. Historical portraits ... from the Crown. He was liberatedin 1540, but banished from London, and we know not how or wherehe passed the next five 3^ears. Not long before Henrys death hewas again apprehended and sent to the Tower, whence he wasliberated on Edward VIs accession. During the reign of the young King he resumed his preaching,and it is to this period that his best-known sermons belong. Hesteadily refused all pressure to resume his bishopric or to accept anyoffice under the Crown. Now, though not before, we may be sure that he was definitely heretical on the subject of the Sacrament;

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. Historical portraits ... from the Crown. He was liberatedin 1540, but banished from London, and we know not how or wherehe passed the next five 3^ears. Not long before Henrys death hewas again apprehended and sent to the Tower, whence he wasliberated on Edward VIs accession. During the reign of the young King he resumed his preaching,and it is to this period that his best-known sermons belong. Hesteadily refused all pressure to resume his bishopric or to accept anyoffice under the Crown. Now, though not before, we may be sure that he was definitely heretical on the subject of the Sacrament; i. e. he had ceased tobelieve that a priest could make bread and wine into the actual bodyand blood of God. Strangely enough, except for one early remarkthat the Bishops of 1531 would have treated St. Paul as a heretic (onthe subject of justification by faith), we know almost nothing aboutLatimers theological views ; and the inference is that dogma hadlittle interest for him. On the other hand, of his wit, his apophthegms. o > ^. « o X ■■J V w .= IS oa.

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