Dr. Thomas Lushington is usually mentioned only in his capacity as tutor to Thomas Browne at Broadgates Hall, Oxford. Apart from throwing some light on the mind that helped train the future author of Religio Medici, this paper attempts to put into greater perspective a witty seventeenth-century preacher, gifted scholar, and orthodox Anglican unjustly accused of heresy.' On April 28, 1624, four months before Broadgates changed its name to Pembroke College, Lushington preached the Easter Monday sermon at St. Mary's on Matt. 28:13-Say ye, his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. Imagining the group of people around the empty tomb, in a sustained passage of sometimes angry dialogue among the women, a Roman soldier, several Jewish priests, and members of the rabble, he brings to life the miracle of the resurrection. The largely undergraduate congregation burst into prolonged applause. But because to some the theatricality shocking and because two minor passages reflected upon King James's Spanish policy and the honor of Parliament, Lushington forced to preach a recantation sermon within the week. This pair of sermons reverberated through history for almost a century.2 At the time a faction led by King James and his favorite, Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, agitating for war with Spain over the breaking down of the Spanish match for Prince Charles. Anglicans and Puritans alike had been against the Catholic marriage. Christian pacifist though Lushington was, his slur on the possibility of war on such a pretext politically rash, and his allusion to Parliament as peasants perhaps displayed a High Church blindness to the growing democratic feeling in England. The following Sunday, in a new sermon on Acts 2:1, Lushington obediently took back the two politically offending passages, the one on war and the other beginning Now the peasant thinks. .. . For any other erroneous thing, I require your pardon. A Word once spoken cannot be recall'd, it may be stopt.' Commenting upon the affair, Anthony ' Wood concluded that Lushington was reckoned more ingenious than prudent, and more apt to display his fancy than to proceed upon solid reason.'' But the best commentary comes from the preacher himself in one of his remarkable passages of self-castigation. Preaching later from Rom. 7:11 on how by obeying one law we inevitably sin against another, Lushington said: