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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05156	A moste faithfull sermo[n] preached before the Kynges most excelle[n]te Maiestye, and hys most honorable Councel, in his court at Westminster, by the reuerende Father Master. Hughe Latymer	Latimer, Hugh, 1485?-1555.	1553 (1553)	STC 15290; ESTC S108277	36,053	114

Kynge is a childe whiche some interpreate and referre to childish condicions But it is commonly true the other waye to whē it is referred to the age yeres of Childehod For where the kyng is wythin age they that haue gouernance about the king haue much lybertie to liue voluptuously and licēciousti not to be in fear how they gouern as they wold be yf the king wer of ful age then commonly they gouerne not wel But yet Josias one or two mo though they wer chyldren yet had their realmes well gouerned and raigned prosperoustye and yet the sayinge Vaeterre cuis rexpuer est neuertheles true for that And thys I gather of thys irremyssyble synne agaynst the holye ghost that the scripture saythe it is neuer forgeuen because it is seldome forgeuen For in deede I thinke that there is no sinne whyche God dothe so seldome nor so hardly forgeue as thys synne of falling awaye from the truth after that a man ones knoweth it And in dede thys tooke best place with the manne that I haue toulde you of and beste quyeted hys conscyence An other seede was this Be not careful saith Christe what ye shall saye before iudges and Maiestrates when ye are broughte afore theym for my names sake for the holye ghoste shal put in youre myndes euen at the presente houre what ye shal speake A comfortable sayinge and a goodlye promise of the holye ghoste that the aduersaryes of the truthe sayeth he shall not be able to resiste vs what shal the aduersaries of the truthe be dum nay ther be no greater talkers nor bosters facers thē they be But they shal not be able to resist y ● truth to destroye it Heare some wyll saye what needeth vniuersities then and the preseruacion of scholes the holie ghost wyl geue alwaies what to say Yea but for al that we may not tēpt God we must trust in the holy ghost but wee muste not presume on the holie Ghoste Heare nowe shoulde I speake of vniuersytyes and for preferring of scholes But he that preached the laste sondaye spake verye well in it and substauncyallye and lyke one that knewe the estate and condycyon of the vniuersytyes and Scholes verye wel But thus much I saye vnto you magestrates If ye wil not maynteine scholes and vnyuersities ye shall haue a brutalytye Therfore now a sute againe to your highenes So order the matter that preching may not decay For sureli if preaching decay ignorance brutishnes wil enter again Nor geue y ● prechers liuinges to seculet men What shuld seculer men do with the liuigs of preachers I thinck ther be at this day ten thousād Studients les then wer within these xx yeares fewer preachers that is the cause of rebelliō if ther good bishops ther shuld be no rebelliō I am now almost com to mi mater sauig one saying of Christ whych was an other seede Date et dabi tur uobis Geue and it shalbe geuen vn to you c. But who beleueth this if mē beleued this promise they would geue more thē they do at least wise they wold not stick to geue a litle but now a dais mēs study is set rather to take gifts to get of other mēs good then to geue any of their own so al o ther the promises are mistrusted and vnbeleued For if the rytch mē dyd beleue thys promyse of God they wold wyllynglye and readly geue a litle to haue the ouerplus So wher Christe saith of iniuryes or offēces and trespasses Mihi unidictam ego retribuam c Leaue the aduengynge of wrongs a lone vnto me I shal paie thē home c. If the rebels had beleued this promise they wold not haue don as thei did So all the promyses of God are mistrusted Noe also after the floude feared at euery raine least the world shoulde be drowned and destroied agayne tyll God gaue the rainebow And what exercise shall we haue by y e rainbow we mai learn by y ● rainbow y ● God will be true of his promises wil fulfil his promises For god sēt y ● rainbow iiii M. yeres it is more sē●e this promise was made and yet god hath bē true of his promise vnto this day So y ● now whē wese y ● rainbow we mai learn that god is true of his promise And as God was true in thys promes so is he wyl be in al y ● reast but the couetous man doth not beleue that god is true of his promis for if he did he wold not stick to geue of hys goods to the pore But as touching that I spake afore whē we see the rainbow se in the rainbow that that is like water of a watri colour and as we may and ought not onlye to take there of holde and comfort of goddes promise that he wyl no more destroi the world with water for sine but also we may take an example to fear god who in such wise hateth sin Likewise whē in the rainbow we see that that is of firy couloure and like vnto fire we may gather an exāple of the ende of the world that accepte we amēd the world shal at last be consumed w t fire for sinne and to fere the iudgemēt of God after which they y ● are dāpned shalbe burned in hel fire These wer thesedes that Christ was sowing when thys couetuouse man came vnto him And now I am come to my matter While Christ was this preachig this couetous fellow wold not tary tyl al the sermō was dō but interrupted the sermon euē sodenly choppig in Maister quod he speake to mi brother that he may deuide the inheritance with me He wold not a bide til the end of the sermō But his minde was on his halfepeny and he wolde nedes haue his matter dispatched out of hād Master quod he let my brother deuide with me Yet this was a good fellow he could be cōtented with parte he disired not to haue al together alon to him self but could be contente wyth a deuysyon and to haue his part of y ● inheritāce what was the enheritāce Ager So that it was but one peece of grounde or one farme This couetousmā could be cōtēt with the half of one farme wher our men now a dayes cānot be satisfied with manie farmes at once one mā must now haue as many farmes as wil serue many men or els he wil not be contented nor satisfied They wylier now a daies one w t an other except thei haue al. Oh saith the wise mā Ther be thre thyngs wherin my soul deliteth Cōcordia fratum amor proximorum et uir ac mulier bene sibi consentientes The vniti of brethrē y ● loue of neighbours a mā wife a greting wel together So that y ● concord of brethrē a greeing of brethrē is a gay thing What sayth Salomon of this matter Frater