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…

This he did of his goodness,¹ partly to purge and cleanse our since, partly, because he would taste, & feel our myseries, Quo posset succurrere nobis. that he should the rather help and relieve us, and partly he suffered to give us example, to be have our selves as he did. He did not suffer, to discharge us clean from death, to keep us clean, from it,² not to taste of it. Nay nay, you must not take it so. We shall have the beholding of this ugsome face every one of us, we shall feel it our selves. Yet our saviour Christ did suffer, to the ⟨image 196⟩entente, to signify to us, that death is overcomable.³ We shall in deed overcome it, if we repent, and acknowledge that our saviour Jesus Christ pacified with his pangs and pains the wrath of the father, having a love to walk in the ways of God, if we believe in Jesus Christ, we shall overcome death, I say, it shall not prevail against us. Wherefore wherso? ever it chanceth the my friend, to have the tasting of this death,⁴ that thou shalt be tempted with this horror of death, what is to be done then? when soever thou fellest thy soul heavy to death, make haste, and resort to this garden, and with this faith thou shalt overcome this terror when it cometh. ⟨image 197⟩Oh it was a grievous thing, that Christ suffered here. Oh the greatness of his dolour that he suffered in the garden,⁵ partly to make amends for our sins, and partly to deliver us from death, not so, that we should not dye bodily, but that this death should be away to a better life, and to destroy and overcome hell. Our Saviour Christ had a garden, but he had little pleasure in it. You have many goodly gardens, I would you would in the midst of them consider what agony our saviour Christ suffered in his garden.⁶