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…

Thou that art so gorgeously apparelled, and feedeth thy corruptible carcass so daintily, thou that purchasest so fast, to the utter undoing of the poor, consider whereof thou camest, & ⟨image 5⟩whereunto thou shall return. Where is then all thy pomp? where is all thy ruff of thy gloriousness become? What will thou say for thy self in that horrible day of judgment, where thou shalt stand naked before God, where the tables of thine own conscience shall be opened and laid before thine eyes to accuse thee? Thou which raisest the rents so greedily as though thou shouldest never have enough. Thy judgement is, throw miserable mammon, so captivate & blind. that thou canst not tell when thou hast enough, or what is enough? Truly, a little is to much for him that knoweth not how to use much well. Therefore learn first the use of money and riches, & some other honester means to attain them, that this thine insatiable covetousness and unlawful desiring of other mens goods, may be reduced to some reasonable measure, & that it do not exceed the limits or compass of honesty, and the bonds of brotherly love: lest God (before whom thou shalt appear one day, to render a straight accounts, for the deeds done in thy flesh) burden and charge the with thy unmerciful hand lyng of thy Tenant (but yet notwithstanding thy brother (whom, with new Incomes, ⟨image 5⟩fines, enhancing of rents, and such like unreasonable exactions, thou pills polls, & miserably oppresses. When that terrible day shall once come, a little of Gods mercy will be worth a mass or a whole heap of thy money. There thy wicked Mammon, whom thou servest like a slave, can purchase the no mercy. There thy money so gleaned and gathered of the & thine (to the impoverishment of many to make the only rich) can not prevail thee, nor yet redeem thy cause before that just & severe judge, which then, & there will render to thee, the self same measure that thou measurest to other men. What did we speak of prevailing, or redeeming of thy cause with money? Nay then thy money, & the roost of thy gold shall be a witness against thee & shall eat thy flesh as the fire.

Thou that art so gorgiously apparelled, and feadeth thy corruptible carkasse so dayntely, thou that purchasest so fast, to the vtter vndoynge of the poore, consoider wherof thou camest, & ⟨image 5⟩