A05143:811
Twenty-seven Sermons
27 sermons preached by the right Reverend father in God and constant martyr [sic] of Jesus Christ, Master Hugh Latimer, as well such as in times past have been printed, as certain other coming to our hands of late, which were yet never set forth in print. Faithfully perused [and] allowed according to the order appointed in the Queens Majesties injunctions. 1. Hys sermon Ad clerum. 2. Hys fourth sermon upon the plough. 3. His. 7. sermons before king Edward. 4 His sermon at Stamford. 5. His last sermon before king Edward. 6. His. 7. sermons upon the Lords prayer. 7. His other. 9. sermons upon certain Gospels and Epistles27 sermons preached by the ryght Reuerende father in God and constant matir [sic] of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, as well such as in tymes past haue bene printed, as certayne other commyng to our handes of late, whych were yet neuer set forth in print. Faithfully perused [and] allowed accordying to the order appoynted in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. 1. Hys sermon Ad clerum. 2. Hys fourth sermon vpon the plough. 3. Hys. 7. sermons before kyng Edward. 4 Hys sermon at Stamforde. 5. Hys last sermon before kyng Edward. 6. Hys. 7. sermons vpon the Lordes prayer. 7. Hys other. 9. sermons vpon certayne Gospels and Epistles
London: printed by John Day, 1562London: printed by Iohn Day, 1562
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Yea the elect people of God, the faithful having the beholding of this face, (though God hath always preserved them such a good God he is to them that believe in him, that he will not suffer them to be tempted above that, that they have ben able to bear:) yet for all that, there is nothing1 that they complain more […] than of this horror of death. Go to Job, what saith he? Pereat dies in quo natus sum, suspendium elegit anima mea, […] worth the day that I was borne in, my soul would be hanged: saying in his pangs almost he wist not what. This was when with the […] of his conscience, and the inward man, he beheld the horror of death and hell, not for any bodily pain that […] suffered: for ⟨p. 82⟩when he had boils, botches, blains, and scabs, he suffered them patiently: […] say then: Si bona suscepi, de manu Domini, &c. […] we have received […] things2 of GOD, why should we not suffer likewise evil. […] was not for any such thing, that he was so […]: but the […] of this face of death and hell, was offered to him so lively, that he would have been out of this world. It was this evil favoured face of death that so troubled him. […] David also said in contemplation of this ugsome […], […] in gemitu meo, I have […] sore vexed with sighing and mournynge. Turbatus est à […] oculus […] 3Mine eye hath been greatly troubled in my rage. A strange thing, when he had to fight with Goliath that monstrous […], who was able to have eaten him, he could abide him, and was nothing afraid. And now what a […]? what exclamations makes he at the sight of death? Jonah likewise was bold enough to bid the shipmen cast him into the sea, he had not yet […] that face & visage: but when he was in the whales belly, and had there the beholding of it, what terror and distress abode he? […] when he saw Sennacherib […] his […] on every side most violently, was nothing afraid of the great host and mighty army that was like to destroy him out of hand, yet he was afraid of death. When the […] came unto him, and said: Dispone domui […], morte morieris, & n on vives, It stroke him so to the heart that he fell a weeping. O Lord, what an horror was this? There be some writers that4