The second [seventh] sermon of Master Hugh Latimer which he preached before the Kings…The seconde [seventh] sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer which he preached before the Kynges…

I should have told you here of a certain sect of heretics that speak against this order and doctrine,¹ they will have no magistrates nor Judges on the earth.

I shulde haue tolde you here of a certayne secte of herytykes that speake agaynste thys order and doctryne,¹ they wyl haue no magystrates nor Iudges on the earthe.

1. 1He meaneth ye Anabaptists, for this is one of their detestable & pernicious errors.He meaneth ye Annabaptystes, for thys is one of their detestable & pernicyouse errores.

Here I have to tell you, what I heard of late by the relation of a credible person, and a worshipful man, of a town in this realm of England,¹ that hath above .v.C. heretics of this erroneous opinion in it as he said. Oh so busy the Devil is now to hinder the word coming out, and to slander the Gospel. A sure argument and an evident demonstration, that the light of Gods ⟨image 75⟩word is a board, and that this is a true doctrine that we are taught now,² else he would not tore and stir about as he doeth when he hath the upper hand. He will keep his possession quietly as he did in the popish days, when he bare a rule of supremacy in peaceable possession. If he reigned now in open religion, in open doctrine as he did than, he would not stir up erroneous opinions, he would have kept us without contention, without dissension. There is no such diversity of opinions among the Turks, nor among the Jews And why? For there he reigneth peaceably in the hole religion, Christ sayth. Cum fortis armatus custodierit atrium: et cet. When the