LATIMER
THE SECOND SERMON ON THE CARD[1]
(1529)
Born about 1485, died in 1555; accused of heresy in 1532, and recanted; became a Royal Chaplain in 1534; made Bishop of Worcester in 1535, but in 1539 resigned; later, identified himself closely with the Reformation; arrested and sent to the Tower in 1553, and burned at Oxford in 1555.
Now, you have heard what is meant by this first card, and how you ought to play it. I purpose again to deal unto you another card, almost of the same suit; for they be of so nigh affinity, that one can not well be played without the other. The first card declared that you should not kill, which might be done in divers ways, as being angry with your neighbor, 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
- ↑ Preached at Cambridge in 1529, being one of the two sermons "on the card." Latimer's sermons were first collected in 1562. An annotated edition in two volumes, with a memoir by John Watkins, was published in 1834. A complete edition of his writings in two volumes, edited by George E. Corrie, was issued by the Parker Society in 1844.
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