Gospellers

Gospellers, a word used with three different designations. (1) A term applied by the Roman Catholics to those Reformers who taught the people the words of Scripture in their own vulgar tongue, as Wyclif and his followers.—(2) A class of Antinomians, about the period of the Reformation, who drew 'strange inferences' from the doctrine of predestination.—(3) The priest who reads the Gospel in the communion service of the Church of England, standing on the north side of the altar.