and then, I say, you should understand, and know how you ought to play at
this card, "Thou shalt not kill," without any interruption of your deadly
enemies the Turks; and so triumph at the last, by winning everlasting
life in glory. Amen.



ANOTHER SERMON OF M. LATIMER, CONCERNING THE SAME MATTER.


Now you have heard what is meant by this first card, and how you ought to
play with it, I purpose again to deal unto you another card, almost of
the same suit; for they be of so nigh affinity, that one cannot be well
played without the other. The first card declared, that you should not
kill, which might be done divers ways; as being angry with your
neighbour, in mind, in countenance, in word, or deed: it declared also,
how you should subdue the passions of ire, and so clear evermore
yourselves from them. And whereas this first card doth kill in you these
stubborn Turks of ire; this second card will not only they should be
mortified in you, but that you yourselves shall cause them to be likewise
mortified in your neighbour, if that your said neighbour hath been
through your occasion moved unto ire, either in countenance, word, or
deed. Now let us hear therefore the tenor of this card: "When thou
makest thine oblation at mine altar, and there dost remember that thy
neighbour hath any thing against thee, lay down there thy oblation, and
go first and reconcile thy neighbour, and then come and offer thy
oblation."

This card was spoken by Christ, as testifieth St. Matthew in his fifth
chapter, against all such as do presume to come unto the church to make