Hugh Latimer on Politically Correct Preaching

The following is an extract from Hugh Latimer's Last Sermon Preached before King Edward the Sixth. I was flicking through this book again, re-reading some parts that I'd marked & thought that this is a message that could be repeated in our own day.
Latimer is dealing with Jonah's message to Niniveh:

"This was no great curious sermon, but this was a nipping sermon, a pinching sermon, a biting sermon; it had a full bite, it was a nipping sermon, a rough sermon, and a sharp biting sermon.

Do you not here marvel that these Ninivites cast not Jonah in prison; that they did not revile him, and rebuke him?
They did not revile him, nor rebuke him; but God gave them grace to hear him, and to convert and amend at this preaching.
A strange matter, so noble a city to give place to one man’s sermon!

Now England cannot abide this gear; they cannot be content to hear God’s minister, and his threatening for their sin, though the sermon be never so good, though it be never so true.
It is, a naughty fellow, a seditious fellow; he maketh trouble and rebellion in the realm; he lacketh discretion.

But the Ninivites rebuked not Jonah that he lacked discretion, or that he spake out of time, that his sermon was out of season made:
but in England, if God’s preacher, God’s minister, be any thing quick, or do speak sharply, then he is a foolish fellow, he is rash, he lacketh discretion.

Nowadays if they cannot reprove the doctrine that is preached, then they will reprove the preacher, that he lacketh due consideration of the times; and that he is of learning sufficient, but he wanteth discretion. “What a time is this, picked out to preach such things! He should have a respect and a regard to the time, and to the state of things, and of the commonwealth.”

Was this a time well chosen and discreetly taken of Jonah, to come and reprove them of their sin; to declare unto them the threatenings of God; and to say plainly unto them, that except they repented and amended their evil living, they and their city should be destroyed of God’s hand within forty days?

And yet they heard Jonas and gave place to his preaching. They heard the threatenings of God, and feared his stroke and vengeance, and believed God: that is, they believed God’s preacher and minister; they believed that God would be true of his word that he spake by the mouth of his prophet, and thereupon did penance, to turn away the wrath of God from them.

Well, what shall we say?
I will say this, and not spare: Christ saith, Niniveh shall arise against the Jews at the last day, and bear witness against them; because that they, hearing God’s threatening for sin, “did penance at the preaching of Jonas in ashes and sackcloth,”
And I say, Ninive shall arise against England, thou England; Niniveh shall arise against England, because it will not believe God, nor hear his preachers that cry daily unto them, nor amend their lives."