If we be the true Magdalenes, we should be as willing
to forsake our sin and rise from sin, as we were willing to commit sin
and to continue in it; and we then should know ourselves best, and make
more perfect answer than ever we did unto this question, "Who art thou?"
to the which we might answer, that we be true christian men and women:
and then, I say, you should understand, and know how you ought to play at
this card, "Thou shalt not kill," without any interruption of your deadly
enemies the Turks; and so triumph at the last, by winning everlasting
life in glory. Amen.
ANOTHER SERMON OF M. LATIMER, CONCERNING THE SAME MATTER.
Now you have heard what is meant by this first card, and how you ought to
play with it, I purpose again to deal unto you another card, almost of
the same suit; for they be of so nigh affinity, that one cannot be well
played without the other. The first card declared, that you should not
kill, which might be done divers ways; as being angry with your
neighbour, 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 your neighbour, if that your said neighbour hath been
through your occasion moved unto ire, either in countenance, word, or
deed.
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