Hugh Latimer, ILU
Jul. 21st, 2010 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafAdmittedly I don't often find myself declaring my love for the Oxford Martyrs, but this display of preacherly snark is rather good:
For preaching of the gospel is one of God's plough-works, and the preacher is one of God's ploughmen. Ye may not be offended with my similitude [...] for I have been slandered of some persons for such things. It hath been said of me "Oh, Latimer! nay, as for him I will never believe him while I live, nor never trust him; for he likened our blessed lady to a saffron-bag:" where indeed I never used that similitude [...] But in case I had used this similitude, it had not been to be reproved, but might have been without reproach. For I might have said thus: as the saffron bag that hath been full of saffron, or hath had saffron in it, doth ever after savour and smell of the sweet saffron that it contained; so our blessed lady, which concieved and bare Christ in her womb, did ever after resemble the manners and virtue of that precious babe that she bare. And what had our blessed lady been the worse for this? or what dishonour was this to our blessed lady? But as preachers must be wary and circumspect, that they not give any occasion to be slandered and ill spoken of by the hearers, so must not the auditors be offended without cause.
For preaching of the gospel is one of God's plough-works, and the preacher is one of God's ploughmen. Ye may not be offended with my similitude [...] for I have been slandered of some persons for such things. It hath been said of me "Oh, Latimer! nay, as for him I will never believe him while I live, nor never trust him; for he likened our blessed lady to a saffron-bag:" where indeed I never used that similitude [...] But in case I had used this similitude, it had not been to be reproved, but might have been without reproach. For I might have said thus: as the saffron bag that hath been full of saffron, or hath had saffron in it, doth ever after savour and smell of the sweet saffron that it contained; so our blessed lady, which concieved and bare Christ in her womb, did ever after resemble the manners and virtue of that precious babe that she bare. And what had our blessed lady been the worse for this? or what dishonour was this to our blessed lady? But as preachers must be wary and circumspect, that they not give any occasion to be slandered and ill spoken of by the hearers, so must not the auditors be offended without cause.
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Date: 2010-07-21 10:12 pm (UTC)