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

ief period of Latimer's enforced silence had but
quickened the public interest in the Gospel. He
entered the pulpit of the Augustine Convent; the
crowds that gathered round him were greater than
ever, and the preacher, refreshed in soul by the
growing interest that was taken in Divine things by
doctors, students, and townspeople, preached with
even greater warmth and power. The kingdom of
the Gospel was being established in the hearts of
men, and a constellation of lights ]had risen in the
sky of Cambridge -- Bilney, the man of prayer;
Barnes, the scholar; Stafford, whose speech
dropped as the dew; and Latimer, who thundered in
the pulpit, addressing the doctors in Latin, and the
common people in their own mother tongue -- true
yokefellows all of them; their gifts and modes of
acting, which were wonderfully varied, yet most
happily harmonized, were put forth in one blessed
work, on which God the Spirit was setting his seal,
in the converts which, by their labors, were being
daily added to the Gospel.
This was not as yet the day, but it was the
morning -- a sweet and gracious morning, which
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