“God commandeth thee to preach, ‘If thou warn not the wicked he shall die in his wickedness, but I will require his blood at thy hand.’ Hearken well to this, mark it well, you curates-‘l will ask his blood at thy hand.’ If you do not your office, if you teach not the people, and warn them not, you shall be damned for it! Many make a mingling of the way of God and man’s way, Christ did not so. He taught the way of God truly … Oh that a man might have the contemplation of hell; that the devil would allow a man to look into it, and see its state, as he shewed all the world, when he tempted Christ in the wilderness. On yonder side, would the devil say, are punished unpreaching prelates. I think verily a man might see as far as a kenning, as far as from Calais to Dover I warrant you, and see nothing but unpreaching prelates!”

Hugh Latimer,

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