Full text of "The Book of common prayer, and administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches"

THE BOOK OF

COMMON PRAYER,

AND ADMINISTRATION OF

THE SACRAMENTS,

AND

OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES

THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF

THE UNITED CHURCH OF

ENGLAND AND IRELAND:

TOGETHER WITH

The Psalter or Psalms of David,

POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES.

OXFORD:

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS,

BY BENSLEY, COOKE, AND COLLINGWOOD,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY ;
And sold by E. GARDNER, at the Oxford Bible Warehouse, Paternoster Row, London,

Com Privilegio,] 1 8 1 6, [Price 6*. in Sheets.

THE

CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK.

1. THE Preface.

2. Concerning the Service of the

Church.

3. Concerning Ceremonies, why some

be abolished, and some re
tained.

4. The Order how the Psalter is ap

pointed to be read.

5. The Order how the rest of the holy

Scripture is appointed to be
read.

6. A Table of Proper Lessons and

Psalms.

7. The Calendar, with the Table of

Lessons.
(8. Tables and Rules for the Feasts and

Fasts through the whole Year.
9. The Order for Morning Prayer.

10. The Order for Evening Prayer.

11. The Creed of St. Athanasius.

12. The Litany.

13. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon

several occasions.

14. The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels,

to be used at the Ministration of
the holy Communion, through
out the Year.

15. The Order of the Ministration of

the hoiy Communion.

16. The Order of Baptism both Publick

and Private.

17. The Order of Baptism for those of

riper Years.

18. The Catechism.

19. The Order of Confirmation.

20. The Form of Solemnization of Ma

trimony.

21. The Order for the Visitation of

the Sick, and the Communion of
the Sick.

22. The Order for the Burial of the

Dead.

23. Thanksgiving of Women after

Child-birth.

24. A Commination, or denouncing of

God s anger and judgements a-
gainst sinners.

25. The Psalter.

26. Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea.

27. A Form of Prayer for the Fifth Day

of November.

28. A Form of Prayer for the Thirtieth

Day of January.

29. A Form of Prayer for the Twenty-

ninth Day of May.

30. A Form of Prayer for the Twenty-

fifth Day of October.

31. Articles of Religion.

THE PREFACE.

IT hath been the wisdom of the
Church of England, ever since
the first compiling of her Publick
Liturgy, to keep the mean between
the two extremes, of too much stiff
ness in refusing, and of too much easi
ness in admitting any variation from
it. For, as on the one side common
experience sheweth, that where a
change hath been made of things ad
visedly established (no evident neces
sity so requiring) sundry inconveni
ences have thereupon ensued ; and
those many times more and greater
than the evils, that were intended to be
remedied by such change : So on the
other side, the particular Forms of
Divine worship, and the Rites and
Ceremonies appointed to be used
therein, being things in their own na
ture indifferent, and alterable, and so
acknowledged; it is but reasonable,
that upon weighty and important con
siderations, according to the various
exigency of times and occasions, such
changes and alterations should be
made therein, as to those that are in
place of Authority should from time
to time seem either necessary or ex
pedient. Accordingly we find, that
in the Reigns of several Princes of
blessed memory since the Reforma
tion, the Church, upon just and
weighty considerations her thereunto
moving, hath yielded to make such
alterations in some particulars, as in
their respective times were thought
convenient : Yet so, as that the main
Body and Essentials of it (as well in
the chiefest materials, as in the frame
and order thereof) have still continued
the same unto this day, and do yet
stand firm and unshaken, notwith
standing all the vain attempts and im
petuous assaults made against it, by
such men as are given to change, and
have always discovered a greater re
gard to their own private fancies and
interests, than to that duty they owe
to the publick.

By what undue means, and for what
mischievous purposes the use of the
Liturgy (though enjoined by the Laws

of the Land, and those Laws never
yet repealed) came, during the late
unhappy confusions, to be discon
tinued, is too well known to the world,
and we are not willing here to remem
ber. But when, upon His Majesty s
happy Restoration, it seemed pro
bable, that, amongst other things, the
use of the Liturgy would also return
of course (the same having never beeu
legally abolished) unless some timely
means were used to prevent it ; those
men who under the late usurped
powers had made it a great part of
their business to render the people dis
affected thereunto, saw themselves in
point of Reputation and Interest con
cerned (unless they would freely ac
knowledge themselves to have erred,
which such men are very hardly
brought to do) with their utmost en
deavours to hinder the restitution
thereof. In order whereunto divers
Pamphlets were published against the
Book of Common Prayer, the old
Objections mustered up, with the ad
dition of some new ones, more than
formerly had been made, to make the
number swell. In fine, great impor
tunities were used to His Sacred Ma
jesty, that the said Book might be re
vised, and such Alterations therein,
and Additions thereunto made, as
should be thought requisite for the
ease of tender Consciences : whereunto
His Majesty, out of his pious inclina
tion to give satisfaction (so far as could
be reasonably expected) to all his sub
jects of what persuasion soever, did
graciously condescend.

In which review we have endea
voured to observe the like moderation,
as we find to have been used in the
like case in former times. And there
fore of the sundry alterations pro
posed unto us, we have rejected all
such as were either of dangerous con
sequence (ag secretly striking at some
established Doctrine, or laudable Prac
tice of the Church of England, or
indeed of the whole Catholick Church
of Ciirist) or else of no consequence
at all, but utterly frivolous and vaiu.
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THE PREFACE.

But such alterations as were tendered
to us (by what persons, under what
pretences, or to what purpose soever
tendered) as seemed to us in any de
gree requisite or expedient, we have
willingly, and of our own accord as
sented unto : not enforced so to do by
any strength of Argument, convincing
us of the necessity of making the said
Alterations : For we are fully per
suaded in our judgements (and we here
profess it to the world) that the Book,
as it stood before established by Law,
doth not contain in it any thing con
trary to the Word of God, or to sound
Doctrine, or which a godly man may
not with a good Conscience use and
submit unto, or which is not fairly de
fensible against any that shall oppose
the same ; if it shall be allowed such
just and favourable construction as in
common Equity ought to be allowed
to all human Writings, especially such
as are set forth by Authority, and even
to the very best translations of the
holy Scripture itself.

Our general aim therefore in this
undertaking was, not to gratify this or
that party in any their unreasonable
demands; but to do that, which to
our best understandings we conceived
might most tend to the preservation of
Peace and Unity hi the Church ; the
procuring of Reverence, and exciting
of Piety and Devotion in the publick
Worship of God ; and the cutting off
occasion from them that seek occa
sion of cavil or quarrel against the
Liturgy of the Church. And as to
the several variations from the former
Book, whether by Alteration, Addi
tion, or otherwise, it shall suffice to
give this general account, That most
of the Alterations were made, either
first, for the better direction of them
that are to officiate in any part of
Divine Service ; which is chiefly done
in the Calendars and Rubricks : Or
secondly, for the more proper express
ing of some words or phrases of an
cient usage in terms more suitable to
the language of the present times, and
the clearer explanation of some other

words and phrases, that were either of
doubtful signification, or otherwise
liable to misconstruction : Or thirdly,
for a more perfect rendering of such
portions of holy Scripture, as are in
serted into the Liturgy ; which, in the
Epistles and Gospels especially, and
in sundry other places, are now order
ed to be read according to the last
Translation : and that it was thought
convenient, that some Prayers and
Thanksgivings, fitted to special oc
casions, should be added in their due
places ; particularly for those at Sea,
together with an Office for the Baptism
of such as are of riper years : which,
although not so necessary when the
fonner Book was compiled, yet by the
growth of Anabaptisra, through the
licentiousness of the late times crept
in amongst us, is now become neces
sary, and may be always useful for the
baptizing of Natives in our Planta
tions, and others converted to the
Faith. If any man, who shall de
sire a moje particular account of
the several Alterations in any part
of the Liturgy, shall take the pains
to compare the present Book with
the former; we doubt not but the
reason of the change may easily
appear.

And having thus endeavoured to
discharge our duties in this weighty
affair, as in the sight of God, and to
approve our sincerity therein (so far as
lay in us) to the consciences of all
men ; although we know it impossible
(in such variety of apprehensions, hu
mours, and interests, as are in the
world) to please all; nor can expect
that men of factious, peevish, and per
verse spirits should be satisfied with
any thing that can be done in this
kind by any other than themselves:
Yet we have good hope, that what is
here presented, and hath been by the
Convocations of both Provinces with
great diligence examined and approv
ed, will be also well accepted and ap
proved by all sober, peaceable, and
truly conscientious Sons of the Church
of England.

Concerning the Service of the Church.

THERE was never any thing by
the wit of man so well devised,
or so sure established, which in conti
nuance of time hath not been corrupt
ed: As, among other things, it may
plainly appear by the Common Pray
ers in the Church, commonly called
Divine Service. The first original and
ground whereof if a man would search
out by the ancient Fathers, he shall
find, that the same was not ordained
but of a good purpose, and for a
great advancement of godliness. For
they so ordered the matter, that all
the whole Bible ( or the greatest part
thereof) should be read over once
every year; intending thereby, that
the Clergy, and especially such as were
Ministers in the Congregation, should
(by often reading, and meditation in
God s word) be stirred up to godli
ness themselves) and be more able to
exhort others by wholesome Doctrine,
and to confute them that were adver
saries to the Truth ; and further, that
the people (by daily hearing of holy
Scripture read in the Church) might
continually profit more and more in
the knowledge of God, and be the
more inflamed with the love of his
true Religion.

But these many years passed, this
godly and decent order of the ancient
Fathers hath been so altered, broken,
and neglected, by planting in uncertain
Stories, and Legends, with multitude
of Responds, Verses, vain Repetitions,
Commemorations, and Synodals ; that
commonly when any Book of the
Bible was begun, after three or four
Chapters were read out, all the rest
were unread. And in this sort the
Book of Isaiah was begun in Advent,
and the Book of Genesis in Septua-
gesima ; but they were only begun,
and never read through: After like
sort were other Books of holy Scrip
ture used. And moreover, whereas
St. Paul would have such language
spoken to the people in the Church,
as they might understand, and have
profit by hearing the same ; The Ser
vice in this Church of England these

many years hath been read in Latin
to the people, which they understand
not; so that they have heard with
their ears only, and their heart, spirit,
and mind, have not been edified there
by. And furthermore, notwithstand
ing that the ancient Fathers have di
vided the Psalms into seven Portions,
whereof every one was called a Noc-
turn: Now of late time a few of
them have been daily said, and the
rest utterly omitted. Moreover, the
number and hardness of the Rules
called the Pie t and the manifold
changings of the Service, was the
cause, that to turn the Book only was
so hard and intricate a matter, that
many times there was more business
to find out what should be read, than
to read it when it was found out.

These inconveniences therefore
considered, here is set forth such an
Order, whereby the same shall be re
dressed. And for a readiness in this
matter, here is drawn out a Calendar
for that purpose, which is plain and
easy to be understood ; wherein (so
much as may be) the reading of holy
Scripture is so set forth, that all things
shall be done in order, without break
ing one piece from another. For this
cause be cut off Anthems, Responds,
Invitatories, and such like things as
did break the continual course of the
reading of the Scripture.

Yet, because there is no remedy,
but that of necessity there must be
some Rules; therefore certain Rules
are here set forth ; which, as they are
few in number, so they are plain and
easy to be understood. So that here
you have an Order for Prayer, and
for the reading of the holy Scripture,
much agreeable to the mind and pur
pose of the old Fathers, and a great
deal more profitable and commodious,
than that which of late was used. It
is more profitable, because here are
left out many things, whereof some
are untrue, some uncertain, some vain
and superstitious ; and nothing is or
dained to be read, but the very pure
Word of God, the holy Scriptures, or
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Of Ceremonies.

that which is agreeable to the same ;
and that in such a Language and Order
as is most easy and plain for the un
derstanding both of the Readers and
Hearers. It is also more commodi
ous, both for the shortness thereof,
and for the plainness of the Order,
and for that the Rules be few and
easy.

And whereas heretofore there hath
been great diversity in saying and
singing in Churches within this Realm ;
some following Salisbury Use, some
Hereford Use, and some the Use of
Bangor, some of York, some of Lin
coln; now from henceforth all the
whole Realm shall have but one
Use.

And forasmuch as nothing can be
so plainly set forth, but doubts may
arise in the use and practice of the
same ; to appease all such diversity (if
any arise) and for the resolution of all
doubts, concerning the manner how
to understand, do, and execute, the
things contained in this Book; the
parties that so doubt, or diversly take
any thing, shall alway resort to the
Bishop of the Diocese, who by his
discretion shall take order for the
quieting and appeasing of the same ;

so that the same order be not con
trary to any thing contained in this
Book. And if the Bishop of the
Diocese be in doubt, then he may
send for the resolution thereof to the
Archbishop.

THOUGH it be appointed, That
all things shall be read and sung
in the Church in the English Tongue,
to the end that the congregation may
be thereby edified ; yet it is not
meant, but that when men say Morn
ing and Evening Prayer privately, they
may say the same in any language that
they themselves do understand.

And all Priests and Deacons are to
say daily the Morning and Evening
Prayer either privately or openly, not
being let by sickness, or some other
urgent cause.

And the Curate that ministereth in
every Parish-Church or Chapel, being
at home, and not being otherwise rea
sonably hindered, shall say the same
in the Parish-Church or Chapel where
he ministereth, and shall cause a Bell
to be tolled thereunto a convenient
time before he begin, that the people
may come to hear God s Word, and
to pray with him.

Of Ceremonies, why some be abolished, and some retained.

OF such Ceremonies as be used in
the Church, and have had their
beginning by the institution of man,
some at the first were of godly intent
and purpose devised, and yet at length
turned to vanity and superstition :
some entered into the Church by un-
discreet devotion, and such a zeal as
was without knowledge ; and for be
cause they were winked at in the be
ginning, they grew daily to more and
more abuses, which not only for their
unprofitableness, but also because they
have much blinded the people, and
obscured the glory of God, are worthy
to be cut away, and clean rejected :
other there be, which although they

have been devised by man, yet it is
thought good to reserve them still, as
well for a decent order in the Church,
(for the which they were first devised)
as because they pertain to edification,
whereunto all things done in the
Church (as the Apostle teacheth)
ought to be referred.

And although the keeping or omit
ting of a Ceremony, in itself con
sidered, is but a small thing ; yet the
wilful and contemptuous transgression
and breaking of a common order and
discipline is no small offence before
God, Let all things be done among
you, saith St. Paul, in a seemly and
due order ; The appointment of the

Of Ceremonies.

\vhich order pertaineth not to private
men ; therefore no man ought to take
in hand, nor presume to appoint or
alter any publick or common Order
in Christ s Church, except he be law
fully called and authorized thereunto.

And whereas in tin s our time, the
minds of men are so diverse, that
some think it a great matter of con
science to depart from a piece of the
least of their Ceremonies, they be so
addicted to their old customs ; and
again on the other side, some be so
new-fangled, that they would inno
vate all things, and so despise the old,
that nothing can like them, but that
is new : it was thought expedient, not
so much to have respect how to please
and satisfy either of these parties, as
how to please God, and profit them
both. And yet lest any man should
be offended, whom good reason might
satisfy, here be certain causes ren
dered, why some of the accustomed
Ceremonies be put away, and some
retained and kept still.

Some are put away, because the
great excess and multitude of them
hath so increased in these latter days,
that the burden of them was intolera
ble; whereof Saint Augustine in his
time complained, that they were
grown to such a number, that the
estate of Christian people was in
worse case concerning that matter,
than were the Jews. And he coun
selled that such yoke and burden
should be taken away, as time would
serve quietly to do it. But what
would Saint Augustine have said, if
he had seen the Ceremonies of late
days used among us ; whereunto the
multitude used in his time was not to
be compared 1 This our excessive mul
titude of Ceremonies was so great,
and many of them so dark, that they
did more confound and darken, than
declare and set forth Christ s benefits
unto us. And besides this, Christ s
Gospel is not a Ceremonial Law, (as
much of Moses Law was,) but it is a
Religion to serve God, not in bond
age of the figure or shadow, but in

the freedom of the Spirit ; being con
tent only with those Ceremonies which
do serve to a decent Order and godly
Discipline, and such as be apt to stir
up the dull mind of man to the re
membrance of his duty to God, by
some notable and special signification,
whereby he might be edified. Fur
thermore, the most weighty cause of
the abolishment of certain Ceremo
nies was, That they were so far abused,
partly by the superstitious blindness of
the rude and unlearned, and partly
by the unsatiable avarice of such as
sought more their own lucre, than
the glory of God, that the abuses
could not well be taken away, the
thing remaining still.

But now as concerning those per
sons, which peradventure will be of
fended, for that some of the old
Ceremonies are retained still : If they
consider that without some Ceremo
nies it is not possible to keep any
Order, or quiet Discipline in the
Church, they shall easily perceive just
cause to reform their judgements. And
if they think much, that any of the
old do remain, and would rather have
all devised anew: then such meu
granting some Ceremonies convenient
to be had, surely where the old may
be well used, there they cannot rea
sonably reprove the old only for their
age, without bewraying of their own
folly. For in such a case they ought
rather to have reverence unto them
for their antiquity, if they will declare
themselves to be more studious of
unity and concord, than of innovations
and new-fangleness, which (as much
as may be with true setting forth of
Christ s Religion) is always to be es
chewed/ Furthermore, such shall
have no just cause with the Ceremo
nies reserved to be offended. For as
those be taken away which were most
abused, and did burden men s con
sciences without any cause ; so the
other that remain, are retained for a
discipline and order, which (upon just
causes) may be altered and changed,
and therefore are not to be esteemed
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Of Ceremonies.

equal with Cod s Law. And more
over, they be neither dark nor dumb
Ceremonies, but are so set forth, that
every man may understand what they
do mean, and to what use they do
serve. So that it is not like that they
in time to come should be abused as
other have been. And in these our
doings we condemn no other Nations,
nor prescribe any thing but to our
own people only: For we think it

convenient, that every Country should
use such Ceremonies as they shall
think best to the setting forth of God s
honour and glory, and to the re
ducing of the people to a most per
fect and godly living, without error or
superstition ; and that they should put
away other things, which from time to
time they perceive to be most abused,
as in men s ordinances it often chanceth
diversly in divers countries.

The Order how the, Psalter is appointed to be read.

THE Psalter shall be read through
once every Month, as it is there
appointed, both for Morning and
Evening Prayer. But in February
it shall be read only to the twenty-
eighth or twenty-ninth day of the
Month.

And, whereas January, March,
May, July, August, October, and
December have One-and-thirty days
apiece ; It is ordered, that the same
Psalms shall be read the last day of
the said months, which were read the
day before : So that the Psalter may
begin again the first day of the next
month ensuing.

And, whereas the 119th Psalm is
divided into twenty-two portions, and

is over-long to be read at one time ;
It is so ordered, that at one time
shall not be read above four or five
of the said portions.

And at the end of every Psalm, and
of every such part of the 1 19th Psalm,
shall be repeated this Hymn,

Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son : and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be : world without end.
Amen.

Note, that the Psalter followeth
the Division of the Hebrews, and the
Translation of the great English Bible,
set forth and used in the time of King
Henry the Eighth, and Edward the
Sixth.

5F The Order how the rest of holy Scripture is appointed to be read.

TH E Old Testament is appointed
for the first Lessons at Morning
and Evening Prayer ; so as the most
part thereof will be read every year
once, as in the Calendar is appointed.

The New Testament is appointed
for the second Lessons at Morning and
Evening Prayer, and shall be read
over orderly every year thrice, besides
the Epistles and Gospels ; except the
Apocalypse, out of which there are
only certain Proper Lessons appointed
upon divers Feasts.

Aud to know what Lessons shall be
read every day, look for the day of
the Month in the Calendar following,
and there ye shall find the Chapters
that shall be read for the Lessons

both at Morning and Evening Prayer ;
except only the Moveable Feasts,
which are not in the Calendar, and
the Immoveable, where there is a
blank left in the Column of Lessons,
the Proper Lessons for all which days
are to be found in the Table of Pro
per Lessons.

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 different) shall be
omitted for that time.

Note also, that the Collect, Epistle,
and Gospel, appointed for the Sunday
shall serve all the week after, where it
is mot in this Book otherwise ordered.

If PROPER LESSONS

To be read at Morning and Evening Prayer, on the Sundays, and
other Holy-days throughout the Year.

f Lessons proper for Sundays.

Sundays of

Advent.
The first

Sundays after
Christmas.

The first

Sundays after
the Epiphany.

The first

2
3

Septuagesima. -
Sexagesima.
Quinquagesima.

1 Lesson

2 Lesson

Easter-day.

1 Lesson

2 Lesson

Sundays after

Easter.
The first

Mat tins.

Genesis 1

Matth. 26

Exodus 12
Rom.

Numb. 16

23, 24

Deut. 4

Num. 22

Deut. - 5

Sundays after
Easter.

Sunday after

Whit-Sunday.

1 Lesson

2 Lesson

Trinity-Sunday

1 Lesson

2 Lesson

Sundays aftei

Trinity.
The first

-16. fov.18
Acts 10
(ver. 34
Genesis 1
Matth. 3

Joshua 10
Judges 4
1 Sam. 2

4 n

Isaiah -11
Acts 19. to
(ver. 21
Genesis 18
1 John 5

Joshua 23
Judges 5
iSam. 3

Daniel 6
Micah 6
Prov. 1

-12
-11

1T Lessons proper for Holy-days.

Mattins.

Evensong.

Mattins.

Evensong.

S. Andrew.--

Prov. 20

Prov. 21

Thursday before

Easter.

S. Thomas the

1 Lesson

Daniel 9

Jerem.-31

Apostle.

I . I IMPM, ^^

" "" -*4

2 Lesson

John 13

Nativity of
Christ.
1 Lesson
2 Lesson

(ver. 8
Isaiah 9. to
Luke 2. to

(to v. 17
Isai.7.v.lO
Titus3.v.4

Good-Friday.
1 Lesson
2 Lesson

(to v. 20
Genesis 22
John 18

Isaiah -53
1 Peter 2

(ver. 15

(to ver. 9

Easter-Even.

S. Stephen.

1 Lesson

Zech. 9

Exodus 13

1 Lesson

Prov. 28

Eccles. 4

2 Lesson

Luke -23.

Heb. 4

2 Lesson

Acts6.v.8.

Acts7v.30

Monday in

(ver. 50

and ch. 7.

(to v. 55

Easter-Week.

to ver. 30

1 Lesson

Exodus 16

Exodus 17

S. John, Evang.

2 Lesson

Matth.-28

Acts 3

1 Lesson

Eccles. 5

Eccles. 6

2 Lesson

Rev. 1

Rev. 22

Tuesday in

Easter-Week.

Innocents Day.

Jerem.-31

Wisd. 1

1 Lesson

Exodus 20

Exodus 32

(to v. 18

2 Lesson

Luke 24. to

1 Cor. -15

Circumcision.

(ver. 12

(ver. 13

1 Lesson

Genesis 17

Deut. -10.

2 Lesson

Rom. 2

Coloss. -2

S. Mark.

Ecclus. -4

Ecclus. -5

S. Philip and

Epiphany.

S. James.

1 Lesson

Isaiah -60

Isaiah -49

1 Lesson

2 Lesson

Luke 3. to

John 2. to

2 Lesson

John 1. v.

Conversion of

(ver. 23

(ver. 12

Ascension-Day.

(43

S. Paul.

1 Lesson

Deut. 10

2 Kings-2

1 Lesson

Wisd. 5

Wisd. 6

2 Lesson

Luke -24.

Ephes. -4

2 Lesson

Acts 22. to

Acts 26

(ver. 44

(to v. 17

Purification of

(ver. 22

Monday in
Whitsun-Week.

(ver. 10

(16.tov.30

the Virgin

Wisd. 9

\Vier1 1O

1 Lesson
2 Lesson

Gen. 11. to
1 Cor. 12

1 Cor.- 14.

ary.

S. Matthias.

Ecclus. -1

Tuesday in

(to v. 26

Annunciation of

Whitsun-Week.

(ver. 18

our Lady.

Ecclus. -2

1 Lesson

1 Sam. -19

Deut. 30

2 Lesson

1 Thess.-5

1 John -4

Wednesday be
fore Easter,

S. Barnabas.

v.!2tov.24

(to v. 14

1 Lesson

Hosea -13

Hosea -14

1 Lesson

Ecclus. 10

Ecclus. 12

2 Ije c son

John 11

Arts 14

Acts 15. to

(ver. 4 5

/VCld A*X

(ver. 36

T Lessons proper for Holy-days.

S. John Baptist.
1 Lesson

Mattins.
Malach.-3

Erensong.
Malach. 4

S. Luke.

Mattins.
Ecclus. 51

Evensong.
Job 1

2 Lesson

Matth. 3

Matt. 14. to

S. Peter.

(ver. 13

S. Simon and

1 Lesson

Ecclus. 15

Ecclus. 19

S. Jude.

Job 24, 25

2 Lesson

Acts 3

Acts 4

S.James.

Ecclus. 21

Etclus. 22

All Saints.

S. Bartholomew.

1 Lesson

Wisd. 3. to

Wisd. 5. to

S. Matthew.

(ver. 10

(ver. 17

S. Michael.

1 Lesson

Genesis 32

Dan.lO-v.5

2 Lesson

Heb. 11. v.

Rev. 19. to

2 Lesson

Acts 12. to

Jude ver. 6

33.&ch.

(ver. 17

(ver. 20

(tov. 16

12.fr&gt;v.7

^ Proper Psalms on certain Days.

Mattins.

Evensong.

Mattins.

Evensong.

Christmas-Day.

19, 45, 85

89, 110, 132

Easter-Day.

2, 57, 111

113,114,118

Ash-Wednesday.

6, 32, 38

102,130,143

Ascension-Day.

8, 15, 21

24,47, 108

Good-Friday.

22, 40, 54

69, 88

Whit-Sunday.

48, 68

104, 145

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

JANUARY HATH XXXI. DAYS.

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

A
b
c
d
e
f

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c

d
e
f

g
A

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c

Circumcision.

1 Lesson.

2 Lesson.

1 Lesson.

2 Lesson.

Gen. 1

Matth. 1

frpn O

Rnm 1

x&lt;i

1 n

Lucian,P.&M.

i q

- 1 ^J
1

l^i

Ifi

1 T

1 u

1 /
i n

.. J[Q
r&gt;(\

n i

i n

\J
nrt

9
10

11
-i /-&gt;

Hilary, B.&C.

: 23

n t:

i \j

1 1

1 r&gt;

nfc

;*..)
nr^

- A\J
no

i q

1 O

^-y

q i

1 r

O\J

i r

Prisca,V.&M.

"~~ 1 \J
1/7

" 1&lt;L/
I/?

- oo

o/r

i 7

O*f

Qty

1 Cor 1

Fabian,B.&M.
Agnes,V.&M.
Vincent, M.

i /

1 Q

o i

1 Q

&lt;3y
43

A -7

rfcVJ
4.1

iy
20

- 4.^
A^

~ /a 1
nr&gt;

Conversion of
fS PfjtjJ

- 4O

i&zl

A Q

AC\

\y JL ClUl,

" ~^i &lt;J

CtA

4*y
Exod. 1

Exod. 2

o/^

1 1

KingCharles,
(Mart.

Note, that t Exodus 6. is to be read only to ver. 14.

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

FEBRUARY HATH XXVIII. DAYS,

And in every Leap-Year XXIX. Days.

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

1
2
3

4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29

cl
e
f

g
A

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c

Fast

1 Lesson.
Exod.10

2 Lesson.
Mark 1

I Lesson.
Exod. 1 1

2 Lesson.
1 Cor. 13
14
15
16
2 Cor. 1

Purijic.V.M.
Blasius, Bp.
. (Mart.
Agatha, Virg.

/ Q, "|\/f nT .f

12
14
16

1 Q

.
^
/i

1 Q
1 O

i &lt;~f

1 Q

rr
Q

-(tx, iviart.

" i O
OA

ly
ni

zlU
no

^ J

- z!4

&lt;tQ

^JA

Levit. 1 8

nf)

1 1

Levit 19
n 6

A\J

Num.11
i &lt;?

1 9

Num. 12
14

1 7

Valentine,Bp.

/Or A,fo f

1 O

y
i n

1 o
Ifi

i r

" IV

1 1

1 \J

i /
ni

1 O
1.A

1 *l

&\j

rtn

Lu. 1&39

1 y&gt; 9Q

n /L

ZiJ
or

Galat. 1

** L
ci~7

i . u. 0^7

x4(-

Ov/

32
36
Deut. 2

O 1
OK

Deut. 1

Fn-f

I do L.

S.Matthias,A.

Ephes. 1

y
i n

i n

1 O

1 1

Matth. 7

Rom. 12

THF CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

MARCH HATH XXXI. DAYS.

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

14
3

19
8

16
5

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

d
e
f

b
c
d
e
f

b
c
d

e
f

b
c
d
e

b
c
d

e
f

David,Archb.
Chad,Bp.ofL.

1 Lesson.
Deut. 15

i *"*

2 Lesson

Luke 12
i &lt;?

1 Lesson.
Deut. 16

2 Lesson.
Ephes. 6
Philip, l

I O

i ^

n n

n i

n/t

13
Ifi

A*k
nfi

-;SO
o&gt;-r

Coloss. 1

Perpetua, M.

- *.\J

1 /

1 fi
i O

9 1

o\J

o 1

0.4

,U
n i

Joshua 1

1 Thes. 1
o

Joshua 2

A
ft

, 1
nn

Gregory, M.

TK&

23
24

l-y

John 1

2 Thes. 1

n/\

Judges 1

/6^t

Judges 2

Ed. K.W.Sax.

1 Tim. 1

n &lt;z

r*
fi

A, J

Benedict, Ab.

1 f?

^_ g

v7
11
1 &lt;?

1 2H
1A

1 %

2 Tim. 1
3

Fnof

1 1

- -Tcl&L.

Annunciation
(of V.Mary.

i q
i o

1 A

i n
*ct

. ... ^

Titus -1
2,3
Philem.
Hebr.- 1

Ruth -1

IT(

1 A
i \j

-If)

*4 i

Ruth -2

1 Sam. 1

1 Sam. 2
/i

10 -x

7" The Numbers here prefixed to the several Days, between the Twenty-first Day of
March and the Kichtcenth Day of April, both inclusive, denote the Days upon which
those Full Moons do fall, which happen upon or next after the Twenty-first Day of
March, in those Years, of which they are respectively the Golden Numbers; and the

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

APRIL HATH XXX. DAYS.

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

13
2

15
4

17
6

2
3
4
5
6
7
8

9
10
11

12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30

g
A

b
c

d
e
f

g
A

b
c
cl
e
f

g
A

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

1 Lesson.
1 Sam. 5

% Lesson.
John 19

nr\

1 Lesson.
1 Sam. 6
R

2 Lesson.
Heb. 3

IJ ^Uo.-,! T3r\

Kicnaru, JL&gt;p.
S. Ambrose, B.

i i

A 1

Acts -1

i i

1 Q

16
-18

. ._

1 /

*~~ o
ft

*cr

j i
- 12

i
na

24.

13
James 1
2

AJ
^1

1 1

2 Sam. 1
i

2 Sam. 2

1 9

rr
c

1 O

1 Peter 1

Alph. Archb.

1 A

Ift

1 1

1U
1

1 7

1 A.

1 ft

1 5

14?
Ifi

1 Q

2.Peter 1

S. George, M.

1 U
1 Q

nrv

i /

nr\

a i

*i?
ni

1 John 1

S.Mark,Ev.~

nrt

^&gt;o

ZtZi
PA

AlO
0/1

1 Kings 1
^

Z/i

1 Kings 2

&gt;!

^*
t:

2,3 John

Sunday Letter next following any such Full Moon points out Easter-Day for that Year.
All which holds until the Year ot ouiLord 1899 inclusive ; after which Year, the Place
of these Golden Numbers will be to be changed, as is hereafter expressed.

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

MAY HATH XXXI. DAYS.

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

2
3

4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c
cl
e
f

g
A

b
c

S. Philip and
(S. James, A p.
Invention of
the Cross.

1 Lesson.

2 Lesson.

1 Lesson.

2 Lesson.
Jude
Rom. 1

1 Kings 8

Acts 28
Matth. 1

/
&lt;J

iKingsp
1 1

1 1

, 1
1 O

i f

q
A
r

S. John, Evan.

ifi

" iu

1 *!

1 Q

rr
^

1 /

&lt;L&gt;

1 o
nr\

O 1

- ;&\J
nrt

- A 1

2 Kings 1

2Kings2

i n

1 1

L\J
1 1

1 Q

1 n

1 1

LZi

1 q

-1U
1 n

1 9

- 13

13S

~ JO
1 C

, i r

j
Ifi

i r

1 ^

i/7

1 Q

- Ifi

1 /

1 O

1 Cor. 1

g
A

Dunstan, A. B.

1 O

^/4&lt;v/
on

|^
1 ^

*y
21

XiZi

nj.

1 Q

^ J
or

***

F-7V1 1

AC?
r&gt;A

&gt;iiJ

T? lyr-o Q

^
K

... g

XlZ
00

Neh - 1

Augustin,A.B.
Ven. Bede, Pr.

XTpV o

&lt; o

xiirr
, QZ

oft

1 1

K. Charles II.
(Nat. &. R.

1 A

1 Q

1 o

Esther 2

1 1
10

Esther 1

28
Mark 1

13
ij.

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

JUNE HATH XXX. DAYS. j

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

2
3
4
d
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30

e
f

g
A

b
c
d

e
f

A
b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c

cl
e
f

g
A

b
c
cl
e
f

Nicomede, M.

1 Lesson.

Esther 5

&gt;7

2 Lesson.

Mark -2
^

1 Lesson.
Esther 6

2 Lesson.
iCor. 15
16

Job 1

2 Cor. 1

J
TrkVi Q

Boniface, B. M.

" ~\j

&lt;

if
1 1

i n

y
in

1 1

i ^

S. Barnabas, A.

17 IS

1 Q

1 9

J. / j J. O

nf)

-10

n i

1 3

1 1

M 1

1 ^

%i&gt;i

- 94&lt; Q*i

AtO

Qft 97

T ^Up i

Of)

J Q

Galat. 1

S.Alban, Mart.

A\J) A j
nr

~ OU
on

~ A

Oxi

Tr.ofEdw. K.
(of West-Sax.

" \J

Gft

~ oo

o-r

- o\j

&lt;5Q

T&lt;

~oo
40

AC*

Fatet

A 1

Ephes. 1

S. John Baptist.

4* 1

Prnv 1

Prnv 9

Vi &lt;? t"

S. Peter, Apos.

1 n

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

JULY HATH XXXI. DAYS.

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26*
27
28
29
30
31

b
c
d
e
f

i
b

c
d
e

&lt;r
t&gt;

A
b
c
d

e
f

b
c
d

1 Lesson.
Prov. 11

1 q

2 Lesson.
Luke 13

1 Lesson.
Prov. 12

2 Lesson.
Philip. 1

Visitat.ofV.M.

1 O

1 ^

i ^

Tr.ofMartB.

1 "*

ifi

i U

1 fl

* /

1 7

nrv

Coloss. 1

1 i /

1 ft

Si 1
2q

1 O
1 o

n n

n fi

*.)
n-r

-6.U
1

ZiU

1 Thes. 1

*/
no

q i

*y
Eccles. 1

3 1

Eccles. 2

n /t

TnVrn 1

2 Thes. 1

Swithun, B.Tr.

y
1 1

Jpr P

;&
o

]&gt;r 1

1 Tim. 1

n q

uCI. 1 -- 1

a, J

Marg. V. & M.

* J

~ 1

S. Mary Magd.

y
10

1 1

-12

2 Tim. 1

FT-I-

- 1 tj
I

1 1

12
l 9

ifi

S. James, Apos.
S. Anne.

1&lt;J

1 U

i o

1 C

18
on

ritus i

n i

- 1 J

Philem.
Hebr. 1
o

r&gt;q

1U
1 7

ii~&gt;

Q/\

J
n/j

1 /

/&rr
Oft

/&lt;i&lt;J

r&gt;7

, 1 Q

/./

". **

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

AUGUST HATH XXXI. DAYS.

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

2
3
4
5

7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

c
d
e

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c

d
e
f

g
A

b
c
d
e

Lammas-day.-

1 Lesson.
Jer. - 29
Q i

2 Lesson.
John 20

1 Lesson.
Jer. 30

2 Lesson.
Hebr. 4

O 1

% 1

Acts - 1

&lt;JZ

0x1

*-&gt;~r
Q/^

IOQ

A 1

1 n

1 1 til IMl^lU dl.

Name of Jesus.

Z *

ftL/
An

4 J
A.1

**;&

A C\

1 1

**J
A^ J.fi

. 10

S.Lawrence,M.

*3y *tO

/I Q

i &lt;?

4o
5fl

4y
r i

James- 1

f im 1

T OTY-l O

i i

l l
1 n

Fyplr P

1 9

Fypk S

T 1

^ ,

1 O
1.1

7 p

1 Peter 1

Irt
1 ^

1 3

" " 1 \J
\K

1 o

0/1

1 7

JC)

Daniel 1

Daniel 2

1 /
1 9

1 o
i n

2 Peter 1

nr\

Fi~t

o i

S.Bartholomew.

~~;(i 1
on

1 John 1

i n

1 1

i L/
i ^

Hosea 1

Hos. 2, 3

r A 1

n -r

S. Augustin, B.
S. John Baptist

^^i

Oj U

n-jr

2, 3 John

J2/

i n

xiiO

Matth. 1

1 Q

Rom.-l

i * M

1 *J

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

SEPTEMBER HATH XXX. DAYS.

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30

b
c
d
e
f

Giles, Ab. & C.

1 Lesson.
Hoseal4

Tnpl , a

2 lesson.
Matth. 2

1 Lesson.
Joel 1

2 Lesson.
Rom. -2

Amos- 1

Amos- 2
/i

-c

T&lt;
^

Enurchus, B. -
Nativity of V.
(Mary.

Obadiah
Jon. 2, 3
Micah 1

Jonah 1

- o
n

- y
in

Micah 2

.._. ^u
1 1

1 1

1 o

1 ^

u&gt;

i -i
i *?

Nahu. 1

1J.

Nahu. 2
Hih i

i j

Holy-Cross D.

1 E

i ^

Hih o

1/7

Zeph.-l

1 ft

Zeph.- 2
Haggail
Zprh 1

1 Cor. 1

Lambert, B. M.

Haggai2
Zee. 2, 3
ft

4,5

T?oof

x&lt;^V/

n I

S. Matthew, A.

- \j

;& 1
ctn

~ \J

iKm

y
1 1

... ^

i \j

rtK.

1 3

i X

~ Zi&lt;J

nfi

Mai 1

S. Cyprian, M.

TV/Til o

n~?

1 1

Tobit 1

ir&gt;

Tobit- 2

Mark-1

1 Q
1 O

S MichfipJ

S. Jerom, C. D.

i /r

4 ~ -

: ;.

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

OCTOBER HATH XXXL DAYS.

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

12
13
14
15
16
17
18

19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

b
c
cl
e
f

b
c
d
e

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c
d
e
f

g
A

b
c

Remigius, Bp.

1 Lesson.
Tobit-7

2 Lesson.
Mark -4

1 Lesson.
Tobit-8
in

2 Lesson.
I Cor. 16
2 Cor. 1

y
1 1

i ^

1 ^

1 u

Judith 1

Judith 2
I/i

Faith, V.&M.

y
in

&lt;J

1 1
i n

S.Denys,B.M.

i n

y
1 1

1 9.

1 1

i ^

.._. ^ ^

14
16

i j

i ^

Transl.of King

fPf]\\7 Prm?

Wisd. 1

ifi

Wisd.- 2

I/i

1 1

Lu. l/o39

1 Y) ^Q

13
Galat. 1

, ^
I/^

i .V.Oy

Etheldreda, V.
S. Luke, Evan.

" ,-w

-l

1 1

i n

J 1
1 9

"~ \J

i /i

1 *\

\J
7

J4
ifi

Ephes. 1

i r?

i ft

i /

1 O

Ecclus. 1

G
A

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Ecclus.2

y
in

Crispin, Mart.

1 1

- "^
g

4r
fj

F~-t

1 9

Philip. 1

S. Simon Scjude.

1 ^

1 1

Ifi

1 9

Ifofti

.1/1

1 7

1 vJ)

i t:

Coloss. 1

1 /

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

NOVEMBER HATH XXX. DAYS.

MORNING

PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
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Note, That * Ecclus. 25. is to be read only to ver. 13. and t Ecclus. 30. only to ver. 18.
and $ Ecclus. 46. only to ter. 20.

THE CALENDAR,

WITH THE TABLE OF LESSONS.

DECEMBER HATH XXXI. DAYS.

MORNING
PRAYER.

EVENING
PRAYER.

2
3

4
5

7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

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c
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TABLES AND RULES

For the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts; together with the Days of
Fasting and Abstinence, through the whole Year.

RULES to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin.

TOASTER-DAY (on which the rest depend) is always the First Sunday after
-*- the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day
of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter-Day is the
Sunday after.
Advent-Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of Saint Andrew,

whether before or after.
Septuagesima *J

f Nine

Quadragesima

Rogation-Sunday
Ascension-Day
Whit-Sunday
Trinity-Sunday

Six. J

f Five Weeks "|
j Forty Days 1 f p
1 Seven Weeks f after Easter &lt;

t Ei S ht Weeks J

A TABLE of all the Feasts that are to be observed in the Church of
England throughout the Year.

All Sundays in the Year.

The Circumcision of our Lord

JESUS CHRIST.
The Epiphany.
The Conversion of S. Paul.
The Purification of the Blessed

Virgin.

S. Matthias the Apostle.
The Annunciation of the Blessed

Virgin.

S. Mark the Evangelist.
S. Philip S. James the Apostles.
The Ascension of our* Lord

JESUS CHRIST.
JS. Barnabas.
Monday and Tuesday in Easter-Wek.

rThe Nativity of S. John Baptist.
S. Peter the Apostle.
S. James the Apostle.
S. Bartholomew the Apostle.
S. Matthew the Apostle.
S. Michael and all Angels.
S. Luke the Evangelist.
S. Simon and S. Jude the Apostles.
All Saints.

S. Andrew the Apostle.
S. Thomas the Apostle.
The Nativity of our Lord.
S. Stephen the Martyr.
S. John the Evangelist.
The Holy Innocents.
Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-Week.

A TABLE of the Vigils, Fasts, and Days of Abstinence, to be
observed in the Year,

The Evens
or Vigils
before

The Nativity of our Lord.
The Purification of the
Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Annunciation of the

Blessed Virgin.
Easter-Day.
Ascension-Day.
Pentecost.
IS. Matthias.

The Evens
or Vigils
before

fS. John Baptist.

S. Peter.

S. James.

S. Bartholomew.

S. Matthew.

S. Simon and S. Jude.

S. Andrew.

S. Thomas.
^.All Saints.

Note, that if any of these Feast-Days fall upon a Monday, then the Vigil or Fast-Day shall
be kept upon the Saturday, and not upon the Sunday next before it.

Days of Fasting, or Abstinence.
I. The Forty Days of Lent. /-The First Sunday in Lent.

II. The Ember-Days at the Four Seasons, being &lt; The Feast of Pentecost.

the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after ^September 14, & December 13.

III. The Three Rogation-Days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,
before Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our LORD.

IV. All the Fridays in the Year, except CHRISTMAS-DAY.

Certain Solemn Days, for which particular Services are appointed.

I. The Fifth Day of November, being the Day kept in Memory of the Papists
Conspiracy.

II. The Thirtieth Day of January, being the Day kept in Memory of the

Martyrdom of King Charles the First.

III. The Nine and twentieth Day of May, being the Day kept in Memory
of the Birth and Return of King Charles the Second.

IV. The Twenty-fifth Day of October, being the Day on which His Majesty
began his happy Reign.

A TABLE TO FIND EASTER-DAY,

From the present Time till the Year 1899 inclusive, according to the
foregoing Calendar.

Sunday-
Letters.

THIS Table contains so much of the Calen
dar as is necessary for the determining of
Easter; to find which, look for the Golden
Number of the Year in the First Column of
the Table, against which stands the Day of
the Paschal Full Moon ; then look in the Third
Column for the Sunday Letter, next after the
Day of the Full Moon, and the DHV of the
Month standing against that Sunday Letter is
Easter-Day. It the Full Moon happens upon a
Sunday, then (according to the First Rule) the
next Sunday after is Easter-Day.

To find the Golden Number, or Prime, add
1 to the Year of our Lord, and then divide
by 19 ; the Remainder, if any, is the Golden
Number ; but if nothing remaincth, then 19 is
the Golden Number.

To find the Dominical or Sunday Letter, ac
cording to the Calendar, until the Year

1799 inclusive, add to the Year of our
Lord its Fourth Part, omitting Fracti
ons; and also the Number 1 : Divide
the Sum by 7 ; and if there is no Re
mainder, then A is the Sunday Let
ter : But if any Number remaineth,
then the 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 1899 inclusive, add to the
current Year only its Fourth Part, and then
divide by 7, and proceed as in the last Rule.

Note, that in all Bissextile or Leap-Years,
the Letter found as above will be the Sunday
Letter, from the intercalated Day exclusive to
the End of the Year.

ANOTHER TABLE TO FIND EASTER

Till the Year 1899 inclusive.

SUNDAY LETTERS.

Golden
Number.

Apr. 16

April 9

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III

Mar. 26

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April 2

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Mar. 31

April 1

Apr. 23

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April 9

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April 2

Mar. 30

April 1

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Apr. 23

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April 9

XIX

April 2

Mar. 27

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April 1

THO make use of the preceding Table, find the Sunday Letter
* for the Year in the uppermost Line, and the Golden Num

ber, or Prime, in the Column of Golden Numbers, and against

the Prime, in the same Line under the Sunday Letter, you have

the Day of the Month on which Easter falleth that Year. But

Note, that the Name of the Month is set on the Left Hand, or

just with the Figure, and followeth not, as in other Tables, by

Descent, but Collateral,

A TABLE OF THE MOVEABLE FEASTS

FOR FIFTY-TWO YEARS,
According to the foregoing Calendar.

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1786
1787
1788
1789
1790
1791
1792
1793
1794
1795
1796
1797
1798
1799
J8OO
1801
1802
1803
1004
1805
1806
1807
1808
1809
1810
1811
1812
1813
1814
1815
1816
1817
1818
1819
1820
1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827
1828
1829
1830
1831
1832
1R33
1834
1835
1836
1837

I Golden Number.

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Ascension-Day.

Whit-Sunday.

24
25
27
24
25
22
25
26
23
25
26
24
25
27
24
25
23
24
26
24
25
26
23
26
23
24
26
23
24
27
24
25
27
24
26
23
25
26
23
25
27
24
25
23
24
25
23
25

Dec. 3

3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
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11

25
d
17
28
9

20
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14
25
6
17
28
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20
1

12
23
4
15
26
7
18

11
22
3
14
25
6
17
2
9
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1
12
23

4
1
4
3
6
4
2
5
3
2
5
4
1
4
3
5
4
3
4
3
2
5
3
6
4
2
5
4
2
5
3
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4
3
6
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Feb. 12

Mar. 1
Feb. 21

Mar. 9
Feb. 22
13
Mar. 5
Feb. 18

Apr. 16

Mar. 23
Apr. 12

May 21
13

May 25

June 4
May 27
11
31

Jan. 20
Feb. 8
Jan. 31
Feb. 20

Jan. 27
Feb. 16

Apr. 27
May 17

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June 2
May 17

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Mar. 31
Apr. 20

Mar. 27
Apr. 16

Mar. 24
Apr. 13

June 12
May 27
19
June
May 24

Dec. 2

1
Nov. 30

Jan. 24
Feb. 12

Mar. 1
Feb. 21

June 4
May 27

Dec. 3

Jan. 20
Feb. 9

Apr. 28
May 18

26
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June 1
May 24
June 6
May 29

June 2
May 25
17
June 5
May 21
June 10

May 17
June 6
May 29

Nov. 30 1

Jan. 29
Feb. 10
2
Jan. 25
Feb. 14
Jan. 29
Feb. 18
10
Jan. 26
Feb. 14

Jan. 22
Feb. 11
2
Jan. 18
Feb. 7
Jan. 30
Feb. 18

Jan. 26
Feb. 15
Jan. 30

Mar. 3
Feb. 23

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Mar. 3
Feb. 15
Mar. 7
Feb. 27
1

Mar. 29
Apr. 17

7
26

Nov. 30 1
Dec. 3

Nov. 29
28
27
Dec_S

Nov. 30
29
28
Pec. 3

Nov. 30

Dec. 3
Nov. 30

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Nov. 30
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22
14
Mar. 29
Apr. 18
10
Mar. 26
Apr. 14

Mar. 22
Apr. 11

22
7
Mar. 30
Apr. 18

Mar. 26
Apr. 15

22
7
Mar. 30
Apr. 19

Mar. 26

27
19

23
15
Apr. 30
May 19
11
Apr. 26
May 16

Mar. 3
Feb. 23

28
19

24
16
Mar. 7
Feb. 20
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15
Apr. 30
May 20
11
31
16

June 2
May 25
10

21
June 10
May 26

Mar. 4
Feb. 16

Mar. 4
Feb. 24
16
Mar. 8
Feb. 20

8
Apr. 30
May 20
11
24
16

27
12

June 6
May 22

Feb. 11

15
7
Jan. 30
Feb. 19

Jan. 26
Feb. 15
Jan. 31

24
15
28
20
12

June 3
May 25
June 7
May 30

Tune 10
May 26

Mar. 4
Feb. 17

24
\pr. 30

28
12

Fune 7
May 22

23
25
27

A TABLE of the MOVEABLE FEASTS,
according to the several Days that EASTER
can possibly fall upon.

TABLE to find Easter,
from the Year 1900,
to 2199 inclusive.

Mar 22
2&lt;

27
28
29
30
31
Apr. 1

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Sunday
Letters.

19
8

16
5

18
7

12
1

9
17
6

March 22
23
24

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

27
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April 1

1
1
1

2
2

2
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2
3
3
3
3
3
3

Jan. 18

Feb. 4
5

Apr 26
27

29
30

Apr 30
May 1

May 10

1 1

Nov. 29
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Dec. 1

tfov. 27
28

27
26
26
26
6
6
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6
5
5

May 1

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Dec. 1

^ov. 27
28

30
31
Feb. 1

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15

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21

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5
5
5

4
4
4
4
4
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4
3
3
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3
3
2
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22
23

25
26
27
28
Mar. 1

Dec. 1

4
4

4
4
4
4
4

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10
11
12
13
. 14
15

5
6
7
8

10
11

14
15
16

20
21

22
23

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18
19
20
21
22
23
24

28
29
30
31
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Nov. 27
28
29
30
Dec. 1

Vov. 27
28

17
18

13
14

~~" 15

25
26
27

HTHE Golden Numbers in
L the foregoing Calendar
will point out the Days of
the Paschal Full Moons, till
the Year of our Lord 1900 ;
at which Time, in order
that the Ecclesiastical Full
Moons may fall nearly on
the same Days with the real
Full Moons, the Golden
Numbers must be removed
to different Days of the Ca
lendar, as is done in the an
nexed Table, which contains
so much of the Calendar
then to be used, as is neces
sary for finding the Paschal
Full Moons, and the Feast of
Easter, from the Year 1900,
to the Year 2199 inclusive.
This Table is to be made
use of, in all respects, as the
First Table before inserted,
for finding Easter till the
Year 1899.

20
21
22
23

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16
17
18
19

7
g

25
26
27

29
30
31
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2
3

8
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12
13

30
Dec. 1

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3
Nov. 87
28

29
30

Note, that in a Bissextile or Leap Year, the Number
of Sundays after Epiphany will be the same, as if
Easter-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 for Septuagesima Sunday : And the like
must be done for the First Day of Lent (commonly
called Ash-Wednesday) unles the Table gives some
Day in the Month of March for it; for in that Case,
the Day given by the Table i? the right Day.

General TABLES for finding the Dominical or Sunday Letter, and the

Places of the Golden Numbers in the Calendar.

TABLE I.

T A B

LE IL 1

Years of

our Lord.

1600

5200

1700

5300

1600

1700

1800

1800
1900

5400
5500

17
17

2000

B 5600

2100

5700

1900
2000

2100

2200

2300
2400

2500

2600

2700
2800

2200
2300

3
4

5800
5900

18
19

2400

finoo

2500

6100

2900

3000

3100
3200

3300

3400

3500
3600

3700

2600
2700

5
5

6200
6300

20
21

2800

6400

2900

6500

3800

3900
4000

4100

4200

4300
1400

4500

4600

3000
5100

6
7

6600
6700

22
23

3200

6800

3300

6900

4700
4SOO

4900

5000

5100
5200

5300

5400

5500
5600

3400
3500

8
9

7000
7100

24
24

_____

3600

7200

3700

7300

5TOO

5800

5900
6000

6100

6200

6300
6400

6500

3800
3900

10
10

7400
7500

25
26

4000

7600

4100

7700

6600

6700
6800

6900

7000

7100
7200

7300

7400

4200
4300

7800
7900

27
28

_____

____

_____

4400

8000

4500

8100

7500
7600

7700

7800

7900
8000

8100

8200

8300
8400

4600
4700

13
14

8200
8300

4800

8400

4900

8500

&c.

.5000

&c.

5100

HPO find the Dominical or Sun-
^ day Letter for any given Year
of our Lord, add to the Year its

nnO find the Month and Days of ths Month to
J- which the Golden Numbers ought to be pre
fixed in the Calendar, in any given Year of our
Lord, consisting of entire. Hundred Years, and

Fourth Part, omitting Fractions,

in all the intermediate Years betwixt that and

and also the Number, which in
Table I. stttiideth at the Top of the
Column, wherein the Number of
Hundreds contained in that given

the next Hundredth Year following, look in
the Second Column of Table 11. for the given
Year consisting of entire Hundreds, and Note
the Number or Cypher which stands against it in
the Third Column ; then, in Table HI. look for

Year is found : Divide the Sum
by 7, and if there is no Remainder,

the same Number in the Column under any
giver\ Golden Number, which when you have
found, guide your Eye Side-ways to the Left

then A is the Sunday Letter ; but

Hand, and in the First Column you will find the

if any Number remaineth, then the
Letter, which standeth under that

Month and Day to which that Golden Number
ought to be prefixed in the Calendar, during that
Period of One Hundred Years.

Number at the Top of the Table,

The Letter B prefixed to certain Hundredth

is the Sunday Letter

Years in Table II. denotes those Years which are
still to be accounted Bissextile or Leap Years in the
New Calendar; whereas all the other Hundredth

Years are to be accounted only common Years.

TABLE III.

Paschal

Full
Moon.

March 21
March 22
March 23
March 24
March 25

March 26
March 27
March 28
March 29
March 30

March 31
April 1
April 2
April 3
April 4

A prU 5

April 6

April 7

April 8

April 9

April 10

April 11

April 12

April 13

April 14

April 15

April 16

April 17

April 18

THE GOLDEN NUMBERS.

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

7 18

5 16

8 19

f The ORDER for MORNING and EVENING PRAYER
daily to be said and used throughout the; Year.

npHE Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed
Place of the Church, Chapel, or Chancel; except it shall be other
wise determined by the Ordinary of the Place. And the Chancels shall
remain as they have done in times past

And here is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church, and of
the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be re
tained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the
Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of Ring
Edward the Sixth.

THE ORDER FOR

MORNING PRAYER,

DAILY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

H ^/ the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minister shall read with a loud
voice some one or more of these Sentences of the Scriptures that folton&gt;
And then he shall say that which is ivritten after the said Sentences.

WHEN the wicked man turneth away
from his wickednefs that he hath
committed, and doeth that which is lawful
and right, he fhall fave his foul alive. Ezek.
xviii. 27.

I acknowledge my tranfgreffions, and my
fin is ever before me. Pfalm li. 3.

Hide thy face from my fins, and blot out
all mine iniquities. Pfalm li. 9.

The facritices of God are a broken fpirit:
a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou
wilt not defpife. Pfalm li. 17.

Rend your heart, and not your garments,
and turn unto the Lord your God : for he is
gracious and merciful, flow to anger, and of
great kindnefs, and repenteth him of the evil.
Joel ii. 13.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and
forgivenefles, though we have rebelled againft
him : neither have we obeyed the voice of the
Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he
fet before us. Daniel ix. 9, 10.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgement ;

MORNING PRAYER.

not in thine anger, left thou bring me to no
thing. Jer. x. 24. Pfalm vi. 1.

Repent ye; for the Kingdom of heaven is
at hand. , St. Matth. iii. 2.

I will arife", ftiitt go t&lt;t\ny father, and will
fay unto him,, Father, I have finned againfl
heaven, and before thee, and am no more
worthy to be called thy fon. St. Luke xv.
18, 19.

Enter not into judgement with thy fervant,
O Lord; for in thy fight ihall no man living
be juftified. Pfalm cxliii. 2.

If we fay that we have no fin, we deceive
ourfelves, and the truth is not in us : but, if
we confefs our fins, he is faithful and juft to
forgive us our fins, and to cleanfe us from all
unrighteoufnefs. 1 St. John i. 8, 9.

DEARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture
moveth us in fundry places to acknow
ledge and confefs our manifold fins and wick-
ednefs ; and that we fliould not diflemble nor
cloke them before the face of Almighty God
our heavenly Father; but confefs them with an
humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart;
to the end that we may obtain forgivenefs of
the fame, by his infinite goodnefs and mercy.
And although we ought at all times humbly to
acknowledge our fins before God; yet ought
we moft chiefly fo to do, when we aflemble

MORNING PRAYER.

and meet together to render thanks for the
great benefits that we have received at his
hands, to fet forth his moft worthy praife, to
hear his moft holy Word, and to afk thofe
things which are requifite and neceffary, as
well for the body as the foul. Wherefore I
pray and befeech you, as many as are here
prefent, to accompany me with a pure heart,
and humble voice, unto the throne of the
heavenly grace, faying after me ;

1T A general Co?ifcssion to le said of the whole Congregation after the.
Minister, all kneeling.

ALMIGHTY and moft merciful Father ;
We have erred, and ftrayed from thy
ways like loft flieep. We have followed too
much the devices and defires of our own
hearts. We have offended againft thy holy
laws. We have left undone thofe things
which we ought to have done ; And we have
done thofe things which we ought not to Kave
done; And there is no health in us. But
thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miferable
offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which
confefs their faults. Reftore thou them that
are penitent; According to thy promifes de
clared unto mankind in Chrift Jefu our Lord.
And grant, O moft merciful Father, for his
fake; That we may hereafter live a godly,
righteous, and fober life, To the glory of thy
holy Name. Amen.

MORNING PRAYER.

IT The Absolution, or Remission of sins, to be pronounced by the Priest alont
standing; the people still kneeling.

ALMIGHTY God, the Father of our
Lord Jefus Chrift, who defireth not the
death of a finner, but rather that he may
turn from his wickednefs, and live; and hath
given power, and commandment, to his Mini-
fters, to declare and pronounce to his people,
being penitent, the Abfolution and Remiffion
of their fins : He pardoneth and abfolveth all
them that truly repent, and unfeignedly be
lieve his holy Gofpel. Wherefore let us be-
feech him to grant us true repentance, and
his holy Spirit, that thofe things may pleafe
him, which we do at this prefent ; and that
the reft of our life hereafter may be pure, and
holy; fo that at the laft we may come to his
eternal joy; through Jefus Chrift our Lord,

H The people shall answer here, and at the end of all other Prayers, Amen.

II Then the Minister shall kneel, and say the Lord s Prayer with an audible
voice; the people also kneeling, and repeating it with him, both here, and
wheresoever else it is used in Divine Service,

OUR Father, which art in heaven, Hal
lowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom
come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is
in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trefpafles, As we forgive
them that trefpafs againft us. And lead us
not into temptation; But deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, The power, and
the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.

MORNING PRAYER.

IF Then likewise he shall say,

O Lord, open thou our lips.
Anfwer. And our mouth fliall ihew forth
thy praife.

Prieft. O God, make fpeed to fave us.
Anfwer. O Lord, make hafte to help us.

IT Here all standing up, the Priest shall say,

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

Anfwer. As it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever fliall be : world without end.
Amen.

Prieft. Praife ye the Lord.

Anfwer. The Lord s Name be praifed.

fl" Then shall be said or sung this Psalm following: except on Easter-Day,
upon which another Anthem is appointed; and an the Nineteenth day of
every Month it is not to be read here } but in the ordinary course of the
Psalms.

Venite, exultemus Domino. Pfalm xcv.

OCome, let us ling unto the Lord : let us
heartily rejoice in the ftrength of our
falvation.

Let us come before his prefence with
thankfgiving : and Ihew ourfelves glad in him
with Pfalms.

For the Lord is a great God : and a great
King above all gods.

In his hand are all the corners of the
earth : and the ftrength of the hills is his allb.

MORNING PRAYER.

The fea is his, and he made it : and his
hands prepared the diy land.

O come, let us worfhip, and fall down :
and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

For he is the Lord our God : and we are
the people of his pafture, and the flieep of
his hand.

To day if ye will hear his voice, harden
not your hearts : as in the provocation, and
as in the day of temptation in the wildernefs ;

When your fathers tempted me : proved
me, and faw my works.

Forty years long was I grieved with this
generation, and faid : It is a people that do
err in their hearts, for they have not known
my ways.

Unto whom I fware in my wrath : that
they (hould not enter into my reft.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever (hall be : world without end. Amen.

If Then shall foll&iv the Psalms in order as they are appointed. And at the
end of every Psalm throughout the Year, and likewise at the end o/*Bene-
dicite, BenedictuSj Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis,, shall be repeated,

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

Anfwer. As it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever lhall be : world without end.
Amen.

MORNING PRAYER.

f T/ien shall be read distinctly tvilk an audible voice the First Lesson, taken
out of the Old Testament, as is appointed in the Calendar, except there be
Proper Lessons assigned for that day : He that readetk so standing and
turning himself, as he may best be heard of all such as are present And
after that, shall be said or sung, in English, the Hymn called Te Deum
Laudamus, daily throughout the Year.

IT Note, That before every Lesson the Minister shall say, Here begiimeth
such a Chapter, or Verse of such a Chapter, of such a Book: And after
every Lesson, Here cndeth the First, or the Second Lesson.

Te Deum Laudamus.

WE praife thee, O God : we acknow
ledge thee to be the Lord.

All the earth doth worihip thee : the Father
everlafting.

To thee all Angels ciy aloud : the Hea
vens, and all the Powers therein.

To thee Cherubin, and Seraphin : continu
ally do cry,

Holy, Holy, Holy : Lord God of Sa-
baoth ;

Heaven and earth are full of the Majefty :
of thy Glory.

The glorious company of the Apoilles :
praife thee.

The goodly fellowfhip of the Prophets :
praife thee.

The noble army of Martyrs : praife thee.

The holy Church throughout all the world :
doth acknowledge thee;

The Father : of an infinite Majefty ;

Thine honourable, true : and only Son ;

Alfo the Holy Ghoft : the Comforter.

Thou art the King of Glory : O Chrift.

C 3

MORNING PRAYER.

Thou art the everlafting Son : of the Fa
ther.

When thou tookeft upon thee to deliver
man : thou didft not abhor the Virgin s womb.

When thou hadft overcome the fharpnefs
of death : thou didft open the Kingdom of
Heaven to all believers.

Thou fitteft at the right hand of God : in
the Glory of the Father.

We believe that thou flialt come : to be
our Judge.

We therefore pray thee, help thy fervaiits :
whom thou haft redeemed with thy precious
blood.

Make them to be numbered with thy
Saints : in glory everlafting.

O Lord, fave thy people : and blefs thine
heritage.

Govern them : and lift them up for ever.

Day by day : we magnify thee ;

And we worlhip thy Name : ever world
without end.

Vouchfafe, O Lord : to keep us this day
without fin.

O Lord, have mercy upon us : have mercy
upon us.

O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us :
as oiii truft is in thee.

() Lord, in thee have I trailed : let me
never be confounded-

MORNING PRAYER.

IT Or this Canticle,

Benedicite, omnia Opera.

OA11 ye Works of the Lord, blefs ye the
Lord : praife him, and magnify him for
ever.

O ye Angels of the Lord, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Heavens, blefs ye the Lord : praife
him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Waters that be above the Firmament,
blefs ye the Lord : praife him, and magnify
him for ever.

O all ye Powers of the Lord, blefs ye the
Lord : praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Sun, and Moon, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Stars of Heaven, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Showers, and Dew, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Winds of God, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Fire and Heat, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Winter and Summer, blefs ye the
Lord : praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Dews, and Frofts, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Froft and Cold, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever,

MORNING PRAYER.

O ye Ice and Snow, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Nights, and Days, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Light and Darknefs, blefs ye the
Lord : praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Lightnings, and Clouds, blefs ye the
Lord : praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O let the Earth blefs the Lord : yea, let it
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Mountains, and Hills, blefs ye the
Lord : praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O all ye Green Things upon the Earth,
blefs ye the Lord : praife him, and magnify
him for ever.

O ye Wells, blefs ye the Lord : praife him,
and magnify him for ever.

O ye Seas, and Floods, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Whales, and all that move in the
Waters, blefs ye the Lord : praife him, and
magnify him for ever.

O all ye Fowls of the Air, blefs ye the
Lord : praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O all ye Beafts, and Cattle, blefs ye the
Lord : praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Children of Men, blefs ye the Lord :
praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O let Ifrael blefs the Lord : praife him,
and magnify him for ever.

MORNING PRAYER.

O ye Priefts of the Lord, blefs ye the
Lord : praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Servants of the Lord, blefs ye the
Lord : praife him, and magnify him for ever.

O ye Spirits and Souls of the Righteous,
blefs ye the Lord : praife him, and magnify
him for ever.

O ye holy and humble Men of heart, blefs
ye the Lord : praife him, and magnify him
for ever.

O Ananias, Azarias, and Mifael, blefs ye
the Lord : praife him, and magnify him for
ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever fhall be : world without end. Amen.

1T Then shall be read in like manner the Second Lesson, taken out of the New
Testament. And after that, the Hymn following ; except when that shall
happen to be read in the Chapter for the Day, or for the Gospel on St. John
Baptist s Day.

BenediStus. St. Luke i. 68.

BLESSED be the Lord God of Ifrael :
for he hath vifited, and redeemed his
people ;

And hath raifed up a mighty falvation for
us : in the houfe of his fervant David ;

As he fpake by the mouth of his holy Pro
phets : which have been fince the world began;
That we ihould be faved from our enemies :
and from the hands of all that hate us ;

MORNING PRAYER.

To perform the mercy promifed to our
forefathers : and to remember his holy Cove
nant ;

To perform the oath which he fware to our
forefather Abraham : that he would give us ;

That we being delivered out of the hand of
our enemies : might ferve him without fear ;

In holinefs and righteoufnefs before him :
all the days of our life.

And thou, Child, flialt be called the Pro
phet of the Higheft : for thou flialt go before
the face of the Lord to prepare his ways ;

To give knowledge of lalvation unto his
people : for the remiifion of their fins,,

Through the tender mercy of our God :
whereby the day-fpring from on high hath
vifited us ;

To give light to them that fit in darknefs,
and in the fhadow of death : and to guide our
feet into the way of peace.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever fliall be : world without end. Amen.

* II Or this Psalm,

Jubilate Deo. Pfalm c.

OBe joyful in the Lord, all ye lands :
ferve the Lord with gladnefs, and come
before his prefence with a fong.

Be ye fure that the Lord he is God : it is

MORNING PRAYER.

he that hath made us, and not we ourfelves ;
we are his people, and the iheep of his paf-
ture.

go your way into his gates with thankf-
giving, and into his courts with praife : be
thankful unto him, and fpeak good of his Name.

For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is ever-
lafting : and his truth endureth from gene
ration to generation.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever fhall be : world without end. Amen.

IF Then shall be simg or said the Apostles Creed by the Minister and the peo*
pie, standing : except only such days as the Creed of St. Athanasius is ap
pointed to be read.

I Believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth :
And in Jefus Chrift his only Son our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghoft, Born
of the Virgin Maiy, Suffered under Pontius
Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried, He
defcended into hell ; The third day he rofe
again from the dead, He afcended into hea
ven, And fitteth on the right hand of God the
Father Almighty ; From thence he fhall come
to judge the quick and the dead.

1 believe in the Holy Ghoft ; The holy
Catholick Church; The Communion of Saints;
The Forgivenefs of fins ; The Refurredtion of
the body, And the life everlafting. Amen.

MORNING PRAYER.

1T And after that, these Prayers following, all devoutly kneeling ; the Minister
Jirst pronouncing with a loud voice,

The Lord be with you.
Anfwer. And with thy fpirit.

Minifter. Let us pray.

Lord, have mercy upon us.
Ckrijfa have mercy upon us*
Lord, have mercy upon us

5T Then the Minister, Clerks, and people, shall say the Lord s Prayer with a

loud voice.

OUR Father, which art in heaven, Hal
lowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom
come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trefpafles, As we forgive
them that trefpafs againft us. And lead us
not into temptation; But deliver us from
evil. Amen.

IT Then the Priest standing up shall say,

O Lord, ihew thy mercy upon us.

Anfwer. And grant us thy falvation.

Prieft. O Lord, fave the King.

Anfwer. And mercifully hear us when we
call upon thee.

Prieft. Endue thy Minifters with righte-
oufnefs.

Anfwer. And make thy chofen people
joyful.

Prieft. O Lord, fave thy people.

Anfwer. And blefs thine inheritance.

MORNING PRAYER.

Prieft. Give peace in our time, O Lord.

Anfwer. Becaufe there is none other that
fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.

Pricjl. O God, make clean our hearts
within us.

Anfwer. And take not thy holy Spirit
from us.

IT Then shall follow three Collects; the jirst of the Day, which shall be the
same that is appointed at the Communion; the second for Peace; the third
for Grace to live well. And the two last Collects shall never alter, but daily
^be said at Morning Prayer throughout all the Year, as followcth; all
kneeling.

Thcfccond Collect, for Peace.

OGod, who art the author of peace and
lover of concord, in knowledge of whom
ftandeth our eternal life, whofe fervice is per
fect freedom ; Defend us thy humble fervants
in all aflaults of our enemies ; that we, furely
trufting in thy defence, may not fear the pow
er of any adverfaries, through the might of
Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The third Collect, for Grace.

OLord, our heavenly Father, AlmiglitA
and everlafting God, who haft fafely
brought us to the beginning of this day ; De
fend us in the fame with thy mighty power ;
and grant that this day we fall into no fin,
neither run into any kind of danger ; but that
all our doings may be ordered by thy govern -
ancfe, to do always that is righteous in thy
fight; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

MORNING PRAYER.

IF In Quires and Places where they sing, herefolloweth the Anthem.

f Then these five Prayers following are to be read here, except when the
Litany is read; and then only the two last are to be ready as they are there
placed.

A Prayer for the King s Majejly.

OLord our heavenly Father, high and
mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords,
the only Ruler of princes, who doft from thy
throne behold all the dwellers upon earth;
Moft heartily we befeech thee with thy favour
to behold our moft gracious Sovereign Lord,
King GEORGE; and fo replenilh him with
the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that he may al-
way incline to thy will, and walk in thy way :
Endue him plenteoufly with heavenly gifts;
grant him in health and wealth long to live;
ftrengthen him that he may vanquifli and
overcome all his enemies; and finally, after
this life, he may attain everlafting joy and
felicity; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. A-
men.

A Prayer for the Royal Family.

ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all
goodnefs, we humbly befeech thee to
blefs our gracious Queen Charlotte, their
Royal Highneffes George Prince of Wales,
the Princefs of Wales, and all the Royal Fa
mily : Endue them with thy holy Spirit ; en
rich them with thy heavenly grace; profper
them with all happinefs; and bring them to

MORNING PRAYER.

tiiine everlafting kingdom; through Jefus
Chrift our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for the Clergy and people.

ALMIGHTY and everlafting God, who
alone workeft great marvels ; Send down
upon our Biftiops, and Curates, and all Con
gregations committed to their charge, the
healthful Spirit of thy grace; and that they
may truly pleafe thee, pour upon them the
continual dew of thy bleffing. Grant this, O
Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and
Mediator, Jefus Chrift. Amen.

A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom.

ALMIGHTY God, who haft given us
grace at this time with one accord to
make our common fupplications unto thee;
and doft promife, that when two or three are
gathered together in thy Name thou wilt
grant their requefts : Fulfil now, O Lord, the
defires and petitions of thy fervants, as may
be moft expedient for them; granting us in
this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the
world to come life everlafting. Amen.

2 Cor. xiii.

THE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and
the love of God, and the fellowship of
the Holy Ghoft, be with us all evermore.
Amen.

Here cndeth the Order of Morning Prayer throughout the Year.

THE ORDER FOR

EVENING PRAYER,

DAILY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

f At the beginning of Evening Prayer the Minister shall read nnth a loud
voice some one or more of these Sentences of Ike Scriptures that follow. A;id
then he shall say that which is written after the said Sentences.

WHEN the wicked man turneth away
from his wickednefs that he hath
committed, and doeth that which is lawful
and right, he fliall fave his foul alive, Ezek.
xviii. 27.

I acknowledge my tranfgrefiions, and my
fin is ever before me. Pfalm li. 3.

Hide thy face from my fins, and blot out
all mine iniquities. Pfalm li. 9.

The facrifices of God are a broken fpirit :
a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou
wilt not defpife. Pfalm li. 17.

Rend your heart, and not your garments,
and turn unto the Lord your God : for he is
gracious and merciful, flow to anger, and of
great kindnefs, and repenteth him of the evil.
Joel ii. 13.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and
forgiveneffes, though we have rebelled againft
him : neither have we obeyed the voice of
the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which
he fet before us. Daniel ix. 9, 10.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgement ;

EVENING PRAYER

not in thine anger, left thou bring me to no
thing. Jer. x. 24. Pfalm vi. 1.

Repent ye ; for the Kingdom of heaven is
at hand. St. MattJi. iii. 2.

I will arife, and go to my father, and will
fay unto him, Father, I have finned againil
heaven, and before thee, and am no more
worthy to be called thy fon. St. Luke xv.
18, 19.

Enter not into judgement with thy fervant,
O Lord; for in thy fight Ihall no man living
be juftified. Pfalm cxliii. 2.

DEARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture
moveth us in fundry places to acknow
ledge and confefs our manifold fins and wick-
ednefs ; and that we fhould not diflemble nor
cloke them before the face of Almighty God
our heavenly Father; but confefs them with
an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient
heart; to the end that we may obtain forgive-
nefs of the fame, by his infinite goodnefs and
mercy. And although we ought at all times
humbly to acknowledge our fins before God;
yet ought we moft chiefly fo to do, when we

EVENING PRAYER.

affemble and meet together to render thank*
for the great benefits that we have receivec
at his hands, to fet forth his moil worthy
praife, to hear his moft holy Word, and to afl&lt;
thofe things which are requifite and neceflary
as well for the body as the foul. Wherefor&lt;
I pray and befeech you, as many as are here
prefent, to accompany me with a pure heart
and humble voice, unto the throne of th&lt;
heavenly grace, faying after me;

IT A general Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Him

ster, all kneeling.

ALMIGHTY and moft merciful Father
We have erred, and ftrayed from th]
ways like loft fheep. We have followed too
much the devices and defires of our own
hearts. We have offended againft thy holy
laws. We have left undone thofe things
which we ought to have done ; And we have
done thofe things which we ought not to have
done; And there is no health in us. But
thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, mifera-
ble offenders . Spare thou them, O God,
which confefs their faults. Reftore thou them
that are penitent ; According to thy promifes
declared unto mankind in Chrift Jefu our
Lord. And grant, O moft merciful Father,
for his fake ; That we may hereafter live ai
godly, righteous, and fober life, To the glory
f)f thy holy Name. Amen.

EVENING PRAYER.

tT The Absolution, or Remission of sins, to be pronounced by the Priest alone,
standing; the people still kneeling.

ALMIGHTY God, the Father of our
Lord Jefus Chrift, who defireth not the
death of a finner, but rather that he may turn
from his wickednefs, and live ; and hath given
power, and commandment, to his Minifters,
to declare and pronounce to his people, being
penitent, the Absolution and Remiffion of
their fins : He pardoneth and abfolveth all
them that truly repent, and unfeignedly be
lieve his holy Gofpel. Wherefore let us be-
feech him to grant us true repentance, and
his holy Spirit, that thofe things may pleafe
him, which we do at this prefent ; and that
the reft of our life hereafter may be pure,
and holy; fo that at the laft we may come
to his eternal joy ; through Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.

, 1T Then the Minister shall kneel, and say the Lord s Prayer ; the people also
kneeling, and repeating it with him.

UR Father, which art in heaven, Hal
lowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom
&gt; come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is
1 in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
] And forgive us our trefpaffes, As we for-
1 give them that trefpafs againft us. And
) lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us
a from evil : For thine is the kingdom, The
f power, and the glory, For ever and ever.
Amen,

D 2

EVENING PRAYER.

IF Then likewise he sJiall say,

O Lord, open thou our lips.
Anfwer. And onr mouth fliall fliew forth
thy praife.

Prieft. O God, make fpeed to fave us.
Anfwer. O Lord, make hafte to help us*

If Here all standing up, the Priest shall say,

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

Anfwer. As it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever fliall be : world without end.
Amen.

Prieft. Praife ye the Lord.

Anfwer. The Lord s Name be praifed.

1T Then shall be said or sung the Psalms in order a& they are appointed. Then
a Lesson of the Old Testament, as is appointed. And after that, Magnificat
(or the Song of the blessed Virgin Mary) in English, asfolfoweth.

Magnificat. St. Luke i.

MY foul doth magnify the Lord : and my
fpirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

For he hath regarded : the lowlinefs of his
hand-maiden.

For behold, from henceforth: all genera
tions fliall call me blefled.

For he that is mighty hath magnified me
and holy is his Name.

And his mercy is on them that fear him
throughout all generations.

He hath fliewed ftrength with his arm : he
hath fcattered the proud in the imagination
of their hearts.

EVENING PRAYER.

He hath put down the mighty from their
feat : and hath exalted the humble and

eeK.

He hath filled the hungry with good
things : and the rich he hath fent empty
away.

He remembering his mercy hath holpen
is fervant Ifrael : as he promifed to our fore
fathers, Abraham and his feed, for ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever (hall be : world without end. Amen.

f Or the this Psalm; except it be on the Nineteenth Day of the Month, when
it is read in the ordinary Course of the Psalms.

Cantate Domino. Pfalm xcviii.

OSing unto the Lord a new fong : for he
hath done marvellous things.

With his own right hand, and with his
holy arm : hath he gotten himfelf the vic
tory.

The Lord declared his falvation : his right-
eoufnefs hath he openly fhewed in the fight
of the heathen.

He hath remembered his mercy and truth
toward the houfe of Ifrael : and all the ends
of the world have feen the falvation of our
God.

Shew yourfelves joyful unto the Lord, all
ye lands : fing, rejoice, and give thanks.

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EVENING PRAYER. j

Praife the Lord upon the harp : fing to the
harp with a pfalm of thankfgiving.

With trumpets alfo and ftiawms : O (hew
yourfelves joyful before the Lord the King.

Let the fea make a noife, and all that
therein is : the round world, and they that
dwell therein.

Let the floods clap their hands, and let the
hills be joyful together before the Lord : for
he cometh to judge the earth.

With righteoufnefs fhall he judge the
world : and the people with equity.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son ti
and to the Holy Ghoft;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever fhall be : world without end. Amen.

IT Then a Lesson of the New Testament, as it is appointed. And after that t
Nunc dimittis (or the Song of Symeon) in English, asfolloweth.

Nunc dimittis. St. Luke ii. 29.

LORD, now letteft thou thy fervant de
part in peace : according to thy word.

For mine eyes have feen : thy falvation,

Which thou haft prepared : before the face
t)f all people ;

To be a light to lighten the Gentiles : and
to be the glory of thy people Ifrael.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever lhall be : world without end. Amen.

EVENING PRAYER

IT Or else this Psalm; except it be on the Twelfth Day of the Month,

Dens mifereatur* Pfalm IxviL

GOD be merciful unto us, and blefs us :
and (hew us the light of his counte
nance, and be merciful unto us :

That thy way may be known upon earth :
thy faving health among all nations.

Let the people praife thee, O God : yea,
let all the people praife thee.

O let the nations rejoice and be glad : for
thou lhalt judge the folk righteoufly, and go
vern the nations upon earth.

Let the people praife thee, O God : yea,
let all the people praife thee.

Then fhall the earth bring forth her in-
creafe : and God, even our own God, fliall
give us his bleffing.

God fliall blefs us : and all the ends of the
world fliall fear him.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever fliall be : world without end. Amen.

IT Then shall be said or sung the Apostles Creed by the Minister and the peo

pie, standing* ( ^

I Believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth :
And in Jefus Chrift his only Son our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghoft, Born
of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius

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EVENING PRAYER.

Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried, He
defcended into hell ; The third day he rofe
again from the dead, He afcended into hea
ven, And fitteth on the right hand of God
the Father Almighty; From thence he fhall
come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghoft; The holy Ca-
tholick Church; The Communion of Saints;
The Forgivenefs of fins ; The Refurre6tion of
the body, And the life everlafting. Amen.

IT And after that, these Prayers following, all devoutly kneeling ; the Minister
first pronouncing with a loud voice,

The Lord be with you.
Anfwer. And with thy fpirit.
Minifter. Let us pray.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

Chrift, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

IT Then the Minister, Clerks, and people, shall say the Lord s Prayer with a

loud voice.

OUR Father, which art in heaven, Hal
lowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom
come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in
heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trefpailes, As we forgive

^j ^j

them that trefpafs againft us. And lead us
not into temptation; But deliver us from
evil. Amen.

IT Then the Priest standing up shall say,

O Lord, fliew thy mercy upon us ;
Anfwer. And grant us thy falvation.

EVENING PRAYER,

Prieft. O Lord, fave the King.

Anfwer. And mercifully hear us when we
call upon thee.

Prieft. Endue thy Minifters with right-
eoufnefs.

Anf. And make thy chofen people joyful.

Prieft. O Lord, fave thy people.

Anfwer. And blefs thine inheritance.

Prieft. Give peace in our time, O Lord.

Anfwer. Becaufe there is none other that
fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.

Prieft. O God, make clean our hearts
within us.

Anf. And take not thy holy Spirit from us.

1T Then shall follow three Collects; thefrst of the Day; the sccondfor Peace;
the third for Aid against all Perils, as hereafter folhweth : which two last
Collects shall be daily said at Evening Prayer without alteration.

Thefecond Collect at Evening Prayer.

OGod, from whom all holy defires, all
good counfels, and all juft works do
proceed ; Give unto thy fervants that peace
which the world cannot give; that both our
hearts may be fet to obey thy command
ments, and alfo that by thee we being de
fended from the fear of our enemies may pafs
our time in reft and quietnefs ; through the
merits of Jefus Chrift our Saviour. Amen.

The third Colle8t,for Aidagainft all Perils.

LIGHTEN our darknefs, we befeech thee,
O Lord; and by thy great mercy de*

EVENING PRAYER.

fend us from all perils and dangers of this
night; for the love of thy only Son, our Sa
viour, Jefus Chrift. Amen.

IT In Quires and Places where they sing, here follow eth the Anthem,

A Prayer for the King s Majejly.

OLord our heavenly Father, high and
mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords,
the only Ruler of princes, who doft from thy
throne behold all the dwellers upon earth ;
Moft heartily we befeech thee with thy favour
to behold our moft gracious Sovereign Lord,
King GEORGE; and fo replenifh him with
the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that he may al-
way incline to thy will, and walk in thy way :
Endue him plenteoufly with heavenly gifts;
grant him in health and wealth long to live;
ftrengthen him that he may vanquifli and
overcome all his enemies; and finally, after
this life, he may attain everlafting joy and fe
licity; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for the Royal Family.

ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all
goodnefs, we humbly befeech thee to
blefs our gracious Queen Charlotte, their
Royal Highneffes George Prince of Wales, the
Princefs of Wales, and all the Royal Family :
Endue them with thy hol^ Spirit; enrich
them with thy heavenly grace ; profper them
with all happinefs ; and bring them to thine

EVENING PRAYER.

everlafting kingdom ; through Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for the Clergy mid people.

ALMIGHTY and everlafting God, who
alone workeft great marvels ; Send down
upon our Bifhops, and Curates, and all Con
gregations committed to their charge, the
healthful Spirit of thy grace; and that they
may truly pleafe thee, pour upon them the
continual dew of thy bleffing. Grant this, O
Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and
Mediator, Jefus Chrift. Amen.

A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom.

ALMIGHTY God, who haft given us
grace at this time with one accord to
make our common fupplications unto thee;
and doft promife, that when two or three are
gathered together in thy Name thou wilt
grant their requefts : Fulfil now, O Lord, the
defires and petitions of thy fervaiits, as may
be moil expedient for them; granting us in
this world knowledge of thy truth, and in
the world to come life everlafting. Amen.

2 Cor. xiii.

THE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and
^the love oiKjod, and the fellowfhip of the
Holy Ghoft, be with us all evermore. Amen.

Here endetk the Order of Evening Prayer throughout the* Year.

At Morning Prayer.

^ Upon these Feasts; Christmas-day, the Epiphany, Saint Matthias, Easter-
day, Ascension-day, Whitsunday, Saint John Baptist, Saint James, Saint
Bartholomew, Saint Matthew, Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Saint An
drew, and upon Trinity-Sunday, shall be sung or said at Morning Prayer,
instead of the Apostles Creed, this Confession of our Christian Faith, com
monly called The Creed of Saint Athanasius, by the Minister and people
Standing.

Quicunque vult.

W^ ^ HOSOEVER will be laved : before
all things it is neceflary that he hold
the Catholick Faith.

Which Faith except eveiy one do keep
whole and undefiled : without doubt he lhall
perifli everlaftingly.

And the Catholick Faith is this : That we
worlhip one God in Trinity, and Trinity in
Unity;

Neither confounding the Perfons : nor di
viding the Subftance.

For there is one Perfon of the Father, an
other of the Son : and another of the Holy
Ghoft.

But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghoft, is all one : the Glory
equal, the Majefty co-eternal.

Such as the Father is, fuch is the Son : and
fuch is the Holy Ghoft.

The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate &lt;
and the Holy Ghoft uncreate.

The Father incomprehenfible, the Son in-
comprehenfible : and the Holy Ghoft incojn-
prehenfible*

At Morning Prayer.

The Father eternal, the Son eternal : and
the Holy Ghoft eternal.

And yet they are not three eternals : but
one eternal.

As alfo there are not three incomprehenfi-
bles, nor three uncreated : but one uncreated,
and one incomprehenfible.

So likewife the Father is Almighty, the
Son Almighty : and the Holy Ghoft Al
mighty.

And yet they are not three Almighties:
but one Almighty.

So the Father is God, the Son is God :
and the Holy Ghoft is God.

And yet they are not three Gods : but one
God.

So likewife the Father is Lord, the Son
Lord : and the Holy Ghoft Lord.

And yet not three Lords : but one Lord.

For like as we are compelled by the Chrif-
tian verity : to acknowledge eveiy Perfoii by
himfelf to be God and Lord ;

So are we forbidden by the Catholick Re
ligion : to fay, There be three Gods, or three
Lords.

The Father is made of none : neither cre
ated, nor begotten.

The Son is of the Father alone : not made,
nor created, but begotten.

The Holy Gboft is of the Father and of the

At Morning Prayer.

Son : neither made, nor created, nor begotten,
but proceeding.

So there is one Father, not three Fathers ;
one Son, not three Sons : one Holy Ghoft,
not three Holy Ghofts.

And in this Trinity none is afore, or after
other : none is greater, or lefs than another;

But the whole three Perfons are co-eternal
together : and co-equal.

So that in all things, as is aforefaid : the
Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is
to be worfhipped.

He therefore that will be faved : muft thus
think of the Trinity.

Furthermore, it is neceflary to everlafting
falvation : that he alfo believe rightly the In
carnation of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

For the right Faith is, that we believe and
confefs : that our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Son
of God, is God and Man ;

God, of the Subftance of the Father, be
gotten before the worlds : and Man, of the
Subftance of his Mother, born in the world;

Perfect God, and perfect Man : of a rea-
fonable foul and human flefh fubfifting;

Equal to the Father, as touching his God
head : and inferior to the Father, as touching
his Manhood.

Who although he be God and Man : yet
he is not two, but one Chrift;

At Morning Prayer.

One; not by converfion of the Godhead
into flelh : but by taking of the Manhood into
God;

One altogether; not by confufion of Sub-
ftance : but by unity of Perfon.

For as the reafonable foul and flefli is one
man : fo God and Man is one Chrift;

Who fufFered for our falvation : defcended
into hell, rofe again the third day from the
dead.

He afcended into heaven, he fitteth on the
right hand of the Father, God Almighty :
from whence he Ihall come to judge the quick
and the dead.

At whofe coining all men fliall rife again
with their bodies : and fliall give account for
their own works.

And they that have done good fliall go into
life everlafting : and they that have done evil
into everlafting fire.

This is the Catholick Faith : which ex
cept a man believe faithfully, he cannot be
faved.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever fliall be : world without end. Amen.

THE LITANY.

IT Here followcth the LITANY, or General Supplication, to be sung or
said after Morning Prayer upon Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and
at other times when it shall be commanded by the Ordinary.

OGod the Father, of heaven : have mercy
upon us miferable finners.

O God the Father, of heaven : have mercy
upon us miferable Jinners.

O God the Son, Redeemer of the world :
have mercy upon us miferable finners.

O God the Son, Redeemer of the world: have
mercy upon us miferable Jinners.

O God the Holy Ghoft, proceeding from
the Father and the Son : have mercy upon
us miferable finners.

O God the Holy Ghojl, proceeding from the
Father and the Son : have mercy upon us mi
ferable Jinners.

O holy, blefled, and glorious Trinity, three
Perfons and one God : have mercy upon us
miferable finners.

O holy, blej/ed, and glorious Trinity, three
Perfons and one God : have mercy upon us
miferable Jinners.

Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the
offences of our forefathers ; neither take thou
vengeance of our fins : fpare us, good Lord,
fpare thy people, whom thou haft redeemed
with thy moft precious blood, and be not an
gry with us for ever.

Spare us, good Lord.

From all evil and mifchief ; from fin f from

THE LITANY.

the crafts and aflaults of the devil ; from thy
wrath, and from everlafting damnation,

Good Lord, deliver us.
From all blindnefs of heart; from pride,
vain-glory, and hypocrify; from envy, hatred,
and malice, and all uncharitablenefs,

Good Lord, deliver us.
From fornication, and all other deadly fin ;
and from all the deceits of the world, the fleih,
and the devil,

Good Lord, deliver us.
From lightning and tempeft ; from plague,
peftilence, and famine ; from battle and mur
der, and from fudden death,

Good Lord, deliver us.
From all fedition, privy confpiracy, and re
bellion; from all falfe dodtrine, herefy, and
fchifm; from hardnefs of heart, and contempt
of thy Word and Commandment,
Good Lord, deliver us.
By the myftery of thy holy Incarnation ; by
thy holy Nativity and Circumcifion ; by thy
Baptifm, Fading, and Temptation,

Good Lord, deliver us.

By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy

Crofs and Paffion ; by thy precious Death and

Burial; by thy glorious Refurre6tion and Af-

cenfion; and by the coming of the HolyGhoft,

Good Lord, deliver us.
lu all time of our tribulation; in all time of

THE LITANY.

our wealth ; in the hour of death, and in the
day of judgement,

Good Lord, deliver us.

We finners do befeech thee to hear us, O
Lord God ; and that it may pleafe thee to rule
and govern thy holy Church univerfal in the
right way;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may pleafe thee to keep and
ftrengthen in the true worfhipping of thee, in
righteoufnefs and holinefs of life, thy Ser
vant GEORGE, our moft gracious King
and Governour;

We befeeeh thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may pleafe thee to rule his heart
in thy faith, fear, and love, and that he may
evermore have affiance in thee, and ever feek
thy honour and glory;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may pleafe thee to be his defender
and keeper, giving him the vidlory over all
his enemies;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may pleafe thee to blefs and preferve
our gracious Queen Charlotte, their Royal
Highnefles George Prince of Wales, the Prin-
cefe of Wales, and all the Royal Family;
We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

That it may pleafe thee to illuminate all
Bifliops, Priefts, and Deacons, with true

THE LITANY.

knowledge and underftanding of thy Word &gt;
and that both by their preaching and living
they may fet it forth, and ftiew it accordingly;

We befeech tliee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to endue the Lords
of the Council, and all the Nobility, with
grace, wifdom, and underftanding ;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to blefs and keep
the Magiftrates, giving them grace to execute
juftice, and to maintain truth ;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to blefs and keep
all thy people;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to give to all na
tions unity, peace, and concord;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to give us an heart
to love and dread thee, and diligently to live
after thy commandments ;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to give to all thy
people increafe of grace to hear meekly thy
Word, and to receive it with pure affedtion,
and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit;
We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to bring into the
way of truth all fuch as have erred, and are
deceived;

THE LITANY.

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord,

That it may pleafe thee to ftrengthen fuch

as do ftand; and to comfort and help the

weak-hearted; and to raife up them that fall;

and finally to beat down Satan under our feet;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to fuccour, help,
and comfort, all that are in danger, necef-
fity, and tribulation;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to preferve all that
travel by land or by water, all women labour
ing of child, all fick perfons, and young chil
dren; and to Ihew thy pity upon all prifoners
and captives;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to defend, and pro
vide for, the fatherlefs children, and widows,
and all that are defolate and opprefled;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to have mercy upon
all men;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to forgive our ene
mies, perfecutors, and flanderers, and to turn
their hearts ;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to give and pre
ferve to our ufe the kindly fruits of the earth*
fo as in due time we may enjoy them ;

THE LITANY.

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may pleafe thee to give us true
repentance; to forgive us all our fins, negli
gences, and ignorances ; and to endue us with
the grace of thy Holy Spirit to amend our
lives according to thy holy Word;

We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Son of God : we befeech thee to hear us.

Son of God: we befeech thee to hear us.
O Lamb of God : that takeft away the fins
of the world ;

Grant us thy peace.

O Lamb of God : that takeft away the fins
of the world;

Have mercy upon us.
O Chrift, hear us.

O Chrift, hear us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.
Chrift, have mercy upon us.

Chrift, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

f Then shall the Priest, and the people with him, say tJie Lord s Prayer.

THE LITANY.

into temptation; But deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Priejt. O Lord., deal not with us after our
fins.

Anfwer. Neither reward us after our ini
quities.

Let us pray.

OGod, merciful Father, that defpifeft not
the fighing of a contrite heart, nor the
defire of fuch as be forrowful; Mercifully
affift our prayers that we make before thee in
all our troubles and adverfities, whenfoever
they opprefs us ; and gracioufly hear us, that
thofe evils, which the craft and fubtilty of the
devil or man worketh againft us, be brought
to nought; and by the providence of thy good-
nefs they may be difperfed; that we thy fer-
vants, being hurt by no perfecutions, may
evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy
Church; through Jefus Chrift our Lord.

O Lord, arife, help us, and deliver us for
thy Name s Jake.

OGod, we have heard with our ears, and
our fathers have declared unto us, the
noble works that thou didft in their days, and
in the old time before them.

O Lord, arife, help us, and deliver us for
thine honour.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son ;
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

THE LITANY.

Anfwer. As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be : world without end. Amen.

From our enemies defend us, O Chrift.

Gracioujly look upon our afflictions.

Pitifully behold the forrows of our hearts.

Mercifully forgive thejins of thy people.

Favourably with mercy hear our prayers.

O Son of David, have mercy upon tis.

Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us,
O Chrift.

Gracioujly hear us, O Chrift; gracioujly
hear us, O Lord Chrift.

Priejl. O Lord, let thy mercy be fhewed
upon us ;

Anfwer. As we do put our truft in thee.

Let us pray.

WE humbly befeech thee, O Father, mer
cifully to look upon our infirmities;
and for the glory of thy Name turn from
us all thofe evils that we moft righteoufly
have deferved; and grant, that in all our trou
bles we may put our whole truft and con
fidence in thy mercy, and evermore ferve
thee in holinefs and purenefs of living, to thy
honour and glory ; through our only Mediator
and Advocate, Jefus Chrift our Lord, Amen.

A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom.

ALMIGHTY God, who haft given us
grace at this time with one accord to

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PRAYERS.

make our common (applications unto thee;
and doit promife, that when two or three are
gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant
their requefts ; Fulfil now, O Lord, the de-
fires and petitions of thy fervants, as may be
moft expedient for them; granting us in this
world knowledge of thy truth, and in the
world to come life everlafting. Amen.

2 Cor. xiii.

THE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and
the love of God, and the fellowfliip of
the Holy Ghoft, be with us all evermore.
Amen.

Here endeth the Litany.

PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS,

UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,

IT To be used before the irvo Jinal Prayers of the Litany, or of Morning ant

Evening Prayer.

PRAYERS.

For Rain.

God, heavenly Father, who by thy Son
Jefus Chrift haft promifed to all them
that feek thy kingdom, and the righteoufnefs
thereof, all things neceflary to their bodily
fuftenance; Send us, we befeech thee, in this
our neceffity, fuch moderate rain and ihowersj

PRAYERS.

that we may receive the fruits of the earth to
our comfort, and to thy honour; through
Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For fair Weather.

O Almighty Lord God, who for the fin of
man didft once drown all the world, ex
cept eight perfons, and afterward of thy great
mercy didft promife never to deftroy it fo
again ; We humbly befeech thee, that although
we for our iniquities have worthily deferved
a plague of rain and waters, yet upon our
true repentance thou wilt fend us fuch wea
ther, as that we may receive the fruits of the
earth in due feafon ; and learn both by thy
punifliment to amend our lives, and for thy
clemency to give thee praife and glory;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

In the time of Dearth and Famine.

OGod, heavenly Father, whofe gift it is,
that the rain doth fall, the earth is fruit
ful, beafts increafe, and fifties do multiply;
Behold, we befeech thee, the affli6tions of thy
people ; and grant that the fcarcity and dearth,
which we do now moft juftly fuffer for our ini
quity, may through thy goodnefs be merci
fully turned into cheapnefs and plenty ; for the
love of Jefus Chrift our Lord, to whom with
thee and the Holy Ghoft be all honour and
glory, now and for ever. Amen.

PRAYERS.

Or this.

OGod, merciful Father, who, in the time
of Elifha the prophet, didft fuddenly in
Samaria turn great fcarcity and dearth into
plenty and cheapnefs ; Have mercy upon us,
that we, who are now for our fins punifhed
with like adverfity, may likewife find a feafon-
able relief: Increafe the fruits of the earth by
thy heavenly benediction ; and grant that we,
receiving thy bountiful liberality, may ufe the
fame to thy glory, the relief of thofe that are
needy, and our own comfort ; through Jefus
Chrift our Lord. Amen.

In the time of War and Tumults.

O Almighty God, King of all kings, and
Governour of all things, whofe power
no creature is able to refift, to whom it be-
longeth juftly to puniih finners, and to be
merciful to them that truly repent; Save and
deliver us, we humbly befeech thee, from the
hands of our enemies; abate their pride, af-
fwage their malice, and confound their de
vices ; that we, being armed with thy defence,
may be preferved evermore from all perils, to
glorify thee, who art the only giver of all vic
tory; through the merits of thy only Son,
Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

PRAYERS.

In the time of any common Plague or Sicknefs.

O Almighty God, who in thy wrath didft
fend a plague upon thine own people in the
wildernefs, for their obftinate rebellion againft
Mofes and Aaron ; and alfo, in the time of king
David, didft flay with the plague of Peftilence
threefcore and ten thoufand, and yet remem
bering thy mercy didft fave the reft ; Have pity
upon us miferable finners, who now are vifited
with great ficknefs and mortality ; that like as
thou didft then accept of an atonement, and
didft command the deftroying Angel to ceafe
from puniihing, fo it may now pleafe thee to
withdraw from us this plague and grievous fick
nefs ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

^j In the Ember Weeks, to be f aid every day,
for thofe that are to be admitted into Holy
Orders.

A LMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father,
-* who haft purchafed to thyfelf an uni-
verfal Church by the precious blood of thy
dear Son ; Mercifully look upon the fame, and
at this time fo guide and govern the minds of
thy fervants the Bifhops and Paftors of thy
flock, that they may lay hands fuddenly on
no man, but faithfully and wifely make choice
of fit perfons to ferve in the facred Miniftry
of thy Church. And to thofe which fhall be
ordained to any holy function give thy grace

PRAYERS.

and heavenly benediction; that both by their
life and doctrine they may fet forth thy glo
ry, and fet forward the falvation of all men ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Or this.

A LMIGHTY God, the giver of all good
-jj*- gifts, who of thy divine providence haft
appointed divers Orders in thy Church ; Give
thy grace, we humbly befeech thee, to all
thofe who are to be called to any office and
adminiftration in the fame; and fo replenifti
them with the truth of thy dodlrine, and en
due them with innocency of life, that they may
faithfully ferve before thee, to the glory of thy
great Name, and the benefit of thy holy
Church; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

^ A Prayer that may be f aid after any of the

former.

OGod, whofe nature and property is ever
to have mercy and to forgive, receive
our humble petitions ; and though we be tied
and bound with the chain of our sins, yet let
the pitifulnefs of thy great mercy loofe us ; for
the honour of Jefus Chrift, our Mediator and
Advocate. Amen.

*j[ A Prayer for the High Court of Parlia
ment, to be read during their Sejfion.

MOST gracious God, we humbly befeech
thee, as for this Kingdom in general,

PRAYERS.

fo efpecially for the High Court of Parlia
ment, under our moft religious and gracious
King at this time aflembled: That thouwould-
eft be pleafed to diretft and profper all their
confultations to the advancement of thy glory,
the good of thy Church, the fafety, honour,
and welfare of our Sovereign, and his Domi
nions ; that all things may be fo ordered and
fettled by their endeavours, upon the beft and
fureft foundations, that peace and happinefs,
truth and juftice, religion and piety, may be
eftabliflied among us for all generations.
Thefe and all other neceffaries, for them, for
us, and thy whole Church, we humbly beg irt
the Name and Mediation of Jefus Chrift our
moft blefled Lord and Saviour. Amen.

A ColleSt or Prayer for all Conditions of
men, to be ufed at fuch times when the Li-
tany is not appointed to be f aid.

OGod, the Creator and Preferver of all
mankind, we humbly befeech thee for
all forts and conditions of men; that thou
wouldeft be pleafed to make thy ways known
unto them, thy faving health unto all nations.
More efpecially, we pray for the good eftate
of the Catholick Church ; that it may be fo
guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that
all who profefs and call themfelves Chriftians
may be led into the way of truth, and hold

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the faith in unity of fpirit, in the bond of
peace, and in righteoufnefs of life. Finally,
we commend to thy fatherly goodnefs all
thofe, who are any ways afflicted, or diftrefled,
* THIS to he said mind, body, or eftate; [* efpe-
S^ersTfthfcon! cially tliofcfoT whom our prayers
are dejired,] that it may pleafe thee
to comfort and relieve them, according to their
feveral neceffities, giving them patience under
their fufferings, and a happy iffue out of all
their afflictions. And this we beg for Jefus
Chrift his fake. Amen.

THANKSGIVINGS.

A General Thankfgiving.

A LMIGHTY God, Father of all mercies,
-* we thine unworthy fervants do give thee
moft humble and hearty thanks for all thy
goodnefs and loving-kindnefs to us, and to all
men; ^particularly to thofe who * This to be said
dejire now to offer up their praifes ll^^Iyfl^l
and thankfgimngsfor thy late mer- sire
cies vouchfafed unto them."] We blefs thee for
our creation, prefervation, and all the bleffings
of this life ; but above all, for thine ineftima-
ble love in the redemption of the world by
our Lord Jefus Chrift; for the means of grace,
and for the hope of glory. And, we befeech
thee, give us that due fenfe of all thy mercies,

THANKSGIVINGS.

that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful,
and that we fhew forth thy praife, not only
with our lips, but in our lives ; by giving up
ourfelves to thy fervice, and by walking before
thee in holinefs and righteoufnefs all our days ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord, to whom with
thee and the Holy Ghoft be all honour and
glory, world without end. Amen.

For Rain.

OGod our heavenly Father, who by thy
gracious providence doft caufe the for-
\ mer and the latter rain to defcend upon the
earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the ufe
of man ; We give thee humble thanks that it
hath pleafed thee, in our great neceffity, to
fend us at the laft a joyful rain upon thine in
heritance, and to refrefh it when it was dry,
to the great comfort of us thy unworthy fer-
vants, and to the glory of thy holy Name;
through thy mercies in Jefus Chrift our Lord.
Amen.

For fair Weather.

Lord God, who haft juftly humbled us
by thy late plague of immoderate rain
and waters, and in thy mercy haft relieved
and comforted our fouls by this feafonable and
blefled change of weather; We praife and
glorify thy holy Name for this thy mercy, and
will always declare thy loving-kindnefs from

THANKSGIVINGS.

generation to generation ; through Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

For Plenty.

OMoft merciful Father, who of thy gra
cious goodnefs haft heard the devout
prayers of thy Church, and turned our dearth
and fcarcity into cheapnefs and plenty; We
give thee humble thanks for this thy fpecial
bounty; befeeching thee to continue thy lov-
ing-kindnefs unto us, that our land may yield
us her fruits of increafe, to thy glory and
our comfort; through Jefus Chrift our Lord,
Amen,

For Peace and Deliverance from our Enemies.

O Almighty God, who art a ftrong tower
of defence unto thy fervants againft the
face of their enemies; We yield thee praife
and thankfgiving for our deliverance from
thofe great and apparent dangers wherewith
we were compafled : We acknowledge it thy
goodnefs that we were not delivered over as
a prey unto them; befeeching thee ftill to
continue fuch thy mercies towards us, that all
the world may know that thou art our Saviour
and mighty Deliverer; through Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

For rejloring Publick Peace at Home.

O Eternal God, our heavenly Father, whc
alone makeft men to be of one mind in

THANKSGIVINGS.

a houfe, and ftillefl the outrage of a violent
and unruly people ; We blefs thy holy Name,
that it hath pleafed thee to appeafe the fedi-
tious tumults which have been lately raifed up
amongft us ; moil humbly befeeching thee to
grant to all of vis grace, that we may hence
forth obediently walk in thy holy command
ments; and, leading a quiet and peaceable
life in all godlinefs and honefty, may continu
ally offer unto thee our facrifice of praife and
thankfgiving for thefe thy mercies towards us ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For Deliverance from the Plague, or other
common Sicknefs.

OLord God, who haft wounded us for our
fins, and confumed us for our tranfgref-
fions, by thy late heavy and dreadful vifita-
tion; and now, in the midft of judgement re
membering mercy, haft redeemed our fouls
from the jaws of death; We offer unto thy
fatherly goodnefs ourfelves, our fouls and bo
dies which thou haft delivered, to be a living
facrifice unto thee, always praifing and mag
nifying thy mercies in the miclft of thy Church;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Or this.

WE humbly acknowledge before thee,
O moft merciful Father, that all the
punifliments which are threatened in thy law

Thejirjl Sunday in Advent.

might juftly have fallen upon us, by reafon of
our manifold tranfgreffions and hardnefs of
heart : Yet feeing it hath pleafed thee of thy
tender mercy, upon our weak and unworthy
humiliation, to aiFwage the contagious ficknefs
wherewith we lately have been fore afflidted,
and to reftore the voice of joy and health into
our dwellings ; We offer unto thy Divine Ma-
jefty the facrifice of praife and thankfgiving,
lauding and magnifying thy glorious Name
for fuch thy prefervation and providence over
us; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

THE

COLLECTS, EPISTLES, AND GOSPELS

TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

Note, that the Collect appointed for eveiy Sunday, or for any Holy-day
that hath a Vigil or Eve, shall be said at the Evemng Service next before.

Thejirjl Sunday in Advent.

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we
may caft away the works of darknefs,
and put upon us the armour of light, now in
the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son
Jefus Chrift came to viiit us in great humili
ty; that in the laft day, when he fhall come

Thcjirft Sunday in Advent.

again in his glorious Majefly to judge both
the quick and dead, we may rile to the life
immortal, through him who liveth and reign-
eth with thee and the Holy Gholt, now and
ever. Amen.

5F This Collect is to be repeated every day, with the other Collects in Advent,

until Christmas- Eve.

The Epiftle. Rom. xiii. 8.

OWE no man any thing, but to love one
another : for he that loveth another hath
fulfilled the law. For this, Thou {halt not
commit adultery, Thou lhalt not kill, Thou
(halt not fteal, Thou lhalt not bear falfe wit-
nefs, Thou lhalt not covet; and if there be
any other commandment, it is briefly compre
hended in this faying, namely, Thou (halt love
thy neighbour as thyfelf. Love worketh no ill
to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling
of the law. And that, knowing the time, that
now it is high time to awake out of deep : for
now is our (alvation nearer than when we be
lieved. The night is far fpent, the day is at
hand; let us therefore caft off the works of
darknefs, and let us put on the armour of
light. Let us walk honeflly as in the day;
not in rioting and drunkennefs, not in cham
bering and wantonnefs, not in ftrife and en
vying. But put ye on the Lord Jefus Chrift,
and make not provifion for the flelh, to fulfil
the lufts thereof.

Thefirft Sunday in Advent.

The GofpeL St. Matth. xxi. 1.

WHEN they drew nigh unto Jerufalem,
and were come to Bethphage, unto
the mount of Olives, then fent Jefus two dif-
ciples, faying unto them, Go into the village
over againft you, and ftraightway ye ftiall find
an afs tied, and a colt with her : loofe them,
and bring them unto me. And if any man
fay ought unto you, ye fliall fay, The Lord
hath need of them ; and ftraightway he will
fend them. All this was done, that it might
be fulfilled which was fpoken by the Prophet,
faying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold,
thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and fitting
upon an afs, and a colt the fole of an afs.
And the difciples went, and did as Jefus com
manded them; and brought the afs, and the
colt, and put on them their clothes, and they
fet him thereon. And a veiy great multitude
fpread their garments in the way; others cut
down branches from the trees, and ftrawed
them in the way. And the multitudes that
went before, and that followed, cried, faying,
Hofanna to the fon of David; Blefled is he
that cometh in the Name of the Lord ; Ho
fanna in the higheft. And when he was come
into Jerufalem all the city was moved, fay
ing, Who is this ? And the multitude faid,
This is Jefus the Prophet of Nazareth of Ga
lilee. And Jefus went into the temple of God,

Thefecond Sunday in Advent.

and caft out all them that fold and bought in
the temple; and overthrew the tables of the
money-changers, and the feats of them that
fold doves; and faid unto them, It is written,
My houfe (hall be called the houfe of prayer;
but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Thefecond Sunday in Advent
The Collect.

BLESSED Lord, who haft caufed all holy
Scriptures to be written for our learn
ing; Grant that we may in fuch wife hear
them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digeft
them, that by patience, and comfort of thy
holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold
faft the bleffed hope of everlafting life, which
thou haft given us in our Saviour Jefus Chrift.
Amen.

The Epiftle. Rom. xv. 4.

WHATSOEVER things were written
aforetime, were written for our learn
ing; that we through patience, and comfort
of the Scriptures, might have hope. Now
the God of patience and confolation grant you
to be like-minded one towards another, ac
cording to Chrift Jefus : that ye may with one
mind, and one mouth, glorify God, even the
Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Wherefore
receive ye one another, as Chrift alfo received
us, to the glory of God. Now I fay, that Jefus

The fecond Sunday in Advent.

Chrift was a minifter of the circumcifion for
the truth of God, to confirm the proniiies made
unto the fathers : And that the Gentiles might
glorify God for his mercy ; as it is written, For
this caufe I will confefs to thee among the
Gentiles, and fing unto thy Name. And again
he faith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
And again, Praife the Lord, all ye Gentiles,
and laud him, all ye people. And again,
Efaias faith, There ihall be a root of Jelfe,
and he that fliall rife to reign over the Gen
tiles, in him (hall the Gentiles tmft. Now
the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace
in believing, that ye may abound in hope,
through the power of the Holy Ghoft.
The Gofpel. St. Luke xxi. 25.

AND there fliall be figns in the fun, and
in the moon, and in the ftars ; and up
on the earth diftrefs of nations, with per
plexity, the fea and the waves roaring ; men s
hearts failing them for fear, and for look
ing after thofe things which are coming
on the earth : for the powers of heaven fliall
be fliaken. And then fliall they fee the Son
of Man coming in a cloud with power and
great glory. And when thefe things begin to
come to pafs, then look up, and lift up your
heads ; for your redemption draweth nigh.
And he fpake to them a parable, Behold the
fig-tree, and all the trees ; when they now fhoot

The third Sunday in Advent.

i forth, ye fee and know of your own felves that

} fummer is now nigh at hand. So likewife ye,

i when ye fee thefe things come to pafs, know

ye that the Kingdom of God is nigh at hand.

Verily I fay unto you, This generation fliall

not pafs away, till all be fulfilled : heaven and

earth fhall pafs away; but my words ihall not

pafs away.

The third Sunday in Advent.

The Collect. ^f :

OLord Jefu Chrift, who at thy firft com
ing didft fend thy meffenger to prepare
thy way before thee ; Grant that the minifters
and ftewards of thy myfteries may likewife fo
prepare and make ready thy way, by turning
the hearts of the difobedient to the wifdom of
the juft, that at thy fecond coming to judge
the world we may be found an acceptable
people in thy fight, who liveft and reigneft
with the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever
one God, world without end. Amen.
The Epiftle. 1 Cor. iv. 1 .

LET a man fo account of us, as of the
minifters of Chrift, and ftewards of the
myfteries of God. Moreover, it is required
in ftewards, that a man be found faithful. But
with me it is a veiy fmall thing that I ftiould
be judged of you, or of man s judgement: yea,
I judge not mine own felf. For I know no-

The third Sunday in Advent.

thing by myfelf, yet am I not hereby juftified;
but he that judgeth me is the Lord. There
fore judge nothing before the time, until the
Lord come, who both will bring to light the
hidden things of darknefs, and will make ma-
nifeft the counfels of the hearts; and then
fliall every man have praife of God.

: : \[ ,.._- The Go/pel. St.Matth. xi. 2. ? " *

NOW when John had heard in the prifon
the works of Chrift, he fent two of his
difciples, and faid unto him, Art thou he that
ftiould come, or do we look for another ? Je-
fus anfwered and faid unto them, Go and fhew
John again thofe things which ye do hear and
fee: The blind receive their fight, and the
lame w r alk, the lepers are cleanfed, and the
deaf hear, the dead are raifed up, and the
poor have the Gofpel preached to them : And
blefled is he whofoever fliall not be offended
in me. And as they departed, Jefus began
to fay unto the multitudes concerning John,
What went ye out into the wildernefs to fee ?
a reed (haken with the w r ind ? But what went
ye out for to fee ? a man clothed in foft rai
ment? behold, they that wear foft clothing
are in kings houfes. But what went ye out
for to fee ? a prophet ? yea, I fay unto you,
and more than a prophet. For this is he of
whom it is written, Behold, I fend my mef-

The fourth Sunday in Advent.

fenger before thy face, which fliall prepare thy
way before thee.

The fourth Sunday in Advent.

The Colleft. !t : *tt

OLord, raife up (we pray thee) thy power,
and come among us, and with great
might fuccour us ; that whereas, through our
fins and wickednefs, we are fore let and hin
dered in running the race that is fet before
us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may fpeedily
help and deliver us; through the fatisfadtion
of thy Son our Lord, to whom with thee and
the Holy Ghoft be honour and glory, world
without end. Amen.

The Epiftle. Phil. iv. 4.

REJOICE in the Lord alway, and again
I fay, Rejoice. Let your moderation be
known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Be careful for nothing : but in every thing,
by prayer and fupplication with thankfgiving,
let your requefts be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which pafleth all un-
derftanding, fhall keep your hearts and minds
through Chrift Jefus.

The Gofpel. St. John i. 19.

THIS is the record of John, when the Jews
fent Priefts and Levites from Jerufalem
to alk him, Who art thou? And he con-
feffedj and denied not j but confefled, I am

CHRISTMAS-DAY.

not the Chrift. And they aiked him, Wha
then? Art thou Elias? And he faith, I an
not. Art thou that Prophet? And he an
fwered, No. Then faid they unto him, Wh&lt;
art thou? that we may give an anfwer tc
them that fent us. What fay eft thou of thy-
felf ? He faid, I am the voice of one crying
in the wildernefs, Make ftraight the way of
the Lord, as faid the prophet Efaias. And
they which were fent were of the Pharifees,
And they aiked him, and faid unto him, Why
baptizeft thou then, if thou be not that Chrift
nor Elias, neither that Prophet ? John an-
fwered them, faying, I baptize with water
but there ftandeth one among you, whom ye
know not : He it is who coming after me is
preferred before me, whofe fhoe s latchet I
am not worthy to unloofe. Thefe things were
done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John
was baptizing.

The Nativity of our Lord, or the Birth-day of

CHRIST, commonly called Chrijlmas-day.

The ColleSt.

ALMIGHTY God, who haft given us thy
only-begotten Son to take our nature
upon him, and as at this time to be born of
a pure Virgin ; Grant that we being regene
rate, and made thy children by adoption and
grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy

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Spirit; through the fame our Lord JefusChrift,
who liveth and reigneth with thee and the
fame Spirit, ever one God, world without
end. Amen.

The Epiftle. Hebrews i. 1.

GOD, who at fundry times and in divers
manners fpake in time paft unto the
fathers by the prophets, hath in thefe laft days
fpoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom alfo he
made the worlds ; who being the brightnefs
of his glory, and the exprefs image of his per-
fon, and upholding all things by the word of
his power, when he had by himfelf purged our
fins, fat down on the right hand of the Ma-
jefty 011 high; being made fo much better
than the angels, as he hath by inheritance
obtained a more excellent name than they.
For unto which of the angels faid he at any
time, Thou art my Son, this day have I be
gotten thee? And again, I will be to him a
Father, and he ihall be to me a Son? And
again, when he bringeth in the firft-begotten
into the world, he faith, And let all the angels
of God worlhip him. And of the angels he
faith, Who maketh his angels fpirits, and his
miniilers a flame of fire. But unto the Son
he faith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and
ever ; a fceptre of righteoufnefs is the fceptre
of thy kingdom : Thou haft loved righteouf-

CHRISTMAS-DAY.

nefs, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even
thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of
gladnefs above thy fellows. And, Thou, Lord,
in the beginning haft laid the foundation of
the earth; and the heavens are the works of
thine hands: they fliall perilh, but thou re-
maineft ; and they all fhall wax old as doth a
garment; and as a vefture (halt thou fold them
up, and they lhall be changed; but thou art
the fame, and thy years (hall not fail.
The Gofpel. St. John i. 1 .

IN the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was
God. The fame was in the beginning with
God. All things were made by him ; anc
without him was not any thing made that was
made. In him was life, and the life was the
light of men. And the light Ihineth in dark-
nefs, and the darknefs comprehended it not.
There was a man fent from God, whofe name
was John. The fame came for a witnefs, to
bear witnefs of the light, that all men through
him might believe. He was not that light,
but was fent to bear witnefs of that light.
That was the true light, which lighteth every
man that cometh into the world. He was in
the world, and the world was made by him,
and the world knew him not. He came unto
his own, and his own received him not. But
as many as received him, to them gave he

Saint Stephen s Day.

power to become the fons of God, even to
them that believe on his Name : which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flefh,
nor of the will of man, but of God. And the
Word was made flefli, and dwelt among us
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the
only-begotten of the Father) full of grace and
truth.

Saint Stephen s Day.

The Collett.

GRANT, O Lord, that, in all our fufter-
ings here upon earth for the teftimony
of thy truth, we may ftedfaftly look up to
heaven, and by faith behold the glory that
ihall be revealed; and, being tilled with the
holy Ghoft, may learn to love and blefs our
persecutors by the example of thy firft Martyr
Saint Stephen, who prayed for his murderers
to thee, O bleffed Jefus, who ftandeft at the
right hand of God to fuccour all thofe that
fuffer for thee, our only Mediator and Advo
cate. Amen.

11 Then shall follow the Collect of the Nativity, which shall be said continually
unto New-year s Eve.

For the Epi/lle. A6ls vii. 55.
^EPHEN, being full of the holy Ghoft,
^- looked up ftedfaftly into heaven, and faw
the glory of God, and Jefus (landing on the
right hand of God, and faid, Behold, I fee

Saint Stephens Day.

the heavens opened, and the Son of Mai
Handing on the right hand of God. Then
they cried out with a loud voice, and flopped
their ears, and ran upon him with one ac
cord, and caft him out of the city, and ftoned
him : and the witnefles laid down their clothes
at a young man s feet, whofe name was Saul.
And they ftoned Stephen, calling upon God,
and faying, Lord Jefus, receive my fpirit. And
he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice,
Lord, lay not this fin to their charge. And
when he had faid this, he fell afleep.

The Go/pel. St. Matth. xxiii. 34.

BEHOLD, I fend unto you prophets, and
wife men, and fcribes ; and fome of them
ye fhall kill and crucify; and fome of them
fhall ye fcourge in your fynagogues, and per-
fecute them from city to city ; that upon you
may come all the righteous blood fhed upon
the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel
unto the blood of Zacharias, fon of Barachias,
whom ye flew between the temple and the
altar. Verily I fay unto you, All thefe things
fhall come upon this generation. O Jerufa-
lem, Jerufalem, thou that killeft the prophets,
and ftoneft them which are fent unto thee ;
how often would I have gathered thy children
together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings, and ye would not! Behold,
your houfe is left unto you defolate. For I

Saint John the EvangeliJPs Day.

unto you, Ye ftiall not fee me henceforth,
ill ye (hall fay, Bleffed is he that cometh in
;he Name of the Lord.

Saint John the Evangeli/fs Day.
The Collect.

MERCIFUL Lord, we befeech thee to
caft thy bright beams of light upon
:hy Church, that it being enlightened by the
lodtrine of thy blefled Apoftle and Evangelift
5aint John may fo walk in the light of thy
Tilth, that it may at length attain to the light
)f everlafting life ; through Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.

TheEpiJtle. 1 St. Jolmi. 1.

THAT which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we have feen
ivith our eyes, which we have looked upon,
ind our hands have handled of the word
)f life; (for the life was manifefted, and we
lave feen it, and bear witnefs, and fliew unto
fou that eternal life, which was with the Fa-
;her, and was manifefted unto us;) That which
we have feen and heard declare we unto you,
:hat ye alfo may have fellowfliip with us ; and
;ruly our fellowlhip is with the Father, and
ivith his Son Jefus Chrift. And thefe things
write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
This then is the meflage which we have heard
pf him, and declare unto you, That God is

Saint John the EvangeliJFs Day.

light, and in him is no darknefs at all. If we !
fay that we have fellowfhip with him, and walk
in darknefs, we lie, and do not the truth: but I
if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, ;
we have fellowlhip one with another, and the ;
blood of Jefus Chrift his Son cleanfeth us from j
all fin. If we fay that we have no fin, we 1
deceive ourfelves, and the truth is not in us. j
If we confefs our fins, he is faithful and juft n
to forgive us our fins, and to cleanfe us from |
all unrighteoufnefs. If we fay that we have I
not finned, we make him a liar, and his word |
is not in us.

The Go/pel. St. John xxi. 19.

JESUS faid unto Peter, Follow me. Then j
Peter, tinning about, feeth the difciple |
whom Jefus loved following ; which alfo lean- j
ed on his breaft at fupper, and faid, Lord, !
which is he that betray eth thee? Peter feeing !
him faith to Jefus, Lord, and what fhall this I
man do ? Jefus faith unto him, If I will that
he tarry till I come, what is that to thee ? j
Follow thou me. Then went this faying abroad
among the brethren, That that difciple fhould
jiot die : yet Jefus faid not unto him, He fhall
not die ; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, j
what is that to thee? This is the difciple
which teftifieth of thefe things, and wrote
thefe things, and we know that his teftimony
is true. And there are alfo many other things

The Innocents Dm/.

which Jefus did, the which if they ftiould be
written eveiy one, I fuppofe, that even the
world itfelf could not contain the books that
fliould be written.

Tlie Innocents * Day.
I The Collet.

O Almighty God, who out of the mouths
of babes and fucklings haft ordained
ftrength, and madeft infants to glorify thee
by their deaths ; Mortify and kill all vices in
us, and fo ftrengthen us by thy grace, that by
the innocency of our lives, and conftancy of our
faith even unto death, we may glorify thy holy
Name ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
For the Epiftle. Rev. xiv. 1 .

1 Looked, and lo, a Lamb flood on the
mount Sion, and with him an hundred

forty and four thoufand, having his Father s
; Name written in their foreheads. And I heard
t a voice from heaven, as the voice of many

waters, and as the voice of a great thunder :
] and I heard the voice of harpers harping with
j their harps : and they fung as it were a new
1 fong before the throne, and before the four

beafts, and the elders; and no man could
e leam that fong, but the hundred and forty
f and four thoufand, which were redeemed from

the earth. Thefe are they which were not

defiled with women, for they are virgins : thefe

The Innocents Day.

are they which follow the Lamb whitherfoever
he goeth: thefe were redeemed from among
men, being the firft-fruits unto God, and to
the Lamb. And in their mouth was found
no guile; for they are without fault before the
throne of God. *

The Go/pel St. Matth. ii. 13.

THE Angel of the Lord appeareth to Jo-
feph in a dream, faying*, Arife, and take
the young child, and his mother, and flee into
Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee
word; for Herod will feek the young child!
to deftroy him. When he arofe, he took the
young child and his mother by night, and de
parted into Egypt, and was there until thej
death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled j
which was fpoken of the Lord by the pro- j
phet, faying, Out of Egypt have I called my j
Son. Then Herod, when he faw that he was
mocked of the wife men, was exceeding wroth; !
and fent forth, and flew all the children that
were in Bethlehem, and in all the coafts there-*
of, from two years old and under, according
to the time which he had diligently enquired
of the wife men. Then was fulfilled that
which was fpoken by Jeremy the prophet,
faying, In Rama was there a voice heard, la
mentation, and weeping, and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children, and would
not be comforted, becaufe they are not

The Sunday after Chriftmas-day.

The Collect.

A" LMIGHTY God, who haft given us thy
only-begotten Son to take our nature
upon him, and as at this time to be born of
a pure Virgin ; Grant that we being regene
rate, and made thy children by adoption and
grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spi
rit ; through the fame our Lord Jefus Chrift,
who liveth and reigneth with thee and the fame
Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
TheEplJlle. Gal. iv. 1.

NOW I fay, that the heir, as long as he is
a child, diifereth nothing from a fer-
vant, though he be lord of all; but is under
tutors and governours, until the time appoint^
ed of the father. Even fo we, when we were
children, were in bondage under the elements
of the world : but when the fulnefs of the
time was come, God fent forth his Son, made
of a woman, made under the law, to redeem
them that were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of fons. And becaufe
ye are fons, God hath fent forth the Spirit of
his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Fa
ther. Wherefore thou art no more a fer-
vant, but a fon ; and if a fon, then an heir of
God through Chrift.

The Go/pel. St. Matth. i. 18.

THE birth of Jefus Chrift was on this wife :
When as his mother Mary was efpoufed

The Circumcijion ofChri/i.

to Jofeph, before they came together fhe was
found with child of the Holy Ghoft. Then
Jofeph her hulband, being a juft man, and not
willing to make her a publick example, was
minded to put her away privily. But while
he thought on thefe things, behold, the angel
of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream,
faying, Jofeph thou fon of David, fear not to
take unto thee Mary thy wife ; for that which
is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghoft : And
Ihe fliall bring forth a Son, and thou (halt call
his name JESUS ; for he lhall fave his people
from their fins. (Now all this was done, that
it might be fulfilled which was fpoken of the
Lord by the prophet, faying, Behold, a Virgin
fliall be with child, and ftiall bring forth a
Son, and they (hall call his name Emmanuel,
which being interpreted is, God with us.)
Then Jofeph, being raifed from fleep, did as
the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and
took unto him his wife; and knew her not
till (he had brought forth her firft-born fon :
and he called his name JESUS.

The Circumcijion of Chrijl.
The CotteSt.

ALMIGHTY God, who madeft thy bleff-
ed Son to be circumcifed, and obedient
to the law for man ; Grant us the true Cir-
cumcifion of the Spirit; that, our hearts, and

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all our members, being mortified from all
worldly and carnal lufts, we may in all things
obey thy bleffed will; through the fame thy
Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epijlle. Rom. iv. 8. i .&$

BLESSED is the man to whom the Lord
will not impute fin. Cometh this bleff-
ednefs then upon the circumcifion only, or
upon the uncircumcifion alfo ? For we fay, that
faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteouf-
nefs. How was it then reckoned? when he
was in circumcifion, or in uncircumcifion ?
Not in circumcifion, but in uncircumcifion.
And he received the fign of circumcifion, a
feai of the righteoufnefs of the faith which he
had yet being uncircumcifed ; that he might
be the father of all them that believe, though
they be not circumcifed; that righteoufnefs
might be imputed unto them alfo : And the
father of circumcifion to them who are not
of the circumcifion only, but alfo walk in the
fteps of that faith of our father Abraham,
which he had being yet uncircumcifed. For
the promife, that he fhould be the heir of the
world, was not to Abraham, or to his feed,
through the law, but through the righteouf
nefs of faith. For if they which are of the
law be heirs, faith is made void, and the pro
mife made of none effedt

The Epiphany.

The Go/pel. St. Luke ii. 15.

AN D it came to pafs, as the angels were
gone away from them into heaven, the
ihepherds faid one to another, Let us now
go even unto Bethlehem, and fee this thing
which is come to pafs, which the Lord hath
made known unto us. And they came with
hafte, and found Mary and Jofeph, and the
babe lying in a manger. And when they had
feen it, they made known abroad the faying
which was told them concerning this child.
And all they that heard it wondered at thofe
things which were told them by the fhepherds.
But Maiy kept all thefe things, and pondered
them in her heart. And the fhepherds re
turned, glorifying and praifing God for all the
things that they had heard and feen, as it
was told unto them. And when eight days
were accompliflied for the circumcifing of the
child, his name was called JESUS, which was
fo named of the angel before he was conceiv
ed in the womb.

5T The same Collect, Epistle, and Gospel shall serve for every day after unto

the Epiphany.

The Epiphany, or the Manifeftation of Chrift
to the Gentiles.

:i h v The Collet.

OGod, who by the leading of a ilar didft
manifeft thy only-begotten Son to the
Gentiles ; Mercifully grant, that we, which

The Epiphany.

know thee now by faith, may after this life
have the fruition of thy glorious Godhead ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
The Epijlle. Ephef.iii. 1.

FOR this caufe, I Paul, the prifoner of Je
fus Chrift for you Gentiles ; if ye have
heard of the difpenfation of the grace of God,
which is given me to you- ward : How that by
revelation he made known unto me the myf-
tery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby,
when ye read, ye may underftand my know
ledge in the myftery of Chrift) which hi other
ages was not made known unto the fons of
men, as it is now revealed unto his holy
Apoftles and Prophets by the Spirit; That the
Gentiles fhould be fellow-heirs, and of the
fame body, and partakers of his promife in
Chrift, by the Gofpel : whereof I was made
a minifter, according to the gift of the grace
of God given unto me by the effectual work
ing of his power. Unto me, who am lefs
than the leait of all faints, is this grace
given, that I ftiould preach among the Gen
tiles the unfearchable riches of Chrift ; and to
make all men fee what is the fellowfhip of
the myftery, which from the beginning of the
world hath been hid in God, who created all
things by Jefus Chrift : to the intent, that now
unto the principalities and powers in hea
venly places might be known by the Church

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The Epiphany.

the manifold wifdom of God, according to the
eternal purpofe which he purpofed in Chrift
Jefus our Lord: In whom we have boldnefs
and accefs with confidence by the faith of
him.

The Go/pel St. Matth. ii. 1.

WHEN Jefus was born in Bethlehem of
Judaea, in the days of Herod the king,
behold, there came wife men from the eaft to
Jerufalem, faying, Where is he that is born
King of the Jews ? for we have feen his ftar
in the eaft, and are come to worfhip him.
When Herod the king had heard thefe things,
he was troubled, and all Jerufalem with him.
And when he had gathered all the chief priefts
and fcribes of the people together, he de
manded of them, where Chrift fliould be born.
And they faid unto him, In Bethlehem of
Judaea : for thus it is written by the prophet,
And thou, Bethlehem, in the land of Juda,
art not the leaft among the princes of Juda :
for out of thee fhall come a Governour that
(hall rule my people Ifrael. Then Herod,
when he had privily called the wife men, en
quired of them diligently what time the ftar
appeared. And he fent them to Bethlehem,
and faid, Go, and fearch diligently for the
young child, and when ye have found him,
bring me word again, that I may come and
worflnp him alfo. When they had heard the

Thejirft Sunday after the Epiphany.

king, they departed; and lo, the ftar which
they faw in the eaft went before them, till it
came and flood over where the young child
was. When they faw. the ftar, they rejoiced
with exceeding great joy. And when they
were come into the houfe, they faw the young
child with Maiy his mother, and fell down
and worfhipped him : and when they had
opened their treafures, they prefented unto
him gifts ; gold, and frankincenfe, and myrrh.
And being warned of God in a dream that
they fhould not return to Herod, they de
parted into their own country another way.

Thejirft Sunday after the Epiphany.

P The Collect, if o t

OLord, we befeech thee mercifully to re
ceive the prayers of thy people which
call upon thee ; and grant that they may both
perceive and know what things they ought to
do, and alfo may have grace and power faith
fully to fulfil the fame ; through Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. Rom. xii. 1 .

1 Befeech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye prefent your bo
dies a living facrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, which is your reafonable fervice. And
be not conformed to this world; but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind,

Thejirft Sunday after the Epiphany.

that ye may prove what is that good, and ac
ceptable, and perfedt will of God. For I fay,
through the grace given unto me, to eveiy
man that is among you, not to think of him-
felf more highly than he ought to think, but
to think foberly, according as God hath dealt
to every man the meafure of faith. For as
we have many members in one body, and all
members have not the fame office ; fo we,
being many, are one body in Chrift, and every
one members one of another.

The Go/pel. St. Luke ii. 41.

NOW his parents went to Jerufalem eveiy
year at the feaft of the paffover. And
when he was twelve years old, they went up
to Jerufalem, after the cuftom of the feaft.
And when they had fulfilled the days, as they
returned, the child Jefus tarried behind in
Jerufalem ; and Jofeph and his mother knew
not of it. But they, fuppofing him to have
been in the company, went a day s journey,
and they fought him among their kinsfolk and
acquaintance. And when they found him not,
they turned back again to Jerufalem, feeking
him. And it came to pafs, that after three
days they found him in the temple, fitting im
the midft of the do6lors, both hearing them,
and alking them queftions. And all that heard
him were aftonilhed at his underftanding and
anfwers. And when they faw him, they were

Thefccond Sunday after the Epiphany.

amazed : and his mother faid unto him, Son,
why haft thoti thus dealt with us? behold,
thy father and I have fought thee forrowing.
And he faid unto them, How is it that ye
fought me? wift ye not that I muft be about
my Father s bufinefs ? And they underftood
not the faying which he fpake unto them.
And he went down with them, and came to
Nazareth, and was fubje6t unto them : but
his mother kept all thefe fayings in her heart.
And Jefus increafed in wifdom, and ftature,
and in favour with God and man.

Thefecond Sunday after the Epiphany.

The Collect.
A LMIGHTY and everlafting God, who

*L- doft govern all things in heaven and
i earth ; Mercifully hear the fupplications of thy

people, and grant vis thy peace all the days
i of our life ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord.
, Amen.

\ The Epiftle. Rom. xii. 6.

, TTTAVING then gifts differing according
; A A to the grace that is given to us, whether
e prophecy, let us prophefy according to the
[i proportion of faith ; or miniftry, let us wait
t on our miniftering ; or he that teacheth, on
j teaching; or he that exhorteth,- on exhor-
d tation : he that giveth, let him do it with
t limplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence ; he

Thefecond Sunday after the Epiphany.

that flieweth mercy, with cheerfulnefs. Let
love be without diffimulation. Abhor that
which is evil, cleave to that which is good.
Be kindly affedtioned one to another with
brotherly love, in honour preferring one an
other : not flothful in bufinefs ; fervent in fpi-
rit; ferving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; pa
tient in tribulation ; continuing inftant in
prayer; diftributing to the neceffity of faints;
given to hofpitality. Blefs them which per-
fecute you ; blefs, and curfe not. Rejoice
with them that do rejoice, and weep with
them that weep. Be of the fame mind one
towards another. Mind not high things, but
condefcend to men of low eftate.

The Go/pel. St. John ii. 1.

AND the third day there was a marriage
in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of
Jefus was there. And both Jefus was called,
and his difciples, to the marriage. And when
they wanted wine, the mother of Jefus faith
unto him, They have no wine. Jefus faith
unto her, Woman, what have I to do with
thee ? mine hour is not yet come. His mo
ther faith unto the fervants, Whatfoever he
faith unto you, do it. And there were fet
there fix water-pots of ftone, after the man
ner of the purifying of the Jews, containing
two or three firkins apiece. Jefus faith unto
them, Fill the water-pots with water. And

The third Sunday after the Epiphany.

they filled them up to the brim. And he laitli
unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto
the governour of the feaft. And they bare
it. When the ruler of the feaft had tafted
the water that was made wine, and knew not
whence it was, (but the fervants which drew
the water knew,) the governour of the feaft
called the bridegroom, and faith unto him,
Eveiy man at the beginning doth fet forth
good wine, and when men have well drunk,
then that which is worfe : but thou haft kept
the good wine until now. This beginning of
miracles did Jefus in Cana of Galilee, and
manifefted forth his glory, and his difciples
believed on him.

Tlie third Sunday after the Epiphany.

The Cotteft.

ALMIGHTY and everlafting God, merci-
fully look upon our infirmities, and in
all our dangers and neceffities ftretch forth
thy right hand to help and defend us ; through
Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epijlle. Rom. xii. 16.
TTI E not wife in your own conceits. Re-
-U compenfe to no man evil for evil. Pro-
vide things honeft in the fight of all men. If
it be poffible, as much as lieth in you, live
peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved,
avenge .not yourfelves, but rather give place

The third Sunday after the Epiphany.

unto wrath ; for it is written, Vengeance isj
mine; I will repay, faith the Lord. There- |i
fore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he
thirft, give him drink : for in fo doing thou
{halt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not
overcome of evil, but overcome evil with
good.

The Gofpel. St. Matth. viii. 1 ,

WHEN he was come down from the
mountain, great multitudes followed
him. And behold, there came a leper and
worlhipped him, laying, Lord, if thou wilt,!
thou canft make me clean. And Jefus put
forth his hand, and touched him, faying, I
will; be thou clean. And immediately his
leprofy was cleanfed. And Jefus faith unto
him, See thou tell no man, but go thy way, !
(hew thyfelf to the prieft, and offer the gift
that Mofes commanded, for a teftimony unto
them. And when Jefus Avas entered into Ca
pernaum, there came unto him a centurion
befeeching him, and faying, Lord, my fervant
lieth at home fick of the palfy, grievoufly tor
mented. And Jefus faith unto him, I will;
come and heal him. The centurion anfwered
and faid, Lord, I am not worthy that thou
ftiouldeft come under my roof; but fpeak the
word only, and my fervant ftiall be healed.
For I am a man under authority, having fol-
diers under me: and I fay unto this man, Go,

The fourth Sunday after the Epiphany.

and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he
cometh ; and to my fervant, Do this, and he
doeth it. When Jefus heard it, he marvel
led, and faid to them that followed, Verily
I fay unto you, I have not found fo great
faith, no not in IfraeL And I fay unto you,
That many fhall come from the eaft and weft,
and fliall fit down with Abraham, and Ifaac,
and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the
children of the kingdom fhall be caft out into
outer darknefs : there fhall be weeping and
gnafhing of teeth. And Jefus faid unto the
centurion, Go thy way, and as thou haft be
lieved, fo be it done unto thee. And his fer-
vant was healed in the felf-fame hour.

_ .

The fourth Sunday after the Epiphany.
The Collect.

OGod, who knoweft us to be fet in the midfl
of fo many and great dangers, that by
reafon of the frailty of our nature we cannot
always ftand upright ; Grant to us fuch ftrength
and protection, as may fupport us in all dan
gers, and carry us through all temptations j
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
The Epiftlc. Rom. xiii. 1.

LET every foul be fubjecft unto the higher
powers ; for there is no power but of
God : the powers that be are ordained of
God. Whofoever therefore refifteth the power

The fourth Sunday after the Epiphany.

refifteth the ordinance of God : and they that i
refift (hall receive to themfelves damnation, i
For rulers are not a terror to good works, but i|
to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of
the power? do that which is good, and thou \
fhalt have praife of the fame : for he is the mi-
nifter of God to thee for good. But if thou
do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth
not the fword in vain : for he is the minifter
of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him
that doeth evil. Wherefore ye muft needs be
fubjedl, not only for wrath, but alfo for con-
fcience fake. For for this caufe pay ye tri
bute alfo ; for they are God s minifters, attend
ing continually upon this very thing. Render
therefore to all their dues ; tribute to whom
tribute is due, cuftom to whom cuftom, fear to
whom fear, honour to whom honour.

TJie Go/pel. St. Matth. viii. 23.

AND when he was entered into a (hip, his
difciples followed him. And behold,
there arofe a great tempeft in the fea, info-
much that the fhip was covered with the
waves : but he was afleep. And his dif
ciples came to him, and awoke him, faying,
Lord, fave us, we perifli. And he faith unto
them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?
Then he arofe, and rebuked the winds and
the fea, and there was a great calm. But the
men marvelled, faying, What manner of man

The fifth Sunday after the Epiphany.

is this, that even the winds and the fea obey
him! And when he was come to the other
fide into the country of the Gergefenes, there
met him two poflefled with devils, coming out
of the tombs, exceeding fierce, fo that no man
might pals by that way. And behold, they
cried out, faying, What have we to do with
thee, Jefus, thou Son of God? art thou come
hither to torment us before the time? And
there was a good way off from them an herd
of many fwine, feeding. So the devils befought
him, faying, If thou caft us out, fuffer us to
go away into the herd of fwine. And he faid
unto them, Go. And when they were come
out, they went into the herd of fwine : and
behold, the whole herd of fwine ran violently
down a fteep place into the fea, and periihed
in the waters. And they that kept them fled,
and went their ways into the city, and told
eveiy thing, and what was befallen to the pof-
fefled of the devils. And behold, the whole
city came out to meet Jefus : and when they
faw him, they befought him, that he would
depart out of their coafts.

The fifth Sunday after the Epiphany.

The Colledt.

f\ Lord, we befeech thee to keep thy Church
^^ and houfhold continually in thy true re
ligion ; that they who do lean only upon the

The fifth Sunday after the Epiphany.

hope of thy heavenly grace may evermore
defended by thy mighty power; through Jefixg
Chrift otir Lord. Amen.

The Epi/lle. Col. iii. 12.

PUT on therefore, as the elecft of God, holy
and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindnefs,
humblehefs of mind, meeknefs, long-fuffering;
forbearing one another, and forgiving one an
other, if any man have a quarrel againft any ;
even as Chrift forgave you, fo alfo do ye. And
above all thefe things put on charity, which is
the bond of perfe&neis. And let the peace
of God rule in your hearts, to the which alfp
ye are called in one body ; and be ye thank
ful. Let the word of Chrift dwell in you
richly in all wifclom, teaching and admonifh-
ing one another in pfahns, and hymns, and
fpiritual fongs, finging with grace in your
hearts to the Lord. And whatfoever ye do,
in w r ord or deed, do all in the name of the
Lord Jefus, giving thanks to God and the
Father by him.

TheGofpel St. Matth. xiii. 24.

THE kingdom of heaven is likened unto a
man which fowed good feed in his field.
But while men flept, his enemy came and
fowed tares among the wheat, and went his
w^ay. But when the blade was fprung up,
and brought forth fruit, then appeared the
tares alfo. So the fervants of the houiholder

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came, and faid unto him, Sir, didft not thou
fow good feed in thy field? from whence then
hath it tares? He faid unto them,, An enemy
hath done this. The fervants faid unto him,
Wilt thou then that we go and gather them
up? But he faid, Nay; left while ye gather
up the tares, ye root up alfo the wheat with
them. Let both grow together until the har-
veft ; and in the time of harveft I will fay to
the reapers, Gather ye together firft the tares,
and bind them in bundles to burn them : but
gather the wheat into my barn.

The Jlxth Sunday after the Epiphany.
The Collett.

OGod, whofe bleffed Son was manifefted
that he might deftroy the works of the
devil, and make us the fons of God, and heirs
of eternal life; Grant us, we befeech thee, that,
having this hope, we may purify ourfelves,
even as he is pure ; that, when he lhall appear
again with power and great glory, we may be
made like unto him in his eternal and glorious
kingdom; where with thee, O Father, and
thee, O Holy Ghoft, he liveth and reigneth,
ever one God, world without end. Amen.
The Epijlle. 1 St. John iii. 1 .

BEHOLD, what manner of love the Fa
ther hath bellowed upon us, that we
fliould be called the fons of God : therefore

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the world knoweth us not, becaufe it knew
him not. Beloved, now are we the fons ofi
God, and it doth not yet appear what we
fliall be : but we know, that, when he (hall
appear, we fhall be like him ; for we fliall fee
him as he is. And every man that hath thisij
hope in him purifieth himfelf, even as he is!
pure. Whofoever committeth fin tranfgrefTeth
alfo the law : for fin is the tranfgreffion of the
law. And ye know that he was manifefted
to take away our fins ; and in him is no fin,
Whofoever abideth in him fimieth not : who-
foever finneth hath not feen him, neither!
known him. Little children, let no man
deceive you : he that doeth righteoufnefs is
righteous, even as he is righteous. He that
committeth fin is of the devil : for the devil
finneth from the beginning. For this pur-
pofe the Son of God was manifefted, that he,
might deftroy the works of the deviL
The Gofpel. St. Matth. xxiv. 23.

THEN if any man fliall fay unto you, Lo,
here is Chrift, or there ; believe it not.
For there fliall arife falfe Chrifts, and falfe |
prophets, and fliall {hew great figns and won
ders ; infomuch that (if it were poflible) they
fliall deceive the very ele6t. Behold, I have
told you before. Wherefore, if they fliall fay
unto you, Behold, he is in the defert ; go not
forth : behold, he is in the fecret chambers ;

Septuagejima Sunday.

j believe it not. For as the lightning cometh

out of the eaft, and fliineth even unto the weft j

e fo fliall alfo the coming of the Son of Man be.

1 For wherefoever the carcafe is, there will the

eagles be gathered together. Immediately

i after the tribulation of thofe days fliall the

i fun be darkened, and the moon fliall not give

i her light, and the ftars fliall fall from heaven,

i and the powers of the heavens fliall be ihakeii.

And then fliall appear the fign of the Son of

Man in heaven : and then fliall all the tribes

of the earth mourn, and they ftiall fee the Son

of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, with

power and great glory. And he ftiall fend his

angels with a great found of a trumpet, and

they fliall gather together his ele&lt;ft from the

four winds, from one end of heaven to the

other.

The Sunday called Septuagejima^ or the third
Sunday before Lent.

\ k The Colleft.

OLord, we befeech thee favourably to hear
the prayers of thy people ; that we, who
are juftly puniflied for our offences, may be
mercifully delivered by thy goodnefs, for the
glory of thy Name ; through Jefus Chrift our
Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee
and the Holy Ghoft, ever one God, world
without end. Amen.

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Septuagejima Sunday.

The Epiftk. 1 Cor. ix. 24.

KNOW ye not, that they which run in
a race run all, but one receiveth the
prize? So run that ye may obtain. And
every man that ftriveth for the maftery is
temperate in all things : now they do it to
obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incor
ruptible. I therefore fo run, not as uncer
tainly ; fo fight I, not as one that beateth the
air : but I keep under my body, and bring it
into fubjecftion, left that by any means, when
I have preached to others, I myfelf fliould be
a caft-away.

The Go/pel. St. Matth. xx. 1.

THE kingdom of heaven is like unto a man
that is an houfholder, which went out
early in the morning to hire labourers into
his vineyard. And when he had agreed with
the labourers for a peny a clay, he fent them
into his vineyard. And he went out about
the third hour, and faw others Handing idle
in the market-place, and faid unto them, Go
ye alfo into the vineyard, and whatfoever is
right I will give you. And they went their
way. Again he went out about the fixth and
ninth hour, and did likewife. And about the
eleventh hour he went out, and found others
{landing idle, and faith unto them, Why ftand
ye here all the day idle ? They fay unto him,
becaufe no man hath hired us. He faith imtd

Sexagejima Sunday.

them, Go ye alfo into the vineyard, and what-
foever is right, that fhall ye receive. So when
even was come, the lord of the vineyard faith
unto his fteward, Call the labourers, and give
them their hire, beginning from the laft unto
the firft. And when they came that were hired
about the eleventh hour, they received eveiy
man a peny. But when the firft came, they
fuppofed that they fhould have received more;
and they likewife received eveiy man a peny.
And when they had received it, they mur
mured againft the good-man of the houfe,
faying, Thefe laft have wrought but one hour,
and thou haft made them equal unto us, which
have borne the burden and heat of the day.
But he anfwered one of them, and faid, Friend,
I do thee no wrong; didft not thou agree
with me for a peny ? Take that thine is, and
go thy way; I will give unto this laft even as
unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what
I will with mine own ? Is thine eye evil, be-
caufe I am good? So the laft fhall be firft,
and the firft laft : for many be called, but few
chofen.

The Sunday called Sexagejima, or the fecond

Sunday before Lent.

The Collett.

OLord God, who feeft that we put not our
truft in any thing that we do; Mercifully

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Sexagejima Sunday.

grant that by thy power we may be defended I
againft all adverfity ; through Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.

The Epijlle. 2 Cor. xi. 19.

YE fuffer fools gladly, feeing ye yourfelves
are wife. For ye fuffer if a man bring j
you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a
man take of you, if a man exalt himfelf, if a
man finite you on the face. I fpeak as con
cerning reproach, as though we had been
weak : howbeit, whereinfoever any is bold,
(I fpeak foolifhly,) I am bold alfo. Are they
Hebrews ? fo am I. Are they Ifraelites ? fo
am I. Are they the feed of Abraham ? fo am
I. Are they minifters of Chrift ? (I fpeak as
a fool,) I am more : in labours more abun
dant ; in ftripes above meafure ; in prifons
more frequent ; in deaths oft. Of the Jews
five times received I forty ftripes fave one ;
thrice was I beaten with rods ; once was I
floned ; thrice I fuffered fhipwreck ; a night
and a day I have been in the deep ; in jour
neying often ; in perils of waters ; in perils
of robbers ; in perils by mine own country
men ; in perils by the heathen ; in perils in
the city ; in perils in the wildernefs ; in perils
in the fea; in perils among falfe brethren; in
wearinefs and painfulnefs ; in watchings often;
in hunger and thirft; in failings often; in cold
and nakednefs ; befides thofe things that are

Sewage/ima Sunday.

without, that which cometh upon me daily,
the care of all the churches. Who is weak,
and I am not weak ? who is oftended, and I
burn not ? If I muft needs glory, I will giory
of the things which concern mine infirmities.
The God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrilt,
which is bleffed for evermore, knoweth that
I lie not.

The Gofpel. St. Luke viii. 4.

WHEN much people were gathered to
gether, and were come to him out of
every city, he fpake by a parable : A fower
went out to fow his feed; and as he fowed,
fome fell by the way-fide, and it was trodden
down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And
fome fell upon a rock, and as foon as it was
fpnmg up, it withered away, becaufe it lacked
moifture. And fome fell among thorns, and
the thorns fprang up witTi it, and choked it.
And other fell on good ground, and fprang
up, and bare fruit an hundred-fold. And
when he had faid thefe things, he cried, He
that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And his
difciples alked him, faying, What might this
parable be? And he faid, Unto you it i$
given to know the myfteries of the kingdom
of God : but to others in parables ; that fee
ing they might not fee, and hearing they
might not underftand. Now the parable is
*his : The feed is the Word of God. Thofe

Qumquagcjima Sunday.

by the way-fide are they that hear; then
cometh the devil, and taketh away the word
out of their hearts, left they Ihould believe,
and be faved. They on the rock are they,
which, when they hear, receive the word with
joy ; and thefe have no root, which for a while
believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
And that which fell among thorns, are they,
which, when they have heard, go forth, and
are choaked with cares, and riches, and plea-
fures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfec
tion. But that on the good ground, are they,
which in an honeft and good heart, having
heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit
with patience.

The Sunday called Quinquagejima, or the ne$t

Sunday before Lent.

The Collect.

OLord, who haft taught us that all our
doings without charity are nothing worth;
Send thy Holy Ghoft, and pour into our hearts
that moft excellent gift of charity, the very
bond of peace and of all virtues, without which
whofoever liveth is counted dead before thee:
Grant this for thine only Son Jefus Chrift s
fake. Amen.

The Epiftle. 1 Cor. xiii. L

THOUGH I fpeak with the tongues of
men and of angels, and have not charity^

Quinquagcjima Sunday.

I am become as founding brafs, or a tinkling
cymbal. And though I have the gift of pro
phecy, and* underftand all myfteries, and all
knowledge; and though I have all faith, fo
that I could remove mountains, and have no
charity, I am nothing. And though I beftow
all my goods to feed the poor, and though I
give my body to be burned, and have not cha
rity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity fuffer-
eth long, and is kind; charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itfelf, is not puffed up,
doth not behave itfelf unfeemly, feeketh not
her own, is not eafily provoked, thinketh no
evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth
in the truth ; beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all things, endure th all things.
Charity never faileth : but whether there be
prophecies, they fliall fail; whether there be
tongues, they fliall ceafe; whether there be
knowledge, it lhall vanifh aw r ay. For we
know in part, and we prophefy in part. But
when that which is perfect is come, then
that which is in part fliall be done away.
When I was a child, I fpake as a child, I
underftood as a child, I thought as a child;
but when I became a man, I put away child-
ifli things. For now we fee through a glafs
darkly ; but then face to face : now I know
in part ; but then fliall I know even as alfo I
am known. And now abideth faith, hope,

Quinquagejima Sunday.

charity, thefe three ; but the greateft of thefe
is charity.

The Go/pel. St. Luke xviii. 31.

THEN Jefus took unto him the twelve,
and faid unto them, Behold, we go up to
Jerufalem, and all things that are written by
the prophets concerning the Son of Man ftiall
be accomplifhed. For he fliall be delivered
unto the Gentiles, and ftiall be mocked, and
fpitefully entreated, and fpitted on : and they
fliall fcourge him, and put him to death ; and
the third day he fliall rife again. And they
underftood none of thefe things : and this
faying was hid from them, neither knew they
the things which were fpoken. And it came
to pafs, that as he was come nigh unto Je
richo, a certain blind man fat by the way-fide
begging : and hearing the multitude pafs by,
lie afked what it meant. And they told him,
that Jefus of Nazareth paffeth by. And he
cried, faying, Jefus, thou Son of David, have
mercy on me. And they which went before
rebuked him, that he fliould hold his peace :
but he cried fo much the more, Thou Son of
David, have mercy on me. And Jefus flood,
and commanded him to be brought unto him :
and wlien he was come near, he afked him,
faying, What wilt thou that I fliould do unto
thee ? And he faid, Lord, that I may receive
my fight. And Jefus faid unto him, Receive

Thefirft Day of Leiit.

thy fight; thy faith hath faved thee. And im
mediately he received his fight, and followed
him, glorifying God : and all the people, when

they faw it, gave praife unto God.

. r

Thejirjl Day of Lent, commonly called AJh-

Wednefday.

The ColkSt.

A LMIGHTY and everlafting God, who
-f^. hateft nothing that thovi haft made, and
doft forgive the fins of all them that are pe
nitent; Create and make in us new and con
trite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our
fins, and acknowledging our wretchednefs,
may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy,
perfect remiffion and forgivenefs j through Je-
ius Chrift our Lord. Amen.

% This Collect is to be read every day in Lent after tfu Colled appointed for

the day*

For the Epiftle. Joel ii. 12.
ni^URN ye even to me, faith the Lord, with
A all your heart, and with fading, and with
weeping, and with mourning. And rend your
heart, and not your garments, and turn unto
the Lord your God: for he is gracious and
merciful, flow to anger, and of great kindnefs,
and repenteth him of the evil. Who knoweth
if he will return, and repent, and leave a bleff-
ing behind him, even a meat-offering and a
drink-offering unto the Lord your God? Blow

Thejirft Day of Lent.

the trumpet in Zion, fandtify a fail, call a fo-
lemii afiembly, gather the people, fan6tify the
congregation, affemble the elders, gather the
children, and thofe that fuck the breails ; let
the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and
the bride out of her clofet; let the priefts, the
miniflers of the Lord, weep between the porch
and the altar, and let them fay, Spare thy
people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage
to reproach, that the heathen fhould ride over
them: wherefore Ihould they fay among the
people, Where is their God ?

The Go/pel St. Matth. vi. 16.

WHEN ye fail, be not as the hypocrites,
of a fad countenance : for they disfi
gure their faces, that they may appear unta
men to faft. Verily I fay unto you, They have
their reward. But thou, when thou fafteft,
anoint thine head, and waih thy face, that
thou appear not unto men to fail, but unto
thy Father which is in fecret ; and thy Fa
ther, which feeth in fecret, fhall reward thee
openly. Lay not up for yourfelves treafures
upon earth, where moth and ruft doth cor
rupt, and where thieves break through and
Heal : but lay up for yourfelves treafures in
heaven, where neither moth nor ruft doth cor
rupt, and where thieves do not break through
nor ileal : for where your treafure is, there
wiU your heart be alfo.

Thefirft Sunday in Lent.

|io The ColleM.

OLord, who for our fake didft faft forty
days and forty nights ; Give us grace to
life fuch abftinence, that, our flefh being fub-
dued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy
godly motions in righteoufnefs, and true holi-
nefs, to thy honour and glory, who liveft and
reigneft with the Father and the Holy Ghoft,
one God, world without end. Amen.
TheEpiJlle. 2 Cor. vi. 1.

WE then, as workers together with him,
befeech you alfo, that ye receive not
the grace of God in vain ; (for he faith, I have
heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day
of falvation have I fuccoured thee : behold,
now is the accepted time ; behold, now is the
day of falvation ;) giving no offence in any
thing, that the miniftry be not blamed ; but
in all things approving ourfelves as the mi-
nifters of God, in much patience, in afflictions,
in neceffities, in diftreffes, in ftripes, in im-
prifonments, in tumults, in labours, in watch-
ings, in failings ; by purenefs, by knowledge,
by long-fuffering, by kindnefs, by the holy
Ghoft, by love unfeigned, by the word of
truth, by the power of God, by the armour
of righteoufnefs on the right hand and on the
left, by honour and diftionour, by evil report
and good report ; as deceivers, and yet true ;
as unknown, and yet well known ; as dying,

Thejirjt Sunday in Lent.

behold, we live ; as chaftened, and not
killed ; as forrowful, yet alway rejoicing ; as
poor, yet making many rich ; as having no
thing, and yet poffeffing all things.

The Go/pel St. Matth. iv. 1.

THEN was Jefus led up of the Spirit into
the wildernefs, to be tempted of the devil.
And when he had fafted forty days and forty
nights, he was afterward an-hungred. And
when the tempter came to him, he faid, If
thou be the Son of God, command that thefe
ftones be made bread. But he anfwered and
faid, It is written, Man Ihall not live by bread
alone, but by eveiy word that proceedeth out
of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh
him up into the holy city, and fetteth him on
a pinnacle of the temple, and faith unto him,
If thou be the Son of God, caft thyfelf down ;
for it is written, He (hall give his angels
charge concerning thee, and in their hands
they fhall bear thee up, left at any time thou
dafh thy foot againft a ftone. Jefus faid unto
him, It is written again, Thou {halt not tempt
the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh
him up into an exceeding high mountain, and
flieweth him all the kingdoms of the world,
and the glory of them; and faith unto him.
All thefe things will I give thee, if thou wilt
fall down and worihip me. Then faith Jefu$
unto him, Get thee heuce, Satan j for it is

Thefecond Sunday in Lent.

written, Thou (halt worihip the Lord thy God,
and him only fhalt thou ferve. Then the
devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came
and miniftered unto him.

Thefecond Sunday in Lent.

The Collett.

A LMIGHTY God, who feeft that we have
^jL no power of ourfelves to help ourfelves ;
Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and
inwardly in our fouls ; that we may be de
fended from all adverfities which may happen
to the body, and from all evil thoughts which
may aflault and hurt the foul ; through Jefus
Chrift our Lord. Amen.

TheEpiJlle. ITheff. iv. 1.

WE befeech you, brethren, and exhort
you by the Lord Jefus, that as ye have
received of us how ye ought to walk, and to
pleafe God, fo ye would abound more and
more. For ye know what commandments
we gave you by the Lord Jefus. For this is
the will of God, even your fan6tification, that
ye ihould abftain from fornication ; that every
one of you Ihould know how to poflefs his
veflel in falsification and honour ; not in the
luft of concupifcence, even as the Gentiles
which know not God; that no man go beyond
and defraud his brother in any matter ; be-
caufe that the Lord is the avenger of all fuch,

The third Sunday in Lent.

as we alfo have forewarned you, and teftified.
For God hath not called us unto uncleannefs,
but unto holinefs. He therefore that de-
fpifeth defpifeth not man, but God, who hath
alfo given unto us his holy Spirit.

The Go/pel St. Matth. xv. 2 1 .

JESUS went thence, and departed into the
coafts of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a
woman of Canaan came out of the fame coafts,
and cried unto him, faying, Have mercy on
me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter
is grievoufly vexed with a devil. But he an
fwered her not a word. And his difciples
came and befought him, faying, Send her
away; for fhe crieth after us. But he an
fwered and faid, I am not fent, but unto the
loft flieep of the houfe of Ifrael. Then came
fhe and worfhipped him, faying, Lord, help
me. But he anfwered and faid, It is not
meet to take the children s bread, and to caft
it to dogs. And fhe faid, Truth, Lord; yet the
dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their
matter s table. Then Jefus anfwered and faid
unto her, O woman, great is thy faith : be it
unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daugh
ter was made whole from that veiy hour.

The third Sunday in Lent.

The Collect.

7"E befeech thee, Almighty God, look
upon the hearty defires of thy humble

The third Sunday in Lent.

fervants, and ftretch forth the right hand of
thy Majefty, to be our defence againft all
our enemies ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord.
Amen.

TlieEpiJlle. Ephef. v. 1.

BE ye therefore followers of God, as dear
children ; and walk in love, as Chrift alfo
hath loved us, and hath given himfelf for us,
an offering and a facrifice to God for a fweet-
fmelling favour. But fornication, and all un-
cleannefs, or covetoufnefs, let it not be once
named amongft you, as becometh faints ; nei
ther filthinefs, nor foolifh-talking, nor jefting,
which are not convenient ; but rather giving
of thanks : for this ye know, that no whore
monger, nor unclean perfon, nor covetous
man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance
in the kingdom of Chrift, and of God. Let
no man deceive you with vain words : for be-
caufe of thefe things cometh the wrath of God
upon the children of clifobedience. Be not
ye therefore partakers with them : for ye were
fometimes darknefs, but now are ye light in
the Lord : walk as children of light ; (for the
fruit of the Spirit is in all goodnefs, and
righteoufnefs, and truth ;) proving what is
acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fel-
lowfhip with the unfruitful works of darknefs,
but rather reprove them: for it is a fhame
even to fpeak of thofe things which are done

Tlie third Sunday in Lent.

of them in fecret. But all things that are
reproved are made manifeft by the light:
for whatfoever doth make manifeft is light.
Wherefore he faith, Awake, thou that fleepeft,
and arife from the dead, and Chrift fhall give
thee light.

The Gofpel. St. Luke xi. 14.

JESUS was cafting out a devil, and it was
dumb. And it came to pafs, when the
devil was gone out, the dumb fpake; and
the people wondered. But fome of them faid,
He cafteth out devils through Beelzebub,
the chief of the devils. And others, tempt
ing him, fought of him a fign from heaven.
But he, knowing their thoughts, faid unto
them, Every kingdom divided againft itfelf is
brought to defolation; and a houfe divided
againft a houfe falleth. If Satan alfo be di
vided againft himfelf, how ihall his kingdom
ftand? becaufe ye fay, that I caft out devils
through Beelzebub. And if I by Beelzebub
caft out devils, by whom do your fons caft
them out? therefore Ihall they be your judges.
But if I with the finger of God caft out devils,
no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon
you. When a ftrong man armed keepeth his
palace, his goods are in peace ; but when a
ftronger than he fhall come upon him, and
overcome him, he taketh from him all his
armour wherein he trailed, and divideth his

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fpoils. He that is not with me is againft me:
and he that gathereth not with me fcattereth.
When the unclean fpirit is gone out of a man,
he walketh through diy places, feeking reft ;
and finding none, he faith, I will return unto
my houfe whence I came out. And when he
cometh, he findeth it fwept and gamiflied.
Then goeth he and taketh to him feven other
fpirits more wicked than himfelf, and they
enter in, and dwell there ; and the laft ftate of
that man is worfe than the firft. And it came
to pafs, as he fpake thefe things, a certain
woman of the company lift up her voice, and
faid unto him, Bleiled is the womb that bare
thee, and the paps which thou haft fucked.
But he faid, Yea rather, blefled are they that
hear the Word of God, and keep it.

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TJie ColleSt.

GRANT, we befeech thee, Almighty God,
that we, who for our evil deeds do wor
thily deferve to be puniftied, by the comfort
of thy grace may mercifully be relieved;
through our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift.
Amen.

TheEpiJlle. Gal. iv.21.

TELL me, ye that defire to be under the
law, do ye not hear the law? For it is
written, that Abraham had two fons, the one

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by a bond-maid,, the other by a free-woman.
But he who was of the bond-woman was bom
after the flefh ; but he of the free- woman was
by promife. Which things are an allegory :
for thefe are the two covenants ; the one from
the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage,
which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai
in Arabia, and anfwereth to Jerufalem which
now is, and is in bondage with her children.
But Jerufalem which is above is free ; which
is the mother of us all. For it is written,
Rejoice, thou barren that beareft not ; break
forth and cry, thou that travaileft not : for the
defolate hath many more children than fhe
which hath an hufband. Now we, brethren,
as Ifaac was, are the children of promife.
But as then he that was born after the flefh
perfecuted him that was born after the Spirit ;
even fo it is now. Neverthelefs, what faith
the Scripture ? Caft out the bond- woman and
her ion ; for the fon of the bond- woman
ftiall not be heir with the fon of the free-
woman. So then, brethren, we are not chil
dren of the bond- woman, but of the free.
The Go/pel. St. John vi. 1 .

JESUS went over the fea of Galilee, which
is the fea of Tiberias. And a great mul
titude followed him, becaufe they faw his
miracles which he did on them that were
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tain, and there he fat with his difciples. And
the PafTover, a feaft of the Jews, was nigh.
When Jefus then lift up his eyes, and faw a
great company come nnto him, he faith unto
Philip, Whence (hall we buy bread, that thefe
may eat ? (And this he faid to prove him ;
for he himfelf knew what he would do.) Philip
anfwered him, Two hundred peny-worth of
bread is not fufficient for them, that every
one of them may take a little. One of his
difciples, Andrew, Simon Peter s brother, faith
unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five
barley-loaves, and two fmall fiflies : but what
are they among fo many ? And Jefus faid,
Make the men fit down. Now there was
much grafs in the place. So the men fat
down, in number about five thoufand. And
Jefus took the loaves, and when he had given
thanks he diftributed to the difciples, and the
difciples to them that were fet down; and
likewife of the fiflies as much as they would.
When they were filled, he faid unto his dif
ciples, Gather up the fragments that remain,
that nothing be loft. Therefore they gathered
them together, and filled twelve bafkets with
the fragments of the five barley-loaves, which
remained over and above unto them that had
eaten. Then thofe men, when they had feen
the miracle that Jefus did, faid, This is of a truth
that Prophet that fliould come into the world.

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The Collect.

WE befeech thee, Almighty God, merci
fully to look upon thy people ; that by
thy great gooduefs they may be governed and
preferred evermore, both in body and foul ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
The Epi/lle. Hebr.ix. 11.

CHRIST being come an High Prieft of
good things to come, by a greater and
more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands;
that is to fay, not of this building ; neither by
the blood of goats and calves ; but by his
own blood he entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for
us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats,
and the afhes of an heifer fprinkling the un
clean, fancftifieth to the purifying of the flelh ;
how much more fliall the blood of Chrift, who,
through the eternal Spirit, offered himfelf
without fpot to God, purge your confcience
from dead works to ferve the living God ?
And for this caufe he is the Mediator of the
new teftament, that by means of death, for
the redemption of the tranfgreflions that were
under the firft teftament, they which are called
might receive the promife of eternal inherit
ance.

The Go/peL St. John viii. 46.

JESUS faid, Which of you convinceth me
of fin ? and if I fay the truth, why do ye

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not believe me ? He that is of God heareth
God s words ; ye therefore hear them not,
becaufe ye are not of God. Then anfwered
the Jews, and faid unto him, Say we not well,
that thou art a Samaritan, and haft a devil?
Jefus anfwered, I have not a devil ; bvit I ho
nour my Father, and ye do difhonour me.
And I feek not mine own glory ; there is one
that feeketh and judgeth. Verily, verily, I
fay unto you, If a man keep my faying, he
ftiall never fee death. Then faid the Jews
unto him, Now we know that thou haft a
devil : Abraham is dead, and the prophets ;
and thou fayeft, If a man keep my faying, he
fhall never tafte of death. Art thou greater
than our father Abraham, which is dead ? and
the prophets are dead : whom makeft thou
thyfelf? Jefus anfwered, If I honour myfelf,
my honour is nothing; it is my Father that
honoureth me, of whom ye fay, that he is your
God : yet ye have not known him ; but I
know him : and if I fliould fay, I know him
not, I fliall be a liar like unto you ; but I know
him, and keep his faying. Your father Abra
ham rejoiced to fee my day, and he faw it,
and was glad. Then faid the Jews unto him,
Thou art not yet fifty years old, and haft thou
feen Abraham ? Jefus faid unto them, Verily,
verily, I fay unto you, Before Abraham was, I
am. Then took they up ft ones to caft at him:

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but Jefus hid himfelf, and went out of the
temple.

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The Collect.

A LMIGHTY and everlafting God, who,
-^nL of thy tender love towards mankind,
haft fent thy Son, our Saviour Jefus Chrift, to
take upon him our flefh, and to fuffer death
upon the crofs, that all mankind fhould follow
the example of his great humility; Mercifully
grant, that we may both follow the example
of his patience, and alfo be made partakers of
his refurre6lion ; through the fame Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

The Epiflle. Phil. ii. 5.

LET this mind be in you, which was alfo
in Chrift Jefus : who, being in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to be equal
with God ; but made himfelf of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a fervant, and
was made in the likenefs of men : and being
found in falhion as a man, he humbled him
felf, and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the crofs. Wherefore God alfo
hath highly exalted him, and given him a
Name which is above every name; that at
the Name of Jefus every knee fliould bow, of
things in heaven, and things in earth, and
things under the earth ; and that every tongue

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ftiould confefs that Jefus Chrifl is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.

TJie Go/pel St. Matth. xxvii. 1.

WHEN the morning was come, all the
chief priefts and elders of the people
took counfel againft Jefus, to put him to death.
And when they had bound him, they led him
away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the
governour. Then Judas who had betrayed
him, when he faw that he was condemned,
repented himfelf, and brought again the thirty
pieces of filver to the chief priefts and elders,
faying, I have finned, in that I have betrayed
the innocent blood. And they faid, What is
that to us? fee thou to that. And he caft
down the pieces of filver in the temple, and
departed, and went and hanged himfelf. And
the chief priefts took the filver pieces, and
faid, It is not lawful for to put them into the
treafuiy, becaufe it is the price of blood. And
they took counfel, and bought with them the
potter s field, to buiy ftrangers in. Wherefore
that field was called, The field of blood, un
to this day. (Then was fulfilled that which
was fpoken by Jeremy the prophet, faying,
And they took the thirty pieces of filver, the
price of him that was valued, whom they of
the children of Ifrael did value, and gave them
for the potter s field, as the Lord appointed
me.) And Jefus ftood before the governour;

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and the governour afked him, faying, Artj
thou the King of the Jews ? And Jefus faidj
unto him, Thou fay eft. And when he was
accufed of the chief priefts and elders, he an- i
fwered nothing. Then faith Pilate unto him, j
Heareft thou not how many things they wit-|
nefs againft thee? And he anfwered him tojj
never a word, infbmuch that the governour
marvelled greatly. Now at that feaft the go-
vernour was wont to releafe unto the people
a prifoner, whom they would. And they hadj
then a notable prifoner, called Barabbas.
Therefore when they were gathered together,
Pilate faid unto them, Whom will ye that I !
releafe unto you ? Barabbas, or Jefus which
is called Chrift ? For he knew that for envy
they had delivered him. When he was fet
down on the judgement-feat, his wife fent
unto him, faying, Have thou nothing to do
with that juft man : for I have fuffered many
things this day in a dream becaufe of him
But the chief priefts and elders perfuaded the
multitude that they ftiould afk Barabbas, and
deftroy Jefus. The governour anfwered and
faid unto them, Whether of the twain will ye
that I releafe unto you? They faid, Barabbas.
Pilate faith unto them, What fhall I do then
with Jefus, which is called Chrift ? They all
fay unto him, Let him be crucified. And the
governour faid, Why, what evil hath he done?

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But they cried out the more, faying, Let him
be crucified. When Pilate law that he could
prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was
made, he took water, and waflied his hands
before the multitude, faying, I am innocent of
the blood of this juft perfon : fee ye to it.
Then anfwered all the people, and faid, His
blood be on us, and on our children. Then
releafed he Barabbas unto them: and when
he had fcourged Jefus he delivered him to be
crucified. Then the foldiers of the governour
took Jefus into the common hall, and gather
ed unto him the whole band of foldiers. And
they (tripped him, and put on him a fcarlet
robe. And when they had platted a crown
of thorns they put it upon his head, and a
reed in his right hand : and they bowed the
knee before him, and mocked him, faying,
Hail, King of the Jews. And they fpit upon
him, and took the reed, and fmote him on
the head. And after that they had mocked
him they took the robe off from him, and
put his own raiment on him, and led him
away to crucify him. And as they came out
they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name;
him they compelled to bear his crofs. And
when they were come unto a place called Gol
gotha, that is to fay, a place of a fcull, they
gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall :
and when he had tailed thereof, he would not

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drink. And they crucified him, and parted
his garments, calling lots: that it might be|
fulfilled, which was fpoken by the prophet,
They parted my garments among them, and
upon my vefture did they caft lots. And fit- 1
ting down they watched him there; and fet
up over his head his accufation written, THIS
IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Then were there two thieves crucified with
him ; one on the right hand, and another on !
the left. And they that pafled by reviled him,
wagging their heads, and faying, Thou that
deftroyeft the temple, and buildeft it in three
days, fave thyfelf : if thou be the Son of God,
come down from the crofs. Likewife alfo the
chief priefts mocking him, with the fcribes and
elders, faid, He faved others, himfelf he can
not fave : if he be the King of Ifrael, let him
now come down from the crofs, and we will
believe him. He trufted in God; let him
deliver him now, if he will have him : for he
faid, I am the Son of God. The thieves alfo,
which were crucified with him, caft the fame
in his teeth. Now from the fixth hour there
was darknefs over all the land unto the ninth
hour. And about the ninth hour Jefus cried
with a loud voice, faying, Eli, Eli, lama fa-
bachthani ? that is to fay, My God, my God,
why haft thou forfaken me ? Some of them
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This man calleth for Elias. And ftraightway
one of them ran, and took a fpunge, and filled
it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave
him to drink. The reft faid, Let be, let us fee
whether Elias will come to fave him. Jefus,
when he had cried again with a loud voice,
yielded up the ghoft. And behold, the vail of
the temple was rent in twain from the top to
the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the
rocks rent, and the graves were opened, and
many bodies of faints which flept arofe, and
came out of the graves after his refurre&ion,
^nd went into the holy city, and appeared unto
many. Now when the centurion, and they
that were with him, watching Jefus, faw the
earthquake, and thofe things that were done,
they feared greatly, faying, Truly this was the
Son of God.

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For the Epi/llc. Ifai. Ixiii. 1.

WHO is this that cometh from Edom,
with dyed garments fromBozrah? this
that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in
the greatnefs of his ftrength? I that fpeak in
righteoufnefs, mighty to fave. Wherefore art
thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments
like him that treadeth in the wine-fat? I have
trodden the wine-prefs alone, and of the peo
ple there was none with me : for I will tread

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them in mine anger, and trample them in my
fury, and their blood fliall be fprinkled upon
my garments, and I will ftain all my raiment.
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart,
and the year of my redeemed is come. And
I looked, and there was none to help ; and I
wondered that there was none to uphold:
therefore mine own arm brought falvation
unto me, and my fury it upheld me. And I
will tread down the people in mine anger,
and make them drunk in my fury, and I will
bring down their ftrength to the earth. I will
mention the loving-kindneffes of the Lord,
and the praifes of the Lord, according to all
that the Lord hath beftowed on us, and the
great goodnefs towards the houfe of Ifrael,
which he hath beftowed on them, according
to his mercies, and according to the multi
tude of his loving-kindneffes. For he faid,
Surely they are my people, children that will
not lie : fo he was their Saviour. In all their
affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of
his prefence faved them : in his love, and in
his pity, he redeemed them, and he bare
them, and carried them all the days of old.
But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit;
therefore he was turned to be their enemy,
and he fought againft them. Then he remem
bered the days of old, Mofes and his people,
faying, Where is he that brought them up out

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of the fea with the Ihepherd of his flock? where
is he that put his Holy Spirit within him?
that led them by the right hand of Mofes, with
his glorious arm, dividing the water before
them, to make himfelf an everlafting Name?
that led them through the deep as an horfe in
the wildernefc, that they fhould not ftumble ?
As a beaft goeth down into the valley, the Spi
rit of the Lord caufed him to reft: fo didft
thou lead thy people, to make thyfelf a glorious
Name. Look down from heaven, and behold
from the habitation of thy holinefs, and of thy
glory : where is thy zeal, and thy ftrength, the
founding of thy bowels, and of thy mercies
towards me? Are they reftrained? Doubt-
lefs thou art our Father, though Abraham be
ignorant of us, and Ifrael acknowledge us
not : Thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Re
deemer, thy Name is from everlafting. O
Lord, why haft thou made us to err from thy
ways? and hardened our hearts from thy
fear? Return for thy fervants fake, the tribes
of thine inheritance. The people of thy holi
nefs have poflefled it but a little while : our
adverfaries have trodden down thy fan6luary.
We are thine: thou never bareft rule over
them; they were not called by thy name.
The Go/pel St. Mark xiv. 1.

AFTER two days was the feaft of the Paff-
over, and of unleavened bread : and the

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chief priefts and the fcribes fought how they
might take him by craft, and put him to death.
But they faid, Not on the feaft-day, left there
be an uproar of the people. And being in
Bethany, in the houfe of Simon the leper, as
he fat at meat, there came a woman having
an alabafter box of ointment of fpikenard,
very precious; and (he brake the box, and
poured it on his head. And there were fome
that had indignation within themfelves, and
faid, Why was this wafte of the ointment
made ? for it might have been fold for more
than three hundred pence, and have been
given to the poor : and they murmured againft
her. And Jefus faid, Let her alone; why trou
ble ye her? flie hath wrought a good work
on me : for ye have the poor with ydu always,
and whenfoever ye will ye may do them good;
but me ye have not always. She hath done
what flie could; flie is come aforehand to
anoint my body to the burying. Verily I fay
unto you, Wherefoever this Gofpel fliall be
preached throughout the whole world, this
alfo that (he hath done fliall be Ipoken of for
a memorial of her. And Judas Ifcariot, one
of the twelve, went unto the chief priefts to
betray him unto them. And when they heard
it they were glad, and promifed to give him
money. And he fought how he might con
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unleavened bread, when they killed the paff
over, his difciples faid unto him, Where wilt
thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayeft
eat the paffover? And he fendeth forth two
of his difciples, and faith unto them, Go ye
into the city, and there ftiall meet you a man
bearing a pitcher of water ; follow him : And
wherefoever he fhall go in, fay ye to the good-
man of the houfe, The Mailer faith, Where
is the gueft-chamber, where I fhall eat the
paffover with my difciples ? And he will fhew
you a large upper-room furniftied, and pre
pared: there make ready for us. And his
difciples went forth, and came into the city,
and found as he had faid unto them : and they
made ready the paffover. And in the even
ing he cometh with the twelve. And as they
fat, and did eat, Jefus faid, Verily I fay unto
you, One of you which eateth with me fhall
betray me. And they began to be forrowful,
and to fay unto him one by one, Is it I? and
another faid, Is it I ? And he anfwered and
faid unto them, It is one of the twelve that
dippeth with me in the dilh. The Son of Man
indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but wo
to that man by whom the Son of Man is be
trayed: good were it for that man if he had
never been bom. And as they did eat, Jefus
took bread, and bleffed, and brake it, and
gave to them, and faid, Take, eat : this i$ my

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body. And he took the cup, and when he
had given thanks he gave it to them : and
they all drank of it. And he faid unto them,
This is my blood of the new teftament, which
is ihed for many. Verily I fay unto you, I will
drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until
that day that I drink it new in the Kingdom
of God. And when they had fung an hymn
they went out into the mount of Olives. And
Jefus faith unto them, All ye fhall be offended
becaufe of me this night : for it is written, I
will finite the fhepherd, and the ftieep (hall
be fcattered. But, after that I am rifen, I
will go before you into Galilee. But Peter
faid unto him, Although alMhall be oflfend-
ed, yet will not I. And Jefus faith unto him,
Verily I fay unto thee, That this day, even in
this night, before the cock crow twice, thou
(halt deny me thrice. But he fpake the more
vehemently, If I (hould die with thee, I will
not deny thee in any wife. Likewife alfo faid
they all. And they came to a place which was
named Gethfemane : and he faith to his dif-
ciples, Sit ye here, while I lhall pray. And
he taketh with him Peter, and James, and
John, and began to be fore amazed, and to
be very heavy, and faith unto them, My foul
is exceeding forrowful unto death ; tarry ye
here, and watch. And he went forward a
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if it were poffible, the hour might pafs from
him. And he faid, Abba, Father, all things
are poffible unto thee; take away this cup
from me; neverthelefs, not what I will, but
what thou wilt. And he cometh and findeth
them fleeping, and faith unto Peter, Simon,
fleepeft thou? couldeft not thou watch one
hour ? Watch ye and pray, left ye enter into
temptation : the fpirit truly is ready, but the
flefh is weak. And again he went away, and
prayed, and fpake the fame words. And when
he returned he found them afleep again, (for
their eyes were heavy,) neither wift they what
to anfwer him. And he cometh the third
time, and faith unto them, Sleep on now, and
take your reft : it is enough, the hour is come;
behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the
hands of finners. Rife up, let us go; lo, he
that betrayeth me is at hand. And imme
diately, while he yet fpake, cometh Judas, one
of the twelve, and with him a great multitude
with fwords and ftaves, from the chief priefts,
and the fcribes, and the elders. And he that
betrayed him had given them a token, fay
ing, Whomfoever I ftiall kifs, that fame is
he; take him, and lead him away fafely. And
as foon as he was come he goeth ftraightway
to him, and faith, Mailer, mafter; and kifled
him. And they laid their hands on him, and
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drew a fword, and fmote a fervant of the high
prieft, and cut off his ear. And Jefus an-
fwered, and faid unto them, Are ye come out
as againft a thief, with fwords and with Haves,
to take me ? I was daily with you in the tem
ple teaching, and ye took me not : but the
Scriptures muft be fulfilled. And they all
forfook him, and fled. And there followed
him a certain young man, having a linen
cloth caft about his naked body ; and the
young men laid hold on him : and he left
the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
And they led Jefus away to the high prieft :
and with him were affembled all the chief
priefts, and the elders, and the fcribes. And
reter followed him afkr off, even into the
palace of the high prieft ; and he fat with the
fervants, and warmed himfelf at the fire. And
the chief priefts and all the council fought for
witnefs againft Jefus to put him to death ;
and found none. For many bare falfe wit
nefs againft him, but their witnefs agreed
not together. And there arofe certain, and
bare falfe witnefs againft him, faying, We
heard him fay, I will deftroy this temple that
is made with hands, and within three days I
will build another made without hands. But
neither fo did their witnefs agree together.
And the high prieft ftood up in the midft,
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tl thing ? what is it which thefe witnefs againft
I- tliee ? But he held his peace, and anfwered
t nothing. Again the high prieft afked him,
, and faid unto him, Art thou the Chrift, the
. Son of the Bleffed ? And Jefus faid, I am ;
&gt; and ye (hall fee the Son of Man fitting on
the right hand of power, and coming in the
clouds of heaven. Then the high prieft rent
his clothes, and faith, What need we any fur
ther witneffes? ye have heard the blafphemy:
what think ye ? And they all condemned him
to be guilty of death. And fome began to
fpit on him, and to cover his face, and to
buffet him, and to fay unto him, Prophefy :
and the fervants did ftrike him with the palms
of their hands. And as Peter was beneath in
the palace there cometh one of the maids of
the high prieft ; and when Ihe faw Peter warm
ing himfelf flie looked upon him, and faid,
And thou alfo waft with Jefus of Nazareth.
But he denied, faying, I know not, neither
underftand I what thou fayeft. And he went
out into the porch ; and the cock crew. And
a maid faw him again, and began to fay to
them that ftood by, This is one of them. And
he denied it again. And a little after, they
that ftood by faid again to Peter, Surely thou
art one of them ; for thou art a Galilean, and
thy fpeech agreeth thereto. But he began to
curfe and to fwear, faying, I know not this

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man of whom ye fpeak. And the fecond time
the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the
word that Jefus faid unto him, Before the
cock crow twice, thou flialt deny me thrice.
And when he thought thereon, he wept.

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For the Epiftle. Ifaiah 1. 5.

1HE Lord God hath opened mine ear, and
I was not rebellious, neither turned away
back. I gave my back to the fmiters, and my
cheeks to them that plucked off the hair t I
hid not my face from fhame and fpitting. For
the Lord God will help me, therefore Ihall I
not be confounded : therefore have I fet my
face like a flint, and I know that I fhall not
be afhamed. He is near that juftifieth me ;
who will contend with me ? Let us ftand to
gether; who is mine adverfaiy? let him come
near to me. Behold, the Lord God will help
me; who is he that fhall condemn me? Lo,
they all fliall wax old as a garment : the moth
Chafl eat them up. Who is among you that
feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of
his fervant, that walketh in darknefs, and hath
no light ? let him truft in the Name of the
Lord, and ftay upon his God. Behold, all ye
that kindle a fire, that compafs yourfelves
about with fparks ; walk in the light of your
fy-e, and in the fparks that ye have kindled,

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is (hall ye have of mine hand, ye fhall lie
down in forrow.

The Go/pel St. Mark xv. 1.
AND ftraightway in the morning the chief
-*. priefts held a confultation with the elders,
and fcribes, and the whole council, and bound
Jefus, and carried him away, and delivered
him to Pilate. And Pilate afked him, Art
thou the King of the Jews? And he anfwer-
ing faid unto him, Thou fayeft it. And the
chief priefts accufed him of many things : but
he anfwered nothing. And Pilate afked him
! again, faying, Anfwereft thou nothing? be
hold how many things they witnefs againft
thee. But Jefus yet anfwered nothing : fo
that Pilate marvelled. Now at that feaft he
releafed unto them one prifoner, whomfoever
they defired. And there was one named Ba-
rabbas, which lay bound with them that had
made infurredUon with him, who had com
mitted murder in the infurre&ion. And the
multitude, ciying aloud, began to defire him
to do as he had ever done unto them. But
Pilate anfwered them, faying, Will ye that I
releafe unto you the King of the Jews ? For
he knew that the chief priefts had delivered
him for envy. But the chief priefts moved
the people, that he ftiould rather releafe Ba-
rabbas unto them. And Pilate anfwered, and
faid again unto them, What will ye then that

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I fliall do unto him whom ye call the King of
the Jews ? And they cried out again, Cru- j
cify him. Then Pilate faid unto them, Why,
what evil hath he done ? And they cried out
the more exceedingly, Crucify him. And fo
Pilate, willing to content the people, releafed
Barabbasunto them, and delivered Jefus, when
he had fcourged him, to be crucified. And
the foldiers led him away into the hall, called
Prsetorium ; and they call together the whole
band. And they clothed him with purple,
and platted a crown of thorns, and put it
about his head: and began to falute him,
Hail, King of the Jews. And they fmote
him on the head with a reed, and did fpit
upon him, and bowing their knees worfhipped
him. And when they had mocked him they
took off the purple from him, and put his
own clothes on him, and led him out to cru
cify him. And they compel one Simon a Cy-
renian, who paffed by, coming out of the
country, the father of Alexander and Rufus,
to bear his crofs. And they bring him unto
the place Golgotha, which is, being interpret
ed, The place of a fcull. And they gave him to
drink wine mingled with myrrh ; but he receiv
ed it not. And when they had crucified him
they parted his garments, cafting lots upon
them, what every man ihould take. And it
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And the fuperfcription of his accufation was
written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
And with him they crucify two thieves, the
one on his right hand, and the other on his
left. And the fcriptnre was fulfilled, which
faith, And he was numbered with the tranf-
greffors. And they that paffed by railed on
him, wagging their heads, and faying, Ah,
thou that deftroyeft the temple, and buildeft
it in three days, fave thyfelf, and come down
from the crofs. Likewife alfo the chief priefts
mocking faid among themfelves, with the
fcribes, He faved others ; himfelf he cannot
fave. Let Chrift the King of Ifrael defcend now
from the crofs, that we may fee and believe.
And they that were crucified with him reviled
him. And when the fixth hour was come,
there was darknefs over the whole land until
the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jefus
cried with a loud voice, faying, Eloi, Elot,
lama fcibachthani ? which is, being interpret
ed, My God, my God, why haft thou forfaken
me? And fome of them that flood by, when
they heard it, faid, Behold, he calleth Elias.
And one ran and filled a fpunge full of vine
gar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to
drink, faying, Let alone; let us fee whether
Elias will come to take him down. And
Jefus cried with a loud voice, and gave up
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rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And I
when the centurion, which flood over againft |
him, faw that he fo cried out, and gave up the j
ghoft, he faid, Truly this man was the Son of \
God.

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The Epiftle. Hebrews ix. 16.

WHERE a teftament is, there muft alfo
of neceffity be the death of the tefta-
tor : for a teftament is of force after men are
dead; otherwife it is of no ftrength at all
whilft the teftator liveth. Whereupon, nei
ther the firft teftament was dedicated without
blood : for when Mofes had fpoken every pre
cept to all the people, according to the law,
he took the blood of calves and of goats,
with water, and fcaiiet wool, and hyffop, and
fprinkled both the book, and all the people,
faying, This is the blood of the teftament,
which God hath enjoined unto you. More
over, he fprinkled with blood both the taber
nacle, and all the veflels of the miniftry. And
almoft all things are by the law purged with
blood; and without fliedding of blood is no
remiffion. It was therefore neceflary that the
patterns of things in the heavens ftiould be
purified with thefe ; but the heavenly things
themfelves with better facrifices than thefe.
For Chrift is not entered into the holy places

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made with hands, which are the figures of
the true, but into heaven itfelf, now to appear
in the prefence of God for us ; nor yet that
he (hould offer himfelf often, as the high prieft
entereth into the holy place every year with
blood of others : for then muft he often have
fuffered fince the foundation of the world; but
now once in the end of the world hath he ap
peared to put away fin by the facrifice of him
felf. And as it is appointed unto men once
to die, but after this the judgement : fo Chrift
was once offered to bear the fins of many ;
and unto them that look for him fhall he ap
pear the fecond time without fin unto fal-
yation.

The GofpeL St. Luke xxii. 1 .
" VjTOW the feaft of unleavened bread drew
-L^l nigh, which is called the Paflbver. And
the chief priefts and fcribes fought how they
might kill him ; for they feared the people.
Then entered Satan into Judas furnamed
Ifcariot, being of the number of the twelve.
And he went his way, and communed with
the chief priefts and captains, how he might
betray him unto them. And they were glad,
and covenanted to give him money. And he
promifed, and fought opportunity to betray
him unto them in the abfence of the multi
tude. Then came the day of unleavened
bread, when the paffover muft be killed. And

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he fent Peter and John, faying, Go and pre
pare us the paflbver, that we may eat. And
they faid unto him, Where wilt thou that we
prepare? And he faid unto them, Behold,
when ye are entered into the city, there fliall
a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water ;
follow him into the houfe where he entereth
in. And ye fliall fay unto the good-man of!
the houfe, The Mailer faith unto thee, Where
is the gueft-chamber, where I fliall eat the
paflbver with my difciples? And he fliall
fliew you a large upper-room furniftied ; there i
make ready. And they went, and found as
he had faid unto them : and they made ready I
the paflbver. And when the hour was come
he fat down, and the twelve Apoftles with him.
And he faid unto them, With defire I have
defired to eat this paflbver with yOu before I
fuffer : for I fay unto you, I will not any more
eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the King
dom of God. And he took the cup, and gave
thanks, and faid, Take this, and divide it
among yourfelves. For I fay unto you, I will
not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the
Kingdom of God fliall come. And he took
bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave
unto them, faying, This is my body, which is
given for you: this do in remembrance of
me. Likewife alfo the cup after fupper, faying,
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which is flied for you. But behold, the hand
of him that betrayeth me is with me on the
table. And truly the Son of Man goeth as
it was determined ; but wo unto that man by
whom he is betrayed. And they began to
enquire among themfelves, which of them it
was that fhould do this thing. And there was
alfo a ftrife among them, which of them fhould
be accounted the greateft. And he faid unto
them, The kings of the Gentiles exercife lord-
fliip over them, and they that exercife autho
rity upon them are called benefa6lors. But
ye fhall not be fo: but he that is greateft
among you, let him be as the younger ; and
he that is chief, as he that doth ferve. For
whether is greater, he that fitted* at meat,
or he that ferveth ? is not he that fitteth at
meat ? but I am among you as he that ferv
eth. Ye are they which have continued with
me in my temptations. And I appoint unto
you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed
unto me ; that ye may eat and drink at my
table in my kingdom, and fit on thrones, judg
ing the twelve tribes of Ifrael. And the Lord
faid, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath defired
to have you, that he may fift you as wheat :
but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail
not ; and when thou art converted, ftrengthen
thy brethren. And he faid unto him, Lord, I
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to death. And he faid, I tell thee, Peter, the
cock fliall not crow this day, before that thou
fhalt thrice deny that thou knoweft me. And
he faid unto them, When I fent you with
out purfe, and fcrip, and fhoes, lacked ye any
thing ? And they faid, Nothing. Then faid he
unto them, But now, he that hath a purfe, let
him take it, and likewife his fcrip : and he
that hath no fword, let him fell his garment,
and buy one. For I fay unto you, That this
that is written muft yet be accomplifhed in
me, And he was reckoned among the tranf-
greffors : for the things concerning me have
an end. And they faid, Lord, behold, here
are two fwords. And he faid unto them, It
is enough. And he came out, and went, as
he was wont, to the mount of Olives, and his
difciples alfo followed him. And when he was
at the place, he faid unto them, Pray, that
ye enter not into temptation. And he was
withdrawn from them about a Hone s caft,
and kneeled down and prayed, faying, Father,
if thou be willing, remove this cup from me :
neverthelefs, not my will, but thine be done.
And there appeared an angel unto him from
heaven, ftrengthening him. And being in
an agony, he prayed more earneftly ; and his
fweat was as it were great drops of blood
falling down to the ground. And when he
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difciples, he found them fleeping for forrow,
and faid unto them, Why fleep ye ? rife and
pray, left ye enter into temptation. And while
he yet fpake, behold, a multitude, and he that
was called Judas, one of the twelve, went be
fore them, and drew near unto Jefus to kifs
him. But Jefus faid unto him, Judas, be-
trayeft thou the Son of Man with a kifs ?
When they who were about him faw what
would follow, they faid unto him, Lord, (hall
we finite with the fword ? And one of them
fmote the fervant of the high prieft, and cut
off his right ear. And Jefus anfwered and faid,
Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear,
and healed him. Then Jefus faid unto the
chief priefts, and captains of the temple, and
the elders who were come to him, Be ye come
out as againft a thief, with fwords and ftaves?
When I was daily with you in the temple, ye
ftretched forth no hands againft me : but this
is your hour, and the power of darknefs. Then
took they him, and led him, and brought him
into the high prieft s houfe : and Peter fol
lowed afar off. And when they had kindled
a fire in the midft of the hall, and were fet
down together, Peter fat down among them.
But a certain maid beheld him, as he fat by
the fire, and earneftly looked upon him, and
faid, This man was alfo with him. And he
denied him, faying, Woman, I know him not.

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And after a little while another faw him, and
faid, Thou art alfo of them. And Peter faid,
Man, I am not. And about the fpace of one
hour after, another confidently affirmed, fay
ing, Of a truth this fellow alfo was with him ;
for he is a Galilean. And Peter faid, Man, I
know not what thou fayeft. And immediately,
while he yet fpake, the cock crew. And the
Lord turned, and looked upon Peter; and
Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how
he had faid unto him, Before the cock crow,
thou flialt deny me thrice. And Peter went
out, and wept bitterly. And the men that
held Jefus mocked him, and fmote him. And
when they had blindfolded him, they ftruck
him on the face, and afked him, faying,
Prophefy, who is it that fmote thee ? And
many other things blafphemoufly fpake they
againft him. And as foon as it was day, the
elders of the people, and the chief priefls,
and the fcribes, came together, and led him
into their council, faying, Art thou the Chrift?
tell us. And he faid unto them, If I tell
you, ye will not believe : and if I alfo afk
you, ye will not anfwer me, nor let me go.
Hereafter ftiall the Son of Man fit on the
right hand of the power of God. Then faid
they all, Ait thou then the Son of God ?
And he faid unto them, Ye fay that I am.
And they faid, What need we any further

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witnefs ? for we ourfelves have heard of his
own mouth.

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TheEpijUe. 1 Cor. xi. 17.

IN this that I declare unto you, I praife you
not; that ye come together not for the
better, but for the worfe. For firft of all,
when ye come together in the church, I hear
that there be divifions among you, and I
partly believe it. For there muft be alfo here-
fies among you, that they who are approved
may be made manifeft among you. When ye
come together therefore into one place, this
is not to eat the Lord s fupper : for in eating
eveiy one taketh before other his own fupper;
and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
What, have ye not houfes to eat and to drink
in? or defpife ye the church of God, and
ftiame them that have not ? What fliall I fay
to you ? fliall I praife you in this ? I praife
you not. For I have received of the Lord
that which alfo I delivered unto you, That the
Lord Jefus, the fame night in which he was
betrayed, took bread ; and when he had given
thanks; he brake it, and faid, Take, eat; this
is my body, which is broken for you : this do
in remembrance of me. After the fame man
ner alfo he took the cup, when he had flipped,
faying, This cup is the new teftament in my

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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 ihew the
Lord s death till he come. Wherefore, who-
foever fhall eat this bread, and drink this cup
of the Lord, unworthily, fhall be guilty of
the body and blood of the Lord. But let a
man examine himfelf, and fo let him eat of
that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that
eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and
drinketh damnation to himfelf, not difcem-
ing the Lord s body. For this caufe many are
weak and fickly among you, and many fleep.
For if we would judge ourfelves, we Ihould
not be judged. But when we are judged, we
are chaftened of the Lord, that we fhould not
be condemned with the world. Wherefore,
my brethren, when ye come together to eat,
tarry one for another. And if any man hun
ger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not
together unto condemnation. And the reft will
I fet in order when I come.

The Go/pel. St. Luke xxiii. 1 .

THE whole multitude of them arofe, and
led him unto Pilate. And they began
to accufe him, faying, We found this fellow
perverting the nation, and forbidding to give
tribute to Caefar, faying, That he himfelf is
Chrift a King. And Pilate afked him, faying,
Art thou the King of the Jews ? And he an-

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fwered him, and faid, Thou fayeft it. Then
faid Pilate to the chief priefts, and to the
people, I find no fault in this man. And they
were the more fierce, faying, He ftirreth up
the people, teaching throughout all Jewry,
beginning from Galilee to this place. When
Pilate heard of Galilee, he alked whether the
man were a Galilean. And as foon as he knew
that he belonged unto Herod s jurifdi&ion, he
fent him to Herod, who himfelf was alfo at
Jerufalem at that time. And when Herod
faw Jefus he was exceeding glad; for he
was defirous to fee him of a long feafon, be-
caufe he had heard many things of him ; and
he hoped to have feen fome miracle done by
him. Then he queftioned with him in many
words; but he anfwered him nothing. And
the chief priefts and fcribes flood and vehe
mently accufed him. And Herod with his
men of war fet him at nought, and mocked
him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe,
and fent him again to Pilate. And the fame
day Pilate and Herod were made friends to
gether ; for before they were at enmity be
tween themfelves. And Pilate, when he had
called together the chief priefts, and the ru
lers, and the people, faid unto them, Ye have
brought this man unto me, as one that per-
verteth the people : and behold, I, having ex
amined him before you, have found no fault

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in this man touching thofe things whereof ye
accvife him : No, nor yet Herod : for I fent
you to him ; and lo, nothing worthy of death
is done unto him. I will therefore chaftife
him, and releafe him. For of neceffity he muft
releafe one unto them at the feaft. And they
cried out all at once, faying, Away with this
man, and releafe unto us Barabbas : (who for
a certain fedition made in the city, and for
murder, was caft into prifon.) Pilate therefore,
willing to releafe Jefus, fpake again to them.
But they cried, faying, Crucify him, crucify
him. And he faid unto them the third time,
Why, what evil hath he done ? I have found
no caufe of death in him : I will therefore
chaftife him, and let him go. And they were
inftant with loud voices, requiring that he
might be crucified : and the voices of them
and of the chief priefts prevailed. And Pilate
gave fentence that it fhould be as they re
quired. And he releafed unto them him that
for fedition and murder was caft into prifon,
whom they had defired ; but he delivered Je
fus to their will. And as they led him away,
they laid hold upon one Simon a Cyrenian,
coming out of the country, and on him they
laid the crofs, that he might bear it after Je
fus. And there followed him a great com
pany of people, and of women, which alfo be
wailed and lamented him. But Jefus, turning

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unto them, faid, Daughters of Jerufalem,weep
not for me, but weep for yourfelves, and for
your children. For behold, the days are com
ing, in the which they fhall fay, Bleffed are
the barren, and the wombs that never bare,
and the paps which never gave fuck. Then
(hall they begin to fay to the mountains, Fall
on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they
do thefe things in a green tree, what fhall be
done in the dry? And there were alfo two
other, malefa&ors, led with him to be put to
death. And when they were come to the
place which is called Calvary, there they cru
cified him ; and the malefactors, one on the
right hand, and the other on the left. Then
faid Jefus, Father, forgive them, for they know
not what they do. And they parted his rai
ment, and caft lots. And the people flood
beholding; and the rulers alfo with them de
rided him, faying, He faved others ; let him
fave himfelf, if he be Chrift, the chofen of God.
And the foldiers alfo mocked him, coming to
him, and offering him vinegar, and faying, If
thou be the King of the Jews, fave thyfelf.
And a fuperfcription alfo was written over
him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and He
brew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE
JEWS. And one of the malefactors, which
were hanged, railed on him, faying, If thou
be Chrift, fave thyfelf, and us. But the other

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anfwering rebuked him, faying, Doft not thou
fear God, feeing thou art in the fame con
demnation? And we indeed juftly; for we
receive the due reward of our deeds, but this
man hath done nothing amifs. And he faid
unto Jefus, Lord, remember me when thou
comeft into thy kingdom. And Jefus faid
unto him, Verily I fay unto thee, To-day fhalt
thou be with me in paradife. And it was i
about the fixth hour : and there was a dark-
nefs over all the earth until the ninth hour.
And the fun was darkened, and the vail of i
the temple was rent in the midft. And when
Jefus had cried with a loud voice, he faid,
Father, into thy hands I commend my fpirit :
and having faid thus, he gave up the ghoft.
Now when the centurion law what was done,
he glorified God, faying, Certainly this was a
righteous man. And all the people that came
together to that fight, beholding the things
that were done, fmote their breads, and re
turned. And all his acquaintance, and the
women that followed him from Galilee, flood
afar off, beholding thefe things.

GOOD FRIDAY.

The Collects.

ALMIGHTY God, we befeech thee gra-
cioufly to behold this thy family, for which
our Lord Jefus Chrill was contented to be be-

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trayed, and given up into the hands of wicked
men, and to fufter death upon the crofs, who
now liveth and reigneth with thee and the
Holy Ghoft, ever one God, world without end.
Amen.

A LMIGHTY and everlafting God, by
JTJL whofe Spirit the whole body of the Church
is governed and fandtified ; Receive our fup-
plications and prayers, which we offer before
thee for all eftates of men in thy holy Church,
that every member of the fame, in his voca
tion and miniftry, may truly and godly ferve
thee; through our Lord and Saviour Jefus
Chrift. Amen.

O Merciful God, who haft made all men,
and hateft nothing that thou haft made,
nor wouldeft the death of a finner, but rather
that he ftiould be converted and live ; Have
mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and He-
reticks, and take from them all ignorance, hard-
nefs of heart, and contempt of thy Word ; and
fo fetch them home, blefled Lord, to thy flock,
that they may be faved among the remnant of
the true Ifraelites, and be made one fold under
one fhepherd, Jefus Chrift our Lord, who liveth
and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit,
one God, world without end. Amen.
The Epi/tle. Hebr. x. 1 .

THE law having a fliadow of good things
to come, and not the veiy image of the

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things, can never with thofe facrifices, which
they offered year by year continually, make
the comers thereunto perfedt : for then would
they not have ceafed to be offered ? becaufe
that the worfhippers once purged Ihould have
had no more conscience of fins. But in thofe
facrifices there is a remembrance again made
of fins every year. For it is not poffible that
the blood of bulls and of goats fhould take
away fins. Wherefore, when he cometh into
the world, he faith, Sacrifice and offering thou
wouldeft not, but a body haft thou prepared
me : In burnt-offerings and facrifices for fin
thou haft had no pleafure : Then faid I, Lo, I
come (in the volume of the book it is written
of me) to do thy will, O God. Above, when he
faid, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt-offer
ings, and offering for fin thou wouldeft not,
neither hadft pleafure therein, which are of
fered by the Law : then faid he, Lo, I come
to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the
firft, that he may eftablifli the fecond. By the
which will we are fandlified, through the offer
ing of the body of Jefus Chrift once for all. And
every prieft ftandeth daily miniftering, and of
fering oftentimes the fame facrifices, which can
never take away fins. But this man, after he
had offered one facrifice for fins, for ever fat
down on the right hand of God; from hence
forth expecting till his enemies be made his

Good Friday.

foot-ifool. For by one offering he hath perfect
ed for ever them that are fancftified : Whereof
the Holy Ghoft alfo is a witnefs to us : for after
that he had faid before, This is the covenant
that I will make with them after thofe days,
faith the Lord, I will put my laws into their
hearts, and in their minds will I write them ;
and their fins and iniquities will I remember
no more. Now where remiffion of thefe is,
there is no more offering for fin. Having
therefore, brethren, boldnefs to enter into the
holieft by the blood of Jefus, by a new and
living way, which he hath confecrated for us,
through the vail, that is to fay, his flefh ; and
having an High Prieft over the houfe of God;
let us draw near with a true heart, in full af-
furance of faith, having our hearts fprinkled
from an evil confcience, and our bodies walh-
ed with pure water. Let us hold faft the pro-
feffion of our faith without wavering; (for he
is faithful that promifed ;) and let us confider
one another to provoke unto love, and to good
works ; not forfaking the aflembling of our-
felves together, as the manner of fome is; but
exhorting one another : and fo much the more,
as ye fee the day approaching.

The Gofpel. St. John xix. 1 .
DILATE therefore took Jefus, and fcourg-
ed him. And the foldiers platted a crown
of thorns, and put it on his head, and they

Good Friday.

put on him a purple robe, and faid, Hail, King
of the Jews : and they fmote him with their
hands. Pilate therefore went forth again, and |f
faith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to
you, that ye may know that I find no fault
in him. Then came Jefus forth, wearing the
crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And
Pilate faith unto them, Behold the man!
When the chief priefts therefore and officers
faw him, they cried out, faying, Crucify him,
crucify him. Pilate faith unto them, Take ye
him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
The Jews anfwered him, We have a law, and
by our law he ought to die, becaufe he made
himfelf the Son of God. When Pilate there
fore heard that faying, he was the more afraid;
and went again into the judgement-hall, and
faith unto Jefus, Whence art thou? But Jefus
gave him no anfwer. Then faith Pilate unto
him, Speakeft thou not unto me? knoweft
thou not that I have power to crucify thee,
and have power to releafe thee ? Jefus an
fwered, Thou couldeft have no power at all
againft me, except it were given thee from
above : therefore he that delivered me unto
thee hath the greater fin. And from thence
forth Pilate fought to releafe him : but the
Jews cried out, faying, If thou let this man
go, thou art not Csefar s friend: whofoever
maketh himfelf a king fpeaketh againft Csefar.

Good Friday.

When Pilate therefore heard that faying, he
brought Jefus forth, and fat down in the
judgement-feat, in a place that is called the
Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
And it was the preparation of the paffover,
and about the fixth hour : and he faith unto
the Jews, Behold your King ! But they cried
out, Away with him, away with him, crucify
him. Pilate faith unto them, Shall I crucify
your King ? The chief priefts anfwered, We
have no king but Csefar. Then delivered he
him therefore unto them to be crucified : and
they took Jefus, and led him away. And he,
bearing his crofs, went forth into a place call
ed the place of a fcull, which is called in the
Hebrew, Golgotha : where they crucified him,
and two other with him, on either fide one,
and Jefus in the midft. And Pilate wrote a
title, and put it on the crofs ; and the writing
was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING
OF THE JEWS. This title then read many
of the Jews : for the place where Jefus was
crucified was nigh to the city: and it was
written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
Then faid the chief priefts of the Jews to Pi
late, Write not, The King of the Jews ; but
that he faid, I am the King of the Jews. Pi
late anfwered, What I have written, I have
written. Then the foldiers, when they had
crucified Jefus, took his garments, and made

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four parts, to every fbldier a part ; and alfo
coat: now the coat was without feam, woven 1
from the top throughout. They faid there
fore among themfelves, Let us not rend it,
but caft lots for it, whofe it fhall be : that
the Scripture might be fulfilled, which faith,
They parted my raiment among them, and for
my vefture they did caft lots. Thefe things
therefore the foldiers did. Now there flood
by the crofs of Jefus, his mother, and his mo
ther s fifter, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and
Mary Magdalene. When Jefus therefore faw
his mother, and the difciple (landing by, whom
he loved, he faith unto his mother, Woman,
behold thy fon. Then faith he to the difciple,
Behold thy mother. And from that hour that
difciple took her unto his own home. After
this, Jefus, knowing that all things were now
accomplifhed, that the Scripture might be ful
filled, faith, I thirft. Now there was fet a vef-
fel full of vinegar : and they filled a fpunge
with vinegar, and put it upon hyffop, and put
it to his mouth. When Jefus therefore had
received the vinegar, he faid, It is finifhed :
and he bowed his head, and gave up the
ghoft. The Jews therefore, becaufe it was
the preparation, that the bodies fliould not
remain upon the crofs on the fabbath-day,
(for that fabbath-day was an high day,) be-
fought Pilate that their legs might be broken,

Eajter Even.

and that they might be taken away. Then
came the foldiers, and brake the legs of
the firft, and of the other which was cruci
fied with him. But when they came to Je
fus, and faw that he was dead already, they
brake not his legs. But one of the foldiers
with a fpear pierced his fide, and forthwith
came thereout blood and water. And he that
faw it bare record, and his record is true :
and he knoweth that he faith true, that ye
might believe. For thefe things were done
that the Scripture fhould be fulfilled, A bone
of him (hall not be broken. And again, an
other Scripture faith, They fliall look on him
whom they pierced.

EASTER EVEN.

The Collett. - "

GRANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized
into -the death of thy blefled Son our
Saviour Jefus Chrift, fo by continual mortify
ing our corrupt affe&ions we may be buried
with him; and that through the grave, and
gate of death, we may pafs to our joyful re-
furrecftion ; for his merits, who died, ajid was
buried, and rofe again for us, thy Son Jefus
Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. 1 St. Peter iii. 17.
TT is better, if the will of God be fo, that ye
A fuffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing.

Eafter Even.

For Chrift alfo hath once fuffered for fins, the
juft for the unjuft, that he might bring us to
God, being put to death in the flefh, but
quickened by the Spirit. By which alfo he
went and preached unto the fpirits in prifon;
which fometime were difobedient, when once
the long-fuffering of God waited in the days of
Noah, while the ark was a preparing ; wherein
few, that is, eight fouls, were faved by water.
The like figure whereunto, even baptifm, doth
alfo now fave us, (not the putting away the
filth of the flefh, but the anfwer of a good
confcience towards God,) by the refurredlion
of Jefus Chrift : who is gone into heaven, and
is on the right hand of God, angels and au
thorities and powers being made fubjedft unto
him.

The Gofpel St. Matth. xxvii. 57.

WHEN the even was come, there came
a rich man of Arimathaea, named Jo-
feph, who alfo himfelf was Jefus difciple. He
went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jefus.
Then Pilate commanded the body to be de
livered. And when Jofeph had taken the
body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and
laid it in his own new tomb, which he had
hewn out in the rock ; and he rolled a great
ftone to the door of the fepulchre, and depart
ed. And there was Maiy Magdalene, and the
other Maiy, fitting over againft the fepulchre.

EASTER-DAY.

Now the next day that followed the day of
preparation, the chief priefts andPharifees
(une together unto Pilate, faying. Sir, we re
member that that deceiver laid, while he was
yet alive, After three days I will rife again.
Command therefore that the fepulchre be made
fare until the third day, left his difciples come
by night and fteal him away, and fay unto the
people, He is rifen from the dead: fo the laft
error fliall be worfe than the firft. Pilate faid
unto them, Ye have a watch ; go your way,
make it as fure as you can. So they went and
made the fepulchre fure, fealing the (tone,
and fetting a watch.

EASTER-DAY.

^T At Morning Prayer, instead of the Psalm, O come let us sing, &lt;^c. these
Anthems shall be sung or said.

CHRIST our paffover is facrificed for us :
therefore let us keep the feaft ;
Not with the old leaven, nor with the lea
ven of malice and wickednefs : but with the
unleavened bread of fincerity and truth . 1 Cor.
v. 7.

CHRIST being raifed from the dead dieth
no more : death hath no more dominion
over him.

For in that he died, he died unto fin once :
but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Likewife reckon ye alfo yourfelves to be

EASTER-DAY.

dead indeed unto fin : but alive unto God |c
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Rom. vi. 9.

CHRIST is rifen from the dead : and be
come the firft-fruits of them that flept.

For fince by man came death : by man came
alfo the refurre6tion of the dead.

For as in Adam all die : even fp in Chrift
(hall all be made alive. 1 Cor. xv. 20.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son :
and to the Holy Ghoft ;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever fhall be : world without end. Amen.

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY God, who through thine only-
begotten Son Jefus Chrift haft overcome
death, and opened unto us the gate of ever-
lafting life ; We humbly befeech thee, that, as
by thy fpecial grace preventing us thou doft
put into our minds good defires, fo by thy
continual help we may bring the fame to good
effect ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord, who
liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy
Ghoft, ever one God, world without end.
Amen.

The Epijlle. Coloff. iii, L

IF ye then be rifen with Chrift, feek thofe
things which are above, where Chrift fit-
teth 011 the right hand of God. Set your af
fection on things above, not on things on the

EASTER-DAY.

earth : For ye are dead, and your life is hid
with Chrift in God. When Chrift, who is our
life, fliall appear, then fhall ye alfo appear with
him in glory. Mortify therefore your mem
bers which are upon the earth ; fornication,,
uncleannefs, inordinate affedtion, evil concu-
pifcence, and covetoufnefs, which is idolatry :
For which things fake the wrath of God com-
eth on the children of difobedience. In the
which ye alfo walked fome time, when ye
lived in them.

Tlie Go/pel. St. John xx. 1 .

THE firft day of the week cometh Maiy
Magdalene early, when it was yet dark,
unto the fepulchre, and feeth the ftone taken
away from the fepulchre. Then Ihe runneth
and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other
difciple whom Jefus loved, and faith unto
them, They have taken away the Lord out of
the fepulchre, and we know not where they
have laid him. Peter therefore went forth,
and that other difciple, and came to the fe
pulchre. So they ran both together ; and the
other difciple did outrun Peter, and came firft
to the fepulchre ; and he, ftooping down and
looking in, faw the linen clothes lying; yet
went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter
following him, and went into the fepulchre,
and feeth the linen clothes lie ; and the nap
kin that was about his head, not lying with

Monday in Eafter-week.

the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a
place by itfelf. Then went in alfo that other!
difciple which came firft to the fepulchre, and
he law, and believed. For as yet they knew
not the Scripture, that he muft rife again from
the dead. Then the difciples went away again
unto their own home.

Monday in Eafter-week.

The Collett.
\ LMIGHTY God, who through thy only-
-^L begotten Son Jefus Chrift haft overcome
death, and opened unto us the gate of ever-
lafting life ; We humbly befeech thee, that,
as by thy fpecial grace preventing us thou
doft put into our minds good defires, fo by
thy continual help we may bring the fame to
good effect; through Jefus Chrift our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with thee and the
Holy Ghoft, ever one God, world without end.
Amen.

For the Epi/lle. A6ts x. 34.

PETER opened his mouth, and faid, Of a
truth I perceive that God is no refpe6ter
of perfons ; but in eveiy nation he that fear-
eth him, and worketh righteoufnefs, is ac
cepted with him. The word which God fent
unto the children of Ifrael, preaching peace
by Jefus Chrift ; (he is Lord of all;) that word
(I fay) ye know, which was publiftied through-

Monday in Eafar-wee/c.

out all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after
the baptifm which John preached : how God
anointed Jefus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghoft, and with power ; who went about do
ing good, and healing all that were oppreffed
of the devil : for God was with him. And we
are witnefles of all things which he did, both
in the land of the Jews, and in Jerufalem ;
whom they flew, and hanged on a tree : Him
God raifed up the third day, and ftiewed him
openly ; not to all the people, but unto wit
nefles chofen before of God, even to us, who
did eat and drink with him after he rofe from
the dead. And he commanded us to preach
unto the people, and to teftify that it is he
who was ordained of God to be the Judge
of quick and dead. To him give all the pro*
phets witnefs, that through his Name whofo-
ever believeth in him ftiall receive remiflion
of fins.

Tlie Gofpel St. Luke xxiv. 13.

BEHOLD, two of his difciples went that
fame day to a village called Emmaus,
which was from Jerufalem about threefcore
furlongs. And they talked together of all
thefe things which had happened. And it
came to pafs, that while they communed to
gether, and reafoned, Jefus himfelf drew near,
and went with them. But their eyes were
holden, that they ihould not know him. And

Monday in Eafter-week.

he faid unto them, What manner of commu
nications are thefe that ye have one to an
other, as ye walk, and are fad ? And the one
of them, whofe name was Cleopas, anfwering,
faid unto him, Art thou only a ftranger in
Jerufalem, and haft not known the things
which are come to pafs there in thefe days ?
And he faid unto them, What things ? And
they faid unto him, Concerning Jefus of Na
zareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed
and word, before God and all the people :
and how the chief priefts and our rulers de
livered him to be condemned to death, and
have crucified him. But we trufted that it
had been he which fhould have redeemed
Ifrael : and befides all this, to-day is the third
day fince thefe things were done. Yea, and
certain women alfo of our company made us
aftonifhed, which were early at the fepulchre;
and when they found not his body, they came,
faying, that they had alfo feen a vifion of an
gels, which faid that he was alive. And cer
tain of them which were with us went to the
fepulchre, and found it even fo as the women
had faid j but him they faw not. Then he faid
unto them, O fools, and flow of heart to be
lieve all that the prophets have fpoken : ought (
not Chrift to have fuifered thefe things, and
to enter into his glory? And beginning at I
Mofes, and all the prophets, he expounded

Tuefday in Eafter-week.

unto them in all the Scriptures the things
concerning himfelf. And they drew nigh unto
the village whither they went; and he made as
though he would have gone further : but they
conftrained him, faying, Abide with us, for it
is towards evening, and the day is far fpent.
And he went in to tarry with them. And it
came to pafs, as he fat at meat with them, he
took bread, and bleffed it, and brake, and gave
to them. And their eyes were opened, and
they knew him, and he vanilhed out of their
fight. And they faid one to another, Did not
our heart burn within us, while he talked with
us by the way, and while he opened to us the
Scriptures ? And they rofe up the fame hour,
and returned to Jerufalem, and found the
eleven gathered together, and them that were
with them, faying, The Lord is rifen indeed,
and hath appeared to Simon. And they told
what things were done in the way, and how
he was known of them in breaking of bread.

Tuefday in Eajier-week.

The Collect.

A LMIGHTY God, who through thy only-
*- begotten Son Jefus Chrift haft overcome
death, and opened unto us the gate of ever-
lafting life ; We humbly befeech thee, that,
as by thy fpecial grace preventing us thou
doit put into our minds good defires, fo by

M 4

Tuefday in Eafter-week.

thy continual help we may bring the fame to
good effe6t; through Jefus Chrift our Lord, V
who liveth and reigneth with thee and the tj
Holy Ghoft, ever one God, world without end.
Amen.

For the Epijlle. A6ts xiii. 26.

MEN and brethren, children of the ftock
of Abraham, and whofoever among
you feareth God, to you is the word of this
falvation fent. For they that dwell at Jerufa-
lem, and their rulers, becaufe they knew him
not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which
are read every fabbath-day, they have fuliiJled
them in condemning him. And though they
found no caufe of death in him, yet delired
they Pilate that he fhould be flain. And when
they had fulfilled all that was written of him,
they took him down from the tree, and laid
him in a fepulchre. But God raifed him from
the dead: and he was feen many days of
them which came up with him from Galilee
to Jerufalem, who are his witnefles unto the
people. And we declare unto you glad tid
ings, how that the proinife which was made
unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the fame
unto us their children, in that he hath raifed
up Jefus again ; as it is alfo written in the
fecond Pfalm, Thou art my Son, this day have
I begotten thee. And as concerning that he
raifed him up from the dead, now no more to

Tuefday in Eajler-week.

return to corruption, he faid on this wife, I
will give you the fure mercies of David.
Wherefore he faith alfo in another Pfalm,
Thou fhalt not fuffer thine Holy One to fee
corruption. For David, after he had ferved
his own generation by the will of God, fell on
fleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and faw
corruption : but he whom God raifed again
faw no corruption. Be it known unto you
therefore, men and brethren, that through
this man is preached unto you the forgivenefs
of fins : and by him all that believe are jufti-
fied from all things, from which ye could not
be juftified by the law of Mofes. Beware
therefore, left that come upon you which is
fpoken of in the prophets ; Behold, ye de-
fpifers, and wonder, and perifli ; for I work a
work in your days, a work which ye (hall in
no wife believe, though a man declare it unto
you.

The Go/pel. St. Luke xxiv. 36.

JESUS himfelf flood in the midft of them,
and faith unto them, Peace be unto you.
But they were terrified and affrighted, and
fuppofed that they had feen a fpirit. And he
faid unto them, Why are ye troubled, and
why do thoughts arife in your hearts ? Be
hold my hands and my feet, that it is I my-
felf : handle me, and fee; for a fpirit hath not
flefh and bones, as ye fee me have. And when

Thejirft Sunday after Eafter.

he had thus fpoken, he fhewed them his hands
and his feet. And while they yet believed not
for joy, and wondered, he faid unto them,
Have ye here any meat? And they gave him
a piece of broiled fifh, and of an honey-comb.
And he took it, and did eat before them. And ;
he faid unto them, Thefe are the words which
I fpake unto you, while I was yet with you,
that all things muft be fulfilled which were
written in the law of Mofes, and in the Pro
phets, and in the Pfalms concerning me.
Then opened he their understanding, that they
might underftand the Scriptures, and faid un
to them, Thus it is written, and thus it be
hoved Chrift to fuffer, and to rife from the
dead the third day ; and that repentance and
remiffion of fins fliould be preached in his
Name among all nations, beginning at Jeru-
falem. And ye are witnefles of thefe things.

Thejirft Sunday after Eafter.

; The Collet.

A LMIGHTY Father, who haft given thine
\^. only Son to die for our fins, and to rife
again for our juftification ; Grant us fo to put
away the leaven of malice and wickednefs,
that we may alway ferve thee in purenefs of
living and truth; through the merits of the
fame thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Tliefirfl Sunday after Eafter.

Ttie Epi/lle. 1 St. John v. 4.

WHATSOEVER is born of God over-
cometh the world ; and this is the vic
tory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he
that believeth that Jefus is the Son of God ?
This is he that came by water and blood, even
Jefus Chrift; not by water only, but by water
and blood : and it is the Spirit that beareth
witnefs, becaufe the Spirit is truth. For there
are three that bear record in heaven, the Fa
ther, the Word, and the Holy Ghoft : and thefe
three are one. And there are three that bear
witnefs in earth, the fpirit, and the water, and
the blood : and thefe three agree in one. If
we receive the witnefs of men, the witnefs of
God is greater: for this is the witnefs of God,
which he hath teftified of his Son. He that
believeth on the Son of God hath the witnefs
in himfelf : he that believeth not God hath
made him a liar, becaufe he believeth not the
record that God gave of his Son. And this is
the record, that God hath given to us eternal
life ; and this life is in his Son. He that hath
the Son hath life ; and he that hath not the
Son hath not life.

The Go/pel. St. John xx. 19.

THE fame day at evening, being the firft
day of the week, when the doors were
(hut, where the difciples were aflembled for

Thefecond Sunday after Eajler.

fear of the Jews, came Jefus and flood in the
midft, and faith unto them, Peace be unto
you. And when he had fo faid, he ihewed
unto them his hands and his fide. Then were
the difciples glad when they faw the Lord.
Then faid Jefus to them again, Peace be unto
you : As my Father hath fent me, even fo fend
I you. And when he had faid this, he breath
ed on them, and faith unto them, Receive
ye the holy Ghoft. Whofefoever fins ye remit,
they are remitted unto them; and whofefoever
fins ye retain, they are retained.

T/iefecond Sunday after Eajler.

The Collet.
A LMIGHTY God, who haft given thine
-JL only Son to be unto us both a facrifice
for fin, and alfo an enfample of godly life ;
Give us grace that we may always moft thank
fully receive that his ineftimable benefit, and
alfo daily endeavour ourfelves to follow the
blefled fteps of his moft holy life ; through the
fame Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. 1 St. Peter ii. 19.

THIS is thank-worthy, if a man for con-
fcience toward God endure grief, fuffer-
ing wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when
ye be buffeted for your faults, ye fliall take it
patiently? but if, when ye do well, and fufferfor
it, ye take it patiently ; this is acceptable with

Thefecond Sunday after Eafter.

God. For even hereunto were ye called : be-
caufe Chrift alfo fuffered for us, leaving us an
example, that ye fhould follow his fteps : who
did no fin,, neither was guile found in his
mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not
again; when he fuffered, he threatened not;
but committed himfelf to him that judgeth
righteoufly : who his own felf bare our fins in
his own body on the tree, that we, being dead
to fins, fliould live unto righteoufnefs: by whofe
ftripes ye were healed. For ye were as flieep
going aftray; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bifhop of your fouls.
The Go/pel. St. John x. 11.

JESUS faid, 1 am the good fhepherd: the
good fhepherd giveth his life for the Iheep.

t^J M. C-? J^

But he that is an hireling, and not the fhep
herd, whofe own the fheep are not, feeth the
wolf coming, and leaveth the fheep, and fleeth;
and the wolf catcheth them, and fcattereth
the fheep. The hireling fleeth, becaufe he is
an hireling, and careth not for the fheep. I am
the good fhepherd, and know my flieep, and
am known of mine. As the Father knoweth
me, even fo know I the Father : and I lay
down my life for the flieep. And other flieep
I have, which are not of this fold ; them alfo
I mult bring, and they fhall hear my voice ;
and there fhall be one fold, and one fhep
herd.

The third Sunday after Eajier.

The ColleSt.

A LMIGHTY God, who flieweft to them
-JLJL that be in error the light of thy truth,
to the intent that they may return into the )
way of righteoufnefs ; Grant unto all them j
that are admitted into the fellowihip of Chrift s
Religion, that they may efchew thofe things
that are contrary to their profeffion, and fol
low all fuch things as are agreeable to the
fame; through our Lord Jefus Chrift. A-
men.

The Epijtle. 1 St. Peter ii. 1 1.

DEARLY beloved, I befeech you as ftran-
gers and pilgrims, abftain from fleflily
lufts, which war againft the foul ; having your
converfation honeil among the Gentiles ; that,
whereas they fpeak againft you as evil doers,
they may, by your good works which they ftiall
behold, glorify God in the day of vifitation.
Submit yourfelves to eveiy ordinance of man
for the Lord s fake; whether it be to the
King, as fupreme ; or unto governours, as
unto them that are fent by him, for the pu-
nilhment of evil doers, and for the praife of
them that do well. For fo is the will of God,
that with well-doing ye may put to filence the
ignorance of foolifh men : as free, and not
vifing your liberty for a cloke of malicioufnefs;
but as thq fervants of God. Honour all men.

The third Sunday after Eajler.

Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour
the King.

Tlie Gofpel St. John xvi. 16.

JESUS faid to his difciples, A little while
and ye fliall not fee me ; and again, a
little while and ye (hall fee me ; becaufe I go
to the Father. Then faid fome of his difciples
among themfelves, What is this that he faith
unto us, A little while and ye fliall not fee
me ; and again, a little while and ye fliall fee
me ; and, Becaufe I go to the Father ? They
faid therefore, What is this that he faith, A
little while? we cannot tell what he faith.
Now Jefus knew that they were defirous to
afk him, and faid unto them, Do ye enquire
among yourfelves of that I faid, A little while
and ye ftiall not fee me ; and again, a little
while and ye fliall fee me ? Verily, verily 1
fay unto you, That ye ftiall weep and lament,
but the world ftiall rejoice : and ye ftiall be
forrowful, but your forrow ftiall be turned
into joy. A woman, when ftie is in travail,
hath forrow, becaufe her hour is come : but
as foon as Ihe is delivered of the cliild, ftie
remembereth no more the anguifti, for joy
that a man is born into the world. And ye
now therefore have forrow: but I will fee
you again, and your heart ftiall rejoice, and
your joy no man taketh from you.

Tlie fourth Sunday after Eafter.

The Collect.

O Almighty God, who alone canft order
the unruly wills and affections of finful
men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may
love the thing which thou cominandeft, and
defire that which thou doft promife ; that fo,
among the fundry and manifold changes of
the world, our hearts may furely there be fix
ed, where true joys are to be found; through
Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epi/fle. St. James i. 17.

EVERY good gift, and every perfe6t gift
is from above, and cometh down from
the Father of lights, with whom is no varia-
blenefs, neither fhadow of turning. Of his
own will begat he vis with the Word of truth,
that we fhould be a kind of firft-fruits of his
creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
let every man be fwift to hear, flow to fpeak,
flow to wrath ; for the wrath of man worketh
not the righteoufnefs of God. Wherefore lay
apart all filthinefs and fuperfluity of naughti-
nefs, and receive with meeknefs the engraft
ed Word, which is able to fave your fouls.
The Go/pel. St. John xvi. 5.

JESUS faid unto his difciples, Now I go
my way to him that fent me, and none
of you afketh me, Whither goeft thou? But,
becaufe I have faid thefe things unto you,
forrow hath filled your heart. Neverthelefs,

Ttie fifth Sunday after Eajler.

I tell you the truth ; it is expedient for you
that I go away : for if I go not away, the
Comforter will not come unto you ; but if I
depart, I will fend him unto you. And when
he is come, he will reprove the world of fin,
and of righteoufnefs,and of judgement: of fin,
becaufe they believe not on me; of righteouf-

j nefs, becaufe I go to my Father, and ye fee
me no more; of judgement, becaufe the prince

! of this world is judged. I have yet many
things to fay unto you, but ye cannot bear
them now. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of

;. truth, is come, he will guide you into all

1 truth : for he fliall not fpeak of himfelf ; but
whatfoever he (hall hear, that (hall he fpeak :
and he will fliew you things to come. He
(hall glorify me : for he fliall receive of mine,
and fliall (hew it unto you. All things that
the Father hath are mine : therefore faid I,
that he fliall take of mine, and (hall (hew it
unto you.

Tlie fifth Sunday after Eajter.

The Cottett.

f\ Lord, from whom all good things do
V^r come ; Grant to us thy humble fervants,
that by thy holy infpiration we may think
thofe things that be good, and by thy merci
ful guiding may perform the fame ; through
our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.

Thejjfth Sunday after Eajler.

The Epiftle. St. James i. 22.

BE ye doers of the Word, and not hearers
only, deceiving your own felves. For if
any be a hearer of the Word, and not a
doer, he is like unto a man beholding his na
tural face in a glafs. For he beholdeth him-
felf, and goeth his way, and ftraightway for-
getteth what manner of man he was. But
whofo looketh into the perfect law of liberty,
and continueth therein, he being not a for
getful hearer, but a doer of the work, this
man (hall be blefled in his deed. If any man
among you feem to be religious, and bridleth j
not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart,
this man s religion is vain. Pure religion, and
undefiled before God and the Father, is this,
To vifit the fatherlefs and widows in their af-
flidlion, and to keep himfelf unfpotted from
the world.

The Go/pel. St. John xvi. 23.

VERILY, verily I fay unto you, Whatfo-
ever ye fliall alk the Father in my Name,
he will give it you. Hitherto have ye alked no
thing in my Name : aik, and ye (hall receive,
that your joy may be full. Thefe things have
I fpoken unto you in proverbs : the time
cometh when I (hall no more fpeak unto you
in proverbs, but I (hall (hew you plainly of
the Father. At that day ye (hall a(k in my
Name : and I fay not unto you, that I will |

The Afcenjlon-day.

pray the Father for you ; for the Father him-
felf loveth you, becaufe ye have loved me, and
have believed that I came out from God. I
came forth from the Father, and am come
into the world : again, I leave the world, and
go to the Father. His difciples faid unto him,
Lo, now fpeakeft thou plainly, and fpeakeft
no proverb. Now are we fure that thou know-
eft all things, and needeft not that any man
(hould afk thee : by this we believe that thou
cameft forth from God. Jefus anfwered them,
Do ye now believe ? Behold, the hour com-
eth, yea, is now come, that ye (hall be fcat-
tered every man to his own, and fliall leave
me alone : and yet I am not alone, becaufe
the Father is with me. Thefe things I have
fpoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye fhall have tribulation;
but be of good cheer, I have overcome the
world.

Tlie Afcenfion-day \

The Collect.

GRANT, we befeech thee, Almighty God,
that like as we do believe thy only-be
gotten Son our Lord Jefus Chrift to have
afcended into the heavens ; fo we may alfo in
heart and mind thither afcend, and with him

continually dwell, who liveth and reigneth

Nr
,

The Afcenjlon-day .

with thee and the Holy Ghoft, one God, world
without end. Amen.

For the Epiftle. A6ts i. 1.

THE former treatife have I made, O The-
ophilus, of all that Jefus began both to
do and teach, until the day in which he was
taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghoft
had given commandments unto the Apoftles
whom he had chofen : to whom alfo he (hewed
himfelf alive after his paffion, by many infal
lible proofs ; being feen of them forty days,
and fpeaking of the things pertaining to the
Kingdom of God : and, being affembled to
gether with them, commanded them that they
fhould not depart from Jerufalem, but wait
for the promife of the Father, which, faith he,
ye have heard of me. For John truly bap
tized with water, but ye fhall be baptized with
the Holy Ghoft not many days hence. When
they therefore were come together, they afk-
ed of him, faying, Lord, wilt thou at this time
reftore again the kingdom to Ifrael ? And he
faid unto them, It is not for you to know
the times or the feafons, which the Father
hath put in his own power. But ye (hall
receive power after that the Holy Ghoft is
come upon you ; and ye fhall be witnefles un
to me, both in Jerufalem, and in all Judsea,
and in Samaria, and unto the uttermoft part
of the earth. And when he had fpoken

The Afcenjion-day.

thefe things, while they beheld, he was taken
up, and a cloud received him out of their
fight. And while they looked ftedfaftly toward
heaven, as he went up, behold, two men flood
by them in white apparel; which alfo faid,
Ye men of Galilee, why ftand ye gazing up
into heaven ? This fame Jefus, which is taken
up from you into heaven, (hall fo come, in
like manner as ye have feen him go into
heaven.

The Go/pel. St. Mark xvi. 14.

JESUS appeared unto the eleven as they
fat at meat, and upbraided them with their
i unbelief and hardnefs of heart, becaufe they
believed not them which had feen him after
he was rifen. And he faid unto them, Go ye
into all the world, and preach the Gofpel to
eveiy creature. He that believeth and is bap
tized fhall be faved; but he that believeth
not (hall be damned. And thefe figns fhall
follow them that believe : In my Name fhall
they caft out devils ; they fhall fpeak with
new tongues ; they fhall take up ferpents ;
and if they drink any deadly thing, it fhall
not hurt them ; they fhall lay hands on the
fick, and they fhall recover. So then after
the Lord had fpoken unto them, he was re
ceived up into heaven, and fat on the right
hand of God. And they went forth and
preached every where, the Lord working with

Sunday after Afcenjion-day .

them, and confirming the Word with iigns
following.

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Sunday after Afcenjion-day.

The Collect.

OGod the King of glory, who haft exalted j|
thine only Son Jefus Chrift with great
triumph unto thy kingdom in heaven ; We
befeech thee, leave us not comfortlefs ; but
fend to us thine Holy Ghoft to comfort us,
and exalt us unto the fame place whither our
Saviour Chrift is gone before, who liveth and
reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoft, one
God, world without end. Amen.

The Epijlle. 1 St. Peter iv. 7.

THE end of all things is at hand ; be ye
therefore fober, and watch unto prayer.
And above all things have fervent charity
among yourfelves : for charity lhall cover the
multitude of fins. Ufe hofpitality one to an
other without grudging. As every man hath
received the gift, even fo minifter the fame
one to another, as good ftewards of the ma
nifold grace of God. If any man fpeak, let
him fpeak as the oracles of God : if any man
minifter, let him do it as of the ability which
God giveth; that God in all things may be
glorified through Jefus Chrift, to whom be
praife and dominion for ever and ever. A-
men.

WHIT-SUNDAY.

The Go/pel. St. John xv. 26. and part of

Chapter xvi.

iniTHEN the Comforter is come, whom I
will fend unto you from the Father,
even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth
from the Father, he fhall teftify of me. And
ye alfo fhall bear witnefs, becaufe ye have
been with me from the beginning. Thefe
things have I fpoken unto you, that ye fhould
not be offended. They fhall put you out of
the fynagogues : yea, the time Cometh, that
whofoever killeth you will think that he doeth
God fervice. And thefe things will they do
unto you, becaufe they have not known the
Father, nor me. But thefe things have I told
you, that, when the time fhall come, ye may
remember that I told you of them.

WHIT-SUNDAY. ^; :

P The ColleSt. - ;

GOD, who as at this time didft teach the
hearts of thy faithful people, by the fend
ing to them the light of thy Holy Spirit;
Grant us by the fame Spirit to have a right
judgement in all things, and evermore to re
joice in his holy comfort ; through the merits
of Chrift Jefus our Saviour, who liveth and
reigneth with thee, in the unity of the fame
Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

N 4

WHIT-SUNDAY.

For the Epiftle* A6ls ii. 1.

WHEN the day of Pentecoft was fully
come, they were all with one accord
in one place. And fuddenly there came a
found from heaven, as of a milling mighty
wind, and it filled all the houfe where they
were fitting. And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it fat upon
each of them : and they were all filled with
the Holy Ghoft, and began to fpeak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utter
ance. And there were dwelling at Jerufalem
Jews, devout men, out of every nation under
heaven. Now when this was noifed abroad,
the multitude came together, and were con
founded, becaufe that every man heard them
fpeak in his own language. And they were
all amazed, and marvelled, faying one to an
other, Behold, are not all thefe which fpeak
Galileans ? And how hear we eveiy man in
our own tongue wherein we were born ? Par-
thians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the
dwellers in Mefopotamia, and in Judaea, and
Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Afia, Phrygia, and
Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of
Libya about Cyrene, and ftrangers of Rome,
Jews, and Profelytes, Cretes, and Arabians,
we do hear them fpeak in our tongues the
wonderful works of God.

WHIT-SUNDAY. i

The Gojpel St. John xiv. 15.

JESUS faid unto his difciples, If ye love
me, keep my commandments. And I will
pray the Father, and he fhall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for
ever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world
cannot receive, becaufe it feeth him not, nei
ther knoweth him : but ye know him ; for he
dwelleth with you, and fliall be in you. I will
not leave you comfortlefs ; I will come to you.
Yet a little while, and the world feeth me
no more ; but ye fee me : becaufe 1 live, ye
lhall live alfo. At that day ye fliall know, that
I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in
you. He that hath my commandments, and
keepeth them, he it is that loveth me ; and
he that loveth me fliall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him, and will manifeft my-
felf to him. Judas faith unto him, (not Ifca-
riot,) Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifeft
thyfelf unto us, and not unto the world ? Je-
fus anfwered and faid unto him, If a man love
me, he will keep my words, and my Father
will love him, and we will come unto him,
and make our abode with him. He that loveth
me not keepeth not my fayings : and the word
which ye hear is not mine, but the Father s
which fent me. Thefe things have I fpoken
unto you, being yet prefent with you. But
the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghoft, whom

Monday in Whitfun-week.

the Father will fend in my Name, he ihall
teach you all things, and bring all things to
your remembrance, whatfoever I have faid
unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace
I give unto you : not as the world giveth, give
I uinto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid. Ye have heard how
I faid unto you, I go away, and come again
unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice,
becaufe I faid, I go unto the Father : for my
Father is greater than I. And now I have
told you before it come to pafs, that, when it
is come to pafs, ye might believe. Hereafter I
will not talk much with you : for the prince
of this world cometh, and hath nothing in
me. But that the world may know that I
love the Father; and as the Father gave me
commandment, even fo I do.

Monday in Whitfun-week.

The Colleffl.

GOD, who as at this time didft teach the
hearts of thy faithful people, by the fend
ing to them the light of thy Holy Spirit;
Grant us by the fame Spirit to have a right
judgement in all things, and evermore to re
joice in his holy comfort; through the merits
of Chrift Jefus our Saviour, who liveth and
reigneth with thee, in the unity of the fame
Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Monday in Whitfun-iveek.

For the Epiftle. A6ts x. 34.

THEN Peter opened his mouth, and faid,
Of a truth I perceive that God is no re-
fpe6ter of perfons ; but in eveiy nation he that
feareth him, and worketh righteoufnefs, is ac
cepted with him. The Word which God fent
unto the children of Ifrael, preaching peace
by JefusChrift; (he is Lord of all;) that Word,
I fay, ye know, which was publifhed through
out all Judeea, and began from Galilee, after
the baptifm which John preached : how God
anointed Jefus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghoft, and with power ; who went about do
ing good, and healing all that were opprefled
of the devil : for God was with him. And we
are witnefles of all things which he did, both
in the land of the Jews, and in Jerufalem ;
whom they flew, and hanged on a tree : Him
God raifed up the third day, and ftiewed him
openly; not to all the people, but unto wit
nefles chofen before of God ; even to us who
did eat and drink with him after he rofe from
the dead. And he commanded us to preach
unto the people, and to teftify that it is he
which was ordained of God to be the Judge
of quick and dead. To him give all the pro
phets witnefs, that through his Name whofo-
ever believeth in him fliall receive remiflion
of fins. While Peter yet fpake thefe words,
the Holy Ghoft fell on all them which heard

Monday in Whitfun-week.

the word. And they of the circumcifion, which
believed, were aftonifhed, as many as came
with Peter, becaufe that on the Gentiles alfo
was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghoft.
For they heard them fpeak with tongues, and
magnify God. Then anfwered Peter, Can any
man forbid water, that thefe fhould not be
baptized, which have received the Holy Ghoft
as well as we ? And he commanded them to
be baptized in the Name of the Lord. Then
prayed they him to tarry certain days.
The Go/pel. St. John iii. 16.

GOD fo loved the world, that he gave his
only-begotten Son, that whofoever be-
lieveth in him fhould not perifti, but have
everlafting life. For God fent not his Son in
to the world to condemn the world, but that
the world through him might be faved. He
that believeth on him is not condemned : but
he that believeth not is condemned already ;
becaufe he hath not believed in the Name of
the only-begotten Son of God. And this is
the condemnation, that light is come into the
world, and men loved darknefs rather than
light, becaufe their deeds were evil. For every
one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither
cometh to the light, left his deeds fhould be
reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to
the light, that his deeds may be made mani-
feft, that they are wrought in God.

Tuefday in Whitfun-week.

f) The ColleSt. : ? ,,n&gt;

GOD, who as at this time didft teach the
hearts of thy faithful people, by the fend
ing to them the light of thy Holy Spirit ; Grant
us by the fame Spirit to have a right judge
ment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in
I his holy comfort; through the merits of Chrift
jJelus our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth
with thee, in the unity of the fame Spirit, one
God, world without end. Amen.

For the Epijlle. A6ls viii. 14.

WHEN the Apoftles, which were at Je-
rufalem, heard that Samaria had re
ceived the word of God, they fent unto them
Peter and John ; who, when they were come
down, prayed for them, that they might re
ceive the Holy Ghoft: (for as yet he was fallen
upon none of them ; only they were baptized
in the Name of the Lord Jefus.) Then laid
they their hands on them, and they received
the Holy Ghoft.

The Go/pel. St. John x. 1.

VERILY, verily I fay unto you, He that
entereth not by the door into the flieep-
fold, but climbeth up fome other way, the
fame is a thief and a robber. But he that
entereth in by the door is the fliepherd of the
ftieep : to him the porter openeth ; and the
flieep hear his voice, and he calleth his own
flieep by name, and leadeth them out. And,

TRINITY-S UNDA Y.

when lie putteth forth his own fheep, he goeth
before them, and the fheep follow him ; for
they know his voice. And a ftranger will
they not follow ; but will flee from him ; for
they know not the voice of ftrangers. This
parable fpake Jefus unto them : but they un-
derftood not what things they were which he
fpake unto them. Then faid Jefus unto them
again ; Verily, verily I fay unto you, I am the
door of the fheep. All that ever came before
me are thieves and robbers ; but the fheep
did not hear them. I am the door ; by me if
any man enter in, he fhall be faved, and fhall
go in and out, and find pafture. The thief
cometh not but for to fteal, and to kill, and
to deftroy : I am come that they might have
life, and that they might have it more abun
dantly.

TRINITY-SUNDAY.

The Collet.

ALMIGHTY and everlafting God, who I
haft given unto us thy fervants grace by||
the confeflion of a true faith to acknowledgel I
the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in thej
power of the Divine Majefty to worfhip the
Unity ; We befeech thee, that thou wouldeft
keep us ftedfaft in this faith, and evermore)
defend us from all adverfities, who liveft and !
reigneft, one God, world without end. Amen.\

TRINITY-SUNDAY.

For the Epi/lle. Rev. iv. 1 .

AFTER this I looked, and behold, a door
was opened in heaven : and the firft voice
which I heard was as it were of a trumpet
talking with me; which faid, Come up hither,
and I will fliew thee things which mutt be
hereafter. And immediately I was in the Spi-
I rit; and behold, a throne was fet in heaven,
I and one fat on the throne : and he that fat
was to look upon like a jafper and a fardine
) (lone : and there was a rainbow round about
[ the throne, in fight like unto an emerald. And
| round about the throne were four and twenty
[ feats ; and upon the feats I faw four and
| twenty elders fitting, clothed in white rai-
j ment ; and they had on their heads crowns
, of gold : And out of the throne proceeded
lightnings, and thunderings, and voices. And
there were feven lamps of fire burning before
the throne, which are the feven fpirits of God.
And before the throne there was a fea of glafs
3 like unto cryftal : and in the inidft of the
r throne, and round about the throne, were
\ four beafts full of eyes before and behind.
e And the firft beaft was like a lion, and the
e fecond beaft like a calf, and the third beaft
] had a face as a man, and the fourth beaft was
g like a flying eagle. And the four beafts had
J each of them fix wings about him; and they
, were full of eyes within : and they reft not day

TRINITY-S UNDA Y.

and night, faying. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God
Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
And when thofe beafts give glory, and ho
nour, and thanks, to him that fat on the throne,
who liveth for ever and ever, the four and
twenty elders fall down before him that fat
on the throne, and worihip him that liveth for
ever and ever, and call their crowns before
the throne, faying, Thou art worthy, O Lord,
to receive glory, and honour, and power; for
thou hail created all things, and for thy plea-
fure they are and were created.

Tlie Go/pel. St. John iii. 1 .

THERE was a man of the Pharifees, nam
ed Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews : the
fame came to Jefus by night, and faid unto
him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher
come from God : for no man can do thefe
miracles that thou doeft, except God be with
him. Jefus anfwered and faid unto him, Ve
rily, verily I fay unto tliee, Except a man be
born again, he cannot fee the Kingdom of
God. Nicodemus faith unto him, How can a
man be born when he is old? can he enter
the fecond time into his mother s womb, and
be born ? Jefus anfwered, Verily, verily I fay
unto thee, Except a man be born of water,
and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
Kingdom of God. That which is born of the
flelh is fleih ; and that which is born of the

Thefirft Sunday after Trinity.

Spirit is fpirit. Marvel not that I faid unto
thee, Ye muft be born again. The wind blow-
eth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found
thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh,
and whither it goeth ; fo is every one that is
born of the Spirit. Nicodemus anfwered and
faid unto him, How can thefe things be? Je-
fus anfwered and faid unto him, Art th&tftk
mafter of Ifrael, and knoweft not thefe thing!?
Verily, verily I fay unto thee, We fpeak that
we do know, and teftify that we have feen ; and
ye receive not our witnefs. If I have told you
earthly things, and ye believe not ; how fliall
ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things ?
And no man hath afcended up to heaven, but
he that came down from heaven, even the Son
of man, who is in heaven. And as Mofes
lifted up the ferpent in the wildernefs, even
fo muft the Son of man be lifted up : that
whofoever believeth in him Ihould not perifh,
but have eternal life.

Thefirft Sunday after Trinity.
The Colledt.

OGod, the ftrength of all them that put
their truft in thee, mercifully accept our
prayers ; and becaufe through the weaknefs
of our mortal nature we can do no good thing
without thee, grant us the help of thy grace,
that in keeping of thy commandments we may

Thefirft Sunday after Trinity.

pleafe thee, both in will and deed; through
Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. to

The Em file. 1 St. John iv. 7.

J, V

BELOVED,, let us love one another : for (
love is of God, and eveiy one that loveth \
is born of God, and knoweth God. He that y
loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [ (
In this was manifefted the love of God to-
wards us, becaufe that God fent his only- l
begotten Son into the world, that we might
live through him. Herein is love, not that we r
loved God, but that he loved us, and fent his .
Son to be the propitiation for our fins. Be- |
loved, if God fo loved us, we ought alfo to \
love one another. No man hath feen God at l
any time. If we love one another, God dwell- ,
eth in us, and his love is perfected in us. ,
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and |
he in us ; becaufe he hath given us of his Spi
rit. And we have feen, and do teftify, that
the Father fent the Son to be the Saviour oi
the world. Whofoever (hall confefs that Jefus
is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and
he in God. And we have known and believ
ed the love that God hath to us. God is love;
and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God,
and God in him. Herein is our love made
perfe6t, that we may have boldnefs in the day
of judgement ; becaufe as he is, fo are we in
this world. There is no fear in love ; but per-

Thejirft Sunday after Trinity.

fe6l love cafteth out fear ; becaufe fear hath
torment : He that feareth is not made perfect
in love. We love him, becaufe he firft loved
us. If a man fay, I love God, and hateth his
brother, he is a liar : for he that loveth not
his brother, whom he hath feen, how can he
love God, whom he hath not feen ? And this
commandment have we from him, That he
who loveth God love his brother alfo.
The Go/pel St. Luke xvi. 19.

THERE was a certain rich man, which was
clothed in purple, and fine linen, and fared
fumptuoufly every day. And there was a cer
tain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid
at his gate full of fores, and defiring to be fed
with the crumbs, which fell from the rich
man s table : moreover, the dogs came and
licked his fores. And it came to pafs, that
the beggar died, and was carried by the an
gels into Abraham s bofom. The rich man
alfo died, and was buried : and in hell he lift
up his eyes being in torments, and feeth A-
braham afar off, and Lazarus in his bofom.
And he cried and faid, Father Abraham, have
mercy on me, and fend Lazarus, that he may
dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my
tongue ; for I am tormented in this flame.
But Abraham faid, Son, remember that thou
in thy life-time recervedft thy good things,
and likewife Lazarus evil things ; but now he

Tkefecond Sunday after Trinity.

p
is comforted, and thou art tormented. And,

befides all this, between us and you there is!
a great gulf fixed : fo that they who would ,
pafs from hence to you cannot ; neither can
they pafs to us, that would come from thenceJ ,
Then he faid, I pray thee therefore, father,
that thou wouldeft fend him to my father s
houfe : for I have five brethren j that he may r
teftify unto them, left they alfo come into ,
this place of torment. Abraham faith un- ,
to him, They have Mofes and the prophets ;
let them hear them. And he faid, Nay, father
Abraham ; but if one went unto them from (
the dead, they will repent. And he faid unto [
him, If they hear not Mofes and the prophets, (
neither will they be perfuaded, though one ]
rofe from the dead.

Thefecond Sunday after Trinity.

\TheCottett. ^

OLord, who never faileft to help and go
vern them whom thou doft bring up in
thy ftedfaft fear and love ; Keep us, we be-
feech thee, under the protection of thy good
providence, and make us to have a perpetual
fear and love of thy holy Name ; through Je-
fus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. 1 St. John iii. 13.

MARVEL not, my brethren, if the world
hate you. We know that we have paff*

Thefecond Sunday after Trinity.

ed from death unto life, becaufe we love the
brethren. He that loveth not his brother
1 abideth in death. Whofoever hateth his bro
ther is a murderer : and ye know that no
murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, be
caufe he laid down his life for us : and we
ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
But whofo hath this world s good, and feeth
his brother have need, and fhutteth up his
bowels of compaffion from him ; how dwell-
eth the love of God in him ? My little chil
dren, let us not love in word, neither in
tongue; but in deed, and in truth. And here
by we know that we are of the truth, and
Ihall affure our hearts before him. For if our
heart condemn us, God is greater than our
heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if
our heart condemn us not, then have we
confidence towards God. And whatfoever we
afk, we receive of him, becaufe we keep his
commandments, and do thofe things that are
pleafing in his fight. And this is his com
mandment, That we fhould believe on the
Name of his Son Jefus Chrift, and love one
another, as he gave us commandment. And
he that keepeth his commandments dwell-
eth in him, and he in him : and hereby we
know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit
which he hath given us.

o s

The third Sunday after Trinity.

The Go/pel. St. Luke xiv. 16.

A Certain man made a great fupper, and
bade many ; and fent his fervant at fup-
per-time to fay to them that were bidden,
Come, for all things are now ready. And
they all with one confent began to make ex-
cufe. The firft faid unto him, I have bought
a piece of ground, and I muft needs go and
fee it; I pray thee have me excufed. And
another faid, I have bought five yoke of oxen,
and I go to prove them ; I pray thee have me
exeufed. And another faid, I have married a
wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that
fervant came, and fliewed his lord thefe things.
Then the mailer of the houfe being angry faid
to his fervant, Go out quickly into the ftreets
and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the
poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the
blind. And the fervant faid, Lord, it is done
as thou haft commanded, and yet there is room.
And the Lord faid unto the fervant, Go out
into the high- ways and hedges, and compel
them to come in, that my houfe may be filled.
For I fay unto you, That none of thofe men
which were bidden fliall tafte of my fupper.

The third Sunday after Trinity.
Tlie Collect.

OLord, we befeech thee mercifully to hear
us ; and grant that we, to whom thou

The third Sunday after Trinity.

haft given an hearty defire to pray, may by
1 thy mighty aid be defended and comforted in
all dangers and adverfities ; through Jefus
Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epijlle. \ St. Peter v. 5.

ALL of you be fubjedl one to another, and
be clothed with humility : for God refift-
eth the proud, and giveth grace to the hum
ble. Humble yourfelves therefore under the
mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you
in due time ; calling all your care upon him,
for he careth for you. Be fober, be vigilant;
becaufe your adverfary the devil, as a roaring
lion, walketh about feeking whom he may de
vour : whom refift ftedfaft in the faith, know
ing that the fame afflictions are accomplifhed
in your brethren that are in the world. But
the God of all grace, who hath called us into
his eternal glory by Chrift Jefus, after that ye
have fuifered a while, make you perfect, fta-
blifh, ftrengthen, fettle you. To him be glory
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
The Go/pel. St. Luke xv. 1.

THEN drew near unto him all the publi
cans and finners for to hear him. And
the Pharifees and Scribes murmured, faying,
This man receiveth finners, and eateth with
them. And he fpake this parable unto them,
faying, What man of you having an hundred
ftieep, if he lofe one of them, doth not leave

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The fourth Sunday after Trinity.

the ninety and nine in the wildernefs, and go
after that which is loft, until he find it ? And
when he hath found it, he layeth it on his
fhoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh
home, he calleth together his friends and
neighbours, faying unto them, Rejoice with
me, for I have found my fheep which was
loft. I fay unto you, That likewife joy fhall be
in heaven over one finner that repenteth,
more than over ninety and nine juft perfons,
which need no repentance. Either what wo
man having ten pieces of filver, if (he lofe one
piece, doth not light a candle, and fweep the
houfe, and feek diligently till fhe find it ?
And when fhe hath found it, (he calleth her
friends and her neighbours together, faying,
Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece
which I had loft. Likewife, I fay unto you,
There is joy in the prefence of the angels of
God over one finner that repenteth.

The fourth Sunday after Trinity.

The Collect.

OGod, the protector of all that truft in
thee, without whom nothing is ftrong,
nothing is holy ; Increafe and multiply upon
us thy mercy; that, thou being our ruler and
guide, we may fo pafs through things tempo
ral, that we finally lofe not the things eternal :

The fourth Sunday after Trinity.

Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jefus drift s
fake our Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. Rom. viii. 18.

I Reckon that the fufferings of this prefent
time are not worthy to be compared with
the glory which (hall be revealed in us. For
the earned expectation of the creature wait-
eth for the manifeftation of the fons of God.
For the creature was made fubje6t to vanity,
not willingly, but by reafon of him who hath
fubjedted the fame in hope : becaufe the crea
ture itfelf alfo fhall be delivered from the bond
age of corruption, into the glorious liberty of
the children of God. For we know that the
whole creation groaneth, and travaileth in pain
together until now. And not only they, but
ourfelves alfo, which have the firft-fruits of the
Spirit, even we ourfelves groan within our
felves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the
redemption of our body.

The Go/pel. St. Luke vi. 36.

BE ye therefore merciful, as your Father
alfo is merciful. Judge not, and ye fhall
not be judged : condemn not, and ye fhall not
be condemned: forgive, and ye fhall be for
given : give, and it fhall be given unto you ;
good meafure, prefled down, and fhaken to
gether, and running over, fhall men give into
your bofom. For with the fame meafure that
ye mete withal, it fhall be meafured to you

The fifth Sunday after Trinity.

again. And he fpake a parable unto them,
Can the blind lead the blind ? Ihall they not
both fall into the ditch ? The difciple is not
above his mafter ; but every one that is per-
fe6t fliall be as his mafter. And why behold-
eft thou the mote that is in thy brother s eye,
but perceived not the beam that is in thine
own eye ? Either how canft thou fay to thy
brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote
that is in thine eye, when thou thyfelf behold-
eft not the beam that is in thine own eye ?
Thou hypocrite, caft out firft the beam out of
thine own eye, and then flialt thou fee clearly
to pull out the mote that is in thy brother s
eye.

Thejifth Sunday after Trinity.
The ColleSt.

GRANT, O Lord, we befeech thee, that
the courfe of this world may be fo
peaceably ordered by thy governance, that
thy Chvirch may joyfully ferve thee in all god
ly quietnefs ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord.
Amen.

The Epiftle. 1 St. Peter iii. 8.

BE ye all of one mind, having compaffion
one of another, love as brethren, be
pitiful, be courteous ; not rendering evil for
evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwife
blefling; knowing that ye are thereunto call-

The fifth Sunday after Trinity.

ed, that ye (hould inherit a bleffing. For he
that will love life, and fee good days, let him
refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that
they fpeak no guile : let him efchew evil, and
do good; let him feek peace, and enfue it. For
the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous,
and his ears are open unto their prayers : but
the face of the Lord is againft them that do
evil. And who is he that will harm you, if ye
be followers of that which is good? But and
if ye fuffer for righteoufnefs fake, happy are
ye : and be not afraid of their terror, neither
be troubled ; but fan6lify the Lord God in your
hearts.

The Gofpel. St. Luke v. 1.

IT came to pafs, that as the people preffed
upon him to hear the Word of God he
ftood by the lake of Gennefareth, and faw two
Ihips Handing by the lake ; but the filhermen
were gone out of them, and were wafhing
their nets. And he entered into one of the
fhips, which was Simon s, and prayed him that
he would thruft out a little from the land : and
he fat down, and taught the people out of the
fhip. Now when he had left fpeaking, he faid
unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and
let down your nets for a draught. And Si
mon anfwering faid unto him, Mafter, we have
toiled all the night, and have taken nothing;
neverthelefs, at thy word I will let down the

TheJitVth Sunday after Trinity.

net. And when they had this done, they in-
clofed a great multitude of fifties and their
net brake. And they beckoned unto their part
ners which were in the other flrip, that they
fliould come and help them. And they came,
and filled both the fhips, fo that they began
to fink. When Simon Peter faw it, he fell
down at Jefus knees, faying, Depart from me,
for I am a finful man, O Lord. For he was
aftonilhed, and all that were with him, at the
draught of the fifties which they had taken ;
and fo was alfo James, and John, the fons of
Zebedee, which were partners with Simon.
And Jefus faid unto Simon, Fear not, from
henceforth thou fhalt catch men. And when
they had brought their ftiips to land, they for-
fook all, and followed him.

The Jixth Sunday after Trinity.

The Collect.

OGod, who haft prepared for them that
love thee fuch good things as pafs man s
underftanding ; Pour into our hearts fuch love
toward thee, that we, loving thee above all
things, may obtain thy promifes, which exceed
all that we can defire ; through Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

The Epi/lle. Rom. vi. 3.

KNOW ye not, that fo many of us as were
baptized into Jefus Chrift were baptized

Tlie Jixth Sunday after Trinity.

into his death? Therefore we are buried with
him by baptifm into death ; that like as Chrift
was raifed vip from the dead by the glory of
the Father, even fo we alfo fhould walk in
newnefs of life. For if we have been planted
together in the likenefs of his death, we fhall
be alfo in the likenefs of his refurre6tion :
knowing this, that our old man is crucified
with him, that the body of fin might be de-
ftroyed, that henceforth we fhould not ferve
fin. For he that is dead is freed from fin.
Now if we be dead with Chrift, we believe
that we (hall alfo live with him; knowing that
Chrift being raifed from the dead dieth no
more; death hath no more dominion over
him. For in that he died, he died unto fin
once ; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto
God. Likewife reckon ye alfo yourfelves to
be dead indeed unto fin, but alive unto God
through Jefus Chrift our Lord.

The Go/pel St. Matth. v. 20.

JESUS faid unto his difciples, Except your
righteoufnefs (hall exceed the righteouf-
nefs of the Scribes and Pharifees, ye fliall in
no cafe enter into the Kingdom of heaven.
Ye have heard that it was faid by them of old
time, Thou (halt not kill : and whofoever fhall
kill, fhall be in danger of the judgement. But
I fay unto you, that whofoever is angry with
his brother without a caufe fhall be in dan-

The feventh Sunday after Trinity.

ger of the judgement : and whofoever fliall
lay to his brother, Raca, fliall be in danger of
the council : but whofoever fliall fay, Thou
fool, ftiall be in danger of hell-fire. Therefore
if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there
remembereft that thy brother hath ought a-
gainft thee ; leave there thy gift before the al
tar, and go thy way, firft be reconciled to thy
brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Agree with thine adverfary quickly, whiles
thou art in the way with him ; left at any
time the adverfary deliver thee to the judge,
and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and
thou be caft into prifon. Verily I fay unto
thee, Thou Ihalt by no means come out
thence, till thou haft paid the uttermoft far
thing.

The feventh Sunday after Trinity.

The ColleSt.

LORD of all power and might, who art
the author and giver of all good things ;
Graft in our hearts the love of thy Name,
increafe in us true religion, nourifh us with
all goodnefs, and of thy great mercy keep us
in the fame ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord.
Amen.

The Epiftle. Rom. vi. 19.

I Speak after the manner of men, becaufa
of the infirmity of your flefh : for as ye

Tliefeventh Sunday after Trinity.

have yielded your members fervants to un-
cleannefs, and to iniquity, unto iniquity ; even
fo now yield your members fervants to right-
eoufnefs, unto holinefs. For when ye were the
fervants of fin, ye were free from righteouf-
nefs. What fruit had ye then in thofe things
whereof ye are now afhamed ? for the end of
thofe things is death. But now being made
free from fin, and become fervants to God, ye
have your fruit unto holinefs, and the end ever-
lafting life. For the wages of fin is death : but
the gift of God is eternal life, through Jefus
Chrift our Lord.

The Go/pel. St. Mark viii. 1.

IN thofe days the multitude being very
great, and having nothing to eat, Jefus
called his difciples unto him, and faith unto
them, I have compaflion on the multitude,
becaufe they have now been with me three
days, and have nothing to eat : and if I fend
them away failing to their own houfes, they
will faint by the way ; for divers of them came
from far. And his difciples anfwered him,
From whence can a man fatisfy thefe men
with bread here in the wildernefs ? And he
alked them, How many loaves have ye ? And
they faid, Seven. And he commanded the
people to fit down on the ground. And he
took the feven loaves, and gave thanks, and
brake, and gave to his difciples to fet before

Tlie eighth Sunday after Trinity.

them ; and they did fet them before the peo
ple. And they had a few fmall fifties ; and
he blefled, and commanded to fet them alfo
before them. So they did eat, and were filled :
and they took up of the broken meat that was
left feven bafkets. And they that had eaten
were about four thoufand. And he fent them
away.

The eighth Sunday after Trinity.
The Collect.

OGod, whofe never-failing providence or-
dereth all things both in heaven and
earth ; We humbly befeech thee to put away
from us all hurtful things, and to give us thofe
things which be profitable for us ; through Je-
fus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. Rom. viii. 12.

BRETHREN, we are debtors, not to the
flefti, to live after the flefti. For if ye
live after the flefti, ye fliall die; but if ye
through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of
the body, ye fliall live. For as many as are
led by the Spirit of God, they are the fons of
God. For ye have not received the fpirit of i
bondage again to fear; but ye have received
the fpirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father. The Spirit itfelf beareth witnefs with
our fpirit, that we are the children of God :
and if children, then heirs ; heirs of God, and

The ninth Sunday after Trinity.

joint-heirs with Chrift: if fo be that we fuffer
with him, that we may be aJfo glorified to-
] gether.

The Go/pel. St. Matth. vii. 15.

BEWARE of falfe prophets, which come
to you in fheep s clothing, but inwardly
i they are ravening wolves. Ye fliall know them
by their fruits : do men gather grapes of
thorns, or figs of thiftles ? Even fo every good
tree bringeth forth good fruit ; but a corrupt
tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree
cannot bring forth evil fruit; neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every
tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewi)
down, and caft into the fire. Wherefore by
their fruits ye fhall know them. Not every
one that faith unto me, Lord, Lord, fliall en
ter into the Kingdom of heaven ; but he that
doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven.

The ninth Sunday after Trinity.

The ColleSt.

GRANT to us, Lord, we befeech thee, the
fpirit to think and do always fuch things
as be rightful ; that we, who cannot do any
thing that is good without thee, may by thee
be enabled to live according to thy will;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord, Amen.

The ninth Sunday after Trinity.

The Epiftle. 1 Cor. x. 1 .

BRETHREN, I would not that ye fliould
be ignorant, how that all our fathers were
under the cloud, and all pafled through the
fea ; and were all baptized unto Mofes in the
cloud, and in the fea ; and did all eat the fame
fpiritual meat, and did all drink the fame fpi-
ritual drink : (for they drank of that fpiritual
Rock that followed them; and that Rock was
Chrift.) But with many of them God was not
well pleafed ; for they were overthrown in the
wildernefs. Now thefe things were our ex
amples, to the intent we fliould not luft after
evil things, as they alfo lufted. Neither be ye
idolaters, as were fome of them ; as it is writ
ten, The people fat down to eat and drink,
and rofe up to play. Neither let us commit
fornication, as fome of them committed, and
fell in one day three and twenty thoufand.
Neither let us tempt Chrift, as fome of them
alfo tempted, and were deftroyed of ferpents.
Neither murmur ye, as fome of them alfo
murmured,, and were deftroyed of the de-
ftroyer. Now all thefe things happened unto
them for enfamples : and they are written for
our admonition, upon whom the ends of the
world are come. Wherefore let him that think- j
eth he ftandeth take heed left he fall. There
hath no temptation taken you, but fuch as is &gt;
common to man : but God is faithful, who will

The ninth Sunday after Trinity.

not fuffer you to be tempted above that ye
are able; but will with the temptation alfo
make a way to efcape, that ye may be able to
bear it.

The Go/pel. St. Luke xvi. 1.

JESUS faid unto his difciples, There was
a certain rich man which had a fteward ;
and the fame was accufed unto him that he
had wafted his goods. And he called him,
and faid unto him, How is it that I hear this
of thee ? Give an account of thy ftewardfliip ;
for thou mayeft be no longer fteward. Then
the fteward faid within himfelf, What fliall
I do? for my lord taketh away from me
the ftewardfliip : I cannot dig, to beg I am
alhanied. I am refolved what to do, that,
when I am put out of the ftewardfliip, they
may receive me into their houfes. So he call
ed every one of his lord s debtors unto him,
and faid unto the firft, How much oweft thou
unto my lord? And he faid, An hundred
meafures of oil. And he faid unto him, Take
thy bill, and fit down quickly, and write fifty.
Then faid he to another, And how much
oweft thou ? And he faid, An hundred mea
fures of wheat. And he faid unto him, Take
thy bill, and write fourfcore. And the lord
commended the unjuft fteward, becaufe hq
had done wifely: for the children of this

The tenth Sunday after Trinity.

world are in their generation wifer than the
children of light. And I fay unto you, Make
to yourfelves friends of the mammon of un-
righteoufnefs ; that when ye fail, they may re
ceive you into everlafting habitations.

The tenth Sunday after Trinity.

^tefoeM* The Collect. ; ? ^ ;^"

LET thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open
to the prayers of thy humble fervants ;
and that they may obtain their petitions make
them to afk fuch things as ftiall pleafe thee ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Tlie Epi/lle. 1 Cor. xii. 1 .

CONCERNING fpiritual gifts, brethren, II
^-^ would not have you ignorant. Ye know
fcaat ye were Gentiles, carried away unto thefe;
dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore!
I give you to underftand, that no man fpeak-
ing by the Spirit of God calleth Jefus accurf-j
ed; and that no man can fay that Jefus is thei
Lord, but by the Holy Ghoft. Now there arei
diversities of gifts, but the fame Spirit. And
there are differences of adminiftrations, but
the fame Lord. And there are diverfities of
operations, but it is the fame God, who work- 1
eth all in all. But the manifeftation of thei
Spirit is given to eveiy man to profit withal. !

Tlie tenth Sunday after Trinity.

For to one is given by the Spirit the word of

wifdom ; to another the word of knowledge

i. by the fame Spirit ; to another faith by the

;. fame Spirit ; to another the gifts of healing

by the fame Spirit ; to another the working

of miracles ; to another prophecy ; to another

idifceming of fpirits; to another divers kinds

of tongues ; to another the interpretation of

r tongues. But all thefe worketh that one and

lithe felf-fame Spirit, dividing to every man fe-

i verally as he will.

Tlie Go/pel. St. Luke xix. 41.
AND when he was come near, he beheld
-^- the city, and wept over it, faying, If thou
hadft known, even thou, at leaft in this thy
day, the things which belong unto thy peace !
but now they are hid from thine eyes. For
the days fhall come upon thee, that thine ene
mies fhall caft a trench about thee, and com-
pafs thee round, and keep thee in on every fide,
and fhall lay thee even with the ground, and
thy children within thee ; and they fhall not
leave in thee one ftone upon another; becaufe
thou knewefl not the time of thy vifitation.
And he went into the temple, and began to
caft out them that fold therein, and them that
bought, faying unto them, It is written, My
houfe is the houfe of prayer: but ye have
made it a den of thieves. And he taught
daily in the temple.

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The ColleSt.

OGod, who declareft thy almighty power
moft chiefly in fliewing mercy and pity ;
Mercifully grant unto us fuch a meafure of a
thy grace, that we, running the way of thy [
commandments, may obtain thy gracious pro-
mifes, and be made partakers of thy hean
venly treafure; through Jefus Chrift our Lord.
Amen.

The Epiftle. 1 Cor. xv. 1.
BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gof-
pel which I preached unto you, which
alfo ye have received, and wherein ye Hand :
by which alfo ye are faved, if ye keep in me
mory what I preached unto you, unlefs ye
have believed in vain. For I delivered unto
you firft of all, that which I alfo received, how
that Chrift died for our fins, according to the
Scriptures; and that he was buried ; and that
he rofe again the third day, according to the
Scriptures ; and that he was feen of Cephas,
then of the twelve : after that, he was feen of
above five hundred brethren at once ; of whom
the greater part remain unto this prefent;
but fome are fallen afleep : after that, he was
feen of James ; then of all the Apoftles : and
laft of all, he was feen of me alfo, as of one
born out of due time. For I am the leaft of
the Apoftles, that am not meet to be called
an Apoftle, becaufe I perfecuted the Church

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of God. But by the grace of God I am what
I am : and his grace which was beftowed up
on me was not in vain ; but I laboured more
abundantly than they all ; yet not I, but the
grace of God which was with me. Therefore
whether it were I or they, fo we preach, and
fo ye believed.

The Go/pel. St. Luke xviii. 9.

JESUS fpake this parable unto certain
which trufted in themfelves that they were
righteous, and defpifed others : Two men went
up into the temple to pray; the one a Pha-
rifee, and the other a Publican. The Pharifee
flood and prayed thus with himfelf, God, I
thank thee, that I am not as other men are,
extortioners, unjuft, adulterers, or even as this
Publican : I faft twice in the week, I give
tithes of all that I poflefs. And the Publican,
{landing afar off, would not lift up fo much
as his eyes unto heaven, but fmote upon his
breafl, faying, God be merciful to me a fin-
ner. I tell you, this man went down to his
houfe juflified rather than the other : for eveiy
one that exalteth himfelf fhall be abafed ; and
he that humbleth himfelf fhall be exalted.

Tlie twelfth Sunday after Trinity.
The Collett.

ALMIGHTY and everlafting God, who
art always more ready to hear than we

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to pray, and art wont to give more than ei
ther we defire, or deferve; Pour down upon
us the abundance of thy mercy ; forgiving vis
thofe things whereof our confcience is afraid,
and giving us thofe good things which we are
not worthy to afk, but through the merits
and mediation of Jefus Chrift, thy Son, our
Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. 2 Cor. iii. 4.

SUCH truft have we through Chrift to God-
ward : not that we are fufficient of our-
felves to think any thing as of ourfelves ; but
our fufficiency is of God. Who alfo hath
made us able minifters of the New Tefta-
ment ; not of the letter, but of the Spirit : for
the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
But if the miniftration of death written and
engraven in ftones was glorious, fo that the
children of Ifrael could not ftedfaftly behold
the face of Mofes for the glory of his coun
tenance, which glory was to be done away;
how fhall not the miniftration of the Spirit be
rather glorious ? For if the miniftration of
condemnation be glory, much more doth the
miniftration of righteoufnefs exceed in glory.
The Go/pel. St. Mark vii. 31.

JESUS, departing from the coafts of Tyre
and Sidon, came unto the fea of Galilee,
through the midft of the coafts of Decapolis.
And they bring unto him one that was deaf,

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and had an impediment in his fpeech ; and
they befeech him to put his hand upon him.
And he took him afide from the multitude,
and put his fingers into his ears, and he fpit,
and touched his tongue ; and looking up to
heaven, he fighed, and faith unto him, Eph-
pJiatha, that is, Be opened. And flraightway
his ears were opened, and the firing of his
tongue was loofed, and he fpake plain. And
he charged them that they fhould tell no man :
but the more he charged them, fo much the
more a great deal they publifhed it; and were
beyond meafure aftoniftied, faying, He hath
done all things well; he maketh both the
deaf to hear, and the dumb to fpeak.

The thirteenth Sunday after Trinity.

The Collect.

A LMIGHTY and merciful God, of whofe
-j^- only gift it cometh that thy faithful peo
ple do unto thee true and laudable fervice ;
Grant, we befeech thee, that we may fo faith
fully ferve thee in this life, that we fail not
finally to attain thy heavenly promifes; through
the merits of Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epijlle. Gal. iii. 16.

HinO Abraham and his feed were the pro-

A mifes made. He faith not, And to feeds,

as of many ; but as of one ; And to thy feed,

which is Chrift. And this I fay, That the

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covenant that was confirmed before of God
in Chrift, the Law, which was four hundred | (
and thirty years after, cannot difannul, that it
fliould make the promife of none effedl. For
if the inheritance be of the Law, it is no more
of promife ; but God gave it to Abraham by
promife. Wherefore then ferveth the Law ?
it was added becaufe of tranfgreffions, till
the feed fliould come, to whom the promife
was made; and it was ordained by angels in
the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is |
not a mediator of one ; but God is one. Is
the Law then againft the promifes of God ?
God forbid : for if there had been a law given
which could have given life, verily righteouf-
nefs fliould have been by the Law. But the
Scripture hath concluded all under fin, that
the promife by faith of Jefus Chrift might be
given to them that believe.

The Go/pel. St. Luke x. 23.

BLESSED are the eyes which fee the
things that ye fee. For I tell you, That
many prophets and kings have defired to fee
thofe things which ye fee, and have not feen
them; and to hear thofe things which ye hear,
and have not heard them. And behold, a
certain Lawyer flood up, and tempted him,
faying, Mafter, what (hall I do to inherit eter
nal life ? He faid unto him, What is written
in the Law ? how readeft thou ? And he an-

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fwering faid, Thou flialt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul,
and with all thy ftrength, and with all thy
mind; and thy neighbour as thyfelf. And he
faid unto him, Thou haft anfwered right; this
do, and thou flialt live. But he, willing to juf-
tiiy himfelf, faid unto Jefus, And who is my
neighbour? And Jefus anfwering faid, A cer
tain man went down from Jerufalem to Jeri
cho, and fell among thieves, which ftripped
him of his raiment, and wounded him, and de
parted, leaving him half dead. And by chance
there came down a certain Prieft that way,
and, when he faw him, he paffed by on the
other fide. And likewife a Levite, when he
was at the place, came and looked on him,
and paffed by on the other fide. But a certain
Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he
was ; and, when he faw him, he had compaf-
fion on him, and went to him, and bound up
his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and fet
him on his own beaft, and brought him to an
inn, and took care of him. And on the mor
row, when he departed, he took out two
pence, and gave them to the hoft, and faid
unto him, Take care of him ; and whatfoever
thou fpendeft more, when I come again, I will
repay thee. Which now of thefe three, think -
eft thou, was neighbour unto him that fell
among the thieves? And he faid, He that

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(hewed mercy on him. Then faid Jefus unto |f
him, Go, and do thou likewife.

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The Collect.

A LMIGHTY and everlafting God, give
-fJL- unto us the increafe of faith, hope, and
charity ; and, that we may obtain that which
thou doft promife, make us to love that which
thou doft command ; through Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.

The Epi/lle. Gal. v. 16.

I Say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye (hall
not fulfil the luft of the flelh. For the flefli
lufteth againft the Spirit, and the Spirit againft
the fle(h ; and thefe are contrary the one to
the other; fo that ye cannot do the things
that ye would. But if ye be led by the Spi
rit, ye are not under the law. Now the
works of the flefli are manifeft, which are
thefe, adultery, fornication, uncleannefs, laf-
civioufnefs, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, va
riance, emulations, wrath, ftrife, feditions, he-
refies, envyings, murders, drunkennefs, revel-
lings, and fuch like : of the which I tell you be
fore, as I have alfo told you in time pad, That
they who do fuch things (hall not inherit the
kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy, peace, long-fuffering, gentlenefs,
goodnefs, faith, meeknefs, temperance: againft

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fuch there is no law. And they that are Chrift s
have crucified the fleih, with the affedlions and
lufts.

Hie Go/pel. St. Luke xvii. 1 1 .

AND it came to pafs, as Jefus went to Je-
rufalem, that he pafled through the midft
of Samaria, and Galilee. And as he entered
into a certain village, there met him ten men
that were lepers, which flood afar off. And
they lifted up their voices, and faid, Jefus,
Mafler, have mercy on us. And when he faw
them, he faid unto them, Go, fhew yourfelves
unto the priefts. And it came to pafs, that,
as they went, they were cleanfed. And one
of them, when he faw that he was healed,
turned back, and with a loud voice glorified
God, and fell down on his face at his feet,
giving him thanks ; and he was a Samaritan.
And Jefus anfwering faid, Were there not
ten cleanfed ? but where are the nine ? There
are not found that returned to give glory to
God, fave this ftranger. And he faid unto
him, Arife, go thy way, thy faith hath made
thee whole.

The fifteenth Sunday after Trinity.
fc- ^ .The Collet. *

KEEP, we befeech thee, O Lord, thy
Church with thy perpetual mercy : and,
becaufe the frailty of man without thee can-

The fifteenth Sunday after Trinity.

not but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all
things hurtful, and lead us to all things pro
fitable to our falvation; through Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

The Epi/lle. Gal. vi. 11.
E fee how large a letter I have written

unto you with mine own hand. As many
as defire to make a fair ihew in the flefh, they
conftrain you to be cimimcifed ; only left they
Ihould fuffer perfecution for the crofs of Chrift.
For neither they themfelves who are circum-
cifed keep the law ; but defire to have you cir-
cumcifed, that they may glory in your flefh.
But God forbid that I fhould glory, lave in the
crofs of our Lord Jefus Chrift, by whom the
world is crucified unto me, and I unto the
world. For in Chrift Jefus neither circumci-
fion availeth any thing, nor uncircumcifion,
but a new creature. And as many as walk
according to this rule, peace be on them,
and mercy, and upon the Ifrael of God. From
henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear
in my body the marks of the Lord Jefus.
Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift
be with your fpirit. Amen.

The Go/pel St. Matth. vi. 24.

NO man can ferve two matters : for either
he will hate the one, and love the other;
or elfe he will hold to the one, and defpife the
other. Ye cannot ferve God and Mammon.

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Therefore I fay unto you, Take no thought
for your life, what ye ftiall eat, or what ye
(hall drink ; nor yet for your body, what ye
(hall put on : Is not the life more than meat,
and the body than raiment ? Behold the fowls
of the air; for they fow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your hea
venly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much
better than they ? Which of you by taking
thought can add one cubit unto his ftature?
And why take ye thought for raiment ? Con-
fider the lilies of the field how they grow :
they toil not, neither do they fpin : and yet I
fay unto you, That even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of thefe.
Wherefore, if God fo clothe the grafs of the
field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is caft
into the oven ; ftiall he not much more clothe
you, O ye of little faith ? Therefore take no
thought, faying, What ftiall we eat? or what
fhall we drink? or wherewithal ftiall we be
clothed ? (for after all thefe things do the Gen
tiles feek :) for your heavenly Father knoweth
that ye have need of all thefe things. But feek
ye firft the kingdom of God, and his right-
eoufnefs, and all thefe things ftiall be added
unto you. Take therefore no thought for the
morrow ; for the morrow ftiall take thought
for the things of itfelf : fufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof.

The fifteenth Sunday after Trinity.

The Collect.

OLord, we befeech thee, let thy continual
pity cleanfe and defend thy Church ; and,
becaufe it cannot continue in fafety without thy
fuccour, preferve it evermore by thy help and
goodnefs ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
The Epi/lle. Ephef. iii. 13.

IDefire that ye faint not at my tribulations
for you, which is your glory. For this
caufe I bow my knees unto the Father of our
Lord Jefus Chrift, of whom the whole family
in heaven and earth is named, that he would
grant you, according to the riches of his glo
ry, to be ftrengthened with might by his Spirit
in the inner man ; that Chrift may dwell in
your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted
and grounded in love, may be able to com
prehend with all faints, what is the breadth,
and length, and depth, and height; and to
know the love of Chrift, which pafleth know
ledge, that ye might be filled with all the ful-
nefs of God. Now unto him that is able to do
exceeding abundantly above all that we afk
or think, according to the power that work-
eth in us, unto him be glory in the Church by
Chrift Jefus, throughout all ages, world with-
end. Amen.

The Gofpel. St. Luke vii. 11.

AND it came to pafs the day after, that
Jefus went into a city called Nairn ; and

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many of his difciples went with him, and much
people. Now when he came nigh to the gate
of the city, behold, there was a dead man car
ried out, the only fon of his mother, and flie
was a widow ; and much people of the city
was with her. And when the Lord faw her,
he had compaffion on her, and faid unto her,
Weep not. And he came and touched the
bier, (and they that bare him flood ftill,) and
he faid, Young man, I fay unto thee, Arife.
And he that was dead fat up, and began to
fpeak : and he delivered him to his mother.
And there came a fear on all, and they glo
rified God, faying, That a great Prophet is
rifen up among us, and that God hath vifit-
ed his people. And this rumour of him went
forth throughout all Judaea, and throughout
all the region round about.

The feventeenth Sunday after Trinity.

I The Collect.

LORD, we pray thee that thy grace may
always prevent and follow us, and make
us continually to be given to all good works ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
The Epijlle. Ephef. iv. 1.

I Therefore the prifoner of the Lord be-
feech you, that ye walk worthy of the vo
cation wherewith ye are called, with all low-
linefs and meeknefs, with long-fuffering, for-

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bearing one another in love ; endeavouring j
to keep the unity of the fpirit in the bond of j
peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, j
even as ye are called in one hope of your call- j
ing ; one Lord, one faith, one baptifm, one j
God and Father of all, who is above all, and j
through all, and in you all.

The Gofpel. St. Luke xiv. 1 .

IT carne to pafs, as Jefus went into the
houfe of one of the chief Pharifees to eat
bread on the fabbath-day, that they watched
him. And behold, there was a certain man
before him which had the dropfy. And Jefus
anfwering fpake unto the Lawyers and Pha
rifees, faying, Is it lawful to heal on the fab
bath-day? And they held their peace. And
he took him, and healed him, and let him go ;
and anfwered them, faying, Which of you (hall
have an ass, QY an ox, fallen into a pit, and
will not ftraightway pull him out on the fab
bath-day ? And they could not anfwer him
again to thefe things. And he put forth a
parable to thofe which were bidden, when he
marked how they chofe out the chief rooms,
faying unto them, When thou art bidden of
any man to a wedding, fit not down in the
higheft room ; left a more honourable man
than thou be bidden of him ; and he that bade
thee and him come and fay to thee, Give this
man place ; and thou begin with fhame to

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[take the loweft room. But when thou art
| bidden, go and fit down in the loweft room ;
[that, when he that bade thee cometh, he may
i fay unto thee, Friend, go up higher : then
i flialt thou have worlhip in the prefence of

them that fit at meat with thee. For whofo-
\ ever exalteth himfelf fhall be abafed ; and he

that humbleth himfelf ihall be exalted.

The eighteenth Sunday after Trinity.
\ The Collett. luw

LORD, we befeech thee, grant thy people
grace to withftand the temptations of
[ the world, the flefli, and the devil, and with
pure hearts and minds to follow thee the only
God; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
The Epijlle. 1 Cor. i. 4.

1 Thank my God always on your behalf, for
the grace of God which is given you by
Jefus Chrift ; that in every thing ye are en
riched by him, in all utterance, and in all
knowledge ; even as the teftimony of Chrift
was confirmed in you ; fo that ye come be
hind in no gift ; waiting for the coming of our
Lord Jefus Chrift, who Ihall alfo confirm you
unto the end, that ye may be blamelefs in the
day of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

The Go/pel St. Matth. xxii. 34.

WHEN the Pharifees had heard that Je
fus had put the Sadducees to filence,

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they were gathered together. Then one o
them, who was a Lawyer, afked him a quef-
tion, tempting him, and faying, Mafter, whicl:
is the great commandment in the Law? Jefus
faid unto him, Thou flialt love the Lord th}
God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul,
and with all thy mind. This is the firft anc
great commandment. And the fecond is like
unto it, Thou flialt love thy neighbour as thy-
felf. On thefe two commandments hang al
the Law and the Prophets. While the Pha-
rifees were gathered together, Jefus afkec
them, faying, What think ye of Chrift? whofe
fon is he ? They fay unto him, The fon oi
David. He faith unto them, How then doth
David in fpirit call him Lord, faying, The
Lord faid unto my Lord, Sit thou on my righl
hand, till I make thine enemies thy foot-ftool?
If David then call him Lord, how is he his
Son ? And no man was able to anfwer him a
word ; neither durft any man from that day
forth alk him any more queftions.

The nineteenth Sunday after Trinity.

The ColleSt.

OGod, forafmuch as without thee we are
not able to pleafe thee ; Mercifully grant,
that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct
and rule our hearts ; through Jefus Chrift our
Lord.

The nineteenth Sunday after Trinity.

[, The Epiftle. Ephef. iv. 17.

THIS I fay therefore, and teftify in the
Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as
lather Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their
jmind; having the underftanding darkened,
[being alienated from the life of God through
I the ignorance that is in them, becaufe of the
jblindnefs of their heart : who, being paft feel
ing, have given themfelves over unto lafcivi-
pufnefs, to work all uncleannefs with greedi-
aefs. But ye have not fo learned Chrift; if
To be that ye have heard him, and have been
:aught by him, as the truth is in Jefus : that
lye put off, concerning the former converfa-
don, the old man, which is corrupt according
i :o the deceitful lufts ; and be renewed in the
T pirit of your mind ; and that ye put on the
lew man, which after God is created in right-
i ^oufnefs and true holinefs. Wherefore, put-
ing away lying, fpeak every man truth with
lis neighbour : for we are members one of
mother. Be ye angry and fin not : let not
:he fun go down upon your wrath : neither
*ive place to the devil. Let him that ftole
leal no more ; but rather let him labour,
working with his hands the thing which is
*ood, that he may have to give to him that
leedeth. Let no corrupt communication pro
ceed out of your mouth, but that which is
*ood to the ufe of edifying, that it may mi-

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nifter grace unto the hearers. And grieve
not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are
fealed unto the day of redemption. Let all
bitternefs, and wrath, and anger, and cla
mour, and evil-fpeaking, be put away from
you, with all malice. And be ye kind one
to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Chrift s fake hath
forgiven you.

The Go/pel St. Matth. ix. 1.

JESUS entered into a fhip, and pafled over,
and came into his own city. And behold,
they brought to him a man fick of the palfy,
lying on a bed. And Jefus, feeing their faith,
faid unto the fick of the palfy, Son, be of good
cheer, thy fins be forgiven thee. And behold,
certain of the Scribes faid within themfelves,
This man blalphemeth. And Jefus, knowing
their thoughts, faid, Wherefore think ye evil
in your hearts ? For whether is eafier to fay,
Thy fins be forgiven thee ? or to fay, Arife,
and walk ? But that ye may know that the
Son of man hath power on earth to forgive
fins, (then faith he to the fick of the palfy,)
Arife, take up thy bed, and go unto thine
houfe. And he arofe, and departed to his
houfe. But when the multitude faw it, they
marvelled, and glorified God, who had given
fuch power unto men.

The twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

Tlie Colleffi.

Almighty and moft merciful God, of thy
bountiful goodnefs keep us, we befeech
thee, from all things that may hurt us ; that
we, being ready both in body and foul, may
cheerfully accomplifh thofe things that thou
wouldeft have done ; through Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.

The Epijlle. Ephef. v. 15.

SEE then that ye walk circumfpe&ly, not
as fools, but as wife, redeeming the time,
becaufe the days are evil. Wherefore be ye
not unwife, but underttanding what the will
of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine,
wherein is excefs ; but be filled with the Spi
rit ; fpeaking to yourfelves in pfalms, and
hymns, and fpiritual fongs ; finging and mak
ing melody in your heart to the Lord ; giving
thanks always for all things unto God and the
Father, in the Name of our Lord Jefus Chrift;
fubmitting yourfelves one to another in the
fear of God.

The Go/pel. St. Matth. xxii. 1.

JESUS faid, The Kingdom of heaven is
like unto a certain king, who made a mar
riage for his fon ; and fent forth his fervants
to call them that were bidden to the wedding;

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and they would not come. Again, he fent
forth other fervants, faying, Tell them which
are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my din
ner ; my oxen and my failings are killed, and
all things are ready ; come unto the mar
riage. But they made light of it, and went
their ways, one to his farm, another to his
merchandife : and the remnant took his fer-
vants, and entreated them fpitefully, and flew
them. But when the king heard thereof, he
was wroth ; and he fent forth his armies, and
deftroyed thofe murderers, and burnt up their
city. Then faith he to his fervants, The wed
ding is ready, but they who were bidden were
not worthy. Go ye therefore into the high
ways, and as many as ye fhall find bid to the
marriage. So thofe fervants went out into the
high- ways, and gathered together all, as many
as they found, both bad and good ; and the
wedding was furniftied with guefts. And when
the king came in to fee the guefts, he faw
there a man which had not on a wedding-
garment. And he faith unto him, Friend,
how cameft thou in hither, not having a wed
ding-garment? And he was fpeechlefs. Then
faid the king to the fervants, Bind him hand
and foot, and take him away, and caft him
into outer darknefs : there fhall be weeping
and gnafliing of teeth. For many are called,
but few are chofen.

The one and twentieth Sunday after Trinity.
The Collect. i**4o} fei ^

GRANT, we befeech thee, merciful Lord,
to thy faithful people pardon and peace,
that they may be cleanfed from all their fins,
and ferve thee with a quiet mind ; through
Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epijlle. Ephef. vi. 10. iHnp

MY brethren, be ftrong in the Lord, and
in the power of his might. Put on the
whole armour of God, that ye may be able to
ftand againft the wiles of the devil. For we
wreftle not againft flefli and blood, but a-
gainft principalities, againft powers, againft
the rulers of the darknefs of this world, againft
fpiritual wickednefs in high places. Where
fore take unto you the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withftand in the evil
day, and, having done all, to ftand. Stand
therefore, having your loins girt about with
truth ; and having on the breaft-plate of right-
eoufnefs; and your feet Ihod with the pre
paration of the Gofpel of peace; above all,
taking the fhield of faith, wherewith ye fhall
be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked ; and take the helmet of falvation, and
the fword of the Spirit, which is the Word of
God : praying always with all prayer and fup-
plication in the Spirit, and watching there
unto with all perfeverance, and fupplication

The one and twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

for all faints; and for me, that utterance may
be given unto me, that I may open my mouth
boldly, to make known the myftery of the
Gofpel, for which I am an ambaffador in
bonds ; that therein I may fpeak boldly, as I
ought to fpeak.

The Gofpel. St. John iv. 46.

THERE was a certain nobleman, whofe
fon was fick at Capernaum. When he
heard that Jefus was come out of Judaea into
Galilee, he went unto him, and befought him
that he would come down and heal his fon ;
for he was at the point of death. Then faid
Jefus unto him, Except ye fee iigns and won
ders, ye will not believe. The nobleman faith
unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
Jefus faith unto him, Go thy way, thy fon
liveth. And the man believed the word that
Jefus had fpoken unto him, and he went his
way. And, as he was now going down, his
fervants met him, and told him, faying, Thy
fon liveth. Then enquired he of them the
hour when he began to amend : and they faid
unto him, Yefterday at the feventh hour the
fever left him. So the father knew that it
was at the fame hour, in the which Jefus faid
unto him, Thy fon liveth ; and himfelf believ
ed, and his whole houfe. This is again the
fecond miracle that Jefus did, when he was
come out of Judaea into Galilee.

The two and twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

The Collect.

LORD, we befeech thee to keep thy houf-
hold the Church in continual godlinefs ;
that through thy protection it may be free
from all adverfities, and devoutly given to
ferve thee in good works, to the glory of
thy Name; through Jefus Chrift our Lord.
Amen.

Tlie Epiftle. Phil. i. 3.

1 Thank my God upon every remembrance
of you, (always in every prayer of mine
for yovi all making requeft with joy,) for your
fellowftiip in the Gofpel from the firft day un
til now ; being confident of this veiy thing,
that he who hath begun a good work in you
will perform it until the day of Jefus Chrift ;
even as it is meet for me to think this of you
all, becaufe I have you in my heart, inafmuch
as both in my bonds, and in the defence and
confirmation of the Gofpel, ye all are par
takers of my grace. For God is my record,
how greatly I long after you all in the bowels
of Jefus Chrift. And this I pray, that your
love may abound yet more and more in know
ledge, and in all judgement : that ye may ap
prove things that are excellent, that ye may
be fincere, and without offence, till the day of
Chrift : being filled with the fruits of right-
eoufnefs, which are by Jefus Chrift, unto the
glory and praife of God.

The two and twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

The Go/pel St. Matth. xviii. 21.

PETER faid unto Jefus, Lord, how oft
fliall my brother fin againft me, and I
forgive him ? till feven times ? Jefus faith un
to him, I fay not unto thee, until feven times;
but until feven ty times feven. Therefore is
the Kingdom of heaven likened unto a cer
tain king, which would take account of his
fervants. And when he had begun to reckon,
one was brought unto him, which owed him
ten thoufand talents. But forafmuch as he had
not to pay, his lord commanded him to be
fold, and his wife and children, and all that
he had, and payment to be made. The fer-
vant therefore fell down and worftiipped him,
faying, Lord, have patience with me, and I
will pay thee all. Then the lord of that fer-
vant was moved with compaffion, and loof-
ed him, and forgave him the debt. But the
fame fervant went out, and found one of his
fellow-fervants, which owed him an hundred
pence; and he laid hands 011 him, and took
him by the throat, faying, Pay me that thou
oweft. And his fellow-fervant fell down at
his feet, and befought him, faying, Have pa
tience with me, and I will pay thee all. And
he would not ; but went and caft him into
prifon, till he fhould pay the debt. So when
his fellow-fervants faw what was done, they
were very forry, and came and told unto their

The three and twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

lord all that was done. Then his lord, after
that he had called him, faid unto him, O thou
wicked fervant, I forgave thee all that debt,
becaule thou defiredft me : fhouldeft not thou
alfo have had compaffion on thy fellow-fer-
vant, even as I had pity on thee ? And his
lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tor
mentors, till he fhould pay all that was due
unto him. So like wife fhall my heavenly Fa
ther do alfo unto you, if ye from your hearts
forgive not every one his brother their tref-
palfes.

The three and twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

The ColleSt.

OGod, our refuge and ftrength, who art
the author of all godlinefs ; Be ready,
we befeech thee, to hear the devout prayers
of thy Church ; and grant that thofe things
which we afk faithfully we may obtain ef-
fe&ually ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord.
Amen.

TheEpiJlle. Phil. iii. 17.

BRETHREN, be followers together of
me, and mark them which walk fo as ye
have us for an enfample. (For many walk, of
whom I have told you often, and now tell you
even weeping, that they are the enemies of
the crofs of Chrift ; whofe end is deftru&ion,

Tlie three and twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

whofe god is their belly, and whofe glory is in
their fhame, who mind earthly things.) For
our converfation is in heaven ; from whence
alfo we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jefus
Chrift ; who (hall change our vile body, that it
may be faftiioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby he is able
even to fubdue all things unto himfelf.

The Go/pel St. Matth. xxii. 15.

THEN went the Pharifees and took coun-
fel how they might entangle him in his
talk. And they fent out unto him their dif-
ciples, with the Herodians, faying, Mailer, we
know that thou art true, and teacheft the way
of God in truth, neither careft thou for any
man : for thou regarded not the perfon of
men. Tell us therefore, What thinkeft thou?
Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caefar, or not?
But Jefus perceived their wickednefs, and
faid, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites ? fhew
me the tribute-money. And they brought
unto him a peny. And he faith unto them,
Whofe is this image and fuperfcription? They
fay unto him, Csefar s. Then faith he unto
them, Render therefore unto Caefar the things
which are Csefar s ; and unto God the things
that are God s. When they had heard thefe
words, they marvelled, and left him, and went
their way.

The four and twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

Tlie Collect.

OLord, we befeech thee, abfolve thy peo
ple from their offences ; that through
thy bountiful goodnefs we may all be deliver
ed from the bands of thofe fins, which by our
frailty we have committed : Grant this, O hea
venly Father, for Jefus Chrift s fake, our bleff-
ed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

The Epijlle. Col. i. 3.

WE give thanks to God and the Father of
our Lord Jefus Chrift, praying always
for you, fince we heard of your faith in Chrift
Jefus, and of the love which ye have to all
the faints ; for the hope which is laid up for
you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the
word of the truth of the Gofpel; which is
come unto you, as it is in all the world, and
bringeth forth fruit, as it doth alfo in you,
fince the day ye heard of it, and knew the
grace of God in truth. As ye alfo learned
of Epaphras, our dear fellow-fervant, who
is for you a faithful minifter of Chrift ; who
alfo declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
For this caufe we alfo, fince the day we heard
it, do not ceafe to pray for you, and to defire
that ye might be filled with the knowledge of
his will in all wifdom and fpiritual underftand-
ing : that ye might walk worthy of the Lord
unto all pleafing, being fruitful in eveiy good
work, and increafing in the knowledge of God;

The four and twentieth Sunday of ter Irinity.

ftrengthened with all might, according to his
glorious power, unto all patience and long-
fuffering with joyfulnefs ; giving thanks unto
the Father, which hath made us meet to be
partakers of the inheritance of the faints in
light.

Tlie Go/pel. St. Matth. ix. 18.

WHILE Jefus fpake thefe things unto
John s difciples, behold, there came a
certain ruler, and worihipped him, faying, My
daughter is even now dead ; but come and lay
thy hand upon her, and fhe fhall live. And
Jefus arofe, and followed him, and fo did his
difciples. (And behold, a woman, which was
difeafed with an iffue of blood twelve years,
came behind him, and touched the hem of
his garment ; for (he faid within herfelf, If I
may but touch his garment, I fhall be whole.
But Jefus turned him about, and, when he
faw her, he faid, Daughter, be of good com
fort, thy faith hath made thee whole. And
the woman was made whole from that hour.)
And when Jefus came into the ruler s houfe,
and faw the minftrels and the people making
a noife, he faid unto them, Give place; for
the maid is not dead, but fleepeth. And they
laughed him to fcorn. But when the people
were put forth, he went in, and took her by
the hand, and the maid arofe. And the fame
hereof went abroad into all that land.

The Jive and twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

I The Collet.

STIR up, we befeech thee, O Lord, the
wills of thy faithful people; that they,
plenteoufly bringing forth the fruit of good
works, may of thee be plenteoufly rewarded ;
through Jefus Chrifl our Lord. Amen.

For the Epi/lle. Jer. xxiii. 5.

BEHOLD, the days come, faith the Lord,
that I will raife unto David a righteous
Branch, and a King fhall reign, and profper,
and fhall execute judgement and juftice in
the earth. In his days Judah fhall be faved,
and Ifrael fhall dwell fafely : and this is his
Name whereby he fhall be called, THE
LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. There
fore behold, the days come, faith the Lord,
that they fhall no more fay, The Lord liveth,
which brought up the children of Ifrael out
of the land of Egypt ; but, The Lord liveth,
which brought up, and which led the feed of
the houfe of Ifrael out of the north-country,
and from all countries whither I had driven
them ; and they fhall dwell in their own land.

I The Go/pel. St. John vi. 5.

VTHEN Jefus then lift up his eyes, and

faw a great company come unto him,

he faith unto Philip, Whence fhall we buy

bread that thefe may eat ? (And this he faid

The Jive and twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

to prove him ; for he himfelf knew what he
would do.) Philip anfwered him, Two hun
dred peny- worth of bread is not fufficient for
them, that every one of them may take a
little. One of his difciples, Andrew, Simon
Peter s brother, faith unto him, There is a lad
here, which hath five barley-loaves, and two
fmall fifties ; but what are they among fo
many ? And Jefus faid, Make the men fit
down. Now there was much grafs in the
place. So the men fat down, in number about
five thoufand. And Jefus took the loaves,
and, when he had given thanks, he diftri-
buted to the difciples, and the difciples to
them that were fet down, and likewife of the
fifties, as much as they would. When they
were filled, he faid unto his difciples, Gather
up the fragments that remain, that nothing
be loft. Therefore they gathered them toge
ther, and filled twelve bafkets with the frag
ments of the five barley-loaves, which re
mained over and above unto them that had
eaten. Then thofe men, when they had feen
the miracle that Jefus did, faid, This is of a
truth that Prophet that ftiould come into the
world.

5T If there be anymore Sundays before Advent-Sunday, the Service of some of
those Sundays that were omitted after the Epiphany shall be taken in to
supply so many as are here wanting. And if there be fewer, the overplus may
be omitted : Provided that this last Collect, Epistle, and Gospel shall always
be used upon the Sunday next before Advent.

Saint Andrew s Day.

The Collect.

A LMIGHTY God, who didft give fuch
-fV grace unto thy holy Apoftle Saint An
drew, that he readily obeyed the calling of
thy Son Jefus Chrift, and followed him with
out delay; Grant unto us all, that we, being
called by thy holy Word, may forthwith give
up ourfelves obediently to fulfil thy holy com
mandments; through the fame Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

The Epi/lle. Rom. x. 9.

JF thou lhalt confefs with thy mouth the
Lord Jefus, and (halt believe in thine
heart that God hath raifed him from the dead,
thou lhalt be faved. For with the heart man
believeth unto righteoufnefs, and with the
mouth confeffion is made unto falvation. For
the Scripture faith, Whofoever believeth on
him (hall not be afliamed. For there is no
difference between the Jew and the Greek :
for thq, fame Lord over all is rich unto all
that call upon him. For whofoever (hall call
upon the N ame of the Lord (hall be faved.
How then (hall they call on him, in whom they
have not believed? And how (hall they believe
in him, of whom they have not heard ? And
how (hall they hear without a preacher ? And
how (hall they preach, except they be fent ?
As it is written, How beautiful are the feet
of them that preach the Gofpel of peace, and

Saint Andrew s Day.

bring glad tidings of good things ! But they
have not all obeyed the Gofpel. For Efaias
faith, Lord, who hath believed our report ?
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hear
ing by the Word of God. But I fay, Have
they not heard? Yes verily, their found went
into all the earth, and their words unto the
ends of the world. But I fay, Did not Ifrael
know? Firft Mofes faith, I will provoke you
to jealoufy by them that are no people, and
by a foolilh nation I will anger you. But
Efaias is very bold, and faith, I was found of
them that fought me not ; I was made ma-
nifeft unto them that alked not after me. But
to Ifrael he faith, All day long I have ftretch-
ed forth my hands unto a difobedient and
gainfaying people.

The Gofpel St. Matth. iv. 18.

JESUS, walking by the fea of Galilee, faw
two brethren, Simon called Peter, and
Andrew his brother, calling a net into the
fea, (for they were fifhers ;) and he faith unto
them, Follow me; and I will make you fiftiers
of men. And they ftraightway left their nets,
and followed him. And going on from thence
he faw other two brethren, James the fon of
Zebedee, and John his brother, in a fhip with
Zebedee their father, mending their nets ; and
he called them. And they immediately left the
fliip and their father, and followed him.

Saint Thomas the Apoftle.

The Collect.

A LMIGHTY and everliving God, who for
-f^- the more confirmation of the faith didft
fuffer thy holy Apoftle Thomas to be doubt
ful in thy Son s refurredlion ; Grant us fo per-
fe&lt;ftly, and without all doubt, to believe in thy
Son Jefus Chrift, that our faith in thy fight
may never be reproved. Hear us, O Lord,
through the fame Jefus Chrift, to whom, with
thee and the Holy Ghoft, be all honour and
glory, now and for evermore. Amen.

Vie Epiftle. Ephef. ii. 19.

NOW therefore ye are no more ftrangers
and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with
the faints, and of the houlhold of God ; and
are built upon the foundation of the Apoftles
and Prophets, Jefus Chrift himfelf being the
chief corner-ftone ; in whom all the building,
fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy
temple in the Lord; in whom ye alfo are
builded together for an habitation of God,
through the Spirit.

The Go/pel. St. John xx. 24.

THOMAS, one of the twelve, called Didy-
mus, was not with them when Jefus
came. The other difciples therefore faid unto
him, We have feen the Lord. But he faid
mito them, Except I (hall fee in his hands
the print of the nails, and put my finger into

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The Converfion of Saint Paul.

the print of the nails, and thruft my hand
into his fide, I will not believe. And after
eight days again his difciples were within,
and Thomas with them : then came Jefus, the
doors being fhut, and flood in the midft, and
faid, Peace be unto you. Then faith he to
Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold
my hands ; and reach hither thy hand, and
thruft it into my fide; and be not faithlefs, but
believing. And Thomas anfwered and faid
unto him, My Lord, and my God. Jefus faith
unto him, Thomas, becaufe thou haft feen me,
thou haft believed ; bleffed are they that have
not feen, and yet have believed. And many
other figns truly did Jefus in the prefence of
his difciples, which are not written in this
book. But thefe are written, that ye might
believe that Jefus is the Chrift, the Son of
God ; and that believing ye might have life
through his Name.

The Converjion of Saint Paul.

Tfie Collect.

OGod, who, through the preaching of the
bleffed Apoftle Saint Paul, haft caufed
the -light of the Gofpel to fliine throughout
the world ; Grant, we befeech thee, that we,
having his wonderful converfion in remem
brance, may fhew forth our thankfulnefs unto

The Converjion of Saint Paul.

thee for the fame, by following the holy doc
trine which he taught ; through Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

For the Epi/lle. A6ts ix. 1.

AN D Saul, yet breathing out threatenings
and flaughter againft the difciples of the
Lord, went unto the high prieft, and defired
of him letters to Damafcus to the fynagogues,
that, if he found any of this way, whether
they were men or women, he might bring
them bound unto Jerufalem. And, as he jour
neyed, he came near Damafcus, and fuddenly
there fhined round about him a light from
heaven. And he fell to the earth, and heard
a voice faying unto him, Saul, Saul, why per-
fecuteft thou me? And he faid, Who art
thou, Lord ? And the Lord faid, I am Jefus
whom thou perfecuteft : it is hard for thee to
kick againft the pricks. And he, trembling
and aftonifhed, faid, Lord, what wilt thou
have me to do? And the Lord faid unto
him, Arife, and go into the city, and it (hall
be told thee what thou muft do. And the
men which journeyed with him flood fpeech-
lefs, hearing a voice, but feeing no man. And
Saul arofe from the earth, and when his eyes
were opened he faw no man ; but they led
him by the hand, and brought him into Da
mafcus. And he was three days without fight

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The Conner/ion of Saint Paul.

and neither did eat nor drink. And there
was a certain difciple at Damafcus, named
Ananias, and to him faid the Lord in a vifion,
Ananias. And he faid, Behold, I am here, j
Lord. And the Lord faid unto him, Arife, [
and go into the ftreet which is called Straight, \
and enquire in the houfe of Judas for one
called Saul, of Tarfus : for behold, he pray- I
eth, and hath feen in a vifion a man named
Ananias, coming in, and putting his hand on
him, that he might receive his fight. Then
Ananias anfwered, Lord, I have heard by
many of this man, how much evil he hath
done to thy faints at Jerufalem ; and here he
hath authority from the chief priefts to bind
all that call on thy Name. But the Lord faid
unto him, Go thy way ; for he is a chofen vef-
fel unto me, to bear my Name before the
Gentiles, and kings, and the children of If-
rael : for I will (hew him how great things
he muft fuffer for my Name s fake. And A-
nanias went his way, and entered into the
houfe ; and, putting his hands on him, faid,
Brother Saul, the Lord, (even Jefus that ap
peared unto thee in the way as thou cameft,)
hath fent me, that thou mighteft receive thy
fight, and be filled with the holy Ghoft. And
immediately there fell from his eyes as it had
been fcales ; and he received fight forthwith,
and arofe, and was baptized. And when he had

Tlie Converfion of Saint Paul.

received meat, he was ftrengthened. Then
was Saul certain days with the difciples which
were at Damafcus. And ftraightway he
preached Chrift in the fynagogues, that he
is the Son of God. But all that heard him
were amazed, and faid, Is not this he that
deftroyed them which called on this Name in
Jerufalem, and came hither for that intent,
that he might bring them bound unto the
chief priefts ? But Saul increafed the more
in ftrength, and confounded the Jews which
dwelt at Damafcus, proving that this is very
Chrift.

Tlie Go/pel St. Matth xix. 27.

PETER anfwered and faid unto Jefus,
Behold, we have forfaken all, and fol
lowed thee; what fhall we have therefore?
And Jefus faid unto them, Verily I fay unto
you, That ye which have followed me, in the
regeneration when the Son of man fhall fit
iir the throne of his glory, ye alfo Ihall fit up
on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes
of Ifrael. And every one that hath forfaken
houfes, or brethren, or lifters, or father, or
mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my
Name s fake, fhall receive an hundred-fold,
and fhall inherit everlafting life. But many
that are firft fhall be laft, and the laft fhalJ
be firft.

The Purification of Saint Mary.

The Prefentation ofChrift in the Temple, com
monly called, The Purification of Saint Mary
the Virgin.

The Collect.

A LMIGHTY and everliving God, we
/I- humbly befeech thy Majefty, that, as thy
only-begotten Son was this day prefented in
the temple in fubftance of our flefh, fo we may
be prefented unto thee with pure and clean
hearts, by the fame thy Son Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.

For the Epiftle. Mai. iii. 1 .

j. I/

BEHOLD, I will fend my meflenger, and
he fliall prepare the way before me : and
the Lord, whom ye feek, fhall fuddenly come
to his temple ; even the meflenger of the co
venant, whom ye delight in ; behold, he fliall
come, faith the Lord of hofts. But who may
abide the day of his coming ? and who fliall
ftand when he appeareth? for he is like a
refiner s fire, and like fullers foap. And he
fliall fit as a refiner and purifier of filver; and
he fliall purify the fons of Levi, and purge
them as gold and filver, that they may offer
unto the Lord an offering in righteoufnefs.
Then fliall the offerings of Judah and Jeru-
falem be pleafant unto the Lord, as in the
days of old, and as in former years. And I
will come near to you to judgement, and I will
be a fwift witnefs againft the forcerers, and

The Purification of Saint Mary.

againft the adulterers, and againft falfe fwear-
ers, and againft thofe that opprefs the hireling
in his wages, the widow, and the fatherlefs,
and that turn afide the ftranger from his right,
and fear not me, faith the Lord of hofts.

Tlie Go/pel. St. Luke ii. 22.^ &lt;^

AND when the days of her purification,
according to the Law of Mofes, were
accomplifhed, they brought him to Jerufalem,
to preient him to the Lord; (as it is written
in the Law of the Lord, Eveiy male that
openeth the womb ftiall be called holy to the
Lord ;) and to offer a facrifice, according to
that which is faid in the Law of the Lord, A
pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons.
And behold, there was a man in Jerufalem,
whofe name was Symeon ; and the fame man
was juft and devout, waiting for the confo-
lation of Ifrael : and the Holy Ghoft was up
on him. And it was revealed unto him by
the Holy Ghoft. that he fliould not fee death,
before he had feen the Lord s Chrift. And
he came by the Spirit into the temple ; and
when the parents brought in the child Jefus,
to do for him after the cuftom of the Law,
then took he him up in his arms, and blefled
God, and faid, Lord, now letteft thou thy fer-
vant depart in peace, according to thy word :
for mine eyes have feen thy falvation, which
thou haft prepared before the face of all peo-

Saint Matthias s Day.

pie; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the
glory of thy people Ifrael. And Jofeph and
his mother marvelled at thofe things which
were fpoken of him. And Symeon blefled
them, and faid unto Mary his mother, Be
hold, this child is let for the fall and rifing
again of many in Ifrael ; and for a fign which
ftiall be fpoken againft; (yea, a fword (hall
pierce through thy own foul alfo ;) that the
thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
And there was one Anna a prophetefs, the
daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Afer ;
fhe was of a great age, and had lived with
an huftmnd feven years from her virginity :
and fhe was a widow of about fourfcore and
four years ; which departed not from the tem
ple, but ferved God with failings and prayers
night and day. And flie coming in that in-
ftant gave thanks likewife unto the Lord, and
fpake of him to all them that looked for re
demption in Jerufalem. And when they had
performed all things according to the law of
the Lord, they returned into Galilee to their
own city Nazareth. And the child grew, and
waxed ftrong in fpirit, filled with wifdom ; and
the grace of God was upon him.

Saint Matthias s Day.

The Collect.

Almighty God, who into the place of
the traitor Judas didft choofe thy faithful

Saint Matthias s Day.

fervant Matthias to be of the number of the
twelve Apoftles ; Grant that thy Church, be
ing alway preferred from falfe Apoftles, may
be ordered and guided by faithful and true
paftors ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. A-
men.

For the Epijlle. A6ts i. 15.

IN thofe days Peter flood up in the midft
of the difciples, and faid, (the number of
the names together were about an hundred
and twenty,) Men and brethren, this Scrip
ture muft needs have been fulfilled, which the
Holy Ghoft by the mouth of David fpake be
fore concerning Judas, which was guide to
them that took Jefus : for he was numbered
with us, and had obtained part of this min-
iftry. Now this man purchafed a field with
the reward of iniquity ; and falling headlong
he burft afunder in the midft, and all his bow
els gufhed out. And it was known unto all
the dwellers at Jerufalem, infomuch as that
field is called in their proper tongue, Acelda
ma, that is to fay, The field of blood. For it
is written in the book of Pfalms, Let his ha
bitation be defolate, and let no man dwell
therein; and, His bifhoprick let another take.
Wherefore, of thefe men which have com-
panied with us all the time that the Lord
Jefus went in and out among us, beginning
from the baptifm of John, unto that fame day

Saint Matthias s Day.

that he was taken up from us, muft one be
ordained to be a witnefs with us of his re-
furrecftion. And they appointed two, Jofeph
called Barfabas, who was furnamed Juftus,
and Matthias. And they prayed, and faid,
Thou, Lord, which knoweft the hearts of all
men, fhew whether of thefe two thou haft
chofen ; that he may take part of this min-
iftry and apoftlelhip, from which Judas by
tranfgreffion fell, that he might go to his own
place. And they gave forth their lots ; and
the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was num
bered with the eleven Apoftles.

The Gofpel St. Matth. xi. 25.

AT that time Jefus anfwered and faid, I
thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven
and earth, becaufe thou haft hid thefe things
from the wife and prudent, and haft revealed
them unto babes. Even fo, Father, for fo it
feemed good in thy fight. All things are de
livered unto me of my Father : and no man
knoweth the Son, but the Father ; neither
knoweth any man the Father, fave the Son,
and he to whomfoever the Son will reveal
him. Come unto me, all ye that labour and
are heavy laden, and I will give you reft.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me ;
for I am meek and lowly in heart : and ye
(hall find reft unto your fouls. For my yoke
is eafy, and my burden is light.

Tlie Annunciation of the Ueffed Virgin Mary.

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WE befeech thee, O Lord, pour thy grace
into our hearts ; that, as we have known
the incarnation of thy Son Jefus Chrift by the
meffage of an angel, fo by his crofs and paf-
fion we may be brought unto the glory of his
refurre&ion ; through the fame Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

For the Epiftle. Ifaiah vii. 10.

MOREOVER, the Lord fpake again unto
Ahaz, faying, Afk thee a fign of the
Lord thy God; alk it either in the depth, or
in the height above. But Ahaz faid, I will
not alk, neither will I tempt the Lord. And
he faid, Hear ye now, O houfe of David; Is
it a finall thing for you to weaiy men, but
will ye weary my God alfo ? Therefore the
Lord himfelf Ihall give you a fign ; Behold, a
Virgin fhall conceive, and bear a fon, and
Ihall call his name Immanuel. Butter and
honey fhall he eat, that he may know to re-
fufe the evil, and choofe the good.

The Gofpel St. Luke i. 26.

AND in the fixth month the angel Gabriel
was fent from God unto a city of Gali
lee named Nazareth, to a Virgin efpoufed to
a man whofe name was Jofeph, of the houfe
of David; and the Virgin s name was Maiy.

The Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.

And the angel came in unto her, and faid,
Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord
is with thee ; blefled art thou among women.
And when ihe faw him ftie was troubled at
his faying, and caft in her mind what manner
of falutation this fliould be. And the angel
faid unto her, Fear not, Mary ; for thou haft
found favour with God. And behold, thou
(halt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth
a Son, and flialt call his name JESUS. He
(hall be great, and (hall be called the Son of
the Higheft; and the Lord God (hall give
unto him the throne of his father David. And
he (hall reign over the houfe of Jacob for
ever ; and of his kingdom there (hall be no
end. Then faid Mary unto the angel, How
(hall this be, feeing I know not a man ? And
the angel anfwered and faid unto her, The
Holy Ghoft (hall come upon thee, and the
power of the Higheft (hall overfliadow thee :
therefore alfo that holy thing which (hall be
born of thee (hall be called the Son of God.
And behold, thy coufin Elizabeth, (he hath
alfo conceived a fon in her old age ; and this
is the fixth month with her who was called
barren : for with God nothing (hall be im-
poffible. And Mary faid, Behold the hand
maid of the Lord ; be it unto me according
to thy word. And the angel departed from
her.

Saint Mark s Day.

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O Almighty God, who haft inftrucfted thy
holy Church with the heavenly docftrine
of thy Evangelift Saint Mark ; Give us grace,
that, being not like children carried away
with every blaft of vain docftrine, we may be
eftabliihed in the truth of thy holy Gofpel ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
The Epiftle. Ephef. iv. 7-

UNTO every one of us is given grace,
according to the meafure of the gift of
Chrift. Wherefore he faith, When he afcend
ed up on high, he led captivity captive, and
gave gifts unto men. (Now that he afcended,
what is it but that he alfo defcended firft into
the lower parts of the earth ? He that de
fcended is the fame alfo that afcended up far
above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
And he gave fome Apoftles, and fome Pro
phets, and fome Evangelifts, and fome Paftors
and Teachers ; for the perfecting of the faints,
for the work of the miniftry, for the edifying
of the body of Chrift ; till we all come in the
unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
meafure of the ftature of the fulnefs of Chrift;
that we henceforth be no more children, toff-
ed to and fro, and carried about with every
wind of dodhine, by the fleight of men, and
cunning craftinefs, whereby they lie in wait

Saint Mark s Day.

to deceive ; but fpeaking the truth in love,
may grow up into him in all things, which is
the head, even Chrift : from whom the whole
body fitly joined together, and compared by
that which every joint fupplieth, according to
the effedtual working in the meafure of every
part, maketh increafe of the body, unto the
edifying of itfelf in love.

The Go/pel. St. John xv. 1.

IAm the true vine, and my Father is the
hulbandman. Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit he taketh away ; and every
branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that
it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are
clean through the word which I have fpoken
unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As
the branch cannot bear fruit of itfelf, except
it abide in the vine ; no more can ye, except
ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the
branches. He that abideth in me, and I in
him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit ; for
without me ye can do nothing. If a man
abide not in me, he is caft forth as a branch,
and is withered; and men gather them, and
caft them into the fire, and they are burned.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in
you, ye ihall afk what ye will, and it (hall be
done unto you. Herein is my Father glori
fied, that ye bear much fruit ; fo fhall ye be
my difciples. As the Father hath loved me,

Saint Philip and Saint James s Day.

fo have I loved you : continue ye in my love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye ftiall abide
in my love; even as I have kept my Father s
commandments, and abide in his love. Thefe
things have I fpoken unto you, that my joy
might remain in you, and that your joy might
be full.

Saint Philip and Saint James s Day.

O Almighty God, whom truly to know is
everlafting life; Grant us perfedtly to
know thy Son Jefus Chrift to be the way, the
truth, and the life; that, following the fteps
of thy holy Apoftles, Saint Philip and Saint
James, we may ftedfaftly walk in the way that
leadeth to eternal life ; through the fame thy
Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. St. James i. 1 .

JAMES, a fervant of God and of the Lord
Jefus Chrift, to the twelve tribes which
are fcattered abroad, greeting. My brethren,
count it all joy when ye fall into divers temp
tations ; knowing this, that the trying of your

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faith worketh patience. But let patience have
her perfect work, that ye may be perfedl and
entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack
wifdom, let him afk of God, that giveth to all
men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it (hall
be given him. But let him afk in faith, nothing

Saint Philip and Saint James s Day.

wavering; for he that wavereth is like a wave
of the fea, driven with the wind, and tofled.
For let not that man think that he fliall re
ceive any thing of the Lord. A double-
minded man is unftable in all his ways. Let
the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is
exalted; but the rich in that he is made low;
becaufe as the flower of the grafs he fhall
pafs away. For the fun is no fooner rifen
with a burning heat, but it withereth the
grafs, and the flower thereof falleth, and the
grace of the faftiion of it periflieth: fo alfo
fliall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Blefled is the man that endureth temptation;
for when he is tried, he fliall receive the crown
of life, which the Lord hath promifed to them
that love him.

The Go/pel. St. John xiv. 1.

AN D Jefus faid unto his difciples, Let not
your heart be troubled; ye believe in
God, believe alfo in me. In my Father s houfe
are many manfions ; if it were not fo, I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you : and if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again, and receive you unto my-
felf, that where I am, there ye may be alfo.
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye
know. Thomas faith unto him, Lord, we
know not whither thou goeft, and how can
we know the way ? Jefus faith unto him, I

Saint Barnabas the Apoftle.

am the way, the truth, and the life : no man
cometh unto the Father but by me. If ye
had known me, ye fhould have known my
Father alfo : and from henceforth ye know
him, and have feen him. Philip faith unto
him, Lord, fhew us the Father, and it fufficeth
us. Jefus faith unto him, Have I been fo
long time with you, and yet haft thou not
known me, Philip? He that hath feen me
hath feen the Father; and how fayeft thou
then, Shew us the Father ? Believeft thou not
that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me? The words that I fpeak unto you I fpeak
not of myfelf ; but the Father that dwelleth in
me, he doeth the works. Believe me, that I
am in the Father, and the Father in me ; or
elfe believe me for the veiy works fake. Ve
rily, verily I fay unto you, He that believeth
on me, the works that I do (hall he do alfo;
and greater works than thefe (hall he do ; be-
caufe I go unto my Father. And whatfoever
ye (hall a(k in my Name, that will I do, that
the Father may be glorified iri the Son. If
ye (hall a(k any thing in my Name, I will
do it.

Saint Barnabas the Apojlle.

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OLord God Almighty, who didft endue
thy holy Apoftle Barnabas with fingular

Saint Barnabas the Apoftle.

of the Holy Ghoft ; Leave us not, we
befeech thee, deftitute of thy manifold gifts,
nor yet of grace to ufe them alway to thy
honour and glory ; through Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.

For the Epiflle. A6ts xi. 22.

TIDINGS of thefe things came unto the
ears of the Church which was in Jeru-
falem ; and they fent forth Barnabas, that he
fliould go as far as Antioch. Who, when he
came, and had feen the grace of God, was
glad ; and exhorted them all, that with pur-
pofe of heart they would cleave unto the
Lord. For he was a good man, and full of
the holy Ghoft, and of faith : and much peo
ple was added unto the Lord. Then depart
ed Barnabas to Tarfus, for to feek Saul. And
when he had found him, he brought him
unto Antioch. And it came to pafs, that a
whole year they affembled themfelves with
the Church, and taught much people ; and
the difciples were called Chriftians firft in An
tioch. And in thefe days came prophets from
Jerufalem unto Antioch. And there flood up
one of them named Agabus, and iignified by
the Spirit, that there fhould be great dearth
throughout all the world ; which came to
pafs in the days of Claudius Caefar. Then the
difciples, every man according to his ability,
determined to fend relief unto the brethren

Saint John Bapti/fs Day.

which dwelt in Judaea. Which alfo they did,
and fent it to the elders by the hands of Bar
nabas and Saul.

The Go/pel. St. John xv. 12.

THIS is my commandment, That ye love
one another, as I have loved you. Great
er love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friends. Ye are my
friends, if ye do whatfoever I command you.
Henceforth I call you not fervants ; for the
fervant knoweth not what his lord doeth : but
I have called you friends ; for all things that
I have heard of my Father I have made
known unto you. Ye have not chofen me,
but I have chofen you, and ordained you,
that ye fliould go and bring forth fruit, and
that your fruit fliould remain : that whatfo
ever ye fliall afk of the Father in my Name,
he may give it you.

Saint John Baptifts Day.

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A LMIGHTY God, by whofe providence
--* thy fervant John Baptift was wonder
fully born, and fent to prepare the way of
thy Son our Saviour, by preaching of repent
ance ; Make us fo to follow his do6lrine and
holy life, that we may truly repent according
to his preaching ; and after his example con-
ftantly fpeak the truth, boldly rebuke vice,

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Saint John Baptijfs Day.

and patiently fuffer for the truth s fake ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
For the Epijlle. Ifaiah xl. 1.

COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people,
faith your God. Speak ye comfortably
to Jerufalem, and ciy unto her, That her war
fare is accompliihed ; that her iniquity is par
doned : for ihe hath received of the Lord s
hand double for all her fins. The voice of
him that crieth in the wildernefs, Prepare ye
the way of the Lord, make ftraight in the
clefert a high-way for our God. Every valley
(hall be exalted, and every mountain and hill
fhall be made low, and the crooked fhall be
made ftraight, and the rough places plain.
And the glory of the Lord fhall be revealed,
and all flefh lhall fee it together : for the
mouth of the Lord hath fpoken it. The voice
faid,Cry. And he faid, What fhall I cry? All
flefh is grafs, and all the goodlinefs thereof is
as the flower of the field. The grafs wither-
eth, the flower fadeth, becaufe the Spirit of
the Lord bloweth upon it: furely the peo
ple is grafs. The grafs withereth, the flower
fadeth ; but the word of our God fhall ftand
for ever. O Zion, that bringeft good tidings,
get thee up into the high mountain : O Je
rufalem, that bringeft good tidings, lift up thy
voice with ftrength ; lift it up, be not afraid:
fay unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God.

Saint John Baptijfs Day.

Behold, the Lord God will come with ftrong
hand, and his arm (hall rule for him : behold,
his reward is with him, and his work before
him. He ftiall feed his flock like a ihepherd ;
he lhall gather the lambs with his arm, and
carry them in his bofom, and lhall gently lead
thofe that are with young.

The Go/pel St. Luke i. 57.

T^LISABETH s full time came that (he
t-J fliould be delivered; and (he brought
forth a fon. And her neighbours and her
coufins heard how the Lord had fhewed great
mercy upon her ; and they rejoiced with her.
And it came to pafs, that on the eighth day
they came to circumcife the child ; and they
called him Zacharias, after the name of his
father. And his mother anfwered and faid,
Not fo; but he fhall be called John. And
they faid unto her, There is none of thy kin
dred that is called by this name. And they
made ligns to his father, how he would have
him called. And he aiked for a writing-table,
and wrote, faying, His name is John. And
they marvelled all. And his mouth was open
ed immediately, and his tongue loofed, and
he fpake, and praifed God. And fear came
on all that dwelt round about them ; and all
thefe fayings were noifed abroad throughout
all the hill-country of Judaea. And all they

Saint John Bapti/fs Day.

that had heard them laid them up in their
hearts, faying, What manner of child fliall
this be ? And the hand of the Lord was with
him. And his father Zacharias was filled
with the holy Ghoft, and prophefied, faying,
Bleffed be the Lord God of Ifrael: for he
hath vifited and redeemed his people, and
hath raifed up an horn of falvation for us in
the houfe of his fervant David; as he fpake
by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have
been fince the world began ; that we ftiould
be faved from our enemies, and from the
hand of all that hate us ; to perform the mercy
promifed to our fathers, and to remember his
holy covenant ; the oath which he fware to
our father Abraham, that he would grant
unto us, that we, being delivered out of the
hands of our enemies, might ferve him with
out fear, in holinefs and righteoufnefs before
him all the days of our life. And thou, Child,
(halt be called the Prophet of the Higheft :
for thou (halt go before the face of the Lord
to prepare his ways ; to give knowledge of
falvation unto his people, by the remiffion of
their fins, through the tender mercy of our
God, whereby the day-fpring from on high
hath vifited us ; to give light to them that fit
in darknefs and in the fliadow of death, to
guide our feet into the way of peace. And
the child grew, and waxed ftrong in fpirit;

Saint Peter s Day.

and was in the deferts till the day of his
fhewing unto IfraeL

Saint Peter s Day.

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O Almighty God, who by thy Son Jefus
Chrift didft give to thy Apoftle Saint
Peter many excellent gifts, and command-
edft him earneftly to feed thy flock; Make,
we befeech thee, all Bilhops and Paftors dili
gently to preach thy holy Word, and the peo
ple obediently to follow the fame, that they
may receive the crown of everlafting glory ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
For the Epi/lle. A6ls xii. 1 .

ABOUT that time Herod the king ftretch-
ed forth his hands to vex certain of the
Church. And he killed James the brother of
John with the fword. And, becaufe he faw it
pleafed the Jews, he proceeded further to
take Peter alfo. (Then were the days of un
leavened bread.) And when he had appre
hended him, he put him in prifon, and de
livered him to four quaternions of foldiers
to keep him, intending after Eafter to bring
him forth to the people. Peter therefore was
kept in prifon ; but prayer was made without
ceafing of the Church unto God for him. And
when Herod would have brought him forth,
the fame night Peter was fleeping between

Saint Peter s Day.

two foldiers, bound with two chains ; and the
keepers before the door kept the prifon. And
behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him,
and a light fhined in the prifon ; and he fmote
Peter on the fide, and raifed him up, faying,
Arife up quickly. And his chains fell off from
his hands. And the angel faid unto him, Gird
thyfelf, and bind on thy fandals : and fo he
did. And he faith unto him, Caft thy gar
ment about thee, and follow me. And he
went out and followed him ; and wift hot that
it was true which was done by the angel ;
but thought he faw a vifion. When they were
paft the firft and the fecond ward, they came
unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city,
which opened to them of his own accord;
and they went out, and paffed on through
one ftreet, and forthwith the angel departed
from him. And when Peter was come to
himfelf, he faid, Now I know of a furety, that
the Lord hath fent his angel, and hath deli
vered me out of the hand of Herod, and from j]
all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
The Go/pel. St. Matth. xvi. 13.

WHEN Jefus came into the coafts of j
Csefarea Philippi, he afked his difciples,
faying, Whom do men fay that I, the Son of
man, am ? And they faid, Some fay that thou
art John the Baptift, fome Elias, and others
Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He faith

Saint James the Apoftle.

unto them, But whom fay ye that I am? And
Simon Peter anfwered and faid, Thou art
Chrift, the Son of the living God. And Jefus
anfwered and faid unto him, Blefled art thou,
Simon Bar-jona: for flefh and blood hath not
revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is
in heaven. And I fay alfo unto thee, That
thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will
build my Church ; and the gates of hell (hall
not prevail againft it. And I will give unto
thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven : and
whatfoever thou (halt bind on earth ftiall be
bound in heaven ; and whatfoever thou lhalt
loofe on earth (hall be loofed in heaven.

Saint James the Apoftle.

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GRANT, O merciful God, that as thine
holy Apoftle Saint James, leaving his
father and all that he had, without delay was
obedient unto the calling of thy Son Jefus
Chrift, and followed him ; fo we, forfaking all
worldly and carnal affe6tions, may be ever
more ready to follow thy holy commandments;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For the Epiftle. A6ls xi. 27, and part of

Chap. xii.

IN thofe days came prophets from Jerufa-
lem unto Antioch. And there ftood up
one of them named Agabus, and fignified by

Saint James the Apoftle.

the Spirit, that there ihould be great dearth
throughout all the world ; which came to pafs
in the days of Claudius Caefar. Then the dif-
ciples, eveiy man according to his ability, de
termined to fend relief unto the brethren
which dwelt in Judaea. Which alfo they did,
and fent it to the elders by the hands of Bar
nabas and SauL Now about that time He
rod the king ftretched forth his hands to vex
certain of the Church. And he killed James
the brother of John with the fword. And, be-
caufe he faw it pleafed the Jews, he proceed
ed further to take Peter alfo.

The Go/pel St. Matth. xx. 20.

THEN came to him the mother of Zebe-
dee s children with her fons, worfhipping
him, and defiring a certain thing of him. And
he faid unto her, What wilt thou ? She faith
unto him, Grant that thefe my two fons may
fit, the one on thy right hand, and the other
on the left, in thy kingdom. But Jefus an-
fwered and faid, Ye know not what ye alk.
Are ye able to drink of the cup that I (hall
drink of, and to be baptized with the baptifm
that I am baptized with? They fay unto him,
We are able. And he faith unto them, Ye
ihall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized
with the baptifm that I am baptized with : but
to fit on my right hand, and on my left, is
not mine to give; but it ihall be given to

Saint Bartholomew the Apoftle.

them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
And when the ten heard it, they were moved
with indignation againft the two brethren.
But Jefus called them unto him, and faid, Ye
know that the princes of the Gentiles exercife
dominion over them, and they that are great
exercife authority upon them. But it (hall
not be fo among you : but whofoever will be
great among you, let him be your minifter;
and whofoever will be chief among you, let
him be your fervant : even as the Son of man
came not to be miniftered unto, but to min
ifter, and to give his life a ranfom for many.

Saint Bartholomew the Apojlle.
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O Almighty and everlafting God, who didft
give to thine Apoftle Bartholomew grace
truly to believe and to preach thy Word ;
Grant, we befeech thee, unto thy Church, to
love that Word which he believed, and both
to preach and receive the fame; through Je
fus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For the Epijlle. Acfts v. 12.

BY the hands of the Apoftles were many
figns and wonders wrought among the
people : (and they were all with one accord in
Solomon s porch : and of the reft durft no
man join himfelf to them : but the people

Saint Bartholomew the Apojlle.

magnified them : and believers were the more
added to the Lord, multitudes both of men
and women :) infomuch that they brought
forth the fick into the ftreets, and laid them
on beds and couches, that at the leaft the
fhadow of Peter paffing by might overlhadow
fome of them. There came alfo a multitude
out of the cities round about unto Jerufalem,
bringing fick folks, and them which were
vexed with unclean fpirits ; and they were
healed every one.

The Go/pel. St. Luke xxii. 24.

AN D there was alfo a ftrife among them,
which of them (hould be accounted the
greateft. And he faid unto them, The kings
of the Gentiles exercife lordfhip over them ;
and they that exercife authority upon them
are called benefadlors. But ye fhall not be
fo : but he that is greateft among you, let him
be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he
that doth ferve. For whether is greater, he
that fitteth at meat, or he that ferveth ? is not
he that fitteth at meat? but I am among you
as he that ferveth. Ye are they which have
continued with me in my temptations. And
I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father
hath appointed unto me; that ye may eat and
drink at my table in my kingdom, and fit on
thrones judging the twelve tribes of Ifrael.

Saint Matthew the Apojlle.

The Collect. *?; r

O Almighty God, who by thy bleffed Son
didft call Matthew from the receipt of
cuftom to be an Apoftle and Evangelift; Grant
us grace to forfake all covetous defires, and
inordinate love of riches, and to follow the
fame thy Son Jefus Chrift, who liveth and
reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoft, one
God, world without end. Amen.

The Epi/lle. 2 Cor. iv. 1 .

nHHEREFORE feeing we have this min-
JL iftry, as we have received mercy, we faint
not ; but have renounced the hidden things
of diflionefty, not walking in craftinefs, nor
handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by
manifeftation of the truth commending our-
felves to every man s confcience in the fight
of God. But if our gofpel be hid, it is hid
to them that are loft : in whom the God of
this world hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not, left the light of the glo
rious Gofpel of Chrift, who is the image of
God, fhould fhine unto them. For we preach
not ourfelves, but Chrift Jefus the Lord ; and
ourfelves your fervants for Jefus fake. For
God, who commanded the light to fhine out
of darknefs, hath fliined in our hearts, to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of
God, in the face of Jefus Chrift,

Saint Michael and all Angels.

The Go/pel. St. Matth. ix. 9.

AND as Jefus pafled forth from thence,
he faw a man named Matthew, fitting at
the receipt of cuftom : and he faith unto him,
Follow me. And he arofe, and followed him.
And it came to pafs, as Jefus fat at meat in
the houfe, behold, many Publicans and finners
came, and fat down with him and his dif-
ciples. And when the Pharifees faw it, they
faid unto his difciples, Why eateth your Maf-
ter with Publicans and finners ? JBut when
Jefus heard that, he faid unto them, They
that be whole need not a phyfician, but they
that are fick. But go ye and learn what that
meaneth, I will have mercy, and not facrifice;
for I am not come to call the righteous, but
finners to repentance.

Saint Michael and all Angels.

The ColleSt.

OEverlafting God, who hail ordained and
conftituted the fervices of Angels and
men in a wonderful order ; Mercifully grant,
that as thy holy Angels alway do thee fer-
vice in heaven, fo by thy appointment th&lt;
may fuccour and defend us 011 earth ; throuj
Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

For the Epijile. Rev. xii. 7.

THERE was war in heaven : Michael and
his angels fought againft the dragon, and

Saint Michael and all Angels.

the dragon fought and his angels ; and pre
vailed not, neither was their place found any
more in heaven. And the great dragon was
caft out, that old ferpent, called the devil and
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world ; he
was caft out into the earth, and his angels
were caft out with him. And I heard a loud
voice faying in heaven, Now is come falva-
tion, and ftrength, and the kingdom of our
God, and the power of his Chrift : for the ac-
cufer of our brethren is caft down, which ac-
cufed them before our God day and night. And
they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,
and by the word of their teftimony ; and they
loved not their lives unto the death. There
fore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in
them. Wo to the inhabiters of the earth, and
of the fea : for the devil is come down unto
you, having great wrath, becaufe he knoweth
that he hath but a fhort time.

The Gofpel St. Matth. xviii. 1.

AT the fame time came the difciples unto
Jefus, faying, Who is the greateft in the
Kingdom of heaven ? And Jefus called a
little child unto him, and fet him in the midft
of them, and faid, Verily I fay unto you, Ex
cept ye be converted, and become as little
children, ye fliall not enter into the Kingdom
of heaven. Whofoever therefore (hall humble

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Saint Luke the Evangelift.

himfelf as this little child, the fame is greateft
in the Kingdom of heaven. And whofo (hall
receive one fuch little child in my Name, re-
ceiveth me. But whofo fhall offend one of
thefe little ones which believe in me, it were
better for him that a milftone were hanged
about his neck, and that he were drowned in
the depth of the fea. Wo unto the world be-
caufe of offences : for it muft needs be that
offences come : but wo to that man by whom
the offence cometh. Wherefore if thy hand
or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and caft
them from thee : it is better for thee to en
ter into life halt or maimed, rather than hav
ing two hands or two feet to be caft into
everlafting fire. And if thine eye offend thee,
pluck it out, and caft it from thee : it is bet
ter for thee to enter into life with one eye, ra
ther than having two eyes to be caft into hell-
fire. Take heed that ye defpife not one of
thefe little ones ; for I fay unto you, That in
heaven their angels do always behold the face
of my Father which is in heaven.

Saint Luke the Evangelift.

: ^; The ColleSt.

A LMIGHTY God, who calledft Luke the
^*- Phyfician, whofe praife is in the Gofpel,
to be an Evangelift, and Phyfician of the foul;

Saint Luke the Evangelift.

May it pleafe thee, that, by the wholfome
medicines of the dodlrine delivered by him,
all the difeafes of our fouls may be healed ;
through the merits of thy Son Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.

The Epijlle. 2 Tim. iv. 5.

WATCH thou in all things, endure afflic
tions, do the work of an Evangelift,
make full proof of thy miniftry. For I am
now ready to be offered, and the time of my
departure is at hand. I have fought a good
fight, I have finilhed my courfe, I have kept
the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me
a crown of righteoufnefs, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, fhall give me at that day :
and not to me only, but unto all them alfo
that love his appearing. Do thy diligence to
come fhortly unto me : for Demas hath for-
faken me, having loved this prefent world,
and i$ departed unto Theflalonica ; Crefcens
to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only Luke
is with me. Take Mark and bring him with
thee : for he is profitable to me for the min
iftry. And Tychicus have I fent to Ephefus.
The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus,
when thou comeft, bring with thee ; and the
books, but efpecially the parchments. Alexan
der the copper-fmith did me much evil : the
Lord reward him according to his works. Of

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Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apoflles.

whom be thou ware alfo, for he hath greatly
withftood our words.

The Go/pel. St. Luke x. 1.

THE Lord appointed other feventy alfo,
and fent them two and two before his
face into every city and place whither he him-
felf would come. Therefore faid he unto them,
The harveft truly is great, but the labourers
are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the
harveft, that he would fend forth labourers
into his harveft. Go your ways ; behold, I
fend you forth as lambs among wolves. Carry
neither purfe, nor fcrip, nor fhoes, and falute
no man by the way. And into whatfoever
houfe ye enter, firft fay, Peace be to this
houfe. And if the fon of peace be there,
your peace fliall reft upon it : if not, it fhall
turn to you again. And in the fame houfe re
main, eating and drinking fuch things as they
give : for the labourer is worthy of his hire.

Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apoftles.

The CotteSl.

O Almighty God, who haft built thy Church
upon the foundation of the Apoftles and
Prophets, Jefus Chrift himfelf being the head
corner-ftone ; Grant us fo to be joined toge
ther in unity of fpirit by their do6lrine, that
we may be made an holy temple acceptable

Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apoftles.

unto thee ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord.
Amen.

TheEpiJlle. St. Jude 1.

TUDE, the fervant of Jefus Chrift, and
brother of James, to them that are fanc-
tified by God the Father, and preferred in
Jefus Chrift, and called: Mercy unto you,
and peace, and love be multiplied. Beloved,
when I gave all diligence to write unto you
of the common falvation, it was needful for
me to write unto you, and exhort you, that
ye fliould earneftly contend for the faith which
was once delivered unto the faints. For there
are certain men crept in unawares, who were
before of old ordained to this condemnation ;
ungodly men, turning the grace of our God
into lafcivioufnefs, and denying the only Lord
God, and our Lord Jefus Chrift. I will there
fore put you in remembrance, though ye once
knew this, how that the Lord, having faved
the people out of the land of Egypt, after
ward deftroyed them that believed not. And
the angels which kept not their firft eftate,
but left their own habitation, he hath referv-
ed in everlafting chains under darknefs unto
the judgement of the great day. Even as
Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about
them in like manner giving themfelves over
to fornication, and going after ftrange flefli,
are fet forth for an example, fuffering the

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Saint Simon mid Saint Jude, Apoftles.

vengeance of eternal fire. Likewife alfo thefe
filthy dreamers defile the flefh, defpife domi
nion, and fpeak evil of dignities.

The Gq/peL St. John xv. 17.

THESE things I command you, that ye
love one another. If the world hate you,
ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love
his own : but becaufe ye. are not of the world,
but I have chofen you out of the world, there
fore the world hateth you. Remember the
word that I faid unto you, The fervant is not
greater than the lord : if they have perfe-
cuted me, they will alfo perfecute you; if they
have kept my faying, they will keep your s
alfo. But all thefe things will they do unto
you for my Name s fake, becaufe they know
not him that fent me. If I had not come
and fpoken unto them, they had not had fin :
but now they have no cloke for tjieir fin. He
that hateth me hateth my Father alfo. If I
had not done among them the works which
none other man did, they had not had fin ;
but now have they both feen, and hated, both
me and my Father. But this cometh to pafs,
that the word might be fulfilled that is writ
ten in their law, They hated me without a
caufe. But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will fend unto you from the Father*

All Saints Day.

even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth
from the Father, he lhall teftify of me. And

Lalfo ftiall bear witnefs, becaufe ye have
n with me from the beginning.

All Saints Day.
The Collect.

O Almighty God, who haft knit together
thine ele6t in one communion and fel-
lowftiip, in the myftical body of thy Son Chrift
our Lord ; Grant us grace fo to follow thy
blefled Saints in all virtuous and godly liv
ing, that we may come to thofe unfpeakable
joys, which thou haft prepared for them that
unfeignedly love thee ; through Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

For the Epi/lle. Rev. vii. 2.

AND I faw another angel afcending from
the eaft, having the feal of the living
God ; and he cried with a loud voice to the
four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the
earth, and the fea, faying, Hurt not the earth,
neither the fea, nor the trees, till we have
fealed the fervants of our God in their fore
heads. And I heard the number of them
which were fealed ; and there were fealed an
hundred and forty and four thoufand, of all
the tribes of the children of Ifrael.

Of the tribe of Juda were fealed twelve
thoufaad.

All Saints Day.

Of the tribe of Reuben were fealed twelve
thoufand.

Of the tribe of Gad were fealed twelve
thoufand.

Of the tribe of Afer were fealed twelve
thoufand.

Of the tribe of Nephthali were fealed
twelve thoufand.

Of the tribe of Manafles were fealed
twelve thoufand.

Of the tribe of Symeon were fealed twelve
thoufand.

Of the tribe of Levi were fealed twelve
thoufand.

Of the tribe of Ifachar were fealed twelve
thoufand.

Of the tribe of Zabulon were fealed twelve
thoufand.

Of the tribe of Jofeph were fealed twelve
thoufand.

Of the tribe of Benjamin were fealed
twelve thoufand.

After this I beheld, and lo, a great multi
tude, which no man could number, of all na
tions, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,
flood before the throne, and before the Lamb,
clothed with white robes, and palms in their
hands ; and cried with a loud voice, faying,
Salvation to our God which fitteth upon the
throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the an-

All Saints Day.

gels ftood round about the throne, and about
the elders, and the four beafts, and fell before
the throne on their faces, and worfhipped
God, faying, Amen ; Bleffing, and glory, and
wifdom, and thankfgiving, and honour, and
power, and might, be unto our God for ever
and ever. Amen.

The Go/pel St. Matth. v. 1.

JESUS, feeing the multitudes, went up into
a mountain ; and when he was fet, his
difciples came unto him. And he opened his
mouth, and taught them, faying, Blefled are
the poor in fpirit : for their s is the kingdom
of heaven. Blefled are they that mourn : for
they fhall be comforted. Blefled are the meek:
for they fhall inherit the earth. Blefled are
they which do hunger and thirft after righte-
oufnefs : for they fhall be filled. Blefled are
the merciful : for they fhall obtain mercy.
Blefled are the pure in heart : for they fhall
fee God. Blefled are the peace-makers : for
they fhall be called the children of God. Bleff-
ed are they which are perfecuted for righte-
oufnefs fake, for their s is the kingdom of
heaven. Blefled are ye, when men fhall re
vile you, and perfecute you, and fhall fay all
manner of evil againft you falfely for my fake.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad ; for great is
your reward in heaven : for fo perfecuted they
the prophets which were before you.

THE ORDER OF THE

ADMINISTRATION OF THE LORD S SUPPER,

HOLY COMMUNION.

1T So many as intend to be partakers of the holy Communion shall signify their
names to the Curate, at least some time the day before.

5T And if any of those be an open and notorious evil liver, or have done any
wrong to his neighbours by word or deed, so that the Congregation be thereby
offended ; the Curate, havi?ig knowledge thereof, shall call him and adver
tise him, that in any wise he presume not to come to the Lord s Table, until
he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented and amended his for
mer naughty life, that the Congregation may thereby be satisfied, which be
fore were offended ; and that he hath recompensed the parties, to whom he
hath done wrong ; or at least declare himself to be in full purpose so to do,
as soon as he conveniently may.

IT The same order shall the Curate use with those betwixt whom he perceiveth
malice and hatred to reign ; not suffering them to be partakers of the Lord s
Table, until he know them to be reconciled. And if one of the parties so at
variance be content to forgive from the bottom of his heart all that the other
hath trespassed against him, and to make amends for that he himself hath
offended ; and the other party will not be persuaded to a godly unity, but re
main still in his frowardness and malice : the Minister in that case ought to
admit the penitent person to the holy Communion, and not him that is obsti
nate. Provided that every Minister so repelling any, as is specified in this,
or the next precedent Paragraph of this Rubrick, shall be obliged to give an
account of the same to the Ordinary within fourteen days after at the far
thest. And the Ordinary shall proceed against the offending person accord
ing to the Canon.

5f The Table, at the Communion-time having a fair white linen cloth upon it,
shall stand in the Body of the Church, or in the Chancel, where Morning and
Evening Prayer are appointed to be said. And the Priest standing at the
North-side of the Table shall say the Lord s Prayer, with the Collect follow
ing, the people kneeling.

OUR Father which art in heaven, Hallow
ed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive
us our trefpafles, As we forgive them that
trefpafs againft us. And lead us not into
temptation ; But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Tlie Collect.

ALMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts
be open, all defires known, and from

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whom no fecrets are hid; Cleanfe the thoughts
of our hearts by the infpiration of thy Holy
Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and
worthily magnify thy holy Name ; through
Chrift our Lord. Amen.

IT Then shall the Priest, turning to the people, rehearse distinctly all the TEN
COMMANDMENTS; and the peopk still kneeling shall, after every
Commandment, ask God mercy for their transgression thereof for th time
past, and grace to keep the same for the time to come, as folloTveth.

Mini/ler.

GOD fpake thefe words, and faid ; I am
the Lord thy God : Thou (halt have
none other gods but me.

People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and
incline our hearts to keep this law.

Mini/ler. Thou (halt not make to thyfelf
any graven image, nor the likenefs of any
thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth
beneath, or in the water under the earth.
Thou ftialt not bow down to them, nor wor-
fhip them : for I the Lord thy God am a jea
lous God, and vifit the fins of the fathers up
on the children, unto the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me, and fhew
mercy unto thoufands in them that love me,
and keep my commandments.

People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and
incline our hearts to keep this law.

Mini/ler. Thou (halt not take the Name
of the Lord thy God iji vain : for the Lord

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will not hold him guiltlefs, that taketh his
Name in vain.

People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and
incline our hearts to keep this law.

Minifter. Remember that thou keep holy
the Sabbath-day. Six days fhalt thou labour,
and do all that thou haft to do ; but the fe-
venth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God. In it thou lhalt do no manner of work,
thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, thy
man-fervant, and thy maid-fervant, thy cattle,
and the ftranger that is within thy gates.
For in fix days the Lord made heaven and
earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and
refted the feventh day : wherefore the Lord
blefled the feventh day, and hallowed it.

People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and
incline our hearts to keep this law.

Minifter. Honour thy father and thy mo
ther; that thy days may be long in the land,
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and
incline our hearts to keep this law.

Minifter. Thou lhalt do no murder.

People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and
incline our hearts to keep this law.

Minifter. Thou fhalt not commit adultery.

People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and
incline our hearts to keep this law.

Minifter. Thou (halt not fteal.

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People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and
incline our hearts to keep this law.

Minifter. Thou (halt not bear falfe witnefs
againft thy neighbour.

People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and
incline our hearts to keep this law.

Mini/ler. Thou flialt not covet thy neigh
bour s houfe, thou flialt not covet thy neigh
bour s wife, nor his fervant, nor his maid, nor
his ox, nor his afs, nor any thing that is his.

People. Lord, have mercy upon us, and
write all thefe thy laws in our hearts, we be-
feech thee.

IT Then shall follow one of these two Collects for the King, the Priest standing
as before, and saying,

Let us pray.

A LMIGHTY God, whofe kingdom is ever-
-V lafting, and power infinite ; Have mer
cy upon the whole Church ; and fo rule the
heart of thy chofen fervant GEORGE, our
King and Governour, that he (knowing whofe
minifter he is) may above all things feek thy
honour and glory : and that we, and all his
fubjedls (duly confidering whofe authority he
hath) may faithfully ferve, honour, and hum
bly obey him, in thee, and for thee, accord
ing to thy blefled Word and ordinance;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord, who with thee
and the Holy Ghoft liveth and reigneth, ever
one God, world without end. Amen.

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Or,

A LMIGHTY and everlafting God, we are
-*- taught by thy holy Word, that the hearts
of Kings are in thy rule and governance, and
that thou doft difpofe and turn them as it
feemeth beft to thy godly wifdom : We hum
bly befeech thee fo to difpofe and govern the
heart of GEORGE thy Servant, our King
and Governour, that, in all his thoughts,
words, and works, he may ever feek thy ho
nour and glory, and ftudy to preferve thy
people committed to his charge, in wealth,
peace, and godlinefs : Grant this, O merciful
Father, for thy dear Son s fake, Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

IT Then shall be said the Collect of the Day. And immediately after the Col
lect the Priest shall read the Epistle, saying, The Epistle [or, The portion
of Scripture appointed for the Epistle] is written in the Chapter of
beginning at the Verse. And the Epistle ended, he shall say, Here end-
eth the Epistle. Then shall he read the Gospel (the people all standing up)
saying, The holy Gospel is written in the . Chapter of beginning at
the Verse. And the Gospel ended, shaU be sung or said the Creed follow
ing, the peopk still standing, as before.

I Believe in one God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, And of all
things vifible and invifible :

And in one Lord Jefus Chrift, the only-
begotten Son of God, Begotten of his Father
before all worlds, God of God, Light of
Light, Very God of veiy God, Begotten, not
made, Being of one fubftance with the Fa-
the;, By whom all things were made : Who

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for us men, and for our falvation came down
from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy
Ghoit of the Virgin Mary, And was made
man, and was crucified alfo for us under
Pontius Pilate. He fuftered and was buried,
And the third day he rofe again according
to the Scriptures, And afcended into heaven,
And fitteth on the right hand of the Father.
And he fliall come again with glory to judge
both the quick and the dead : Whofe king
dom fliall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Ghoft, The Lord

land Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the

i Father and the Son, Who with the Father

and the Son together is worfhipped and glo

rified, Who fpake by the Prophets. And I

believe one Catholick and Apoftolick Church.

I acknowledge one Baptifm for the remiflion

of fins, And I look for the Refurre&ion of

the dead, And the life of the world to come.

I Amen.

IT Then the Curate shall declare unto the people what Holy-days, or Fasting-
days, are in the week following to be observed. And then also (if occasion be)
shall notice be given of the Communion ; and Briefs, Citations, and Excom
munications read. And nothing shall be proclaimed or published in the C/iurch,
during the time of Divine Service, but by the Minister : nor by him any thing,
but what is prescribed in the Rules of this Book, or enjoined by the King, or
by the Ordinary of the place.

11 Then shall follow the Sermon, or one of the Homilies already set forth, or
hereafter to be set forth, by authority.

IT Then shall the Priest return to the Lord s Table, and begin the Offertory,
saying one or more of these Sentences following, as he thinketh most convenient
in his discretion.

ET your light fo fhine before men,
they may fee your good works, and

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glorify your Father which is in heaven. St.
Matth. v.

Lay not up for yourfelves treafure upon
the earth ; where the ruft and moth doth cor
rupt, and where thieves break through and
fteal : but lay up for yourfelves treafures in
heaven; where neither ruft nor moth doth
corrupt, and where thieves do not break
through and fteaL St. Matth. vi.

Whatfoever ye would that men fliould do
vmto you, even fo do unto them ; for this is
the Law and the Prophets. St. Matth. vii.

Not every one that faith unto me, Lord,
Lord, (hall enter into the Kingdom of hea
ven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven. St. Matth. vii.

Zacchaeus ftood forth, and faid unto the
Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I
give to the poor; and if I have done any
wrong to any man, I reftore four-fold. St.
Luke xix.

Who goeth a warfare at any time of his
own coft ? Who planteth a vineyard, and eat-
eth not of the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth
a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the
flock? 1 Cor. ix.

If we have fown unto you fpiritual things,
is it a great matter if we (hall reap your
worldly things ? 1 Cor. ix.

Do ye not know, that they who minifter

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about holy things live of the facrifice ; and
they who wait at the altar are partakers with
the altar? Even fo hath the Lord alfo or
dained, that they who preach the Gofpel fhould
live of the Gofpel. 1 Cor. ix.

He that foweth little fhall reap little ; and
he that foweth plenteoufly {hall reap plente-
oufly. Let every man do according as he is
cliipofed in his heart, not grudgingly, or of
neceffity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.
2 Cor. ix.

Let him that is taught in the Word min-
ifter unto him that teacheth, in all good things.
Be not deceived, God is not mocked : for
whatfoever a man foweth that fhall he reap.
Gal. vi.

While we have time, let us do good unto
all men ; and fpecially unto them that are of
the houftiold of faith. Gal. vi.

Godlinefs is great riches, if a man be con
tent with that he hath : for we brought no
thing into the world, neither may we carry
any thing out. 1 Tim. vi.

Charge them who are rich in this world,
that they be ready to give, and glad to dif-
tribute; laying up in ftore for themfelves a
good foundation againft the time to come,
that they may attain eternal life. 1 Tim. vi.

God is not unrighteous, that he will forget
your works, and labour that proceedeth of

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love; which love ye have fliewed for his
Name s fake, who have miniftered unto the
faints, and yet do minifter. Heb. vi.

To do good, and to diftribute, forget not ;
for with fuch facrifices God is well pleafed.
Heb. xiii.

Whofo hath this world s good, and feeth
his brother have need, and fhutteth vip his
compaffion from him, how dwelleth the love
of God in him ? 1 St. John iii.

Give alms of thy goods, and never turn thy
face from any poor man; and then the face
of the Lord ihall not be turned away from
thee. Tobit iv.

Be merciful after thy power. If thou haft
much, give plenteoufly : if thou haft little, do
thy diligence gladly to give of that little : for
fo gathereft thou thyfelf a good reward in the
day of neceffity. Tobit iv.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth
unto the Lord : and look, what he layeth out,
it fhall be paid him again. Prov. xix.

Blefled be the man that provideth for the
fick and needy : the Lord fhall deliver him
in the time of trouble. Pfalm xli.

IT Whilst these Sentences are in reading, the Deacons, Church-wardens, or
other fit person appointed for that purpose, shall receive the Alms for the
Poor, and other devotions of the people, in a decent bason to be provided by
the Parish for that purpose; and reverently bring it to the Priest, who shall
humbly present and place it upon the holy table.

1T And when there is a Communion, the Priest shall then place upon the Table
so much Bread and Wine, as he shall think Diffident.

After which done, the Priest shall say,

and ob-
out wn-
said.

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Let us pray for the whole ftate of Child s
Church militant here in earth.

A LMIGHTY and everliving God, who
-*-. by thy holy Apoftle haft taught us to
make prayers, and fupplications, and to give
thanks, for all men ; We humbly befeech thee
moft mercifully [to accept our If there be nu alms
alms and oblations, and] to re-
ceive thefe our prayers, which
we offer unto thy Divine Ma-
jefty ; befeeching thee to infpire continually
the univerfal Church with the fpirit of truth,
unity, and concord : And grant, that all they
that do confefs thy holy Name may agree
in the truth of thy holy Word, and live in
unity, and godly love. We befeech thee
alfo to fave and defend all Chriftian Kings,
Princes, and Governours; and fpecially thy
Servant GEORGE our King ; that under
him we may be godly and quietly governed :
And grant unto his whole Council, and to
all that are put in authority under him, that
they may truly and indifferently minifter juf-
tice, to the punifhment of wickednefs and
vice, and to the maintenance of thy true re
ligion, and virtue. Give grace, O heavenly
Father, to all Bifhops and Curates, that they
may both by their life and docftrine fet forth
thy true and lively Word, and rightly and
duly adminifter thy holy Sacraments : And

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to all thy people give thy heavenly grace ;
and efpecially to this congregation here pre-
fent; that, with meek heart and due reve
rence, they may hear, and receive thy holy
Word ; truly ferving thee in holinefs and
righteoufnefs all the days of their life. And
we moft humbly befeech thee of thy good-
nefs, O Lord, to comfort and fuccour all them,
who in this tranfitory life are in trouble, for-
row, need, licknefs, or any other adverfity.
And we alfo blefs thy holy Name for all thy
fervants departed this life in thy faith and
fear ; befeeching thee to give us grace fo to
follow their good examples, that with them
we may be partakers of thy heavenly king
dom : Grant this, O Father, for Jefus Chrift s
fake, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

5T When the Minister givetk warning for the celebration of the holy Commu
nion, {which he shall always do upon the Sunday, or some Holy-day, imme
diately preceding,) after the Sermon or Homily ended, he shall read this
Exhortation following.

DEARLY beloved, on day next I
purpofe, through God s affiftance, to ad-
minifter to all fuch as (hall be religioufly and
devoutly difpofed the moft comfortable Sa
crament of the Body and Blood of Chrift ;
to be by them received in remembrance of
his meritorious Crofs and Paffion; whereby
alone we obtain remiffion of our fins, and are
made partakers of the Kingdom of heaven.
Wherefore it is our duty to render moft hum
ble and hearty thanks to Almighty God our

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heavenly Father, for that he hath given his
Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift, not only to die
for us, but alfo to be our fpiritual food and
fuftenance in that holy Sacrament. Which
being fo divine and comfortable a thing to
them who receive it worthily, and fo danger
ous to them that will prefume to receive it
unworthily; my duty is to exhort you in
the mean feafon to confider the dignity of
that holy myftery, and the great peril of the
unworthy receiving thereof; and fo to fearch
and examine your own confciences, (and that
not lightly, and after the manner of diffem-
blers with God ; but fo) that ye may come
holy and clean to fuch a heavenly Feaft, in the
marriage-garment required by God in holy
Scripture, and be received as worthy partak
ers of that holy Table.

The way and means thereto is ; Firft, to
examine your lives and converfations by the
rule of God s commandments ; and wherein-
foever ye fhall perceive yourfelves to have
offended, either by will, word, or deed, there
to bewail your own finfulnefs, and to confefs
yourfelves to Almighty God, with full pur-
pofe of amendment of life. And if ye fliall
perceive your offences to be fuch as are not
only againft God, but alfo againft your neigh
bours ; then ye (hall reconcile yourfelves unto
them ; being ready to make reftitution and

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fatisfa6tion, according to the uttermoft of
your powers, for all injuries and wrongs done
by you to any other; and being likewife
ready to forgive others that have offended
you, as ye would have forgivenefs of your
offences at God s hand : for otherwife the re
ceiving of the holy Communion doth nothing
elfe but increafe your damnation. Therefore
if any of you be a blafphemer of God, an hin-
derer or flanderer of his Word, an adulterer,
or be in malice, or envy, or in any other
grievous crime, repent you of your fins, or
elfe come not to that holy Table ; left, after
the taking of that holy Sacrament, the devil
enter into you, as he entered into Judas, and
fill you full of all iniquities, and bring you to
definition both of body and foul.

And becaufe it is requifite, that no man
fhould come to the holy Communion, but with
a full truft in God s mercy, and with a quiet
confcience ; therefore if there be any of you,
who by this means cannot quiet his own con
fcience herein, but requireth further comfort or
counfel, let him come to me, or to fome other
difcreet and learned Minifter of God s Word,
and open his grief; that by the miniftry of
God s holy Word he may receive the benefit
of abfolution, together with ghoflly counfel
and advice, to the quieting of his confcience,
and avoiding of all fcruple and doubtfulnefs.

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IT Or, in case he shall see the people negligent to come to the holy Communion,
instead of the former, he shall use this Exhortation.

DEARLY beloved brethren, on I
intend, by God s grace, to celebrate the
Lord s Supper : unto which, in God s behalf,
I bid you all that are here prefent ; and be-
feech you, for the Lord Jefus Chrift s fake,
that ye will not refufe to come thereto, being
fo lovingly called and bidden by God himfelf.
Ye know how grievous and unkind a thing it
is, when a man hath prepared a rich feaft,
decked his table with all kind of provifion, fo
that there lacketh nothing but the guefts to
fit down ; and yet they who are called (with
out any caufe) moft unthankfully reftife to
come. Which of you in fuch a cafe would
not be moved ? Who would not think a great
injury and wrong done unto him? Where
fore, moft dearly beloved in Chrift, take ye
good heed, left ye, withdrawing yourfelves
from this holy Supper, provoke God s indig
nation againft you. It is an eafy matter for a
man to lay, I will not communicate, becaufe
I am otherwife hindered with worldly bufi-
nefs. But fuch excufes are not fo eafily ac
cepted and allowed before God. If any man
fay, I am a grievous finner, and therefore am
afraid to come: wherefore then do ye not
repent and amend ? When God calleth you,
are ye not afhamed to fay ye will not come ?

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When ye fhould return to God, will ye excufe
yourfelves, and fay ye are not ready ? Confi-
der earneftly with yourfelves how little fvich
feigned excufes will avail before God. They
that refufed the feaft in the Gofpel, becaufe
they had bought a farm, or would try their
yokes of oxen, or becaufe they were married,
were not fo excufed, but counted unworthy
of the heavenly feaft. I, for my part, ihall be
ready ; and, according to mine Office, I bid
you in the Name of God, I call you in Chrift s
behalf, I exhort you, as ye love your own fal-
vation, that ye will be partakers of this holy
Communion. And as the Son of God did
vouchfafe to yield up his foul by death upon
the Crofs for your falvation ; fo it is your
duty to receive the Communion in remem
brance of the facrifice of his death, as he him-
felf hath commanded : which if ye Ihall neg-
Ie6l to do, confider with yourfelves how great
injury ye do unto God, and how fore punifli-
ment hangeth over your heads for the fame ;
when ye wilfully abftain from the Lord s Ta
ble, and feparate from your brethren, who
come to feed on the banquet of that moft
heavenly food. Thefe things if ye earneftly
confider, ye will by God s grace return to a
better mind : for the obtaining whereof we
ihall not ceafe to make our humble petitions
unto Almighty God our heavenly Father.

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*R At the time of the Celebration of the Communion, the Communicants being
conveniently placed for the receiving of the holy Sacrament, the Priest shall
say this Exhortation.

DEARLY beloved in the Lord, ye that
mind to come to the holy Communion
of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Chrift,
muft confider how Saint Paul exhorteth all
perfons diligently to try and examine them-
felves, before they prefume to eat of that Bread,
and drink of that Cup. For as the benefit is
great, if with a true penitent heart and lively
faith we receive that holy Sacrament; (for
then we fpiritually eat the flefh of Chrift, and
drink his blood; then we dwell in Chrift,
and Chrift in us ; we are one with Chrift, and
Chrift with us ;) fo is the danger great, if we
receive the fame unworthily. For then we
are guilty of the Body and Blood of Chrift our
Saviour ; we eat and drink our own damna
tion, not confidering the Lord s Body; we
kindle God s wrath againft us ; we provoke
him to plague us with divers difeafes, and
fundry kinds of death. Judge therefore your-
felves, brethren, that ye be not judged of the
Lord ; repent you truly for your fins paft ;
have a lively and ftedfaft faith in Chrift our
Saviour ; amend your lives, and be in perfe6l
charity with all men ; fo fhall ye be meet par
takers of thofe holy myfteries. And above all
things ye muft give moft humble and hearty

P thanks to God, the Father, the Son, and the

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Holy Ghoft, for the redemption of the world
by the death and paffion of our Saviour Chrift,
both God and man ; who did humble him-
felf, even to the death upon the Crofs, for us,
miferable tinners, who lay in darknefs and the
fbadow of death ; that he might make us the
children of God, and exalt us to everlafting
life. And to the end that we fhould alway
remember the exceeding great love of our
Mailer, and only Saviour, Jefus Chrift, thus
dying for us, and the innumerable benefits
which by his precious blood-fhedding he hath
obtained to us ; he hath inftituted and or
dained holy myfteries, as pledges of his love,
and for a continual remembrance of his death,
to our great and endlefs comfort. To him
therefore, with the Father and the Holy Ghoft,
let us give (as we are moil bounden) conti
nual thanks ; fubmitting ourfelves wholly to
his holy will and pleafure, and ftudying to
ferve him in true holinefs and righteoufnefs
all the days of our life. Amen.

5T Then shall the Priest say to them that come to receive the holy Communio?ij

YE that do truly arid earneftly repent you
of your fins, and are in love and charity
with your neighbours, and intend to lead a
new life, following the commandments of
God, and walking from henceforth in his
holy ways ; Draw near with faith, and take
this holy Sacrament to your comfort; and

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make your humble confeffiou to Almighty
God, meekly kneeling upon your knees.

1T Then shall this general Confession be made, in the name of all those that
are minded to receive the holy Communion, by one of the Mmisters; both he
and all the people kneeling humbly upon their knees, and saying,

ALMIGHTY God, Father of our Lord
Jefus Chrift, Maker of all things, Judge
of all men ; We acknowledge and bewail our
manifold fins and wickednefs, Which we, from
time to time, moft grievoufly have committed,
By thought, word, and deed, Againft thy Di
vine Majefty, Provoking moft juftly thy wrath
and indignation againft us. We do earneftly
repent, And are heartily forry for thefe our
mifdoings ; The remembrance of them is
grievous unto us ; The burden of them is in
tolerable. Have mercy upon us, Have mercy
upon us, moft merciful Father ; For thy Son
our Lord Jefus Chrift s fake, Forgive us all
that is paft ; And grant that we may ever
hereafter Serve and pleafe thee-In newnefs
of life, To the honour and glory of thy Name ;
Through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

IT Then shall the Priest (or the BisJiop, being present,) stand up, and turning
himself to the people, pronounce this Absolution.

A LMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father,
-*- who of his great mercy hath promifed
forgivenefs of fins to all them that with
hearty repentance and true faith tftrn unto
him ; Have mercy upon you ; pardon and de
liver you from all your fins; confirm and

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ftrengthen you in all goodnefs ; and bring
you to everlafting life ; through Jefus Chrift
our Lord. Amen.

f Then shall the Priest say,

Hear what comfortable words our Saviour
Chrift faith unto all that truly turn to him.

COME unto me all that travail and are
heavy laden, and I will refrelh you. St.
Matth. xi. 28.

So God loved the world, that he gave his
only-begotten Son, to the end that all that
believe in him fhould not perifti, but have
everlafting life. St. John iii. 16.

Hear alfo what Saint Paul faith.
This is a true faying, and worthy of all
men to be received, That Chrift Jefus came
into the world to fave finners. 1 Tim. i. 15.

Hear alfo what Saint John faith.
If any man fin, we have an Advocate with
the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous ; and he
is the propitiation for our fins. 1 St. John ii. 1 .

1T After which the Priest shall proceed, saying,

Lift up your hearts.

Anfwer. We lift them up unto the Lord.
Prieft. Let us give thanks unto our Lord
God.

Anfwer. It is meet and right fo to do.

IT Then shall the Priest turn to the Lord s Talk, and say,

IT is very meet, right, and our bounden
duty, that we fhould at all times, aad in

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all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord,

These words [Holy Father] Holy Father, AlmiffhtV, E-

must be omitted on Trinity- J . , 1

*unday. veruuting God.

H Here shall follow the Proper Preface, according to the time, if there be any
specially appointed : or else immediately shall follow,

THEREFORE with Angels and Arch
angels, and with all the company of hea
ven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name;
evermore praifing thee, and faying, Holy, ho
ly, holy, Lord God of hofts, heaven and earth
are full of thy glory : Glory be to thee, O Lord
moft High. Amen.

Proper Prefaces.
Upon Chriftmas-day, andfeven days after.

BECAUSE thou didft give Jefus Chrift
thine only Son to be born as at this time
for us; who, by the operation of the Holy
Ghoft, was made very man of the fubftance of
the Virgin Maiy his mother; and that with
out fpot of fin, to make us clean from all fin.
Therefore with Angels, fy c.

Upon Eafter-day, andfeven days after.

BUT chiefly we are bound to praife thee
for the glorious Refurrecftion of thy Son
Jefus Chrift our Lord : for he is the very
Pafchal Lamb, which was offered for us, and
hath taken away the fin of the world; who
by his death hath deftroyed death, and by his
riling to life again hath reftored to us ever-
lafting life. Therefore with Angels, fyc.

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Upon Afcenfion-day, andfeven days after.

THROUGH thy moft dearly beloved Son
Jefus Chrift our Lord; who after his moil
glorious Refurredlion manifeftly appeared fo
all his Apoftles, and in their fight afcended up
into heaven to prepare a place for us ; that
where he is, thither we might alfo afcend,
and reign with him in glory. Therefore with
Angels, fyc.

Upon Whit-funday, and JIM days after.

THROUGH Jefus Chrift our Lord; ac
cording to whofe moft true promife, tlie
Holy Ghoft came down as at this time from
heaven with a fudden great found, as it had
been a mighty wind, in the likenefs of fiery
tongues, lighting upon the Apoftles, to teach
them, and to lead them to all truth ; giving
them both the gift of divers languages, and
alfo boldnefs with fervent zeal conftantly to
preach the Gofpel unto all nations ; whereby
we have been brought out of darknefs and
error into the clear light and true knowledge
of thee, and of thy Son Jefus Chrift. There
fore Ayith Angels, fyc.

Upon the Feaft of Trinity only.

WHO art one God, one Lord; not one
only Perfon, but three Perfons in one
Subftance. For that which we believe of the
glory of the Father, the fame we believe of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft, without any

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difference or inequality. Therefore with An
gels, fyc.

IT After each of which Prefaces shall immediately be sung or said,

THEREFORE with Angels and Arch
angels, and with all the company of hea
ven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name;
evermore praifing thee, and faying, Holy, ho
ly, holy, Lord God of hofts, heaven and earth
are ftill of thy glory: Glory be to thee, O Lord
moft High. Amen.

IT Then shall the Priest, kneeling down at the Lord s Table, say in the name
of all them that shall receive the Communion this Prayer following.

WE do not prefume to come to this thy
Table, O merciful Lord, trailing in our
own righteoufnefs, but in thy manifold and
great mercies. We are not worthy fo much
as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table.
But thou art the fame Lord, whofe property
is always to have mercy : Grant us therefore,
gracious Lord, fo to eat the flelh of thy dear
Son Jefus Chrift, and to drink his blood, that
our finful bodies may be made clean by his
body, and our fouls wafhed through his moft
precious blood, and that we may evermore
dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.

1T When the Priest, sta?idinrr before the Table, hath so ordered the Bread and
Wine t that he may with the more readiness and decency break the Bread be
fore the people, and take the Cup into his hands, he shall say the Prayer of
Consecration, asfollowelh.

A L MIGHTY God, our heavenly Father,
-f^- who of thy tender mercy didft give thine
only Son Jefus Chrift to fuffer death upon the

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crofs for our Redemption; who made there (by
his one oblation of nimfelf once offered) a full,
perfe6t, and fufficient facrifice, oblation, and
fatisfacftion, for the fins of the whole world ;
and did inftitute, and in his holy Gofpel com
mand us to continue, a perpetual memory
of that his precious death, until his coming
again ; Hear us, O merciful Father, we moft
humbly befeech thee ; and grant that we re
ceiving thefe thy creatures of bread and wine,
according to thy Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift s
holy inftitution, in remembrance of his death
and paflion, may be partakers of his moft
blefled Body and Blood : who, in the fame
* Here the night that he was betrayed, * took
the Pa : Bread ; and, when he had given
18 thanks, f he brake it, and gave it to
to break The his difciples, faying, Take, eat, t this

Bread: Ti * j i i /

j And here is my Body which is given tor you :

to lay hit hand -.^ ^ , . t , * f. J

upon aii theUo this in remembrance ot me.

r * "litre he is Likewife after fupper he * took the

cu P "MO his Cup ; and, when he had given thanks,

he gave it to them, faying, Drink ye

t And here all of this ; for this *f is my Blood of

to lay his hand ~ -^-j- r -- 1 ~. 1 1 /V J

upon every ve s - the J\ cw 1 ellament, which is ihea
liceorFiazo^foY you and for many for the remif-

&gt; which there _ * ^ -__^ . . ~ n 11

any wine to \\Qii of fins i JJo this, as ot t as ye Ihall
drink it, in remembrance of me. Amen.

^ Then shall the Minister Jirst receive the Communion in both kinds himself,
and then proceed to deliver the same to the Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, in
like manner, (if any be present,} and after that to the people also in order,
into their hands, all meekly kneeling. And, when he dtlivertth the Bread 10
mny one, he, shall scy,

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THE Body of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which
was given for thee, preferve thy body
and foul unto everlafting life. Take and eat
this in remembrance that Chrift died for thee,
and feed on him in thy heart by faith with

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thanklgivmg.

1T And the Minister that deliveretk the Cup to any otic shall say,

THE Blood of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which
was fhed for thee, preferve thy body and
foul unto everlafting life. Drink this in re
membrance that Chrift s Blood was fhed for
thee, and be thankful /

1F If the consecrated Bread or Wine be all spent before all have communicated,
the Priest is to consecrate more according to the Form before prescribed ; be
ginning at TOUT Saviour Christ in the same night, #c.] for the blessing
of the Bread; and at [[Like wise after Supper, &lt;^c.] for the blessing of the
Cup.

IF When all have communicated, the Minister shall return to the Lord s
Table, and reverently place upon it what remaineth of the consecrated Ele
ments, covering the same with a fair linen cloth.

1T Then shall tfte Priest say the Lord s Prayer, the people repeating after him
every Petition.

OUR Father, which art in heaven, Hallow
ed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive
us our trefpaffes, As we forgive them that
trefpafs againft us. And lead us not into
temptation ; But deliver us from evil : For
thine is the kingdom, The power, and the
glory, For ever and ever. Amen.

IT After shall be said asfollowdh.

OLord and heavenly Father, we thy hum
ble fervants entirely defire thy fatherly
goodnefs mercifully to accept this our facri-

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fice of praife and thankfgiving ; moft humbly
befeeching thee to grant, that by the merits
and death of thy Son Jefus Chrift, and through
faith in his blood, we and all thy whole
Church may obtain remiffion of our fins, and
all other benefits of his paffion. And here we
offer and prefent unto thee, O Lord, our-
felves, our fouls and bodies, to be a reafon-
able, holy, and lively facrifice unto thee ; hum
bly befeeching thee, that all we, who are par
takers of this holy Communion, may be ful
filled with thy grace and heavenly benedic
tion. And although we be unworthy, through
our manifold fins, to offer unto thee any ia-
crifice, yet we befeech thee to accept this our
bounden duty and fervice ; not weighing GUI
merits, but pardoning our offences, through
Jefus Chrift our Lord ; by whom, and with
whom, in the unity of the Holy Ghoft, all ho
nour and glory be unto thee, O Father Al
mighty, world without end. Amen.

Or this.

LMIGHTY and everiiving God, we moft
heartily thank thee, for that thou dofi
vouchfafe to feed us, who have duly receiver
thefe holy myfteries, with the fpiritual fooc
of the moft precious Body and Blood of thy
Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift ; and doft affure
us thereby of thy favour and goodnefs to
wards us ; and that we are very members
incorporate in the myftical body of thy Son,

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which is the blefled company of all faithful
people ; and are alfo heirs through hope of
thy everlailing kingdom,, by the merits of the
moft precious death and paflion of thy dear
Son. And we moil humbly befeech thee, O
heavenly Father, fo to aflift us with thy grace,
that we may continue in that holy fellowfliip,
and do all fuch good works as thou haft pre
pared for us to walk in ; through Jefus Chrift
our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy
Ghoft, be all honour and glory, world with
out end. Amen.

H Then shall be said or sung,

GLORY be to God on high, and in earth
peace, goodwill towards men. We praife
thee, we blefs thee, we worfhip thee, we glo
rify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great
glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the
Father Almighty.

O Lord, the only-begotten Son Jefu Chrift ;
O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Fa
ther, that takeft away the fins of the world,
have mercy upon us. Thou that takeft away
the fins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Thou that takeft away the fins of the world,
receive our prayer. Thou that fitteft at the right
hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us.

For thou only art holy ; thou only art the
Lord; thou only, O Chrift, with the Holy
Ghoft, art moft high in the glory of God the
Father. Amen.

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IT Then the Priest (or Bishop if he be present) shall let them depart with this

Blessing.

THE peace of God, which paffeth all un-
derftanding, keep your hearts and minds
in the knowledge and love of God, and of his
Son Jefus Chrift our Lord : and the bleffing
of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghoft, be amongft you and remain with
you always. Amen.

^T Collects to be said after the Offertory, when there is no Communion, every
such day one or more ; and the same may be said also, as often as occasion
shall serve, after the Collects either of Morning or Evening Prayer, Commu*
nion, or Litany, by the discretion of the Minister.

ASSIST us mercifully, O Lord, in thefe our
fupplications and prayers, and difpofe the
way of thy fervants towards the attainment
of everlafting falvation; that, among all the
changes and chances of this mortal life, they
may ever be defended by thy moft gracious
and ready help; through Jefus Chrift our
Lord. Amen.

O Almighty Lord, and everlafting God,
vouchfafe, we befeech thee, to direct,
fancftify, and govern, both our hearts and bo
dies, in the ways of thy laws, and in the
works of thy commandments ; that through
thy moft mighty protection, both here and
ever, we may be preferved in body and foul ;
through our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift.
Amen.

GRANT, we befeech thee, Almighty God,
that the words, which we have heard
this day with our outward ears, may through

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thy grace be fo grafted inwardly in our hearts,
that they may bring forth in us the fruit of
good living, to the honour and praife of thy
Name ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings
with thy moft gracious favour, and fur
ther us with thy continual help ; that in all
our works begun, continued, and ended in
thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and
finally by thy mercy obtain everlafting life ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all wif-
dom, who knoweft our neceffities before
we afk, and our ignorance in afking; We
befeech thee to have eompaflion upon our in
firmities ; and thofe things, which for our un-
worthinefs we dare not, and for our bliudnefs
we cannot afk, vouchfafe to give us, for the
worthinefs of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord.
Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, who haft promifed to
hear the petitions of them that afk in thy
Son s Name; We befeech thee mercifully to
incline thine ears to us that have made now
our prayers and fupplications unto thee ; and
grant, that thofe things, which we have faith
fully afked according to thy will, may effec
tually be obtained, to the relief of our necef-
fity, and to the fetting forth of thy glory ;
through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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The Communion.

IF Upon the Sundays and other Holy -days (if there be no Communion) shall be
said all that is appointed at the Communion, until the end of the general
Prayer [Tor the whole state of Christ s Church militant here in earth]
together with one or more of these Collects last before rehearsed, concluding
with the Bkssing.

IF And there shall be no celebration of the lord s Supper, except there be a con
venient number to communicate with the Priest, according to his discretion.

IF And if there be not above twenty persons in the Parish of discretion to receive
the Communion ; yet there shall be no Communion, except four (or three at
the least) communicate with the Priest.

IF And in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and Colleges, where there are
many Priests and Deacons, they shall all receive the Communion with the
Priest ei ery Sunday at the least, except they have a reasonable cause to the
contrary.

IF And to take away all occasion ofdissention, and superstition, which any per
son hath or might have concerning the Bread and Wine, it shall suffice that
the Brtad be such as is usual to be eaten ; but the best and purest Wheat
Bread that conveniently may be gotten.

1F And if any of tJie Bread and Wine remain unconsecrated, the Curate shall
have it to his own use : but if any remain of that which was consecrated, it
shall not be carried out of the Church, but the Priest and such other of the
Communicants as he shall then call unto him, shall, immediately after the
Blessing, reverently eat and drink the same.

1F The Bread and Wine for the Communion shall be provided by the Curate
and the Church- war dens at the charges of tjie Parish.

IF And note, that every Parishioner shall communicate at the least three times in
the year, of which Easter to be one. And yearly at Easter every Parishioner
shall reckon with the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or his or their Deputy or De
puties ; and pay to them or him all Ecclesiastical Duties, accmtomably due,
then and at that time to be paid.

IF After the Divine Service ended, the money given at the Offertory sfiatt be
disposed of to such pious and charitable uses, as the Minister and Church
wardens shall think Jit. Wherein if they disagree, it shall be disposed of as

the Ordinary shall appoint,
. LL

" WHEREAS it is ordained in this Office for the Administration of the
" Lord s Slipper, that the Communicants should receive the same kneeling ;
" (which order is well meant, for a signification of our humble and grateful
" acknowledgement of the benefits of Christ therein given to all worthy
" Receivers, and for the avoiding of such profanation and disorder in the
" holy Communion, as might otherwise ensue ;) yet, lest the same kneeling
" should by any persons, either out of ignorance and infirmity, or out of ma-
" lice and obstinacy, be misconstrued and depraved ; It is hereby declared,
" That thereby no Adoration is intended, or ought to be done, either unto the
" Sacramental Bread or Wine there bodily received, or unto any Corporal
" Presence of Christ s natural Flesh and Blood. For the Sacramental Bread
" and Wine remain still in their very natural substances, and therefore may
" not be adored ; (for that were Idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful
" Christians ;) and the natural Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ are in
" Heaven, and not here ; it being against the truth of Christ s natural Body
" to be at one time in more places than one."

THE MINISTRATION OF

PUBLICK BAPTISM OF INFANTS,

TO BE USED IN THE CHURCH.

f The people are to be admonished, that it is most convenient that Baptism should not be ad
ministered but upon Sundays, and othtr Holy-days, when the most number of people come
together; as well for that the Congregation there present may testify the retemng of them
that be newly baptized into the number of Christ s Church ; as also because in the Baptism
of Infants every Man present may be put in remembrance of his own profession made to God
in his Baptism. For which cause also it is expedient that Baptism be ministered in the
vulgar tongue. Nevertheless, (if necessity so require,) Children may be baptized upon any
other day.

IT And note, that there shall be fw every Male-child to be baptized two Godfathers and one
Godmottier; and for every Female, one Godfather and two Godmothers.

f When fore are Children to be baptized, the Parents shall give knowledge thereof over night,
or in the morning befoi-e the beginning of Morning Prayer, to the Curate. And then the
Godfathers and Godmothers, and the people with the Children, mutt be ready at the Font,
either immediately after the last Lesson at Morning Prayer, or else immediately afttr tin- last
Lesson at Evening Prayer, an the Curate by his discretion shall appoint. And the Priest com
ing to the Font, (which is then to be filled with pure Water,) and standing there, shall say,

ATH this Child been al
ready baptized, or no ?

* If they answer, No : Then shall the Pritst
proceed asfolloweth.

DEARLY beloved, foras
much as all men are
conceived and born in sin ;
and that our Saviour Christ
saith, None can enter into
the kingdom of God, except
he be regenerate and born a-
new of Water and of the holy
Ghost ; I beseech you to call
upon God the Father, through
our Lord Jesus Christ, that
of his bounteous mercy he
will grant to this Child that
thing which by nature he can
not have; that he may be
baptized with Water and the
holy Ghost, and received into
Christ s holy Church, and be
made a lively member of the
same.

H Then shall the Priest say,

Let us pray.

A LMIGHTY and ever-
lasting God, who of thy

great mercy didst save Noah
and his family in the ark
from perishing by water; and
also didst safely lead the chil
dren of Israel thy people
through the Red Sea, figuring
thereby thy holy Baptism ;
and by the Baptism of thy
well-beloved Son Jesus Christ,
in the river Jordan, didst
sanctify Water to the mysti
cal washing away of sin ; We
beseech thee, for thine infi
nite mercies, that thou wilt
mercifully look upon this
Child ; wash him and sanctify
him with the holy Ghost";
that he, being delivered from
thy wrath, may be received
into the ark of Christ s
Church ; and being stedfast
in faith, joyful through hope,
and rooted in chanty, may so
pass the waves of this trou
blesome world, that finally
he may come to the land of
everlasting life, there to reign
with thee world without end ;

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through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.

A LMIGHTY and immor-
XX tai God, die aid of all
that need, the helper of all
that flee to thee for succour,
the life of them that believe,
and the resurrection of the
dead ; We call upon thee for
this Infant, that he, coming
to thy holy Baptism, may re
ceive remission of his sins by
spiritual regeneration. Re
ceive him, O Lord, as thou
hast promised by thy well-
beloved Son, saying, Ask, and
ye shall have; seek, and ye
shall find ; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you: So
give now unto us that ask ;
let us that seek find; open
the gate unto us that knock ;
that this Infant may enjoy
the everlasting benediction
of thy heavenly washing, and
may come to the eternal king
dom which thou hast promis
ed by Christ our Lord. Amen.

f Then shall the people stand up, and the
Priest shall say,

Hear the words of the Gos
pel, written by Saint Mark,
in the tenth Chapter, at
the thirteenth Verse.

dren to come unto me, and!
forbid them not ; for of such
is the kingdom of God. Ve
rily I say unto you, Whos
ever shall not receive the
kingdom of God as a little
child, he shall not enter
therein. And he took them
up in his arms, put his hands
upon them, and blessed them.

IT After the Gospel is read, the Minister shall \
make this brief Exhortation upon the words
the Gospel.

ELO VED, ye hear in this
Gospel the words of our
Saviour Christ, that he com
manded the children to be
brought unto him ; how lie
blamed those that would have i
kept them from him ; how he
exnorteth all men to follow ji
their innocency. Ye perceive j
how by his outward gesture
and deed he declared his
good will toward them; for
he embraced them in his
arms, he laid his hands upon
them, and blessed them. |
Doubt ye not therefore, but j
earnestly believe, that he will !
likewise favourably receive i
this present Infant; that he
will embrace him with the
arms of his mercy; that he;
will give unto him the bless
ing of eternal life, and make
him partaker of his everlast
ing kingdom. Wherefore we
being thus persuaded of the
good will of our heavenly Fa- j
ther towards this Infant, de
clared by his Son Jesus
Christ ; and nothing doubt-

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ing but that he favourably
alloweth this charitable work
of our s in bringing this In-
t to his holy Baptism ; let
us faithfully and devoutly
give thanks unto him, and
say,

ALMIGHTY and ever
lasting God, heavenly
Father, we give thee humble
thanks, for that thou hast
vouchsafed to call us to the
knowledge of thy grace, and
faith in thee : Increase this
knowledge, and confirm this
faith in us evermore. Give
thy holy Spirit to this Infant,
that he may be born again, and
be made an heir of everlasting
salvation; through our Lord
Jesus Christ, who liveth and
reigneth with thee and the
Holy Spirit, now and for
ever. Amen.

IT Then thall the Priest speak unto the God
fathers and Godmothers on this wise.

DEARLY beloved, ye have
brought this Child here
to be baptized, ye have pray
ed that our Lord Jesus Christ
would vouchsafe to receive
him, to release him of his sins,
to sanctify him with the holy
Ghost, to give him the king
dom of heaven, and everlast
ing life. Ye have heard also
that our Lord Jesus Christ
hath promised in his Gospel
to grant all these things that
ye have prayed for: which
promise he, for his part, will
most surely keep and per

form. Wherefore, after this
promise made by Christ, this
Infant must also faithfully,
for his part, promise by you
that are his sureties, (until he
come of age to take it upon
himself?) that he will renounce
the devil and all his works,
and constantly believe God s
holy Word, and obediently
keep his commandments.
I demand therefore,

DOST thou, in the Name
of this Child, renounce
the devil and all his works,
the vain pomp and glory of
the world, with all covetous
desires of the same, and the
carnal desires of the flesh, so
that thou wilt not follow, nor
be led by them?

Answer. I renounce them
all.

Minister.

DOST thou believe in God
the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth ?
And in Jesus Christ his
only-begotten Son our Lord ?
And that he was conceived
by the Holy Ghost; born of
the Virgin Mary ; that he
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and bu
ried ; that he went down into
hell, and also did rise again
the third day; that he as
cended into heaven, and sit-
teth at the right hand of God
the Father Almighty ; and
from thence shall come again
at the end of the world, to

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judge the quick and the
dead ?

And dost thou believe in
the Holy Ghost; the holy
Catholick Church ; the Com
munion of Saints; the Re
mission of sins; the Resur
rection of the flesh; and ever
lasting life after death ?

Answer, All this I sted-
fastly believe.

Minister.

WILT thou be baptized
in this faith?
Answer. That is my desire.

Minister.

V17ILT thou then obedi-
V V ently keep God s holy
will and commandments, and
walk in the same all the days
of thy life?

Answer. I will.

H Then shall the Priest say,

O Merciful God, grant that
the old Adam in this
Child may be so buried, that
the new man may be raised
up in him. Amen.

Grant that all carnal affec
tions may die in him, and
that all things belonging to
the Spirit may live and grow
in him. Amen.

Grant that he may have powr
er and strength to have vic
tory, and to triumph, against
the devil, the world, and the
flesh. Amen.

Grant that whosoever is
here dedicated to thee by
our office and ministry may
also be endued with hea

venly virtues, and everlast
ingly rewarded, through thy
mercy, O blessed Lord God,
who dost live, and govern
all things, world without end.
Amen

\ LMIGfHTY, everliving
jflL God, whose most dearly
beloved Son Jesus Christ, for
the forgiveness of our sins,
did shed out of his most
precious side both water and
blood ; and gave command
ment to his disciples, that
they should go teach all na
tions, and baptize them In
the Name of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Ghost;
Regard, we beseech thee, the
supplications of thy congre
gation; sanctify this Water
to the mystical washing away
of sin ; and grant that this
Child, now to be baptized
therein, may receive the ful
ness of thy grace, and ever
remain in the number of thy
faithful and elect children;
through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.

1T Then the Priest shall take the Child into his
hands, and shall say to the Godfathers and
Godmothers,

Name this Child.

IT And then naming it after them (if they shall
certify him that the Child may well endure
it) he shall dip it in the Water discreetly
and warily, saying,

NI baptize thee In the
. Name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost. Amen.

H But if they certify that the Child is weak,
it shall sifflce t o pour Water upon it, xty ing
theforesaid words,

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Here tke Priest

"3? a c83? *

NI baptize thee In the
Name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost. Amen.

1T The n the Priest shall say,

WE receive this Child
into the congregation
of Christ s flock,
and do sign him
with the sign of
the Cross, in token that here
after he shall not be ashamed
to confess the faith of Christ
crucified, and manfully to
fight under his banner, against
sin, the world, and the devil;
and to continue Christ s faith
ful soldier and servant unto
his life s end. Amen.

s Then shall the Priest say,

SEEING now, dearly be
loved brethren, that this
Child is regenerate, and graft
ed into the body of Christ s
Church, let us give thanks
unto Almighty God for these
benefits; and with one ac
cord make our prayers unto
him, that this Child may lead
the rest of his life according
to this beginning.

1T Then shall be said, all kneeling ;

OUR Father, which art in
heaven, Hallowed be
thy Name. Thy kingdom
come. Thy will be done in
earth, As it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that
trespass against us. And
lead us not into temptation ;

But deliver us from evil.
Amen.

H Then shall the Priest say,

WE yield thee hearty
thanks, most merciful
Father, that it hath pleased
thee to regenerate this Infant
with thy holy Spirit, to re
ceive him for thine own Child
by adoption, and to incorpo
rate him into thy holy Church.
And humbly we beseech thee
to grant, that he, being dead
unto sin, and living unto right
eousness, and being buried
with Christ in his death, may
crucify the old man, and ut
terly abolish the whole body
of sin ; and that, as he is
made partaker of the death
of thy Son, he may also be
partaker of his resurrection ;
so that finally, with the resi
due of thy holy Church, he
may be an inheritor of thine
everlasting kingdom; through
Christ our Lord. Amtn.

1T Then, all standing up, the Priest shall say
to the Godfathers and Godmotliei s this Ex
hort at ion following.

f ^ORASMUCH as this
Child hath promised by
you his sureties to renounce
the devil and all his works,
to believe in God, and to
serve him ; ye must remem
ber, that it is your parts and
duties to see that this Infant
be taught, so soon as he shall
be able to learn, what a so
lemn vow, promise, and pro
fession, he hath here made by
you. And that he may know

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these things the better, ye
shall call upon him to hear Ser
mons; and chiefly ye shall pro
vide, that he may learn the
Creed, the Lord s Prayer, and
the Ten Commandments, in
the vulgar tongue, and all o-
ther things which a Christian
ought to know and believe
to his soul s health; and that
this Child may be virtuously
brought up to lead a godly
and a Christian life; remem
bering always, that Baptism
doth represent unto us our
profession; which is, to follow
the example of our Saviour
Christ, and to be made like
unto him ; that, as he died,

and rose again for us. so
should we, who are baptized,
die from sin, and rise again
unto righteousness ; continu
ally mortifying all our evil
and corrupt affections, and
daily proceeding in all virtue
and godliness or living.

f Then shall he add and say,

YE are to take care that
this Child be brought to
the Bishop to be confirmed
by him, so soon as he can say
the Creed, the Lord s Prayer,
and the Ten Commandments,
in the vulgar tongue, and be
further instructed in the
Church-Catechism set forth

for that purpose.

IT is certain by God s Word, that Children which are baptized, dying
before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved.

To take away all scruple concerning the use of the sign of the Cross in
Baptism ; the true explication thereof, and the just reasons for the retaining
of it, may be seen in the xxxth Canon, first published in the Year MDCIV.

THE MINISTRATION OF

PRIVATE BAPTISM OF CHILDREN

IN HOUSES.

And also they shall warn them, that without like great cause and necessity they procure not
their Children to be baptized at home in their houses. But when need shall compel them so to
do, then Baptism shall be administered on this fashion i

First, let the Minister of the Parish (or, in his absence, any other lavful Minister thitt can
be procured) tvith them that are present call upon God, nd say the Lord s Prayer, and so
many of the Collects appointed to be said before in the Form of Publick Baptism, as the time
and present exigence mil suffer. And then, the Child being named by some one that is present,
the Minister shall pour Water upon it, saying these words ;

NI baptize thee In the
Name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost. Amen.

all kneeling down, the Minister shall
give thank* unto God, and say,

WE yield thee hearty
thanks, most merciful
Father, that it hath pleased
thee to regenerate t his Infant
with thy holy Spirit, to re
ceive him for thine own

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Child by adoption, and to in-
corporate him into thy holy
Church. And we humbly
beseech thee to grant, that as
he is now made partaker of
the death of thy Son, so he
may be also of his resurrec
tion ; and that finally, with
the residue of thy Saints, he
may inherit thine everlasting
kingdom ; through the same
thy Son Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.

* And let them, not doubt, but that the Child
to baptized is lawfully and sufficiently bap
tized, and ought not to be baptized again. Yet
nevertheless, if the Child, which is after
this sort baptized, do afterivard live, it is
expedient that it be brought into the Church,
to the intent that, if the Minister of the
tame Parish did hinuelf baptize that Child,
the Congregation may be certified of the
true Form of Baptism, by him privately be
fore used : In which case he shall say thus,

1 Certify you, that accord
ing to the due and pre
scribed Order of the Church,
at such a time, and at such a
place, before divers witnesses
I baptized this Child.

9 But if the Child were baptized by any other
lawfnl Minister ; then the Minister of the
Parish, where the Child was born or christen-
d, shall examine and try whether the Child
be lawfully baptized, or no. In which case, if
those that brine any Child to the Church do
answer, that the same Child if already bap
tized, then shall the Minuter examine them
further, saying,

BY whom was this Child
baptized ?

Who was present when
this Child was baptized ?

Because some tilings essen
tial to this Sacrament may
happen to be omitted through
fear or haste, in such times
of extremity ; therefore I de
mand further of you,

With what matter was this
Child baptized ?

With what words was this
Child baptized?

U And if the Minister shall find by the answers
of such as bring the Child, that all things
were done as tliey ought to be; then shall
not he chrhiten the Child again, but shall
receive him as one of the flock of true Chris
tian people, saying thus,

1 Certify you, that in this
case all is well done, and
according unto due order,
concerning the baptizing of
this Child ; who being born
in original sin, and in the
wrath of God, is now, by the
laver of Regeneration in Bap
tism, received into the number
of the children of God, and
heirs of everlasting life : for
our Lord Jesus Christ doth
not deny his grace and mercy
unto such Infants, but most
lovingly doth call them unto
him, as the holy Gospel doth
witness to our comfort on this
wise.

St. Mark x. 13.

THEY brought young
children to Christ, that
he should touch them; and
his disciples rebuked those
that brought them. But
when Jesus saw it, he was
much displeased, and said
unto them, Suffer the little
children to come unto me,
and forbid them not ; for of
such is the kingdom of God.
Verily I say unto you, Whoso
ever shall not receive the
kingdom of God as a little
child, he shall not enter

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therein. And he took them
up in his arms, put his hands
upon them, and blessed them.

H After the Gospel is read, the Minister shall
make this briff Exhortation upon the words
of t lie Gospel.

T&gt;E LOVED, ye hear in
JiJ this Gospel the words of
our Saviour Christ, that he
commanded the children to
be brought unto him ; how
he blamed those that would
have kept them from him ;
how he exhorted all men to
follow their innocency. Ye
perceive how by his outward
gesture and deed he declared
his good will toward them ;
for he embraced them in his
arms, he laid his hands up
on them, and blessed them.
Doubt ye not therefore, but
earnestly believe, that he hath
likewise favourably received
this present Infant; that he
hath embraced him with the
arms of his mercy ; and (as
he hath promised in his holy
Word) will give unto him the
blessing of eternal life, and
make him partaker of his
everlasting kingdom. Where
fore, we being thus persuaded
of the good will of our hea
venly Father, declared by his
Son Jesus Christ, towards this
Infant, let us faithfully and de
voutly give thanks unto him,
and say the Prayer which the
Lord himself taught us :

OUR Father, which art in
heaven, Hallowed be thy
Name. Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth, As;
it is in heaven. Give us this
day our daily bread. And
forgive us our trespasses, As
we forgive them that trespass
against us. And lead us not
into temptation ; But deliver
us from evil. Amen.

A LMIGHTY and ever-
JLJL lasting God, heavenly
Father, we give thee humble
thanks, that thou hast vouch
safed to call us to the know
ledge of thy grace, and faith
in thee ; Increase this know- 1
ledge, and confirm this faith 1
in us evermore. Give thy 1
holy Spirit to this Infant, that|
he, being born again, and be- 1
ing made an heir of everlast
ing salvation, through our
Lord Jesus Christ, may con
tinue thy servant, and attain
thy promise ; through the
same our Lord Jesus Christ
thy Son, who liveth and
reigneth with thee and the
Holy Spirit, now and for ever, j
Amen.

1 Then shall the Priest demand the Name &lt;/
the Child; which being by tlu Godfather*
and Godmotliers pronwnced, the Minister
shall say,

DOST thou, in the Name
of this Child, renounce
the devil and all his works,
the vain pomp and glory of
this world, with all covetous
desires of the same, and the
carnal desires of the flesh, so
that thou wilt not follow, nor
be led by them ?
Answer. I renounce them all.

Private Baptism of Infants.

Minister.

DOST thou believe in God
the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth ?

And in Jesus Christ his
only-begotten Son our Lord ?
And that he was conceived
by the Holy Ghost ; born of
the Virgin Mary ; that he
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and
buried; that he went down
-into hell, and also did rise
again the third day ; that he
ascended into heaven, and
sittetff at tfie right hand of
God the Father Almighty;
and from thence shall come
again at the end of the world,
to judge the quick and the
dead?

And dost thou believe in
the Holy Ghost ; the holy
Gatholick Church ; the Com
munion of Saints ; the Re
mission of sins; the Resur
rection of the flesh ; and ever
lasting life after death?

Answer. All this I sted-
fastly believe.

Minister.

X1TILT thou then obedi-
V V ently keep God s holy
will and commandments, and
walk in the same all the days
of thy life?

Answer. I will.

Then the Priest shall sal/,

XllTE receive this Child in-
T to the congregation
tZ$%S?f8 of Christ s flock,*
chwt and do sign him

with the sign of the Cross, in
token that hereafter he shall
not be ashamed to confess the
faith of Christ crucified, and
manfully to fight under his
banner, against sin, the world,
and the devil ; and to con
tinue Christ s faithful soldier
and servant unto his life s
end. Amen.

IT Then shall the Priest say,

SEEING now, dearly be
loved brethren, that this
Child is by Baptism regene
rate, and grafted into the
body of Christ s Church, let
us give thanks unto Almighty
God for these benefits; and
with one accord make our
prayers unto him, that he may
lead the rest of his life ac
cording to this beginning.

IT Then shall the Priest say,

WE yield thee most hear
ty thanks, most merci
ful Father, that it hath pleased
thee to regenerate this Infant
with thy holy Spirit, to re
ceive him for thine own Child
by adoption, and to incorpo
rate him into thy holy Church.
And humbly we beseech thee
to grant, that he, being dead
unto sin, and living unto right
eousness, and being buried
with Christ in his death, may
crucify the old man, and ut
terly abolish the whole body
of sin; and that, as he is
made partaker of the death
of thy Son, he may also be
partaker of his resurrection ;

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so that finally, with the resi
due of thy holy Church, he
may be an inheritor of thine
everlasting kingdom; through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

1T Then, all standing up, the Minister shall
/nake this Exhortation to the Godfathers and
Godmothers.

FORASMUCH as this
Child hath promised by
you his sureties to renounce
the devil and all his works,
to believe in God, and to
serve him; ye must remem
ber, that it is your parts and
duties to see that this Infant
be taught, so soon as he shall
be able to learn, what a so
lemn vow, promise, and pro
fession he hath made by
you. And that he may know
these things the better, ye
shall call upon him to hear
Sermons ; and chiefly ye shall
provide, that he may learn
the Creed, the Lord s Prayer,
and the Ten Commandments,
in the vulgar tongue, and all
other things which a Chris
tian ought to know and be
lieve to his soul s health; and

that this Child may be vir
tuously brought up to lead a
godly and a Christian life :
remembering alway, that
Baptism doth represent unto
us our profession; which is,
to follow the example of our
Saviour Christ, and to be
made like unto him ; that, as
he died, and rose again for
us, so should we, who are
baptized, die from sin, and
rise again unto righteous
ness ; continually mortifying
all our evil and corrupt affec
tions, and daily proceeding
in all virtue and godliness of
living.

1T But if they which bring the Infant to the
Church do make such uncertain answers to
the Priest s questions, as that it cannot ap-
pear that the Child was baptized with Wa
ter, In the Name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, (which
are essential parts of Baptism,) then let the
Priest baptize it in the form before ap
pointed for Publick Baptism of Infants;
saving that at the dipping of the Child in the
Font, he shall use this form of words.

IF thou art not already bap
tized, N. I baptize thec
In the Name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost Amen.

THE MINISTRATION OF

BAPTISM TO SUCH AS ARE OF RIPER YEARS,

AND ABLE TO ANSWER FOR THEMSELVES.

When any such persons, as are of riper years, are to be baptized, timely notice shall be given t

tltey may be exhorted to prepare themselves vnth Prayers and Fasting for the receiving qfthis
holy Sacrament.

And if they shall be found fit, then the Godfathers and Godmothers (the people being as-
9gnmti ttpon tht Svndny or Holy-day appointed) shall be ready to present them at the Font

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immediately after the second Lesson, cither at Morning or Evening Prayer, as the Cwate in
his discretion shall think fit.

And standing there, the Priest shall ask, whetlier any of the persons here presented be baptized,
or no: ff they shall answer, No ; then shall the Pnest say thus,

foras-

are

DEARLY beloved,
much as all men
conceived and born in sin,
(and that which is born of
the flesh is flesh,) and they
that are in the flesh can
not please God, but live in
sin, committing many actual
transgressions; and that our
Saviour Christ saith, None
can enter into the kingdom
of God, except he be regene
rate and born anew of Water
and of the holy Ghost ; I be
seech you to call upon God
the Father, through our Lord
Jesus Christ, that of his
bounteous goodness he will
grant to these persons that
which by nature they cannot
have ; that they may be bap
tized with Water and the
holy Ghost, and received into
Christ s holy Church, and be
made lively members of the
same.

H Then shall the Priest say,

Let us pray.

CIT And here all the Congregation shall kneel.)

\ L MIGHTY and ever-
,/jL lasting God, who of
thy great mercy didst save
Noah and his family in the
ark from perishing by wa
ter; and also didst safely
lead the children of Israel
thy people through the Red
Sea, figuring thereby thy holy
Baptism; and by the Bap

tism of thy well-beloved Son
Jesus Christ, in the river Jor
dan, didst sanctify the ele
ment of Water to the mysti
cal washing away of sin ; We
beseech thee, for thine infi
nite mercies, that thou wilt
mercifully look upon these thy
servants; wash them and sanc
tify them with the holy Ghost,
that they, being delivered
from thy wrath, may be re
ceived into the ark of Christ s
Church ; and being sted-
fast in faith, joyful through
hope, and rooted in charity,
may so pass the waves of this
troublesome world, that final
ly they may come to the land
of everlasting life, there to
reign with thee world with
out end; through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen.

ALMIGHTY and im
mortal God, the aid of
all that need, the helper of all
that flee to thee for succour,
the life of them that believe,
and the resurrection of the
dead ; We call upon thee for
these persons, that they, com
ing to thy holy Baptism, may
receive remission of their sins
by spiritual regeneration. Re
ceive them, O Lord, as thou
hast promised by thy well-
beloved Son, saying, Ask, and
ye shall receive; seek, and ye
shall find; knock, and it
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shall be opened unto you:
So give now unto us that
ask; let us that seek find;
open the gate unto us that
knock ; that these persons may
enjoy the everlasting benedic
tion of thy heavenly wash
ing, and may come to the
eternal kingdom which thou
hast promised by Christ our
Lord. Amen.

f Then shall the people stand up, and the
Priest shall say,

Hear the words of the Gospel,
written by Saint John, in
the third Chapter, begin
ning at the first Verse.

THERE was a man of the
Pharisees, named Nico-
demus, a ruler of the Jews.
The same came to Jesus by
night, and said unto him,
Rabbi, we know that thou
art a teacher come from God;
for no man can do these mi
racles that thou doest, except
God be with him. Jesus an
swered and said unto him,
Verily, verily I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of
God. Nicodemus saith unto
him, How can a man be born
when he is old ? Can he enter
the second time into his mo
ther s womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily
I say unto thee, Except a
man be born of water and of
the Spirit, he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the

flesh is flesh; and that which
is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto
thee, Ye must be bom again.
The wind bloweth where it
listeth, and thou nearest the
sound thereof; but canst not
tell whence it com.eth, and
whither it goeth : so is every
one that is born of the Spirit.

U After which he shall say this Exhortation
f allotting .

BELOVED, ye hear in this
Gospel the express words
of our Saviour Christ, that
except a man be born of wa
ter and of the Spirit, he can
not enter into the kingdom
of God. Whereby ye may-
perceive the great necessity
of this Sacrament, where it
may be had. Likewise, im
mediately before his ascen
sion into heaven, (as we read
in the last Chapter of Saint
Mark s Gospel,) he gave com
mand to his disciples, saying,
Go ye into all the world, and
preach the Gospel to every
creature. He that believeth
and is baptized shall be saved ;
but he that believeth not
shall be damned. Which also
sheweth unto us the great
benefit we reap thereby. For
which cause Saint Peter the
Apostle, when upon his first
preaching of the Gospel many
were pricked at the heart,
and said to him and the rest
of the Apostles, Men and
brethren, what shall we do?

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replied and said unto them,
Repent, and be baptized every
one of you for the remission
of sins, and ye shall receive
the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is to you and
your children, and to all that
are afar off, even as many as
the Lord our God shall call.
And with many other words
exhorted he them, saying,
Save yourselves from this un
toward generation. For (as
the same Apostle testified! in
another place) even Baptism
doth also now save us, (not
the putting away of the filth
of the flesh, but the answer
of a good conscience towards
God,) by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ. Doubt ye not
therefore, but earnestly be
lieve, that he will favourably
receive these present persons,
truly repenting, and coming
unto him by faith; that he
will grant them remission of
their sins, and bestow upon
them the holy Ghost ; that he
will give them the blessing
of eternal life, and make them
partakers of his everlasting
kingdom.

Wherefore we being thus
persuaded of the good will of
our heavenly Father towards
tJtese persons, declared by his
Son Jesus Christ; let us faith
fully and devoutly give thanks
to him, and say,

ALMIGHTY and ever
lasting God, heavenly

Father, we give thee humble
thanks, for that thou hast
vouchsafed to call us to the
knowledge of thy grace, and
faith in thee : Increase this
knowledge, and confirm this
faith in us evermore. Give
thy holy Spirit to these per
sons, that they may be born
again, and be made heirs of
everlasting salvation; through
our Lord Jesus Christ, who
liveth and reigneth with thee
and the Holy Spirit, now and
for ever. Amen.

1T Then the Priest sliall speak to the persons
to be baptized on this wise :

WELL-BELOVED, who
are come hither desir
ing to receive holy Baptism,
ye have heard how the con
gregation hath prayed, that
our Lord Jesus Christ would
vouchsafe to receive you and
bless you, to release you of
your sins, to give you the
kingdom of heaven, and ever
lasting life. Ye have heard
also, that our Lord Jesus
Christ hath promised in his
holy Word to grant all those
things that we have prayed
for; which promise he, for
his part, will most surely keep
and perform.

Wherefore, after this pro
mise made by Christ, ye must
also faithfully, for your part,
promise in the presence of
these your Witnesses, and
this whole congregation, that
ye will renounce the devil and
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all his works&gt; and constantly
believe God s holy Word, and
obediently keep his com
mandments.

1T Then shall the Priest demand qf each of the
persons to he baptized, severally, these Ques
tions following :

Question.

DOST thou renounce the
devil and all his works,
the vain pomp and glory of
the world, with all covetous
desires of the same, and the
carnal desires of the flesh, so
that thou wilt not follow, nor
be led by them?

Answer. I renounce them
all.

Question.

DOST thou believe in God
the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth ?

And in Jesus Christ his
only-begotten Son our Lord ?
And that he was conceived
by the Holy Ghost; born of
the Virgin Mary ; that he
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and bu
ried ; that he went down into
hell, and also did rise again
the third day; that he as
cended into neaven, and sit-
teth at the right hand of God
the Father Almighty ; and
from thence shall come again
at the end of the world, to
judge the quick and the
dead?

And dost thou believe in
the Holy Ghost; the holy
Catholick Church ; the Com
munion of Saints ; the Re

mission of sins; the Resur
rection of the flesh ; and
everlasting life after death ?

Answer. All this I sted-
fastly believe.

Question.

WILT thou be baptized
in this faith ?

Answer. That is my desire.
Question.

WILT thou then obedi
ently keep God s holy
will and commandments, and
walk in the same all the days
of thy life?

Answer. I will endeavour
so to do, God being my
helper.

1T Then shall the Priest say,

O Merciful God, grant that
the old Adam in these
persons may be so buried, that
the new man may be raised
up in them. Amen.

Grant that all carnal affec
tions may die in them, and
that all things belonging to
the Spirit may live and grow
in them. Amen.

Grant that they may have
power and strength to have
victory, and to triumph,
against the devil, the world,
and the flesh. Amen.

Grant that they, being here
dedicated to thee by our of
fice and ministry, may also
be endued with heavenly vir
tues, and everlastingly re
warded, through thy mercy,
O blessed Lord God, who
dost live, and govern all

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things, world without end.
Amen.

A LMIGHTY, everliving
JLX God, whose most dearly
beloved Son Jesus Christ, for
the forgiveness of our sins,
did shed out of his most
precious side both water and
blood, and gave command
ment to his disciples, that
they should go teach all na
tions, and baptize them In
the Name of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Ghost;
Regard, we beseech thee, the
supplications of this congre
gation; sanctify this Water
to the mystical washing away
of sin ; and grant that the
persons now to be baptized
therein may receive the ful
ness of thy grace, and ever
remain in the number of thy
faithful and elect children,
through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.

1 Then shalt the Priest take each person to be
baptized by the right hand, and placing him
conveniently by the Font, according to his
discretion, shall ask the Godfathers and
Godmothers the Name; and then shall dip
him in the water, or pour water upon him,
faying,

NI baptize thee In the
Name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost. Amen.

U Then shall the Priest say,

WE receive this person
into the congregation

HcnthePrtc* of CllHSt s flock ;

"%?%?, * and do sign him

forehead. . -, ^ t V ~

with the sign of
the Cross, in token that here

after he shall not be ashamed
to confess the faith of Christ
crucified, and manfully to
fight under his banner, against
sin, the world, and the devil ;
and to continue Christ s faith
ful soldier and servant unto
his life s end. Amen.

IT Then shell the Priest say,

SEEING now, dearly be
loved brethren, that these
persons are regenerate, and
grafted into the body of
Christ s Church, let us give
thanks unto Almighty God
for these benefits, and with
one accord make our prayers
unto him, that they may lead
the rest of their life accord
ing to this beginning.

V Then shall be said the Lord s Prayer, all
kneeling.

OUR Father, which art in
heaven, Hallowed be thy
Name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, As
it is in heaven. Give us this
day our daily bread. And
forgive us our trespasses, As
we forgive them that trespass
against us. And lead us not
into temptation ; But deliver
us from evil. Amen.

WE yield thee humble
thanks, O heavenly
Father, that thou hast vouch
safed to call us to the know
ledge of thy grace, and faith
in tnee; Increase this know
ledge, and confirm this faith
in us evermore. Give thy
holy Spirit to these persons;

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that, being now bom again,
and made heirs of everlasting
salvation, through our Lord
Jesus Christ, they may con
tinue thy servants, and attain
thy promises; through the
same Lord Jesus Christ thy
Son, who liveth and reigneth
with thee, in the unity of
the same Holy Spirit, ever
lastingly. Amen.

IT Then, all standing up, the Priest shall use
this Exhortationfollowing ; speaking to the
Godfathers and Godmothers jirst.

FORASMUCH as these
persons have promised in
your presence to renounce
the devil and all his works,
to believe in God, and to
serve him ; ye must remem
ber, that it is your part and
duty to put them in mind,
what a solemn vow, promise,
and profession they have now
made before this congrega
tion, and especially before
you their chosen witnesses.
And ye are also to call upon
them to use all diligence to
be rightly instructed in God s
holy Word; that so they may

grow in grace, and in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and live godly, right
eously, and soberly in this
present world.

($ And then, speaking to the new baptized
persons, he shall proceed, and say,}

AND as for you, who
have now by Baptism
put on Christ, it is your part
and duty also, being made
the children of God and of
the light, by faith in Jesus
Christ, to walk answerably to
your Christian calling, and
as becometh the children of
light ; remembering always
that Baptism represented! un
to us our profession; which
is, to follow the example of
our Saviour Christ, and to be
made like unto him ; that as
he died, and rose again for
us ; so should we, who are
baptized, die from sin, and
rise again unto righteous
ness ; continually mortifying
all our evil and corrupt af
fections, and daily proceed
ing in all virtue and godli
ness of living.

It is expedient that evej-y person, thus baptized,, should be confirmed by the Bishop so soon
after his Baptism as conveniently may be ; that so he may be aamitted to the holy
Communion.

If any persons not baptized yi their iiij.dnsy shall br brqught to be baptized before they come
to years of discretion to answer for thtmselrej ; it may suffice to use the Office for Publick
sm of Jnjantt, or (in case of extreme danger) the "Office for Private Baptism ; only
ing the wrd [Infant] for [Child of Person] as occasion requireth.

A CATECHISM,

THAT IS TO SAY,

AN INSTRUCTION TO BE LEARNED OF EVERY PERSON, BEFORE HE BE
BROUGHT TO BE CONFIRMED BY THE BISHOP.

Question.

WHAT is your Name?
Answer. N. or M.

Question. Who gave you
this Name?

Answer. My Godfathers
land Godmothers in my Bap
tism ; wherein I was made a
member of Christ, the child
of God, and an inheritor of
the kingdom of heaven.

Question. What did your
Godfathers and Godmothers
then for you?

Answer. They did promise
and vow three things in my
name. First, that I should re
nounce the devil and all his
works, the pomps and vanity
of this wicked world, and all
the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Secondly, that I should be
lieve all the Articles of the
Christian Faith. And thirdly,
that I should keep God s holy
will and commandments, and
walk in the same all the days
of my life.

Question. Dost thou not
think that thou art bound to
believe, and to do, as they
Lave promised for thee?

Anszuer. Yes verily ; and
by God s help so I will. And
I heartily thank our heavenly
Father, that he hath called
me to this state of salvation,
through Jesus Christ our Sa
viour. And I pray unto God

to give me his grace, that I
may continue in the same
unto my life s end.

Catechist. Rehearse the Ar
ticles of thy Belief.
Answer.

I Believe in God the Fa
ther Almighty, Maker of
heaven and earth :

And in Jesus Christ his
only Son our Lord, Who was
conceived by the Holy Ghost,
Born of the Virgin Mary,
Suffered under Pontius Pi
late, Was crucified, dead, and
buried, He descended into
hell ; The third day he rose
again from the dead, He as
cended into heaven, And sit-
teth at 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 Catholick Church ;
The Communion of Saints ;
The Forgiveness of sins ; The
Resurrection of the body ;
And the Life everlasting,
Amen

Question. What dost thou
chiefly learn in these Articles
of thy Belief?

Answer. First, I learn to be
lieve in God the Father, who
hath made me, and all the
world.

Secondly, in God the Son,

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who hath redeemed me, and
all mankind.

Thirdly, in God the Holy
Ghost, who sanctifieth me,
and all the elect people of
God.

Question. You said, that
your Godfathers and Godmo
thers did promise for you,
that you should keep God s
Commandments. Tell me
how many there be ?

Answer. Ten.

Question. Which be they ?
Answer.

THE same which God
spake in the twentieth
Chapter of Exodus, saying, I
am the Lord thy God, who
brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.

I. Thou shalt have none
other gods but me.

II. Thou shalt not make
to thyself any graven image,
nor the likeness of any thing
that is in heaven above, or
in the earth beneath, or in
the water under the earth.
Thou shalt not bow down to
them, nor worship them : for
I the Lord thy God am a
jealous God, and visit the
sins of the fathers upon the
children, unto the third and
fourth generation of them
that hate me, and shew mercy
unto thousands in them that
love me, and keep my com
mandments.

III. Thou shalt not take

the Name of the Lord trrj]
God in vain : for the Lore]
will not hold him guiltless]
that taketh his Name iri
vain.

IV. Remember that thou]
keep holy the Sabbath-
day. Six days shalt thou laJ
bour, and do all that thou]
hast to do ; but the seventh]
day is the Sabbath of the]
Lord thy God. In it thou
shalt do no manner of work,
thou, and thy son, and thy
daughter, thy man-servant,
and thy maid-servant, thy
cattle, and the stranger that
is within thy gates. For in
six days the Lord made hea-i
ven and earth, the sea, and!
all that in them is, and rested!
the seventh day; wherefore i
the Lord blessed the seventh i
day, and hallowed it.

V. Honour thy father and
thy mother, that thy days
may be long in the land
which the Lord thy God
giveth thee.

VI. Thou shalt do no
murder.

VII. Thou shalt not com
mit adultery.

VIII. Thou shalt not steal.

IX. Thou shalt not bear
false witness against thy
neighbour.

X. Thou shalt not covet
thy neighbour s house, thou
shalt not covet thy neigh
bour s wife, nor his servant,
nor his maid, nor his ox,

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lor his ass, nor any thing

)r ;hat is his.

Question. What dost thou

chiefly learn by these com-

nandments ?

OI i ,, Answer. I learn two things :
my duty towards God, and
v;ny duty towards my Neigh-

Question. What is thy duty

j co wards God ?

,, Answer. My duty towards

; Grod, is to believe in him, to

fear him, and to love him

with all my heart, with all

jmy mind, with all my soul,

*:and with all my strength ; to

3 worship him, to give him

thanks, to put my whole trust

in him, to call upon him, to

honour his holy Name and

his Word, and to serve him

truly all the days of my life.

Question. What is thy duty
towards thy Neighbour ?

Answer. My duty towards
my Neighbour, is to love him
as myself, and to do to all
; men, as I would they should
do unto me: To love, honour,
land succour my father and
mother : To honour and obey
the King, and all that are put
in authority under him : To
submit myself to all my go-
vernours, teachers, spiritual
pastors and masters: To order
myself lowly and reverently
to all my betters: To hurt
no body by word nor deed :
To be true and just in all my
dealing : To bear no malice

nor hatred in my heart : To
keep my hands from picking
and stealing, and my tongue
from evil-speaking, lying, and
slandering : To keep my body
in temperance, soberness, and
chastity : Not to covet nor
desire other men s goods; but
to learn and labour truly to
get mine own living, and to
do my duty in that state of
life, unto which it shall please
God to call me.

Catechist. My good Child,
know this, that thou art not
able to do these things of thy
self, nor to walk in the Com
mandments of God, and to
serve him, without his special
grace; which thou must learn
at all times to call for. by dili
gent prayer. Let me hear
therefore, if thou canst say
the Lord s Prayer.
Answer.

OUR Father, which art in
heaven, Hallowed be
thy Name. Thy kingdom
come. Thy will be done in
earth, As it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that tres
pass against us. And lead us
not into temptation ; But de
liver us from evil. Amen.

Question. What desirest
thou of God in this Prayer ?

Answer. I desire my Lord
God our heavenly Father,
who is the giver of all good
ness, to send his grace unto

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me, and to all people; that
we may worship him, serve
him, and obey him, as we
ought to do. And I pray
unto God, that he will send
us all things that be needful
both for our souls and bo
dies ; and that he will be
merciful unto us, and forgive
us our sins; and that it will
please him to save and defend
us in all dangers ghostly and
bodily ; and that he will
keep us from all sin and
wickedness, and from our
ghostly enemy, and from
everlasting death. And this I
trust he will do of his mercy
and goodness, through our
Lord Jesus Christ. And there
fore I say, Amen, So be it.
Question.

HOW many Sacraments
hath Christ ordained in
his Church ?

Answer. Two only, as gene
rally necessary to salvation,
that is to say, Baptism, and
the Supper of the Lord.

Question. What meanest
thou by this word Sacra
ment?

Answer. I mean an out
ward and visible sign of an
inward and spiritual grace
given unto us, ordained by
Christ himself, as a means
whereby we receive the same,
and a pledge to assure us
thereof.

Question. How many parts
are there in a Sacrament ?

Answer. Two; the out
ward visible sign, and the in
ward spiritual grace.

Question. Wnat is the out
ward visible sign or form it
Baptism ?

Answer. Water ; wherein!
the person is baptized In the*
Name of the Father, and oj
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Question. What is the in
ward and spiritual grace?

Answer. A death unto sin,
and a new birth unto right
eousness : for being by na
ture born in sin, and the
children of wrath, we are
hereby made the children of
grace.

Question. What is required
of persons to be baptized?

Answer. Repentance, where
by they forsake sin ; and
Faith, whereby they stedfast-
ly believe the promises of
God made to them in that
Sacrament.

Question. Why then are
Infants baptized, when by
reason of their tender age
they cannot perform them?

Answer. Because they pro
mise them both by their Sure
ties ; which promise, when
they come to age, themselves
are bound to perform.

Question. Why was the
Sacrament of the Lord s Sup
per ordained?

Answer. For the continual
remembrance of the sacrifice
of the death of Christ, and

A Catechism.

I of the benefits which we re
ceive thereby.

Question. What is the out-
tward part or sign of the
Lord s Supper ?

Answer. Bread and Wine,
which the Lord hath com
manded to be received.

Question. What is the in-
i ward part, or thing signified ?

Answer. The Body and
Blood of Christ, which are
verily and indeed taken and
received by the faithful in the
Lord s Supper.

Question. What are the be
nefits whereof we are partak
ers thereby ?

Ansrver. The strengthen
ing and refreshing of our
souls by the Body and Blood
of Christ, as our bodies are
by the Bread and Wine.

Question. What is required
of them who come to the
Lord s Supper?

Answer. To examine them
selves, whether they repent
them truly of their former
sins, stedfastly purposing to
lead a new life; have a lively
faith in God s mercy through
Christ, with a thankful re
membrance of his death ;
and be in charity with all
men.

f The Curate of every Parish shall diligently upon Sundays and Holy-days, after the second
Lesson at Evening Prayer, openly in the Church instruct and examine so many Children of
his Parish sent unto him, as he shall think convenient, in some part of this Catechism.

H And all Fathers, Mothers, Masters, and Dames, shall cause their Children, Servants, and
Apprentices, (which have not learned their Catechism,) to come to the Church at the time
appointed, and obediently to hear, ami be ordered by the Curate, until suck time as they have
learned all that is here appointed for them to learn.

H So soon as Children are come to a competent age, and can say, in their Mother Tongue, the
Creed, the Lord s Prayer, and the Ttn Commandments; and also can ansiver to the other
Question* of this short Catechism ; they shall be brought to the Bishop. And every one shall
have a Gotlfather, or a Godmother, as a Witness of their Confirmation.

f And whensoever the Bishop shall give knowledge for Children to be brought unto him for
their Confirmation, the Curate of every Paiish shall either bring, or send in writing, with his
hand subscribed thereunto, the names of all such persons within his Parish, as he shall think
fit to be presented to the Bishop to be confirmed. And, if the Bishop approve of them, he shall
confirm them in manner following..

THE ORDER OF

CONFIRM ATION,

OR LAYING ON OF HANDS UPON THOSE THAT ARE BAPTIZED AND COME
TO YEARS OF DISCRETION.

1T Upon the day appointed, nil that are to be then confinned, being placed, and standing in order,
before the Bishop ; he (or somt other Minuter appointed by him) shall read this Prefact
following.

TO the end that Confirma- hath thought good to order,

tion may be ministered That none hereafter shall be

to the more edifying of such Confirmed, but such as can

as shall receive it, the Church say the Creed, the Lord *

The Order of Conformation.

Prayer, and the Ten Com
mandments; and can also an
swer to such other Questions,
as in the short Catechism are
contained : which order is
very convenient to be observ
ed; to the end, that children,
being now come to the years
of discretion, and having
learned what their Godfa
thers and Godmothers pro
mised for them in Baptism,
they may themselves, with
their own mouth and consent,
openly before the Church,
ratify and confirm the same ;
and also promise, that by the
grace of God they will ever
more endeavour themselves
faithfully to observe such
things, as they, by their
own confession, have assent
ed unto.

1T Then shall the Bishop say,

DO ye here, in the pre
sence of God, and of
this congregation, renew the
solemn promise and vow that
was made in your name at
your Baptism ; ratifying and
confirming the same in your
own persons, and acknow
ledging yourselves bound to
believe, and to do, all those
things, which your Godfa
thers and Godmothers then
undertook for you?

f And every one shall audibly answer,

I do.
The Bishop.

OUR help is in the Name
of the Lord;

Answer. Who hath made
heaven and earth.

Bishop. Blessed be the
Name of the Lord ;

Answer. Henceforth, world
without end.

Bishop. Lord, hear our
prayers.

Answer. And let our cry
come unto thee.
The Bishop. Let us pray.

ALMIGHTY and ever-
living God, who hast
vouchsafed to regenerate these j|
thy servants by Water and i&gt;
the holy Ghost, and hast ji
given unto them forgiveness ji
of all their sins ; Strengthen ji
them, we beseech thee, O |
Lord, with the Holy Ghost !
the Comforter, and daily in- |
crease in them thy manifold |
gifts of grace; the spirit of !
wisdom and understanding; I
the spirit of counsel and ;
ghostly strength ; the spi- !
rit of knowledge and true |
godliness; and fill them, O
Lord, with the spirit of thy
holy fear, now and for ever.
Amen.

V Then all flfthem in order kneeling before the
Bisliop, he shall lay his hand upon the head
of every one setei ally, saying,

DEFEND, O Lord, this
thy Child [or this thy
Servant] with thy heavenly
grace, that he may continue
thine for ever ; and daily in
crease in thy holy Spirit more
and more, until he come un
to thy everlasting kingdom.
Amen.

The Order of Confirmation.

IT Then shall the Bishnu say,

The Lord be with you.
Answer. And with thy spirit.

1 And (all kneeling down) the Bishop shall
add,

Let us pray.

OUR Father, which art in
heaven, Hallowed be thy
Name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, As
it is in heaven. Give us this
day our daily bread. And
forgive us our trespasses, As
we forgive them that trespass
against us. And lead us not
into temptation ; But deliver
us from evil. Amen.

And this Collect.
A LMIGHTY and ever-
\. living God, who makest
us both to will and to do
those things that be good
and acceptable unto thy di
vine Majesty ; We make our
humble supplications unto
thee for these thy servants,
upon whom (after the ex
ample of thy holy Apostles)
we have now laid our hands,
to certify them (by this sign)
of thy favour and gracious
goodness towards them. Let
thy fatherly hand, we beseech

thee, ever be over them ; let
thy Holy Spirit ever be with
them ; and so lead them in
the knowledge and obedi