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…

But he spake the other in the plural number, because he was not able to convey the boat, and cast out the nets to. One man could not do it. This would the wherry man say, and that with better reason, then to make such a mystery of it,¹ as no man can spy but they. And the cause why he spake to all, was to show that he will have all Christen men to work for their living. It is he that sends food both for the body, and soul, but he will not send it, without labour. He will have all Christen people to labour for it, he will use our labour as a mean whereby he sendeth our food. This was a wondrous miracle of our Saviour Christ. and ⟨image 174⟩did it not only to allure them to his discipleship, but also for our commodity. It was a seal, a seal, to seal his doctrine with all. Now ye know that such as be keepers of seals,² as my Lord Chancellor and such other, what so ever they be, they do not all ways seal, they have a sealing time (For I have heard poor men complain, that they have been put of from time to time of sealing,³ till all their money were spent, and as they have times to seal in, so our Saviour Christ had his time of sealing. When he was here in earth, with his Apostles, and in the time of the primitive church, Christs doctrine was, sufficiently sealed ⟨image 175⟩already with seals of his own making, what should our seals do? What need we to seal his seal? it is a confirmed doctrine already. O luther, when he came into the world first,⁴ and disputed against the decretals, the Clementines, Alexandrines, Extravagantines, what a do had he. But ye will say peradventure he was deceived in some things, I will not take upon me to defend him in all points. I will not stand to it,⁵ that all that he wrote was true, I think he would not so him self. For there is no man, but he may err. He came to further and further knowledge, (but surely he was a goodly instrument) Well I say when he preached first they called upon him to do miracles,