That place also. 1. Cor. 1. is not fitly applied to this purpose: there is Scripture sufficient directly to proue the sufficiencie of scripture, so that you should not haue needed to giue the aduersarie occasion to carpe at the vnaptnesse of these places for that purpose.
Homilies conteyning doctrine agreable to the Scriptures, be of the same nature that sermons be: Wherefore if it be not lawfull in the Churche to reade Homilies, neyther is it lawfull to preach Ser∣mons: The reason is all one, neither is there any difference, but that Homelies be read in the booke, Sermons sayde without the booke.
Homilies are pithie, learned, and sounde: sermons oftentimes be* 1.1 wordes without matter, vnlearned, erroneous.