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…

Ne timeas, Be not afraid. A friend of mine told me of a certain woman, that was .xviii. years together in it.¹ I knew a man my self Bilney, little Bilnei, that blessed martyr of GOD, what time he had borne his fagot, and was come again to Cambridge had such conflicts, within him self, beholding this Image of death, that his friends were a frayed to let him be alone, they were fain to be with him day and night, and comforted him as they could, but no comforts would serve. As for the comfortable places of scripture to bring them unto him, it was as though a man would run him through the heart with a sword. Yet afterward ⟨image 193⟩all this he was revived, & toke his death patiently,² and dyed well against the Tyrannical sea of Rome. Woe, will be to that bishop that had the examination of him, if he repented not. Here is a good lesson for you my friends. If ever ye come endanger, endurance, in prison for God's quarrel. and his sake, (as he did for purgatory matters,³ and put to bear a fagot for preaching the true word of God against pilgrimage and such like matters) I will advise you first & above all thing to abjure all your friends, all your friendship, leave not one unabiured, it is they that shall undo you, and not your enemies. It was his very friends, that brought Bylnye ⟨image 193⟩to it. By this it may somewhat appear what our saviour Christ suffered, he doeth not dissemble it him self,⁴ when he saith, my soul is heavy to death, he was in so sore an Agony, that there issued out of him as I shall entreat anon, drops of blood, and ugsome thing surely, which his fact and deed showeth us, what horrible pains he was in for our sakes. But you will say, how can this be? It were possible that I and such other,⁵ as be great sinners should suffer such affliction. The Son of God, what our Saviour Christ? never sinned, how can this stand that he should be this handled? he never deserved it. Mary I will tell you how we must