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A05142	The seconde [seventh] sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer which he preached before the Kynges Maiestie [with?]in his graces palayce at Westminster, ye xv. day of Marche [-xix daye of Apryll], M.ccccc.xlix.	Latimer, Hugh, 1485?-1555.	1549 (1549)	STC 15274.7; ESTC S122869	128,935	442

euer theyr grandfathers had before thē But I shall tell you what Chryst said He that loueth his childe better thē me is not worthye to be my dysciple I cā not se how ye shal stande before God at the later daye when thys sentence shall be layed agaynst you But to returne to my purpose there were two pore women came before Salomon to complayne They were two harlots and dwelled together in one house it chaunced with in .ii. dayes they chylded bothe The one of these womē by chaūce in the nyght had killed her chyld and rose pryuely wēt to the other woman and toke her lyue chylde awaye and lefte her dead chylde in hys place Upon that they came bothe before Salomon to haue the matter iudged whose the chylde was And the one sayde it is my chylde Naye sayeth the other it is myne So there was yea and naye betwene them and they helde vp the matter with skoldynge after a womanly fashyō At the lēgth Salomō repeted theyr tale as a good iudge oughte to do and sayd to the one woman Thou sayst the child is thine yea sayed she And thou sayest it is thyne to the other Well fetche me a swerd sayed he For there was no way nowe to trye whiche was the true mother but by naturall inclinacyon And so he sayed to one of hys seruaūtes Fetche me a swerde and deuyde the chylde betwene them When the mother of the chylde that accused the other hearde hym saye so Naye for Goddes sake sayed she let her haue the whole chylde and kyll it not Naye quod the other neyther thyne nor myne but let it be deuyded Then sayed Salomon Geue thys woman the chylde thys is the mother of the chyld What come of this Audiuit omnis Israel When al Israell heard of thys iudgemente they feared the kyng It is wysdome and Godly knowledge that causeth a kyng to be feared One word note here for Gods sake and I wyll trouble you no longer Woulde Salomon beynge so noble a kynge heare .ii. poore womē They were poore for as the scripture saith They were to geather alone in a house they hadde not so muche as one seruaunt betwene them boeth Woulde kynge Salomon I say heare them in his own person Yea forsothe And yet I heare of manye matters before my Lorde Protectoure and my Lorde Chaunceloure that can not be hearde I muste desyre my Lorde protectours grace to heare me in thys matter that youre grace would heare poore mens sutes your self Putte thē to none other to heare let them not be delayed The sayinge is nowe that money is heard euery where yf he be ryche he shall soone haue an ende of his matter Other are fayne to go home with wepīg teares for ani healp they can optaine at ani Iudges hand Heare menes suetes your selfe I require you in goddes be halfe put it not to the hearing of these veluette cotes these vpskippes Nowe a mā can skarse knowe them from an auncyent Knyght of the countrye I can not go to my boke fo● poore folkes come vnto me desirynge me that I wyll speake y t theyr matters maye be hearde I trouble my Lorde of Canterburye beynge at hys house nowe and then I walke in the garden lokyng in my boke as I canne do but little good at it But some thynge I muste nedes do to satisfye thys place I am no soner in the garden and haue red a whyle but by by commeth there some one or other knocking at the gate Anone cometh my man and sayth Syr there is one at the gate woulde speake wyth you When I come there then is it some one or other y t desireth me that I wyll speake that hys matter might be heard and that he hathe layne thys longe at great costes and charges and can not once haue hys matter come to the hearing but among all other one specially moued me at thys tyme to speake Thys it is syr A gentylwoman came to me and tolde me that a greate man kepeth certayne landes of hyrs frō hyr and wil be hyr tenaunte in the spite of hyr tethe And that in a whole twelue moneth she coulde not gette but one daye for the hearynge of hyr matter and the same daye when the matter shoulde be hearde the greate manne broughte on hys syde a greate syghte of Lawyers for hys counsayle the gentilwoman had but one man of lawe and the great man shakes hym so that he can not tel what to do so that when the matter came to the poynte the Iudge was a meane to the Gentyl woman that she wold let the great man haue a quietnes in her lande I beseche youre grace that ye wyll loke to these matters Heare them your selfe Uyeue your Iudges And heare poore mens causes And you proude Iudges herken what God sayeth in his holy boke Audite illos ita paruum vt magnum Heare them sayeth he the small as well as the greate the pore as well as the ryche Regarde no person feare no man Why Quia domini iudicium est The iudgement is Goddes Marcke thys saytnge thou proude Iudge The deuyl wyll brynge thys sentence at the daye of Dome Hel wyl be ful of these Iudges if they repente not and amende They are worsse then the wycked Iudge that Chryste speaketh of that neyther feared God nor the worlde There was a certayne wyddowe that was a suter to a Iudge and she met hym in euery corner of the streate criynge I praye you heare me I beseche you heare me I aske nothyng but ryght When the Iudge sawe hyr so importunate though I feare neyther God sayth he nor the worlde yet bycause of hyr importunatnes I wyll graunte hyr requeste But owr Iudges are worsse then thys Iudge was For they wyll neyther heare men for Gods sake nor feare of y e world nor importunatenes nor anye thing else Yea some of them wil commaunde them to warde yf they be importunate I hearde saye that when a suter came to one of theym he saied What felow is it that geueth these folke counsayll to be so importunate he would be punished and commytted towarde Mary syr punyshe me then it is euen I that gaue them counsayll I woulde gladlye be punyshed in suche a a cause And yf ye amend not I wyl cause thē to crye oute vpon you styl euē as long as I lyue I wyll do it in dede but I haue troubled you long As I began wyth thys sentence Quecunque scripta sunt c. So wil I end now with this texte Beati qui audiūt verbū dei et custodiunt illud Blessed are they that heare the word of god and kepeth it There was an other sute I had almost forgotten it There is a poore womā y t lyeth in the Flete and can not come by anye meanes that she can make to her answere and woulde fayne be baylled offerynge

The seconde Sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer whych he preached before the Kynges maiestie w tin his graces Palayce at Westminster y e .xv. day of Marche M. ccccc.xlix Cum gratia et Priuilegio ad Imprimendum solum To the Reader EVen as intimes past al mē which were honestly bente to the promoting of vertue and learnyng foūd meanes that the workes of worthy oratours of famous and renoumed Philosophers shuld be by y e benefit of publishing redemed from the tyrannye of obliuion to the great and hygh profette of countryes of commen wealthes of empyres and of assemblies of men lykewyse ought we to fetche our presydente from those men and suffer no worthi mōument to perysh wherby any good may grow either to the more godly admynystracyon of politik● and ciuyl affayres or elles to the better establyshing of christian iudgment Numa Pōpilius who was inagured created king of the Romaynes next after Romulus was far more careful busier in grounding of Idolatrus religion as vpon rytes ceremonies sacrifices and supersticions then we are in promoting of christian religyon to the aduauncement of the glorye due to the omnipotent maiesty of God him selfe who hath reuealed and vttered hys worde vnto vs by hys Prophetes and laste of all by hys onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ whereby he hath confyrmed our consciēce in a more perfect certenty of the truth thē euer they were before This Numa instituted an Archbyshop for the perseruyng of the Commentaries contaynyng the solēpnities of their religion wyth manye other appendixes vnited to the office of the high bishoppe What do we We haue suppressed We haue wrastled w t fyre and sworde not only to deface the wrytynges of suche learned mē as haue paynefully trauailled to publysh Gods word but also we haue sturred euery stone sought al deuelish deuises to deteine y t same word of god itselfe frō his people May not we not vnwortheli be accōpted far vnder y e Ethenickes who wrought only by naturall mocyon antipacyons wythout breathinge and inspiring of the holy gost if we woulde not I meane not be equall wyth them but be farre more zelous in promotyng good learning and religiō thē euer thei were They when thei had suche noble and worthy clerkes as Socrates Plato and Aristotle w t al diligence caused y e frutes of those most rare and profound wittes to be preserued for their posteritie that the eyes of all generations myght enioye the fruicion and vse of them thinking that such wōderfull vertues shuld not be buried in y e same graue that theyr bodyes were After so manifold and daungerous shyp wrackes of religiō as in our tymes we may well remember whereas the ambitious and blynde prelates some of wily wilfulnes some of grose ignorance ruleth the sterne and euermore blemished the true knowledge of Goddes worde and dyd theyr indeuour to obscure the same wyth their polytyke and decente ceremosies trampery of supersticions How oft hath religion bene tost on the stormy sourgis and daungerous rockes of the Romyshe seas Howe oft hath it bene in such a desperate state that the true mynysters haue bene inforsed as you woulde say to waye vp ancker the tackling of the shyp beyng broken and destytute of all other helpe and succoures to geue ouer the rulynge of the shyppe to God hym selfe who is only able to saue whē al y e world by mānes reasō iudgeth it past cure Such O Lord is thy mercie and ineffable power what cristē hert that fauoureth y e glory of God did not euen lamente and bewaile the state of religiō and thought verely the vtter ruine of Christes church to be at hād seing the late martirdome of those that suffered Yet didest thou lord sturre vp thousandes out of their ashes and what was done of a popysh polycye to suppresse and kepe vnder thy truth that of al other dyd most set forth the same Thou hast deliuered Danyel out of the denne of the lyons and he hath set fourth thy worde abroade But now coūtremen whō God hath blessed by deliuerynge you from the tirranny of the lions and her whelpes which wēt thorow the whole realme sucekyng the innocent bloude how vnthanckfull are you vnto God so greatlye neglectynge so specyall a benefyt fallyng into suche a lousenes of lauicioouse liuing as the lyke hath neuer bene heard of hereto fore Euē as ye are growne to a perfeccyō in knowlege so are ye come to a perfeccyō in al mychiefe The Heathen whych had no other guyde but the law of nature grauen in the tables of their hart were neuer so poysoned with the contagion of most horyble heresies as some of vs Christians which are not ashamed to brag and boste of the spirite But it is a phanaticke spirite a brainsicke spitite a sedicious a malignante spirite Christe breath his spirite vpō you y t ye may rede y e scripture wtih al humblenes and reuerēce to fetch from thence comforte for youre wounded consciences not to make that lyuely fountayne of lyfe to serue for the fedynge of your idle braines to dyspute more subtellye thereby or else by mysunderstandynge of the same to conceiue pernitious and annabaptistical opinions Remember y t the seruaunte whiche knoweth hys maysters wyll and doeth it not shal be beaten wyth many strypes God is a good God a mercyful God a father whych beareth muche wyth our croked nature and vnchristyan behauiour and very slote to reuenge hys blasphemie thys maitenaunce of so manye unscripturlye opinions these brablynges and scismatyke cōtencions wherin a great packe of vs delite and repose our glory all though as fōdly as eroniously to y e great sclaunder of the godly learned and also to the hynderaunce of the good successe fre passage of the word of God But as truly as god is God if we repēt not shortly hys plages and vengaunce are not far of hys indignacyon and wrathe shall be poured from heauen vpon our vngodlynes He is long a comming but when he coms be wil pay whome and as Lacta●cius sayeth recompence hys long sufferance wyth greuouser punishmentes The world and the deuil hath so bewitched vs y t we in our dedes I feare we to manye of vs deny God to be God whatsoeuer we pittle pattle w t our tōges Goddes word must not be talcked of only for that is not inough it muste be expressed Then must we as welliue the worde as talke the worde or else if good lyfe do not ensue and folow vpon our readynge to the example of other we wyghte as wel spende that tyme in redyng of prophane hystories of cantorburye tales or a fit of Robyn Hode Let vs ioyne good life wyth our readyng and yet al wylbe to lyttle Remember that the world and al that is in it is mere vanitye and shall haue an ende Thou I say y t thus abusest the gifte of Gods holy word and the gratyousnes of the Kinges maiesty whiche hath lycensed the