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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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And with Impropriations he hath turned preaching into private Masses; if a Priest should have left Mass undone on a Sunday within this ten years,1 all England would have wondered at it; but they might have left off the Sermon twenty Sundays and never have been ⟨p. 97⟩blamed. And thus by these Impropriations private Masses were set up, and preaching of Gods word trodden under foot. But what doth he now? he stirs men up to outrageous rearing of rents, that poor men shall not be able to find their children at the School to be Divines. What an unreasonable devil is this? he provides a great while before hand, for the time that is to come.
And with Impropriations he hath turned preaching into private Masses; if a Priest should have left Masse undone on a Sunday within this ten years,1 all England would have wondred at it; but they might have left off the Sermon twenty Sundaies and never have been ⟨p. 97⟩blamed. And thus by these Impropriations private Masses were set up, and preaching of Gods word trodden under foot. But what doth he now? he stirs men up to outragious rearing of rents, that poor men shall not be able to find their children at the School to be Divines. What an unreasonable devil is this? he provides a great while before hand, for the time that is to come.
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He hath brought up now a most monstrous kind of covetousness that ever was heard of; he hath invented a Fee-farming of Benefices,1 and all to decay this Office of Preaching; insomuch that when a man shall hereafter have a Benefice, he may go where he will, for any house he shall have to dwell upon, or any Glebe-land to keep hospitality withal; but he must take up a chamber in an Ale-house, and there sit and play at Tables all day. A goodly Curate. He hath caused also Patrons to sell their Benefices. Yea, what doth he more? He gets him to the University and causeth great men to send their sons thither, and put out poor Scholars that should be Divines: for their parents