“The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is.”

—  Hugh Latimer

Sermons (1844) Cambridge University Press
Context: The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them…

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