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The preaching bishop reproving unpreaching prelates Being a brief, but faithful collection of observable…The preaching bishop reproving unpreaching prelates Being a brief, but faithful collection of observeable…
The preaching bishop reproving unpreaching prelates Being a brief, but faithful collection of observable passages, in several sermons preached by the reverend father in God, Mr Hugh Latimer, Bish. of Worcester, (one of our first reformers, and a glorious martyr of Jesus Christ) before K. Edw. the sixth; before the convocation of the clergy, and before the citizens of London, at Pauls. Wherein, many things, relating to the honour and happiness of the king (our most gracious sovereign) the honourable lords, the reverend judges, the citizens of London, and commons of all sorts, but especially, the bishops and clergy are most plainly, piously and pithily represented.The preaching bishop reproving unpreaching prelates Being a brief, but faithful collection of observeable passages, in several sermons preached by the reverend father in God, Mr Hugh Latimer, Bish. of Worcester, (one of our first reformers, and a glorious martyr of Jesus Christ) before K. Edw. the sixth; before the convocation of the clergy, and before the citizens of London, at Pauls. Wherein, many things, relating to the honour and happiness of the king (our most gracious soveraign) the honourable lords, the reverend judges, the citizens of London, and commons of all sorts, but especially, the bishops and clergy are most plainly, piously and pithily represented.
London : printed, and are to be sold by booksellers, 1661
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It chanced, he had under him in one of his Dominions, a Briber, a Gifttaker, a Gratifier of rich men, a Handmaker in his Office, to make his Son a great man (as the old saying is, Happy is the Child whose Father goeth to the Devil) the cry of the poor Widow came to the Emperors ear, which caused him to slay the Judge quick, and laid his skin in the Chair of judgment, that all Judges that should give judgment afterwards should sit in the same skin.
It chanced, he had under him in one of his Dominions, a Briber, a Gifttaker, a Gratifier of rich men, a Handmaker in his Office, to make his Son a great man (as the old saying is, Happy is the Child whose Father goeth to the Devil) the cry of the poor Widdow came to the Emperours ear, which caused him to slay the Iudge quick, and laid his skin in the Chair of judgment, that all Iudges that should give judgment afterwards should sit in the same skin.
Surely it was a goodly Sign, a goodly Monument, the Sign of the Judges Skin; I pray God we may once see the Sign of the Skin in England.—I do it charitably, for the love I bear to my Country. God saith, Ego visitabo. I will visit. God hath two Visitations: the first is, when he revealed his Word by Preachers, and where the first is accepted, the second cometh not; the second Visitation is Vengeance. He went to Visitation, when he brought the Judges skin over his ears.—
Germany was visited twenty years with Gods Word, but they did not earnestly embrace it, and in life follow it, but made a mingle mangle and a hotch potch of it.