The accession of Edward VI. brought him again to the front, and the
Sermon on the Plough, in this volume, is a famous example of his use of
his power under Edward VI., as the greatest preacher of his time, in
forwarding the Reformation of the Church, and of the lives of those who
professed and called themselves Christians. The rest of his story will
be associated in another volume of this Library with a collection of his
later sermons.

H. M.




SERMONS ON THE CARD.


THE TENOR AND EFFECT OF CERTAIN SERMONS MADE BY MASTER LATIMER IN
CAMBRIDGE, ABOUT THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1529.


_Tu quis es_? Which words are as much to say in English, "Who art thou?"
These be the words of the Pharisees, which were sent by the Jews unto St.
John Baptist in the wilderness, to have knowledge of him who he was:
which words they spake unto him of an evil intent, thinking that he would
have taken on him to be Christ, and so they would have had him done with
their good wills, because they knew that he was more carnal, and given to
their laws, than Christ indeed should be, as they perceived by their old
prophecies; and also, because they marvelled much of his great doctrine,
preaching, and baptizing, they were in doubt whether he was Christ or
not: wherefore they said unto him, "Who art thou?" Then answered St.