^ B # 9 I f THE BOOK OF * I COMMON PRAYER, i : AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE f T I SACRAMENTS, I f I ANDOTHER A i i RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, f f * ACCORDING TO THE USE OF i ? i k The Protestant Episcopal Church k f t ? IN" THE ^ ! UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:! I t 1 « T TOCETHEP- UTIH THE i i f f PSALTER, I A T ? OR T I t f PSALMS OF DAVID. I 0 T f NEIV-YOIIA': T PRINTED BY CEOP-CE lORMAN, NO. 64, V 1 i ER-S TRlt'£T>> lOR WILT.IAM DURELL, KOOKSELLER, j NO. 106, MAIDEN-LANE. T — 1803— T >....<>..-0..,.<..4>....4>...,<>-..<>...,<>....0..„4>)...4>./„i,»...^>..,.^..<>„..<>.„<>..,^>....<»„.^»..<>..,.^^.^ f TABLE OF CONTEXTS. TH E Ratification tlie Book ofCommoii ing Prayer. of 10 The Order tor Daily Even- Prayer. The Preface. The Order how the Psal- ter is appointefl to be read. 1 1 Prayers and Thanksgiving"? upon several Occasions, to he iHed before the two final Prayers of Morning and Evening Service. 4 The Order how the Rest 12 Tl.e Collects, Epistles, and of the Holv Scripture isap- Gospels,tobeusedthrough- . pointed to be read. out the Year. ,5 Tables of Lessons of Ho- ly Scripture, to be read at MorningandEveningpray- er, throughout the Year. 6 The Calendar. 7 Tables and Rules for the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts, together with the Days of Fasting and Absti- nence throughout the Year. 8 Tables for finding the FIo- ly-Days. 9 The Order for Daily Morn- ir>g Prayer. 1 3 The Order for the A hnlni- stration of t!ie Lord's Sup- per or Holy Communion. It The Ministration of public Baptism of Iniants, to be used m the Church. 1 5 The Ministration of Private Baptism of children, in Houses. 16 The Ministration of Bap- tism to such as arcot Riper Years, and able to answer lor themeslves. 17 A Catechism; that is to TABLE OF CONTENTS. say, an Instruction to be monlycalled, TlieChurch- Jearned by every Person be- ing of Women. . fore he be brought to be ,, , -r" in ^ i i confirmed by the Bishop. ^ ^ ^"g™^ °' ^"^'^ "> ^^ "^^'' IS The Order of Confirmati- 23 A Form of Prayer for the on, or laying on of Hands Visitation of Prisoners, upon those that are baptis- ed, and come to Years of 26 A Form of Prayer and Discretion, Tlianksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the 19 TheFormofSoIemnissation Earth, and all the other of Matrimony. Blessings of his merciful Providence. 20 The Order for the Visita- ^-^ t? r u « t . «j ,. f.. o- u 27 Forms or Prayer to be used tion ot the Sick. . r -i- in r amines. 21 The Communion of the 2S Selections of Psalms, to be Sick. used instead of the Psalms for the Day, at the Discre- ^22 The Order for the Burial tion of the Minister. of the Dead. ^9 The Psalter, or Psalms of 23 The Thanksgiving of Wo- ■^''''''^• men after Child- birth; com- 30 The 39 Articles. THE RATIFICATION % OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. BY the Bishops, the Clf.rgv, ajid the Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of Ame- rica, in CONVENTION, this Sixteenth Day of October , in the year of our Lord One Thousartd Seven Ilundnd and Eighty nine : This Convention, having in their present Session set forth A Book of Common Prayer, and Administration OF THE Sacraments and other Rites and Cere- monies OF the Church, (fo hereby establish the said Book : And they declare it to be the Liturgy of this Church ; and require, that it be received as such by all the Membei^s of the same : and this Book shall be in Use from and after the First Day of October, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven. Hundred and Ninety. A 2- i THE PREFACE IT is a most Invaluable part of that blessed " liberty wherewith Christ hath made us freej" that, hi his worship, dift'erent formn and usages raay without offence be allowed, provided the substance of the faith be kept entire ; and that, in every Church, what cannot be clearly determined to belong to doctrine must be referred to discipline ; and therefore, by common consent nnd authority, may be altered, abridged, enlarged, amended, or otherwise disposed of, as may seem most convenient for the edi- fication of the people, *' according to the various exigencies of times and occasions/-* TheCnvKCH of England, to which the Protestant Epis- copal Church In these States is indebted, under GOD, for her first foundation and a long continuance of nursing care and pro- tection, hath, in the Prelace of her Book ol Common Prayer, i<iid it down as a rule, that " The particular Forms of Divine Worship, and the Rites and Ceremonies appointed to be used therein, being things in their own nature indifferent and altera- ibfe, and so acknowledged, it Is but reasonable that, upon weighty and important considerations, according to the various exigencies of times and occasions, such changes and alterations should be made therein, as to those who are in places of autJiori- tv should, from time to time, seem either necessary or ex})edi- ent. The same Church hath not only in her Preface, but likewise in her Articles and Homilies, declared the necessity and expe- diency of occasional alterations and amendments in her Forms ofPublic Worship; and we find accordingly, that, seeking, to " keep the happy mean between too much stijjncss hi refusing. THE PREFACi:. and loo much easiness in adinittin.r variation*! In thinL^s once advisedly established, she hath, in the reign of several Princes, since the first compihng of lier Liturgj/ in the time of Edward, tlie Sixth, upon just and weighty considerations her thereunto moving, yielded to make such alterations in some particulars, as in their respective times were thought convenient ; Yet so as the main bo iy and essential parts of the same (as well in the chiefest materials, as in the frame and order thereof) have still been continued firm and unshaken." " Her general aim in these difi'erent revieios and aUeratiom hath been, " as slie further declares in her said Preface," to do that which, according to her best understanding, might most tend to the preservation oi peace and unitj/ in the Church ; the procuring of reverence, and the exciting of piety and devotion rn the worship of God ; and, finally, the cutting off occasion, from them that seek occasion, of cavil or quarrel against her Liturgy." And although, according to her judgment, there be not *' any tiling in it contrary to the word of God, or to sound doctrine, or which a godly man may not with a good con- science use and submit unto, or whicii is not laiily defensible, it allowed such just and favourable construction, as, in com- nion equity, ought to be allowed to all human writings ;" yd upon the principles already laid down, it cannot but be sup- posed, that further alteration would in time befound expedient. Accordingly, a Coiiimission for a review was issued in the year 16S9 : But this great and good work miscarried at that time; and the Civil Authority has not since tiiought proper to revive it by any new Commission. But when, In the course of Divine Providence, these Ame- rican States became independent with respect to Civil Govern- ment, their EccitniUiticai Independence was necessarily inclu- ded ; and the diflerent religious denominations of Christians in these States were left at full and ecjual liberty to model and or- ganise their respective churches and forms of worship and dis- cipline, in such manner as they might judge most convenient for their future prosperity; consistently wilii the Constitution and laws of their Country. The attention of this Church was, in the first place, drawn to those alterations in the Liturgy vvliich became necessary in the Praj^(js for our Civil Kulers, in consequence of tlie Rcvolu- THE PREFACE. tion. And the principal care herein was to make them con- formable to what ought to be the proper end of all such prayers, namely, that " Rulers may have grace, wisdom, and under- standing to execute justice, and to maintain truth ; and that the People may lead quiet and peaceable lives, in all godliness and honesty." But while these alterations were in review before the Con- vention, they could not but, with gratitude to God, embrace the happy occasion which was offered to them (uninfluenced and unrestrained by any wordly authority whatsoever) to take a further review of the Public Service, and to establish such other alterations and amendments therein as might be deemed expedient. It seems unnecessary to enumerate all the different altera- tions and amendments. They will appear, and it is to be hoped, the reasons of them also, upon a comparison ot this witii the Book of Common Prayer ol" the Church of England. In which it will also appear, that this Church is far from intending to depart from the Church of" England in any essential point of doctrine, disciplinCj or worship ', or further than local circum» stances require. And now, this Important work being brought to a conclu- sion, it is hoped the whole will be received and examined by every true Memberof our Church, and every sincere Christian, with a meek, candid, and charitable frame of mind ; without, prejudice or prepossessions ; seriously considering what Chris- tianity is, and what the truths of the Gospel are ; and earn- estly beseeching Almighty God, to accompany with his bless- ing every endeavour for promulgating them to mankind in the clearest, plainest, most affecting and majestic manner, for the sake of Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord and Saviour. *[ The ORDER Uoiv the Psalter is appointed to be read. THE Psalter shall be read throu<^h on<?e every Month, as it is there appointed, both for Morning and P^ening Praver. But in februan/ it shall be read only to the Twenty- eighth or Twenty-ninth day ofthe Month. And wherea*^ Januaiy, March, May, J'di/, Ji/<ri/<;f, Octo- her^ and December, have One and Thirty Days a-picce; it is ordered that the same Psalms shall be read the last Day ofthe said Months, which were read the Day before; so that the Psal- ter may begin again the First Day ofthe next Month enduing. -And whereas ihe CXIX Psalm is divided intoXXil Por- tions, and is over long to be read at one time; it is so ordered, that at one time shall not be read abo\e four or five ofthe said Portions. The Minister, instead of reading from the Psalter, as di- vided for Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, may take from the Selections set out by this Church. And, on Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, appointed either by the Civil or by the Ecclesiastical Authority, the Minister may appoint such Psalms as he shall think fit in his discretion, unless any shall have been appointed by the Ecclesiastical Au- thority, in a Service set out for the occasion ; which, in that case, shall be used, and no other. Proper PSALMS on certain Days. Morni Christmas-Day, - Psalms Ash-Wednesday, Good-Friday, • Eastkr-Day, Ascension-Day, Whitsunday, The Minister may use one of the Selections, instead ot any one of tlic above Portions. -ning. Evening. J9 - Psalms 89 45 110 85 132 6 102 32 150 33 143 22 64 40 88 54 2 - 113 57 114 HI 118 8 - 24 15 47 21 103 48 - 104 68 145 ^ The ORDER how the rest of the Ilolj/ Scripture is appoint^ td to be read. THE Old Testament Is appointed for the First Lessons at Morning apd Evening Prayer ; so that the most part thereof will be read every Year once, as in the Calendar is ap- pointed. The New Testament is appointed for the Second Lessons at Morning and Evening Prayer. And to know what Lessons shall be read every Day, look . for the Day of the Month in the Calendar followmg, and there ye shall find the Chapters that shall be read for the Lessons, both at Morning and Evening Prayer ;• except only the Movea- ble Feasts, which are not in the Calendar ; and the Immovea- ble, where there is a Blank left in the Column of Lessons; the proper Lessons for all which Days are to be found m the Table of Proper Lessons. And, on Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, the same Rule Is to obtain, as in reading the Psalms. And the same discretion of choice is allowed, on occasions of Ecclesiastical Conventions, and those of Charitable Collections. And Note, That whensoever Proper Psalms or Lessons are appointed, then the Psalms and Lessons of ordinary Course appointed in the Psalter and Calendar, if they be dilTerent, shall be omitted ibr that time. Note also, that the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, appointed for the Sunday, shall serve all the Week after, where it W not in this Book otherwise ordered. TABLES ofLF ssoN s of Holy Scripture, to be read at Mc^m- mg and livening Prayer, tliroiighout the Year A TABLE OF LESSONS FOR SUNDAYS. I- I Sundays. Morning, 1 S. in Adv I S. nf. Chr 2 I » S. af. Ep 3 4 5 6 Scjit. Sund. Sex. Sund. (^uif7. Sund. I 5. in Lent. EaUer Day. iS.a/.Ea.e. I i4 5 S. af. Aiccn Ifhitsundav. First Lcsioii S'xoiid Lfsson Isaiah 1 Luke 1 (0 1^39 5 1 x/39 25 3 tot; 19 30 Mat. 3(ovl3 35 Luke 2 x; 25 41 Mark I tox; 16 44 Mai. 2i; 13 5 1 John I V 29 54 Mat. 4 x; 12 57 Lu. 4i;l4 to3:- 61 Mat. 5 65 6 Jercm. 5 7 35 Luke n-v 19 Lam. I Mark 6\.ov 30 Jcrcm. 7 M.Tt. JO Ezck. 14 Luk. 10tot»23 Mark 9 to -:; 30 Mio. Hag. Dan. Exo. V, Isai Hos. Joel Mic. Zach. Joel Deu. 14 20 to 27 6 2 to 10 9 12 to 37 43 13 5 2 16 to 1 Luk. 19 V 21 Mat. 26 Rom. 6 Acts 1 28 5 6 8 v5 John 17 Acts 4[ov3b Evening, First Lcbs»ou Isai. 2 24 28 to a; 23 32 40 42 45 52lo'yl3 55 59 62 66 Jer. 22 36 Lam. 3 to v 37 bCCOIul JLcSoOJ Rom. 10 12 14 1 Cor. 1 2 Hch. 2 1 Cor 3 13 2 Cor. 4 5 Jrro. O Ezc. IS 20t;27 Hab. 3 Zee. 13 Mai. 3 & 4 Exo. 12 1; 3* Isai. 48 Hos. 14 Mic. 4 NTah. 1 Zee. 10 Zeph 3 Isai. 1 1 Gal. Eph. Phil. 1 3 Heb. Acts 5tor 1 21; 22 I Cor. 15 Coios. 1 3 IThes. 3 4 2Thes. 310^1' Acts 19tox^2 1 A TABLE OF LESSONS FOR HOLY-DAYS. HOLY-DAYS. Morning. Evening. Eaiter-Even. 1 Lesson. Zee. 9 Exod. 13" 2 Lesson. Luke 23 V 50 Heb. 4 Men. In Easter IVeck. 1 Lesson. Exod. 16 Job 19 2 Lesson. Matt. 28 Acts 3 \Tua. in Easter-Week, 1 Lesson. Isaiah 26 to v 20. Isaiah 12 2 Lesson. Luke 24 toz; 13 2 Cor. 5 St. Mark. Ecclus, 4 Ecclus. 5 ^St. Fhiiiji ^ St. James. 1 Lesson. , n 9 2 Lesson. John 1 t; 43 Ascension. 1 Lesson. 2 Kings 2 Deut. 10 2 Lesson. Luke 24 7^ 44 Eph. 4 to V 17 Men. in Whit. Week. 1 Lesson. Gen. 11 tot; 10 Num. 1 1 2 Lesson. 1 Cor. 13 1 Cor. 14 to -y 26 Tues. in Whit. Week, I Lesson. 1 Sam. 19 V 18 Deut. 30 2 Lesson. 1 Thes. 5 Gal. 5 St. Barnabas. 1 Lesson. Ecclus. 10 Ecclus. 1 2 2 Lesson. Acts 14 Acts 15 to t; 36 St. John Baptist. 1 Lesson. Malac. 3 Malar. 4 2 Lesson. Matt. 3 Matt. 14 to X' 13 St. Titer, 1 Lesson. Ecclus. 15 Ecclus. 19 2 Lesson. Acts 3 Acts 4 St. James. Ecclus. 21 Ecclus. 22 St. Bartholomew. 24 29 \St. Matthew. 35 38 St. Michael. 1 Lesson. Gen. 32 Dan. 10 -y 5. 2 Lesson. Acts 12 to V 20 Judc 'J 5 to 16 St. Luke. Ecclus. 51 Job 1 St. Simon &■ St. Judc. Job 24&25 42 All Saints. 1 1 Lesson. Wisd. 3 to 7^ 10. Wisd. 5 fox; 17 2 Lesson. He. 1 1 X'32&c 12 tox;7 Rev. 19 to i; 17 1 A TABLE or LESSONS FOR JANUARY. Calendar. Morning Prayer. Evening Prayer. 1 1 I Lesson 2 Lesson I Lesson 2 Less. I 1 A Circian- ; o b cisiofi. Genesis 1 Matthew I Genesis 2 Rom. 1 3 C •3 2 4. 2! 4 d 5 3 6 5 e 7 4 • 8 4. 6 f Epiph, i 7 g 9 5 tor 21 11 ■^ ' s A 12 5 r21 13 1 1 t *-' b 11. 6 to r 1 6 ]5 7| - 16 6 V 16 17 s 1 1 8 to I- 1 7 7 18 r 1 7 9 19 tor 30 8 to c J 8 20 10 r 21 to 1-22 8 r Ks 21 V 22 11 cr 22 9 tor 1^ 23 12 A 24. to V 32 9 V l^ 2 1. r 32 13 .') 23 to V 1 9 10 25 V 1 9 14 ;• 26 tot; 17 11 26 r 1 7 15 r* 27 to V 30 12 to r 2(.- 27 r 30 16 ; 1 e 28 12 v2i 29 torI5 1 Cor. 1 ■ J' ' t 29 V 1 3 13 tor3J 30 to V 23 o| ' 1 .r 30 r 25 13 v3l 31 to r 23 3I A 3 1 r 23 14 32 to r 24 4! ') 32 V 24 15 tof2Ii 33 1 < 3 f -' ' : 34. 13 f21 33 6 ^ -' i Conver- (- sion nj 37 16 39 7 .7 St. Paul 40 17 41 tor 37 s Ow ^■ 4! r 37 IS tor 21 42 to r 23 u 'J-' A 42 V 23 18 r 21 43 to r 1 3 loj .'i( > 43 r ir. 19 44 to r J 4 n; Uv 14 20 to r 1 7 43 to r 1 6 J-' L — .=^ . A TABLE OF LESSONS FOR FEBRUARYt* 1 Cax^encar. Morning Prayer. Evening Prayer. 1 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less- i d Purijic. Gq.4'5v16 Mat20rl7 Gen. 46 lCo.l3 2 e V. M. 21 to V 23 14 3 r 47 tou 13 21 r 23 47 'r 13 15 4 g 48 22 to V 23 49* 16 5 A 30 to V 15 22t;23 50 t' 15 2 Co. 1 6 b Exod. 1 23 Exod. 2 2 7 c 3 24 4 to r 1 8 3 8 (1 4 u 1 8 25 to t? 3 1 5 4' 9 e 6 tot; 14 25 V 31 6 t' 1 4 5 iO f 7 26 to V 36 8 to t; 16 6-| 11 t> 8vl6 26vS6 9 to V 13 7 j 12 A 9v 13 27 lOtot; 12 8 13 b lOi; 12 28 II 9 U c 12 to V 37 Mark 1 12 r 37 JO 15 d 13 2 1 4 to V 15 11 16 e 14t; 15 3 15 12 .17 f 16 4 to t) 26 ,17 13 18 g 18 4t;26 19 Gal. 1 19 A 20 5tot>21 21 tor 18 2 20 b 21 V 18 5 r 21 22 to » 1 6 3 21 c 22 r 16 6 to t; 30 23 to V 20 4 22 cl 23t;20 6v30 24 5 23 e 32 to V 15 7 to V 24 32v 15 6 24 f St.Mat- 7 r 24 Eph. 1 25 ^ thias. 33 8 to r 27 34 to V 27 2 2 A 34 tr 27 8 1^27 40 3i 27 b Lel9toi'19 9 to V 30 Le. 19vl9 *i 28 c 24 9r30 25 ^1 29 26 to r 21 10 tot? 32 26t?21 Rom 12 * Note, T>5rf/ txcrp in every Leaji-Year, February hat/t 23 Days\ on! ^' 1 A TABl-E OF LESSONS TOR M/UICH. Calendar. M 0 R N 1 M G pRAYkR. Evening Pravlr. " I Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less. 1 vl N.ll toi;2l- Mk.lOt'32 Niillv24 Eph. .- J c' 12 11 13 Philip. 1 :i r 1 4 to r 26 12 to ^' 28 1 4 t; 26 2 i / l<)to V 3G 12r23 16r 36 3 .5 A 17 13 20 4 8 b '"' I 1 4 to r 26 22 Colos. 1 7 c- 23 1 4 V 26 24 2 S ,1 25 15 27 3 I) 30 16 3 1 to V 25 4 ]0 31 r 25 Lultor39 32 iThes.l 11 'A <i5 1 V 39 36 2 12 A De.lto-*.I9 2 to V 40 Den. 1 V 1 9 3 13 h 2 to r 2o 2v40 2 V 23 4 14 r 3 3 4 to V 25 5 15 (1 4 V 25 4 5 to V 22 2Thcs.l 10 e A r22 5 6 2 17 t' 7 6 to f 20 8 3 18 ^ 9 G V 20 10 1 Tim. I 19 A 11 7 to r 36 12 2,3 '2i) b 13 7 V 36 14 4 1 1 21 c 15 8 lo r 26 16 5 3 22 cl 17 8 V 26 !S 6 23 e 19 9 lo V 37 20 2Tim.l 1 1 24 1 21 9 r; 37 22 2 2.5 ^ -inn. I0 1oi'25 3 .9 26" A n/r. 24 I0v25 25 4 .8 27 :j Maiy 26 1 1 to r 29 27 Titus 1 2.S c -'8 tot 16 1 1 V 29 23 r 15 '2,'S .1^ 2;j ■J 29 12 30 Phllem. i '^ 30 e 31 13 32 Heb. i 1 ■31 f '33 14 34 2, I 1 . f ?2 1 A TABLE OF LESS0:NS FOR APRIL. Calendar. Morning Praver. Evening Prayer. 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less- 13 1 g Josh. 1 Luke 13 Josh. 2 Heb.3 '2 2 A 3 16 4 4 3 b 5 17 tov20 6 to V 1 2 3 10 4 c 6v 12 I7v20 7tov 16 6 3 d 7r 16 1 8 to V 3 1 8 to V 1 4 7 18 6 e Sr 14 18 v31 9 8 7 7 f 10 tot' 13 19 to V 28 10vl3to28 9 8 g 10tJ28 19v28 22 tov21 10 13 9 A 22 V 21 20 23 11 4 10 b 24to V 19 21 24v 19 1- 11 c Ju. ltor22 22 to V 3 1 Jiid. 1 V 22 13 12 12 d 2 to t; 1 1 22 V 3 1 2 V 11 Ja. 1 1 IS e 3tov 12 23 3 V 11 2 14 f i 4 24 3 3 9 13 g 6 to V 11 Jo 1 tov29 6 V 1 1 to23 4 16 A 6v25 1 v29 7 3 17 17 b 8 to V 22 2 8 v22 iPet.l 6 18 c 9 to V 22 3 to V 22 9v 22to46 2 19 d 9v46 3 v32 10 3 20 e 1 1 to V 29 4 11 v29 4 21 f 12 3 13 3 22 g 14 6 to V 22 15 2Pet. 1 23 A 16tov21 6v22 16 v2l <2 24 b 17 7 to V 32 18 5 23 c St. 7 v32 I Jo. 1 26 .i Mark 1 9 to V 22 8 to V 2 1 19 v22 2 27 e 20 to V 26 S v21 20 V 26 S 2s'f 21 to V 16 9 |21 V 16 4 29,8: Ruth 1 lOto V 22 Ruth 2 3 30 A 3 10v22 1 4 2, 3jo. laaam a A TABLE OF LhSSONS TOR MAY. - <LE.VDAR. Morn I ng Prayer.. EVLNINC P RAYtR. ' 1 1 Lesson 2 Lesson I Lesson 2 Less., I J .V^ Ph. [30 [22 Jude 1 2 C and I Sam. 1 John I Itov 1 Sam 2 to V Rom. 1 :i d Si.Ja. 2 V 22 11 V 30 3 2 ^ •* 4 1 2 to V 20 5 sj 5 t 6 1 2 V 20 7 4 >• •^ S 13 9 5 7 A JO 14 11 01 M ) 12 15 13 ^1 '■ 1 :^ c 1 1. to V 24 16 14 v24 9 ' J d 15 17 16 I e 17 to V 30 18 17 v30 10 ; > f IS 19 19 11 ■'i A 20 20 21 J2 I- A 22 21 23 13 I.-) b 21. Actsl 25 14 U.- c 26 2 27 15 17 d 2S 3 29 16 ^ e .30 4 to V 23 31 I Cor.l > 2 Sam. 1 4 V 23 2 Sam. 2 2 > J- 3 5 to V 1 7 4 3 1 A J 5 V 17 6- 4 2 '2 b 7 6 8 5 Vi c 9 7 to V 30 10 6\ 2\r d 7 V 30 12 7' 2') e 13to v23 8 lo V 26 13v23 ^ '■)' f 14. 8v26 15 9 »T g 16 9 tov23 17 10 ;;s A 18 9v23 19 tov 16 11 ■ ) b 19v 16 10 rov34 20 12 1 ^ > c 21 10 V31. '22 13 ■il 1 d 2.3 11 lo V 1 9 24 It A TABLE OF LhSSOl^S FOR JUNt. "1 Calendar. Morning ^'E.AYER. tvENiNO Prayer. ■ 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less. 1 e 1 K. to V 28 Acts 11 V 19 1 K. 1 v2S lCo.l5 2 f 2 io V 26 12 2 v26 1 " :i •5 3 1 3 to V 1 4 4 2Co. 1 4 A 5 I3v 14 6 2 r> b 7 14 to V 19 8 3 6 c 9 14vl9 10 4 7 d 1 1 to V 26 15 H v26 5 8 e 12 1 6 to V 1 4 13 6 9 f 14> 16v 14 15 7 10 g 16 17 tov 16 17 8. 11 A SV. ^«7'. 12 b nmbas. 18 17 V 16 19 9 )i c 20 to V 22 1 S to V 1 8 20 v22 10 ,' ':i- 1 21 18 V J8 22 to V 29 11 1,5 e 22 V 29 19 tov 21 2 Kings 1 12 IC' '^ 2 Kings 2 19 V 21 3 13 17 ^' 4 20 tov 17 5 Gal. ll IS A 6 20 V 17 7 2 19 b 8 21 9 3 20 c 10 22 11 4 21 d 12 23 13 5 22 e 14 24 15 6 2:J f 16 25 17 to ^24 Eph. 1 24 (jr Nat. of 25 A St. John 17 v24 26 18 2 2 ^' b Baptist. 1 9 to V 20 27 tov 21 19v20 3 '7 c 20 27 V 21 21 4 28 (1 22 28 to V 17 23 5 2.0 e St Peter 30 f 24 23 vl7 25 i A TABLE OF LESSONS FOR JULY. i c ALENDAB.. Morning Prayer. Evening P RAYER. 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less.; 1 g Ezra I Mat. 1 Ezra 3 Phil. 1 o A -t. <) 5 2. 3 b 6 3 7 3' •1- c 8 v21 4 to V 17 9 4: 5 J Nch. I 4v 17 Neb. 2 Col. 1^ 6 e ito V 13 5 to v21 4. V 13 2 7 f J 5 V 21 6 3| 8 g 8 6 to V 16 9 4! 9 A 10 6 V 16 13 to V 15 iThesi: 110 b 13v 15 7 Est. 1 2 |l 1 c Est. 2 8 to V '. 8 3 ^, il? d 4 8v 18 5 4i l.'J e 6 9 to V 18 7 ^1 U f 8 9 V 18 9 to V 20 2Tljes]! ,15 g 9v 20 10 Jobl X. < 'l6 A Job 2 11 3 3 17 b 4 12 to V 22 5 1 Tim 1 18 c 6 12 V 22 7 2,3 19 d 8 13 tov31 9 4 20 e 10 13 v31 11 5 21 f 12 Uto v22 13 6' 22 g It- Uv22 15 2 Tim I ; •23 A 16 15tov21 17 2 '24 b 13 15 v2l 19 3 23 c St. Jam. 16 4 26 d 20 17 21 Titus 1 27 e 22 18t0T21 23 2,3 28 r 21. & 25 18 v21 26 Phile. '9 ;r 27 19 tov 16 23 Heb. 1 0 A 29 19 V 16 30 2 :>i b 31 20 tov 17 32 3; 1 i j i El A TABLE OF LESSONS FOR AUGUST. 1 C ALENDAR. MORNJNC Prayer. Evening Pray£R. ""^ 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson , 2 Less. 1 c Job 33 Mat.20vl7 Job 34 Heb. 4 2 d 35 21 tov 23 36 5 2 e 37 21 V 23 38 6 4 r 39 22 to V 23 40 7 1^ s 41 22 v23 42 8 5 1 ^" A Pr. Itov20 23 tov 25 Piov. \ v20 9 7 b 2 23v25 3 ^ 10 s c 4 $4(ov29 5 n i Q d 6 to V 20 24v29 6v20 12 •lo e 7 25iov3 1 8 13 n f 9 25 V 3 1 10 James 1 12 g 11 26 to V 36 12 2 13 A 13 26 \'S6 14 tov 16 3 14 b 14v 16 27 1 5 to v 2 1 4 15 c 15 v21 28 !6 ^ 16 d 7 to V 15 Mark 1 17 V 15 1 Pet. I 17 e 18 2 19 2 18 f 20 3 2 1 to V 1 7 3 il9 ^ 21 V 17 4to V 26 22 tov 17 4. ♦20 A 22v 17 4 V 26 23 to v22 5 21 b 23v22 5 to V 2 1 H 2 Pet. 1 22 c 25 5 v21 26 2 ^2'} d 27 6 to V 30 28 3 2 4- e .S"^ 5ar- 6 V 30 1 John 1 25 f thoiom. 29 7 tov 24 31 2 26 g Eccl. 1 7 V 24 : Eccle. 2 3 27 A 3 8 tov 27 4 4 28 b 5 8v 27 6 A .29,c 7 9 to V :50 8 2, 3 John ,3ol^ 9 9v30 10 ]ude 3l|^^ il 10 tov 32 • 12 'Rom. l| j.L'>bUiNb 1\.R bhi'TEMHLR. L f\Lf. KCAIl. Morning r RAYkR. Evening Prayer. ! i ~" I Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lfssoii 2 Less. 1 i J.r. I Mar 10v3x Jcr.2tGv20 Rom. 2 Z, 2 v20 1 1 3 ^ 'i A •Mov 19 1 ~ to V 2 8 4 V 19 4 1- h h 1 J V -28 6' 5 j c 7 lo V 2 1 13 7 v21 t ()' '\ 8 Ufo v26 9 7 7 o lo 4v 26 11 8 S r 12 15 13 9 9 s u i6 \5 \C 10 A 16 Lu.l tov39 17 1 1 I 1 b 18 I v39 19 12 1 -) c 20 2 to V 40 21 13 3 d 23 2 V 40 23 14 U e 24. 3 25 15 13 f 26 4 27 16 \G g 28 5 29 I Cor.l ^ 7 A 30 6 to V 20 31 2 :8 b 32 6 V 20 ?>3 3 ly c 31. 7 to V 36 ^5 4 20 d 36 7 v36 37 5 . 1 e 6'iJ/ft^ 8 tov26 6 M f tflfZV. 38 8v26 39 7 3 § 40 9 to V 37 41 8 • t A 1 •1.2 9v37 43 9 i.5 b 44. 10tov25 45 &46 10 Jf7 c 47 10v25 48 to V 25 11 2 / d 48 V 25 1 I tov 29 49 tov 23 12 2 8 G 49 v23 11 v29 50 to V 2 1 I'S 2D {' St.Mic. ;i() g di' all A. 50 V 2 1 13 51 to V 35 \b i B^aa A TABLE OF LESSONS FOR OCTOBER. 1 Calendar. Morning Prayer. Evening Prayer. V 1 , 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesion 2 Less. • 1 A Jer.51v35 Luke 14 Jer. 52 1 Co. 16 2 b Lam. 1 15 Lam. 2 2 Co. 1 3 c 3 to V 37 16 3 v37 2 4 d 4 17 to V 20 5 3 5 e Eze, 1 17 V 20 Eze. 2 4 6 F 3 1 8 to V 3 1 6 5 7 g 7 18 v3I 13 6 8 A 14 19 tov28 1 8 to V 1 T 7 9 h 18 V 17 19 v28 33 to v2I 8 lo c. 33 V 21 20 34 9 11 d Dan. I 21 Da.2tov24 10 12 e 2 v24 22 to V 8 1 3 11 13 f 4 22 V 3 1 5 12 14 or 6 23 7 13 15 A 8 24 9 Gal. 1 16 b 10 Joh.Uov29 11 2 17 c 12 1 v29 Hos. 1 3 18 d St. Luke 2 4 19 e Evang. Hos. 2, 3 3 to V 22 4 5 20 f 5 3 v22 6 6 21 g 7 4 8 Eph. 1 22 A 9 5 10 2 23 b 11 6 (o V 22 12 3 24 25 c 13 6v22 J4 4 d Joel I 7 to V 32 Joel2lov]5 5 •26 27 28 29 30 31 e 2v 15 7 v32 3 6 f Am. 1 8 to V 21 Am. 2 Phil 1 g A St. Sim. SrS.Ju. 3 8 ^21 9 4 2 3 0 A.s,uy. 5 10 to V22 G 4 c 7 10v22 8 Col. 1 ..__ A TABLE OF LESSONS FOR NOVEMBER. Calendar. Morning P«.ayer. Id i 10|f II Ih All Saints Day. 1 Lesson Amos 9 Jonah 1 3 Mic. J Xah. Hab. Zcph. Hag. Zech. i ^ St. And. Mai. Isaiah 6 7 9 10 V 20 12 2 Lesson JoIItovSO 11 v30 I2tov 20 12 v20 13 11. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Acts 1 2 3 4 to V 23 4 \' 23 5 to V 17 5 vl7 6 7 to V 30 7 V no 8 to V 261 8 V 26 9 to V 23 9 v23 lOtov 34 10 V 34 Evening Prayer. 1 Ix'ssoi Obadiali Jon. 2 4 Mic. 2 4 6 Nah. 1 3 Hab. 2 Zeph. I 3 Ha- 2 Zech. 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 \ral. 2 4 Isaiah 2 4 6 8 10 tov20 II 2Lts son Col. 2 3 4 1 Thes. 1 3 4 .'j 2 Thes. 1 2 ' 3 1 Tim. 1 2,3 4 5 2 Tim. 1 2 5 4 Titus I 2,3 Philcm. Heb. 1 ' 2 3 4 5 6 A TABLE OF LESSONS FOR DECEMBER. Calendar. Morning Prayer. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 jc 20 Id m le Lesson Isaiah 14 \6 18 20,21 23 23 27 29 31 53 35 37 39 41 i3 45 47 49 51 Q.2i C>3g 24 A 25 b 26 c 27 d 28 e 29 F 30 g 31 A St. Tho- 7)ias Christ- rnos d. St.Steph \St. John lEva/ig. \lnr.o- \cents. 55 57 59 |2Less. [19 Actsl 1 tov 11 V 19 12 13 to V 14 15 V 14 14 to V 19 14v 19 15 16 tov 14 16v 14 17 tov 16 17 vl6 IStov 18 18 V 18 19 tov 21 19 v21 20 to V 17 20 V 17 21 22 23 24 25 26 Evening Prayer. 27 to v21 61 1 27 v21 631 28tov n 65 28 V 17 1 LesFon Isaiah 15 17 19 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 2 Lesson Heb James I Peter 2 Peter 1 John ;2 Jolin '3 John Ijude ^f TABLES AND RULES fok the Moveable and Immovkable feasts ; Together iiith the Dayi of Fastinf^ and Abstiiwicc through the whole Year. RULES, Ta KNOW when the Moveable Feasts AND HOLY-DAVS BEGIN. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend. Is always the First Sunday afi«r the Full Moon whitli liippens japon, or next after, tlie Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full xMoon happen apo^a Sun.iay, Easter-day is the Sunday alter. j Advent Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast ot St. Andrew, whether before or after. Septua^^esnna S.xagL.<i,na ( ^ ., ^ Ei^l.t f Weeks bef<;re Quinquage-^ima [ -^ j Seven ( Easter. Quadragesima SNine •) Eight f W Seven ( Six ) I Rogation Sunday Ascension-Day f • 1 Forty Days ( .. ^ , Whiuun^lay ^ > " < '-■'- .-^ ,- V alter Easier. Trinity Sunday TABLE OF Feasts, to be observed int TJiis Church, thkovghout thl Year. All Sundays In the year. The Circumcision of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. The Epiphany. The Conversion •f St, Paul. The Purification of the Blessed Virgin, St. Matthias the Apostle. The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin. St. Mark the Evangelist. St. Philip and St, James, the Apostles, The Ascension of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. itwr- TABLE OF FEASTS, &c. St. Barnabas. The Nativity of St. John the Baptist. St. Peter tlie Apostle. St. James the Apostle. St. Bartholomew the Apostle. St. Matthew the A posWe. St. Michael and all Angels. S(. Tuke the Evangelist. St. Simon and St. Jiide, tho Apostles. All Sftints. St. Andrew the Apostle. St. Thomas the Apostle. The Nativity of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. wSt. Stephen the Martyr. St. John tlie Evangelist. XI i- Hoi) Innocents. JVloiiday and Tuesday in Easter Week. Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun Week. A TABLE OF FASTS. Ash- Wednesday. Good- Friday. Other DaysofFASTiNG ; on wlilch iliQ Church requires such a measure of Abstinence, as is moro especially suited to extraordinary Acts and Exercises ol" Devotion. 1st. The Season of Lent. 2d. The Ember-days at the Four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 1 4, and Decem- ber 13. 3d. The three Rogation Days, being the Monday, Tues" day and Wednesday before Holy Thursday, or the Ascen- sion of our Lord. 4th. All the Fridays in the Year, except Christmas-Day. In- Addition to the above, the First Thursday in N vember (or, if any other Day be appointed by the Civi' Authority then, such Day) shall be observed as a Day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all other Blessings of his Merciful Providence. « TAKLKS FOR FINDING THE HOLY-DAYS. fro I ti.i- l/k lo Iiiul Eaifer-DaVf 111 lh»' |)ri-»enl lime till Year IH«9, iiiclusiv I No. 3 11 19 8 IG 5 1 3 10 18 7 1.5 4 12 1 hD. ot llic Month. April Sunday Letter. March 21 22 2J 21. 2d 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C D £ F G A B C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C THIS Tabic coutuins so much of the Calendar as ii necesiary for the det|rrniiain^ of Easier ; lo fiiul «-hich, look for the Golden Number of the Year in the first Column of th"; Ta- ble, against which stands the Day of the Pasclial Full Moon ; then look in the third Column for the Sunday Letter, next after the Day of the Full Moon j and the Day of I he Month standing; ai^ainst that Sunday Letter i» Eu\ter- Day. If the Full Moon happen ujiou a Sunday, then (accordin*^ to the first Rule) the next Sunday after is Easter-Duy. To find ihe Golden Number or Priniv, add one to the Year of our Lord, and then divide by 19 ^ the Remainder, if any, is the Golden Number; but if no- thing remain, then 19 is the Goldcu Number. To find the Dominical or Sunday Let- ter, according to the Calendar, until the} ear 1799, inclusive, add to the Y«'ar of our Lord its fourth Part, omitting fractions, and also the Number i : Divide tlie sum by 7 ; and if there be no Remainder, then A is the Sunday Letter: But if any Number remain, then tlic Letter- standing against that Number in the small annexed Table, is the Sunday Letter. For the next Century, that is, from the Year 1800 till the year IH99, inclu- sive, add to the carreiit Year otily its f<jurth Part, and then divide by 7, and procred as in llie last Rule. N'jti, That in all Bissextile or Leap- Years, the Letter found as above, will be the Sunday Letter from the interca- lated Day exclusive, to tUc end of the Year. C2 0 A 1 G ■^ F 3 £ 4 J 5 c 6 B Another Tabic to find Easter till the Year 1899, inclusive. SUNDAY LETTERS. IGolden . ! No. 1 A B C D E F G 13 1 ^• Ap. 16 17 18 19 20 14 11. Ap. 9 3 4 5 6 7 5 1 III. Mar.2(5 27 28 29 2.3 24 25 ' IV. Ap. 16 17 11 12 13 14 11 V. Ap. 2 3 4 5 6 Mar. 31 Ap. 2 VI. Ap. 2^3 24. 2b 19 20 21 28 VII. Ap. 9 10 11 12 13 14 1 VIII. Ap. 2 3 Mar.28 29 30 31 Ap.2 IX. Ap. 16 17 18 19 20 21 28 X. Ap. 9 10 11 .5 6 7 5 XI. Mar.26 27 28 29 30 31 25 XII. Ap. l^ 17 IS 19 13 14 IS XIII. Ap. 2 3 4 5 6 7 5 ! XIV. Mar.26 27 2« 22j 23 24 2.5 t XV. Ap. 16 10 11 12 13 14 11 i XVI. Ap. 2 3 4 5 Mar. 30 Sl'Ap. 2| IXVII. Ap. 23 21. 18 19 20 21i 28 1 XVIII. Ap. 9 10 11 .12 1:3 7; 1 j XIX. Ap. 2 Mar.t^7 2S 29 30' 31 Ap. ijl ^ 1 ^O make use of the preceding Table, find the Sunday JL Letter for the Year in the uppermost line, and the Gol- den Number, or Prime, in tjie column of Golden Nimi- bers, and against the Prime, in the same line, under the Sunday Letter, you have the Day of the Month on which Easter fijlleth that year. But, Note, That the name of the Month Is set on thelefthand, or just with the figure, and followeth not as in other Tables, by descent^ but collaterally. .. . A Table ot" tlie Dayj on wlm ii E.i.ter will ("ill tor thirty i ■eight Years, btiug the time of Twu Cycles oi the Moon Years ot Golden Ihe Sunday • JurLord. I 17S6 Nuinbcr Epacl. Letter. Easter Day. 1 0 A April 1() 7 o 11 G M 8 3 22 F E March 23 1 9 4. 3 D April J 2 ] 90 6 ll- C 4 ! i 6 23 B 24 1 2 7 G A G 8 3 8 17 F Marcli 31 ' 4 9 28 E April 20 1 -5 \0 9 D 5 1 6 11 20 C B March 27 i 12 1 A April 16 8 13 12 G 8 () It 23 F March 24 • 1800 \o 4 E April 13 1 \6 15 D 5 2 17 26 C 18 1 -"^ IS 7 B 10 1 4 19 IS A G 1 i 5 i 0 F J 4 i 6- 2 li E 6 7 3 22 D March 29 8 4 3 C B April 3 ! 9 5 14 A 2 10 6 25 G 22 . ! ii 7 6 F 14 1 J 2 8 17 E D March 29 i '-^ 9 28 c , April IS 1 14 10 9 B 10 1 13 11 20 A March 26 - 1 lo 12 1 G F April 14 ■ J7 \:i 12 G 8 IS I't 23 F Marcli 24. 19 15 4 E April 13 20 16 15 B A 2 2 J 17 26 G 22 1^2 18 7 F 7 .'3 19 IS E Marcli 30 BWBVPi ■■■■■■■ A Table of the Moveable Feasts, according to the several Days that Ea^er can possibly fiill upon. Mar.2'i 23 2-t 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 April I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 U 15 16 17 lb 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 rl «< OS o 1\ It • 3 Jan. 18 19 20 Feb. 4 5 6 April 30 May 1 2 May 10 11 12 21 7 3 13 22 8 4 14 23 9 5 15 24 10 6 16 25 II 7 17 26 12 8 18 27 13 9 19 28 14 10 20 29 15 11 21 30 16 12 22 31 17 13 2'i Feb. 1 18 14 24 2 19 15 23 3 20 16 26 4 21 17 VQ7 3 22 18 28 6 23 19 29 'z 24 20 30 8 25 21 31 9 26 22 fune 1 10 27 23 2 li 28 24 3 12 Mar. I 25 4 13 2 26 5 14 3 27 6 lb 4 23 7 It) 5 29 8 17 f) 30 9 18 7 31 10 \9 8 Tunc 1 11 20 9 2 I'i 21 10 3 13 H^^ - . ^ .■ J?" 27 27 27 27 27 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 24 21 24 24 24 24 24 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 22 22 Nov. Dec. Nov, Dec. Nov. Dec. 29. ^■;! ?! 27! 2S| 29 30 2 3 27 28 29; 30 1 Dec Nov, Nov,, 27 28 29 30 2 3 27 28 29 30 Dec. Nov. Nott, Tha.t in a Bissextile or Le»p-Year, the Number of Sundays after Epiphanj/ will be the same as '\i Raster-day had fallen one Day later than it really does. And for the same Reason one Day must in every Leap- Year be added! to the Day of the Month given by the Table lor Sepua gcsinia Sunday, and lor the first Day of Lent. A TALE to find Easter-Day, iVom the Year 1900, to the Year 2199, inclusive. 1 Cjolden . Day ol the Sunday Number. ' Month. Letter. ]-i March 22 D 3 <23 E 24- F 11 25 G 26 A 19 27 b 8 28 c 29 I) 16 30 E 5 31 F April 1 G : 13 o A \ 2 3 B 4 C • 10 5 D 6 E 13 7 F 1 8 G 9 A 1.3 10 B •1. 11 C 12 D 12 }3 E 1 li F 15 G 9 16 A 17 17 B 6 18 C 19 D ) 20 E 21 F 1 22 G 1 23 A 1; 2i B li 25 C 1 THE Golden Num- bers in the forego- ing Calendar will point out the Days o^ the Pas- chal full xMoons, till the YearofourLoKD 1900; at which Time, in order that the Eccleuastical Full Moons may la] I, nearly on the same Days with the real Full Moons,' the Golden Numbers! mlist be removed to dif-| ferent Days of the Ca-| lendar, as is done in t!ui annexed Table, whichj contains so much of the! Calendar then to bt used, as is necessary lor finding the Paschal Full Moons and the Feast of Easter, from the Year! 1900, to the Year 2199 inclusive. Tiiis Table j is to be made use ot, in; all respects, as the First! Table, before inserted, for finding Easter till tlu Year 1S99. jGeneral TABLES for finding the DDminical or Sunday " Letter, and the Places of the Golden Numbers in the Calendar. T A B L E L 6 B 5 4 D 5 E 2 1 0 C F G A 1600 1700 ISOQ 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 2400 2500 2600 2700 2800 2900 3000 3100 3200 3300 3400 4-300 4400 3500 3600 3700 4500 3800 3900 lOOO 4100 4200, 4500 -1-700 4S00 4900 5800 5000 5100 5200 5300 5^k)0 5500 5600 6500 .5700 5900 ^00 6100 6200 6300 6400 Q600 o7(X) 6S00 6900 7000 7100 7200 7300 7400 7500 7600 7700 7800 7900 8000 8100 8200 8300 a400 S500 Sf^c. TO find the Dominical or Sunday Letter for any given Year of our Lord, add to tlic Year its K)urth Part, omitting Fraction"?, and also the Number, which in Table I. standeth at the top of the Column, wherein the Nuinb.T of Hundredscontained In that given Year is found : Divide theSum by 7, and if there be no Remainder, then A is the Sunday Letter ; but if any Number remain, then the Let- ter which standetli under that Number at the Top of tJie Table, is the Sunda^ Letter. TABLE IL 1 'M- '2 3 I 2 I !. ' 1 'O find the Month and 1 X Days of the Month to 1 1 Years Years 1 of our ot our which the Golden Num- ^1 Lord. "o B" Lord. hers ought to he prefixed in ;l •b"' 1600 5200 1 3 the Calendar in any given 1 i 1700 J 5300 \6\ Year ofour/^r(i, consisting 1 1 1800 r 1 5 k)0 1 7 of entire Hundred Years, ■ 1900 o 5500 1 7 and in all the intermediate 1 B 2000 2B 5600 1 7 Years, betwixt that and the 1 1 2100 q 5700 lb' nextiiundredthYcartollnw- 2200 3 5800 1 8 «"g, look in the Second Co- 2300 4 5900 19 I«»nn of Table II. tor the |B 21-00 3B 6000 19 given \^ear,consistingoten- ; t 2500 4 6100 19 ^'>'e Hundreds; and note' 2600 5 6200 20 the Number or Cypher 2700 5 6300 2 I which stand against it in the B 2800 5B 6400 '1 0 Third Column ; then in Ta- 2f)(X) 6 6500 L >1 ble III. k)ok for the same; 3000 6 6600 1 )<2 Number in the Column un- , 1 3100 7 6700 i )3 deranygiv en Golden Num- B 3200 7B 6800 '. 12 ber, which when you have 1 - 3300 ' < 6900 i ?3 found, guide your Eye sidc- 3K)0 b 7000 i 74. ways to the Left Hand, and 1 3J00 9 7100 i l\ and in the First Column you iB 3600 8 fc \ 7200 '. ?4 will find the Month and Day 3700 9 7300 i 7:, to which that Golden Num- 3800 10 7400 i 25 ber ought to be prefixed in 3900 10 7500 ' 20 the Calendar, during that !b 4-000 10 E \ 7600 20" l^eriod of One Hundred 1 4100 11 7700 2(] Years. 4200 12 7S00 27 The Letter B prefixed to 43(X) 12 7900 28 certain Hundredth Years in Ib 4100 12 J 3 8000 27 Table II. denotes those. li 4500 13 8100 28 Years which arc still to be II 4-600 13 8200 29 accounted Bissextile or 1 4700 14 8S00 29 Leap Year? in the New |b 4800 14 B S-IOO 29 Calendar ; whereas all the i. 4S^00 114 8500 0 other Hundredth Years are 1 5000 '15 &:c. to be accounted only com- '; 1 5100 !l6| mon Years. ( fABLE III. Paschal Full Mocn. March Zi March 2» March 1 3 March 14 March 15 THE GOLDEN NUMBERS. » 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 H 12 13 14 •5 16 »7 i» 19 0 ,, 22 ^ '4 i? 6 \i 18 C 20 12 2 3 4 I? 20 1 12 »^ 4 15 26 I 19 10 21 13 »4 ? 16 XI 2 n 14 5 16 t? 19 0 II 22 «4 iJ 6 IT 22 ? '4 J? 6 • 7 9 20 1 12 23 «S 26 " iK »3 4 15 26 7 IS \^9 10 21 2 '3 14 10 2; « '9 Mar^h 26 I March 27 March 28 I March 19 i March 30 ^iarch April April April April 13 i4 S 16 14 2? 6 17 • ? 26 18 16 27 « 19 •7 28 9 20 2P 10 0 1 1 I 12 2 13 3 14 n 8 19 9 20 X9 10 21 0 II 22 1 12 13 •3 i4 >4 JV M 26 irt 2- 6 17 28 22 3 •4 i? 6 17 28 9 20 »3 4 H 26 V 18 S 19 19 JO ti i4 T 16 27 0 II 22 »T 6 17 28 p 20 I 12 i3 26 7 lb 29 10 21 - »3 S4 i6l27 28 »9 19 O 20 April April April April April » 19 9 20 10 21 I I 22 April April April April April 14 F 3 I 6I.7 April April April April April KfG 16 A Apri? i8 C 8 29 3 24 2 '3 3 '4 6 37 (O 21 I r 22 " -'3 >3 '4 •4125 TllK ORDER lOR DAILY MORNING PRAYER. 5[ T//e M I N I s T K R shall bci^vi the m o ii n i n c; r r a v E K , bij read' j'lig one or vwre of the follouing Sentences of Scripture. TIT E Lord is in his holy Rend your he&rt and not tvinpic ; let all tlie fiirth your garnuMils, and turn unlo keep silence beiorehim. Hub. tlie Lord your G(k1 ; for he is u. '20. gracious and nicscilul, slow to From the rising of the sun anger, and of great kir.dncss, even unto the going down of and repenteth him of the evil, the same, my name siiall be Jocln. 13. great among the <jenliles; and To the Lv)rd our God bc- in e\cry place incense shall be long mercies and lorgivenes- ollered unto my name, and a ses, thoiigh we have rebelled jMire offering: l()r my name against him ; neither have we shall bo great among the hea- obeyed tlie voice of the Lonl then, saith the Lord of Hosts, our God, to walk in his laws ^J(iL i. 1 1. which he ?et bel'ore us. Dan. Let the words of my mmith, ix. 9, ](). and the meditation-of my heart, O Lord, correct me, bat be alway acceptable in thy with judgment ; not in thine sight, O Lord, my strength and anger, lest thou bring me to my Redeemer. J^saL xix. Ik nothing. /<r. x. 21. Ps<il. vi. i. When the wicked man iiirn- Repent ye ; for the kingdom eth away from his wickedness of heaven is at hand. St. Mut. that he hath committed, and iii. 2. doelh tiiat which is lawful and I will arise and go to mv fa- right, he shall save his soul ther, and will say unto him ; alive. Ezek. xviii. 27. Father, I have sinned agiiinsf 1 acknowledge my trans- heaven and before thee, and .grcssions ; and my sin is ever am no more wordiy to be call- Ix'fore me. Fsal. li. ". cd thy son. St. Luke xv. 1 S, 19. Hide thy face from my sins; Enter net into judgment and blot out all mine iniqui- with tl)y servant, O Lord, for tie-;. Psal. li, 9. in thy siglit shall no man h\;iig The sacrifices of God are a be justified. J'sal. cxhii. 2. broken spirit ; a broken and a If we say that we have no contrite heart, O God, thou sin, we decci\e ourselves, and wilt not despise. Psal.Vi. 17. the truth is not in us; b'lt if 5S] MORNING PRAYER. wc confess our s'ms., God is A I>niigl)ty and most mercl* iallhrul and just to forgive us XA. fal Father ; we have er- our sins, and to cleanse us from red and strayed from thy v\'ays all unrighteousness. 1 St.Jo/m hke lost sh.eep. We have tol- i. 8, 9. lowed too much the de\ice3 5[ Then the Minister shall saj/, and desires of our own hearts. V_ . ^ We have offended agamst thy y>|Early beloved brethren, holy laws. Wc have left un- X^the scripture moveth us m ^loiie those things which we sundry places to acknowledge ^^^^g^t to have done ; And we and confess our manifold sins h^^e done those things which and wickedness, and that we ^^^ o^^g^j j^^t to have done : should not dissemble nor cloak And there is no health in us. them before the face of Al- But thou, O Lord, have mercy mighty God, our heavenly Fa- ^^^^^^ ^^^^ miserable of^bnder^.. ther, but confess them with an Spare thou those, O God, who humble, lowly, penitent and confess their faults. Resto^ obedient heart; to the end thou those who are penitent ; that we may obtain forgiveness according to thy promises, de- of tlie same by his infinite ^-i^^q^ ^^^^^ mankind, in Christ goodness and mercy. And al- Jesus our Lord. And grant, O Ihough we ought, at all times, jp^st merciful Father, for his luimbly to acknowledge our ^ake ; That we may hereafter sins before God ; yet ought we Ji^e a godly, righteous, and so- chiefly so to do, when we as- },^.r ijfe : To the glory of thy semble and meet together, to i^^iy Name. ^//ten. render thanks for the great be- ^ -fhe Dedaraiion of yibsolu- refits that we have received at ^y^,,^ ^r Uemission of sins ; to his hands, to set forth his n.ost i^ j^^ade hj/ the Pk i k st alone, worthy praise, to hear his most standing ; the People sitill holy v\ ord, and to ask those kneelin^. things which are requisite and i Lmighty God, the Father necessary, as well for the body /\ of our Lord Jesus Christ, as tlie soul. Wherefore, 1 ]^ray ^^ho desireth not the death of a ynd beseech you, as many as sinner, but rather that he may are here pre:;ent, to accompa- turn from his wickedness ai.<l iiy me, with a pure heart and ]ivc, iiath given power and Juimbie voice, unto the tlirone commandment to his ministers of the heavenly grace, saying ; to declare and pronour.ce to *f ^ General Confession, to be his people, bcMug penitent, fhe .said by the nhole Con^rega- absolution cind remission of tion ajtcr the Minister, all their sins. He pardoneth and kneeling. absolvetii a'l tl;os3 who trir^j MORNING PRAYER, [39 repenf, and unlci^nt'dly be- lieve his holy Gospel. Where- fore, let us beseech him to grant as true repentance, and his ho- ly spirit ; tliat those things may please him which we do at this present, and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure 3.nd holy, so that at the la^^t we may conie to his eternal joy, through Jesu<; Christ our Lord. ^ 17, e Peo])lc sJatU amv.er here , and at the end of every Pray- er, Amen. ^ Or this. ALmighty God, our hea- venly Father, who, of his great mercy, hatli promised forgiveness of sins to all those who, with hearty Repentance afnd true Faith, turn unto him ; ha\e mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in ail goodnes'^, and bring you to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Auien. 5[ Then the MinihUr shall kneel, and my the Lord's Prayer, the People still kneeling, and repeatino; it ivith him, both here, and idieresoercr ehc it ii used in Divine Service. OVK Father, who art \n Heaven, Hallowed be i\\y Name; Thy Kingdom come ; Tiiy Will be done on Earth, as itisin Heaven : Give us this day our daily bread ; And forgive our trespasses, as we forgive thost: who trespass against us; And lead us not into I'-mpla- lion, but deliver us from evii' ; For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and tlic Glory, for ever and ever. Amen. ^ Then likenise he shall say, O Lord, open thou our lips; j^ns. And our mouih shall show forth thy praise. 5[ Here, all standing up, the Minister shall say. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; Jtis. As it was in the be- ginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Minister. Praise ye the Lord. Jns. The Lord's name be praised. 51 Then shall be said or san/r the follozvifi:; A n t h k m ; except on those days- for vjhich other Anthems are appointed ; and except also, when it is used in the course of the Psalms, on the ninettenih day of the month. Venite, exnltemvs Domino, OCome, K-( us sing unto the Lord, let us heariily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before liis pre- sence with thanksgiving ; and show ourseKes glad in hiai with Psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all tlie cor- ners of the earth ; and the strength of the hills is his also. Tiie sea is hi'^, and he made it ; and his hands prepared the dry land. O com •, let us vvcrship, and 40] MORNING PRAYER. M down, and kneel before the O Lord, tlie only begotten Lord, our Maker. Son, Jesus Clirlst ; O Lord For he is the Lord our God, God, Lamb of God, Son of the and we are the people of his Father, that takest away the pasture, and the sheep of his sins of the world, have mercy hand. upon us. Thou that takest O worship the Lord in the away thesinsoftheworld, have beauty of holiness ; let the mercy upon us. Thou that wh(»Ie earth stand in awe of takest away the sins of the him. world, receive our prayer. For he cometh, for he com- Thou that sitt<ist at the right eth, to judge the earth ; and hand of God the Father, have with righteousness to judge mercy upon us. For thou only art holy ; thou only art the Lord ; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father. Amen. ^[ Theii shall be read ike first Lesson, according to the Table or Calendar; after zildcli shall he said or sung the following liyvin. ^ Note, That before every Tes^ son, the Minister shall say, Flere beginneth such a Chapter, or Verse of such a Ciiapter, of such a Book ; And after every Lesson, Here endeth the^rst, or the se- cond Lesson. Te Deum Laudamus, WE praise thee, O God ; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. C^ Lory be to Gotl on high. All tlje earth doth worship.. Tand on earth peace, good thee, the Fatiier everlasting, will towards men. We praise To thee all Angels cry thee, we bless thee, we wor- aloud ; the Heavens, and all ship ihee, we glorify thee, we the Powers therein. give thar.ks to thee for thy To thee Cherubim and Sera- grciit glory, O Lord God, lioa- phim, continually do cry, venlv King, God the FcHhtr Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord Miiiighty. God of Sabuoth. the world, and the people. with his truth. <[[ Then shall follow a Porti- on of the, Psahns, as they are appointed, or one of the Se- lect ions of Psalms set forth bij this Church: and at the end of every Psalm, and likewise at the ndofthe Ve- nitc, Eencdicile, Jubilate, Beneciictus, Cantate Domi- no, Bonum est Confiteri, Deus misereatur, Benedic, Aninia mea — may he said orsungtheGhORwVAiKi ; and at the end of the whole Portion o; Selection oj Psalms for the day, shall he said or sung the Gloki A Vat k i , or else the Glokia in Ex- cel s i s , as followeth : Gloria in Excelsis. vy be to Gotl on high. MORNING PRAYER. [41 Heaven and Earth are full Govern ihem, and liCl tlicni of the Majesty of thv Glgry. up for ever. The glorious conipany of D'ly hy day we magnify tlic Ai)Ostles praise thee. thee ; The gooilly fellowship of And we worship tiiy name, the Prophets praise thee. ever, wc^rld without end. Tiie noble army of Martyrs Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep ]>raise thee. us this day without sin. The holy Church, through- O Lord, have mercy upon outall the world,doth acknow- us, have mercy upon us. ledge thee, O Lord, let thy mercy be The Father, of an ii^./lnite upon us; as our trustisin thee. ^Tajestv ; O Lord, in thee have I trust- Tiiine adorable, true, and cd ; letmenever be confound- only Son ; ed. Also the Holy Ghost, the ^ Or this Canticle. Comforter. Bcncdicite, omnia opera Domini. Thou art the King of GIo- f^ ALL ye Works of the ry, O Christ. V>/ Lord, bless ye the Lord ; Thou art the everlasting Son praise him, and magnify him of t.Iie Father. ibr ever. When thou tookest upon O ye Angels of the Lord, thee to deliver man, thou didst bless ye the Lord; praise him, humble thyself to be born of a and magnify him for ever. ^'Jrg!n. O ye Heavens, bless ye th''; VN'hti\ tliou hads-t overcome Lord ; praise him, and magnify tlie sharpness of death, thou him for ever, didst open the kingdom of O ye Waters that be above Heaven to all believers. the Firmament, bless ye tho Thousitt-jstatdierightliand Lord ; praise him, and magnify of- God, in tlie glory of the him for ever. Fadier. O all ye Powers of die Lord, We believe that thou shalt bless ye the Lord; praise him, come, to be our Judge. and magnify him for ever. We therefore pray thee, help O ye Sui\ and Moon, bless thy servants, whom ilu)u hast ye the Lord; praise him, and reJeemed with thy precious magnify Idni for ever; bloo.l. O ye Stars of Heaven, blevs Make them to be numbered yc tiie Lord; praise liim, and with thy saints in glory ever- magnify him for ever. lasting. Oye Shew jrs and DeWjble^s O Lord, save thy people, ye the Lord; praise him, and ^ud bless thine heritage. mugniiy h.in for cvvr. D 2 4z] MORNING PRAYER. O ye Winds of God, Lies move In the Waters, Lless >e ye the Lora ; praise him, and the Lord; praise him, and mag- mugiiity iiim for ever. nify him for ever. O ye Fire and Heat, bless O all ye Fowls of the Air, ye the Lord ; praise him, and bless ye the Lord ; praise him, magnify liim lor ever. and magnify him for ever. O ye Winter and Summer, O all ye' Beasts and Cattle, bless ye the Lord ; praise him, bless ye the Lord ; praise him, and magnify him for ever. and magnify him for c\'er. O ye Dews and Frosts, bless O ye Children of Men, bless ye the Lord ; praise him, and ye the Lord; praise him, and magnify him for ever. magnify him for ever. O yc Frost and Cold, bless O let Israel bless the Lord, ye the Lord ; praise him, and praise him, and magnify him magiiify him lor ever. for ever. O ye Ice and Snow, bless ye O ye Priests of the Lord, the Lord; praise him, and mag- bless ye the Lord; praise him, uify iiim tor ever. and magiiify him for ever. () ye Nights and Days, bless O ye Servants of the Lord, )e the Lord; praise him, and bless ye the Lord; praise him, jnagnify !n"m for e\'er. and magnify him lor ever. O ye Light and Darkne'^s, O ye Spirits and Souls of the bless ye the Lord ; praise him, rigtittous, bless ye the Lord; r.nd magnify liim for ever. praise him, and magnify him OyeLightn'-ng'^and Clouds, for ever. bless ye tlieLord; praise him,' O yc holy and humble Men «nd magnify him for ever. of heart, bless ye the Lord j O let the Eartii bless (he praise him, and magnify liim Lord; yea, let it praise him, for ev(M\ Jind mugnify him lor ever. ^T ^"fniIiaIlhercnd,i/i!iL'e7?uni- O ye Mountains una Hills, ner, the Second l.issoii, taken ble^s ye ih(^ Lord ; prnise liim, out of the Xezv Testament, ac- r.nu n);;gnify Ivim for c\er. cording to tJie Table or dden- O all ye green Things iij^on dar ; und after that, the fol- ICarth, blessye the Lorci ; ])raise lozvinu; Fmlni. iiim, and magnify him for e\cr. Jidiilate Deci. Psalm c. O ye Wells bless ye die /^ BE joy! nl in the Lord, all \ -ord ; p.-niie lam, and magnify \_J ye lands ; serve the Lord him for ever. vvi th giadness, and come before O )0 Seas and Floods, llrss his preserice with a song. yn the Lord ; praise him, t-nd Bo ye 'Jr.rc ti/at the Lord he n)af !i:^' f'ini for ever. is Goci, it is he tliat hath made (■ . • Wlu-Ies, i.nd ail U. at us, and not w<j cursL-lvcsj we MORNING PRAYKR. [15 ciTO his people and the t.licep cificd, doad, and burlcfl: Ihi of his pasiuri*. ciesccndedinlo fldl; Thclliird O go your way Into his^atcs day he r()>o I'roin die dead ; Ho with thanksojivinij;, and into Iiis ascended into Heaven, And court"^ wiUipraise; belhankrul sittelh on the ri^ht hand of unto Imn, and speak good ot God the Father Almiglitv ; Ins Name. From whence hesha'l come to For the Lord is j^racioiis, his jud^c the quick and ihe dead. mercy is everlastinj^ ; and his 1 beh'eve in thie Holy (iho-^t; truth eiKhireth from generation theholy CaUiohc Church j The to generation. communion ot" Saints; The fl Or this. Hymn. forgivrivjss i)f's;ns; Theresur- BtnedUtus. St. Luke i. 6f^. rection of ^he body; And the BLes-cd be tlic Lord (rod hfe everlasting, ^hnen. of Israel, f'orhehath visiied •[ Or thifi. and redeemed r.is pco]>!e, T Bolieve in oneGo ;, t.'ic Fa- And hath raised up a mighty X ther Alniiglity, Maker of salvation for us, in thehouseof H.-avcn an«i Lardi, and of all his servant Da\'id; things visible and invisible: As h<j spake by the mouth of An i in one Lord JesusClirist, his holy Propliets, which have th" only begotfon Son (-' Cod, been since the world began ; begotten of his Father b ;<>ie all That we should be saved worlds; GoJ of God, LJghtof from our enemies, .>.lv^ fiom the I^ig'"!^, ve y God of viiiy God, hand of all that hate us. btgwLien, not maile, being of ^ Then shall he iuid tht Apo;i!es one su. -stance wi Lh the Fi: • Uqt, Creed bi/ the Minister and ihe by whom allthings were n:adc; People, standi lis : And any who f<)r us men, and for our (liurchcs may omit ihe iLords, salvation, came down fi-om lie descended into Hell, or henv ;n, and was incan^ale by i>uui, inbiead q}' theviy usetlie the Holy G!K)st of the Virg.n ■■Olds, He went into the Mary, an 1 v/a'^ mad.e man, :wid I'lace of departed Spirits, wa^ crucified also for^us under zvhichareeoRsideredasiiords Ponfius Pdaie. He suffered ct the same meaning in the and w.is buried, and the third irerd. liay he rose again, acford'iig IBjhevc in God the Father to the Scripture-, and a..cended Almighty, Maker of hea\ en int(> heaven, andsiUeth on tlic and (anh; rigi.t hand of tlic \ a. her ; and And m Jesus Christ his only i.e shall come again, with glory. Son our Lord ; W!io was coii- to judge both the quick and the reived by th.eHoiyCihosf, Born dead; whor.e kingdom siiall of il-.e Virgin Mary, Suff.^i-eil have no end. uiuler Poril^usPiiale, Wascru- And I believe in the II( ly *4] MORNING PRAYER. Ghost, tlic Lord and giver of might of Jesus Christ our Lord, lite, who procecdeth from the Amen. Father ancl the Son; who with ^f A Coiled for G^^ace. the Father and tiic Son together /"^Lord our heavenlyFather, is worshipped and glorified, V^ A hnighty and everlasting who spake by the prophets. God, who hast safely brouglit And I believe one Catholic and us to the beginning of this day ; Apostolic Church. Licknow- defend us in the same with' thy ledge one Baptism for the re- mighty power, and grant that mission of sins ; and I look for this day we fall into no sin,nei- the resurrection of the dead, ther run into any kind of dan- and the life of the world to ger; but that all our doings, be- come. Amen. ing ordered by thy governance, ^[ And aflcr that, these Prai/ers may be righteous in thy sight, following, all deioiitlj/ kneel- through Jesus Christ our Lord-. ing; the Minuter first pro- Amen. nouncing, «J A Prayer for the Pii e s i d e n t The Lord be wi«di you ; of the United States, and all Ans. And w^ith thy spirit. in Civil Authoritj/. ^Minister. Let us pray. /^~\ Lord ourhea\enl)' Father^ O Lord, show thy mercy V_>/ thehigh and mighty Ruler upon us ; of the universe, who do:;t from Ans. And grant us thy salva- thy throne behold all the dwell- tlon. ers upon earth: most heariilj 7l/^72(:5/fr.OGod,makc clean we beseech thee, with thy fa- ©ur hearts within us; vour to behold and bless thy Ans. And take not thy Floly servant, the President of the Spirit from us. United States, and all others ia «| Then shall follozo the Collect authority; and so replenish for the day, except zuhcn the them with the grace of thy lioly Communion Service is read; Spirit, that they may always and then the Collect for the incline to thy will, and walk in day shall he omitted here. thy way : Endue them plentc- ^[ A Collect for Peace. ously with heavenly gifts: grant O GOD, who art the author them in health and prosperity of peace and lover of con- long to live; and finally, after fjord, in knowledge of whom this life, to attain everlasting slandeth our eternal life, whose joy and felicity, through Jesus service is perfect freedom ; de- Christ our Lord. Amen. fend us, thy humble survants, % The Jolloicing Prayers are to in all assaults of our enemies ; he omitted here, iihcn the that we, surely trusting in thy Litany is read. delence^ay not fear the power «[ A Prayer for the Ckrgy ami «>f any advcrsaric', through the People. MORMXG PRAYER. [i;. ALmightv and uvcrla«;ting fliclions: Ann 1 his we bc^ lor G{)(1, from whom comelli Jc^^iis Christ's siiko. A/itcn. every gocnl and pcrfc-c-t giff, ^ .^ q^.^^^.^^^ Tlmnks^^vin'. send down upon our Bisliops . , . , ^ / , i t- i i" and otherClc.rK)-,and upon the A ^^ly^'^'^^X ^^^'' ];'}^''^' ^'^ Con^rregalions committed to ^^^^^'^ '''^^'^•^'^^^ ^,^ th.nc un- thcir^-hargctlic healthful spirit ^^'^*'";*;>' '"^™nts do g.vc iher of thy gnicv; and, that (hey n.ost humbleand JK-artv tiuuiLs mav Imlv nlease thee, nnur un- ^^^!^ ^" ^^^' goodness and lovin. Advocate and Mediator Jesus ^i^gfo^'lHi^^l'^'^; but, above all, Christ. Amen. for thme. nestiinable love nUhe m J p^r,,,^.. ■fr.„r.iir^„^-4; /.redemption or the world bv 1[.^P.«j,.,yo,v.//C..rf./.o.../ ^^^^ Lord Jesus Christ; for the OG0\\ the' Creator and l^""'"''' f .^'■^^'^^ T\ ^""^ f^"" Preserver ofall mankind, ^°P^ ^^^ ^^^''X' ^"^f ^y^!^^^' welmnibly beseech thee for all '^^"^'^ t>ee give us that due sorts all conditions of men, ^^"^ ^^, ^^' ^'^^ "^^^^'.^^ ^^'j'^ that th.ou wouldcst be pleased T ^T^"'"^^}' ^^ ^^'^'^^'b^^^^^'^ to make thy ways known unto ti/^'^^^^^^,;-^']^! that we may tliem, thy saving heakh unto ''^^7 '^ • '\^''''''' ^^'° .""^ all nations. More especially J^'^'^ .^"'" ''P^' ^^^ '" our hves; we pray for thv holy Church ^y g'vnlg up ourselves o thy universal; that it may be so ^Jj^vice and by walking before guided and governed by thy thee m holiness and righteous- good Spirit, that all who pro- "f^^^ " oi.r days, hrough Jesu. Ibss and call themselves Chris- ^l^^^'f/ ''"'' V?u'' W "? ^^i"""'' tians, may be led into the way ^^'tH, 'j^^'^'^^^^ th^^ H^>b' ^^'^^f ; of truth, and hold the faith in ^^. f ^,^"^^i ^^nd glory, world unity of spirit, in the bond of '' '^^^"^^^ ''''^' '^"''"• peace, and in righteousness of IF /^^'•tty^rr)/^?/. Chrysostom. life. Finally, we commend to A Lmighty God, who hast thy Fatherly goodness all those JTX. given us grace at this who are any ways afflicted or time, vvitli one accord to make distressed in mind, body or our common supplications unto estate; that it may please thee thee; and dost promise that to comtort and relieve them, when two or three are gathered according to their several ne- together in thy Name, thou c{,'ssities;giving them patience wilt grant their requests; ful- under their suiferings, and a fil now, O Lord, the desires liapjiy issue out olull their al- and petitions of thy scr\auts, 46] EVENING PRAYER. 41 as mrry be mont expedient for 2 Cor. xiii. 14. them ; grantin;^ us in this world ^ I ^HE grace of our Lord Je- know ledge of thy truth, and JL sus Christ, and the love in the world to come J ife ever- of Gofi, and the fellowship of lasting. Amen, the Holy Ghost, be with us all evernioie. Amen. Here efidtlh the Order of Morning Prayer. THE ORDER FOR DAILY EVENING PRAYER % llie Minister shall begin the 'evening fr ayer, uj/rcad' hig one or more of the following Sentences of Scripture. ''T^HE Lord is in his holy doeth that which is law^ful and A temple; let all the earth right, he- shall save his soul keep silence before hirn. //aZ^. alive* £:t/c. xviii. 27'. :i. 20. I acknowledge my trans- From theorising of the sun,, gressions ; and my sin is ever even unto the going down of before me. Pml. li. 3. the sar>ie, my name shall be Hide thy face from my sins ; great among the Gentiles ; and blot out all mine iniqui- and in every place incense shall ties, l^sal. li. 9. be offered unto my name, and The sacrifices of God arc a a pure olfering ; for n^y name broken spirit ; a broken and a sIkUI be great among the hea- contrite heart, O God, thou then, saith the Lord of Flosts. wilt not despise. Psal. li. 17, iMuL i. 11. Rend your heart and not ' Lfit the words of my mouth, your garments, and turn unto and the meditation of my heart, the Lord your God ; for he is be tilw !y acceptable in thy gracious and merciful, slow to sight, O Lord, my slrengthand anger, and of great kindness, my Redeemer. Fsai. xix. 1 1. and repenteth him of the evil. ^ When tiie wicked man turn- Joel ii. 1 3. eth away from his wickedness To the Lord our God be- iJjat he hwitli committed, and long mercies and forgivenes- EVENrXG PRAYER. [47 fO'?, (I)ougli \vc liave rr-bclleJ oi (i; . r ;pf^ In-^ rrfin'^rp;rod- against liiii) ; ncitlicr iiave we n'^ss ai ■ i obeyed the \oice of the Lord we o :j, our God, to walk in his laws t*#Sick.iiouior!g«.cut ^ wliich he set bcloro us. Dan. God; )e^oagllt\^( i\. 9, ](). to do, when we asscmoi- lid 0 Loril, correct me, bi't rtieettog^-tlicr, to render ih aiks with judgment; not in thine for the great bent f!{< thut we anger, lest thou brli.g me to have received at hi.-- liands — fo nMJfing. Jtr. x. 2I-. Vsal. \ i. 1 . set forth his most worthy praise Repent ye; tor the kingdom — to hear his most !:oIy word of heaven is at hand. S:. Mat. —and to ask those things wivicii iii. 2. arc requisite and necessary, as 1 will arise and go to my fa- well for ti e body as the soul, thcr, and will say unto him ; Wherefore, I pray and bcseccii Father, I have sinned against you, as many as are here prc- heaven, and before thee, and sent, to accompany me, with am no more worihy to be call- a pure heart, and himible voice, ed thy son. St. Luke xv. 18, 19. unto the throne of the heavenly Enteijfct into judgment grace, saying — \vith thy servant, O Lord ; for ^ A General Confession, to he- rn diy sight shall no man living said bif tite ivhole Con<^re^- be [ustified. Psal.cyi\n\.2. Hon after the Mini.'sitr, all If we say that we have no kneeling. sin, we deceive ourselves, and A Lmigiityand mosfmerci- tlie trutii is not in us ; but if XjL ful Fadier; We have er- vve confess our sins, God is red and stra)ed from thy ways faithful and just to forgive us like lost sheep. We liuvefol- our sin.^ and to cleanse usfrom lowed too nmch the devlc s all unrighteousness. 1 Si. John and desires of our own hearts. i. 8, 9. We have offended against tljv «r Then the Afinister slialt say, holy laws. We have left un- ^Early beloved brediren, done those things which we D' the Scripture movedi us ought to have done; And we in sundry places, to acknow- have done those things wliicli ledge and confess our manifold we ought not to liave don-e : sins and wickedness, and that And there is no lieahh in u<. we should not dissemble nor But thou, O Lord, have n^^rr^ cloak them before the face of upon us miserable cftlr, '. Almighty God, our heavenly Sparc thou those, O Go:l, v. ; ■ Father, but confiL'ss them with confess their fiulls, Re^lo^ • •1 humble, lowly, penitent, thou those who are penitent ; 1 obedient heart ; to the end According to thy promises tk*- -il we may obtain forgiveness dared unto mankind, in Chrisl 4-S] EVENING PRAYER. Jesus our Lora. And grant, who, wllli hearty Repentance O most merclhil Father, for and true Faith, turn unto him ; liis sake; That we may here- have mercy upon you, parcjon after lix-e a godly, righteous, and deh\-er you from all your and sober life; To tlie glory sins, confirm and strengthen of thy holy Name. Amen. you in all goodness, and bring ^ The Declaration of Absolu- you to everlasting life, through iion, or lltinission of Sins ; Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. to be made by the Pkiest ^I TJien the Minister shall kneel y alone, standing ; the People and say the Lord's Prayer ; still kneeling. the People still kneeling, and ALmighty God, the Father lepeaiing it zvith him, both of our Lord Jesus Clirist, here, and zviteresoever else it wdio dcsireth not the death of is used in Divine Service. a sinner, but rather that he /^\U1^ Father, who art in may turn from his wickedness V^Hcavcn, Hallowed be thy and live, hath given power and Name; Thy Kingdom come; I'ommandment to his Ministers Thy Will be done on Eart to declare and pronounce to as it is in Hea\jcn: Give us his people, being penitent, the this day our dail3flpcad ; And absolution and remission of forgive us our trespasses, as their sins. He pardoneth and we forgive those who trespass absolveth all those who truly against us; And lead us not repent, and unfeignedly be- into temptation ; But deliver lievchisholy Gospel. Where- us from evil: For thine is the fore, let us beseech him to Kingdom, and the Power, and grant us true repentance, and the Glory, for ever and ever, hisholy spirit; thatthose things Amen. may please him which v^e do ^[ Then likevAse he shall say, * at this j)resenl, and that the O Lord, open thou our lips; rest of our life hereafter may be Ans. And our moudi shall pure and holy, so that at the show forth thy praise, last we may come to his eternal ^ Here, all standing up, the joy through Jesus Christ cur Minister shall say. Lord. Glory be to the FatluT, and ^^\ The People shall anszver here, to the Son, and to the Holy and at the end of every Pray- Ghost; cr, Amen. Ans. As it \vasln thebcgin- 5[ Or this. "'Jigj is now, and e\er shall bc^ \ Lmighty God, our hea- world without end. / Jl vcnly Father, who, of .'l/Z/z/y/fr. Praise ye the Lord, his great mercy, hatli promised Ans. The Lord's name he Forgiveness of Sins to all those praised. EVENING PRAYER. [49 ^ T/ini shall folloK a VoTUon Let the floods clap (heir of the Psalms, as they are up- hands, and let tlic liills be jov- jwintcd, or one of the Selec- ful togctlier before the Lord; i'lons, as thty are set forth by for he Cometh to judge the this Church, nith the Dox- earth. o/ojjy, us in the Morning Ser- With righteousness, shall he rice. Then shall be i-ead the judge the world, and the peo- frst Lesson, according to the pie with equity. Table or Calendar; after f Or this. Zihich shall be said or sung Bonum est cVnfiteri. Psal. xcii. the folbniing Psalm, except TT is a good tiling to give iihen it is read in the ordinary X thanks unto the Lord, and course of the Psalms, on the to sing praises unto thy Name, nineteenth day of the month. O most Higliest; Cnnlale Domino. Psal.xcviii. To tell of thv loving kind- OSing unto the Lord a new ness early in the morning, and song; lor he hath done of thy truth in tlie night-season. marvellous things. Upon an instrument of ten With his own rigiit hand, strings, and upon the lute; up- aiid with HH holy arm, hath he on a loud instrument, and upoi* gotten' himself the victory. the harp : The Lord declared his sal- For thou. Lord, hast made ration; his righteousness hath me glad through thy uorks; he openly showed in the sight and I will rejoice iji giving of the heathen. praise for the operations ot diy He hath remembered his hands, mercy and truth toward the 5F Then a Lesson of the Keza kouse of Israel; and all the Testament, as it is appointed: ends of the world have seen the Ajid after that, shall be sung salvation of our God. or said this Psalm, except on Show yourselves joyful unto the tueljlh day of the month. the Lord, all ye lands; sing, Deusmisereatur. Psal.Ixvii. rejoice, and give thanks. /^ OD be merciful unto us Praise the Lord upon the VJT and bless us, and show harp; sing to the harp with a us the light of his countenance, psalm of thanksgiving. and be merciful unto us. With trumpets also and That thy way may be known shawms, O show yourselves upon earth, thy saving health joyful before the Lord the among all nations. King. Let the people praise thee. Let the sea make a noise and O God ; yea, let all the people all that tiiercin is, the round praise thee, world and they that dwell O let the nations rejoice and therein. be gUd j for thou shalt judge E 50] EVENING PRAYER. the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee, OGod; yea, let all the people praise diee. Then shall the earth bring forth her increase ; and God, even our own God, shall give us his blessing. God shall bless us ; and all the ends, of the world shall fear him. 5[ Or this. Benedic, Animamea. Psal.ciii. PRAISE the Lord, O my soul ; and all that is within me, praise his holy Name. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits ; Who forgiveth all thy sin, and healeth all thine infirmi- ties.:. Who saveth thy life from destruction, and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kind- ness. O praise the Lord, ye Angels of his, ye that excel in strength ; ye that fulfil his command- ment, and hearken unto the voice of his word. O praise the Lord, all ye his hosts ; ye servants of his that do his pleasure. O speak good of the Lord, all ye works of his, in all places of his dominion : Praise thou the Lord, O my soul. ^ Then shall he said the Apostles Creed by the Minister and the People), standing: And any Churched may omit the ivords, He descended into Hell, or may, instead of them, use the words, He went into the Place of departed Spirits, zvhich are considered as xvords of the same meaning in the Creed. I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth : And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord ; Who was con- ceived by the HolyGhost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was cru- cified, dead, and buried : He descended into Hell ; The third day he rose from the dead ; He ascended into Heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead, I believe in the Holy Ghost ; the holy Catholic Church ; Tlie communion of Saints; The forgiveness of sins ; The resur- rection of the body ; And the life everlasting. Amen. 5[ Or this. I Believe in one God, the Fa- ther Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of all things visible and invisible: And in one Lord JesusChrist, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds ; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all, things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin EVENING PRAYER. • [5i Mtiry, and was made man, and the Collects and Prayers fol" was crucified also ior us under loicing. Pontius Pilate. He suffered % A Collect for Peace. and was buried, ai^d the third /'^ GOD, from whom all day he rose again, according V^ holy desires, ail good to the Scriptures, and ascended counsel*;, and all just works do into heaven, and sitteth on the proceed; Give unto thy ser- right hand oF the Father ; and vants that peace, which the he shall come again, with glory, world cannot give; that our to judge both the quick and the hearts may be set to obey thy dead; whose kingdom sliall conmiandments, and also that have no end. by thee, we, being defended And I believe in the Holy ^''(^n^ tlie fear of our enemies. Ghost, the Lord and giver of 4nay pais our time in rest and life, who proccedeth from the quietness, through the merits Father and the Son; who with of Jesus Ckrist our Savigur. the Father and the Son togetlier ylmen. is worsiiipped and glorified, 5[ ^^ Collect for Aid Ggainst who spake by the prophets. Ptrik. And I believe one Catholic and (~\ Lord, our heavenly Fa-. Apostolic Church. lacknow- V-^ ther, by whose almi^^h- ledge one Baptism for the re- ty power we have been pre- uifssion of sins; and I look <i:>r served this day ; by thy great iha resurrection of the dead, mercy defend us from all perils and the life of the world to and ciangers of this niglit, for come. Amen. ' the love o^" thy only Son our mr J 1 r* ih I si D Saviour, Tesus Cp.nst. Amen. ^\ And after that y these Prayers mjn w d Jol!o-^v.g all devoutly kneel- . .a/,,^.,,^ ^,,, „„^ ^„ tng ; Ike Ahmster fint pro- ■„ ^^.^.^.^ A,,l,mHt„. ^, T lu -.1 /^Lordourn-avcnlyFathcr The Lord be wi h you ; ^ thehigh and mighty Rule: ^«. And with tny spuit. ^^- t,,e universe, who do.t fron. Jl Muuster Let us pray. thy throne behold all the dwell- O Lord, show thy mercy ^rs upon earth : most heartily "P°;' ""'^ J t , ^^'^ beseech thee, with thy fa- Ans. And grant us thy salva- .-our to behold and bles/thy ^'^!i>--/ nr- I 1 1 servant, </^e President o/ Me Muuster. OGod,make clean u,,;^,^ states, and all others in our hearts withm us; authority; and so replenish y//^.. And take not thy Holy them with the grace of thy holy Sp.ntfrom us. Spirit, that they may ahva/s •[ Then shall be said the Collect incline to thy will, and walk in for the day, and after that, thy way : Endue tliem plente- r oni '52] EVENING PRAYER. owslywithbeavcnlvgifts; grant distressed in mind, bodv or them in health and prosperity estate; Uuit it may please thee long to live; and finally, after to comfort ar.d relieve them, this life, to attain e\crlasting according to their se\'eral ne- joy and ^licity, through Jesus eessities; giving them patience (Tiirist our Lord, yhncn. under their suticrlngs, and a «r j1 Prayer for the Clergy cmd happy issue out of all their af- People. flictions: And this we beg for ALmighty and everlasting Jesus Christ's sake. ^we«. Goci, from whom cometli ^ A General Tliunksginng. every good and pcrlect gift, ^ Lmighty God, Father of send down upon our Bishops jfX all mercies, we thine un- andotherClergy, and upon ihc worthy ser\'ants, do give thee Congregations commitLed to most humble and hearty thanks their charge, the healthful spirit for all thy goodnets and loving of thy grace ; and, tluit they kindness to us, and to all men. may truly please thee, pour up- We bless thee for our creation, on them the continual dew of preservation, and all the bles- (hy blessing: Grant this, O sings of this life: but, above all, Lord, for the honour of our for thine inestimablelove in the Advocate and Mediator Jesus redemption of the world by Chri.^t. Anicn. our Lord Jesus Christ; for the ^ A Prayer for ait Conditions of means of grace, and for the A'len. hope of glory. And, we be- OGOD, the Creator and seech thee, give us tliat due Preserver of all mankind, sense of all thy mercies that vvcliumbly beseech thee for all our hearts may be unfeignedly sorts and conditions of men, thankful, and that we may that tlicu wouldcst be pleased sliovv forth thy praise not only to make thy ways known unto with our lips, but in our lives; them, thy saving health unto by giving up ourselves to thy ail nations. More especially service, and by walking before we pray for thy iioly Church thee in holiness and righteous- uni\ei-sal; that it may be so ness all our days, through Jesus guided and governed by thy Christ, our Lord; to whom, good Spirit, that all who pro- vvith thee and the Holy Ghost, iess and cull themselves Cliris- be all honor and glory, world tians, may be led into tliC way without end. Aniai. of truth, and hold the fiiith in t[ APraycrof Si. Chrysostom. unity of spirit, in the bond of A Lmighty God, who hast peace, and in righteousness of Jr\. given us grace at this life. Finallv', wecomuK-nd to time, with one accord to make thy Fatherly goodness all those our common supplications unto Avho are any ways afflicted or thee ; and dost promise that THE LITANY. * [b^ when two or three arc gathered in llie vvorKl to come, life cvcr- togethcr in thy Name, thou lusting. Amtn. wilt grant tlieir requests; hil- 2 Cor. xiil. II. lil now, O Lord, the desires ^ |^HE grace of our Lord Je- and petitions of" thy servants, X. sus Christ, and the love as may be most expedient tor of God, and the tellowshipof them ; granting us in this world the Holy Ghost, be witii us all Knowledge ol' tliy truth, ai:d evermore. Amtn. I hie eiuldh the Order of Evlning Pr.-vyer. «[ THE LITANY, OR GENER7VL SUPPLICATION, To he used after Moriiing Service, on Suudiii/s, JVtdnesdcm, and Fridai/s. OG OD, the Father of hea- O holu, blessed, and glorious vCn ; have mercy upon Triniti/, three persons and one us miserable sinners. God; have mercy upon its inisc" O God, the Father of heaven ; ruble sinners, have ?7iercj/ upon us miseiable Remember not. Lord, our sinners. offences, nor the offences of O God the Son, Redeemer our tbre-fathers ; neither take ©fthewdrld; have mercy up- thou vengeance of our sins; on us miserable sinners. spare us^ good Lord, spare thy O God the Son, Redeemer of people, whom tiiou hast re- the zuor/d ; have mercy upon us deemed with thy most precious miserable sinners. blood, and be not angry with O Gad the Holy Glost, us lor ever: proceeding from the Pather Spare us, ^ood Lord. and the Son ; have mercy up- p^^^^^ ^H ^^.;j ^,,^^, mischief; <in us miserable sinners. ^y^^^ ^i,^ . f^.^,^ ^j^^ ^^.^j^^ ^„j O God the Holy Ghost, pro- assaults of the devil; Irom thy ceeding from tliel-ather and the ^^.^^^^ ^,^j j-^^,^ everlasting Sori; hare mercy upon us mise- dauxnation; rable unners. O holy, ble..sed, and glorious ^^^^ ^^^^^ '^'^*''' "'' Trinity, three persons and one From all blindnws.n of heart ; God; have mercy upon us from pride, rain glory, and miserable ikiiie;s. hypocFisyj i*r«m enw, haticd, E 2 ' •• 51-] THE LITANY. and malice, and all uncliarita- We beseech thee to hear us, bleness ; good Lord. Good Lord, deliver lis. That it may please thee to From all inordinate and sin- bless and preserve all Christian fill affections ; and from all the Rulers and Magistrates ; giving deceits ol the world, the flesh, them grace to execute justice, and the devil ^ and to maintain truth ; Good Lord, deliver us. Wc beseech thee to hear us. From lightning and tempest; good L.ord. from plague, pestilence, and That it may please thee to famine; from battle, and mur- illuminate all Bishops, Priests, der, and from, sudden death; and Deacons, with true know-" Good Lord, deliver us. ledge and understanding of thy From all sedition, pri\'y con- Word ; and that both by their spiracy, and rebellion; from preaching and hving they may all false doctrine, heresy, and set it forth, and show it ac- schism ; from hardness oFlieart, cordingly ; and contempt of thy Word and We beseech thee to hear us. Commandment; good Lord. Good Lord, deliver us. That it may please thee to By the mystery of thy holy bless and keep all thy people; Incarnation ; by thy holy Nati- We beseech thee to hear us, vity and Circumcision; by thy good Lord. Baptism, Fasting, and Temp- That it may please tliee to ♦ation ; give to all Nations unity, peace Good Lord, deliver zts. and concord ; By thine Agony and bloody We beseech thee to hear us. Sweat; by thy Cross and Pas- good Lord. sion ; by tjiy' precious Death TJiat it may please thee to and Burial; by thy glorious give us an heai't to love and fear Kesurrection and Ascension-; thee, and diligently to live af- and by the coming of the Holy ter thy Commandments ; Giiost ; We beseech thee to hear us. Good Lord, deliver us. good Lord. In all time of our tribula- That it may please thee to tion ; in all time of our prospe- give to all Uiy people increase rity; in the hour of death, and of grace, to hear meekly thy in (he day of judgment; Word, and to receive it with Good Lord, deliver us. pure affection, and to bring We sinners do beseech thee forth the fruits of the Spirit; •to hear us, O Lord God ; and We beseech thee to hear iis, tliat it may please thee to rule good Lcn-d. and govern thy holy Church That it may please thee to universal in the right way ; bring into thv way of truth, all THE LITANY. [35 ^uc!) as have erred, and are de- fl c beseech tliet to hear m-, ceived; good Lord. IVe beseech thee to hear us. That it may please tJice to good Lord. give and preserve to our use rni .. 1 4L ^ * I'^G kindlv till its of" the earth fiat It may please thee to , ., , . -, . "*- t,arin, ,, -^ 1 I ♦ . ,? s« l^"^t '» due time we mav en- strengthen such as do stand, . ^j^^^^ ^ ""v '-" and to comfort and help tlie J J ,., ,', ., ^ , 1 1 ,1 J. . fVc beseech thre to hear U9 weak-hearted, and to raise np ^^^ "^"' "*> those who tall, and finally to ^, . ^ '7 ' 1 1.1 r . I „ 1 hat it may p ease thee to beat down Satati under our . . -* r ^ uicv, 10 ^^^.j give us true repentance, to for- jre beseech thee to hear us, g^-^^.^^^'Io^r^insnegligences good Lord. ""^^ Ignorances, and to endu.. "^ us with the ^race of thy Holy 1 hat It may please tijee to Spirit, to amend our lives ac- succour, help, and comfort all cording to thy holy Word • who are lU danger, necessity, jy^ ^^,^^^./^ ^/^^^ ^^ /^^^^, J^ and tribulation; <rnod Lord IVe beseech thee to hear us. Son of God, we beseech thee good Lord. to j^ear us. That it may please thee to Son of God, zve besesch thee preserve all who travel by land to hear us. or by water, all women in the O Lamb of God, who takest perils of child-birth, all sick away the sins of the world; persons, and young children. Grant us thy peace. and to show thy pity upon all O Lamb of' God, who takest prisoners and captives; away the sins of the world; IVe beseech thtt to hear us, . Have mercij upon us. .v,ow T^lloL fU^^ ir. ^The Minister may, at his dis- 'hat it may please thee to (;e tend, and provide for the ,^ ,,^^ p ^y^ ,^^^^j^,^ fatherless children, and wi- beseech thee, O Father, J. dows, and all who are deso- r/-N /-,. • 1 late and oppressed ; [^ C^!'"'^^ ^^^^ "s. /re beseech thee to hear us, ? ^^''f ' ^'^«'' «<*•• crood Lord ^^^^^' '^^^'^' ^^^^^y "PO" "S. Ti^at it'^mav please thee to ^aV"^.' ^'f'''^ '"'''y ""P"'"'''- liave mercy upon all men ; ^■^''''''' "^''^' '"^'■^■> ^'P^^" ^♦^• We beseech thee to hear us, ^'''''!' /'^"^'^ '"'''y "/'^^' "^• good Lord. Lord, have mercy upon us. That it may i)lease thee to ^''''^^ ^'"'"^ '"^''^ "^'^'^ "''• forgive our enen^es, persecu- ^f T/ten shall the Minister, and tors, and slanderers^ and to turn tfte People iiith him, cay the their hearts -, Lord's Pt ayer. ;n] THE LITANY. OUR Father, wlio art in O Lord, arise, help m, and Heaven, Hallowed be deliver its, for thine honor. thy Name ; Thy Kingdom Glory be to the Father, and come ; Thy Will be done on to the Son, and to the Holy Eartii,asitisinHeaven: Give Ghost; us this day our daily bread; yhis. As it vvasin the bogin- And forgive us our trespasses, ning, is now, and ever shall be, as we forgive those who tres- world without end. Amai. pass against us; And lead us From our enemies defend us, not into temptation; But de- O Christ. liver us from evil. Amen. Graciousli/ look upon our af- Minister. O Lord, deal not fiictions. with us according to our sins. With pity behold the sor- //;?*. Neither reward us ac- rows of our hearts, cording to our iniquities. Mercifully forgive the »ins O.'' ^ ^ •/• iV ,1 Favorably with mercy heaf GOD merciful Father, ^^^^ I ^ w^ho despises not the J Son of David, have mercy siglung of a contrite heart, nor ^^^^ the desire of such as are sor- ^g^^j^ now and ever, vouch- rowful; mercifully assist our safe to hear us, O Christ, prayers which we make before Graciously hear us, O Christ ; thee mall our troubles and ad- .^, Z;^.^^,. q j^^^ versities, whensoever they op- (-;^,./^^ press us; and graciously hear ^^y,-;,-,^^,,^ q Lord, let thy us, that those evils whicli the ^ ^e shov^ed upon us. craft and subtilty of the devil j^^^.^ ^^^ ,,.g ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ or man worketh agamst us, j^^ ^j,^^ -i may, by thy good proridcnce, ' '^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^,^^_ be brought to nought; that ^XTE'humblv beseech liiee, we, tliy servants, being hurt W Q Father, mercifully to l-.v no persecutions, may ever- j^^^v, ^^^^ infirniities ; and, )nore give thanks unto thee in ^^^^^^^ j^^^. ^fthy name, turn thy holy C:hurch, througli Je- ^-^^^^^ ^^^ jiUlhose evils that we sus Christ our Lord. j^^^^ ■ ^^^^, j,.^,^ deserved ; and O Lord, arise, help us, and ^^^ ^j^^^^ -^^ ^ij ^^^ troubles, deliver us, jor thy hlames sake. ^^,^ ^^^^ ^^^ our wdiole trust OGOD, we have heard and confidence in thy mercy; with our ears, and our and evermore serve thee in ho- fathers have declared unto us, liness and pureness of living, to the noble works that thou didst thy honor andglory, through our in tiieir days, and in the old ouly Mediator and Advocate, time before them. J«sus Christ our Lord, Amer^ PRAYERS. [67 ff A Geiicral Tliankfif^tvijis;. witli thoe and the Holy Ghosl, ALmighty God, Father of be all honor and glory, world all mercies, we, thine iin- witJioiit end. Amen, worthy servants do give ihoc ^ ^ Prayer of St. Chrysostom. most humble and hearty thanks \ , '^- x .. r> \ l i . for all thy gooclnos, anil loving A I'"!'"''')' "^<"'' "•"' '^l'^'- ixT-^ ui a r 1- • time. With one accord to make We bless thee, for our creation, , •• ^r,,^ ,• I II 4i 1 1 our common siipphcations un- preservation, and all tlie bless- , ., j ? • .i i. ., , ■ ,1 • It 1,1 II to thee ; and cost promise that mgs ot this hie; but, above all, , ' ^, ' ,, (br(lmK..iHcstin,abloloveinU,e "hen tvvo or three- are ga her- redemption of the worl.lbr our «l "g"'!;'-''; >" 'I')' "■•me, thou Lord Jes« Christ; lor the vv.llgrant tl,e,r request, ; fulfd means of grace, and for the ™;^.OLofail,e des.resand hope of glory. And, we be- 1^^""™' "^ "^^ servants, as seJch thee, give us that due T^ ^^ T'' expedient for sense of all Vhy mercies, (hat [hem; grantnig us. n this world our hearts may be unfeignecily ^^^vledgc ol thy truh, and thankful, and that we may ■"'.>« world to come hte ever- shor- forth thy praise, not only '*'^'"S- ^""^"- with our ifps, but in our lives ; 2 Cor. xili. Ik by giving up ourselvo> to thy HPHE grace ofour LordJe- service, and by walking before JL sus Christ, and the love of thee in holiness and righteous- God, and the fellowship of tiie ness all our days, through Je- Holy Ghost, be with ui aU sus Christ our Lord J to whom, evermore. Amen. Here endeth the Litany. PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS, UPON SEVERAL OCCASION-S, To he used before the two final Prayers of Morning and Evening Service. PRAYERS. •f A Prayer for Congress, /o States in general, so especially he used dnrinrr their Session, for their Senate and R cpiesen- MOST gracious God, we tatives in Congress assembled ; humbly beseech thee, as that thou v^ ouldest be pleased tor the people of these United to direct and prosper all theif 58] PRAYERS. consultations, to the advance- and benefit ; and give as ment of thy glory, the good of grace, that we may learn, by thy church, the safety, honor tiiy punishments, to amend our and welfare of thy people; that lives, and for thy clemency to all things may be so ordered give thee thanks and praise, and settled by their endeavors, through Jesus Christ ©ur Lord. upon tlie best and surest foiin- Amen. Nations, that peace and happi- %In Time of Dearth and Famine. ness, truth and justice, rchgion (^\ GOD, heavenly Fatlier, and piety, may be established \_J whose gift it is that the among us for all generations, rain doth fall, and the earth These and all other necessaries bring forth her increase; be- for them, for us, and thy wliole hold, we bcseec^h thee, the af- church, w^e humbly beg in the flictionsof thy people; increase name and mediation of Jesus the h'uits of the eurth by thy Christ, our most blessed Lord heavenly benediction ; and and Saviour. Amen. grant that the scarcity and 5[ For Rain. dearth, wiiich we now most OGOD, heavenly Father, justly suffer for our sins, may, who by thy Son Jesus through thy goodness, be mer- Christ hast promised to all cifully turned into plenty, for those who seek thy kingdom the love of Jems Christ our and tlie righteousness thereof. Lord; lo wiiom, with thee and all things necessary to their the Holy Ghost, be all honor bodily sustenance, send us, we and glory now and for ever, b'jseech thee, in this our neces- Amen. sity, such moderate rain and % InTime of JVarandTu7nulfs. showers, tliat we may receive (^\ Almighty God, the su- tlie fruits of the earth to our v_>/ preme Governor of all comfort, and to thy honor, things, whose pow'cr no crea- througu Jesus Christ our Lord, ture is able to resist, to whom A?nen. it beJongeth justly to punish f[ For fair WeaiJier. sinners, and to be mercifid to ALmiglity and most merci- those who truly repent ; save ful Father, we humbly and deliver us, we humbly be- beseech thee,ofthygreatgood- seech thee, from the hands of ness, to restrain those immo- our enemies ; that we, being derate rains, wherewith, for armed with thy defence, may- cur sins, thou hast afflicted us : be preserved evermore from all And we pray thee to send us perils, to glorify thee, w ho art such seasonable weather, that the only giver of all victory, the earth may, in due time, through the merits of thy Son, yield her increase^ for our use Jesus Christ our Lord. Aineiu PRAYERS. [51? ^ For those iL'hn are to be ad- holy Cluucli, ihrou^h Jesus tnitttd into Holy Orders, to Christ our Lord. /Imcn. be used in the zcccks preced- % In Time of great Su'/cncss- and imr the stated times of Ordi- Alortalitij. nation. /^A AlmiglUy Gotl, tlie Lord ALmightv God, our hea- V^ of life and death, of sick- \ enly Father, who hast ness and healtli ; regard our purchased to thyself" an uni- supplications, we humbly be- versal church by the precious seech thee : and as thou hast blood oftiiy dear Son ; merci- thought fit to visit us lor our fully look upon the same, and sins with great sickness and at this time so guide and go- mortality, in the midst of thy vern the minds of tJiy servants, judgment, O Lord, remember the Bishop and Pastors of thy mercy. Have pity upon us flock, that they may lay hands miserable sinners, and with- suddenly on no man, but laith- draw from us the grievous fully and wisely make choice sickness with which we are of tit persons to serve in die sa- afiiictcd. May this thy father- cred /ninistry of thy Church. ly correction have its due in- And to those who shall be or- fluence upon us, by leading us dained to any holy function, to consider how frail and «n- givc thy grace and heavenly certain our life is ; that we maj benediction ; that both by their apply our hearts unto that Iiea- lile and doctrine they may show venly wisdom, which in the forth thy glory, and set for- end will bring us to everlasting ward the salvation of all men, life, through Jesus Christ our tlirough Jesusr Christ our Lord. Lord. /hnen. Amen. •[ For a sick Person. f Or this. /^~\ Father of mercies, and ALmighty God, the giver V^ God of all comfort, our of all good gifts, wiio of only help in time ot need ; thy divine Providence hast ap- look down from Heaven, we pointed divers orders in thy humbly beseech thee, behold, church ; give thy grace, we visit and relieve thy sick sei-- humbly beseech thee, to all vant, for whom our prayers those who are to be called to are desired. Look upon hi/n any office and administration with the eyes of thy mercy ; in the same ; and so replenish coRifort hi?n with a sense of tliem with the truth of thy doc- thy goodness ; preserve him trine, and endue them with from the temptations of the innocency of life, that they enemy ; give A/;/i patience un- niay faithfully serve before dct his ailliclion ; and in tiiy thee, to the glory of thy great good time, restore him to Name, and tiie benefit of thy health, and enable him to lead CO] PRAYERS. the residue of Ms life in thy bcseecli thee, from the dangers fear, and to thy glor)- : Or else of the sea, from sickness, from give hifu grace so to lake thy tha violence of enemies, and visitation, that, after this pain- from exery evil to which he ful life ended, he may dwell may be exposed. Conduct with tiiee, in life everlasting, hi?n in satisfy to the haven through Jesus Christ our Lord, where he would be, with a Amen. grateful sense of thy mercies, ^ For a sick Child. through Jesus Christ our Lord. ALmighty God, and mer- Ainen. ciful Father, to whom % For a Person U7ider Affliction. alone belong the issues of life /^~\ Merciful God, and hea- and death ; look down from V^ venly Father, who hast HeavcH, we humbly beseech taught us in tliy lioly Word, thee, with the eyes of mercy, that thou dost not willingly af- upon the sick ckid for w^hom flict or grieve the children of our prayers are desired. De- men; look with pity, we be- liver him, O Lord, in thy good seech thee, upon tiie sorrows appointed time, from his bodi- of thy servant^ for wlwm our ly pain, and visit him with thy prayers are desired. Li thy salvation; that if it should be wisdom thou hast seen fit to thy good pleasure to prolong visit him with trouble, and to /rt>days hereon earth, //f may bring distress upon him. Re- live to thee, and be an instru- member hitn, O Lord, in mer- ment of thy glory, by serving cy; sanctify thy fatherly cor- thee faithfully, and doing good rection to him ; endue his in his generation ; or dse re- soul w^ilh patience under his ceive him into those heavenly af^iction, and with resignation habitations, where the souls of to thy blessed will; comfort those who sleep in the Lord him with a sense of thy good- Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and ness ; lift up thy countenance felicity. Grant this, O Lord, upon/«w, and give /«w peace, for the love of thy Son, our through Jesus Christ our Lord. Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. ^\ For a Fir son, or Persons, go- ^ For Malefactors, qfle:r Con- ing to Sea. demmition. Or else the Pray- O Eternal God, who alone er in the Visitation ofPrison- spreadest out the hea- ers ; beginning, O Father of vens, and rulest tlie raging of mercies, i^-c. may he used. the sea; we commend to thy ^^\ Most gracious and mer- Almighty protection, thy str- v_^ ciful God, we earnestly xant, for whose preservation beseech thee to have pity and on the great deep our prayers compassion upon those persons arc desired. Guard him, we recommended to our prayers, THANKSGIVINGS. [Gl who now lie iinrler llic sen- ofTer her prals^cs and llianks- tence of the law, and arc ap- givings unto thee. Grant, pointed to die. Visit t/ian, we bcsecejj then;, most nierci- O Lord, with thy mercy and M Father, that she through salvation ; eonvincc tht?n of* thy help may both fiiithtlilly the miserable condition thciycirc live and walk according to lliy in, by the? r sins and wickod- will in this life present, and also ness ; and let thy povverllil may be partaker of" everlast- grace produce in them sHch a ing glory in the life to come, godly sorrow, and sincere re- through Jesus Christour Lord. pentance,as thou wilt be pleas- Amen. ed to accept. Give them a 1[ For Bain. strong and lively faith in thy f^\ GOD, our heavenly Fa- Son, our blessed Saviour, and V^ ther, who by thy gracious make it effectual to the salva- providence dost cause the fbr- tion of tJieir souls. O Lord, mer and the latter rain to de- in judgment remember meicv; seend upon the earth, that il and whate\er sufferings thei; may bring forth fruit for the are toendure in this world, yet use ofman ; \\q give thee hum- deliver them, O God, from "the ble thanks that it hath pleased bitter pains of eternal deatli. thee, in our great necessity, (o Pardon their sias, and save send us at the last a joyful rain their souls, f<)r the sake and me- upon tliine inlicrltance, and to ritsof thy dear Son, our blessed refresh it when it was dry, to Saviour and Redeemer. Amen, tlie groat comfort of us thy ^ unworthy servants, and to the ^ g'oiy of thy holy Name, THANKSGIVINGS. through the mercies in Jesus mr ^1 TV 1 • • /^ rr- Chrlst our Lord. Amen. IF The Thnnh^2T2n^ of JJ omen ^ ^^,. ^. • , jj^^^^^,^^^^ after Child-bnth; to be saul ^^ Lord God, who hast just- vJ>enanjjn oman heui? pre- \^ , ,^^,,^^i^,^j ^,^ ^ ^, ^-j^^^ scniyi Church, Ml haze de. ^^^^J^^ ^f us with imn'ode- sued to return Thanh to Al- ^^^^ ^^-^^ ^^,^^1 ^,^^ ^^^^ i,^ ^. .minhli/ Godjor her saje De- „,,.,^^. . ,, ,.-,,. .. ^^J^ live ranee. ercy hast relieved and com- forted our souls by this season- O Almighty God, we give able and blessed change of tliee humble thanks, for weather; we praise and glorify that thou hadst been gracious- thy holy Name, for this thy ly pleased to preserve, through mercy, and willalvvaysdccJare the great pain and peril of thy loving kindness from gc- Child-birth, this ivoman, tliy neratiou to generation, through -servant, who desires now to Josus Christ our Lord. An.tn, F 62] THANKSGIVINGS. ^ For ricnij/. which liave been lately raised OMost merciful Father, up amongst us; most humbly who ofthy gracious good- beseeching thee to grant to all ness hast heard the devout of us grace, that we may iiencc- l^rayers of thy Churcli, and fortli obediently walk in thy turned our dearth and scarcity holy commandments ; and, iji to plenty; we give thee hum- leading a quiet and peaceable ble thanks for this thy special life in all godliness and honesty, bounty; beseeching thee to may continually offer unto thee continue thy loving kindness our sacrifice of praise and unto us, that our land may yield thanksgiving for these thy mer- iis her fruits of Increase, to thy cles towards us, through Jesus glory and our comfort, tlirough Clirlst our Lord. Anien. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ^ For Delhercmce from great ^ For Peace, and Deliverance Sickness and Alortalitj/. fro7n our Enemies. (~\ Loi*d God, who hast O Almighty God, who art V^ wounded us for our sins, a strong tower of defence and consumed us for our trans- unto thy servants against the gressions,by thy late heavy and f;;ceof their enemic-s; we yield dreadful visitation; and now thee praise and thanksgiving, in the midst of judgment re- for our deliverance from those memlxiring mercy, hast re- great and apparent dangers deemedoursouls from the jaws wherewith we were compass- of death ; we ofl'er unto thy ed; we acknowledge it thy fatherly goodness ourselves, goodjiess that we were not de- our souls and bodies, which livered over as a prey unto thou hast delivered, to be a them; beseeching thee still to living sacrifice unto thee; al- contlnue such thy mercies to- ways praising and magnifying ward us, that all the world may thy mercies in the mIdtJt of ihy know that diou art our Saviour Church, through Jesus Christ and mighty Deliverer, through our Lerd. Amen. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. %For a Uccoveryfrom Sickness. ^[ For restoring Public Peace at /^~\ GOD, who art the giver liojne. V^ of life, of health, and of O Eternal God, our hea- safety ; Ave bless thy name, that ,,.^_^ venlv father, who alone thou hast been pleased (o de- makest men to be of one mind liver from A/* bodily sickness in a house, and stillest the out- tids thy servant, wiio now de- rage of a violent and 'unruly sircth to return thanks unto people; we bless thy holy thee. In the presence of all thy Name, that ithath pleased thee people. Gracious art thou, 6 to appease the seditious tumults Lord, and full of con>pa:ssion The First Sunday in Advlnt. [6% to ihediildrcn of men. May Name, that iIioh hnst been flit heart be duly impressed pleased to ecmcjuet in safety, \r'Hh a sense of thy merciful through ihe perih of (iu' great goodness, and may fie devote deep, this thy .satwK, who the residue of ///6- 'da vs to an now dcsircth to return hia humble, holy, and obedient thanks unto thee, in thy holy ualking before thee, through Ciiurcli. May Ac be duly sen- Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, sible of thy merciful provi- ,. . -, _ „ dcnce towards him, and ever \ lor a sajc^ Ucturu from Sea. ^^^^^^^^ ,^.^ liianklulne.s by a MOST graeious Lord, holy trust in tiice, and obedi- whose mercy is over all ence to thy laws, througii Jt- tliy works; we praise thy holy sus Christ our Lord. 'Amai. THE COLLECTS, EPISTLES, AND GOSPELS, . To be used throughout the Year. Rejirst Sundat/in /Idi'jiit. fulfilled the law. For this. The Collect. Thou shalt not commit adulte- ALmighty God, give us ry. Thou shalt not kill, TlioQ grace that we may cast shalt not steal, Ttiou shall not away the works of darkness, b-^-ar false witness, Thou slialt and pnt <ipon us the armour of not covet ; and if tiiere be any light, now in the time of this othercoinmandmeiit,it is brieft mortal life, in whicii tiiy Son ly comj)reliended in this say- Jesus Christ came to visit us in ing, namely, Thou shall love great humility ; that in the last thy neiglibor as thyself. Lore day when he sliall come agarn in vvorketh no ill to his neighbor ; his glorious Majesty to jiidge therefore love is the fiil'illin^^ both the (juick and dead, we of the law. And that, know- may rise to t'le life immortal, ing the time, thatnow it is high t'lrough him who liveth and time to awake oiit of sleep; reigneth with tiiee and the Ho- lor now is our salvation nearer \y Ghost, now and ever. Amen, tiian when we belie\ ed. The •f 77/24- Collect is io be repeated night is far spetit, the day is at every Daxj v:ith the other Col- hantl ; let us ihcrefore cast oft" hcls in Advent, until Ciirid- the works of darkness, and let Tn(is-daj/. us put on the armour of light. The r.pistle. Rom. xiii. 8. Let us walk honestly, as in the OVV'E no man any tiling, day; not in rioting and drunk- bui to love one another; enness, not in chamberhig and lo: iie that lovcth ai. oilier, hath wantoniiess, not in strile and 61] The Second Skinday in Advlnt. envying. But put yc on the Who is this? And the multi- Lord Jesus Christ, and make tude sai.l. This is- Jesus the not provision for the flesh, to Prophet ot'Nazaretii of Gah- f uliil the hists tiiereof. lee. And Jesus went into tiie The Gospel. St. Matt.xxi. 1. temple of God, and cast out WHEN they drew nigh all them tliat sold and bought unto Jerusalem, and in the temple, and overthrew were come to Rethpag^, unto the tables of the money-chang- the mount of OHves, tlien sent ers, and the seats of them that Jesus two disciples, saying un- sold doves, and said unto them, to them. Go into tiie village It is written. My house shall over against you, and straight- be called the house of prayer ; ivay ye shall find an ass tied, but ye have made it a den of and a colt with her: loosethem, thieves, and bring them unto me. And — if any man say ought unto you. The second Sunday in Ad-vent, ye shall say. The Lord hath The Collect. needof them; and straightway T^Lessed Lord, who hast •he will send them. All (his J3 caused all holy Scriptures was done, that it might be ful- to be written for our learning ; nlled which was spoken by the grant that w-e may in such wise Prophet, saying. Tell ye the hear them, read, mark, learn, daughter of Sion, Behold, thy and inwardly digest them, that King Cometh unto thee, meek, by patience, and comfort of and sitting upon an ass, and a thy holy Word, we may em- colt the foal of an ass. And brace, and ever hold fast, the the disci})les went, and did as blessed hope of everlasting life, Jesus commanded them; and which thou hast given us in brought tiie ass, and the colt, our Saviour Jesus Christ. — and put on them their cloaths. Amen. and they set him thereon. And The Epistle. Rom. xv. 4. a very great multitude spread TTTHatsoever things were their garments in the way; VV written aforetime, were others cut down branches from written for our learning ; that the trees, and strawed tliem we, through patience, and corn- in the way. And the multi- fort of the Scriptures, might tudes that went before, and that have hope. Now the God of followed, cried, saying. Ho- patience and consolation grant vSannah to the Son of David j you to be like minded one to- blessed is l^e that cometh in the wards another, according to name of the Lord ; ilosannah Christ Jesus: That ye may in tlie highest. And when he with one mind and one mouth was con:ie into Jerusalem, all glorify God, even the Father of ti-;e City was moved, st-iyuig, our Lord Jesus Christ. Where- The Tliird Sumlay in Adn lnt. fore receive vc one anotlier, as tor your re(!iMnptio:i drawetii Christ also receivc<l us, to the nigh. And he spake to ihcni glorv of God. Now I say, a parable. Behold the fig-tree, tliai Jesui Christ was a minis- and all the trees ; when tJiev ler ot the cirt umeision, for the now shoot lortli, ye sec and trutii of God, to confirm the know of your own selves, tlia: proinise> made unto the fa- summer is now nigh atiian. ihers : And that the Gentiles So likewise ye, when ye sec might glorify God for his mer- these things come to pass, cv ; as it is written, for this know ye tluit the kingdom ol cause I will confess to thee God is nigii at hand. Verily I among die Gentiles, and sing say unto you, Tiiis generation unto tiiy Name : And again, shall not pass away till all be he sairh. Rejoice, ye Gentiles, fulfilled. Heaven and earth with his people : And again, shall pass away ; but mv words Praise the Lord, all ye Gen- shall not pass* awav. tiles ; and laud him, all ye peo- ■■ ]de. And again Esaias saith, Tlic ihird Suinhnj in Advent. There shall be a root of Jesse, The Collctt. and he that sliall rise to rei^n f~^ Lorvl Jesus Christ, who o\cT the Gentiles, in him shall \J at thy first coming didst tlie Gentiles trust. Now the send thy messenger to prepare God of hope fill you wiUi all thy way beflDre thee ; griuit }(.)V and peace in believing, that lliat the Ministers and Steu- ye may abound in hojie,through ardsof thy mysteries may hke- ftie power of the Holy Ghost, wise so prepare and make Tin Coipcl. St. Luke, \xi. 23. ready thy way, by turnii^.g the ND there shall be signs in hearts of the disobedient to the A^ die sun, and in the moon, wisdom of the just, that at thy and in the stars ; and upon the second com.ing to judge the earth distress of nations, with world, we may beibiuvianac perplexity, die sea and tiie ceptable peoj)le in tiiy sigh; waves roaring ; mens hearts who Ii\ est and reignest wiiii fadmg tiiem tor fear, and for the Father and the holy Spirit, lookingafler those things which ever one God, woild ".vith(>:it arc coining en the eartli ; t()r end. Amtn. the powers of heaven shall b<' Thr Fpislle. 1 Cor. 'w. ! . shaken. And then shall they T LT a man so account <:l se,' tije Son of man coming in A^ us, as of ihe Ministers e< a cloud with power and great Christ, and Scewards ot tht glory. Ami when these tilings mysteries of Ciod. Morcovei, bv'gin to come to pass, then it is required in SleWeird*;, tl.at 1" A up, ?n^d lift »ip vyur heads ; a man be fouiid fait.^*;rI. Bi:f i 2 " i^G] Tlie Fourth SuiKlay in Advent, willi mcMt isa very S'.nall thing A propliet ? yea, 1 sny unfo tiial I should be judged ofyoii, you, and more than a prophet, or ol: man's judgnient; yea, I For this is he o^ whom it is judge not mine own self. For written. Behold, I send ray I know nothing by myself, yet messenger before thy face, am I nothereby justified ; but wiiich siiall prepare thy way lie that judgeth me is tlie Lord, be-fore thee. I'jiereibrejudge nothing before ■■ — the time, until the Lord come. The fourth Suiulai/ in Advent. who both will bring to ligiit The Collect . the hidden things of darkness, f~^ Lord, raise up, we pray and will make manifest the V.^ thee, thy power,, and counsels of the hearts: and CDineamong us, and with great then shall every man have miglit succour us ; that \rhere- praise of God. as, through our sins and wick- The Gospel. St. Matt. xi. 2. edness, wearesore letandhin- N()\^'whenJchnhadheard dered in running the race that in the prison the works is set before us, thy bountiful wf Christ, he sent two of his grace and mercy may speedily disciples, and said unto him, help and deliver us, through Art thou he that should come, th.e satisfaction of thy Son our or do we look for another > Je- Lord ; to whom, with thee and sus answered and said unto the tloly Ghost, be honor and them. Go, and shew John glory, world without end. — again those things wUicli ye Amen. dv) jjeai^awd see : The blind re- The Epistle. Diil. iv.M-. 4-eivc their sight, and the lame T^ Ejoicein the Lord alway ; walk, the Ie})ers arc cleans<jd, jX^ and again I say. Rejoice. :md the deaf hear, the dead are Let vour H)oderation be known raised up, and the p(X)r ha\e unto all men. The Lord is at the gos})el preached to them : liand. Becarelul for notliing ; jAncl blessed is he wiiosoever but in every thing by prayer ■shall not be olrendecl in me. and supplication, with thanks- And as they departed, Jesus giving, let your recpiests be began to sav unto the multi- made known unto God. And ludes concerning John, W liat the peace of (lod, which pas- went }e<;utiniofhe \\iidei- «eth all understanding, shall ness to see r A reed slieiken keep your hearts and minds, w ith the wind ? But w hat through Christ Jesus, .vent ye out for to se(? r A man Th'' Gospel. St. John, i. 1.9. ciothed in soft raiment? Be- 'TPH IS is the record of John liold, they tliat wear soft cloth- jL when the Jews sent Priests ing are in kings houses. But and lA'vites from Jerusalem ;o what went ye out for to sec } ask him, Who art thou r AikI CHRISTAIAS. ["■ hz' fonfc-ssc'fl, hikI denied not ; but ronk-ssixl, I am not the Clirl»t. ^nd (licv asked him. What tlien ? Art thou Elias ? And he saith, I am not. Art th<;u that prophet ? And Jic answered, No. Then said they unto him, Who art thou r that wt may give an answer to them that sent us : What sav- (st thou of thyself ? He said," I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Make straight the \% ay ofiiie Lord, as said the propliet Esaias.Andthev which were sent were ot the Pliari- sees. And thev asked him, and i^aid unto him. Why bapLisest thou tiien, if tliou be not thdt Christ, nor Elias, neither that Prt>{;het r John ans-wered them, raying, I baptise with water ; but there standeth one among you, whom ve know not ; he it i<, who, coming after me, is pre'.erred belbre me, whose siloes latci)et I am not worthy t'> unloose. These things were done ir^ Bettiabara, beyond Jor- dan, where Joiin w^as baptisiug. "J'/ie Nath'/'tj/ of our Lord, or the Birtli-daij of Christ, comjfion/j/ called Christmas- day. The Collect. \Lmighty God, who liast given us thy only begot- ten Son to take our nature uj)- on him, and as at tfiis time to be bornof a })ure Virgin ; grant that we, being regenerate and : i:ule tiiy chiUircn by adoption - d grjce^ may duly be re- iv'wed by thy holy Spirit, through the same our Lord [e- susCinist,wholivethan Ireign- eth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. The r.plstlc. Heb. i. I. GOD, who at sundry times, and in di\ers manners, spake in time past unto tiie tii- thers by the prophets, hath in these last days s})oken unto us by his Son, whon-> he hath ap- pointed heir of all th'ngs, by whom also lie made the worlds': Wiio, being the brightness of hisgl()ry,and the express image of liis person, and upliolding all things by th,e word of his power, when he had by hin - self purged oar sins, sat dowi^ on the right iiand of theMajesty on high ; being made so much better than the angels, as lu hath by inheritance obtained .. more excdlent Name tha they. For unto which of tii' angels said he at any timt , Thou art my son, this day hav**: I b.'gotten the-jr And again, [ will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son ? And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten iiuw th.e world, he saith. And lei all the angeis of God worship iiira. And of the ange.ls he sallli. Who maketh Ids angels spirits, and his ministers a fiauu* ot fire. But unto the Son lie sailh. Thy throne, O God, is tor ever and ever ; a sceplre of rigiiteouv- ness is the sct»ptre of th,y kiri dom; Thou 'u.r>i loved r'ghi- €H] The Sunday uUer Christmas. ousness, and hated iniquity ; him not. But as many as re- ttlcrefore God, even thy God, ceivecl him, to them gave he hath anointed thee with tlic oil pov\'er to become the sons of of gladness above thy fellows. God, even to them tliat believe And, Thou, Lord, in the be- on his name : Which were ginning hast laid the founda- born, not of blood, nor of the tion of the earth; andthehea- will of the flesh, nor of the will vens are the works of thine of man, but of God. Andtlie hands; They shall perish, but Word was made flesh, and thou remainest; and they all dwelt among us, (and we be- shall wax old as doth a gar- held his glory, the glory as of nient; and as a vesture shalt the only begotten of the Fa- thou fold them up, and they ther) full of grace and truth, shall be changed ; but thou art — ■■ the same, and thy years shall The Sunday after Cliristmas-dai/. not fail. The Collect. The Gospel. St. John, i. I. A Lmighty God, who hast IN the beginning was the ±\. given us thy only begoL- Word, and the Word was ten Son to take our nature up- ""Aith God, and the Word Avas <>n him, and as at this time to God. The same was in the be- be born of a pure Virgin ; grant ginning with God. Allthings that we, beii.g regenerate and were made by him ; and with- made thy children by adoption out him was not any filing andgrace, may daily be renevr- made, that was made. In him' ed by thy holy Spirit, through was life, and the life was tlie thesameo;ir Lord Jesus Christ, licrlit of men. And the ligjit who liveth and reigneth with s!iineth in darkness,, and tiie thee and the same Spirit, ever darkness comprehended it not. one God, world wiLhoiu end. There was a man sent from Amen. God, whose name was John : The Epistle. Ga^ iv. I. Tlie same came tor a witnes-;, *1^TOW I- say, that the h«ir, to bear witness of the light, .IN as long as he is a child, that ail men througli him ditlereth nothing tiom a ser- in ight believe. He was not vant, thougli he be lord of all; tliat light, but was sent to bear but is under tutors and gover- witne.is of that light. That nors, until the time appointed \vas tlio true light, which of the father. Even so we, ''ghtneth every man that com- when we were children, were '-'h into the world. He was in bondage under the elements > the world,' and the world of the world ; but when the ..^madebyiiim,and(hevvorkl lulness of the time was come, .*'w liimnot. He came unto God sent forth his Son, made own, and his own rcxeivcd of a Vt^4)mm; made under the THE CIRCUMCISION. [oy law, to redeem them that were took unto him his wife: And under the law, tliat we migiit knew her not tiii she had receive the adoption ot" sons, brought forth h«r first-honi And, because ye are sons, God Son; and he called iiis name hatli sent forth the Spirit of his Jesus. Son into your hearts, crying, <«m> Abba, Father. Wiierefore The Circumci.sionnJ'ih. i^>. thou art no more a servant, but 'I'fic Colkrt. a son ; and if a son, then an A Lmi^'iity (»0(!, w!io ma- heir ofGod, tiirou;.^h C!iri>t. -/jL dv*st ihy blessed Son lo be The Gospel. St. Matt. i. 1 8. eircunieised, and obedient to THE birth ot Jesus Christ the law for man ; giant us the was on tliis wise; When true circumcision ot'tlic Spirit, as his mother Mary was es- that, our hearts and all our poused to Joseph, belbre tliey members being icortitled Ironi came together, siie was found all worldly and carnal lusts, we with child of the Holy Ghost, may in all things obey thy bles- Then Joseph her husband, be- sod will, tlirough thu same thy ing a just man, and not willing Son Jesus Christ our Lord. — to make her a public example, Amtn. was minded to put her away ^^"? Epistk. Rom. iv. S. privily. But while he thought T) Lessecl is the man to whom on these things, beliold, the -13 tiie Lord will not impute Angel of the Lord appeared sin. Cometii this blessedriess unto him in a dream, saying, then upon the circumcision on- Joseph, thou son of David, fear ^Jf or upon the uncircumcisioa not to take unto thee Mary thy also? For we say, that faith wife; for that which is con- was reckoned to Abraham for ceived in her is of the Holy righteousness. How was it Ghost: And she shall bring tlien reckoned ? when he was forth a Son, and thou shaltcall in circumcision, or in uncircmn- Jiis name Jesus; for he shall cision ? Not in circumcision, save his people from their sins, but in uncircumcision. Ant! Now all this was done, that it he received the sign of'circ*im- might be t'ullilied which was cision, a seal of the rigliteou:^- spoken of the Lord by the j)ro- ness of the faith which he had, phet, saying. Behold, a Virgin yet being unc:ircumcist«d; tLat shall be with child, and shall he might be the father of^J bring Ibrth a Son, and they shall them tli^t believe, tliough tliev call his name Emmanuel, which be not circumcised ; tiiatrighti-- heing interpreted, is, God with ousness might be imputed uiUb us. Then Joseph being raised them als(; : And tiie fUiiicr oi from sleep, did as the Angel of circumcision to them who are (he Lord had bidden him, •c.wd not of the circumci^ "" ' ■ ■• . 70] THE EPIPHANY. ' but also walk in the steps of «[ The same Collect, Episile, that faith of our father Abra- and Gospel shfill acrre for ham, wliich he had, being yet evcrij Day after, unto the Epi- uncircumeisetl. For the pro- phany. mise, that he should be the heir !■■ of the world, was not to Abra- ^f ^'''^ Epiphany, or the Mani- ham, or to his seed, through feslatioiiof CkrinttothcGen- the law, but througii the righte- tiles, ousness of' faith. For if they The Colleet. which are of the law be lierrs, f~^ GOD, who by thelead- ftiith is made void, and iha V_>/ ingof a Star didst mani- j)romise made of none effect, fest thy only begotten Son to The Gospel. St. Luke, ii. 1^. theGen'^iles; mercifully grant AND it came to pass, as the that we, who know thee now angels were gone away by faith, may afterthis life have from tliem into heaven, the the fruition of thy glorious shepherds said one to another. Godhead, througli Jesus Christ Let us now go eve*i unto Beth- our Lord. Ame/i. iehem,andseethisUiittg wliicli The Episllc. Ephe«. iii. 1. is come to pass, which t!ie X?OR this cause, I Paul, the Lord hath made known unto JC prisoner of Jesus Christ for us. And they came with liasle, you Gentiles; if yehave heanl and found Mary and Joseph, of thedispensatiojiof thegrace and the balx? lying in a raan:^'-cr. o! God, which is given me to And when they had seen it, you ward : How that by reve- tiiey made known abroad the lation he made known unto me saying which was told them tiie mystery (as I wrote afore coiicernijig this chilcL And i« few words, wliereby, when all they that heard it wondered ye read, y« niiy understand my at those tilings wincli were knowdedge in the mystery of told them by the shepherds. Christ) whicli in otiier ages But Mary kept all these things, vvas not made known unto the and pondered tliem in her sons of men, as it is now re- heart. And the s!ie})herds re- vealed unto his holy Apostles turned, glorifying and praising and Propliets by the Sj^irit ; God ibr all tlie things that that the Gentiles should be tliey had heard and seen as it fellow-heirs, and of the same was told unto them. And body, and partakers of his when ciglit days were accom- promise in Christ, by the Gos- j>lish(Kl tor the circumcising of pel : whereof I was made a the ciiild, his name was called minister, according to the gift JESUS, which was so named of thegrace of God, given un- of the angel before he was con- tome by theelfei."lual working coived in the womb. of his power. Uiiloni!-. wf < The First Sunday after E i* 1 1' ii v n v . [71 am less than the least of all a' Governor that si. all rule my saints, is this ^raee given, that ])eoj)le Israel. Ti;en Herod, I sjiould preach among theGen- when he had privily called the tiles the unsearchable riches of wise men, enquired ot theiu Christ; and to make all men diligently what time the star see what is the fellowship of appeared. And he sent tJicni the mystery which from the to Bethlehem, and said. Go, beginning of the world hath and search diligently for the been hid in God, who created young child, and when ye have all things by JesHs Christ : to found him, bring me word the intent, that now unto the again, that I may come and principalities and powers in worship him also. When they heavenly places might be had heard the King, they de- known, by the Church, the parted; and lo, the star which manifold wisdom of God, ac- they saw in the east went be- cording to the eternal purpose fore thorn, tillit came and stood which he purposed in Christ over where the young cliild Jesus our Lord ; in whom we was. When thev saw the star, have boldness and access with they rejoiced with exceeding confidence by the faith of him. great jo v. And vrhen they TIte Gospel. St. Matt. ii. 1. werecome into the house, thev WHEN Jesus was born in saw the young child with Ma- Bethlehem of Judca, in ry his mother, and feJl down the days of Herod the King, and worshipped him: And behold, there came wise men when they had opciieil their from the east to Jerusalem, say- treasures, they prest-nted unt© ing, Where is he that is lx)rn him gifts; gold, and frankin- Kingof the Jews? for we have cense, ami myrrh. And be- seen his star in the cast, and are ing warned of God in a dream, come to worship him. WJien that tlvey should not return to Herod theKing had heard these Herod, they departed into their things, he was troubled, and own comilrv another way. all Jerusalem with him. And ■ — when he had gatliered all the The first Sunday after t/ic chief priests and scribes of the lipipimny. pvople together, he denaanded The Collect. oftljem where Christ should be /^ Lord, we beseech thee born. And they said unto V_y mercifully to receive the him. In Bethlehem of Judea : })rayers of ihv peo})le who call For thus it is written by the ujwn thee ; and grant that thcy proj)het. And tl.ou Bethlehem may bodi perceive and know m t(ie land of Juda, art not the what things they ought to dt), h-ast an)ong the princes of Ju- and also may. have gmce and da; for ou: of thee shall comc^iower faithfully to fulfil I'he 7 2] Th e Second Sunday after E i^ i p ii a n v . same, Ihrougli Jesus Christ our him among their kinsfolk and Lord. Amen. acquaintance. And when they The Epistle. Rom. xii. I. found him not, they turned I Beseech you tlierefore, bre- back again to Jerusalem seek- thren, by the mercies ofinghim. And it came to pass, God, that ) c present your bo- that alter three days thev found dies a living sacrifice, holy, ac- him in the temple, sitting in. ceptable unto God, Avhich is the midst of the doctors, both your reasonable service. And hearing them, and asking tjiem be not conformed to this world ; questions. And all that heard but be ye transformed by the him were astonished at his un- renewing of your mind, thatye derstanding and answers. And may proYC what is that good, when they saw him, they were and acceptable, and perfect amazed: and his mother said willofGod. Fori say, tlirough vmtohim. Son, why hast tliou the grace given unto me, to thus dealt with us? behold, thy every man that is among you, father and I have sought thee not to think of himself more sorrowing. And he said unto highly than he ought to think, them. How is it that ye sought but to think soberly, according me ? wist ye not that I must be as God hath dealt to e\'ery about my Father's business ? man themeasureoffaith. For And they understood not the as we have many members in saying which he spake unto one body, and all members Ihem. Andhewentdown with have not the same office ; so tliem, and came to Nazareth, we, being many, are one body and w-as subject unto them: in Christ, and everyone r»em- but his mother kept all these bers one of another. sayings in her heart. And Jc- TheGo.s'pe/. St. Luke, ii. 4-1 . sus increased in wisdom, and NOW his parents went to stature, and in favor witii God Jerusalem every year at and man. the feast of the passover. And — m when he was twelve years old. The second Sundai/ nfier the they went up to Jerusalem, af- Epiphani/. ter the custom of the feast. The Collect. And when they had fulfilled A Lmighty and everlasting the days, as they returned, the ±\. God, who dost govern all child Jesus tarried behind in things in heaven and earth ; Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mercifully hear the suj)plica- mother knew n(;t of it. But tions of thy people, and grant they, supposing him to have us Uiy peace all the days of our been in the company, went a life, through Jesus Christ our day's journey, and they sought Lord, Amen. The Third Sunday aitor Epipha^^y. [73 The Epistle. Rom. xli. 6. mothcrof Jesus saith unto him, HAviiig then gilts, (lillbring They have no wine. Jesuji accordiiii^ to the grace saith unto her, Woman, what tliat is given to us, whether have 1 to do with thee ? minr prophecy, let us propliecy ac- hour is not yet come. His cording to the proportion of mother saith unto the servants, iiiith ; or ministry, let us wait Wiiatsoever he saitli unto you, on our ministering ; or he that do it. And there were set there teachelh, on teaching; or he six water-pots of stone, after thatexiiortetli, on exhortation : the manner of the purifying of he that giveth, let him do it tiie Jews, containing two or with simplicity ; he that rideth, three firkins apiece. Jesus .with diligence ; he that show- saith unto them. Fill the water- eth mercy, with cheerfulness, pots with water. And they till- Let love be witiiout dissimula- ed them up (o the brim. And he tion. Abhor that which is saith unlothem, Draw outnow, e\'il, cleave to that whicii is and bear unto the governor of good. Be kindly alTectioned the feast. And they bare it. one to another with brotherly When the ruler of the feast •love, in honor preferring one had tasted the water that was anoUier : not slothful in buiii- made wine, and knew not Tiess ; fervent inspirit; serv- whenceit was (but the servants ing tlie Lord ; rejoicing in which drew the water knew) hope; patient in tribulation ; thegovernor of the feast called continuing instant in prayer ; the bridegroom, and saitli unto distributing to the necessity of him. Every man at the begin- saints ; given to hospitality, ning doth set fordi good wine. Bless them which persecute and when menhavewelldrunk, you ; bless, and curse not. Re- then that which is worse, but joice with them that do re- thou hast kept the good wine joice, and weep with them until now. This beginning of that weep. Be of the same miracles did Jesus in Cana of mind one towards another. Galilee, and manifested forth Mind not high things, but con- his glory, and his disciples be- descend to men of low estate, lieved on him. T/te Gospel. St. John, ii. 1. — m AND the third day there Tltt; third Sunday qj\er the was a marriage In Cana Epiphaui/. ot Galilee, and the mother of The Collect. Jesus was there. And both A Lmighty and everlasting Jesus was called, and his dis- Xjl God, niercitully look uji- ciples, to the marriage. And on our infirmities, and in all our when they wanted wine, the dangers and necessities stretch 74] The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. forth thy right iiand to lielp Lord, my servant lieth at home and defend us, through Jesus sick of the palsy, grlevously Christ our Lord. Jmcn. tormented. And Jesus saitli T/ie Epistle. Rom. xii. 16. unto him, I will come and heal BE not wise in your own hhn. The Centurion answer- conceits. Recom pence ed and said. Lord, I am not to no man evil for evil. Pro- worthy that thou shouluest vide tilings honest in the sight come under my roof; but of all men. If it be possible, speak the word only, and my as much as lieth in you, live scM-vant shall be healed. Fori peaceably with all men. Dear- am a man under authority, hav- ]y beloved, avenge not your- ing soldiers under me : and I selves, but rather give place say unto this man. Go, and he unto wrath ; for it is written, goeth ; and to another. Come, Vengeance is mine ; I will re- and he cometh ; and to my pay, saitli the Lord. There- servant. Do this, and he doeth :foic, if thine enemy hunger, it. When Jesus heard it, he feed him; if he thirst, give him marvelled, and said to them drink : for in so doing thou that followed. Verily I say iin- shult heap coals of fire on his to jou, I have not found so head. Be not overcome of great faith, no not in Israel, evil, but overcome evil with And I say unto you, that many good. shall come from the east and The Gospel. St. Matt. viii. \. west, and shall sit down with WHEN he was come Abraham,and Isaac, and Jacob, down from the moun- in the kingdom of Heaven : tain, great multitudes followed Bxit the children of the king- him. And behold, there came dom shall be cast out into utter a leper and worshij)ped him^ darkness; there shall be weep- saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou ing and gnashing of teeth,. And canst make me clean. And Jesus said unto the Centurion, Jesus put forth his hand, and Go thy way, and as thou hast touched him, saying. Twill, be believed, so be it done unto ihou clean. And Immediately thee. And his servant was ])!s leprosy was cleansed. And healed in the self-same hour. Jesus sailh unto him, See thou ■■'■■ tell no man, but go thy way, Ulc fourth Snndai/ after the shew thyself to the priest, nnd Epiphai/j/. ofi'jr the gift tliat Moses com- I'he Collect. manded for a testimony unto /^ GOD, who know est us t>»em. And when Jcsiis was V^ to be set in the midst of entered into Capernaum, tiicre so many and great dangers, that CGine unto him a Centurion by reason of the frailty ot our beseeching him, and saying, nature wc cannot aUvays stand The Fourth Sunday alter Evipu an v. [7 j upright ; grant to us such followed him. And hcliold, strength and protection, as may there arose a great tempest in support us in all dangers, and thesea, insomucli that the shij) carry us through all tcmpta- wa^ covered vsith the waves: tions,through Jesus Christ our but he was asleep. And his Lord. /imen. disciples came to him, and T/ie Epistle. Rom. xiii. I . awoke hi m, saying. Lord, save LET every soul be subject us, we perish. And he saitJi unto tile Iiigher powers; unto them. Why are ye fear- tor there is no power but of ^ul, O ye ot little faitlir Tiu'n God: the powers that be, are he arose, and rebuked the ordained of God. Whosoever, winds and thesea, and tiicrc therefore, resisteth the power, was a great calm. But the men resistcth the ordinance ot God: marvelled, saying;. What mar,- and they tliat resist, siiall re- i"ier of man is this, that even ceive to themselves damnation, the winds and the sea obey liim? For rulers are not a terror to ^^'^d when he was come to the good works, but to the evil, other side, into liie cour.try of Wilt thou then not be afraid the (jergcsenes, there met hini of the power ? do tlnit which twoposscssed with devil*, corn- is good, and tiiou siialt have ing out of the tombs, exeee.iing praise of the same : for he is fierce, so that no man might the minister of God to thee for J)ass by that way. And behold^ good. But if thou do that they cne.l out, saying, Wuat which is evil, be afraid ; for have we to do with tliee, Jl'- lic beareth not the sword in sus, thou son of God ? art thou vain : for he is the minister of come Intlier to toniiCnt us be- God, a revenger to execute lore the time ? Ana tiiero was o wrath upon him that doeth a good w.'V oti liom t!!em an evil. Whereforeyenuist needs neid of n!a!;y sw.n--^, fcedii.g. be subject, not only for wrath. So t!ie Ccv'ih besovigiit ij;m, but also for conscience sake, saying. If thou cast us out, For, for this cause pay ye Iri- suffer us to' go awiy mto th.e blue also; tor they are God's r.erd of sw.ne. And lie said ^Iinisters, attending continual- unto then). Go. And wlien Jy upon this very thing. Ren- thev were come out, they der, therefore, to all their dues; went into the herd of swine ; tribute to whom tribute is due. And behold, the whole herd of CLi<5tom to whom custom, fear swme ran violently down a to whom tear, honor to wliom steep place into the sea, and honor. perished in the water-;. And Tne Gospel. St. Matt. viii. 2". they that kept thera lied, and ^Yi whenhe wasenteietl w^ent their ways into thecit\, into a ship, his disciples and told every thing, and wliat A 76] The Fifth and Sixth Sundays attcr Epifhany. was befallen to the possessed or deed, do all in the laamc of ofthedevils. And behold, the the Lord Jesus; giving thanks ■nliole city came out to meet to God and the Father by him. Jesus; and when they saw him. The Gospel. St. Matt. xiii. 24. they besought him that he HPHE kingdom of heaven ig would depart out of their JL likened unto a man whic^ coasts. sowed good seed in his field. — But vvliile men slept, his enemy The fifth Swulay ajier the came and sowed tares among Epiphanj/. the wheat, and went his way. The Collect. But when the blade was sprung OLord, we beseech thee np, and brought forth fruit, to keep thy Church and then appeared the tares also. Housliold continually in thy So tlie servants of the hous- true religion, tliat they who do holder came and said unto him, lean only upon the hope of thy Sir, didst not tliou sow gootl heavenly grace, may evermore seed in thy field ? irom whence he del'ended by thy miglity then hath it tares r He said un- povver, through Jesus Christ to them. An enemy hath done our Lord. Amen. this. The servants said unto TheRpisik. Col.iii. 12. him, Wilt thou then that we PUT on therefore (as the go and gaUier them up ? But elect of God, holy and he said. Nay ; lest, while ye beloved) bowels of mercies, gather up the tares, ye root up kindness, humbleness of mind, also the wheat with them. Let meekness, long-suffering; for- both grow together until the hearing one another, and for- harvest ; and in the time of giving one another, if any man harvest I will say to the reapers, have a quarrel against any; Gather ye together first thq. even as Christ forgave you, so tares, and bind them in bundles also do ye. And, abo\-e all to burn them ; but gather the these things, put on Charity, wheat into my barn, -which is the bond of perfect- — '■■ ness. And let the peace of The sixth Sundaij after the God rule in your hearts, to the Epipluiw/. which also ye are called in one The Collect. body ; and be ye thankiul. Let /^GOD, whose blessed Son the 'word of Christ dwell in V^ ^vas manilested that he you richly in all wisdom ; teacji- might destroy the works of th^ jng and admonishing one ano- devil, and make us the sons ot! ther in j)salms, and hymns, and God, and heirs of eternal life ; spiritual songs; singing with grant us, we beseech thee, that grace in your hearts to thcLord. iiaving this hope, we may pu- And whatsoeveryedoin word rify ourselves, even as he is Tlic Sixth Sunday after Epiphany. [77 pure; that when he shall ap- The Gospel. St. Matt. \\Iv.23. pear again with power and great glorv, we may be made ^ I ^HEN if any man shall say like unto him in his eternal and JL unto you, Lo, here is gloiiouskingdom; where, with Ciirist, or there; believe it tiiCcr, O Father, and thee, O not. For there shall arise false Holy Ghost, he liveth and christs and false prophets, and reigneth, ever one God, world shall shew great signs and won- witiiout end. Amen. ders ; insomuch that (if it were The Epistle. 1 St. John, iii. I. possible) they shall dect'ivc the BEholc! what manner of love very elect. Behold, I have the Fatlier hath bestowed told you before. Wherefore, upon us, that we should becal- it they shall say unto you, Be- led the sons of God; therefore hold, he is in the desert; go tlie world knoweth us not, be- not forth : behold, he is in the cause it knew him not. Be- secret chambers; believe it not. loved, now are we the sons of For as the lightning cometh God; and it doth not yet ap- culof the east and shineth even pear what we shall be : but we unto the west, so shall also the know, that when he shall ap- coming of the Son of man be. pear, we shall be like him ; for For wheresoever the carcase we shall see him as he is. And is, there will die eagles be ga- cvcry man that hadi this hope thered together. Immediately m liim, punfieth himself, even after the tribulation of those as he is pure. Whosoever com- days, shall the sun be darken- niitteth sin, transgresseth also ed, and the moon shall not give the law; for sin is the trans- her light, and the stars shall gression of the law. And ye fall fnnn heaven, and the povv- know that he was manifested ers of the heavens shall l.e to take away our sins; and in shaken. And then shall ap- him is no sin. Whosoever abi- pear i\\c sign of t!»e Son of man deth inhim, sinneih not: who- in heaven, and then shall all soever sinneth, hath not seen the tribes of the earth mourn, him, neither known him. Lit- and they si jail see the Son of tie children, let no man deceive man coming in the clouds ot y^)U:hethatdoetnrigiiteousncss heaven with power and great is righteous, even as heisrigh- glory. And he shall send his teous. He thatcommitteth sin angels with a great sound of a is^of the devil ; tor the devil sin- trumpel, and they shall gather netii fronvthe beginning. For together his elect from tlie f()ur this purpose the Son of God winds, from one end of heaven was manifested, tiiat he might to tlie other, destrov the works of tiie devil. G 2 78] SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY, The Sundai/ called Stptuagesima, third hour, ami saw others or the third SwHlay before standing idle in the market Lent, place, and said unto them. Go The Collect. ye also into the vineyard, and OLord» we beseech thee whatsoever is right, 1 will give favorably to hear the you. And they went their prayers of" thy people, that we, way. Again lie went out whoare justly punished tor our about the sixth and ninth hour, offences, may be mercifully de- and did likewise. And about Ijvered by thy goodness, for the the eleventh hour he went out, glory of thy Name, through and found others standing idle, Jesus Christ our Saviour, who and suith unto them,Why stand liveth and reigneth with thee ye here all the day idle ? They and the Holy Ghost, ever one say unto him. Because no man God, world without end. — hath hired us. 'He saith unto Amen, tliem. Go ye also into the vine- The Epistle. 1 Cor. ix. 24'. yard, and whatsoever is right, KNOW ye not, that they that shall ye receive. So when which run in a race, run even was come, the lord of the all, butonereceiveth the prize? vineyard saith unto his stew- So run, that ye may obtain, ard. Call the laborers and ^ive And every man that striveth them their hire, beginning from ibr the mastery, is temperate the last unto the first. And in all things. Now they do It when they came that were to obtain a corruptible crown, hired about the eleventh hour, but v/e an incorruptible. I they received every man a therefore so run, not as uncer- penny. Bat when the first tainly ; so fight I, not as one came, they supposed that they thatbeateth theair: Butlkeep should have received more; under my body and bring it and they likewise received into subjection, lest that by any every man a penny. And when means, when 1 have preached they had received it, they mur- to others, I myself should be mured against the good man of ft castaway. the house, sayn^.g. These last The Gospel. St. Matt. xx. 1. have wrought but one hour, ^T^HE kingdom of heaven is and thou hast made them ecjual A. like unto a man that is an unto us, whicii have borne the m liousholder, which went out burtlen and heat of the chy. early in the morning to hire la- But he answered one of them, * borers into his vineyard. And and said. Friend, I do thee no when he had agreed with tlie wrong ; didst not thou agree laborers ibr a penny a day, he with me for a penny? Take sent them into his vineyard, that thine is, and go thy way; Aud he went out about (he 1 will give unto this last even SEXAGESIMA SUNDAY. [79 as untij tlioc. Is it not law- slilpwrtck ; a night inula clay hil for mo to do wliat I will I iiave been in tlic deep ; n\ with mine own? Is thine eye jounieyings often ; in perds o»' evil, because I am good? So waters; in jjenl; ol'robbcr.i ; tlie last shall be first, and the m pcrdsby mine owneounlrv- tir^t last-; tor many be called, men ; in perils by tlie heathen ; but lew chosen. in j)erils iu the city ; in perils — ^ iMi in tlie wilderness ; in penis in The SundtiJj called Stxiigcxima, the sea ; in perils among false or tke second Sunduiji bej ore bretlircn ; in weariness and Lent. paintuhiess ; in watchings ot- Tlic CoUtct. ten ; m hunger and thirst ; in OLord God, who seest fastings often ; in coll and na- that we put not our trust kedness ; besides tliosc things* in any thing that we do; mcr- that are without, that wl^ici: citully grant that by ihy power cometh upon me daily, tlie car* we may be defended against of all tlie Churches. Who is all adversity, through Jesus weak, and I am not weak ? Christ our Lord. Atmn. who is olleiided, and I L«ra r/tr Epistle. 2Cor. xi. 19. not? If I must needs glory, 1 YE suffer fools gladly, see- will glory of the tilings which ing ye yourselves are concern mine intirmitie-.. Tiio wise. For ye suffer if a man God and Father of our Lord bring you into bondage, if a Jesus Christ, which is blessed man devour you, if a man take lor evermore, knoweth that 1 of you, if a man exalt himself^ lye not. if a m;in smite you on the face. J'lu Cospcl. St, Luke, viii. 4. i speak as concerning reproach, TT7' HEN much peopi-. as though we had been weak : VV were gathered iogetiier, howbeit, whereinsoever any is and were come to him out ot bold (1 spt;ak foolishly) I am every city, he spake by a pa bold also. Are tiiey Hebrews? rable : A sower went out l« so am 1: arc they Israelites ? sow his seed ; and as he sow- so am I : are they the seed of cd, some fell by the way-side, Abraham ? so am 1 : are they and it was trodden down, and ministers of Christ ? (I speak the fowls of the air devoured a=i a fool) I am more : In la- it ; and some fell upon a rock, boars m(jre abundant ; in stripes and soon as it was sprung up \t above measure ; in prisons more withered away, bec-ause it lack- frequent ; in deaths oft. Of the cd moisture; and some feil Jews five times received I for- among thorns, and the thorns ty stripes save one; thrice was sjir.mg up with it, and choak 1 beatcm with rods ; once was ed it ; and other fell on goo ' I ^tjH'Al ; thrice I sutK'rcd ground, and sprang up aiii so] QUIiVQUAGESIMA SUNDAY. bare fruit an hundred fold, worth,- send thy Holy Ghosl, And when he had said these and pour nito our hearts that tilings, he cried. He that hath most excellent gift of charity, ears to hear, let liim hear. And the very bond of j)eace, and his disciples asked hun, say- of all virtues; without which, ing. What might this parable whosoever hveth is counted be ? And he said. Unto you it dead before thee: Grant this is given to know the mysteries for thine only Son Jesus Christ's of the kingdom of God : but sake. y]men. to otljers in parables; that The Epistle. iCor. xiii. I. seeing they might not see, and nPHough I speak with the hearing they might not under- X tongues of men and of stand. Now the parable is angels, and have not charity, I. this : The seed is the word of am become as soundmg brass or God. Those by the Wsay-side a tinkling cymbal : and though are they that hear ; tlien com- I have the gift of prophecy, eth the devil, and taketh away and understand all mysierics,, the word out of their hearts, and all knowledge; and though lest they should believe and be I have ail faith, so that I could saved. They on the rock are remove mountains, and have they, which, when they hear, i^ot chanty, I am nothing, receive the word with ]oy y And though J bestow all my and these have no root, which goods to leed the poor, and fora while believe, and in time though 1 give my body to be of temptation fall away. And burned, and have not charity, that which fell among thorns, itprofiteth me nothing; Cliari- are they, which, when they ty suffereth long, andiskiod; have heard, go forth,, and are charity envieth not; charity choakedw^th cares, and riches, vaunteth not itself; is not and pleasures of this life, and puffed up; doth not behave it- bring no fruit to perfection, self unseemly ; secketh not her But that on the good ground own ; is not easily provoked ; are they, which, in an honest thinketh no evil ; rejoiceth not and good heart, having heard in miquity, but rejoiceth in the the word,. keep it, and bring truth; beareth all things, be- ibrth fruit with patience. lieveth all things, hopeth all. ■■i» things, endureth all things. The Sunday calltd :2uinqua^esi- Cliarity never faileth : but wiie- 7na, or the next Sunday bejore ^her there be prophecies, they Lent.. siiall fail ; whetlier there be Hie Collect. tongues, they shall cease ; whe- OLord, who hast taught thcr there be knowledge, it us that all our domgs shall vanish away. For we witiiout charity aro nothii^g know in part, and we prophecy ASH WEDNESDAY. [^ in part. But when that which Ami they %vhlcli went before is perfect Is come, tljen that rebuked him, that he should whicli is in part shall be done hoUl his peace : but lie cried se a\vav. When I was a child, I much the more, Tliou Son of spake as a child, I understood David, have mercy on mo.. as a child, I thought as a child ; And Jesus stood, and ( omnian- but when 1 became a man, I dtid liim to be !)roa^)it unto putawaychildisli things. For him: and when he was i'<AuC. now we see through a glass near, he asked him, sa)ing, darkly ; but then lace to face : What wilt thou that I shoulddo now I know in part ; but then unlo thee ? And he said. Lord, shall 1 know, even as also I that I may receive my sight. am known. And nowabidcUi And JcsUs said unto him. Re- faith, hopc,charit\ , these tlirec; ceive thy siglit ; tliy fiiiiiihatli but the greatei,t of tiicse is saved tfiee. And immediately charity. he received his sight, and fo!- JZ/e 6'o*/>e/, St. Luko,xvii!.3 I. lowc<i him, glorifying God: THEN Jesus took unto him and all the people, when tl-.ey the twelve, and said unto saw it, gave praise unto God. them. Behold, we go up to Jc- ■•■■ rusalem, and all things that are The first Day of Lent, cnnimo7ilj written by the prophets con- culled Ash IVcdnesdaj/. cerning the Son ofman shall be The Collect. accoraplislied. For he shall be A Lmiglity and everlasting dehvered unto the Gentiles, Xx God, whohatestnotliing and shall be mocked, and spite- that thou hast made, and dost fully entreated, and spitted on : forgive the siivs ot all those w ho And tliey shall scourge hinj, are penitent j create and make and put him to death ; and the in us new and contrite hearts, tliird day he shall rise again, that we, worthily lamenting And they understood none of our sins and acknow ledging these things : and this saying our wretchedness, may obtain was hJd from them, neither of thee, the God of alf mercy, knew they tlic things which perfect remission and lorgive- were spoken. And it came to ness, through Jesus Christ our pass, that as he wasj^'omcnigh Lord. Amen. unto Jericho, a certain blind ^ 77//^ Collect is to he read man sat by the way-side beg- every Day in Lent, after the ging;and hearing the multitude Collect appointed for the day. passby,heasked what it meant. ^ At Morning Prayer, the And diey told him, that Jesus L.itany beins ended, shall be of Naziireth passelh by. And said the Joliou ins; Praytrs, he cried, raying, Jesus, thou Son innncdirtltfy before the Cenc- ot David, have mercy on mc. vol 'Lkank'^rJ--i ,y 82] ASH WEDNESDAY. OLord, we bcseecli thee, be favorable to thy people, vvh« mercifully hear our pray- turn to tlice in weeping, tast- ers, and spare all those who ing, and praying. For thoii confess their sins unto thee ; aria mercit'u! God, full of com- that they, whose consciences passion, long sufi'ering, and of by sin are accused, by thy nier- groat pity. Tho« sjjarest wjjen ciful parcion ma;y be abscjived, we deserve punishment, and through Christ our Lord. ^4we/«. in tliy wrath thinkest upon mercy. Spare thy pcole, good OMOSTmighty God, and Lord, spare them; and let not merciful Father, who hast thine heritage be brought to compassion upon all men, and confusion. Hear us, O Lord, Iiatest nothing that thou hast ibr tliy mercy is great j and af- made ; wlio wouldest not the ter the multitude of thy mer- death of a sinner, but rather cieslook upon us, through the thath.e should turn from his sin, merits and mediation of thy and be saved; mercifully for- blessed Son, Jesus Christ our give us our trespasses ; receive Lord. AiMii. andcomibrt us, whoaregriev- For the Epistle. Joel, ii. 12. ed and wearied with the bur- ^ I ^URN ye even to me, saith den of our sins. Thy proper- X tlie Lord, with all your ty is always to have mercy j heart, and with fasting, and to thee only it appertaineth to with vveeping,and with mourn- forgive sins : spare us there- ing. And rend your heart-, lore, good Lord, spare iiiv pco- and not your garments, and pie, whom thou hast redeem- turn unto the Lord your God: ed : enter not into judgment for he is gracious and mercifiil, with thy servants, who are vile slow to anger, and of great earth, and miserable sinners ; kindness; and repenteth hijn but so turn thine anger from us, of the evil. Who knoweth [{ vvlio meekly acknowledge our he will return, and repent, and vileness, and truly repent us of leave a blessing behind him, our faults ; and so make haste even a meat offering and a drink. to help us In this world, tliat offering unto the Lord your we may ever live witii thee in God? Blow the trumpet in the world to come, through Je- Zion, sanctify a fast, call a so- sus Christ our Lord. Amen, lemn assembly, gather the peo- pie, sanctify the congregaiion, €[ Then shall the leople say tnis ^^,s,.„,ble th'e elders, gatiier the that JoUoiicih, ajiej' the Mi- (>|,;ijren and ti:ose that suck the ""-*'''• breasts; let the bride-groom TURN liiou us, O good gofbrliiof hisciiainljer.andthti Lord, and so shall we be bride out of her close': : let the turned. Be favorable, O Lord, prieats,tl'.emiiiistcrsof thcLorJ* Tlic First Sunday in Lknt. [sy vvei*p between the )K)rch ami ly motions in righteousness and the alcar, and let them s:iy, true holiness, to lliy honor and Spare tliy people, O Lord, and glory, who livest and reignest give not thine heritage to re- w ilh the FathiT and the Holy- proaeh, that the heatiicn should Ghost, one CJod, world witli- rule over them : wher-'lore out end. Amen. shouldthey sayamon;^; thepeo- „,,..., ^ pie, Whe?e is their God ' ^^" ^^P^'^^'' '' ^^'' ^''- ' • flic Gospel. St. xMatt. vi. IG. WT^ ^'^^"' ^^ workers lo- WHEN ye fast, be not as ^^ gcther vvith him, be- the hypocrites, of a sad ''''''') >^" ''^'''' ^'^} >.^. ''^'^^/^'^ am countenance: for they disfigure "^^^ ^^'"t ^'''''.f, ^^^7*^ '" ^^ . their faces, that they may ap- ^^^ ^^' '^!^^'' ^ ^^^^'^ l'""^''] pear unto men to fast. Verily f' '^,? "] ^ ^''"^ accepted, and I say unto vou, they have their '" ^'^^ ^^^^ ^/ ^^^^vation have I reward. But thou, when thou '''"-^^'''^'^ ^^^^^f '. behold, now fastest, anoint thine head, and '' ^^e accepted time ; behold wash thy face, that thou ap- ""^^ '' ^''^: ,*^)^ '^ r;alvat.on) pear not unto men to fast, but f,'^''"7 noollencem any Ihmg, unto thy Father which is m se- ^Y '"' """' n'^'. "" """^ ^^^'"" cret; and thy Father which ^"^ ' ^"^ '," all tiimgs appror- seet:. in secret, shall reward »"/ «^"elves as the munsters theeopenlv. Lay not up for °L!^;/^' '" "^^'^'^ pat.enceni yourselves treasuresuponearth, f ^'^^^'^'^-^ "^ necess.i.es, m dis- where moth and rust doth cor- ^^^-^^f^>.'" f 'P^^ m impr.son- rupt, and where thieves break "^^'"^'S '» tumults, n, labours, through and steal: But lay up '" vvatchmgs, m fnstmgs ; by ior yourselves treasures in hea- f'''^^'^^' by knowledge, by ven, where neither moth nor ;>"g-^"^^'n",|;» by knulness, by rust doth corrupt, and where '^^' "?'>' ^^^^'^^ ^'y, '';.^'^ "I^" thieves do not break through ^''■^,^^'' '^> ^^^'^^^'^.^ ^''"^^ nor steal ..For where your trc^- by the power of God, by tJic sure is, there will you? heart be ^i'7?"[ ''^ "-'o^'^t^^"^;;^'^^, «" the .jI^.j^ '' '■'gl't hand and on the left, by ^^^^^ honor and dishonor, by evil re- ri r . r 1 ■ T . P^'''^ '^""^l K'>"fi rej)ort ; as de- Ihc first Snndau ill Lent. ,. _ ■ f 4' ' -^ cci\ers, and yet true ; as un- ne Collect. known, and yet well known ; OLord, who for our sake as dying, anrl behold we live ; didst last forty days and as chasler.ed, antl not killed ; lorty nights; gi\e us grace to as sorrowful, }'et aKvay rejoic- use such abstinence, that our ing ; as poor, yet making ma- flesh being subdued to the Spi- ny rich; as having no'hing, lit, we may ever obey thy god- and yel possessing all things. 9iJ The Secoi-i^d Sunday in Lent. The Gospel. St. Matt. iv. 1. The second Sunday in Lent. THEN was Jesus led up of T/ie Collect. the spirit into the wilder- A Lmighty God, who sec^t iiess, to be tempted of the de- J\ that we have no power vil : And when he had fasted of ourselves to help ourselves; iorty days and forty nights, he k.eep i.i both outwardly in our was afterward an hungered, bodies, and hiwardly in our And when the tempter came souls; that we may be defended to him, he said. If thou be the from all adversities which may Son of God, command that Imppen to the body, and from these stones be made bread, all evil thoughts which may as- But he answered and said. It sault and hurt the soul, through is written, Man shall not live Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. by bread alone, but by every ^, ^ . ,, , t^, • , word that proceedeth out of The Epistle. 1 Thess. iv. 1. the mouth of God. Then the TT 7 E beseech you, brethren, devil takcth him up into the VV and exhort you by the holy city, and setteth him on a Lord Jesus, that as ye have re- pinnacle of the temple, and ceived of us how ye *)ught to saith unto him. If thou be the walk, and to please God, so ye Son of God, cast thyselfdown ; would abound more and more, for it is written. He shall give For ye know what command- his angels charge concerning ments we gave you by the Lord thee; and in their hands they Jesus. For this is the will of shall bear you up, lest at any God, even your sanctification, time thou dash thy foot against that ye should abstain from for- 11 stone. Jesus said unto him, nication ; (hat every one of you It is written again. Thou shalt should know how to possess not tempt the Lord thy God. his vessel in sanctification and Again tlie devil taketh him up honor ; not in the lust of con- intoan exceeding high monn- cupiscence, even as the Gen- tain, and showeth him all the tiles which know not God : kingdomsofthe world, and the That no mango beyond and glory of them ; and sailh unto defraud his brother in any mat- iiim. All these things will I give tcr; because that the Lord is thee, if thou wilt fall down and the avenger of all such, as we worship me. Then saith Je- also have forewarned you and sus unto him. Get thee hence, testified. For God hath not Satan ; for it is written. Thou called us unto uncleanness, but shalt worship the Lord thy unto holiness. He therefore God, and him only shalt thou that despiseth, despiseth not serve. Then the devil leavelh man, but God, who hath also him, and behold, angels came given unto us his Hol^ Spirit, and ministered unto him. Tlic TliirU Sunday in Lent. [SS The Gospel St. Matt. xv. 21. The Epistle. Eplics. v. 1. BK ye tlicieforc followers ot" Goil, as dear til ililrcn ; and parted into tlie coasts of walk in love, as Christ also hath T)reand Siilon. And behold, loved us, and hath given him- a woman of Canaan came out self tor us, an ottering and a sa- of tlie same coasts, and cried crilice to God, for a sweet unto him, saying, Have mercy smelling savour. But fornicati- on me, O Lortl, thou Son of onandalluncleanncss,orcovet- David : my daughter is griev- ousness, let it not be once nam- ously vexed with a devil. But ed amongst you, as becometh lie answered her not a word, saints ; neither lilthiness, nor And his disciples came and be- foolish talking, nor jesting, sought him, saying. Send her which are not convenient ; but away; for she crieth after us. rather giving of thanks. For But he answered and said, lam this ye know, that no whore- not sent but unto the lost sheep monger, nor unclean person, of the house of Israel. Then nor covetous man, who is an came she and worshipped him, idohiter, lialh any inheritance saying, Lord, help me. But he in the kingdom of Christ, and answered, and said. It is not ot God. Let no man deceive meet to take the children's you with vain words : for be- brcad, and to cast it to dogs, cause of these things cometh And she said. Truth, Lord; the wrath ofGoduponthechil- yet llie dogs cat of the crumbs dren of disobedience. Be not which fall from their masters' ye therefore partakers with table. Then Jesus answered them; for ye were sometimes and said unto her, O woman, darkness, but now are ye light great is thy faith: be it unto in the Lord : walk as children tliee even as thou wilt. And of light ; (For the fruit of the her daughter was made whole Spirit is in all goodness, and from that very hour. righteousness, and truth) prov- ^ ing what isacceptable unto the The third Sundaj/ in Lent. I>ord. And have no fellow- The Collect. ship with the unfruitful works WE beseech thee, Almigli- of darkness, but rather reprove ty God, look upon the them : For it is a shame even hearty desires of thy humble to speak of those things which servants, and stretch forth the are doncoftliem in secret. But right hand of thy Majesty, to all things that are rcj)roved, are be our defence agaijist all our made manifest by the light ; lor enemies, through Je. us Christ whatsoever doth make mani- our Lord. Jmen. fesf, is light. Wherefore he H 86] The Fourth Sunday in Lent, saith. Awake, thou that sleep- j)laces, seeking rest; and find- cst, and arise from the dead, ing none, he saith, I will re- andChristshall give thee light, turn unto my house whence I The Gospel. St. Luke, xi. 14. came out. And when he com- JESUS was casting out a de- eth, he findeth it swept and vil, and it was dumb. And garnished. Then goeth he, it came to pass, when the de- and taketh to him seven otiier vil was gone out, the dumb spirits more wicked than him- spake ; and the people won- self^ and they enter in and dv\ ell dered. But some of them said, there ; and the last stale of that He cast(ith out devils through man is worse than the first. Beelzebub, the chief of the de- And it came to pass, as he spake vils. And others tempting him, these things, a certain woman sought of him a sign from hea- ofthe company lift up her voice, ven. But he, knowing their and said unto him. Blessed is thoughts, said unto them. Eve- the womb that bare thee, and ry kingdom divided against it- the paps which thou hast suck- self, is brought to desolation ; ed. But he said. Yea, rather and a liouse divided against a blessed are they that hear the house, falleth. If Satan also be word of God, and keep it. divided against himself, how ■■ shall his kingdom stand ? be- The fourth Simday in Lent. cause ye say that I cast out de- Tlie Collect. vils through Beelzebub. And /^ R A NT, we beseech thee, if I by Beelzebub cast out de- VjX Almighty God, that we, vils, by whom do your sons wiio for our evil deeds do wor- cast them out ? therefore shall thily deserve to be punished, they be your judges. But if I by the comfort of thy grace with the finger ol God cast out may mercifully be relieved, devils, no doubt the kingdom through our Lord and Saviour of God is come upon you. Jesus Christ. Amen.^ When a strong man* armed The Epistle. Gal. iv. 21. keepeth his palace^ his goods ^ I ^ELL me, ye that desire tp are in peace : but when a X be under the law, do ye stronger than he shall come not hear the law ? For it is upon him and overcome him, written that Abraham had two he taketh from him all his ar- sons, the one by a bond-maid, raour vvlierein he trusted, and tlie other by a free-woman, divideth his spoils. He that is But he who was of the bond- not with me, is against me ; woman, was born after the »nd he that gathereth not with flesh ; but he of the free- wo- me, scattereth. Wiien the man, was by promise. Which unclean spirit is gone out of a things are an allegory: for man, he wulketh through dry these are the two cove;iants ; The Fifth Sunday in Llkt. [S7 the one from moHnt Sinai, shall we buy brcarl, dial thfge whicli gendcrcth lo bondaj^c, may eat? (And this he said to which is Agar. ForthisAgar |)r<)Vvir:ini; torhchimscllkru'w is mount Sinai in Arabia, and what he would do.) Phih'p ansvvcrcth to Jerusalem which answered him, Two hundred now is, and is in bondage with p*»nny-worth of bread is not her children. But Jerusalem sutheient for them, that every which is above, is free; which one of tiiem may take a little, is the mother of us all. For it One of his diseipl(;s, Andrew, is written, Rejoice, thou barren Simon Peter's brother, saith that bearest not; break forth unto him. There is a lad here and crv, thou that travailest which hath (w^i barley loaves, not : for the desolate hath manv and two small hshe.s ; but what naorc chiltlren than she which are they among so many r i\\\A hath an husband. Now we, J 'sus said, iMake the men sit brethren, as Isaac was, are the down. Now there was much children of promise. But as grass in the place. So the men then, he that was born after tlie sat down, in number about fi«'c flesh persecuted him that was thousand. And Jesus took the born after the spirit ; even so it loaves, and when he hacFgiven is now. Nevertheless, what thanks, lie distributed to the saith the Scripture? Cast out disciples, and the disciples to the bond-woman and her son ; them that were set down, and for tiie son of the bond-woman likewise of the fishes as nuich shall not be heir with the son of as they would. Wlien tiicy the free-woman. So then, bre- were filled, he said unto his thren, we are not children of disciples. Gather up the frag- the bond-woman, but of the nients that n-inain, that nothing free. be lost. Tlieretore they ga- I'hc G'^'ipeL St. John, vi. 1 . thered them together, and t\\\<id JESUS went over the sea of twelve baskets with th.e frag- Galilee, which is the sea of ments of the (wQ barley loaves, Tiberias. And a great multi- wliich remainedoverand above tude followed him, because ur,to them that had eaten. i\\v\ saw his miracles which Tiien tiiose men, when they he did on tiiem that were dis- had seen the miracle that Jesus eased. And Jesus went up did, said, Tiiis is of a truth that into a mountain, and there he Propliet that should come intu sat with his discij)Ies. And tJie world. the passover, a tcMst of the — Jew», was nigh. Wiicn Jesus The Jtjlh Siindai/ in i.c:it. then lift up his eyes, and saw a Tlie t'olltct. great company come unto him, TTrKlx-seech thee, Almigh- iie saith unto Piiilip, Whence VV ty GoJ, niercifuilv to 98] The Fifth Sunday In Lent. look upon thy people; that by therefore hear them not, be- thy great goodness they may cause ye are not of God. Then be governed and preserved answered the Jews, and said evermore, both in body and unto him, Say w^e not well, that soul, through Jesus Christ our thou art a Samaritan, and hast Lord. Amen. a devil? Jesus answered, I ^, _ . , TT 1 • . have not a devil : but I honor 7he Epistle, Heo. .x. 1 1 . ^^ p^^j^^^^ ^^^^, ^^ ^^ ^,j^,^^,^^^ CHRIST being come an me. And I seek not mine own high priest of good things glory: there is one that seek- to come, by a greater and more eth and judgeth. Verily, verily perfect tabernacle, not made I say unto you, if a man keep with hands; that is to say, not my saying, lie shall never see of this building; neitlier by the death. Tlien said the Jews blood of goats and calves; but unto him, Now we know that by his own blood lie entered in thou hast a devil: Abraham is once mtotheholy place, having dead, and the prophets; and obtained eternal redemption thou say est, ifa man keep my lor us. For ifthe blood of bulls saying, he shall never taste of and of goats, and the ashes of death. Art thou greater than an heifer sprinkling the un- our father Abraham, which is clean, sanctifieth to the purify- dead; and the prophets are ing of the flcsli ; how n:!uch dead; whom makest thou Ihy- more shall the blood of Christ, self? Jesus answered, Iflho- who, through the eternal Spirit, nor myself,my honor is nothing; offeredhimself without spot to it is my lather that honoreth God, purge your conscience me, of whom ye say, that he from dead works to serve the is your God : yet ye have not livingGod? And for this cause known him ; butTknowhim: he is theMe;lialor of the New and if I should say I know him Testament, that by means of not, I shall be a liar like unto death, for the redemption of you ; but I know him, and keep the transgressions that were his saying. Your father Abia- undertheJirst Testament, they ham rejoiced to see my day, which are called might receive and he saw it, and was glad, the promise of eternal inheri- Then said the Jews unto him, tance. Thou art not yet fifty vears old, ^, _- , o T 1 ••• . ^"<1 hast thou seen Abraham ? ThcGospcl. St.John,vni.4-6. j^.^^^^ ^^j^j ^j,,^^ ^j^^„^^ y^.^ij^^,^ ESUS said. Which of you verily I say unto you, before J convinceth me of sin? And Abraham was, I am. Then if I say the truth, why do ye took they up stones to cast at not believe me? He that is of him; but Jesus hid himself, and God, heareth God's words; ye went out of the temple. Tlic Siiiuby next before Eastlr. [89 Vie Sunday next before Bister. Vit Gospel. St. Matt, xxvli. 1. WHEN the morning was come, all the chief ALmighty and everlasting priests and elders of the peo- GoX who, of thy tender pl^* took council against Jesus love towards mankind, hast to put him to death. And sent thv Son our Saviour Jesus when ihcy had bound him, Ciirist,' to take ujum him our t'lcy led iiim away, and deii- fl.'sh, and to sulK-r death upon vcred him to Pontius Pilate the (he cross, that all mankind governor. Tiien Judas, whohad should follow the example of betrayedhim, whenliesaw tiiat his great humility; mercifully he was condemned, repented grant that we may both follow himself, and brought again the the example of his patience, thirty pieces of silver to the and also be made partakers of p'^'^-'^" priests and elders, say- his resurrection, through the '"^^ I Ji^^ve sinned, in that I same Jesus Christ our Lord, l^ave betrayed the innocent Amen. blood. And they said. What rj,, r- ■ .t -ni T •• - '^ that to us? see thou to that. The Episilc. Fhil. 11. o. ^j^^, ,^^. ^^^^ ^^^^^.^ ^j^^. j,i^^^ LET this mind be in you, ofsilver in the temple, and de- winch was also in Christ parted, and went and hanged Jesus: who being in the form himself. And thechiefpriests ol God, thought it not robbery took the silver pieces, and said, to be equal with God; but It is not lawful for to put theni made himself of no reputation, into tlie treasury, because it is and took upon Wnn the form of the price of blood. And they a servant, anil was made in the teok council, and bought with likenesa- oi men : and being them the potter's field to bury found in. fashion as a man, he strangers in. Wherefore tliat humbled himself, and became fi».-ld was called. The field of obedient unto death, even the blood, unto this day. (Then death of the cross. WTierefore was fulfilled that vvhich was God also hath niahly exalted spoken by Jeremy the prophet, him, and gwen him a Name saying. And they took the thir- which is atDove every name ; ty pieces of silver, the price thatatt^ieNameof Jesusevery of iiimthat wasvalued, whom ^ncf should bow, of things in tliey of the children of Israel '^/-"^ven, and things in earth, and did value,and gave them for the 'uiings under the earth ; and potter's lield, as the Lord ap- that every tongue should con- pointed me.) Ai^d Jcaus stood fess that Jesus Christ is L<jrd, before the governor; and the to the glory of God tlie Father, goverjior asked him, s.r, ing, H 2 90] The Sunday next before Easter. Art thoutheKingof the Jews? they cried out the more, saying-. And Jesus said unto him. Thou Let him be crucified. When sayest. Andwhen he wasac- Pilate saw that he could pre- cused of the chief priests and vail nothing, but that rather a elders, he answered nothing, tumult was made, he took wa- Then saith Pilate unto him, ter, and washed his hands be- Hcarest thou not how many fore the multitude, saying, I things they witness against aminnocentof the blood of this thee ? and he answered liim justperson: see ye to it. Then to never a word, insomuch answered all the people, and that the governor marvelled said. His blood be on us, and greatly. Now at the feast on our cliildren. Then re- the governor was wont to re- leased he Barabbas unto them : lease unto the people a prison- and when he had scourged Je- er whom they would. And sus, he delivered him to be cru- they had then a notable pri- cificd. Tlien the soldiers of soner called Barabbas. There- the governor look Jesus into fore, when they were gather- the common-hall, and gathered ed together, Pilate said unto unto him the whole band (.A' them. Whom will ye that I re- soldiers. And they stripped lease unto you? Barabbas, or him, and put on hiin a scarlet Jesus which is called Christ ? robe. And wlien they had For he knew that for envy they platted a crown of thorns, they had delivered him. When he put it upon his head, and a reed was set down on the judg- in his right hand ; and they ment-seat, his wife sent unto bowedthekneebeforehim,and him, saying, Have thou no- mocked him, saying,Hail, King thing to do with that just man ; of the Jews! And they spit up- for Ihave suffered many things on him, and took the reed and this day in a dream because of smote him on the head. And him. But the chief priests and after that tliey had mocked elders persuaded the multitude him, they took the robe off tliat they should ask Barabbas, from him, and put his own rai- and destroy Jesus, The go- ment on him, find led him away vernor answered and said unto to crucify him. And as they them. Whether oi the twain came out, they found a man of >v ill ye that I release unto you ? Cyrene, Simon by name ; him They said, Barabbas. Pilate they compelled to beaf iiis »aith unto them. What shall I cross. And when tliey wfre do then with Jesus, wliich js come unto a place called Goi- called Christ? They all say un- gotha, that is to say, a place of U) him, l>et him be crucified, a scull, tl.L^y gave inm vinegar And the governor said. Why, to drink mingled with gall; and "whatj^vij liiith he dene? But when he had tasted thereof, he Moiula) bt-'Iorc -K a s t r k , [91 woultl not drink. And they of them thai stood thtTC, w'hen cMieilie 1 liim, and parted his tliev heard that, said, This man garments, easting lots : that it calfetli lor Llias. And straiglit- nii^Iit Ix,' t'uhilled which was wa) one of them ran, and took spoken by tlie propliet. They a spunge, and tilled it with parted my garments among vinegar, and put it on a rtcd, tiiein, and upon my vesture did and gave him to drink. The they cast lots. And sitting rest said. Let be, let us sec down, thev watched him there ; whether lilias will come to s:ue am! set up over his heaii his ac- him. J^-sus, when he had cried cusation writt<n,THlS IS JE- again with a loud voice, yii.ld- >SUS THE KING OF THE ed uptheghoa. Andbehold, JEWS. Then were there two tha vail ot tlic temple was rent lliieves crucified with him ; in twain, irom the top to the one on the right hand, and bottom ; and the eurth did another on the left. And they quake, and the rocks rent ; and that passed by reviled him, the graves were opened ; and wagging their heads, and say- many bodies of saints which ing. Thou that destroyest the slept, arose, and came gut of temple, and buildest it in thr^'C the graves after hisresurrct- day^, save thyself : If thou be tion, and went into the holy the Son of God, come down city, ami appeared unto many, from the cross. Likewise also Now when die Centurion, and the chief priests, mocking iiim, they that were with him with the scriues and elders, watcliiiig Jesus, saw the earth said, He saved others, himself quake, and those things that he cannot save: if he be the were doue, tiiey feared greatly. King of Israel, let him now saying. Truly liiis was the Son come dou ti horn tiie cross, and of God. we will believe him. He trust- — — ed in Goti ; let him deliver him lilondm/ Ujort Eastfr. now, if he will have inm; for For 1 1 tr Epistle. Lai. ixiii. L he said, I am the Son of God. ^T7 HO is this that cometh The thieves also which were VV from Edom, with dyed crucd'ied with him, cast the garments from Boziah ? this saine in his leetli. Now from that is glorious in his apparel, the sixth hour t'.jerc was dark- trav jlling in the greatness of ness ever al! the land, unto tiic his strength r I that speak in ninth, hour. And about the righteousness, miglity to save, ninth hour Jesus cried with a Wherefore art thou reilin thine loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, apparel, and thy garments like Uma sabuddhani? that is to him that treadeth in the wine- «iy, My God, my God, Wny fat? 1 have trodden the win<*- hast thou forwkcn mc ? Some press alone, and of tlic people 92] Alonday before Eastkr. Uiere was none with me: ibri people, saying, Where is lie will tread them in mine anger, that brought them up out of and trample them in ray fury, the sea, with the shepherd of and their blood shall be spriniv- his flock? Where is he that led upon ray garments, and I put his holy Spirit wiihin him ? will stain all my raiment. For that led them by the right hand tlie day of vengeance is in mine of Moses, with his glorious arm jieart, and the year of my re- dividing the water before tliem^ deemed iscome. And I looked, to make himself an everlasting and there was none to help; Name? That led them through and I wondered that there was the deep as an horse in the wil- none to uphold : therefore derness, that they should not mine own arm brought salva- stumble ? As a beast goeth tion unto me ; and my fury it down into the valley, the Spirit upheld me. And I will tread of the Lord caused him to rest : down the people in mine anger, so didst thou lead thy people and make them drunk in my to make thyself a glorious fury, and I will bring down Name. Look down from hea- their strength to the earth. I ven, and behold from thehabi- will mention the loving kind- tat ion of thy holiness, and of nesses of the'fej»'§>^d!* and^ the thy glory : Where is thy zeal, praises of the Lord, according and thy strength, the sounding to all that -the Lord hath be- of thy bowels, and of thy mer- Siovved on us, and the great cies towards me ? are they re- goodness towards the house of strained ? Doubtless thou art Israel, which he hath bestowed our Father, though Abraham on them, according to his mer- be ignorant of us, and Israel cies, and according to themul- acknowledge us not: thou, O titude of his loving kindnesses. Lord, art our Father, our Re- For he said. Surely they are deemer,thy Name is from ever- rny people, children that will lasting. O Lord, why hiist notlyerSohewastheirSaviour. thou made us to err from thy In all their affliction he was af- ways ? and liardened our heart tl'cted, and the angel of his from thy fear? Return, for thy presence saved them : in his servant's sake, the tribes of love and in his pity he redeem- thine inheritance. The peo- ed them, and he bare them, pie of thy holmess have pos- and carried them all the days sessed it but a little while : our of old. But tliey rebelled, and adversaries have trodden down vexed his holy Spirit: there- thy sanctuary. We are thine, fore, he was turned to be their thou never barest rule over enemy, and he fought against them; they were not called by them. Then he remembered thy Name. t!ie days of old, Moses and his Monday before Ea stku . [9$ The Go^ple. St. Mark, -ilv. I. thcv heard it, they wore glad, AFTER two days wiis tlie aiui promised to j;ive him ino- teastofthe Passover, and ney. And he souj^lit liow he of unleavened bread : and tlie niightconvenicntlN betray him. chief priests and tlie scribes And the first day of inilea- souglit how tlicv might take \(^uqA bread, when thoy killed him by craft, and put him to the passover, his disciples said death. But die) said, Nut on unto him. Where wdt tlioii tlie feast dav. lest there be an that we go and prepare, that ui)rt)ar of tiie people. And be- thou maycst cat the passover ? iiig in Bethany, in the house of and he sendeth forth two ofiiis Simon the k;per, as he sat at disciples, and saith unto lliem, meat, there came a woman Go ye into the city ; and there having an ahd)astor box of oint- shall meet you a man bearing ment ol'spikenard, verv preci- a pitcher of water: follow him. ous ; and she brake the box, And wheresoever he shall go and poured it on his head, in, say ye to the good man of And there w^ere some thatl.ad the hoii'^e. The Master saith, indignation within themselves. Where is the guest-chamber, and said, Wliy was this waste \^he^e I shall eat the passov(jr ofllie ointment made; for it with my disciples? And h^ might have been sold for more will shew you a large upp^r than three hundred pence, and room furni>hed and prepared : have been given to the poor r there make ready for us. Aiul and they murmuredagaiiiSther. his disciples went forth, and And Jesus said. Let her alone ; came into the city, and found why trouble ye her ? she hath as he had said unto them : and wrouglit a good work on me : they made ready tlie passover. For yc ha\ e the poor with you Ajid in the evening he comctli alwa)s, and vvhen-^oever ye with the twelve. And as they will ve may do them good ; but sat, and did eat, Jesus said, Ve- rne ye have not always. She rily I say unto you, (^ne otyoii hath done what she could ; she which eateth with me shall be- is come aforeiiand to anoint my tray me. And they began to body to tlic burying. Verily I be sorrowful, and to say unto say unto you, Wiieresoever him, one by one. Is it I ? And this G(»spel shall be jireached another said. Is it I r And lie tliroughout the whole world, answered and said unto them, tliis aho that she hath done Itisoneof the twelve that dip- shall be spoken of, for a memo- pclh with me in the dish. The rial of her. And Judas Isca- Son of man indeed goelh, as it ritjt, one of the twelve, went is written of him : but woe to unto the chief priests, to betray that man by whom the Son ot iiim unto Uiem. And when man is betrayed : good were 94] Monday before Easter. it for that man, if he had never heavy ; and salth unto them, been born. And as they did My soul is exceeding sorro^v- eat, Jesus took bretid, and bles- ful unto death : tarry ye here sed, and brake it, and gave to and watch. And he went for- them, and said. Take, cat : ward a httle, and fell on the This is my body. And fee took ground, and prayed, that, if it the cup, and when he had giv- were possible, the hour might en thanks, he gave it to them : pass from him. And he said, and they all drank of it. And Abba, Father, all thmgs are he said unto them. This is my possible unto thee : take away blood of tlie new Testament, tliis cup from me : neverthe- which is shed for many. Veri- less, not what I will, but what ly I say unto you, I will drink thou wilt. And he cometh, no more of the fruit of the vine and findeth them sleeping, and imtil that day that I drink it saith unto Peter, Simon, sleep- new in tiie kingdom of God. est thou ? couldest not thou And when they had sung an watch one hour ? watch ye, hymn, they went out into the and pray, lest ye enter into mount of Olives. And Jesus temptation; the spirit truly is sailh unto them. All ye shall be ready, but the flesh is weak. OiTended because of mo this And again he went away, and night : for it is written, I will prayed, and spake the same smile the siiepherd, and the words. And when he return- sheep shall be scattered. But ed, he found them asleep again after tliat I am ri?en, I will go (for tJieir eyes were heavy) before you into Galilee. But neidier wist they what to an- Pei:er said unto him. Although swer him. And he cometh all shall be offended, yet will tlic third time, and saith unto not I, Andjesus saith untoliim, them. Sleep on now, and take Verily I say unto tliee, that this your rest : it i's enough, the day, even in this night, before hour is come ; behold, the S m thecock crow twice, thou'shak of man is betrayed into tiie deny me thrice. But he spake hands of sinners. Rise up, let, the more vehemently, If I us go ; lo, he that betray etii should die witii thee, I will not me is at hand. And immedi- deny thee in any wise. Like- atelv, while he yet spake, corn- wise also said they all. And eth Judas, one of the twelve, they came to a place which and with him a great multi- was named Gethsemane : aiid tude, with swords and staves, lie salth to his disciples. Sit ve from the chief priests, and the here, while I sliall pray. And scribes, and the ciders. And 1)0 takcth with him Peler, and he that betrayed him had given James, and John, and began to them a token, saying, Whom- bcsore amazed, and to be very soever I shall kiss, that same Monday before Easter. [95 is he ; take lilm and lead him destro) this temple that is made away safely. And as soon as lie with hatuls, and within three was come, he goeth straight- da) s I will build anotlier made way to him, and salth. Master, without hands. But neither Master ; and kissed him. And so did their witness agree to- they laid their hands on him, gether. And the lilgh priest and took him. And one of stood up in the midst, and ask- thcm that stood by drew a ed Jesus, saying, Answerest sword, and smote a servajit of tjiou nothing ? what Is it whith the high priest, and cut ofl' his fhese witness against thee? ear. And Jesus answered and But he held his peaee, and an- said unto them. Are ye come swered nothing. Again the out as against a thief) with high priest asked him, and said swords and with staves, to unto him. Art thou the Christ, take me? I was daily with the Son of the Blessed ? And you in the temple, teaching, Jesus said, I am : and ye sliall and ye took me not ; but the see the Son of man sitting on Scriptures must be fulfilled, the right hand of power, and And they all forsook him, and comlngin the clouds of heaven, fled. And there followed him Then the iiigh priest rent his a certain young man, having a clothes, and salth, VN'hat need linen cloth cast about his naked we any further witnesses ? ye body ; and the young men laid have heard the blasphemy : hold on him. And he left the what think ye ? and they all JInen cloth, and fled from them condemned him to be guilty ot naked. And they led Jesus death. And some began to away to tl)e high priest; and spit on him, and to CA.)ver his with him were assembled all face, and to bulfet him, and to the chief priests, and the el- say unto him. Prophecy. And ders, and the scribes. And Pe- theser\antsdid strikehim with ter fijllowed him afar off, even the palms of their hands. And into the palace of the high as Peter was beneath in the priest : and he sat with the ser- palace, there cometh one of vants, and warmed himself at the maids of the high priest; the fire. And the chief priests, and when she saw Peter warm- and all the council, sought for ing himself, she looked upon witness against Jesus to put hlin, and said. And thou also him to death ; and found none, wast with Jesus of .'^Tazareth, (For many bare false witness But he denied, saying, 1 know against him, but their witness not, neither understand I what ixgreed not together.) And thou sayest. And he went out there arose certain and bare into the porch; and the cock ^alse witness against him," say- crew. y\nd a maid saw him ing. We heard him say, 1 will agaiiij and began to say to them 96} Tuesday beibre Easter. that stood by. This h one of obeyeth the voice of his ser- them. And he denied it again, vant, that walkcth in dark- And a httle after, they that ness, and hath no light ? let stood by, said again to Peter, him trust in the name of the Surely thou art one of them ; Lord, and stay upon his God. for thou art a GaHIean, and thy Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, speech agrecth thereto. But tliat compass yourselves about he began to curse and to swear, with sparks; walk in the light saying, I know not this man of of your iire, and in the sparks whom ye speak. And the se- that ye have kindled. This cond time thecock crew. And shall ye have of mine hand, ye Peter called to mind the word shall lie down in sorrow, that Jesus said unto him. Be- The Gospel. St. Mark, xv. 1. fore the cockcrow twice, thou A ND straijjhtwav in the shalt deny me thrice. 7\nd jljL morning, die chief priests when he thought thereon he held a consultation with the el- wept, ders and scribes, and the w hole "■' council, and bound Jesus, and Tuesday before Easter. carried him away, and deli- For the Epistle. Isai. 1. 5. vered him to Pilate. And Pi- THE Lord God hath open- late asked him. Art thou the ed mine ear, and 1 was King of the Jews r Andhean- not rebellious, neither turned swering, said unto him. Thou away back. I gave my back sayest it. And the chief to the smiters, and my cheeks priests accused him of maiiy to them that plucked off the things, but he answered no- hair; I hid not my face from thing. And Pilate asked him shame and spitting. For the again, saying, Answerest thou LordGo.d will help me, there- nodiing r behold how many- fore shall I not be confounded ; things they witness against therefore have I set my face thee. But Jesus yet answered like a flint, and I know that I nothing : so that Pilate marvel- shall not be ashamed. He is led. Now at that feast he rc- near that justifieth me ; who leased unto them one prisoner, will contend with me? let us whomsoeverthey desired. And 8tand together; who is mine there was one named Barab- udversary ? Let him come near bas, which lay bound with them to me. Behold, the Lord that had made insurrection God will help me ; who is he with him, who had commit- that shall condemn me? Lo, ted murder in the insurrecti- Ihey all shall wax old as a on. And the multitude crying garment: the moth shall eat aloud, began to desire him to them up. Who is'amongyou do as he had ever done unto tiiat fearcth the Lord, that them. But Pilate answered Tuesday before Lastek. [97 Uicm, saying, Will ye that I his cross. ,Atod tlicy bring Mm release unto voii llie kin^ ol ihe unto the place Golgotha, which Jewsr (For' he knew tliat the is, being interpreted, the place chiefpriests had delivered him o^ a scull. And they gave for envy.) But the chief j)riGsts liini to drink wine mingled moved^ the people, that he with myrrh ; but he received should rather release Barab- it not. And when they had bas unto them. And Pilate crucified him, they parted his answered, ami said again unto garments, casting lots upon tiiem. What will ye tiicn that them, wliat every man should 1 sliall do unto him whom ve take. And it was the third call the King of the Jews? And hour, and they cnicified him. they cried outagam, Cruciiy And the superscription of his him. Then Pilate said unto accusation was written over, them. Why ? what evil hath THE KING OF THE he done? And they cried out JEWS. And with him they the more exceedingly, Cnicify crucify two thieves; theoneon him. And so Pilate, willing his right hand, and tin; other to content the people, released onliisleft. And the Scripture Barabbas unto them ; and de- was fulhlled, which saith. And livered Jesus, when he had lie was numbered with the scourged him, to be crucified, transgressors. And they that And the soldiers led him away passed by railed onhim, wag- into thehall, called Prelorium ; ging their heads, and saying, and they called together the Ah, thou that destroyest the whole band, /^ndthey clollicd temple and buildest it in throe him AviUi purple, and})latteda days, save thyself^ and come crown of thorns, and put it down from tiic cross. Like- about his head and began to sa- wise also the chief priests, lute him. Hail, King of the mocking, said among them- Jews. And they smote him selves, with the scribes. He on the head with a reed, and saved others, himself he can- did spit upon him, and bowing not save. LetChrist the King their knees worshipped him. of Israel descend now from the And when they had mocked cross, that we may see and be- him they took off the purple lieve. And they that were from him, and put his own crucilied witli him, reviled him. clothes on him, and led him And when the sixth hour was out to crucify him. And they come, there was darkness over compel one Simon, a Cyrenian, the whole land until tJie ninth who passed by, coming out of hour. And at the ninth hour, the country, the falher of Al- Jesus cried with a loud voice, e3vaiuler and Rufus, to bear saying, I:/o?j Eki, lui/ia i-rz- 98] Wednesday before Eastlr. bachthani ? which is, being in- both the tabernacle, and all the tcrpreted. My God, my God, vessels of the ministry. And why hast thou forsaken me ? almost all things are by the law i\nd some of them that stood purged with blood ; and with- by, when they heard it, said, outshedding of blood, is no re- Behold, he calleth Elias. And mission. It was tlierefore ne- one ran and filled a spunge cessary that tiie patterns of full of vinegar, and put it on a things in the hearens should be reed, and gave him to drink, purified with these; but the saying. Let alone ; let us see heavenly things themselves whether Elias will come to with better sacrifices than these, take him down. And Jesus For Christ is not entered into cried with a loud voice, and the holy places made with gave up the ghost. And the hands, which are the figures of vail ot the temple was rent in the true; but into heaven it- twain, from the top to the bot- self, now to appear in the pre- tom. And when the Centu- sencc of God for us ; nor yet rion, which stood over against that he should offer himself him, saw that he so cried out, often, as the high priest enter- and gave up the ghost, he said, eth into the holy place every Truly this man was the Son of year with blood of others: (for God. — ■!■ then must he often have suf- Wtdntsday before Easter. fered since the foundation of The Epistle. Heb. ix. 16. the world) but now once, in WHERE a testament is, the end of the world, hath he there must also of ne- appeared to put away sin by cessity be the death of the tes- the sacrifice of himself. And tator; for a testament is of force as it is appointed unto men after men are dead ; otherwise once t© die, but after this the it is of no strength at all, whilst judgment ; so Christ was once the testator liveth. Whereup- offered to bear the sins of many ; on, neither the first testament andunto them that look for him was dedicated without blood. sJiallheappear the second lime. For when Moses had spoken without sin, unto salvation, every precept to all the peoj)le, Tlie Gospel. St. Luke, xxii. 1 . according to the law, he took 1VTOW the feast of unleaven- Ihe blood of calves and ofgoats, l\l ed bread drew nigh,\\ hich with water and scarlet wool, is called the Passover. And and hyssop, and sprinkled both the chief priests and scribes the book, and all the people, sought how they might kill .«;aying, Thisistlie blood of the him; for they feared the peo- testament which G(kI hath en- pie. Then entered Satan into joineci unto you. Moreover, he Judas, surnamcd Iscariot, be- sprinkled likewise with blood, mgoftlie number ofthe twelve. Wednesday before Easter. [99 And he went his \vay,anH com- muned with the chief" priests and captains how lie miglit be- tray liim unto them. And they were glad, and covenanted to gi\ e him money. And lie pro- mised, and sought opportunity to betray him untotlu-m in the absence of the multitude. Then came the day ot unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And he sent Peter an 1 John, saying. Go, and pre- pare us tlie passo\er, that we may eat. And they said unto him. Where wilt tiiou that we prepare r And he said unto them, BdioKI, when ye arc en- tered into the city, there sliall a man meet vou bearing a pitciier of water ; follow him uito the house where heenter- fcth in. And ye shall say unto the good man oi the house. The. Master saith unto theo, Wiierc is the guest chamber, where I siiall eat the jiassovcr with my disciples r and he shall show vou a large upper room furnished : there make ready. And they went and found as he had said unto them ; and ihvy made ready the passov^'r. And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twehe Apostles with him. And he Sii 1 unto them. With desire I have desired to eal this pass- over witli you before I suHer. For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in t!ie kingdom of (lod. And betook the cup, and gave thanks,and said,TaJ^c this, and divide it among your- selves. For I say uuto ^ou, I will not drink of tlie fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of (Joci shall come. And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying. This is my body, whit h is given for you : this do in re- membrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, say- ing, This cup is the new tes- tament in my blood, which is shed for you. Bui behold, the hand of iiim tiiat betr.iyeth me is with me on the table.. And truly the Son of man go^th as it was determined; but woe unto that man by whom be is belrayed. And they began to enquire among tliemselves, which of them it was tl.at sixjuld (\o. this thing. And there was also a strife am{)ng them, which of thein shou! i be accounted t!ie greatest. And he said unto them. The kings of the CJeritiles exercise lordship over thcfll^and t-u \ that exercise audiority upoi: them, are called benelactors. IJut ye shall not bl^so : but he that IS greatest among you, let Jilm be as the younger ; and lie that is ciiief, as iie that dotli sei ve. For wiiethc^r is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or Jie that servetli 'a is iiot lie that s;(- tetn at meat r But I am anu^ng you as ije that servetli. Ye are they vviiich have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint ui.to you a king- dom, as my Father hatfi ap- 100] Wednesday before Easter. pointed unto me : that ye may withdrawn from them about a rat and drink at my table in stone's cast, and kneeled down, my kingdom/and sit on thrones, and prayed, saying. Father, it' judging the twelve tribes of thou be vvilhng, remove this Israel. And the Lord said, cup from me : nevertheless, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan not my will, but thine be done, hath desired to have you, that And there appeared an angfl he may ^ift you as wheat ; but unto him from heaven streVigth- Ihave'prayed for thee, that Ihy ening him. And being in an faitii lad not; and when thou ag()ny,lie prayed more earnest- art converted, strengthen thy ly ; and his sweat was as it brethren. And he said unto were great drops of blood fal!- him. Lord, I am ready to go ing down to tiie ground. And with Ihee both into prison and when lie rose up from prayer, to death. And he said, I tell and was come to his disciples, iJice, Peter, the cock shall not he found them sleeping for sor- crow this day, before that thou row ; and said unto them. Why siialt dn-ice\leny that thou sleep ye? rise and pray, lest knowest me. And he said un- ye enter into temptation. And fo then). When I sent you while he yet spake, behold, a without purse, and scrip, and multitude, and he that was sLoe^, laeke<l ye any thing? called Judas, one of the twelve. And they s-iid. Nothing. Then went before them, and drew said he unto them, But now he near unto Jesus to kiss him. Jhat hath a purse, lei him take But Jesus said unto him, Judas, it, and likewise his scrip: and betrayest tlum the Son of man he that hath no sword, let him vvitli a kiss r When they which sell iiis garment and buy one. were about him saw what l-'or 1 .^ay unto you, that this would follow, they said unto tiiat is written nnist yet be ac- him. Lord, shall we smite with complislied in me. And he was the sword ? Aud one of them reckoned among the trans- smote the servant of tlie high gressors > For the things con- priest, and cut oft' his right ear. '1 said. erningmehavean end. And And Jesus answered ; they said. Lord, behold, here Suffer ye thus far. vVnd he are two swords. And he said touched his ear, and healed unto them. It is enough. And him. Then Jesus said unto he came out, and went, as he the chief priests and captains was wont, to the mount of of the temple, and tlie elders Olives; and his disciples also which were; come to him, Be followed him. And when he ye come out as against a thief, was at the place, he said unto with swords and staves? When them. Pray that ye enter not I was daily with you in tlie into temptation. And he was temple, ye stretched forth no Thursday before Eastkr. [10 J hands ai^ainst mc: but this is gainst him. And, as soon as ^'oiir hour, and tlie power ot it was day, the elders of the darkness. Then took they people, and the chief priest>, hini, and led him, and brought and the scribes, came together, him into the hi*ch priest's house, and led him into their council. And Peter tolloweel afar oti, saying. Art thou the Christ ? And when »hey had kindled a Tell us. And he said unto lire in die midst ot the hall, and them. It" I tell you, you will were set down together, Peter not believe. And if I al«o ask sat down among them. But a you, you will not answer me, certain maid beheld him, as he nt)r let me go. Hereafter shall sat by the lire, and earnestly the Son of man sit on the rigiit looked upon him, and said, hand of the power of God. This man was also witii him. Then said they ail. Art tliou And he denied him, saying, then the Son ot God r And he Woman, I know him not. And said unto them, Ye say that I after a little wiiile another saw am. And they said,' What -^iwn, and said. Thou art also Jieed we anv further witness ? of them. And Peter said, Man, ior we ourselves have lieard of I am not. And about the space his own mouth. of one hour after, another con- ■■ — tidently athrmed, saying. Of a Tliursday bt/ore Easter. truth, this fellow also was with The lipi.stle. 1 Cor. \i. 17. him; for he is a Galilean. TN this that I declare unto And Peter said, Man, I know A you, I praise you not ; that not what tliou sayest. And you come together not lor the wnmediately, while he yet better, but ior tiie worse. For spake, the cock crew. And first of all, when ye come lo- tlie Lord turned, and looked gether in the Cluirch, I hear upon Peter; and Peter remem- that there be divisions among bered the word of the Lord, you ; and I partly believe it. how lie had said unto him. Be- For there must be' also heresies tore the cock crow, thou shalt among you, that they which deny me thrice. And Peter are approv ed niay be made ma- went out and wept bitterly, nilest among you. When ye And the men that held Jesus, come together theretbre into mocked him, and smote hinu one place, tiiis isnot to eat the And when tiiey had blindlold- Lord's Supper. For, in eating, t;d him, they struck him on the every one taketh before other face, and asked him, saying, his own supper: and one is Prophesy, who is it that smote hungry, and another is drunk- thee? And many other things en. \Vhat, Ihivw ye not houses blasphemously spakv thev a- to eat aad to drink ifi : or des- I 2 102] Thiirsda^y before Eastlr. pise ye the church of God, and shanie them that have not ? What shall I say to you ? shall I praise you in this ? I praise yoH not. For I have received oi the Lord that whlcii also I delivered unto you. That the Lord Jesus, tlie same night in which he was betrayed, took bread ; and when he had giv- en thanks, he brake it^ and said. Take, eat ; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup,, when he had supped, saying. This cup is the new testament in my blood : this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, sliall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he tiiat «^atelh and drinketh unworthi- Jy, eateth and drinketh damna- tion to himself, not discerning the Lord^s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we w'ould judge our- selves, we should not be judg- ed. But when we are judged^ we are chastened of the Lord, tiiat we should not be con- ilemned with the world. — Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one lor another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not toge- ther unto condenmation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. TheGosple. St. Luke, xxiii. I. THE whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pdate. And they began to accuse him, saying. We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying, that he himself is Christ a king. And Pilate asked him, saying,. Art thou the King of the Jews ? and he answered him, and said. Thou sayest it. Then said Pi- late to the chief priests, andta the people, I find no fault in this man. And they were the more fierce, saying, He stir- reth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewery, begin- ning from Galilee to this place. When Pilate heard of Ga- lilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilean. And as soon as he knew that he be- longed unto Herod's jurisdic- tion, he sent him to Herod, whor himself was also at Jerusalem at tijat time, and when Herod saw Jesu:^, he was exceeding glad ; for he was desirous tt> see him of a long season, be- cause he had heard many things of him ; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him. Then he ({uestioned with him in many words ; but he an- swered him nothing. And the Thursday bctorc E a si i. k . [ i o.'i chiei" priests and scribes stood requiring that iie ini^lit be cni- and vehemently accused Ijiin. cilied : and the voices of theni, And Herod with his nu'n oF and of the ciiiet" priests, pre- war set him at nought, and vailed. And Pilate gave sen- mocked him, and arrayed him tence that it sliould be as tliey in a gorgeous robe, and sent retjuired. And he released un- him agani to Pdate. And the to them Iiim that ti^r sedition same dav Pilate and Herod and murder was cast into pri- were made friends together ; son, whom they liad desired : for before they were at enmity but he delivered Jesus to their between theriiselves. And Pi- will. And as they led him late, when he had called toge- away, they laid hold upon one ther the chief priests, and the Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out rulers, and the people, said un- ofihe country, ajid on him they to them. Ye have brought this laid the cross, that he might man unto me, as one that per- bear it after Jesus. And there vertetli the ])eople : and be- followed him a great company hold, I have examined him be- of })cople, and of women, who fore you, have found no fault also bewailed and lamented in this man, touching tliose him. But Jesus turning unto things whereofye accuse him : them, said, Daugiiters of Jeru- No, nor yet Herod : for I sent salem, weep not for me, but you to him ; and lo, notJiing weep for yourselvss, and for worthy of death is done unto your children. For behold, him. I will therefore chastise the days are coming, in the him, and release him. (For of which they shall say. Blessed necessity he must release one are the barren, and tlie wombs unto them at tiie feast.) And tliat never bare, and the pajis they cried out all at once, say- whic!i never gave suck. Thtn ing. Away with this man, and shall they begin to say to the release unto Us Barabbas : (who mountains. Fail on us ; and lo it»r a certain sedition made in tiie hills. Cover us. For if they the city, and for murder, was do these tilings in agreentret-, cast into prison.) Pilate, there- what shall i)edone in the dr^ ? lore, willing to release Jesus, An I there were also two other ^ake again to tiiem. But they majefactois led witli him to be cried, saying, Crucify him, cru- puttodeadi. And wlien they eify him. And he said unto were come ta the place which tlu-m tiie third time. Why, is called Calvai y, there tli( y vvhcjt evil hadi he done ? I have crucified him, and the malefac- found no cause of death in him : tors; one C/ii tlie right hand, 1 wdl therefore chastise him, and the other on tiie left. Th< n and let him go. And tiiey said Jesus, Father, forgive were instant w;th luuJ voices tliem, for they know not wiiut lOij GOOD FRIDAY. they do. And they parted his ghost. Now when the Cen- raimcnt, and cast lots. And tiirion saw what was done, he the people stood beholding : glorified God, saying, Certain- and the rulers also witli them ly this was a righteous man. derided him, saying. He saved And all the people that came others ; let him save himself^ together to that sight, behold- it'he be Christ the chosen ot" ing the things that were done, God. And the Soldiers also smote their breasts and retiirn- anocked liim, coming to him, ed. And all his acquaintance, and offering him vinegar, and and the women that followed saying. If" thou be the king of him from Galilee, stood ailir tiie Jews, save thyself. And a ofJ^ beholding these things. superscription also was writ- — -i^ ten o>'er him in letters of Greek Good Friday. and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS The Collects. IS THE KING OF THE A LmlghtyGod,we beseech JEWS. And one of the ma- JLjL thee graciously to behold lefactors, which were hanged, tJiis tliy family, for which our railed on him, saying. If thou Lord Jesus Christ was content- be Christ, save tfiyself and us. ed to be betrayed, and given. But the other answering, re- up into the hands of wicked buked him, saying. Dost not men, and to suffer death upon thou fear God, seeing thou art (he cross, who now liveth and ill the same condemnation? reigneth with thee and the Ho- And we indeed justly ; for we ^y Ghost, ever one God, world, receive the due reward of our without end. Jmeji. deeds : but tiiis man hath done nothing amiss. And he said A Lmighty and everlasting unto Jesus, Lord, remember .l\ God, by whose Spirit the me when thou comest into thy whole body of the Church is. kingdom. And Jesus said un- governed and sanctified ; re- to him. Verily I say unto lliee, ceive our supplications and. To-day shalt thou he with me prayers, which we otier before in Paradist;. And it was about thee for all estates of men in the sixth hour, and there was thy holy Churcli, that evwy darkness over id I the earth un- member of the same, in his vo- til the nintli hour. And the cation and ministry, may truly sun was darkened, anti tJie vail and godly serve thee, through of the temjile was rent in the our Lord and Saviour Jesus midst. And wlien Jesus had Christ. Amen. cried with a loud voice, he said,. Father, into thy hands I /^ Alcrciful God, who hasL ^onimend my spirit : and hav- V^ made all men, and hatesL ing said thus, he gave up the nothing, that thou hast made^. GOOD FRIDAY. [r05 nor dcsirc-^i tlic dcalh of a sin- do thy will, () Gnl. Abow, ncr, f)iit rat hi r that lu? should whvn hv said, Sa( riticc and ot- l)c coincrlfd and live; have f<Tinj;,and hurnt-cjH'crings, and mercN upon all jew s, Turks, ottcTin;.; tor sin thoii wouldcst Inli(irls,and Heretics; and take not, neither hadsi pleasure tVoni theni all ignorance, hard- ihertMn, which are oftered by ness of heart, and conieinpt; of the law; Then said he, Lo, I thy word; and so fetch them coiue to do thy will, O God. home, blessed Lord, to thy He takelli away the first, that liock, that thev n^av be saved he may establish the seeond. among the remnant of" the true Bv flie which will we arc sanc- Israelites, and i)e made one tified, through the offering of fold under one Shepherd, Je- t!ie body of Jesus Christ once sus Christ oar Lf)rci,w}i(;liveth for all. And every priest stand- and rei^ncth with thee and the eth daily ministering and oiVcr- Holy Spirit, one Go.l. world ing oftentimes the same sacri- without end. Amen. fice?, which can never take 'I'ltc Eni.stlc. Heb. x. I. away sins. But this man, at- ^^HE law ]ia\%ng a shadow ter he ha^^oftered one sacrifice JL of j^ood thin;j;s to come, ior sins, forever sat down on auv! not the very image of the tiie right hand of God ; from things, can never with those henceforth expecting till his sacrifices which they offered encinies be made his footstoof. year by year continually, make For by one offering he hatli the comers thereunto ]>erfecfc. perfected forever them that are For tlien, would liiey not have sanctified: whereof the Holy ceased to be offered r because Ghost also is a witness to us : that the wordiippcrs, once For after that he had said be- purgf.-d, should have had no fore, This is the covenant that more conscience of sins. But I will make with them after in those sacrifices there is a re- those days, saitii the Lord, I mem'brartce again made of sins will ])ut my laws into their every year. For it is not pos- hearts, and in tlieir miwds wi'I sible that liie blood of bulls and 1 write them ; and tiieir sins v^^oats siiould takeaway sins, and inic}uiiies will I remembcf .Wherefore, when he cometh no more. Now, where remis- into the world, he saith, Sacri- sion of the>c is, there is no more fice and offering thou wouldest offering for sin. Having, Ihere- not, but a bod) hast thou pre- fore, brethren, boldness to en- pared me : In burnt-olferings ter into the holiest by the blood and sacrifices for sin thou hast of Jesus, by a new and living bad no pleasure: Then said I, wav, which he hath consecrai- Lo, I come (in the volume of ed for us through the vail, thai the book it is written of me) to is to say, his flesh ; and liaving 106] GOOD FRIDAY. an high priest over the house to die, because he made him- ofGod; let us draw near with self" tlie Son of God. WJien a true heart, in iull assurance Pilate therefore heard that sa)- of faith, having our hearts iug, he was the more afraid ; sprinkled from an evil con- and went again into thejudg- science, and our bodies waslied ment hall, and saith unto Jesus, with pure v'jtcr. Let us hold Whence art thou ? But Jesus fast the profession of our faith, gave him no answer. Then without wavering; (for he is saith Pilate unto him, Spcakest faithful that })romiscd;) and let thou not unto me? Knowest us consider one another to pro- thou not that 1 have power to voke unto love, and to good crucify tiiee, and have power works; not forsakhig tiie as- to release thee ? Jesus answer- sembling of ourselves together, cd, Thou couldest have na as the manner of some is ; but power at all against me, except exhorting one another : and so it were given thee from above ;•. much the more, as ye see the therefore he that delivered me- day approaching. unto thee, hath the greater sin... 77/e GV;5/K'/. St. Jol^, xix. 1. And from thenceforth Pilate PILATE tlierefore took Je- sought to release him ; but the sus, and scourged him. Jews cried out, saying. If thou And the soldiers platted a let this man go, thou art not crown of thorns, and put it on Caesar's friend: Whosoever his head, and they put on him maketh himself a king,, speak- a purple robe, and said. Hail, eth against Cassar. When Pi- king of the Jews ! And they late therefore heard that say- smote him with their hands, ing, he brought Jesus forth,. Pilate therefore went forth a- and sat down in the judgment- gain, and saith unto them. Be- seat, in a place that is called hold, I bring liim forth to you, the Pavement, but in the He- that ye may know that I find brew, Gabbatha. And it was. no fault in him. Then came the preparation of thePassover, Jesus forth, wearing tlie crown and about the sixth hour: and of thorns, and the purple robe, he .saith unto the Jews, Behold And Pilate saith unto them, your King. But they crigd Behold the man. When the out. Away with him, away, chief priests therefore and of- vvith him, crucify- him. Pilate ficers saw him, they cried out sailh unto tiiem, Sliall I crucify saying, Crucify him, crucify your King ? Tlie c:hief priests him. Pilate saith unto them, answered, We have no king Take y(* him, andcrucify him ; but Caesar. Then delivered for I find no fault in him. The he him therefore unto them to Jews answered him. We ha\c be crucified : and they took Je- ulaNV, and by our law he ought sus, and led bim away. And GOOD FRIDAV. ^,07 he, baring his cross,went forth and the disciple standing by, into a plate called tlic place of nhom he loved, he saitli unto a sc-ull, which is called in the Jiis motlier, Woman, behold Hebrew, Golgotha; where thy son. Then saith he tothc they crucified him, and two dis(iple, Behold thy mother, other with him, on either side And tiom that hf>Mr that dis- one, and Jesus in the midst. cij)le took her u.. > his own And Pilate wrote a title, and home. After this, Jesus ki:ow- put it on the cross; and the ing that all things were now writmg was, JESUS OF NA- accomplislied, that the scrip- ZARETH THE KING OF ture might be fulfilled, saith, I THE JEWS. This title then thirst. Now there was set a read many of the Jews; tbr vessel full of vinegar: and they theplace where Jesus was cru- filled a spunge with vinco-ar, cified was nigh to the city; and and put it upon hyssop, and' it^ was written in Hebrew, and put it to his mouth. When Greek, and Latin. Then said Jesus therefore had received the chief priests of the Jews to the vinegar, he said, Ii is finish- Pilatc, WVite not, the King of ed : and he bowed his head, the Jews; but that he said, I and gavtt up the ghost. The am the King of the Jews. Pi- Jews therefore, because it was late answered. What I have the preparation, that the bodies written, I have written. Then should not remain upon the the soldiers, when they had cross on the sabbath-day, (for crucified Jesus, took his gar- that sabbath-day was an high ments, (and made four parts, day) besought Pilate that their to every soldier a part) and al- Jegs might be broken, and that so his coat: now the coat was they niight be taken away, without seam, woven from the Then came the soldiers and top throughout. They said brake the legs of the first, and Ihereforc among themselves, of the other which was cruci- Let us not rend it, but cast lots fied with him. But when they for it, whose it shall be : that eame to Jesus, and saw that he the scripture might be fulfilled, was dead already, they brake which saith. They parted my not his legs. But one of the raiment among them, and for soldiers with a spear pierced my vesture Uiey did cast lots, his side, and forthwith came These things therefore the sol- thereout blood and water. And diers did. Now there stood he that saw it bare record, and by the cross of Jesus, his mo- his record is true: and he ther, and his mother's sister, knoweth tjial he saith true, that Mar\thevvifeofCleophas,and ye might believe. For these Miiry Magdalene. When Je- things were done,(hatlhes(:rip- s ihereiore saw his mother, ture shoul.l befuli:lled, A bone sus 108] EASTER-EVEN. of him shall not be broken. Christ: Who is gone into hea- And again, another scripture vcn, and is on the right hand saith. They shall look on him of God ; angels, and autho- whom they pierced. rities, and powers, being made — subject unto him. Raster-Even. 'Ihc Gospel. St. Matt, xxvii. 57. The Collect. WT ^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ ^'^'^'" ^^^ GRANT, O Lord, that as VV come, there came a rich w« are baptised into the man of Arimalhca, named Jo- death of thy blessed Son our Sa- sc]:»h, who also himself was Je- viour Jesus Christ, so by con- sus* disciple : He went to Pi- tinual mortilying our corrupt late, and begged the body of alFections, we may be buried Jesus. Then Pilate command- with him; and that through the ed the body to be delivered, grave and gate of death we may And when Joseph had taken pass to our joyful resurrection, the body, he wrapped it in a tor his merits, who died, and clean linen cloth, and laid it in was buried, and rose again for his own new tomb, which he lis, thy Son Jesus Christ our had hewn out in the rock ; and Lord. Amen. he rolled a great stone to the The Epistle. 1 St. Pet. iii. 17. door of the sepulchre, and de- IT is better, if the will of parted. And there was Mary God be so, that ye suffer Magdalene, and the other Ma- tor well-doing,than for evil-do- ry, sitting over against the se- ing. For Christalso hath once pulchre. Now the next day suffered for sins, the just for the that followed the day of the unjust (that he might bring us preparation, the chief priests to God) being put to death in and Pharisees came together the flesh, but quickened by the unto Pilate, saying. Sir, we re- spirit : By which also he went member that that deceiver said, and preached unto the spirits in while he was yet alive, After prison; which sometime were three days I will rise again, disobedient, when once the Command therefore that the long suffering of God waited sepulchre be made sure until in the days of Noah, while the the third day, lest his disciples ark was a preparing; wherein come by night, and steal him lew, that is, eight souls, were away, and say unio the people, saved by water. The like He is risen from the dead ; so figure w hereunto, even Bap- the last error shall be worse tism, doth also now save us than the first. Pilate said un- (not tlie putting away the filth to them. Ye have a watch ; go of lln3 flesh, but the answer of a your way, make it as sure as good conscience towards God) jou can. So they went and by the rcsuricction of Jesus made the sepulchre sure, seal- EASTER-DAY. [107 ing the sloiie, and setting a humbly bcscccli thee, tliat as, watch. by lliy special grace prevcnt- — ing us, thou dost put into our Eusttr-Dny. minds good desires; so by thy ^ At Mvrnin^ I'ruycr, instead continual help we may bring ofthcVsalm, O come let us the same to good eiri*(t,througli sing, d^'c. tlic^c Anthans shall Jc'su> Christ our Lord, who he snn<r or said. liveth and reigtieth \^ilh thee CHRlSTourpassoverissa- and the Holy Ghost, ever one crilked tor us; therefore God, world without end. — let us keep the least ; Amen. Not with the old leaven. The Epistle. Col. iii. 1. neither witl) the leaven of mal- TF ye then be risen with ice and wickedness ; but with X Clirist, seek those things the unleavened bread of sin- which are above, where Christ cerity and truth. I Cor. v. 7. sitteth on th6 right hand of ~HRIS'r being raised from God. Set your affection on c the dead, dieth no more; things above, not on things on death hath no more dominion the earth : For ye are dead, over him. and your life is hid with Christ For in that he died, he died in God. When Christ, who unto sin once ; but in that he is our life, shall a])pear, then livcdi, he livetli unto God. shall ye also appear with hira Likewise reckon ye also in glory. Mortify, thereibrc, yourselves to be dead indeed your members which are upon unto sin ; but alive unto Go 1 the earth; fornication, uncleiui- through Jesus Christ our Lord, ness, inordinate affection, evil l^om. vi. 9. concupiscence, and covetous- CHRIST is risen from the ness, which is idolatry: tor dead, and become the which things sake the wrath of first fruits of them that slept. God cometh on the children of For since by man came disobedience. In tliC which death, by man came also the ye also walked sometirae,when resurrection of the dead. ye lived in them. For as in Adam all die ; Tlte Gospel. St. John, xx. I. even so in Christ shall all be THHE first day of the week made alive. I Cor. kv. 20. jL cometh Mary Magdalene The Collect. early, when it was yet dark, ALmighty God, wiio thro' unto the sepulchre, and scelb thine only begotten Son ihe stone taken away from the Jesus Christ hast overcome sepulchre. Then she runn- th death, and opened unto us the and cometh to Simon P< ter, gate of everlasting lite; we and to the Other discii)Ie whom K 108] Monday in Easter-Week. Jesus loved, and salth unto liveth and reigneth with thee t]iem. They have taken away and the Holy Ghost, ever one the Lord out of the sepulchre, God, world without end. — ^ and we know not where they Amen. have laid him. Peter therefore For the Epistle. Acts, x. 3-*. went forth, and that other dis- XJETER opened his mouthy ciple, and came to the sepul- jL and said. Of a truth I per- chre. So they ran both toge- ceive that God is no respecter ther; and the other disciple did of persons: but in every na- out-run Peter, and came first tion he that feareth him and to the sepulchre; and he,stoop- worketh righteousness, is ac- ing down and looking in, saw cepted with him. The word the linen clothes lying,yet went which God sent unto the chil- he not in. Then cometh Simon dren of Israel, preaching peace Peterfollowinghim, and went by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord into the sepulchre, and seeth of all:) That word, I say, ye iho. linen clothes lie; and the know, which was published napkin that was about his head throughout all Judea, and be- not lying with the linen clothes, gan from Galilee, after the bap- but wrapped together in a tism which John preached : place by itself. Then went in How God anointed Jesus of also that other disciple which Nazareth with theHolyGhost, came first to the sepulchre, and with power; who went and he saw, and believed. For about doing good, and healing as yet they knew not the scrip- all that were oppressed of the ture, that he must rise again devil: for God was with him., from the dead. Then the dis- And we are witnesses of aU ciples went away again unto things which he did, both in their own home. the land of the Jews, and in ■Ml — Jerusalem; whom they slew, Monday in Easter-Week. and hanged on a tree. Him TJte Collect. God raised up the third day, ALmighty God, who thro* and showed him openly; not thine only begotten Son to all the people, but unto wit- Jesus Christ hast overcome nesses chosen before of God, death, and opened unto us the even to us, who did «at and gate of everlasting life ; we drink wiUi him after he rose humbly beset<:h tl.ee, that as, from the dead. And he com^ by ll,y special grace preventing manded us to preach unto the us,tliOu dost put into our mindj people, and to testify that it is good ciesircs; so by thy con- he who was ordained of God t'mual help we may brnig the to be the judge of quick and same to good effect, through dead. To him give all the pro- Jesus Christ our Lord, who phcts witness, that through hi* Monday in Eas tek-Wlck. [109 name, Avlio*oevcr bclieveth in at (ho sepuKIiri" ; and when him, shall receive remission of they found not his body, they sins. came, saying, that tlicy had r/ic Gospel. Si. l^nkc, WW. 1 .'L also seen a \'ision of angels, BEhold,tn'o of his disciples which said that he was ahve. went tliat same day to a Anrl certain ol them who were village called Emmaiis, which with us went to the sepulchre, was ' from Jerusalem about and found it even so as the wo- threescore furlongs. And they men had said; but him they t liked together of all these saw not. Then he said unto things which had haj)pened. them, O iboN, and slow of And it came to pass, that while heart, to believe all that t!ic they communed together, and pr{)])hels have spoken ! inv/JA reasoned, Jesus himself drew not Clirist to liave suffered n'^ar, and went with them, tfjese things, and to enter into But their eyes were holdcn. His glory? And beginning at that they sliould not know him. Moses and all the j)ro})ljets, lie And he said unto them. What expounded unto them in ail the manner of commnnications are Scriptures, the things concern- these that ye have oi^.e to an- ing himself. And they drew other, as ye walk, and are sad? nigh unto the village whither And one of them, whose name they went: and he made as was Cleopas, answering, said though he would have gone unto him. Art thou only a further : But they consfrumed stranger in Jerusalem, and Iiast him, saying. Abide wjtii u» ; not known the things which for it is towards evening, ancl are come to pass therein these the da\ is far spent. And he days? And he said unto them, went in to tarry with them. What things? And they said And it came to pass^ as he sat imto him, Concerning Jesus of at meat witii them, he took Naz ireti), wiio was a propliet bread, nnd blessed it,and brake, mighty in deed and word, be- and gave to them. And their f()re God and all tiie peojile : eyes were opened, and they and how the chief priests and knew him, and he vanished our rulers delivered him to be out of their sight. And they condemned to death, and have said one to another, Did not crucified him. But we trusted our heart burn within us, while that it had been he, whosiiould he talked with us by tiie way, have redeemed Israel: and be- and while he opened to us tlie side all this, tr>-day is the third Scriptures? And they rose up day since these things were the same hour, and returned done. Yea, and certain wo- to Jerusalem, and found the men also ot our company made eleven gathered together, and us astonished, who were early them that were with them, say- no] Tuesday in Eastkr-Week. ing. The Lord is risen indeed, laid him in a sepulclire. But and luitl) appeared unto Simon. God raised iiim from the dead: And they told what things were And lie was seen many days ot done in the w^ay, and how fie tliem which came up withiiini was known ofthem in breaking from Gahlee to Jerusalem,w]io of bread. are his witnesses unto the peo- ""r—w pie. And we declare unto Tuesday in Ea.sler-lVeek. you glad tidings, how tiiatthc The Collect. promise which was made unto ALniighty God, who tliro' the fathers, God hatli fulfilled rhine only begotten Son the same unto us their children, Jesus Christ iia-.t overcome in that he hath raised up Jesu« death, and opened unto us the again; as it is also written in gate of everlasting life ; we the second psalm. Thou art humbly beseech thee, that as, my Son, this day have I begot- hy thy special grace preventing ten thee. And as concerning us thou dost put into our minds that he raised him up from the good desires ; so by thy con- dead, now no more to return finwal help we may bruig the to corruption, he said on this same to good effect, through wise, I will give you the sure Jesus Christ our Lord, who mercies of David. Wherefore {Jveth and reigneth with thee he saith also in another psalm, and the Holy Ghost, ever one Thou shalt not suffer thine ho- (^od, world without end. — ly One to see corruption. For ■'■^/'?ra. David, after lie had served his for the Rpistle. Acts, xiii. 26. own generation, by the will of MEN and I)relhren, chil- God, fell on sleep, and was dren of the stock of A- laid unto his fathers, and saw braham, and whosoever among corruption : But he,whom God yo'j feal\;th God, to you is the raised again, saw nocorruption. word of this saKation sent. Be it known unto you there- For they that dwell at Jerusa- fore, men and bx-ethren, that lem, and their rulers, because through this man is preached tiiey knew liim nof, nor yet the unto you the forgiveness of voices of the proj)hets which sins: And by him all that be- are read every sabbath-day, licve are justified from all they ha\'e fulfilled them in con- things, from which ye could demning him. And though not be justified by the law of tliey found no cause of death Moses. Beware, therefore, lest in him, yet desired they Tilatti; that come upon you which is that he should be slain. And spoken of in the prophets. Be- when they had fulfilled all that hold, ye dcspisers, and wonder, was written of him, they took and pwrish : for I work a work him down from the tree, and in your days., -work whicli J The First Sunday after Easier. [Ill you shall in no wise believe, name among all nation!«,begin- tljoiigh a man declare it unto ning at Jerusalem. Ami yc you. are witnesses ot these things. riic Gospel. St. Luke, xkiv. .'3(i. '""i h'..SUS himself sto'xi in the The ftrst Sandmj ajlev Eastir. midst of them, and saith The ColUrt. unto them, Peace be unto you. A Lmighty Father, wholiast But thev \Viir<i terrified and af- Xa. given thine only Son to frighte.r, and sup|)os*.'d t!iat die for our sins, and to rise they had seen a spirit. And he again for our justification; said unto them. Why are ye grant us so to put away the troubled, anil wiiy do thoughts leaven of nualice and wicked- arise in your hearts ? Bjliold ness,tliat we may al way serve my hands and my feel, that it thee in pureness of living and is I jnyself: handle me, and truth, throiigh the merits of s>ie; for a spirit hath not flesh the same thy Son Jesus Christ and bones, as ye see me have, our Lord. Amen. And when he had thus spoken, The Epistle. 1 St. John, v. 4. he showed them his hands and TTT^Hatsocver is born of his feet. And while Ihey yet \ V God, overcometh the believed not for joy, and woo- world ; and this is the victory dered, he said unto them. Have thai: overcometh the world, ye here any meat ? And they even our faith. Who is lie that gave him a piece of a broiled overcometh the world, but ho fish, and of an honey-comb, that believelh that Jesus is the And he took it, and did eat Son of God ? This is he that before them. And he said un- came by water and blood, even to them. These are the words Jesus Christ; iK>t by water which I 'ipake unto you wliile only, but by water and blood; 1 was yet with you, that all and it is the Spirit ti)at bear- things must be fulfilled whicii eth witness, becauie the Spi- were written in the law of Mo- rit is trati). For there are three SOS, and in the Prophets, and that beir record in Fleaven, in the Psalms, concerning ii:e. the Father, the Word, and the Then opened he their undtn- Holy Ghost : and these three standing, that they might un- are one. And there are three dcrstand the scriptures; and. that bear witness in earth, the said unto them, Tims it is writ- spirit, and tiie water, and the ten, and thus it behoved Christ blood : and these three a"-ree to suffer, and to rise from the in one. If we receive the dead the third day; and lliat witness of men, the witness of repentance and remission of God is greater : lor this is the SJLS should be p.eic led in his witnessofGqd, which he hath K 2 ^ 11»2] The Second SiuKlaj after Easier. testified ot his San. He that we may always most thank fiil- l)dieveth on the Son of God, Jy receive that his inestima- liath the witness in himself: he ble benefit, and also daily en- that believeth not God, hath deavor ourselves to follow the raadehimaliar, becjusehe be- blessed steps of his most holy lievethnot the record that God life, through tiie same Jesus gave of his Son. And this is Christ our Lord, yhnen. the record^ that God hath giv- T/te Epistle. 1 St. Pet. ii. 19. en to us cternaHife ; and this ^ I ^HIS is thank-worthy, if a life is in his Son. He that hath X man for conscience to- the Son, halh life ; and he that ward God endure grief, suffer- hath not the Son, hath not life, ing wrongfully. For what The Gospel. St. John, xx. 19. glory is it, if when ye be buf- THE same day at evening, fetted for your faults, ye shall being the first day of the take it patiently ? But if, when week,^ when the doors were ye do well, and suffer for it, ye shut, where the disciples were take it patiently, this is accept- assembled for fear of the Jews, able with God. For even here- came Jesas and stood in the unto were ye called ; because midst, and saith un'o them, Christ also sufiered for us, leav- Peucebeuntoyou. And when ing us an example, that ye he had so said, he showed un- should follow iiis steps^: Wlio to them his hands and his side, did no sin, neither was guile Then were the disciples glad found in his mouth : Who, wJicn when they saw the Lord. Then he was reviled, reviled not said Jesus to them again. Peace again; when he suil'ered, he be unto you : As my Father threatened not ; but coramit- hath sent me, even so send I ted himself to him that judgeth you. And when he had said righteously: Who his own self this, he breathed on them, and bare our sins in his own body naith unto tliem. Receive ye on the tree, that we, being the Holy Ghost: Wliose so- dead to sin, should live unto <iver sins ye remit, they are re- righteousness: by whose stripes mitted unto them : and whose ye were healed. For ye were ttoever sins ye retain, they are as shec[) going astray ; but are ri;tained. now returned unto the Sliep- ■MM herd and Bishop of" your souls. The second S'undiii/ after Easter. The Gospel. St. Jolin, x. 1 I. The Collect. TESUS said, Tam the good ALmighty God, who hast J shepherd : the good shep- given thine only Son to herd giveth his life for the be unto us both a sacrifice for sheep. But he that is an hire- sin, and also an ensample of ling, and not tlie shepherd, godly hfej give us grace that wliose own the sheep are not, The Thirvl SiiiKlav alUr Ea^tlu. [IIS seeth tlic wolf coming, and shall bcliold, ^lority Gi>d in th'j Icavcth the sheep, and tleeth ; day ol" visitation. Siiliiuityoiir- and the wolt" catchcth tluMn, selves to every onlinance of and scatlereth the she.*p. The man for the Lord's sake ; vvhe- hirc'lin)^ flectli because lie is an ther it be to tjie king, as su- hireliiig,and careth not for the prenu- ; or unto governors, as sheep. I am the good shep- unto them tiiat are sent by liim, herd, and know my sheep, and for the punishment of evil do- am known of mine. As the ers, and lor the praise of them Father knoweth me, even so tliat do well. For so is the will know I the Father: And I lay ot God, that witii well doing down my life for tiie sheep, ye may put to silence the igno- Anil other sheep I have, which ranee of foolish mm : as free, arc not of this told ; them also and not using your liberty for I must bring, and they shall a cloak of maliciousness; but as hear my voice ; and there shall the servants of God. Honor be one fold and ont^ shepherd, all men : Lovethebrolherhood: ^ Fear God : Honor the king. The third Sumhiy after Eader. Tfic Gosvel. St. John,-yvi. 16. The Collect . TFSUS said to his disciples, VLmightyGocl, who show- *J A little while and ve shall fst to them that are in er- not see me ; and again, a littki ror the light of thy truth, to while and ye shall see me : be- tlie intent that they may re- cause I go to tiie Father. Then turn into the way of righteous- said some of his disciples, ness ; grant unto all those who among themselves, Wiiat is this are admitted into the fellow- tiiat he saiih unto us^ A little ship of Christ's religion, that while and ye shall not see me; they may avoid those things and again, a little whUe and that are contrary to their pro- ye shall see me ; and, because lession, and follow all sut h I go to the Father ? They said things as are agreeable to the therefore, What is this (ii;it he same, through our Lord Jesus saith, A little while ? we euu- Christ. Amtn, not tell what he sailh. Now Tie T.pistlc. 1 St. Pet. ii. H. Jesus knew that they were de- Early beloved, I beseech siroiis to ask iiim, and Siiid un D you, as strangers and pil- to them, poye enquire among grims,abslainfrom fleshly lusts, yourselves of that 1 ^aiil, A lii- which war against the soul ; tie while and ye shall not see having your conversation ho- me ; and agaiii, a little while ne>t among tlie Gentiles ; that and ye shall see me r Verily, whereas they speak against verily I say unto you, that ve you as evil doers, they may by siiall wee}) and lament, but the \ our good yvorks, which they world shuli rejoice :• and yc Ill-] The Fourth Sunday after Easter. shall be sorrovvfiii, hut your ofman worketh not the righte- sorrow shall be turned into joy. outness of God. WJiereforo A woman when she is in tra- lay apart all filthlness and su- vail liath sorrow, because her perflui tyol naughtiness, and ro- hour is come : but as soon as ceive with meek.«ess, the en- she is delivered of the child, grafted word, which is able to j^she rerae-iijbereth no more the save your souls, anguish, for joy that a man is The Gospel. St. John, xvi. 5. born into the world. And ye TESUS said unto his disci- J now therefore have sorrow : %3 pies, Nov/ I go my way to but I will sec you again, and him that sent me, and none of your heart shall rejoice, and yoH asketh me. Whither goest your joy no man taketh from thou ? But because I have said you. i\\(i?.Q things unto you, sorrovy — Ml hath iilled your heart. Never- The fourth Sunday aflei- Easter, theless I tell you the truth ; it The Collect. is expedient t()r you that I go OAhnighty God, who a- away : for if I go not away, lone canst order the unru- the Comforter will not come ly wills and affections of sinful ^^ito you ; but if I depart, I men; grant unto thy people, will send him unto you. And that they may love the thing when he is come, he will re- which tliou commandest, and prove the world ol" sin, and of desire that which tliou dost righteousness, and of judg- promise ; that so, among the ment : Of sin ; because they sundry and manitiDld changes believe not on me : Ofrightc- of the world, our hearts may ousness ; because I go to my surely there be fixed, where Father, and ye see me no more: true joys are to be found, thro' Of judgment ; because the Jesus Christ our Lord. .'hneu. prince of this world is judged. The Epistle. St. James, i. 17. -^ have yet many things to say EVERY good gift, and eve- unto you, but ye ca'uiot bear ry perfect gift is from them now. Ho\\bL-it, when above, and comelh down irom he, the Spirit of truth, is come, tlieFa'lier of lights, with whom he will guide you into all truth : is no variableness, neither sha- for he shall not speak of him- dow of turning. Of his own self; but whatsoever he shall will begat he us with tlie word hear, that shall he speak ; and of truth, that we should be a he will show you things to kind of first fruits of his crea- come. He sliall glorify mc : tares. Wherefore, my belov- for he siiall receive of mii.e, ed bretliren, let every man be and sliall sliow it unto yoa. All swift to hear, slow to speak, things that t'le Father hadi, are slow to wrath j for the wrath mine ; therefore said I^ tiiat he Tlif Fifth Sunday after Eastek. [J 15 .?hall take of mine, and shall BnIc the Father in my name, he ^how it unto you. will give it you. Hitherto — have ye asked nothing in my The fijlh Sunday after Easter, name: Ask, and ye sliail rc- T/ie CoLect. ccive, that your joy may be OLord, from wliom all i'ull. Thej^e things have I good things do come ; spoken unto you in proverbs : •;Tant to us thy humble ser- the time conicth vvhen I shall \ants, thai by thy holy inspira- no more speak unto you in pro- tion \vc may think those things verbs; but 1 si. all show _)ou that are good, and by thy mer- plainly of the Father. At that ciful guiding may perform the day ye shall ask in my name : same, through our Lord Je- and I say not unto you, that I sus Christ. Anun. will pray the Father for you ; The Epistle. St. Jaincs, i.22. for the Father himself lovelh BI'w ye doers of the word, you, because ye have loved me, and not hearers only, de- and have believed that I came reiving your own selves. For out from God. 1 came forth if any be a hearer of the word, from the Father, and am come and not a doer, he is like unio a into the world : Again, I leave man beiiolding his natural face the world and go to the Fa- in a glass-. For he beholdeth ther. His disciples said unto himself, and goeth his way, and him, Lo, now speakest thou straightway forgetteth what plainly, and speakest no pro- manner of man he was. But verb. Now are we sure that who^o looketh into the perfect thou knowcst all things, and law of libertv, and continueth nccdest not that any man should therein, he being not a forget- ask thee: by this we believe ful hearer, but a doer of the that thou earnest forth from work, this man shall be blessed God. Jesus answered them, in his deed. Ifanv man among Do ye now believe r Behold, you seem to be religious, and the hour cometh, yea, is now bridleth not his tongue, but de- come, that ye shall be scattered ceiveth his own heart, this every man to his own and shall m.in's religion is vain. Pure leave me alone: and yet I am religion and undefiled before not alone, because the Father God and the Father, is this, is with me. These things I To visit the fatherless and wi- have spoken unto sou, that in dows in their ailliction, and to me ye might have peace. Li keep himself unspotted from the world } e shall lia\e tribu- the world. lation ; but be of good clieer. The Gospel. St. John, xvi. '2'3. I hiive overcame th(*\vorld. \;rERlLY, verilv I say unto } ou, Whatsoever ye sh.all 116] ASCENSION-DAY. The Ascension Dai/. And he said unto them, It is The Collect. not for you to know the times GRANT, wc beseech tliee, or the seasons, which the Fa- Ahnighty God, that like ther hath put in his own pow- as we do beheve thy only be- er. But ye shall receive pow- gotten Son our Lord Jesus er, after that the Holy Ghost Christ to liave ascended into is come upon you : and ye shall the heavens ; so we may also be witnesses unto me both in in heart and mind thither as- Jerusalem, and in all Judea, cend, and with him continual- and in Samaria, and unto the ly dwell, who livcth and reign- uttermost part of the earth. eth with ihQQ. and the Holy And when he had spoken these Ghost, one God, world with- things, while they beheld, he out end. Ainen. was taken up, and a cloud re- Fnr the Epistle. Acts,!. 1. ceived him out of their sight. THE former treatise have I And while they looked sted- made, O Theophiliis, of fastly toward heaven, as he ' all that Jesus began both to do went up, behold, two men and teach, until the day in stood by them in white appa- which he was taken up, after rel ; which also said, Ye men that he, through the Holy of Galilee, why stand ye gaz- Ghost, had given command- ing up into heaven ? This same ments unto the apostles whom Jesus, which is taken up from he had chosen. To whom al- you into heaven, shall so come *so he showed himself alive af- in like manner as ye have seen ter his passion, by many infal- him go into heaven, lible proofs, being seen of them The Gospel. St. Mark, xvi. 1 k forty days, and speaking of the TESUS appeared unto the things pertaining to the king- «J eleven, as they sat at meat, dom of God : And being as- and up!)raided them with their sembled together with them, unbelief and hardness of heart, commanded them that they because they believed not them should not depart I'rom Jerusa- which had seen him after he lem, but wait for the promise was risen. And he said unto of the Father, which, saith he, them. Go ye into all the world, ye have heard of me. For and preach the Gospel toevery John truly b.iplised wiih wa- creature. Ht3 thiit believeth, ter ; but ye shall be baptised and is baptised, shall be sav- vvith the Holy Ghost, not ma- ed ; but he that bclieveth not ny days hence. When they shall be damned. And these therefore were come together, signs shall follow them thatbe- theyaskedofhim, saying, Lord, lieve ; In mv Name shall they wilt thou at this time restore cast out devils; they shall spi'ak again the kingdom to Israel? with new tongues; they shall S^inday after As CENSiON-Dw, and W'hitsun'day. [117 take up serpents ; aiKlilllicy oracles of God: If any ma drink, any deadly thing, it shall minister, let liiin do it as ol" ih mail the not Iiiirt them; they sliail lay ability wliicii God givefh : lliat hands on the sick, and they God in all things may be glc siiall recover. So then, after rifled tlirougli Jesus Christ : to theLord had spoken unto them, whom be praise and dominion he was received up into hea- for ever and ever. /imcn. • ven, and sat on the right hand The Gospel. St. Joiin, xv. 26. of God. And they went forth, and part of the 1 6lh Chapter. and preached every where, the TTT^HEN the Comforter i^ Lord working with them, and VV come, whom I will send c onfirming the word with signs unto )ou from the Father, even following. the Sj)irit of Truth, which pro- ^ ceedeth from the Father, he Sundfij/ ojler Ascension- Day, shall testify of me. And ye The Collect. also shall bear w itness ; because OGOD, the king of glory, ye have been with me from the who hast exalted thine beginning. These things have onlySonJesusChrist with great I sj)oken unto you, tJiat ye triumph unto tliy kingdom in should not be oflended. They iieaveii; webeseech thee leave shall put you out of the syna- us not comfortless; but send gogues; yea, the time cometh, to us thine Holy Ghost to com- that whosoever killeth you, ibrt us, and exalt us unto the will think that he doeth God sameplace whither our Saviour service. And these things will Christ is gojie before, who liv- they do unto you, because they eth and reigneth with thee and have not known the Father, the Holy Ghost, one God, nor me : but these things have world without end. Amen. I told you, that when the time The Kpistlc. 1 St. Pet. iv. 7. shall come ye may remember TFIE end of all things is at that I told you of them, hajid : be ye therelore so- — i ber, and watch unto prayer. Jl'hitsiindaj/. And above all things haxeier- The Collect. ventcharityamongyourselves: /'^GOD,\vhoas at this time for charity shall cover the mul- V^ didst teach the hearts of titude of sins. V^c hospitidity thy faithful people, by sending one to another witlu)ut grudg- to them the light of thy Holy ing. As every man hath re- Spirit; grant us by the same cejved the gift, even so minis- Spirit to have aright judgment ter the same one toanotlier, as in all things, and evermore to good stewards of the manifold rejoice in his holy comfort, grace of God. If any man through the merits of Christ fi]>eak, let him speak as tlie Jesus our Saviour, wlio livcl'- 118] WHITSUNDAY. and reigneth with thee, in tlie we do hear them speak in our unit^' ot the same Spirit, one tongues the wonderful works God, world without end. — of" God. jimen. The Gospel. St. John, xiv. 15. For the Epistle. Acts, li. i. TESUS said unto his disci- WHEN die day ofPente- J pies, Ifyeloveme, keep my cost was fully come, commandments. And I will they were all with one accord pray tlie Father, and he shall in one place : And suddenly give you another Comforter, there came a sound from hea- that he may abide with you for vcn, as of a rushing mighty ever; even the Spirit of truth, wind, and it filled all the house whom the world cannot re- A\hcre they were sitting. And ceive, because it seeth him not, there appeared unto themclo- neither knoweth him : but ye , ven tongues, like as of fire, and know him; for he dwelleth it sat upon each of them : and with you, and shall be in you. they were all filled with the I will not leave you comfort- Holy Ghost; and began to less; I will come to you. Yet speak with other tongues, as a little while and the world the spirit gave them utterance, seeth me no more ; but ye see^ And there were dwelling at Je- me ; because I live, ye shall rusalem Jews, devout men, out live also. At that day ye shall of every nation under heaven, know that I am in my FathcT, Now when this was noised and ye in me, and I in you. abroad, the multitude came to- He that hath my command- gether, and were confounded, ments, and keepelh them, he because that every man heard it is that lovcth me ; and he them speak in his own Ian- that loveUi me shall be loved guage. And they were all of my Father : and I will love amazed, and marvelled, saying him, and will manifest myself oue to another. Behold, are to him. Judas saith unto him, not all these which sj)eak Ga- (not Iscariol) Lord, how is it lileans r and how hcarwe eve- that thou wilt manifest thy- ry man in our own tongue self unto us, and not unto the wherein we were born ? Par- world ? Jesus answered and thians, and Modes, and Elam- said unto him. If a man love ites, and the dwellers in Me- me, he will keep my words ; ^opotamia, and in Judea, and and my Father will love him, Capadocia, in Pontus, and A- and we will come unto him, sia, Phrygia, and Pamphilia, in and make our abode with him. Egypt, and in the parts of Ly- He that loveth me not, keep- bja about Gyrene, and stran- eth not my sayings : and the gers of Rome, Jews and Pro- word which ye hear is not selytcs, Crctes and Arabians 3 mine, but Irfie Father's which Monday in WnriSL'K-\\'i.EK. [12! sent me. These things have sus our Saviour, who liveth and I spoken unto you, being yet rcigneth with thee, in f he unity jiresent with you. But tlie of the same Spirit, one God, Comforter, whieh is the Holy world witliout end. yhncn. Ghost, whom the Father will /v;r (he Epistle. Acts, x. 34. send in my liame, he shall teach ^T^HEN Peter opened his you all things, and bring all X mouth, and said, Oi" a things to your remembrance, truth I perceive that God is no whatsoever I have said unto respecter of persons; but in cv- you. Peace I leave with you, cry nation, he that feareth him my peace I give unto you : not and worketh righteousness, is as the world giveth, give I un- accepted with him. TJie word to you. Let not your heart which God sent unto the chil- be troubled, neither let it be dren of Israel, ])reaching peace afraid. Ye have heard how I by Jesus Christ, (he is Lord of said unto you, I go away, and all.;) that word, I say, ye know- come again unto you. If ye which was published through- loved me, ye would rejoice, out all Judea, and began from because I said, I go unto the Galilee,afterthebnpiism\A'hich Father : for my Father is great- John preached : How God a- er than I. And now I Jiave nointed Jesus of Nazareth with told you before it come to pass, the Holy Ghost, and with pow- that when it is come to pass, ye er ; who went about doing might believe. Hereafter I good, and healing all that were will not talk much with you : oppressed of the devil ; for for the prince of this world God was with him. And we Cometh, and hath nothing in are witnesses of all tilings me. But that tjie world may which he did, both in the land know that I love the Fatiier ; of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; and as the Father gave me whom they slew, and hanged commandment, even so I do. on a tree: Him God raised -^ up the third day, and showed Monday in Wliitaun- Week. him openly ; not to all the peo- The Collect. pie, but unto witnesses chosen OGOD,whoasatthistime before of God ; even to us, didst teach tlie liearts of who did eat and drink with thy faithful people, by sending him after he rose from the dead, to them the light of thy Holy And he commanded us to Spirit ; grant us by the same preach unto the people, and to Spirit to have a right judgment testify that it is lie which was or- in all things, and evermore to dained of God to be the judge rejoice in his holy comfort, of quick and dead. To him (hrouch the merits of Christ Jo- give all the Prophets witness-, •4w J 22] Tuesday in Whitsun-Week. that through his Name, who- eth to the hglit, lest his deeds soever believeth in liim, shall should be reproved. But he recei\'e remission of sins, that doeth trutli cometh to the While Peter yet spake these light, that his deeds may be words, the Holy Ghost fell on made manifest, that they are all them who heard tlie word, wrought in God. And they of the circumcision —i who believed, were astonished, Tuesday in Whitsun-Week. as many as came with Peter, The Collect. because that on. the Gentiles /^ GOD, who as at this time also was poured out the gift of V^ didst teach the hearts of the Holy Ghost. For they tiiy faithful people, by sending heard them speak with tongues, to them the light of thy Holy and magnify God. Then an- Spirit; grant us by the same swered Peter, Can any man for- Spirit to have aright judgment bid water, that these shoold not in all things, and evermore to be baptised, who have receiv- rejoice in his holy comfort, cd the Holy Ghost as well as through the merits of Christ Jc- we? And he commanded them sus our Saviour, wlio livetli to be baptised in the name of and reigneth with thee, in tlie the Lord. Then prayed they unity of the same Spirit, one him to tarry certain days. God, world without end. — The Gospel. St. John, iii. 16. Amen. /^ OD so loved the world. For the Epistle. Acts, viii. 14. gotten Son, that whosoever be- V V were at Jerusalem, heard that he gave his only be- TT7 HEN the Apostles, who y V wer lieveth in him should not per- that Samaria had received the ish, but have e\'erlasting life, word of God, they sent unto For God sent not his Son into them Peter and John ; who, the world to condemn the when they were come down, world, but that the world thro' prayed for them, that they him might be saved. He that might receive the Holy Ghost : believeth on him is not con- (For as yet he was fallen upon dcmned : but he that believeth none of them; only they were not is condemned already, be- baptised in the name of the cause he hath not believed in Lord Jesus:) Then laid they the Name of the only begotten their hands on them, and they Son of God. And this is the recei\ed the Holy Ghost, condemnation, that light is The Gospel. St. John, x. I. come into the world, and men "T TERILY, verily I say unto loved darkness ratiier than light V } ou, He that enteretii not because their deeds v^ere evil, by the door into the sheep- For every one that doeth evil fold, but climbclli up some hatetli the light, neither com- other way, the siunc is a thief TRINITY SUNDAY. [123 and a robber. But he that en- seech ihcc tliat thou wouUlest tereth in by the door, is the keep u^ stcdtast in this faith, shepherd of tliciheep. Toliim and evermore delend u^ frony the porter opcnetii ; and the all advcrsitie:?, who h\ est and sheep hear his voice; and he reignest,onc God, vvorKl u it!v- calleth his own sheej) by name, out end. J/ncn. and leadeth them out. And for the Epist/c. Rev. iv. I. when he putteth tbrth his own A FTKR this I looked, and sheep, he goeth before tliein, jnLbeho!d,a door was opened and tlie sheep follow him ; lor in heaven : and the first voice they kndw his voice: and a which I heard, was as it were stranger will they not follow, of a triimj)et, talking with me ; but Will flee liom him; fortiiey which said. Come up hither, know not the voice ofstrangers, and I will show thee things This parable spake Jesus unto which must be hereafter. And them ; but they understood not immediately I was in the Si)irit ; what things they were which and beheld, a throne was set he spake unto them. Then in heaven, and one sat on the said Jesus unto tlieni again, throne: and he that sat was to Verily, verily I say unto you, look upon like a jasper and a I am the door of the sheep : sardine stone : and there was All that ever came before me, a rain-bow round about the are tiiieves and robber?; but throne, in sight like unto an the sheep did not hear tliem. emerald. And round about the I am the door: by me if any throne were four and twenty man enter in, he shall be saved, seats ; and upon the seats I saw and shall go in and out, and four and twenty elders sitting, find pasture. The thief com- cloathed in white raiment ; eth not but for to steal, and to and they had on their heads kill, and to destroy: lamcome crowns of gold : and out of the tliat they might have life, and throne proceeded lightnings, that they migiit have it more and thunderings, and voices, abundantly. And tliere were seven lamps of ■ — fire burning before the throne, Triniiij Sundaj/. which are the seven sp;rits of Tlie Collest. God. And before the throne, A Lmiglity and everlasting there was a sea of glass, like JTjl God, who hastgiven unto unto crystal. And in the midst ui thy servants grace, by tin; of the throne, and round about confession of a true faith, to tJie throne, were tour beasts acknowledge tiie glory of the full of eyes before and behind: eternal Trinity, and in the And the fir.st beast was like a power of the divine Majesty lion, and the second beast like to worship tlie Unity; we be- a calf, and the third beast had iSlj The First Sunday after Trinity. a face as a man, and the fourtli Verily, verily I say unto tliec, beast was like a flying eagle, except a man be born ot" water. And the four beasts had each and of tlic Spirit, lie cannot of them six wings about him ; enter into (he kuigdom of God. and they were full of eyes That wliich is born of tjie flesh, within : and they rest not day is flesh ; antl that which is bom and night, saying. Holy, holy, of the Spirit, is spirit. Marvel holy. Lord God Almighty, who not that I said unto thee, yc was, and is, and is to come, mustbe born again. The wind And when those beasts give bloweth where it listeth, and glory, and honor, and thanks thou hearest the sound thereof, to Jiim that sat on the throne, but canst not tell whence it who Hveth for ever and ever, coraelh,and whither it goeth; the four and twenty elders fall so is every one that is born of down before him that sat on the Spirit. Nicodemus an- the throne, and worship him swercd and said unto him, How (hat liveth for ever and ever, can these things be r Jesus an- and cast their crowns before swered and said unto him. Art the throne, saying. Thou art thou a master of Israel, and v/orthy, O Lord, to receive knowest not these things? glory, and honor, and power; Verily, verily I say unto thee, lor thou hast created all things, we speak that we do know, anrl for thy pleasure they arc, and testify that we have seen; and were created. and yc receive not our witness. 'the Gospel. St. John, iii. I. If I have told you earthljr THERE was a man of the tilings, anci ye believe not; Pharisees, named Nico- how shall ye believe, if I tell demus, a ruler of the Jews: you of heavenly things? And The same came to Jesus by J'o man hatii ascended up (o niglU,and said unto him, Rabbi, heaven, but he that came we know that thou art a teach- down from heaven, even the cr come from God: For no Son of man, who is in heaven, man can do these miracles that And as Moses lifted u}) the ser- 4hou docst," except God be pent in the wilderness, exen so with him. Jesus answered must the Son of man be lifted and said unto him. Verily, up 5 that whosoever believeth verily I say unto thee, except in him, sh.ould not perish, but a man be born again, be cannot have eternal life, see die kingdom of God. Ni- — ■■■ codemus saith unto him. How The fust Sniidai/ ajler Trin/'h/. can a man be born- when he is T/te Collect. old? can he enter the second /^ GOD, the strength of all time into his mother's womb, V_>/ those who put their trust and be born? Jesus answered, in dice, mercifully accept our The First Sanday after Trinity. [1^:. prayers; aiul bLcaiisc, tliroiigli that (Iwclk-tli in love, clwellcth the weakness of our mortal lui- in God, and (rod in him. tare, wecan do no good thin;r Hereiii is our love made per- wilhout thee, jijrantus thelulp feet, tliat \vc may have bold- oi' tiiy graee, that in keei)ing neiss in the day of judgment; t!iy commandments we may because as he is, so are we ia please thee, botli in will and tins world. There is no fear deed, through Jesus Clirist our in love; but perfect love cast- Lord. .Iiucii. cth out fear; because fear hath 77/e/'^/)/*//f. 1 St. Jojn, iv. 7. torment: He that feareth, is Bi^IoveJ, let us Io\e one an- not made perfect in love. -We other; for love is of God, love him, because he firstloscd and everyone thatloveth, is us. If a man say, I love God, born ofGod,andknoweth God. and hateth his brother, he is a He that loveth not, knowelh iiar: ibr he that loveth not his not God; for God is love. In brother, wiiom he hath sc^en, this was manifested the love how can he love God, whom of God towards us, because he hath not seen? And tliis that God sent his only begot- commandment have we from ten Son into the world, that him, that he who loveth God, we might live through him. love his brother also. Herein is love, not that we The Gnsptl. St. Luke, xvi. 19. loved God, but that he loved 'THHERE was a certain rich us, and sent his Son to be the JL man, who was cloathtd in propitiation for our sins. Be- purj)le and fine linen, and fared loved, if God so loved us, we sumptuously every day. And ought also to love one another, there was a certain beggar. No man hath seen God at any named Lazarus, who was laid time. If we love one another, at his gate, full of sores ; and God dwelleth in us, and his desiring to be fed witJi tiie love is perfected iiA us. Hereby crumbs which fell from tlip rich know we that we dwell in him, man's table: moreover the and he in us ; because he liatli dogs came and licked his sores, given us of Ids Spirit. And Aik! it came to pass that the we have seen and do testily, beggar died, and was ("arried that the Father sent the Son by the angels into Abraham's to be the Saviour of the world, bosom : the rich man also dl- Whosoevcr sl.ail confess that ed, and was buried : and in hell Jesus is the Son of God, God he lift up his eyes, being in tor- dwellcth in him, and he in God. m-nts, and seeth Abraham afar And we have known and be- off', and Lazarus in his bosom, hevcd the love that God hath And he cried, and said, Fa- i«j us. Gji is love; and he ther Abraham, have mercy on L 2 12()] The Second Sunday after Tin nit v. me, and send Lazarus, tliat he perpetual fear and lo\c of iJi v may dip the tip of his finger in holy Name, through Jesus water, and cool my tongue; Clirist our Lord. /hnen. for I am tormented in this flame. The Rpistle. 1 St. John, iii. 1 3 . But Abraham said. Son, re- A /|"Arvel not, my brethren, member that thou in thy life- iVA if the world hate you. time receivedst thy good things. We know that we have passed and likewise Lazarus evil from death unto life, because things ; but now he is comfort- we love the brethren. He that ed, and thou art tormented, loveth not his brother, abideth And besides all this, between in death. Whosoever Iiateth us. and you there is a great his brother, is a murderer : and gulph fixed : so that they who ye know that no murderer would pass from hence to you, hath eternal \\{'g abiding in liim. cannot ; neither can they pass Hereby perceive we the love to us that would come from of God, because lie laid down thence. Then he said, I pray his life for us : and we ouglit thee therefore, father, that thou to lay down our lives for the wouJdest send him to my fa- brethren. But whoso hath this therms house: for I have five world's good, and seeth his bro- brethren: that he may testify ther have need, and shutteth wnto tliem, lest they also come up his bowels of compassion into this place of.torment. A- from him; how dwelleth the braham saith unto him. They love of God in him? xMy little have Moses and the Prophets ; children, let us not love in let them hear tliem. And he word, neither in tongue ; but said. Nay, father Abraham ; in deed, and in truth. And but if one went unto them from hereby we know that we are the dead, they will repent, of the truth, and shall assure And he said unto him. If they our hearts before him. For if hear not Moses and the Pro- our heart condemn us, God is phets,neither will they be per- greater than our heart, and suaded, though one rose from knoweth all things. Beloved, the dead. if our heart condemn us not, mm then have we confidence to- T/ie second Simday after Trindi/. wards God. And whatsoever The Collect. we ask, we receive of him, be- OLord, who never failest cause we keep his command- to help and govern those ments, and do those things that whom thou dost bring up in thy are pleasii^.g in his sight. Ami stedfiist fear and love ; keep us, this is his commandment. That we beseech thee, under the weshould believe on the Name protection of tliy good provi- of his Son Jesus Christ, and ience, and make us to luive a love one another, as he gave us The Third Sunday altv^r 'J'rim'I v. [127 commandment. And lie that The third Sunday after Trinilj. kocpeth his commandmcntii. The Collect. dvvclleth inhim, andhe in him : /^~\ Lord, wc beseech thee and hereby we know that he V_y mercihilly to hear us ; abideth in us, by the Spirit and grant that we, to whom whieh he hatli given us. thou hast given an hearty de- Thc Gospel. St. Luke,xiv. 16. sire to ]">ray, may, by thy migh- A Certain man made a great ty aid, be defended and com- supper, and bade many ; tbrted in all dangers and ad- and sent his servant at supper versities, through Jesus Christ time, to say to them tltat were our Lord. Anicii. bidden. Come, for all things The Epistle. 1 St. Peter, v. 5. are now ready. And they all A LL of you be subject one w^ilji one consent began to JlJL to another, and be cloath- makc excuse: The first said ed with humility : for God re- U!Uo him, I have bought a sisleth the proivd, and givetii piece of ground, and I must grace to the humble. Hum- needs go and see it; I pray ble yourselves therefore under thee have me excused : And the mighty hand of God, that another said, I have bought he may exalt you in due time : five yoke of oxen, and 1 go to casting all your care upon him ; pro\ e them ; I pray thee have for he careth for you. Be so- meexcused: And another said, ber, be vigilant ; because your I have married a wife, and adversary the devil, as a roaring therefore I cannot come. So lion, vvalketh about, seeking that servant came, and showed whom he may devour : whojii liis Lord these things. Then resist, stedfast in the fiiith ; the Master of the house, being knowing that the same alHic- angry, said to hisservant. Go tionsare accomplished in your out cjuickly into the streets and brelhrcn that arit in lire vso; Id. lanes of tjie city, and bring in But the God of all grace, wlio hither the poor, and the maim- hath called us unto Iiis eternal ed, and the halt, and the blind, glory by Christ Jesus, after AvA the servant said. Lord, it that ye have suifered a while, is done as thou hast command- make you perfcK^t, stablish, ed, and yet there is room. And strengthen, settle you. Toliim the Lord ^uid unto the servant, be glory and dominion forever (jo out into the highways and and ever. Amen. hedges, and compel them to r//e Ga9pt/. St. Luke, xv. I. come in, that my house may nHHEN drew near unto him be filled : for I say unto you, X all the Publicaiis and sin- that none of those men which ners lor to hear bin:;. AwA the were bidden shall taste of my Pharisees and Scribes murmur- s ••pper. ed, saying, This m :r - c'-:v.rh 123] Tiic Fourth Sunday alter Tp.inity. sinners, and eatetli with them, guide, we may so pass througli And he spake this parable unto things temporal, that we final- them, sayingf What man of ly lose not the things eternal : you having an hundred sheep, Grant this, O heavenly Father, if he lose one of ihcm, doth not for Jesus Christ's sake our leave the ninety and nine in the Lord, u-hncn. wilderness, and go after that T/te Epistle. Rom. viii. 18. which is lost, until he find it ? T Reckon that the sufferings And when he hath found it, he A of this present time are not layeth it on his shoulders, re- worthy to be compared with joicing. Awd when he cometh the glory which shall be reveal- home, he calleth together his ed in us. For the earnest ex- friends and neighbours, saying pectation of the creature wait- unto them, Rejoice with me, eth for the manifestation of liie for I have found my sheep sons of God. For the creature which was lost. I say unto you, was made subject to vanity, that likewise joy shall be in not willingly, but by reason of heaven over one sinner that re- him who hath subjected the penteth, more than over ninety same in hope : because the and nine just persons, which creature itself also shall be de- need no repentance. Either livered from the bondage of what woman ha\ ing ten pice- corruption, into the glorious es of siher, if she lose one liberty of the children of God. piece, doth not light a candle. For we know that the whole and sweep the house, and seek creation groanetli, iwid travail- diligently till she find it ? And eth in pain together until now : when she hath found it, she And not only they, but oiir- caileth iier friends and her selves also which luive the first neighbours together, saying, fruitsof theS])iril,even weour- Rejoice with me, for I have selves gronn williin ourselves, found the piece which I had waitingfor theadoption,to wit, lost. IJkwise, I say unto you, the redem))tion of our body. There is joy in the presence of T/ie Gospel. St. I.uke, vi. 36. the angels of God over -— '- one \y ^' y- therclore merciful, as XJ your Father also is merci- sinner that repentcLh. ■I1II ful. Judge not, and ye shall The. fourth Svjiduij after Trinity . not be judged : condemn not. The Collect. and ye shall not be condemn- O GOD, the protector of all ed : forgive and ye shall be that trust in thee, with- forgi\en : give, and it shall be out whom nothing isstrong, no- givtn unto you; good mea- tliing is holy ; increase and sure, pressed down, and shak- rudti})!y upon us thy laercy ; en together, and running over, that thou being oar ruler and shall men gi\'o into }our bo- The Fifth Sunday alicr Tkimiy. [l'2V >(>Qi. For with tlie same mca- inherit a blessing. For he that sure lluit yc mctc withal, it will love life, and see good shall be measured to you again, days, let him refrain his tongtit; And he spake a parable unto I'ronxrvil, and his lips that they tliem : Can the blind lead the speak noguilo: Letliim eschew blind? shall they not both fall evil, and do good; let him into the ditch ? Tiie disciple seek peace, and ensue it : For is not above his master ; but tlie eyes ol the Lord are over overy one tliat is perfect shall the righteou?, and his ears are be as iii-{ master. And why be- open unto their prayers: but boldest thou the mole that is in the lace of the Lord is against thy brother's eye, but perceiv- them that do evil. AirtI who est not tke beam that is in is he tliat will harm you^;' if yc thine own eye ? Either how be followers of that which is canst thou say to thy brother, good? But and if yc suffer for Brotlier, let me pull out the righteousness sak(>, happy are mote that is in thine eye, when ye: and be not afraid of tlieir thou thyself beiioldest not the terror, neither be troubled; but beam that is in thine own eye ? sanctify the Lord God in your Thou hypocrite, cast out first hearts. the beam out of thine own eye, -Ifie Gospel. St. Luke, v. 1 . and then shall thou see clearly TT came to j:>.iss, that as the to pull out the mote thai i^ in X people pressed upon him to thy brotiier's eye. hear the word of God, he stood ■■! by the lake of Gennesareth, Ti'te fiflli Sunday after Triniiy. and saw two ships standing by The Collect. the lake; but the fishermen GRANT, O Lortl, we be- "were gone out of them, anH seech thee, that the course were washing their nets. And of this world may be so })eace- he entered into one of the sj)ips, ably ordered by thy gr)vern- which was Simon's, and pray- ance, that thy Church may joy- ed him that he would thrust fully serve thee in all godly out a little from the land : and quietness, through Jesus Christ he sat down, and taught the our Lord. Amen. people out of the shi]). Now The Epistle. 1 St. Pel. iii. 8. when he had left speaking, he BF ye all of one mind, hav- said unto Simon, Launch out ing compassion one of an- into the deep, and letdown odier; love as brethren, be your nets for a draught. And pitiful, be courteous; not ren- Simon answering, said unto dering evil for evil, or railing him. Master, we have toiled for railing; but contrariwise, all the night, and have taken blessing; knowing that ye are nothing; r.evertheless, at th\ L.'icreuntocalK' l,that ve should word I will let down the net. 130] The Sixth Sunday after Trinity. And when they had this done, baptism into deatli; that hkc they enclosed a great multitude as Christ was raised up from of fishes, and their net brake, the dead by the glory of the And they beckoned unto their Father, exen so we also should partners which were in the walk in newness of life. For other ship, that they should if we have been planted toge- come and lielp them. And Iher in the likeness of his death, they came and filled both the we shall be also in the likeness ships ; so that they began to of his resurrection : Knowing sink. When Simon Peter saw this, that our old man iscruci- it, hefell down at Jesus'knees, fied with him, that the body of saying, Depart from me, for I sin might be destroyed, that am a sinful man, O Lord. For henceforth we should not serve he was astonished, and all that sin. For he that is dead, is were with him, at tjie draught i'le^d iwm sin. Now if we be of the fishes which they had dead with Christ, we believe taken ; and so was also James that we shall also live with him ; and John the sons of Zebedee, knowing that Christbeing rais- which were partners with Si- ed from tiie dead, dieth no r.ion. And Jesus said unto Si- more ; death hath no more do- mon. Fear not; from hence- minion over him. For in that forth thou shalt catch men. he died, he died unto sin once; And when they had brought but in that he liveth, he liveth tlicir ships to land, they forsook unto God. Likewise reckon all, and followed him. ye also yourselves to be dead — iiHii indeed unto sin ; but alive un- The sixih Sunday after Trinitj/. to God, through Jesus Christ The Collect. our Lord. O GOD, who hast prepared The Gospel, St.Matt. v. 20. for those who love thee, TESUS said unto his disci- such good things as pass man's J pies. Except your rightc- understanding; pour into our ousness shall exceed the righ- hearts such love towards thee, teousness of Scribes and Pha- that we, loving thee above all risees, ye shall in no case enter things,mavobtainthypromises, into the kingdom of heaven-, which exceed all that we can Ye have heard that it was said desire, through Jesus Christ by them of old time. Thou shalt our Lord. Amen. not kill ; and w'nosoever shall The Epistle. Rom. vi. 3. kill, shall be in danger of the KNOW ye not, that so ma- judgment. But 1 say unto you, ny of us as were baptised Tiiat whosoever is angry, witli into Jes.us Christ, were bap- liis brother, without a cause, tised into his deatji ? Therefore shall be in danger of the judg- we are burled with him by meat : and whosoever shall say Tlic Seventh Suiulay after Trinity. [131 to liis brothcF, Raca, shall be in to righteousness unto holiness, danger of the council : but For when ye were the servants whosoever shall say. Thou ol sin, ye were free Irom righ- fboi, shall be in clanger of hell- teousness. What fruit had ye fire. Therefore, il thou bring then in those things, whereof* thy gift to the altar, and there ye are now ashamed r for (he rememberest that thy brotlier end of those things is death, had ought against tliee, leave But now being made free from there thy gift before the altar, sin, and become servants to and go tiiy way, first be rccon- God, ye liave your fruit unto ciled to thy brother, and then holiness, and the end everlast- conie and offer thy gift. Agree ing life. For the wages of sin with thine adversary (juickly, is death : But tlic gift of God whiles tliou art in tlic way is eternal life, through Jesus with him ; lest at any time the Christ our Lord, adversary deliver tiiee to tlie The Gospel. St. Mark, viii. I. judge, and the judge deliver TN those days the multitude tliee to the officer, and thou be X being very great, and hav- cast into prison. Verily I say ing notiiing to eat, Jesus cal- iinto thee, thou shalt by no led his disciples unto him, and means come out thence, till saith unto them, I have com- thou hast paid the uttermost passion on the multitude, be- farthing. cause they have now been with ■ me three days, and have no- The seventh Sunday after Tri- tiling to eat : and if I send them niti/. away fasting to their own hous- The Collect. es, they will faint by the way : LORD of all power and for divers of them came Irom might, who art die author far. And his disciples an- and giver of all good things : swered him. From whence graft in our hearts the love of can a man satisfy these men thy name, increase in us true witJi bread herein the wilder- religion, nourish us with all ness ? And he asked them, goodness, and of thy great mer- How many loaves have ye? cy keep us in the same, through and they said. Seven. And he Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, commanded Uie people to sit The Epistle. Rom. vi. 19. down on the ground : And he I SPEAK alter the manner of took the seven loaves, and gave men, because of the inlirmi- tiianks, and brake, and gave to ly otyourflesh: forasyeiiave his di.sciples to set before them; yielded your members servants and they did set them before to uncleannes>;, and to iniquity, the peoi)le. And they had a unto iniquity; even so now few small fishes ; and he bles- }ield your members servants scd, and commanded to set i3i>] The E'.iglith and Ninth Sundays after Trinity. lliem also before them. So sheepscloathing, but Inwardly they did eat, and were filled ; they are ravening wolves. Ye and they took u\y of the broken sliall know tljcm by tlieir fruits r meat that was left, se^•en bas- Do men gather grapes of kets. And they that had eaten thorns, or figs of thistles ? Even were about four thousand. — so every good tree bringetli And he sent them away. forth good fruit ; but a corrupt — I tree bringeth forth evil fruit. T/ie eighth Sunday nficr Trinity. A good tree cannot bring forth The Collect. e\il fruit; neither can a cor- OGOD, w^hosenever-fail- rupt tree bring forth good fruit. ing providence ordereth Ex'cry tree that bringeth not all thinrgs both in heaven and forth good fruit, is hewn down, earth ; we humbly beseech tlice and cast into tlie fire. Where- to put away from us all hurtful fore, by their fruits ye shall things, and to gi\e us those know them. Not every one things which are profitable lor that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, us, through Jesus Christ our shall enter into tlie kingd<m of Lord. Amen. heaven ; but he that doetli tlic The Epistle. Rom. viii. 12. will of my Father, who is in BRethren, we are debtors, heaven, not to the flesh, to live af- ■■ ter the flesh : For if'yelive af- The idnth Sunday after Trinity. ter tlie flesh, ye sliall die ; but The Collect. if ye through the Spirit do mor- /^ RANT to us. Lord, we tify the deeds of the body, yc vJT beseech thee, the spirit shall live. For as many as are to think and do always such led by the Spirit of God, they things as are right; that we are the sons of God. For yc who cannot do any thing that have not received the spirit of is good without thee ; may by bondage again to fear ; but yc thee be enabled to live accord- have received the spirit of a- ing to thy will, through Je- doptlon, whereby we cry, Ab- sus Christ our Lord. Amen. ba. Father. The Spirit itself The Epistle. I Cor. x. 1 . beareth witness witji our spi- T) RtjUiren, 1 would not that fit, that we are the children of J3 ye should be ignorant, God. And if children, then how that all our fathers were heirs ; heirs of God, and joint- under the cloud, and all passed heirs with Christ : if so be that through the sea ; and were all we sufl^'er with him, tliat we baptised unto Moses in the may be also glorified together, cloud, and in the sea; and did The Gospel. St. Matt. vii. \b. all eat the same spiritual meat, BEware of false prophets and did all drink the same spi- which come to you in ritual drink ; (for they drank '^f The NiiUli Siimhiy afler TiuNri v. [I3j ihdt spiritual rock thai follow- man who had a steward; and ed them ; and that rock was (hesame wasacciiseduntohini, CJjrist.) But with many of that he had wasted liis ^oods. them God was not well pleas- And he called him, and said cd; for they werco\erthrown unto him, How is it that I hear in tlie wilderness. Now these this of thee? Give an account things were our examples, to of tliy stewardship ; -for thou the intent we should not lust mayest be no longer steward. after evil things, as they also Th-en the steward said within lusted. Neither be ye idol- himself. What ?hallIdo? for aters, as were some of them : my lord taketh away from me as it is written, Tlie people sat the stewardship : I cannot dig; down to catanddrink, and rose to beg I am ashamed^ lam uj) to play. Neither let us resolved what (o do, that when commit fornication, as some oi" I am put out of tlie stewanl- themcommittcd,and fellinone ship, ihey may receive me in- day three and twenty thousand, to their houses. So he called Neither let us tempt Christ, as c\ery one of his lord's dt;btors some of them also tempted, and unto him, and saiil unto tlie were destroyed of serpents, first. How much owest tiiou Neither murmur ye, as some unto my lord? And he said. An of them also murmured, and hundred measures of oil. And were destroyed of the destroy- he said unto him. Take thy bill, er. Now all these things hap- and sit down quickly and write pened unto them for ensamples : fifty. Then said he to another, and they are written for our And how much owest thou ? admonition, upon whom the and he said, An hundred mca- ends of the world are come, sures of wheat. And he said Wherefore let him that think- unto him. Take thy bill and etii he standeth, take heed lest write four-score. And the lord he fall. There hath no temp- commended the unjust stew- tation taken you, but si>ch as is ard, because he had done \rise- common to man : but God is ly ; for the children of this faithful, who will not suffer world are in their generation you to be tempted above that wiser than the children of light. ye are able; but will with the And 1 say unto you. Make to temptation also make a way to } ourselves friends of Ihe mam- escape, that ye may be able to mon of unrighteousness ; that bear it. when ye fail, they may receive r//e Gaypd/. St. Luke, xvi. 1. you into everlasting habita- JESUS said unto his disciples, lions. There was a certain rich M IJ-t] The Tenth and Eleventh Sundays after Thinjtv. Tht tenth Sunday aficr Triiiitj/. pretation of tongues. But all The Collect. these woiketh that one and the LET thv merciful ears, O sell-same Spiri(, dividing to Lord, be opened to the every man severally as he will, prayers oi thy humble servants; The Gospel. St. Luke,xix. 41. and that they may obtain their A ND when he was come petitions, make them to ask xJL near, he beheld the city, such things as shall please thee, and wept over it, saying, W through J(;sus Christ our Lord, thou hadst known, even thou, jimen. at least in thisthy day,thethings The Epistle. 1 Cor. xii. 1, which belong unto thy peace ! Concerning spiritual gifts, but now they are hid from brethren, I w ould not have thine eyes. For the days shall you ignorant. Ye know that come upon thee, that thine ye were Gentiles,carried away enemies shall cast a trench unto these dumb idols even as about thee, and compass thee ye were led. Wherefore I round, and keep thee in on give you to understand, that every side, and shall lay thee no man, speaking by the Spirit even with the ground, and thy ofGod,calleth Jesus accursed; children within thee; and they and that no man can say that shall not leave in thee one stone Jesus is the Lord, but by the upon another; because thou Holy Ghost. Now there are knewest not the time of thy diversities ofgifts, but the same visitation. And he went into Spirit. And there are diller- the temple, and began to cast ences of admir.istrations, but out them that sold therein, and the same Lord. And there tliem that bought, saying unto are diversities of operations, them. It is written, My house but it is the same God, who is the house of prayer : but ye warketh all in all. But the have made it a den of thieves, "manifestation of the Si)irit is And he taught daily in the given to every man to profit temple. w ilhal. For to one is given by ■■" the Spirit the word of wisdom ; The eleirnih Sunday after to another, the word of know- Trinity. ledge by the same Spirit; to The Collect. anotherj^^j^ith by the same Spi- /^ GOD, who declarest thy rit; to another, tl;e gifts of V_>/ Almiguty power chietly healing by tlie same S})irit; to in siiowmg mercy and pity: another, "'the working of nu'ra- mercifully grant unto us such cles; to another, prophecy; to a measure of thy grace, that another, discerning of spirits; we, running the way of thy to another, divers kinds of commandments, may obtain tongues; to another, the inter- thy gracious promises, and be The Twcli'lh Suiuiay uiicr Tkinfiv. [133 made partakers of thy heaven- The Gospel. St. l.uke, xviii. 9. l)'treasiiie,throiigliJesiisChnst TESUSspake this ]);\ral)leun- oiir Lord, .li/icn. J to certain which trusted in The F.pUtlc. 1 Cor. XV. 1. themselves thattlu-y were righ- BRethren, I declare unto ti-ous and despised others: you (he Gospel which I Two men went up into the pr<Mclietl unto you, whicli also temple to pray ; the one a Pha- ye have received, and wherein risce, and the otluTa Publican, ye stand; by which also ye are The Pharisee stood and pray- saved, if ye keep in memory ed t'nis with himself": God, I what I preached unto you, uii- thank ihee, that lam not a-; less ye liavc believed in vain, otiicr men arc, extortioners. Fori delivered unto }ou first unjiisf, adulterers, or even as ofall, tliat which I also receiv- this Publican: I ikst twice; in qd, how that Christ died for our llie week, I ^Ive tithes of all ?ins, according to the Scrip- that I pov;ess. And the Pub- tares; anfl that he was buri'jd ; lican standing af'iir oft", would r.nd that he ro^e again the third not lill up so much as his eye^. day, according to the Scrip- unfo heaven, but smote upon lures ; and that he was seen ol his breast, saying, God be mer- Ceplias ; then of the twelve : cilul to me a sinner. I tell After that.he was seen of above you, (his man went down to iivehundred brethren at once; hts house justified ralher tuan of whom the greater part re- the other: for every oir" 'hit main unto tins present; but exaltet.h himself, siiall bj ab.is- some are fallen asleep. After ed ; and he liiathnmbledi him- that he was seen of James ; sidf, shall be exalted. then*of all tiie Apostles: and — ■■!■■ — last of all he was seen of me The tiL(/fih Sunday afer also, as of one born out of due Trinily. time. For I am the least of ,,., ^ ihQ Apostles, that am not meet ^''' *^^^''''"^- to becalledan Apostle,because A Lmighty and everlasting I persecuted the Church of JTjL. Go I, wiio art always Gorl. But, by the grace of more ready to hear than we to God, I am what lam; and pray, and art wont to give his grace, which was bestowed more than eiUier vvedesire or upon me, was not in vain; but deserve; pour dowliKipon us I laboured more abundantly the abundance of thy mercy, tlian they all: yet not I, but forgivingusthosethingswhere- the grace of God which was of our conscience is afraid, and with me. Therefore, whether giving us those good things it were I, or they, so we preach, whicli we are not worthy to and so ye believed. ask, but through the merits an J .'Jo] The Thirteenth Siiiulay after Trinity. mediation of Jesus Christ thy way his ears were opened, and Son our Lord. Amen. the string of Jiis tongue was The Epistle. 2Cor. iii. 4. loosed, ani he spake plain. SUCHtrusthavewethroiigh And he charged tliem that Christ to God-ward: Not they should tell no man: but lijat we arc sufficient of our- ihc more he charged them, so selves to think any tiling as of much the more a great deal ourselves ; but our sulilciency they published it; and were be- is of God. Who also hath yond measure a^'lonished, say- made us ablc^ ministers of the ing, He hath done all things New Testament; not of tlie well; he maketh both the deaf letter, but of the Spirit: for to hear, and the duinb to speak, tijc letter killeth, but the Spirit — — «- — givclii life. Bat if the minis- T/ic ihhU'oith Sundaj/ ofler iratlon of death, written antl Trinify. '^•ngraven in stone;?, was glori- 77rc Collect. ons, so that the children of Is- \ Lmighty and mercii'ul i-iicl could not stedfaslly be- IJL God, of whose onlv gift Mold th(^ Jbce of Moses tor flic it c.ometli diat thy faithfuf peo- iilory of hiscountenance,\\ hicii pie do unto thee true and laud- giory was to be done away; able service; grant, we be- iiow shall not the ministratioii seech thee, tiiat we may so ofthe Spirit be rather glorioiih? faithfully serve thee in this For if the ministration of con- life, that we fail not finally to demnation be glory, much attain thy heavenly promises, more doth the nnnistration of through the merits of J^csus righteousness exceed in glory. Christ our Lord. /Ivie?/. J'tc Co.spcl. St. Mark, vii. .'31. The Epistle. Gal. iii. 16. JKSVS, dejKirting from tlie HPO Abral^in and his seed coa:,ts ol Tyre and Sidon, X were the pronn'ses made. rame unto the sea of Galilee, He saith not. And to seeds, as through the midst of the coasts of many; but as of one. And of Decapolis, and they bring to thy 'seed, which is Christ, unto him one that was deaf. And this I say, that the coye- and had an impediment in liis nan t that Vv'as confirmed b^-fore speech; and they beseech him of God in Ciirist, the law, toputliiyianduponhim. And which was four hundred and he tookwim aside from the thirty years after, cannot (hs- multitude, and put his fingers annul, that it should niake the in(o iiis ears, antl he spil, and promise of none efiect. For touched his tongue; and look- if the inheritance be of the law, ing up to heawn, lie sighed, it is no more of promise; but and saith unto him, /:y)///)//r///u/, God gave it to Abraham by lJ)atis,be(»peneJ. Andslraight- promise. Wherefore then serv- The Fourteenth Sumlny utU-r Tuinitv. [i37 clh the law? It was added be- neighbour? And Jc.sus answer- cause of tran<;gressions, till (he ing said, A certain man went seed should come to whom the down from Jerusalem to Jcri- promise was made; and it was cho, and fell among thieves, ordaine I by angels in the hand winch stript him of liis rai- ofa mediator. Now a medi- mont, and wounded him, and ator is nf>t a mediator of one; dej)arted, leaving him half but God is one. Is the law dead. And by chance there then against the promises of came down a certain Priest God? God forbid; for >f there that way; and when he saw had been a law given wliich him, he passed by on the other could have given life, verily side. And likewise a Levite, righteousness should have been when he was at the place,camc by the law. But the Scrip- and looked on hira, and passed ture hath concluded all under by on the other side. But a sin, that the pronn'se, by faith certain Samaritan, as he jour- of Jesus Christ, might be given neycd, came where he was: to them tjiat believe. and when he saw him, he had T/w Cospt'/. St. Luke,x. 23. compassion on him, and went BLessed are the eyes which to him, and bound up his see tiie things that ve see; wounds, pouring in oil and For I tell you, that many pro- wine ; and set him on his own phets and kings have desired beast, and brought him into an to see those things which yc inn, and took care of him. And sec, and have not seen (hem ; on the morrow, when he de- and to hear those things which parted, he took out two pence, ye hear, and have not heard and gave tiiem to the host, and them. And behold a certain said unto him. Take care of lawyer stood up, and tempted liim; and whatsoever thou him,saying. Master, what sjiall spendest more, when I come I do to inherit eternal life ? He again, I will repay thee. — said unto him, What is written Which now of these three^ in thelaw? Ilowreadestthou? thinkest thou, was neighbour And he answering said, TIiou unto him that fell among the shalt love the Lord thy God thieves? And he said. He that with all thy heart, and with showed mercy on him. Then all thy souf, and with all thy said Jesus unto him. Go, and strength,and with all thy mind; do thou likewise, and tliy neighbour as thvself. ^ And he said unto him, Thou The fourtetnth Sunday afur hast answeretl right: (his do, Trinitj/. and diou shalt live. But he. The Collect. willing to justify himself, said A Lmiglity and everlasting "t',to Jesus, And who is mv /\ God, give unto us the hi- 138] The Fifteenth Sunda}' after Trinity. crease of faith, hope, and cha- lage, there met him ten men rity ; and that we may obtain that were lepers, who stood that which thou dost promise, afar oft'. And they lifted up make us to love that which their voices, and said, Jesus, thou dost command, through Master, have mercy on us. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. And when he saw them, he The Epistle, Gal. v. 16". said unto ihem, Go show your- ISAY then. Walk in the Spi- selves unto the priests. And it rit, and ye shall not fulfil ihe came to pass, that, as they lust of the flesh. For the flesh went, they were cleansed, lusteth against the Spirit, and And one of them, when he saw the Spirit against the flesh ; that he was healed, turned and these are contrary the one back, and with a loud voice to the other ; so that ye cannot glorified God, and fell down do the things that ye would, on his face at his {\iQt, giving But if ye be led by the Spirit, him thanks : and he was a Sa- ye are notunder the law. Now marifan. And Jesus answer- the works of the flesh are m.a- ing, said. Were there not ten nifest, which are these, Adul- cleansed? but where are the tery, fornication, uncleanness, nine ? There are not found lasciviousness, idolatry, witch- that returned to give glory to craft, hatred, variance, emula- God, save this stranger. And tions, wrath, strife, seditions, he said unto him. Arise, go thy heresies, envyings, murders, way : thy faith hath made thee drui'ikenness, revellings, and whole. such like : of the which I tell — ■!■'" you before, as I have also told The Jiftetnth. Sunday after you in time past, that they who Trinity. do such things, shall not inherit The Collect. the kingdom of God. But the T7" EEP, we beseech thee, O iruit of tlie Spirit is love, joy, 1\. Lord, thy Church with peace, long-suflfering, gentle- thy perpetual mercy : And be- ness, goodness, faitfi, meek- cause the frailty of man with- nesstemperauce: against such out thee cannot but fall, keep there is no law. And they that us ever by tijy help from all are Christ's, ha^e crucified the things hurtful, and lead us to f*esh, with the affections and all things profitable to our sal- lusts, vation, through Jesus Christ The Co.sptl. St. Luke, xvii. 1 1 . our Lord. Amen. AND it came to pass, as The Epistle. Gal. vi. M. Jesus went to Jerusalem, "VT"^ see how large a letter I that he passed thro' the midst X have written unto you ©f Samaria and Galilee. And with mine own hand. As ma- as he entered into a cer tain vil- ny a.s desire to make a fair show The Slxtecnlh Siimlay alter Tk i m t v . (1 39 in ihe flesh, the)' constrain you clh them. Arc ye not much to be circumcised ; only lest better than they ? Wliich oF they should sutler persecution you, by taking thou^^ht, can for the cross of Clirist. For acUI one cubit unto his stature ? neither tiiey themselves who And why take ye tluniglit for are circumcised keep the law; raiment? Consider the lilies of but desire to have you circuoi- the field, how they grow : tiiey cised, that thoy may glory in toil not, neither do they sj)in ; your flesh. But God forbid and yet I say unto you, that that I should glory, save in tlic even Solomon in all his glory crossof our Lord Jesus Clirist, was not arrayed like one of by whom the world is crucili- these. Wherefore if God so ed unto me, and I unto the clothe the grass of the field, world. For in Ciirist Jesus which to-day is, and to-morrow neither circumcision availeth is cast into the oven ; shall ho any thing, nor uncircumcision, notmuch moreclotheyou,Oye but anew creature. And as of lit'Ie fiith ? Therefore take many as w.dk aceording to this no thought, saying. What shall rule,peacebeon tiiem,andmer- we eat ? or, What sliall wc cy, and upon the Israel of God. drink ? or. Wherewithal shall From henceforth let no man we be clothed ? (for after all trouble me, for I bear in my these things do the Gentiles body the marksof the Lord Je- seek ;) for your heavenly Fa-- sus. Brelliren, the grace of therknowethtiiat ye have need our Lord Jesus Christ be with of all these things. But seek your spirit, .'hnen. ye fir^t tlie kingdom of God, T/ie Gospel. St. Matt. vi. 24-. and his righteousness, and all NO man can serve two mas- these things shall be added un- ters : for either he will to you. Take therefore no liate the one, and love the thought for the morrow ; for other ; or else he will hold to in<:: morrow shall take thought the one, and despise the other : for the things of itself : sufii- YecannotserveGo laiul mam- cient unto the day is the evil n-.on. Therefore I say unto thereof, you. Take no tliought tor voiir — m — life, what ye shall eat, or what The siiU'd/U/i Sunday afler ye shall drink ; nor yet for your Trinity. body, wl»at ye shall put on : Is Tlie Collect. not die life more than meat, and /^^ T-ord, we beseech thee, the body tlian raiment } Bin V_>/ let thy continual pity ijold the fowls of the air ; for cleanse and defend thy Church; they sow not, neither do they an.l because it cannot conlinuc reap, nor gather into bains ; in safety without thy succour, yet your heavenly Father feed- preserve it evcimorc by thy 1 to] The Seventeenth Sunday after Tki-^ity. help and goodncs:?, throu^li Je- with her. And when tlie Lord SLis Christ our Lord. Amen. saw her, he had compassion on The Epistle. Ephe^. iii. l.'j. her, and said unto iicr. Weep I Desire that ye faint not at not. And he came and touch- my tribulations for you, cd the bier (and they that bare which is your glory. For this him stood still) and he said, cause I bow my knees unto the Young man, I say unto tliee, FatherofourLord JesusChrist, Arise. And he that was dead of whom the whole family in sat up, and began to speak : heaven and earth is named, that and he delivered him to his he would grant you, according mother. And there came a to the riches of his glory, to be fear on all : and they glorlfted strengthened with might by God, saying, That a great Pro- his Spirit in the inner man ; phet is risen up among us ; and that Christ may dwell in your that God hath visited his peo- hearts by faith ; that ye, being pie. And this rumour of him rooted and grounded in love, went forth throughout all Ju- may be able to comprehend, dea, and throughout all the re- with all saints, what is the gion round about. breadth, and length, and depth, ■■■!■ and height ; and to know the The seventeenth Sunday aJUr love of Ciirist, which passeth Trinity. knowledge, that ye might be The Collect. filled with all the fulness of T ORD, we pray thee, that God. Now unto him that is 1 J thy grace may always able to do exceeding abundant- prevent and follow us; and ly above all that we ask or make us continually to be giv- think, according to the power en to all good works, through that worketi) in us, unto him Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, be glory in the Ciiurch, by 7"Ac is/)2.y//e. Ephes. iv. 1. Christ Jesus, throughout all T Therefore, the prisoner of ages, world without end. //we/;. X the Lord, beseech you that The Gospel. St. Luke, vii. 1 1, ye walk worthy of the voca- AND it came to pass the tion wherewith ye are called, day after, that Jesus went with all lowliness and meek- into a city called Nain ; and ness, with long-suOering, for- many of his disciples went bearing one another in love ; with him, and much people, endeavouring to keep the uni- Now when he came nigh to ty of the Spirit in the bond of the gate of the city, behold, peace. Inhere is one body, there was a dead man carried and one Spirit, even as ye are out, the only son of his mother, called in one hope of your call- anJ she was a widow: and Ing ; one Lord, one Faith, one much people of the city was Haptism, one God and Father Tite EiglUecnth Sunclny alter Tk i n i t v . [Ill olall, who is above all, anJ (hec. For \vho«:o«vcr exaltclh llirou^h all, and in voii all. himself, shall Ik- abased : and The Gospel. St. Luke, xiv. 1. he tiiat hiiiiibleth himself^ shall r caine to pass, as Jesus be exalted. I went into the house ol one ot the chiet Pharisees to cat The ci^ftUtnl/t Sundajj aftcv bread, on the Sabbath-da\ , that Trinity. thev watched him. And be- The Collect. hold, there was a certain man "F ORD, we beseech thee, before him, wiio i;ad thedro])- -L< ^rnnt thy peoj)le sirace to sy. And Jes'.is answerui^, withstand the temptations ot .pake unto tiie lawvers and the world, the tlesl;, and ihe Pharisees, saymg, Is it lawful devil; aiul with j)ure h.earts to heal on the Sabbath-day ? and minds to (JjlhrvV thet-, the And they held their peace, only God, through JesusChrist And he took him, and healed our Lord. Amen. him, and let him go; and an- The Epi.sde. 1 Cor. i. \. swercd them, sa)ir.g, Wliich T THANK my God always of you shall have an ass or an A on your behalf, for the grace ox fallen into a pit, and will not of God which is given you by straightway ])uli liim out on Jesus Christ ; that in every the Sabbath-day ? and they thing ye are enriclied by him, could not answer him again to in all utterance and in allknow- these things. .And he put forth ledge: even as the testimony a parable to tiiose wiio were ofChrist was confirmed in you. bidden, when he marked how So that ye come behind in no tiiey cho>e out thie chief rooms; gift; waiting for the coming saying unto them;' When thou of our Lord Jesus Christ, who art bidden of any man to a wed- sliall also confirm vou unto the ding, sit not down in the high- end, that ye may be blameless est room, lest a more honora- in tl,e day of our Lord Jesus ble man than thou be bidden Christ. f)t"him ; and he that bade thee The Gospel. St. Matt. xxii. 3 k and him come and say to thee, 'I T7 HKX the Pharisees liad (Tive this man place ; and t!iou VV heard that Jesus had put begin with shame to take the the Sadducees to silence, tliey lowest room. But when thou were gathered together. Then art bidden, go and sit down in one of thcm,who wasalawyer, tlie lowest room; that \%hen asked him a question, tempt- he that bade thee Cometh, he ing him, and saying, Master, may say unto thee, Friend, go which is the great command- up higher : then shalt thou ment in the law r Jesus said have worship in the presence unto him, Thou shalt love the of them that sit at meat with LortlthyGodwithall thy heart. 1-1-2] The Nineteenth Sunda) after Trinity. and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind : This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou sjialt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two com- mandments hang all the law and the prophets. While the Pharisees were gathered toge- ther, Jesus asked them, say- ing. What think ye of Christ ? wiiose son is he ? They say un- to him. The son of David. He saith unto them. How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, sayi»ig, the Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy foot-stool ? If Da- vid tJien call him Lord, how is he his son ? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth, ask him any more questions. T/te nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. The Collect. OGOD, forasmuch as with- out thee we are not able to please thee ; mercifully grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The lipistle. Ephcs. iv. 17. THIS I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who, being past feeling, have given themselvesoveruntolascivious- ness, to work all uncleaimess with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus : That ye put off^ concerning the former conversation, the old man^ which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be re- newed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in rigliteousness and true holiness. Wherefore put- ting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour; for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not : \(::i not the sun go down upon your wrath : neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole, steal no more ; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing whicli is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt com nuuiication pro- ceed out of your mouth, but that which is gooil to the use of edifying, that it may minis- ter grace unto tiie hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from VQU, with all malice. And Tiie Twcntietli Suiuluy aik-r Tkinity. [113 1)0 ye kind one to another, ready both in body and soul, tender-hearted, forgiving one may dKerlulIy acc(>m|)lisU another, even as Cod lor those tliii.gs which thou com- Chrisl's sake hath forgiven mandcst, through Jesus Christ you. our Lord. Juien. 'The Cosptl. St. ^Tatt. ix. I. 'He Epistle. Ephes. v. \o. JIlSUS entered into a ship, O EE then thiat yc walk cir- and passed over, and came O cumspectly, not. as Tools, into his own city. And be- but as wise, redeeming the liold, they brought to him a time, because the days are man sick ofthe palsy, lying on evil. Wherefore be ye not a bed. And Jesus, seeing unwise, but understanding their faith, said unto the sick what the will of the Lord is. of the palsy. Son, be of good And be not drunk with wine, cheer, thy sins be forgiven wherein is excess ; but be til- thee. And behold, certain of led with the Spirit : speaking the scribes said within them- to yourselves in psalms and selves. This man blasphem- h ymns and spiritual songs, sing- eth. And Jesus, knowing ing and making melody in their thoughts, said. Where- your heart to tiie Lord ; giving fore think ye evil in your thanks always for all things hearts i For whether is easier unto God and the Father, in to say. Thy sins be forgiven the nnme of our Lord Jesus thee? or to sa^'. Arise, and Christ; submitting yourselves walk? But that ye may know one to another in the tear of that the Son of man hath pow- God. er on the earth to forgive sins, Tht Gospel. St. Matl. xxii. I. (then saith he to the sick ofthe T P^SUS said, The kingdom of palsy) Arise, lake up thy bed, J heaven is like unto a cer- and gountodiineliouse. And tain king, who made a marri- he arose, and departed to his age for his son ; and sent forth house. But when die multi- his servants to call them that tude saw it, tliey marvelled, were bidden to the wedding : and glorified God, who had and they would not come. A- givcn such power unto men. gain, he sent forth other ser- — — \'ants, saying. Tell them who The Ivjcniieth Sundai/ after are bidilen. Behold, I have Trinitj/. prepared my dinner : my ox- Tlie Collect. en and my fallings are killed, O Almighty and most mer- and all tlungsarcreadv : come cilul God, of thy boun- unto the niarriage. But lliey tiiul goodness keep us, we be- made light of it, and went seech thee, from all things that their ways, one to his farm, ma\ hurt us; that we, beirg another to h.is merchandise: 144] The Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity. and the remnant took his ser- through Jesus Christ our Lord. vants,and entreated them spite- Amen, l'ullv,andslevv them. But when ^, r . ,, ,- , • ,^ the king heard thereof, he was ^'" '^P'""'- ^P''^^' '''■ ' °- wroth : and lie sent tbrth his X/TY brethren, be strong in armies, and destroyed those IVJL the Lord, and in the murderers, and burnt up their power of his might. Put on city. Then saith lie to his ser- the whole armour of God, that vants, llie wedding is ready, ye may be able to stand against but they who were bidden were the wiles of the devil. For we not worthy. Go ye therefore wrestle not against flesh and into the highways, and as ma- blood, but against principali- ny as ye shall find, bid to the ties, against powers, against marriage. So those servants the rulers of the darkness of went out into the highways, this world, against spiritual and gathered together all, as wickedness in high places, many as they found, both bad Wherefore take unto you the and good: and the wedding whole armour of God, that ye was furnished with guests. And may be able to withstand in when the king came in to see the evil day, and having done the guests, he saw there a man all, to stand. Stand therefore, who had not on a wedding having your loins girt about garment. And he saith unto with truth; and having on the him. Friend, how camest thou breast-plate of righteousness ; in hither, not having a wed- and your feet shod with the ding garment? And he was preparation of the gospel of speechless. Then said the king peace; above all, taking the to the servants. Bind him hand shield of faith, wherewith yc and foot, and take him away, shall be able to quench all the and cast him into outer dark- fiery darts of" the wicked. And ness: there shall be weeping lake the helmet of salvation, and gnashing of teeth. For and the sword of the Spirit, many are called, but few are which is the word of Cjod : chosen. praying always with all prayer i^ and supplicatioji in the Spirit, Tfie tZfenii/'first Sunday after and vNatching thereunto with Trinity. all perseverance, and supplica- The Collect. tion for all saints ; and lor me, GRANT, we beseech thee, that utterance may be given merciful Lord, to thy unto me, that I may open my faithful people, pardon and mouth boldly, to make known peace; thatthey may be cleans- the mystery of the Gospel; for ed from all their sins, and which I am an ambassador in serve thee with a ciuiet mind, bonds : That therein I may The Twenty-second Suiulay after Trinity. [1 ib speak boIcJIv as I ought to CIuucli in continual godliness; speak. that, through thy protection, it The Compel. St. John,iv. t(3. may be free trom all adversi- nr^^HERE was a certain no- ties, and devoutly given to JL h!eman, whose son was serve thee in good works, to siek at Capernaum. When he thegiory ol thy Namc,through iieard that Jesus was come out Jesus Cliristour Lord. Amen. of Judea into Galilee, he went The Epistle. Piiil. \. ?,. unto him, and lx.'sought him, T THANK my God upon that he would come down and X every remembrance of" you held his son ; tor he was at tlie (always in every prayer ot mine point ofdeath. Tlicnsaidje- lor you all makmgrecjuest with sus unto him. Except ye see joy) lor your fellowship in the signs and wonders, ye willnot Gospel from the first day until believe. The nobleman saith now; being confident of this unto him. Sir, come down ere very thing, that he who hath my child die. Jesus saith un- begim a good work in you, to him. Go thv way, thy son will perform it until the day of livcth. And the man believ- Jesus Christ; even as it is meet ed the word that Jesus had for me to think this of you all, spoken unto him, and he went because I have you in my heart, his way. And as he was now inasmuch as both in my bonds, going down, his servants met and in the defence and confirm- him, aiid told him, saying, ation of the Gospel, ye all are Thy son liveth. Then en- partakers of my grace. For fjuired he of them the hour God is my recocd, how greatly 'ivhcn he began to amend ; and I long after \ nu all in the bow- they said unto him. Yesterday, els of Jesus Christ. And this at the seventh hour, the fever I pray, that )our love may a- leit him. So the father knew bound yet more and more ia tiiat it was at the same hour in knowledge, and in all judg- the which Jesus said unto him, men! : That ye may approve- Thy son liveth ; and himself things that are cxeellenf, that believed, and his v/hole house, ye mav be sincere, and without This is again the second mira- offence till the day of Christ ; cle that Jesus did, when he being filled with the fruits of was come out of Judea into righteousness, which arc by Je- Galilee. . — sus Christ, unto the glory and T/ie tue/ity- second Sundaj/ after praise of God. Trimly. 'The Gospel. St. Matt, xviil. 21 . The Collect. T^F'l'ER said unto Jesus, LORD, webeseeeh thee to iT Lord, how olt shall my keep thy houshold i\vi brother sin against me, and i N 6] The TvvenLj-third Sunday a/ter Trinity. forgive him ? till seven times ? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee. Until seven limes: but until seventy times seven. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a cer- tain king, who v\^ould take ac- count ot" his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, who owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord com- manded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant there- fore fell down and worship- ped him, saying. Lord, have patience with me, and 1 will pay thee all. Then the Lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow- servants, who owed him an hundred pence; and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying. Pay me that thou owest. And his fellow- servant fell down at his ihet, and besought him, say Jng,Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he VN'ould not; but went and cast him in- to prison, till he should pay the debt. So when his fellow- servants saw what was done, they were very sorry , and came ^and told uiito tlieir lord, all that was done. Then his lord, after tluit he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou also have had cpmpassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee ? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye, from your hearts, forgive not every one his brother their tres- passes. The ttventj/-third Sunday after Triniti/. The Collect. OGOD our refuge and strength, who art the au- thor of all godliness ; be ready, we beseech thee, to hear the devout prayers of thy Church ; and grant that those things which we ask faithfully, we may obtain effectually, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle, Phil. iii. 17. BRethrcn, be followers to- gether of me, ar,d mark tliem wiio walk so, as ye h.ave us for an cnsample. (For ma- ny walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of th.e cross of Christ ; whose end is destruc- tion, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their sliame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven, tiom whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall The Twcnty-foiirtli Sunday after Trinity. [I 17 change oar vile bo .ly, that it all be delivered from thohai^ds may be fashioned hkc unto his ot those sins which by our hail- glorious body, according to tiie ty wc liave conimittt-d : Grant working, wlicrcby h'j is able this, O heavenly Father, for even to subdue all tilings unto Jesus Christ's sake, our blessed himself. Lord and Saviour. J/men. The Gospel St. Matt. xxii. la. Tke Epistle. Colos. i. .3. THEN went the Pharisees TIT"^'^ g'^'^ thanks to God, and took counciliiow they VV and the Father of our might entangle him in his talk. Lord Jesus Christ, praying al- And they sent out unto him ways for you, since we heard their disciples, with the Hero- of your faith in Christ Jesus^ dians, saying. Master, we know and of tiie love which ye have that thou art true, and teache>t to all tiie saints ; for the hope the way of God in truth, nei- which is laid up tor you in jica- ther carest thou for any man : ven, whereof ye heard before for thou regardest not the per- in the word of the truth of tl'.c son of men. Tell us, there- Gospel; which is come unto lore. What t!iinkejt thou? Is you, as it is in all the world, it lawful to give tribute unto and bringeth forth liuit, as \l Caesar, or not? But Jesus per- doth also in you, since the day ceived their wickedness, and ye heard of it, and knew the said. Why tempt ye me, ye gracs of Godin truth. As ye hypocrites? Show me the tri- also learned of Epaphras, our bute-moncy. And they brought dear fellow-servant, wlxo is for unto him a penny. Andhesaith you ataithful minister of Christ ; unto them. Whose is this image who also declared unto us your and superscription ? They say love in tlie spirit. For this unto iiim, Cassar*s.' Then saith cause we also, since the day wc he unto them, Rendertherefore lieard it, do not cease to pray unto Cassar the things which for you, and to desire tiiat^e are Caesar's; and unto God tlie might be filled with the know- things that are God^\ When ledge of his will in all wisdom they had heard these words, and spiritual understanding to > tiiey marvelled, and left liim, that ye might walk worthy of and went their way. the Lord unto all pleasing, be- — — ing fruitful in every good work. The i'JietUy-foiirth Sundaj/ after and increasing in the know- Trinitt/. ledge of God; strengtheiied The Collect. with all might, according to his OLord, we beseech thee, glorious power, unto all pa^ absolve^ thy people from tience and long-suffering, with their ollences; that, through joyfulness; giving thanks unto thy bountiful goodness,we may the Father, who halh made us 14S] The Twentj-fiftli Sunday after Tkinity. meet to be partakers of the in- faithful people ; tliat they.plen- heritance of the saints in light, teously bringing forth the fruit The Gospel. St. Matt. ix. 13. of good works, may by thee WHILE Jesus spake these be plen teously rewarded, thro' things unto John's dis- Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ciples, behold, there came a For the Epistle. Jcr. xxiii. 5. certain ruler and worshipped T3EHC)LD, the days come, him, saying, JVfy daughter is JL/ saith the Lord, that I wi It- even now dead ; but come and raise unto David a righteous Jay thy hand upon her, and she Branch ; and a King shall reign shall live. And Jesus arose, and prosper, and shall execute and followed him, and so did judgment and justice in the his disciples. (And behold, a earth. In his days Judali shall woman, which was diseased be saved, and Israel shall dwell with an issue of blood twelve safely : and this is his Name years, came behind him, and whereby he shall be called, touched the hem of his gar- THE LORD OUR RIGH- ment: For she said within her- TEOUSNESS. Therefore, self. If 1 may but touch his gar- behold, the days come, saith ment, I shall be whole. But the Lord, that they shall no Jesus turned him about, and more say, Tlie Lord liveth who when he saw her, he said, brought up the children of Is- Daughter, be of good comfort, rael out of the land of Egypt ; thyfaithhath made thee whole, but. The Lord liveth, who And the won:ian was made brought up, and who led the whole from that hour.) And seed of the house oi Israel out when Jesus came into the ru- of the north-country, and from ler's house, and saw the min- all countries whither I had strels and the people making a driven them: and they shall noise, he said unto them. Give dwell in their own land, place: for the maid is not The Gospel. St. John, vi. 5. dead, but sleepeth. And they TTTHEN Jesus dien lift \\\^ laughed him to scorn. But ? V his eyes, and saw a great when the people were put company come unto him, he forth, he went in, and took her saith unto Philip, Whence shall by the hand,and the maid arose, we buy bread, that these may And the fame hereof went eat ? (And this he said to prove abroad into all that land. him, for he himself knew what I— — he would do.) Philip answer- The tiveniy-ffth Sundai/ after ed him. Two hundred penny- , Trinity. worth of bread is not siilHcient The Collect. for them, that every one of TIR up, we beseech thee, them may take a little. One s ery < ittle. O Lord, the wills of thy of his disciples ^\ndrew. Si- SAINT ANDREW'S DAY. [1 19 mon Peter's brother, saith unto Saint Andren's Day. liiin. There is a lad here, who T/ie Collect. hath fi\c barley-loaves, and A Lniighly God, wliodidst two <mall fislies ; bill what arc l\. give such grace unto tiiy they among so many ? And Jc- holy Apostle Saint Andrew, sus said. Make the men sit that he readily obeyed the tall- down. Now there was much ing ot thy Son Jesus Christ, grass in the place. Sotliemen and followed him wMtiiout de- sat down, in number about five lay ; grant unto us all, that we, thousand. And Jesus took the being called by thy holy Word, loaves, and when lie had given may Ibrthwith give up our- thanks, he distributed to the selves obijdiently to FulMl thy disciples, and tiie disciples to holy commandments, through them that were set down, and the same Jesus Christ our likewiseof the fishes, as much Lord, ylmen. as they would. When tiiey The EpUtle. Rom.x. 9. were filled, he said unlo his TF thou shalt confess with disciples. Gather up the Frag- A tiiy mouth the Lord Jesus, ments that remain, that nothin.^ and sJialt believe in thine heart be lost. Theret'ore thev ga- that God hath raised him from thcredthem together,and filled the dead, tliou shalt be saved. twelve baskets with the frag- For with the heart nian bcliev- mcntsof the five barlev-loaves, eth unto righteousness, and which remained overand above with the mouth confession is unto them that had eaten. — made unto salvation. For the Then tiiosc men, when tiicy Scripture saith. Whosoever be- had seen the miracle that Jesus lieveth on him, sliall not be did, said. This is of a truth ashamed. For there is no dif- th:it Prophet that should come ference between the Jew and into the world.. the Greek : for tlie same Lord ^[ If tiicre be anyjiwre Sundaj/s over all, is rich unto all that before AdTcnl-Siindayythe Sir- call upon him. P'or wiiosoever r'Ve of some nftJkOse Sundaj/^ shall call upon the name of the t/:<it lucre omitted after the Lor:], shall be savecf. tlow Epiphani/, shall he taken in then shall they eall on him in to supply so nia.y/ as are here whom they have not believed ? uwiting. And if then; he Aw\ how shall they believe in fevcer, the orerplus may be him, of whom they have not omitted : Provided that ihis heard ? And how shall they lest Collect, Epistle, and Gas- hear without a preacher? And ;-^/, shall ul^-ajs be medapon how shall they preach, except i Sundaj/ nej;i before Ad- tiicy be sent ? As it is uTitten, tent. How beautiful arv tlie feet of N 2 1.50] SAINT THOMAS'S DAY. them that preach the Gospel and their fatlier, and followed of peace, and bring glad tid- him. ings of good things ! But they ■ — l}ave not all obeyed the Gos- Saint Thomas the Apostle. pel. For Esaias saith. Lord, Tlit Collect. wlio hath believed our report? A Lmighty and everliving So then, faith cometh by hear- ±\. Goci, who, for the greater ing, and hearing by the Word confirmation of tlie faith, didst of God. But 1 say, have they suffer thy holy Apostle Tho- not heard ? Yes .verily, their mas to be doubtful in thy Son's sound went into all the earth, resurrection ; grant us so per- and their words unto the ends fectly, and without all doubt, of the world. But I say. Did to believe in thy Son Jesus not Israel know ? First, Moses Christ, that our faith in thy saith, I will provoke you to sight may never be reproved : jealousy by them that are no Hear us, O Lord, through the people, and by a foolish nation same Jesus Christ ; to whom, I will anger you. But Esaias with thee and the Holy Ghost, is very bold, and saith, I was be all honor and glory, now found of them that sought me and for evermore. Amen. Jiot; I was made manifest unto The Epistle. Ephes. ii. 19. tliem that asked not after me. IVT^W therefore ye are no But to Israel he saith. All day 1/S more strangers and i'o- long have I stretched fordi my reigners, but fellow-citizens hands unto a disobedient and with the saints, and of the hous- gain-saying people. hold of God ; and are built up- The Gospel. St. Matt. iv. 1 8. on the foundation of the Apos- JESUS walking by the sea of ties and Prophets, Jesus Christ Gahlee, saw two brethren, himself being the chief corner- Simon,, called Peter, and An- stoi^e ; in wjiom all the build- drew his broUier, casting a net ing, fitly framed together^ into the sea: (for they were groweth unto an holy temple fishers.) And he saith unto intheLoril: in whom ye also them. Follow me, and I will are builded togeliier for an ha- ii^iake you fishers of men. And bitation ol God, through the they stiaightvvay left their nets. Spirit. smd followed him. And going The Gospel. St. John, xx. 9A. on from thence, he saw other ^ I ^Homas,oneofthe tw^elve, two brethren, James the son JL called Didymns, was not of Zebedee, and John his bro- witii them when Jesus came, ther, in a ship with Zebedee The other disciples therefore their, father, mending their said unto him. We have seen nets; and lie called them. And the Lord. But he saidujito they iraiuediaiely left tlie ship them. Except I shall see in his SAINT STEPHEN'S DAY. [1.51 hands the print of the nails, aiicl first Mirtyr St. Slephcn, who put my linger into tiic print ol' ))rayccl lor liis miuilerers to the nails, and thrust luy hand thee, O Blessed Jesii^, who into his side, I will not believe, standest at tiic ri^ht hand of And atler eight days, ai^^ain his God, to succour all those who disciples w ere within, and sufler for thee, our only Mt\li- Thonia* with them : Then ator and Advocate, y^me/t. came Jesus, the doors being t[ Then slinll folloxv the Colltct shut, and stood in the midst, of the Nativily, ivhich shaU and said. Peace be unto you. be. said coutinuallj/ until NeH' Then said lie to Tiiomas, Reach Ytars Eve. hither thy finger, and behold For the Epistle. Acts,vii. 55. my hands ; and reach hither O Tcpiien, being tlill of the thy hand, and thrust it into my O Holy Ghost, looked up side ; and be not f'aitidess, but stedtuvjy into heaven, and saw believing. And Thomas an- the glory of" God, and Jesus swered and said unto him. My standing on the right hand of Lord, and mv God. Jesus saith God ; and said. Behold, I see luito him, Thomas, because the heavens opened, and the tijou hast seen me, thou hast Son of man standing on the believed ; blessed are they that right hand of God. Then they have not seen, and yet have cried out with a loud voice, believed. And many other and stopped tiieir ears, and ran signs truly did Jesus in the pre- upon him with one accord, and sence of his disciples, which cast him out of the city, and are not writlen in this book, stoned him : and the vvitnes- But these are written, that ye ses laid Ctovm their clothes at a might believe that Jesus is the yoimg nian"^ feet, whose name Cnrist, the Son of God ; and was Siiuf. And they stoned that believing, ye migiit have Stephc^V,' calling upon God, lit"'' inrough ins Name. and saying, Lord Jesus, receive- ■■III my spirit. And he kneeled Saint Stephens Day. dow'n, and cried with a loud The Collect. \'oice. Lord, lay not this sin to GRANT, 0"Li)r<i, that in their ciiarge. 'And when he all our sufferings here up- 'had said-this, he fell asleep, on earth, tor the testimony (>f The Gospel. St. Matt.xxiii. 3 1. thy truth, we may stedfa?,fly T) Ehold, I send unto you- Uiok up to Heaven, and by JlJ })rophets, and w^ise men, faith behold the glory that shall and scribes ; and some of llu.ni be revealed ; and being filled ye shall kill and crucil y ; and ■witli the Holy Ghost, may some of them shall ye scourge learn to love and bless ourper- in your synagogues, and perse- Eccutors, by the example ot thy cute thcin irom city to city.;. 152] SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S DAY. that upon you may come all the ed, and we have seen it, and righteous blood shed upon the bear witness, and show unto earth, from the blood of righte- you that eternal life which was ous Abel, unto the blood of with the Father, and was ma- Zacharias, son of Barachias, nifiested unto us ;) that which whom ye slew between the we have seen and heard, de- temple and the altar. Verily clare we unto you, that ye al- Isay unto you. All tliese things so may have fellowship with shall come upon this gencrati- us ; and truly our fellowshij) is on. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, vvith the Father, and with his thou that killest the prophets. Son Jesus Christ. And these and stonest them which are things write we unto you, that sent unto thee ; how often your joy may be full. This would I have gathered tliy then is the message which we children together, even as a have heard of him, and declare hen gathcreth her chickens un- unto you, that God is light, der her wrings, and ye would and in him is no darkness at not! Behold, your house is all. If we say that w^e have left unto you desolate. For I fellowship with him, and walk say unto you. Ye shall not see in darkness, we lye, and do not me henceVorth, till ye shall say, the truth : But if we walk in Blessed is he that cometh in the light, as he is in the light, the Name of the Lord. we have fellowship one with iiBBii another, and the blood of Jesus St. John the Evangelist's Day. Christ his Son cleanseth us The Collect. trom all sin. If we say that we Erciful Lord*, we beseech have no sin, we deceive our- thee to cast thy bright selves, and the truth is not in beamsof lightupon thyCliurch, us. If we confess our sins, he that it, being instructed by the is faithful and just to forgive us doctrine of thy blessed Apos- our sins, and to cleanse us from tie and Evangelist Saint John, all unrighteousness. Ifwe say may so walk m the light ol thy that we have not sinned, we truth, that it may at length at- make him a liar, and his Word tain to everlasting life, through is not in us. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Gospel. St. John, xxi. 19. The Epistle. 1 St. John, i. 1. TESUS said unto Peter, Fol- T HAT which was from the J low me. Then Peter turn- beginning, wliich we have ing about, seeth the disciple heard, which we have seen whom Jesus loved, folhnving, with our eyes, which Vve liave (which also leaned on his breast looked upon, and our hands at supper, and said. Lord, have handled of the word of which ishethatbetrayeththecr) life J (fertile life was manifest- Peter seeing him; saith to Jc- M THE INNOCENTS DAY. [153 sus, Lord, and what shall this torchcads. Andliicardavoice nianclo? Jesus sailh uino him, iioni heaven, as the voice of If I will that he tarry till I many vvaters,and as the voice of conic, what is that to thee? a great tliunder: and I iieard Follow thou nie. Then went the voice of harpers harping this saying abroad among the with their harps: and they brethren, that that disciple sung as it ^^ ere a new song be- shoulii not div : yet Jesus said fore the throne, and before the not unto hin^, He shall not die: four beasts, and the elders: but if I will that he tarry till I and no man could learn that come, what is that to thee r song, but th.e hundred lyid forty This is the disciple which tes- and four thousand, w hich were tifieth of these things, and redeemed from tlie earth. — wrote these things, and we These are they which were know that his testimony is not defiled with women, for true. And there are also ma- they are virgins: theseare they ny other things which Jesus which follow the Lamb wlii- did, the which, if they should thersoever he goeth : these be written every one, I sup- were redeemed from among pose that even the world itself men, being the first fiuits unto could not contain the books God, and to the Lamb. And that should be written. in their mouth was found no ■■ ^'uile ; for they are vvi/hout The Innocents Day. faulf before the throne of God. The Collect. The Co.spd. St. Matt. ii. 13. O Almighty God, who out nP^HE angel of the Lord ap- of the mouths of babes JL pearelh to Joseph in a and sutkhngs hast ordained dream, saying. Arise, and take strength, and nuuiest Infants to the young cluld and his mo- glorify thee by their deaths : ther, and flee into Egypt, and mortify and kill all vices in us, be thou there until I taring thee and so strengtlien us by thy word; for Herod will seek tho grace, that by the innocency young child to destroy him. of our lives, and constancy of When he arose, he took the our failh even unto death, we young chiLl and his mother by may glorify tliy holy Name, night, and departed into E- ihrough Jesus Ciirist our Lord, gypt ; and was there until the Amen. death of Herod : that it might For the Epistle. Rev. xlv. I . be fulhlled which was spoken IIx>oked, and lo, a Lamb of the Lord by the prophet, stood on the mount Sion, saying. Out of Egypt l.ave X an.l with him an hundred forty called my son. Then Heroil, and four thousand, having his when he saw that he was mock- Father's Name written in tlicir edofthe wiie :40cn, was e\- 154] THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL. ceeding wroth, and sent forth, roundabout him alldit from and slew all the children that heaven. And he fell to the were in Bethlehem, and in all earth, and heard a voice say- the coasts thereof, from two ing unto him, Saul, Saul, why years old and under, according persec utest thou me ? And he to the time which he iiad ilili- said. Who art thou. Lord? And gently enquired of the wise- the Lord said, I am Jesus whom men. Then was fulfilled that fhou perseculest : It is hard which was spoken by Jeremy for tliee to kick against the the prophet, saying, In Rama jmcks. And he trembling and was th.ere a voice heard, la- astonished, said. Lord, what mentation, and weeping, and will thou have me to do? And great mourning, Rachel wee})- the Lord said unto him. Arise, ing for her c:hildrcn, and would and go into the city, and it shall not be comlbrted, because they be told thee wliat tiiou must do. are not. — — »« — And tlie men which journeyed The Cpnrersion of St. Paul, with him stood speechless,hear- The CoUtct. ing a voice, but seeing no man. OGOD, who, through ihe And Saul arose from the earth ; preaching of the blessed and when his eyes were open- Aposilc Saint Paul, hast cans- ed, he saw no man : but they ed the light of the Gospel to led him by the hand, and shine throughout the world ; brought him into Damascus, grant, we beseech thee, that And he was three days with- . we, having his wonderful con- out sight, and neither did version in remembrance, may eat nor drink. And there was show forth our thankfulness^ un- a certain disciple at Damas- to thee for (he same, by follow- cus, named Ananias, and to ing the holy doctrine whiclihe him said the Lord in a vision, taught, through Jesus Christ Ananias : And he said, Behold, our Lord. ^ Ameji. I am here. Lord. And the For the Epistle. Acts, ix. I . Lord said unto him. Arise, and ANDSaulyetbreatliing out go into tiie street which iscall- threainingsand