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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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Part of a Sermon preached by Mr. Hugh Latimer at Paul's Church in London, the Title of which Sermon is The Plough.
—I Told you in my first Sermon (honourable Audience) that I purposed to declare unto you two ⟨p. 18⟩Things. The one, what seed should be sown in Gods Field, in Gods Plough-Land.
—I Told you in my first Sermon (honourable Audience) that I purposed to declare unto you two ⟨p. 18⟩Things. The one, what seed should be sowen in Gods Field, in Gods Plough-Land.
And the other who should be the Sowers. That is to say, what Doctrine is to be taught in Christ's Church and Congregation, and what men should be the Teachers and Preachers of it. The first part I have told you in three Sermons past, in which I have essayed to set forth my Plough, to prove what I could do. And now I shall tell you who be the Plowers; for Gods Word is a Seed to be sown in Gods Field, that is, the faithful Congregation, and the Preacher is the Sower. As it is in the Gospel,1 Exivit qui seminat seminare semen suum. He that soweth, the Husbandman, the Ploughman went forth to sow his Seed, so that a Preacher is resembled to a Ploughman, as it is in another place; no man that putteth his hand to the Plough and looketh back, is apt for the Kingdom of God. That is to say, let no Preacher be negligent in doing his office. Albeit this is one of the places that hath been racked, as I told you of racking Scriptures.