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…

Sit here, & pray that ye enter not into temptation, but of that ⟨image 185⟩I will entreat afterward. Now when he was in the garden, cepit ex pavescere He began to be heavy, pensive, heavy hearted. I like not Origen's playing with this word cepit, it was a perfect heaviness it was such a one as was never seen the greater,¹ it was not only the beginning of a sorrow. These doctors, we have great cause to thank God for them, but yet I would not have them always to be allowed. They have handled many points of our faith very godly, & we may have a great stay in them in many things, we might not well lack them, but yet I would not have men to be sworn to them, and so addict as to take hand over head whatsoever they say, it were a great inconvenience so to do Well, let us go forward. He ⟨image 186⟩toke Peter, James and John into this garden. And why did he take them with him, rather then other? marry those that he had taken before, to whom he had revealed in the hill, the transfiguration and declaration of his deity, to see the revelation of the majesty of his Godhead: now in the garden he revealed to the same the infirmity of his manhood, because they had tasted of the sweet, he would they should taste also of the sower. He toke these with him at both times, for two or three is enough to bear witness. And he began to be heavy in his mind. He was greatly vexed within him self, he was sore afflicted, it was a great heaviness, he had been heavy many times before, and he had suffered great ⟨image 186⟩afflictions in his soul, as for the blindness of the Jews, and he was like to suffer mo pangs of pain in his body. But this pang was greater then any he ever suffered, yea, it was a greater torment unto him, I think a greater pain then when he was hanged on the cross, then when the stower nails were knocked and driven through his hands and feet, then when the sharp crown of thorns was thrust on his head. This was the heaviness and pensiveness of his heart, the agony of the spirit. And as the soul is more precious then the body: even so is the pain of the soul is more grievous then the pains of the body. Therefore there is another ⟨image 187⟩