Hugh Latimer (c.1487–1555) on Christ's Blood

For for what other cause did Christ come, but only to take away our sins by his passion, and so deliver us from the power of the devil? But these merit-mongers have so many good works, that they be able to sell them for money, and so to bring other men to heaven too by their good works: which, no doubt, is the greatest contempt of the passion of Christ that can be devised. For Christ only, and no man else, merited remission, justification, and eternal felicity for as many as will believe the same: they that will not believe it, shall not have it; for it is no more but, "Believe and have." For Christ shed as much blood for Judas, as he did for Peter: Peter believed it, and therefore he was saved; Judas would not believe, and therefore he was condemned; the fault being in him only, in nobody else. But to say, or to believe, that we should be saved by the law, this is a great dishonouring of Christ's passion: for the law serveth to another purpose,—it bringeth us to the knowledge of our sins, and so to Christ: for when we be come through the law to the knowledge of our sins, when we perceive our filthiness, then we be ready to come to Christ, and fetch remission of our sins at his hands.

Hugh Latimer, "Sermons Preached in Lincolnshire, 1552: On the Epistle for the Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity [on Philippians 3:17-18]," Sermons by Hugh Latimer, ed. George Elwes Corrie (Cambridge: University Press, 1844), 521.

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