man will say to me, What, sir, are you so privy to the devil's counsel that you know all this to be true ?-Truly I know him too well, and have obeyed him a little too much in condescending to some follies; and I know him as other men do, yea that he is ever occupied, and ever busy in following his plough. I know by St Peter, who saith of him, 'He goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.' I would have this text well viewed and examined, every word of it: 'He goeth about,' in every corner of his diocese; he goeth on visitation daily, he leaves no place of his cure unvisited: he walks round about from place to place, and ceases not. 'As a lion,' that is, strongly, boldly, and proudly; stately and fiercely, with haughty looks, with his proud countenances, with his stately braggings. Roaring;' for he lets not any occasion slip, to speak or to roar out when he seeth his time. He goeth about seeking,' and not sleeping, as our bishops do; but he seeketh diligently, he searcheth diligently all corners, where he may have his prey. He roveth abroad in every place of his diocese ; he standeth not still, he is never at rest, but ever in hand with his plough, that it may go forward. never such a preacher in England as he is.

But there was Who is able to

tell his diligent preaching, which every day, and every hour, labours to sow cockle and darnel, that he may bring out of form, and out of estimation and renown, the institution of the Lord's Supper and Christ's cross? For there he lost his right; for Christ said, 'Now is the judgment of this world, and the prince of this world shall be cast out. And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lift up (John iii.) And when I shall be lift up from the earth, I will draw all things unto myself.'-For the devil was disappointed of his purpose; for he thought all to be his own: and when he had once brought Christ to the cross, he thought all was sure.

"But there lost he all reigning," &c.

TENTERDEN STEEPLE.

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The next is an anecdote, which Latimer introduces as an example of what logicians call the sophism of "non causa pro causâ."

Tenterden Steeple.

"It is we preachers that trouble England. Here was preaching against covetousness all last year in Lent, and the next summer followed rebellion; ergo, preaching against covetousness was the cause of the rebellion! A goodly argument!

"Here now I remember an anecdote of Master More's * which he bringeth in a book that he made against Bilney: and here by the way I will tell you a pleasant tale. Master More was once sent in commission into Kent, to find out, if it might be, what was the cause of Goodwin Sands, and the shelf that stopped up Sandwich haven. Thither came Master More, and called the country before him, such as were thought to be men of experience, and men that could most likely best certify him concerning the stopping of Sandwich haven. Among others came before him an old man, with a white head, one that was thought to be little less than a hundred years old. When Master More saw this aged man, he thought it expedient to hear him say his mind in this matter; for, being so old a man, it was likely that he knew most of any man in that company. So Master More called this old aged man unto him, and said, 'Father, tell me, if you can, what is the cause of this great rising of the sands and shelves here about this haven, which stop it up so that no ships can arrive here? You are the oldest man that I can espy in all this company, so that if any man can tell any cause of it, you it is likely can say most in it, or at least more than any other man here assembled.' 'Yea, forsooth, good master,' quoth this old man, ‘for I am well-nigh a hundred years old, and no man here in this company is anything near unto mine age.' 'Well, then,' quoth

*Lord-Chancellor Sir Thomas More.

Master More, 'how say you in this matter? What think you are the causes of these shelves and flats that stop up Sandwich haven?' 'Forsooth, sir,' quoth he, ‘I am an old man; I think that Tenterden steeple is the cause of Goodwin Sands. For I am an old man, sir,' quoth he, and I may remember the building of Tenterden steeple, and I may remember when there was no steeple at all there. And before that Tenterden steeple was building, there was no speaking of any flats or sands that stopped the haven, and therefore I think that Tenterden steeple is the cause of the destroying and decay of Sandwich haven.' Thus this old man and even so to my purpose is preaching of God's Word the cause of rebellion, as Tenterden steeple was the cause that Sandwich haven is decayed!”

Hot Coals.

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"When I was in Cambridge, Master George Stafford read a lecture there. I heard him; and, in expounding the Epistle to the Romans, coming to that place where St Paul saith that we shall overcome our enemy with well-doing, and so heap up hot coals upon his head;' now, in expounding that place, he brought in an example, saying, that he knew in London a great rich merchant who had a very poor neighbour, yet for all his poverty he loved him very well, and lent him money at his need, and let him come to his table whensoever he would. was at the time when Dr Colet was in trouble, and would have been burnt, if God had not turned the king's heart to the contrary. Now, the rich man began to be a Scripture man, he began to perceive the gospel; the poor man was a papist still. It chanced on a time, when the rich man talked of the gospel, sitting at his table, where he reproved Popery and such kind of things, the poor man being then present, took a great displeasure against the rich man, insomuch that he would come no more to his house, he would borrow no more money of

him, as he was wont to do beforetimes; yea, and he conceived such hatred and malice against him, that he went and accused him before the bishops. Now, the rich man, not knowing any such displeasure, offered many times to talk with him, and to set him at quiet; but it would not be, the poor man had such a stomach, that he would not vouchsafe to speak with him if he met the rich man in the street, he would go out of his way. One time it happened that he met him in so narrow a street that he could not avoid, but must come near him; yet for all that this poor man had such a stomach against the rich man, I say, that he was minded to go forward, and not to speak with him. The rich man, perceiving that, caught him by the hand, and asked him, saying, 'Neighbour, what is come into your heart, to take such displeasure with me? what have I done against you? tell me, and I will be ready at all times to make you amends.'

"Finally, he spake so gently, so charitably, so lovingly, and friendly, that it wrought in the poor man's heart, so that by and by he fell down upon his knees and asked him forgiveness. The rich man forgave him, and took him again to his favour, and they loved as well as ever they did before. Many a one would have said, Set him in the stocks, let him have bread of affliction, and water of tribulation; but this man did not so. And here you see an example of the practice of God's words, so that the poor man, bearing great hatred and malice against the rich man, was brought, through the lenity and meekness of the rich man, from his error and wickedness to the knowledge of God's Word. I would that you would consider this example well, and follow it."

The homely minuteness to which Father Latimer sometimes descended in his counsels from the pulpit, will be seen in the following

Advice to Masters and Mistresses.

"Further, we pray here in this [fourth] petition for good servants that God will send unto us good, faithful, and trusty servants, for they are necessary for this bodily life, that our business may be done; and those who live in single life have more need of good, trusty servants than those who are married. Those who are married can better oversee their servants. For when the man is from home, at least the wife oversees them, and keeps them in good order.

"There was once a fellow who asked a philosopher a question, saying, 'How is a horse made fat?' The philosopher answered, saying, 'With his master's eye' not meaning that the horse should be fed with his master's eye, but that the master should oversee the horse, and take heed to the horsekeeper, that the horse might be well fed. For when a man rides by the way, and comes to his inn, and gives unto the hostler his horse to walk, and he himself sits at the table and makes good cheer, and forgets his horse, the hostler cometh and saith, 'Sir, how much bread shall I give unto your horse?' He saith, 'Give him twopenny worth;' I warrant you this horse will never be fat. Therefore a man should not say to the hostler, Go, give him,' but he should see himself that the horse have it. In like manner, those that have servants must not only command them what they shall do, but they must see that it is done. One other man asked that same philosopher this question, saying, 'What manure is it that makes a man's land most fruitful in bringing forth much corn?' 'Marry,' said he, 'The owner's footsteps.' Not meaning that the master should come and walk up and down, and tread the ground; but that he would have him come and oversee the servants tilling the ground, commanding them to do it diligently, and so to look himself upon their work this shall be the best manure, saith the philosopher. Therefore never trust servants,