Sermons on the Card and Other Discourses (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Hugh Latimer

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ISBN 10 : 1330987616 ISBN 13 : 9781330987612

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Hugh Latimer, a farmers son, was born about the year 1491, at Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. He was an only son, with six sisters, who were all well cared for at home. He was a boy of fourteen when sent to Clare College, Cambridge. When about twenty-four years old, he had obtained a college fellowship, had taken the degree of Master of A rts, and was ordained Priest of the Roman Church at Lincoln. In 1.524, at the age of about thirty, he iroceeded to the degree of B.D., and on the occasion of his doing so he argued publicly for the Pope sauthority against opinions of Melancthon. Thomas Bilney went afterwards to Latimer srooms, gave him his own reasons for goodwill to the teaching of Melancthon, and explained to him his faith as a Reformer in a way that secured Latimer sattention. Latimer sfree, vigorous mind admitted the new reasonings, and in his after-life he looked always upon little Bilney as the man who had first opened his eyes. With homely earnestness Latimer began soon to express his new convictions. His zeal and purity of life had caused him to be trusted by the University as a maintainor of old ways ;he had been appointed cross-bearer to the University, and elected one of the twelve preachers annually appointed in obedience to a bull of Pope Alexander VI. Now Latimer walked and worked with Bilney, visiting the sick and the prisoners, and reasoning together of the needs of Christendom. The Bishop of the diocese presently forbade Latimer spreaching in any of the pulpits of the University. Robert Barnes, prior of the Augustinian Friars at Cambridge, a man stirred to the depths by the new movement of thought, then invited Latimer to preach in the church of the A ugustinians. Latimer was next summoned before Wolsey, whom he satisfied so well that Wolsey overruled the Bishop sinhibition, and Latimer again became a free preacher in Cambridge. The influenc
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Présentation de l'éditeur

"Sermons on the Card and Other Discourses" from Hugh Latimer. One of the three Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism (1487-1555).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330987616
• ISBN 13: 9781330987612
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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