Voices and influences
Hugh Latimer
England's plainest preacher, who scolded kings about the poor and died encouraging the man tied beside him.
Summary
This site quotes Hugh Latimer 1 times across 1 book, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1487 to 1555, English.
- Quoted here most in Matthew: 1 of 1.
Hugh Latimer
- Lived
- 1487 to 1555
- Nation
- English
- Tradition
- English Reformation
1 of 1 quotations
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“Be of good comfort M. Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day lyght such a candle by Gods grace in England, as (I trust) shall neuer be put out.”
in John Foxe, Actes and Monuments, book 11, the death of Ridley and Latimer, page 1937
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Matthew 5:15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. BSB
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Hugh Latimer was a farmer's son from Leicestershire who argued against the reformers at Cambridge until a quiet conversation with Thomas Bilney changed his mind, and then he argued for them for the rest of his life. He was not a systematic theologian; he was a preacher, and the best in England. His sermons used pictures anyone could see — the plough, the cards, the market — and he used them to attack greed, dishonest judges, landlords who squeezed tenants, and bishops who did not preach. He said these things to Henry VIII's face and to Edward VI's court, resigned his bishopric rather than sign what he did not believe, and spent time in the Tower for it. Under Mary I he was arrested again, tried at Oxford with Cranmer and Ridley, and burned. Foxe records his words to Ridley as the fire was lit: '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.'
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