The second▪ They read no fragments of the Epistle and Gospell, we vse both.
And what fault can you find in that? is not the whole scripture, and euery peece of it profitable to edify? can the scripture at any time in the open congregation be read out of season, being in a knowen tongue? but I thinke your quarell is at reading, not against the E∣pistle and the Gospell.
Always in the Churche there hathe bin red the scriptures in the celebration of the mysteries, and I am sure, the Gospell was not wont to be read from the one ende to the other at one time. Well,* 1.1 it is but your opinion withoute reason, that the Epistle and Gospell oughte not to be read at that time: for you bring no proofe, and I thinke the contrary. Fyrst, bycause they be scripture, and tend to edi∣fy: secondly, bycause it hathe bin the manner of long tyme, euen since Alexanders time. Anno. 111.