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Here master doctor would fain (as it seemeth) if he durst / interpret diligent preaching / and preaching in season / and out of scafon / to be preaching once a month. But because he dare not say so directly / he compasseth it about / and first putteth the case of one preaching twice a day verbally / and with small substance of ⟨p. 154⟩[…] ⟨p. 155⟩[…] ⟨p. 156⟩matter / and of another preaching but once in a month / and doth it pithily and orderly and discreetly / and concludeth that such a sermon once in a month / is nearer the mind of the Apostle / then all those other sermons made twice every day: & yet the case is not so clear / as he maketh it. For granting that those (which he calleth verbal sermons) have some goodness and edifying / it must be very simple and slender meat / which is not better being given every day / then the best and daintiest meat once only in a month. For with the one / a man may live although he be not liking / with the other he being once fed / is afterward famished. But how if the case be put / that the monthly and long laboured sermons (as they are called) have as little and less good wholesome doctrine in them / then the sermons which are preached every day. Assuredly for the most of those that go so long with a Sermon / and which I know / and have heard: when they come to bring it forth / bring forth oftentimes more wind and unprofitable matter / then any good and timely fruit / or wholesome substantial doctrine. And no marvel / for therein the word of God is fulfilled / which declareth that the talents of Gods gifts and grace are increased by continual use and laying out of ¹