Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

which we shall read the Gospel, and be taught how
to practice it; your example will be a sermon, and
its sweet eloquence will be more effectual to draw
the people into the right path than all the terror of
cursings and excommunications."[3]
The people listened with delight to the Dean of
St. Paul's; but not so the clergy. The times were too
early, and the sermon too outspoken. Among
Colet's auditors was the Bishop of London,
Fitzjames. He was a man of eighty, of irritable
temper, innocent of all theology save what he had
learned from Thomas Aquinas, and he clung only
the more tenaciously to the traditions of the past
the older he grew. His ire being kindled, he went
with a complaint against Color to Warham of
Canterbury. "What has he said?" asked the
archbishop. "Said!" exclaimed the aged and irate
bishop, "what has he not said?" He has said that it
is forbidden to worship by images; that it is lawful
to say the Lord's Prayer in one's mother tongue;
that the text, 'Feed my sheep,' does not impose
temporal dues on the laity to the priest; and," added
he, with some hesitation, "he has said that sermons
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