Sermon on the Ploughers: 18 January, 1549 |
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Page 3 - I had my bowes bought me accordyng to my age and strength. As I encreased in them so my bowes were made bigger and bigger, for men shal neuer shot well excepte they be broughte up in it.
Page 8 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 4 - I was zealous without knowledge; and he came to me afterward in my study, and desired me for God's sake, to hear his confession. I did so; and, to say the truth, by his confession I learned more than before in many years. So from that time forward I began to smell the word of God, and forsook the school-doctors and such fooleries.
Page 2 - They have great labours, and therefore they ought to have good livings, that they may commodiously feed their flock; for the preaching of the word of God unto the people is called meat. Scripture calleth it meat; not strawberries, that come but once a year, and tarry not long, but are soon gone: but it is meat, it is no dainties.
Page 25 - Thei hauke, thei hunt, thei card, they dyce, they pastyme in theyr prelacies with galaunte gentlemen, with theyr daunsinge minyons, and with theyr freshe companions, so that ploughinge is set a syde. And by the lordinge and loytryng, preachynge and ploughinge is cleane gone.
Page 22 - Nowe what shall we saye of these ryche citizens of London ? What shall I saye of them ? shal I cal them proude men of London, malicious men of London, mercylesse men of London ? No, no, I may not saie so, 20 they wil be offended wyth me than.
Page 27 - Is thys theyr callyng ? should we have ministers of the church to be comptrollers of the myntes ? Is thys a meete office for a prieste that • hath cure of soules ? Is this hys charge ? I woulde here aske one question : I would fayne knowe who comptrolleth the...
Page 8 - Lord, Lord, receive my spirit;" master Latimer crying as vehemently on the other side, "O Father of heaven, receive my soul !" who received the flame as it were embracing of it. After that he had stroked his face with his hands, and as it were bathed them a little in the fire, he soon died (as it appeareth) with very little pain or none.
Page 4 - Scriptures, (leaving off those tedious authors, " and that kind of study,) being a bachelor of divinity, and " for his gravity and years preferred to the keeping of the " University cross, which no man had to do withal, but " such an one as in sanctimony of life excelled other, came " into the sopham school, among the youth, there gathered " together of daily custom to keep their sophams and dis...
Page 4 - ... and disputations ; and there most eloquently made to them an " oration, dissuading them from this newfangled kind of " study of the Scriptures ; and vehemently persuaded them "" to the study of the school authors : which he did, not " long before that he was so mercifully called to the con