Reformation · 1549

Sermons

Hugh Latimer (c. 1487-1555)

Nine sermons preached by the foremost Protestant preacher of the English Reformation, delivered before royal courts and city congregations between 1548 and 1550. Latimer was plain in speech, fearless before power, and relentless in applying the gospel to the disorders of his day: corrupt judges, covetous landlords, idle bishops, and a church that had traded preaching for ceremony. The seven Lenten sermons before King Edward VI stand as the most vivid account we have of how a faithful minister addressed a nation in the middle of its break with Rome. The Sermon of the Plough, the most celebrated of them all, remains the defining statement of the Reformation's demand for preaching clergy.

7 hrs total · 9 chapters