to the nuptials of glory. Then the Bride will speak personally to the Bridegroom the words of praise; and the Bridegroom shall rejoice over the Bride, without a medium, listening to her voice.

10. The first nuptials were those of redemption, and incarnation, and mystical union. To these the Bridegroom called the Bride on His first advent. The second nuptials are those of glory, to which He calls her at His second coming.

11. Delivering her from this mundane misery, He will place His church upon the mountains of the spices of celestial bliss. Make haste, my Beloved, to these mountains, and, in making haste, take me with Thee. Make haste, and I will follow!

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LATIMER.

BORN 1480-DIED 1555.

1. As he is a good Augustine friar that keeps well St Augustine's rules, so he is a good Christian man that keeps well Christ's rule.

2. Christ saith, 'Come to Me.' Let us follow this word, and let us come to Him; for the faith that hath God's word is a true faith; but that faith which hath not God's word is a lying faith, a false faith.

3. I doubt not but that I have been laughed to scorn when I have preached that the way to get riches is to give away to the poor what we have. They have called me an old doating fool; but what then? We must be content to be despised with Christ in this world, that we may be glorified with Him in yonder world.

4. The love of God towards mankind passeth all natural love; and He is ready to give unto every one that cometh to Him for help; yea, He will give us the very Holy Ghost when we desire it.

5. Embrace Christ's cross, and Christ shall embrace you.

6. I pray you note this, we must first be made good before we can do good; we must first be made just before our words can please God.

7. If thou art desirous to know whether thou art chosen to everlasting life, thou mayest not begin with God, for

God is too high, thou canst not comprehend Him; but begin with Christ, and learn to know Christ, and wherefore He came, namely, that He might save sinners.

8. The woman came to Him among the press of the people, desiring to touch only the hem of His garment; for she believed Christ was such a healthful man, that she should be sound as soon as she might touch Him. All England, yea, all the world, may take this woman for a schoolmistress, to learn by her to trust in Christ, and to seek help at His hands.

9. Faith brings Christ, and Christ brings remission of sins; but how shall we obtain faith? St Paul teaches us this, faith cometh by hearing. Then, if we will come to faith, we must hear God's word.

10. We are justified by God's free gift, and not of ourselves; but the righteousness of Christ is accounted to be our righteousness, and through the same we obtain everlasting life.

II. I never saw so little discipline as is now-a-days. Men will all be masters; they will be masters, and not disciples.

12. Mix your pleasures with the remembrance of Christ's bitter passion.

LUTHER.

BORN 1483-DIED 1546.

1. That a man may lift up his head toward heaven, he must find nothing on earth whereon to lean it.

2. That thou despairest of thyself, and doubtest of thy power, does not displease me: but this displeaseth me, that thou also despairest of the power of God.

3. Our unthankfulness for, and light esteem of, God's Word, will do more than anything to help the Pope into the saddle again.

4. He that hath Christ for his God and King, let him be assured that he hath the devil for his enemy, who will work him much sorrow, and will plague him all the days of his life.

5. No stone, nor steel, nor diamond is so hard as the impenitent heart of man.

6. They are small devils that tempt with lasciviousness and avarice; higher spirits tempt with unbelief, and despair, and heresy.

7. Thus Christ, with most sweet names, is called my law, my sin, my death, whereas in very deed he is nothing else but mere liberty, righteousness, life, and everlasting salvation.

8. Surely I could never have believed, but that I have good experience at this day, that the power of the devil is so great that he is able to make falsehood so like to truth.

9. We are mercifully called in grace, that we should be freemen under Christ, and not bondmen under Moses.

10. All our doing is to suffer God to work in us. He giveth the word, which, when we have received, by faith given from above, we are new born, and made the sons of God.

II. The difference between the offices of the law and the Gospel keepeth all Christian doctrines in their true. and proper place.

12. Let who will begin and prize this thing, he shall at length find how grievous and hard a thing it is for a man that hath been occupied all his lifetime in the works of his own holiness to escape out of it, and with all his heart by faith cleave to this one Mediator. I myself have now preached the gospel almost twenty years, and have been exercised in the same daily, by reading and writing, so that I may well seem to be rid of this wicked opinion: notwithstanding I yet now and then feel the same old filth cleave to my heart. Whereby it cometh to pass that I would willingly so have to do with God, that I might bring something with myself, because of which He should for my holiness' sake give me His grace. And I can scarcely be brought to commit myself with all confidence to mere grace, which I should do: for we ought to fly only to the mercy-seat, forasmuch as God hath set it before us as a sanctuary, which must be the refuge of all them that shall be saved.

13. Ye seek peace from the world; real peace is in Christ. Say not, Peace, peace, but, The cross, the cross.

14. That man is not justified who does many works,