come to me desiring me I walk somtimes in my Lord of Canterburies Garden looking in my Book as I can do but little good at it but somthing I must do to satisfie this place I am no sooner in the Garden anon my man cometh and saith Sir there is one at the Gate would speak with you When I come there then it is some one or other that desireth me that I would speak his matter may be heard that he hath lien thus long A Gentlewoman came to me There is a poor VVoman that lyeth in the Fleet. I beseech your Grace that you will look to these Matters hear them your self view your Judges and hear poor mens Causes And you proud Iudges hearken what God saith in his Holy Book Audite illos ita parvum ut magnum Hear them saith He the small aswell as the great the poor aswell as the rich Regard no person fear no man why Quia Domini judicium est the judgment is Gods Mark this saying thou proud Iudge The Devil will bring this Sentence at the day of doom Hell will be full of these Iudges If they repent not and amend They are worse then the wicked Iudge that Christ speaketh of that neither feared God nor the world Our Iudges are worse then this Iudge was for they will neither hear Men for Gods sake nor fear of the world nor importunateness nor any thing else Yea some of them will command them to ward if they be importunate I heard say that when a Suitour came to one of them he said what fellow is this that giveth these folk counsel to be so importunate he would be punished and committed to ward Marry Sir punish me then it is even I that gave them counsel I would gladly be punisht in such a cause And if ye amend not I will cause them to cry out upon you still even as long as I live I will do it indeed But I have troubled you long Beati qui audiunt c. Part of the Third Sermon of Mr. Hugh Latimer preached before King Edward A Preacher hath two Offices 1 To Teach true Doctrine 2 To confute Gainsayers VVhy you will say will any body gainsay true Doctrine VVas there ever yet Preachers but there were Gainsayers Ieremy was the Minister of the true VVord of God Elias had Baals Priests supported by Iezebel to speak against him Iohn Baptist and our Saviour Christ. The Apostles had Gainsayers Acts 28. 22. This Sect is every where spoken against In the Popish Masse time there was no gainsaying So long as we had in adoration the Popish Masse we were then without gainsaying VVhen Sathan the Devil hath the guiding of the House he keepeth all in peace VVhen he hath the Religion in possession he stirreth up no sedition I warrant you How many dissentions have we heard of in Turky look whether ye hear of any Heresies among the Jews And if ever concord should have been in Religion when should it have been but when Christ was here Ye find fault with Preachers and say they cause sedition VVe are noted to be rash and indiscreet in our preaching yet as discreet as Christ was there was diversity There was never Prophet to be compared to him and yet there was never more dissention then when he was and preached himself This day I must do somewhat in the second Office But first I will make a short rehearsall to put you in memory The peevish people in this Realm have nothing but the King the King in their mouths when it maketh for their purpose As there was a Doctor that preached the Kings Majesty hath his Holy water he creepeth to the Cross and then they have nothing but the King the King in their mouths These be they my good people that must have their mouths stopt but if a man tell them of the Kings proceedings now they have their shifts and their put ofts saying we may not go before a Law we may break no order These be the wicked Preachers their mouths must be stopt these be the gainsayers Now to my confutation There is a certain man that shortly after my first Sermon being ask't if he had been at the Sermon that day Answered yea I pray you said he how liked you him Marry said he as I liked him alwayes a seditious Fellow Oh Lord he pinched me there indeed nay he rather had a full bit at me Yet I comfort my self with that that Christ was noted to be a Stirrer up of the People It becometh me to take it in good part I am not better then He was In the Kings dayes that dead is a many of us were called together before him to say our minds in certain matters In the end one kneeled me down and accused me of sedition that I had preached seditious Doctrine A heavy salutation and a hard

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

Mischief by Gods Word Therefore let the Preacher teach reprove amend and instruct in Righteousness vvith the Spiritual Svvord fearing no man though death should ensue Thus Moses did reprove Pharaoh Thus Micheas did not spare to blame King Ahab for his vvickednes and to prophesie of his destruction contrary unto many False Prophets These foresaid Kings being admonished by the Ministers of Gods Word because they vvould not follovv their godly Doctrine and correct their lives came unto utter destruction Let the Preacher therefore never fear to declare the Message of God unto all men And if the King vvill not hear them then the Preachers may admonish and charge them vvith their duties and so leave them to God and pray for them But if the Preachers digress out of Christs Chair and shall speak their ovvn phantasies then in stead of vvhatsoever they bid you observe that observe and do Change into these vvords follovving Beware of False Prophets change quaecunque jusserint into Cavete à Fermento Pharisaeorum All things written in Gods Book are most true and profitable for all men for in it is contained meet matter for Kings Princes Rulers Bishops and for all Estates Wherefore it behoveth every Preacher somwhat to accomodate himself and his matter to the Comfort and Amendment of the Audience to which he declareth the Message of God If he preach before a King let his matter be concerning the Office of a King if before a Bishop I have thought it good to intreat upon these words following which are written in the seventeenth Chapter of Deuteronomy from Verse 14. downwards As the Text doth rise I will touch and go a little in every place To have a King the Israelites did with much importunity call unto God and God long before promised them a King and they were fully certified thereof that God had promised that thing For unto Abraham he said Gen. 17. 6. Kings shall come out of thee These words were spoken long before the Children of Israel had any King notwithstanding here yet God prescribed unto them an Order how they should chuse their King and what manner of man he should be where he saith When thou shalt come c. As who should say O ye Children of Israel I know your nature right well I know that thou wilt chuse a King to reign over thee and to appear glorious in the face of the world after the manner of the Gentiles But because thou art stiffe-necked wild and art given to walk without a Bridle or Line therefore now I will prevent thy evil and beastly Manners I will hedge strongly thy way I will make a durable Law which shall compell thee to walk ordinately and in a plain way that is thou shalt not chuse thee a King after thy Will and phantasie but after me thy Lord and God Thus God conditioned with the Jews that their King should be such a one as He himself would choose them This was not much unlike a bargain that I heard of late should be betwixt two friends for a Horse the Owner promised the other should have the Horse if he would the other asked the price he said 20. Nobles The other would give him but four pounds the Owner said he should not have it then the other claimed the Horse because he said he should have him if he would Thus this bargain became a Westminster matter the Lawyers got twice the value of the Horse and when all came to all two fools made an end of the matter Howbeit the Israelites could not go to Law with God for choosing their King for will they nill they their King should be of his choosing lest they should walk inordinately for as they say commonly Qui vadit planè vadit sanè that is He that walketh plainly walketh safely And the Jews were stiff-necked and were ever ready to walk inordinately No less are vve Englishmen given to untovvardness and inordinate vvalking There is a great error risen novv dayes among many of us vvhich are vain and nevv fangled men climbing beyond the limits of our capacity and vvit in vvrenching this Text of Scripture hereafter follovving after their ovvn Phansie and Brain their errour is upon this Text 1 Sam. 8. 7. They wrench these words after their own fantasies and make much doubt as touching a King and his Godly name They that so do walk inordinately they walk not directly and plainly but delight in balks and stubble way It maketh no matter by what name the Rulers be named if so be they shall walk ordinately with God and direct their steps with God for both Patriarches Judges and Kings had and have their authority from God and therefore Godly But this is to be considered which God saith thou maist not set a stranger over thee It hath pleased God to grant us a natural liege King and Lord of our own Nation an Englishman one of our own Religion God hath given him to us and he is a most pretious Treasure and yet many of us do desire a stranger to be King over us Let us follow Daniel let us not seek the death of our most Noble and rightful King our own Brother both by nativity and Godly Religion Let us pray for his good estate that he live long among us Oh what a plague were it that a strange King of a strange Land and of a strange Religion should raign over us where now we be governed in the true Religion he should extirpe and pluck away all together aud then plant again all Abomination and Popery God keep such a King from us Well the Kings grace hath two Sisters my Lady Mary and my Lady Elizabeth which by Succession and Course are Inheritors to the Crown who if they should marry with strangers what should ensue God knoweth But God grant if they so do whereby strange Religion cometh in that they never come to coursing not succeeding Therefore to avoid this Plague let us amend our Lives and put away all pride which doth drown men in this Realm at these daies all Covetousness wherein the Magistrates and rich men are overwhelmed all lechery and other excessive vices provoking Gods wrath were he not merciful even to take from us our natural King and Liege Lord yea to plague us with a strange King for our unrepentant hearts Wherefore if as ye say ye love the King amend your lives Now I hear all things shall be ended after a Godly manner shortly Make hast make hast and let us learn to convert to repent and mend our lives if we do not I fear I fear lest for our sins and unthankfulness an hypocrite shall reign over us Let us pray that God maintain and continue our Most Excellent King here present He doth Rectifie us in the liberty of the Gospel in that therefore let us stand He shall not prepare unto himself many Horses c. In speaking of

in Preaching and Studying and not be interrupted from their Charge Also it is the Kings Honour Part of the Second Sermon preached by Mr. Latymer before King Edward And when the King is set in the Seat of his Kingdom he shall write him out a Book Deut. 17. I Told you in my last Sermon of Ministers of the Kings people had occasion to shew you how few Noblemen were good Preachers I left out an History then which now I will tell you There was a Bishop of Winchester in King Henry the Sixth's daies This Bishop was a Great man born and did bear such a stroak he was able to shoulder the Lord Protector it chanced the Lord Protector and he fell out and the Bishop would bear nothing at all with him but played me the Satrapa so Was not this a good Prelate He should have been at home preaching in his Diocess with a Wanniaunt This Protector was so Noble a Godly man that he was called of every man the good Duke Humphrey He kept such a House And the Bishop for standing so stiffly by the matter and bearing up the Order of our Mother the Holy Church was made a Cardinal at Calice and thither the Bishop of Rome sent him a Cardinals Hat He should have had a Tyburne-Tippet a half peny Halter and all such proud Prelates When he sitteth upon the Throne what shall he do Shall he dance and dally banquet havvk and hunt No forsooth Sir What must he do then He must be a Student not thinking because he is a King he hath License to do vvhat he vvill as these vvorldly Flatterers are vvont to say ye trouble not your self Sir ye may havvk and hunt and take your pleasure as for the guiding of your Kingdom and People let us alone vvith it These flattering Clavv-backs are Original Roots of all Mischief and yet a King may take his Pastime in Havvking and Hunting or such like Pleasures but he must It follovveth in the Text Deut. 17. 19. He shall have it with him in his Progresse He shall read in it not once a year but all the daies of his life Where are these Worldlings novv these Bladder-puft-up vvily men Wo vvorth them that ever they vvere about any King But hovv shall he read this Book As the Homilies are read Some call them Homilies and indeed so they may be vvell called for they are homely handled For though the Priest read them never so vvell yet if the Parish like them not there is such talking and babling that nothing can be heard And if the Parish be good and the Priest naught he vvill so hack and chop it that it vvere as good to be vvithout it for any vvord that shall be understood And yet the more pity it is suffered of your Graces Bishops in their Diocess unpunished But I vvill be a Suitor to your Grace that you vvill give your Bishops charge ere they go home upon their Allegiance to look better to their Flock and to see your Majesties Injunctions better kept and send your Visitors in their Tayls and if they be found negligent in their duties out vvith them I require it in Gods behalf make them Quondams all the Pack of them But ye vvill say Where shall vve have any to put in their rooms Your Majesty hath divers of your Chaplains well learned men and of good knowlede and yet ye have some bad enough hangers on the Court I mean not these What an Enormity is this in a Christian Realm to serve in a Civility having the profit of a Provostship and a Deanry and a Parsonage But I will tell you what is like to come of it It will bring the Clergy shortly into a very Slavery I may not forget here my Scala Caeli that I spake of in my last Sermon I will repeat it now again desiring your Grace in Gods behalf that you will remember it The Bishop of Rome had a Scala coeli but his was a Masse-matter But this Scala Coeli that I now speak of is the true Ladder that bringeth a man to heaven The top of the Ladder or first Greese is this Whosoever calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saved The second step How shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed The Third Stair is this How shall they believe in him of whom they never heard The Fourth Step How shall they hear without a Preacher Now the nether end of the Ladder is How shall they preach except they be sent This is the Foot of the Ladder So that we may go backward now and use the School-Argument a primo ad ultimum Take away Preaching take away Salvation But I fear one thing Ever since the Bishop of Rome was first in authority they have gone about to destroy the Gospel but God worketh wonderfully he hath preserved it maugre all their hearts and yet we are unthankful that we cannot consider it I will tell you what a Bishop of this Realm said once to me he sent for me and marvelled that I would not consent to such Traditions as were then set out And I answered him that I would be ruled by Gods Book and rather than I would dissent one jot from it I would be torn with wild horses And I chanced in our Communication to name the Lords Supper Tush saith the Bishop What do you call the Lords Supper What new Term is that There stood by him a Dubber one Doctor Dubber he dubbed him by and by and said that this Term was seldom read in the Doctors And I made Answer that I would rather follow Paul in using his Terms than them though they had all the Doctors on their side Why said the Bishop cannot we without the Scriptures order the people How did they before the Scripture was first written But God knoweth full ill yet would they have ordered them For seeing that having it they have deceived us in what case should we have been novv vvithout it But thanks be unto God that by so vvonderful a Miracle he hath preserved the Book still It is in the Text that a King ought to fear God he shall have the dread of God before his eyes Work not by vvorldly Policy for vvorldly Policy feareth not God Take heed of these Clavv-backs these venomous people that vvill come to you that vvill follovv you like Gnato's Parasites if you follovv them you are out of your Book if it be not according to Gods Word that they counsel you do it not fo● any vvorldly Policy for then you fear not God But vvherefore shall a King fear God It follovveth in the Text that he may prolong his daies in his Kingdom Remember this I beseech your Grace and when these Flatterers and Flebergibs another day shall come and claw you by the back and say Sir trouble not your self What shall you study Why should you do this or that Your Grace

maketh it clean So the Prelate the Preacher hath many divers Offices to do He hath a busie work to bring Parishioners to a right Faith as Paul calleth it and not a swerving Faith but to a Faith that embraceth Christ and trusteth to his Merits a lively Faith a justifying Faith a Faith that maketh a man righteous without respect of works as ye have it very well declared in the Homily He hath then a busie work I say to bring his Flock to a right Faith and then to confirm them in the same Faith now casting them down with the Law and threatnings of God for sin now ridging them up again with the Gospel and the Promises of Gods Favour now weeding them by telling them their Faults and making them forsake sin now clotting them by breaking their stony hearts and by making them supple-hearted and making them to have hearts of flesh that is soft hearts and apt for Doctrine to enter in now teaching to know God rightly and to know their duty to God and to their Neighbours now exhorting them when they know their duty that they do it and be diligent in it so that they have a continual work to do Great is their Business and therefore great should be their Hire They have great Labours and therefore they ought to have good Livings that they may commodiously feed their Flock For the Preaching of the Word of God unto the People is called Meat Scripture calleth it Meat not Strawberries that come but once a year and tarry not long but are soon gone but it is Meat it is no Dainties The people must have meat that must be familiar and continual and daily given unto them to feed upon Many make a Strawberrie of it ministring it but once a year but such do not the Office of good Prelates For Christ saith Quis putas est Servus prudeus fidelis Qui dat cibum in tempore Who think you is a wise man a faithful servant He that giveth meat in due time So that he must at all times convenient preach diligently Therefore saith he Who trow you is a Faithful Servant He speaketh it as though it were a rare thing to find such a one and as though he should say there be but a few of them to find in the world And how few of them there be throughout this Realm that give meat to their Flocks as they should do the Visitors can best tell Too few too few the more is the pity and never so few as now By this it appeareth that a Prelate or any that hath cure of souls must diligently and substantially work and labour Therefore saith Paul to Timothy Qui Episcopatum de siderat hic bonum opus de siderut He that desireth to have the Office of a Bishop or Prelate that man desireth a good work Then if it be a good work it is work ye can make but a work of it It is Gods work Gods Plow and that Plow God would have still going Such then as loyter and live idly are not good Prelates or Ministers And of such as do not preach and teach God saith by his Prophet Jeremy maledictus qui facit opus Dei fraudulenter guilfully or deceitfully some Books have negligenter negligently or slackly How many such Bishops how many such Prelates Lord for thy mercy are there now in England And what shall we in this case do Shall we company with them O Lord for thy mercy shall we not company with them O Lord whither shall we flee rfom them But cursed be he that doth the work of God negligently or guilfully A sore word for them that are negligent in discharging their Office or have done it fraudulently for that is the thing that maketh the people ill But true it must be that Christ saith Multi sunt vocati pauci vero Electi many are called but few chosen Here I have an occasion by the way somewhat to say unto you yea for the place that I alleadged unto you before out of Jeremy And it was spoken of a spiritual work of God a work that was commanded to be done and it was of shedding-blood and destroying the Cities of Moab For saith he cursed be he that keepeth back his Sword from shedding of blood As Saul when he kept back his Sword from shedding of blood at what time he was sent against Amalek was refused of God for being disobedient to Gods Commandments in that he spared Agag the King so that that place of the Prophet was spoken of them that went to the destruction of the Cities of Moab among the which there was one called Nebo which was much reproved for Idolatry Superstition Pride avarice Cruelty Tyranny and for hardness of Heart and for these sins was plagued of God and destroyed Now what shall I say of these rich Citizens of London what shall we say of them shall I call them proud men of London malicious men of London merciless men of London No no I may not say so they will be offended with me then yet must I speak for is there not reigning in London as much pride as much covetousness as much cruelty as much oppression as much superstition as was in Nebo Yes I think and much more too Therefore I say repent O London repent repent Thou hearest thy faults told thee amend them amend them I think if Nebo had the preaching that thou hast they would have converted And you Rulers and Officers be wise and circumspect look to your charge and see you do your duties and rather be glad to amend your ill living then to be angry when you are warned and told of your fault what a doe there was made in London at a certain man because he said and indeed at that time on a just occasion Burgesses quoth he nay Butter-flies Lord what a doe there was for that word And yet would God they were no worse then Butterflies Butterflies do but their nature the Butterflie is not covetous is not greedy of other mens goods is not full of envy and hatred is not malicious is not cruel is not merciless The Butterflie glorieth not in her own deeds nor preferreth the traditions of men before Gods Word it committeth not Idolatry nor worshippeth false Gods but London cannot abide to be rebuked such is the nature of men if they be pricked they will kick if they be rubbed on the gall they will winch but yet they will not amend their faults they will not be ill spoken of But how shall I speak well of them if you could be content to follow the Word of God and favour good Preachers if you could bear to be told of your faults if ye could amend them when ye hear of them if ye would be glad to reform what is amiss If I might see any such inclination in you that you would leave to be merciless and begin to be charitable I would then hope

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

these Words ye shall understand that I do not intend to speak against the strength policy and provision of a King but against excess and vain trust that Kings have in themselves more then in the living God the Author of all goodness and Giver of all Victory Many Horses are requisite for a King but he may not exceed in them nor triumph in them more then is needful for the necessary affairs and defence of the Realm What meaneth it that God hath to do with the Kings Stable but only he would be Master of his Horses The Scripture saith In altis habitat he dwelleth on high it followeth Humilia respicit he looketh on the low things yea upon the Kings Stables and upon all the Offices in his House God is a great Grand Master of the Kings house and will take account of every one that beareth rule therein for the executing of their Offices whether they have justly and truly served the King in their Offices or no. Yea God looketh upon the King Himself if he work well or not Every King is subject unto God and all other men are subjects unto the King In a King God requireth faith not excess of Horses Horses for a King be good and necessary if they be well used but Neither shall he multiply wives c. Let us not think that because we read that Kings among the Jews had liberty to take more wives than one that we may therefore attempt to walk inordinately For Christ hath forbidden this unto us Christians and limiteth unto us one wife only And it is a great thing for a man to rule one wife rightly and ordinately for a Woman is frail and proclive unto all evils a Woman is a very weak Vessel and may soon deceive a man and bring him into evil Many Examples we have in Scripture Adam by Eve How did wicked Jezebel Therefore let our King what time his Grace shall be so minded to take a wife chuse him one which is of God that is which is of the Houshould of faith And that shee be such a one as the King can find in his Heart to love and lead his life in pure and chast Espousage and then shall he be the more prone and ready to advance Gods Glory and to punish and extirpe the great lechery used in this Realm Therefore we ought to make a continual Prayer unto God for to grant our Kings Grace such a Mate as may knit his heart and hers according to Gods Ordinance and Law and not to consider and cleave only to a politique matter or conjunction for the enlargeing of Dominions for surety and defence of Countries We have now a pretty little shilling indeed a very pretty one I have but one I think in my Purse and the last day I had put it away almost for an old Groat and so I trust some will take them the fineness of the Silver I cannot see but therein is printed a fine sentence that is Timor Domini fons sapientiae The fear of the Lord is the Fountain of wisdom I would to God this Sentence were printed in the heart of the King in choosing his Wife and all his Officers For as the fear of God is fons sapientiae so the forgetting of God is 〈◊〉 stultitiae the fountain of foolishness though it be never so politique Let the King therefore chuse unto him a Godly wife whereby he shall the better live chast and in so living all Godliness shall increase and righteousness be maintained Notwithstanding I know hereafter some will come and move your Grace toward wantonness and to the inclination of the flesh and vain Affections But I would your Grace would bear in memory and History of a good King called Lewis that travelled towards the Holy Land which was a great matter in those dayes and by the way sickned being long absent from his Wife and upon this matter the Physitians did agree that it was for lack of a Woman and did consult with the Bishops therein who did conclude that because of the Distance from his Wife being in another Country he should take a Wench This good King hearing their Conclusion would not assent thereunto but said he had rather be sick even unto death than he would break his Espousals Wo worth such Counsellors Bishops nay rather Buzzards Nevertheless if the King should have consented to their Conclusion and accomplished the same if he had chanced well they would have excused the matter as I have heard one being reproacht for such Counsel given he excused the matter saying that he gave him none other Counsel but if it had been his case he would have done likewise so I think the Bishops would have excused the matter if the King should have reproved them for their Counsel I do not read the King did so but if he had I know what would have been their Answer they would have said We give you no worse counsel than we would have followed our selves if we had been in like case Well Sir this King did well and had the fear of God before his eyes Let the King therefore chuse a Wife which feareth God let him not seek a proud Wanton one full of rich Treasures and worldy Pomp. Neither shall he multiply to himself too much silver and Gold c. He shall not multiply unto himself too much Gold and Silver Is there too much think you for a King God doth allow much unto a King and it is expedient that he should have much for he hath great expences Necessary it is that the King have a Treasure alwaies in readiness for such affairs as be daily in his hands The which Treasure if it be not sufficient he may lawfully and with a safe Conscience take Taxes of his Subjects for it were not meet But who shall see this too much or tell the King of this too much Think you any of the Kings Privy Chamber No. For fear of loss of Favour Shall any of his Sworn Chaplains No. They be of his Closet and keep close such matters But the King himself must see this too much and that he shall do by no means with Corporal eyes Wherefore he must have a pair of Spectacles which shall have two clear Sights in them that is the one is Faith the other is Charity By them two must the King ever see when he hath too much I will tell you my Lords and Masters this is not for the Kings Honour Yet some will say Knowest thou what is for the Kings Honour better than we I answer the Kings Honour is most perfectly painted forth in Scripture of which if ye be ignorant for lack of time that ye cannot read it though your Counsel be never so politick yet it is not for the Kings Honour What his Honour meaneth ye cantot tell It is the Kings Honour that his Subjects be led in the true Religion That all his Prelates and Clergy be set about their work