Printed according to act of Parliament for J. Scott aty Black Swan Paternoster Row.

before

BISHOP LATIMER before the Papal Tribunal in Oxford,

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THE

SERMONS

OF THE

Right Reverend Father in GoD,

Mafter HUGH LATIMER,
Bishop of WORCESTER.

Many of which were preached before King
EDWARD VI. the PRIVY COUNCIL,
PARLIAMENT, and NOBILITY,

ON THE

RELIGIOUS and CIVIL LIBERTIES

OF

ENGLISH MEN, &c.

To which is prefixed,

Bishop LATIMER's Life.

In TWO VOLUME S.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for J. SCOTT, at the Black Swan in Pater-nofter-row.
M DCC LVIII.

THE

PREFACE

OF THE

EDITOR.

TH HE name, the credit, and the indefatigable diligence of Bishop LATIMER, has justly occafioned his being held in the highest veneration by all good men; as a faithful Minister of God's Word, a bold reprebender of the Vices and Corruption of the times he lived in, and the chief pillar of the Reformation in his day. The following inestimable Difcourfes fully evince he was proof against all the temptations thrown in his way, to flacken his pace, divert his purposes of conftantly preaching the pure word of truth, inftructing the ignorant, guiding the unwary, and threatning the indolent and backward; with the dig

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nity,