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A05143	27 sermons preached by the ryght Reuerende father in God and constant matir [sic] of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, as well such as in tymes past haue bene printed, as certayne other commyng to our handes of late, whych were yet neuer set forth in print. Faithfully perused [and] allowed accordying to the order appoynted in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. 1. Hys sermon Ad clerum. 2. Hys fourth sermon vpon the plough. 3. Hys. 7. sermons before kyng Edward. 4 Hys sermon at Stamforde. 5. Hys last sermon before kyng Edward. 6. Hys. 7. sermons vpon the Lordes prayer. 7. Hys other. 9. sermons vpon certayne Gospels and Epistles; Fruitfull sermons.	Latimer, Hugh, 1485?-1555.; Bernher, Augustine.	1562 (1562)	STC 15276; ESTC S108333	538,060	562

an other father If ye know once his father by and by ye shal know his children For he that hath the Dyuel to his father must nedes haue diuellysh children The dyuell is not onely taken for father but also for prince of the world that is of worldly folke It is eyther all one thing or els not much different to say children of the world and children of the 〈◊〉 according to that that Christ sayd to the Iewes ye are of your father the dyuel where as vndoubtedly he spake to children of this world Now seing the Diuel is both author and ruler of the darkenes in the which the childrē of this world walke or to say better wāder they mortally hate both the light also the childrē of light And hereof it cōmeth that the childrē of light neuer 〈◊〉 very seldome lacke persecution in this world vnto which the chyldren of the world that is of the deuil bringeth thē And ther is no man but he seeth that these vse much more policy in procuring the hurt damage of the good than those in defending them selues Therefore brethren gather you the disposicion study of the children by the disposition study of the fathers Ye know this is a prouerb much vsed an euil crow an euil egge Thē the childrē of this world that are knowē to haue so euil a father that world so euil a grandfather the diuel cānot chuse but be euyl Surely the first head of their auncestie was that deceitful serpent the dyuell a monster monstrous aboue al monsters I cānot wholy expresse hym I wot not what to cal him but a certaine thing al together made of the hatred of God of mistrust in God of lyings deceites persuries discordes manslaughters to say at one word a thing concrete heaped vp made of al kinde of mischief But what the diuel meane I to go about to descriue particularly the diuels nature when no reason no power of mans mynde can comprehend it This alonly I can say groslye as in a sum of the which all we our hurt is the more haue experience the dyuel to be a stinking sentine of al vices a foule filthye chanel of al mischiefes that this world his sonne euen a child 〈◊〉 to haue such a parent is not much vnlike his father Then this dyuell beyng suche one as can neuer be vnlyke hymselfe Lo of Enuye his welbeloued Lēman he begat the world after left it with Discord at nours Which world af ter that it came to mans state had of many Concubines ma ny Sonnes He was so fecund a father had gotten so many children of lady Pride dame Glottony maistres Auarice lady Lechery of dame Subtilty that now hard and scant ye may fynde any corner any kinde of lyfe where manye of 〈◊〉 chyldren be not In court in coules in cloysters in rotchets be they neuer so whyte yea where shall ye not fynde them How be it they that be secular laye men are not by and by chyldren of the world ne they chyldren of lyght that are called spiritual and of the Clergy No no as ye maye fynde among the Laity many chyldren of lyght so among the Clergy how much so euer we arrogate these holy titles vnto vs and thinke them onely attributed to vs Vos estis lux mundi pe culium Christi c. Ye are the lyght of the worlde the chosen people of Christ a kingly priesthode an holy nacion suche other Ye shal finde many chyldren of the world because in al places the world getteth many chyldren Among the Laye people the world ceaseth not to bring to passe that as they be called worldly so they are worldly in dede driuen hedlong by worldly desyres in so much that they may right wel seme to haue take as wel the maners as the name of their father In the Clergye the worlde also hath learned away to make of men spiritual world lynges yea there also to forme worldly children wher with great pretence of holynes crasty cou lour of religion they vtterly desire to hyde cloke the name of the worlde as thoughe they were ashamed of their father which do execrate detest the world being neuertheles their father in wordes outward signes but in hart worke they col kisse him in al their liues declare them selues to be his babes insomuch that in al worldly poyntes they far passe surmount those that they cal Seculars lay men men of the 〈◊〉 The chylde so diligently foloweth the steps of hys father neuer destitute of the ayde of his grandfather These be our holy holy men that say they are dead to the world whan no mē be more liuely in worldly thyngs then some of thē be But let them be in profession name most farthest from the world most alienate from it yea so far that they may seeme to 〈◊〉 no occupying no kinred no affinity nothyng to doo with it yet in their lyfe dedes they shew them selues no 〈◊〉 but right begotten children of the world asy t whych the world long sithens had by hys deare wife dan Hipocrisy since hath brought them vp multiplied them to more then a good many 〈◊〉 them to much to much al be it they sweare by al he Saintes the Saints to that they know not their father nor mother neyther the world nor Hipocrisye as in dede they can semble dissemble al things which thing they might learne wonderful wel of their parentes I speake not of al religious men but of those that the world hath fast knit at his gyrdel euen in the mydst of theyr religion that is of many mo then many For I fear least in al orders of mē the better I must saye the greater part of them be out of order childrē of the world Many of these myght seme ingrate and vnkinde children that wil no better aknowledge and rccognise theyr parentes in wordes outward 〈◊〉 but abrenounce cast them of as though they hated them as dogs and serpents Howbeit they in this wyse are moste gratefull to theyr parentes because they be most lyke them so lyuelye representing them in countenaunce conditions that theyr parcntes seme in them to be yong again for as much as they euer say one thinke an other They shew them selues to be as sober as temperate as Curius the Romain was lyue euery day as though al their lyfe were a shrouing time They be lyke their parents I say in as muche as they in folowyng them seme make men beleue they hate thē Thus Grandfather deuil father world mother Hipocrisy haue brought them vp Thus good obedient sonnes haue borne away their parents cōmaundements neither these be solitary how religious how mocking how munking I wold say 〈◊〉 they be O ye 〈◊〉 lay this to my charge that Monachus Solitarius signifieth

workes of darknes If they were the children of lyght they would not loue darknes It is no meruayle that they go aboute to keepe other in darknes seeing they bee in darkenes from top to toe ouerwhelmed with darknes darker than is the darknes of hell Wherfore it is well done in all orders of men but in especiall in the order of prelates to put a difference betwene children of light and children of the world because great deceyte ariseth in taking the one for the other Great imposture commeth when they that the common people take for the light go about to take the sunne and the light out of the world But these be easily knowen both by the diuersitye of myndes and also their armours For where as the children of lyght are thus minded that they seke theyr 〈◊〉 welth and profite with losse of their owne commodities ofte tymes with ieoperdy of their life The children of the world cōtrary wise haue such stomakes that they wylisoner se them dead that doth them good then susteyne any losse of temporal thinges The armour of the children of lyght are first the word of God which they 〈◊〉 set forth and with 〈◊〉 diligence put it abrod that as much as in them lyeth it may bring forth fruite after this pacience prayer with the which in al aduersities the Lord comforteth them Other thinges they 〈◊〉 to God vnto whom they leaue al reuengemēt The armour of the childrē of the world 〈◊〉 somtyme fraudes and deceytes somtyme lyes and 〈◊〉 By the fyrst they make theyr dreames theyr traditions by the second they 〈◊〉 and confirme their dreames be they neuer so absurde neuer so against scripture 〈◊〉 reason And if any man resyst them euen with these weapons they procure to 〈◊〉 hym Thus they bought Christes death the very lyghtit selfe obscured him after his death Thust hey hye euery daye the children of lyght and obscure them and shal so do vntil the world be at an end So that it maye be euer true that Christ said The children of the world be wiser c. These worldlynges pul downe the lyuely fayth and full confidence that mē haue in Christe and set vp an other faith another confidence of theyr owne making the children of 〈◊〉 contrary These worldlynges set lyttel by such workes as God hath prepared for our saluation but they extol traditions workes of theyr owne inuention the children oflight contrary The worldlynges if they spie profite gaynes lucre in any thing be it neuer such a tryfle be it neuer so pernicious they preach it to the people if they preach at any time these thinges they defend with toth nayle They can scarse 〈◊〉 the abuses of these al be it they be intolerable least in disalowyng the abuse they lose part of theyr profite The chyldren of the light contrarye put al thinges in their degre best highest next next the 〈◊〉 lowest They extol thinges necessarie christiā and cōmaunded of God They pul downe wylworkes feyned by men and put them in theyr place The buses of al thing they ernestly rebuke But yet these thinges be so done on both parties and so they both do gendre that children of the world shew them selfe wyser then the children of lyght and that fraudes and deceites 〈◊〉 and mony 〈◊〉 euermore to haue the vpper hand I hold my peace I wyl not saye how fat feastes and ioly bankettes be ioly instrumentes to set foorth worldly matters withal Neyther the children of the world be onely wyser than the children of lyght but are also some of them among them selfe much wiser then the other in theyr generation For al be it as touching the end the generation of them all is one yet in this same generation some of them haue more craftily ingendred then the other of their felowes For what a thing was that that once euery hūdred yere was brought forth in Rome of the children of this world and with how much policy it was made ye heard at Paules crosse in the beginning of the last parliament How some brought forth Canonizations some Expectations some pluralities and vnions some 〈◊〉 quots and dispensations some pardons and these of wonderful varitie some Stationaries some 〈◊〉 some Pocularies for Drinkers some manuaries for handlers of reliques some pedaries for pilgrimes some oscularies for kissers some of them ingendred one some other such fetures and euery one in that he was delyuered of was excellent politike wise yea so wise that with their wisedome they had almost made all the world fooles But yet they that begot and brought forth that our old ancient purgatory picke pourse that that was swaged and couled with a franciscans cowle put vpon a dead mans back to the fourth part of his synnes that that was vtterly to be spoyled and of none other but of our most prudent Lord Pope and of hym as oste as hym lysted that satisfactory that myssal that scalary they I say that were the wise fathers and genitours of this purgatory were in my mind the wysest of al theyr generation and so far passe both the children of light and also the rest of their company that they both are but fooles 〈◊〉 compare them with these It was a pleasaunt fiction and frō the beginning so profitable to the feyners of it that almost I dare boldly say there hath bene no emperour that hath gottē more by taxes and tallages of them that were alyue thē these the very and right begotten sonnes of the world got by dead mens tributes and gyftes If there be some in England that wold this sweting of the world to be with no lesse policy kept styl than it was borne and brought forth in Rome who thē can accuse Christ of lieng No no as it hath ben euer true so it shal be that the children of the world be much wyser not only in making their thinges but also in conseruing them I 〈◊〉 not what it is but somewhat it is I wot that som men be so loth to se the abuse of this monster purgatorie which abuse is more then abhominable As who should say ther is none abuse in it or els as though ther can be none in it They may 〈◊〉 hartily to loue the old thing that thus earnestly en deuour them to restore hym his olde 〈◊〉 They would not set an heare by the name but for the thing They be not so ignorant no they be crafty but that they know if the name come agayne the thing will come after Therby it aryseth that some men make theyr crakes that they maugre of al mens heades haue found purgatory I can not tel what is found This to pray for dead folkes this is not found for it was neuer lost How can that be found that was not lost 〈◊〉 subtyl finders that can find thinges and God wyl ere they be lost For that coulysh delyuerance their scalarie losinges their popal spoliations and

al one I graunt this to be so yet these be so solitary that they he not alone but accompanied with great flocks 〈◊〉 Fraternities And I maruel if ther be not a great sort of Bishops 〈◊〉 that are brethren germain vnto these as a great sort so euen as right borne worldes childrē by as god title as they But because I cānot speake of al whē I say pre 〈◊〉 I vnderstād bishops Abbots Priors 〈◊〉 deanes and other of such sort that are now called to thys 〈◊〉 as I soe to intreate hereof nothing but of such matters as both appertayne to the glory of Christ and to the wealth of the people of England Which thyng I pray God they do as carnestly as they ought to do But it is to be feared least as Lyght hath many her Chyldren here so the worlde hath sent some of hys whelps hither Amonges the which I know ther can be no concord nor vnity albeit they be in one place in one congregation I know there can be no agreement 〈◊〉 these two as long as they haue mindes so vnlyke and so contrary affcctions iudgementes so vtterlye diuers in all poyntēs But if the chyldren of thys worlde be eyther mo in nombre or more prudent then the Chyldren of Lyght what then auayleth vs to hauc this Conuocation Had it not bene better we had not bene called together at al For as the children of this worlde be euyll so they breede and bryng foorthe thynges euyl and yet there be mo of them in all places or at the least they be more politike than the chyldren oflyght in theyr generation And here I speake of the generation wher by they do engender and not of that wherby they are engendred because it shuld be to long to intceate how the 〈◊〉 oflyght are ingendred and howe they come in at the 〈◊〉 and how the children of the worlde be engendred and come in an other 〈◊〉 How be it I thinke al you that be here wer not ingendred after one generacion neyther that ye al came by your promocions after one maner God graunt that ye engendred worldly do not ingender worldly And as nowe I much passe not how ye were engendred or by what meanes ye were promoted to those dignitics that ye now occupy so it be honest good and profitable that ye in thys your Consultation shal 〈◊〉 and ingender The ende of your Conuocation shall shew what ye haue done the fruite that shall come of your consultacion shall shewe what generation ye be of For what haue ye done hytherto I pray you these 〈◊〉 yeares and mo What haue ye engendred what haue ye brought forth what fruite is come of your long and great assemble What one thyng that the people of England hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 better of an heare or you your selues eyther more accepted before God or better discharged toward the people committed vnto your cure For that the people is better learned and taught now then they were in time past to whether of these ought we to attribute it to your industrie or to the prouidēce of God and the foreseing of the kings grace Dughte we to thanke you or the kynges highnes Whether 〈◊〉 other 〈◊〉 you the king that ye myght preache or he you by his letters that ye should preach ofter Is it vnknowen thinke you howe both ye and your Curates were in maner by violence inforced to let bookes to be made by you but by prophane and lay persons to let them I say be solde abrode and redde for the instruction of the people I am bolde with you but I speake latyn and not englysh to the clergie not to the 〈◊〉 I speake to you being present not behynd your backes God is my wytnes I speake what so euer is spoken of the good wyll that I beare you God is my wytnes which knoweth my hart and compelleth me to saye that I saye Now I pray you a God his name what dyd you so great fathers so many so long a season so oft assembled together What went you about what would ye haue brought to pas two thynges taken away The one that ye which I heard burned a dead man the other that ye which I felt went about to burne one beyng alyue Hym bccause he dyd I can not tel how in hys testament withstand your profit in other poyntes as I haue heard a very good man reported to be of an honest lyfe whyle he lyued ful of good workes good both to the Clergy and also to the Laity this other which truly neuer hurt any of you ye would haue raked in the coales be cauc he would not subscribe to certayne Articles that tooks away the supremacy of the Kyng Take away these two no ble actes and there is nothyng els left that ye went about that I know sauyng that I now remember that somewhat ye attcmpted against Erasmus all be it as yet nothyng is com to light Ye haue oft 〈◊〉 in consultaciō but what haue ye done Ye haue had many thynges in deliberation but what one is put forth wherby eyther Christe is more glorificd or els Christes people made more holyer I appele to your own conscience How chaunced this how came this thus because there were no children of light no children of God amonges you which setting the world at nought would study to illustrate the glory of God and therby shewe them selfes 〈◊〉 oflyght I thynke not so certainely I thinke not so God 〈◊〉 that all you which were gathered together vnder the pretence oflyght would be children of the worlde Then why happened this Why I pray you Perchaunce eyther bycause the chyldren of the worlde were mo in nombre in thys your congregation as it oft happeneth or at the lest of more policy than the children of lyght in their generation Wherby it might very sonne be brought to passe that those were much more stronger in gendryng the euil than these in producing that good The children of light haue policy but it is like the policy of the serpent is ioyned with 〈◊〉 symplicitie They ingendre nothing but simply faythfully and playnly euen 〈◊〉 doing al that they do And therfore they may with more facility be combred in theyr ingendring and be the more ready to take iniuries But the children of this world haue worldly policy forely crafte lyonlyke cruelty power to do hurt more then eyther 〈◊〉 or Basiliscus ingendring doing al things fradulently deceytfully gylefully Which as Nembrothes such sturdy and stout hunters being full of simulation and dissimulation before the Lord deceiue the children of lyght and combre them easely Hunters go not forth in euery mās syght but do theyr affaires closely and with vse of gyle and deceite ware euery day more craftier then other The childrē of this worlde by lyke crafty hunters they be misnamed children oflyghte for as much as they so hate lyghte so study to do the