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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 is a perilous thing, a dangerous state to be a Judge—I have told you of scala coeli: This I am sure is scald inferni, 1the right way to Hell, to be covetous and take bribes, and pervert justice.
It is a perillous thing, a dangerous state to be a Judge—I have told you of scala coeli: This I am sure is scald inferni, 1the right way to Hell, to be covetous and take bribes, and pervert justice.
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If a Judge would ask me the way to Hell, I would show him this way. First, let him be a covetous man, let his heart be poisoned with covetousness; then let him go a little farther, and take bribes; and at the last pervert judgment. Lo, here is the Mother, and the Daughter, and the Daughters Daughter: Avarice is the Mother, she ⟨p. 91⟩brings forth bribe taking, and bribe taking perverting of judgment. There lacks a fourth thing to make up the Mess; which (so God help me) if I were Judge should be Hangum Tunum, a Tyburn Tippet to take with him, and it were the Judge of the Kings Bench, my Lord chief Judge of England; yea, and it were my Lord Chancellor himself, to Tyburn with him.—
If a Judge would ask me the way to Hell, I would shew him this way. First, let him be a covetous man, let his heart be poisoned with covetousness; then let him go a little farther, and take bribes; and at the last pervert judgment. Lo, here is the Mother, and the Daughter, and the Daughters Daughter: Avarice is the Mother, she ⟨p. 91⟩brings forth bribe taking, and bribe taking perverting of judgment. There lacks a fourth thing to make up the Messe; which (so God help me) if I were Judge should be Hangum Tunum, a Tiburn Tippet to take with him, and it were the Judge of the Kings Bench, my Lord chief Judge of England; yea, and it were my Lord Chancellor himself, to Tiburn with him.—