hatred, variance, emulations, ble to our salvation, through wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. envyings, murders, drunkenness, The Epistle. Gal. vi. 11. revellings, and such like: of the E see how large a letter I which I tell you before, as I have have written unto you with also told you in time past, that mine own hand. As many as they who do such things, shall desire to make a fair show in the not inherit the kingdom of God. flesh, they constrain you to be cir But the fruit of the Spirit is love, cumcised; only lest they should joy, peace, long-suffering, gentle- suffer persecution for the cross of ness, goodness, faith, meekness, Christ. For neither they themtemperance: against such there is selves who are circumcised keep no law. And they that are Christ's the law; but desire to have you have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts. The Gospel. St. Luke xvii. 11. AND it came to pass, as Jesus circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by went to Jerusalem, that he whom the world is crucified unto passed through the midst of Sama- me, and I unto the world. For in ria and Galilee. And as he entered Christ Jesus neither circumcision into a certain village, there met availeth any thing, nor uncircumhim ten men that were lepers, who cision, but a new creature. And stood afar off. And they lifted up as many as walk according to this their voices, and said, Jesus, Mas- rule, peace be on them, and merter, have mercy on us. And when cy, and upon the Israel of God. he saw them, he said unto them, From henceforth let no man Go show yourselves unto the trouble me, for I bear in my body priests. And it came to pass, the marks of the Lord Jesus. that, as they went, they were Brethren, the grace of our Lord cleansed. And one of them, Jesus Christ be with your spirit. when he saw that he was healed, Amen. turned back, and with a loud The Gospel. St. Matt. vi. 24. voice glorified God, and fellNtems for either he will hate down on his face at his feet, giv-| man can serve two mas ing him thanks: and he was a the one, and love the other; or Samaritan. And Jesus answer- else he will hold to the one, and ing said, Were there not ten despise the other. Ye cannot cleansed? but where are the serve God and mammon. There nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said anto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole. The fifteenth Sunday after Trinity. The Collect. EEP, we beseech thee, O fore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father perpetual mercy: And because better than they? Which of you, the frailty of man without thee by taking thought, can add one cannot but fall, keep us ever by cubit unto his stature? And why thy help from all things hurtful, take ye thought for raiment? Conand lead us to all things profita- Isider the lilies of the field, how they grow they toil not, neither of Christ, which passeth knowdo they spin; and yet I say unto ledge, that ye might be filled with you, that even Solomon in all all the fulness of God. Now unhis glory was not arrayed like to him that is able to do exceedone of these. Wherefore if God ing abundantly above all that we so clothe the grass of the field, ask or think, according to the which to-day is, and to-morrow power that worketh in us, unto is cast into the oven; shall he him be glory in the Church, by not much more clothe you, O ye Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, of little faith? Therefore take no world without end. Amen. thought, saying, What shall we The Gospel. St. Luke vii. 11. eat? or, What shall we drink? AND it came to pass the day or, Wherewithal shall we be after, that Jesus went into a clothed? (for after all these things city called Nain; and many of do the Gentiles seek:) for your his disciples went with him, and heavenly Father knoweth that much people. Now, when he ye have need of all these things. came nigh to the gate of the But seek ye first the kingdom of city, beliold, there was a dead God, and his righteousness, and man carried out, the only son of all these things shall be added his mother, and she was a wiunto you. Take therefore no dow: and much people of the thought for the morrow; for the city was with her. And when morrow shall take thought for the Lord saw her, he had comthe things of itself: sufficient un-passion on her, and said unto to the day is the evil thereof. The sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. her, Weep not. And he came and touched the bier, (and they that bare him stood still) and he said, Young man, I say unto thee, LORD, we beseech thee, let Arise. And he that was dead sat thy continual pity cleanse up, and began to speak: and he and defend thy Church; and be delivered him to his mother. cause it cannot continue in safe- And there came a fear on all: ty without thy succour, preserve and they glorified God, saying, it evermore by thy help and that a great Prophet is risen up goodness, through Jesus Christ among us; and, that God hath our Lord. Amen. visited his people. And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about. The Epistle. Ephes. iii. 13. DESIRE that ye faint, not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. For this cause I The Collect. bow my knees unto the Father The seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would LORD, we pray thee, that thy grace may always prevent grant you, according to the riches and follow us; and make us conof his glory, to be strengthened tinually to be given to all good with might by his Spirit in the works, through Jesus Christ our inner man; that Christ may dwell Lord. Amen. in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the ye walk worthy of the vocation breadth, and length, and deptn, wherewith ye are called, with all and height; and to know the love lowliness and meekness, with The Epistle. Ephes. iv. 1. THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that long-suffering, forbearing one, another in love; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. The Gospel. St. Luke xiv. 1. came to pass, as Jesus went the The eighteenth Sunday after The Collect. ORD, we beseech thee, grant temptations of the world, the thy people grace to withstand flesh, and the devil; and with thee, the only God, through Je, pure hearts and minds to follow sus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. 1 Cor. i. 4. THANK my God always on your behalf, for the grace of chief Pharisees to eat bread, on God which is given you by Jesus the Sabbath-day, that they watch- Christ; that in every thing ye are ed him. And behold, there was enriched by him, in all utterance, a certain man before him, who and in all knowledge; even as had the dropsy. And Jesus anthe testimony of Christ was conswering spake unto the Lawyers firmed in you. So that ye come and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful behind in no gift; waiting for to heal on the Sabbath-day? And the coming of our Lord Jesus they held their peace. And he Christ, who shall also confirm took him, and healed him, and let you unto the end, that ye may him go; and answered them, saybe blameless in the day of our ing, Which of you shall have an Lord Jesus Christ. ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and The Gospel. St. Matt. xxii. 34. will not straightway pull him out WHEN the Pharisees had on the Sabbath-day? And they heard that Jesus had put could not answer him again to the Sadducees to silence, they these things. And he put forth were gathered together. Then a parable to those who were bid- one of them, who was a lawyer, den, when he marked how they asked him a question, tempting chose out the chief rooms; say-him, and saying, Master, which ing unto them, When thou art is the great commandment in bidden of any man to a wedding, the law? Jesus said unto him, sit not down in the highest room, Thou shalt love the Lord thy lest a more honourable man God with all thy heart, and with than thou be bidden of him; and all thy soul, and with all thy he that bade thee and him come mind: This is the first and great and say to thee, Give this man commandment. And the second place; and thou begin with is like unto it, Thou shalt love shame to take the lowest room. thy neighbour as thyself. On But when thou art bidden, go these two commandments hang and sit down in the lowest room; all the law and the prophets. that when he that bade thee While the Pharisees were gacometh, he may say unto thee, thered together, Jesus asked Friend, go up higher; then shalt them, saying, What think ye of thou have worship in the pre-Christ? whose son is he? They sence of them that sit at meat say unto him, The son of Da with thee. For whosoever ex-vid. He saith unto them, How alteth himself, shall be abased: then doth David in spirit call and he that humbleth himself, him Lord, saying, The Lord said shall be exalted. Junto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine ene- rupt communication proceed out mies thy footstool? If David then The nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. GOD, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; mercifully grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. The Gospel. St. Matt. ix. 1. JESUS entered into a ship, and The Epistle. Ephes. iv. 17. passed over, and came into TH HISI say therefore, and testi- his own city. And behold, they fy in the Lord, that ye hence- brought to him a man sick of the forth walk not as other Gentiles palsy, lying on a bed. And Jesus, walk, in the vanity of their mind; seeing their faith, said unto the having the understanding dark-sick of the palsy, Son, be of good ened, being alienated from the cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee. life of God, through the ignor- And behold, certain of the scribes ance that is in them, because of said within themselves, This man the blindness of their heart: blasphemeth. And Jesus, knowwho, being past feeling, have ing their thoughts, said, Wheregiven themselves over unto la-fore think ye evil in your hearts? sciviousness, to work all unclean- For whether is easier to say, Thy ness with greediness. But ye have sins be forgiven thee? or to say, not so learned Christ; if so be that Arise, and walk? But that ye may ye have heard him, and have been know that the Son of man hath taught by him, as the truth is in power on earth to forgive sins, Jesus: That ye put off, concern-(then saith he to the sick of the ing the former conversation, the palsy) Arise, take up thy bed, old man, which is corrupt accord- and go unto thine house. ing to the deceitful lusts; and be he arose, and departed to his renewed in the spirit of your house. But when the multitude mind: and that ye put on the new saw it, they marvelled, and glòriman, which after God is created fied God, who had given such in righteousness and true holiness. power unto men. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither goodness keep us, we beseech give place to the devil. Let him thee, from all things that may that stole, steal no more; but hurt us; that we,being ready both in rather let him labour, working body and soul, may cheerfully with his hands the thing which accomplish those things which is good, that he may have to give thou commandest, through Jeto him that needeth. Let no cor- sus Christ our Lord. Amen. And The twentieth Sunday after Trinity. ALMIGHTY and most mer Ociful God, of thy bountiful The Epistle. Ephes. v. 15. SEE then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit: speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; submitting your selves one to another in the fear guests, he saw there a man who The twenty-first Sunday after GRANT, we beseech thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful people, pardon and peace; The Gospel. St. Matt. xxii. 1. that they may be cleansed from ESUS said, the kingdom of hea-all their sins, and serve thee with of God. who made a marriage for his son; Christ our Lord. Amen. and sent forth his servants to call The Epistle. Ephes. vi. 10. them that were bidden to the wed-MY brethren, be strong in the ding: and they would not come. Lord, and in the power of Again,he send forth other servants, his might. Put on the whole arsaying, Tell them who are bidden, mour of God, that ye may be able Behold, I have prepared my din- to stand against the wiles of the ner: my oxen and my fatlings are devil. For we wrestle not against killed, and all things are ready. flesh and blood, but against princome unto the marriage But cipalities, against powers, against they made light of it, and went the rulers of the darkness of this their ways, one to his farm, ano-world, against spiritual wickedther to his merchandize: and the ness in high places. Wherefore remnant took his servants, and take unto you the whole armou entreated them spitefully, and of God, that ye may be able to slew them. But when the king withstand in the evil day, and heard thereof, he was wroth: and having done all, to stand. Stand he sent forth his armies, and de-therefore, having your loins girt stroyed those murderers, and about with truth; and having or burnt up their city. Then saith the breast-plate of righteousness: he to his servants, The wedding and your feet shod with the preis ready, but they who were bid-paration of the gospel of peace; den were not worthy. Go ye above all, taking the shield of therefore into the highways, and faith, wherewith ye shall be able as many as ye shall find, bid to to quench all the fiery darts of the marriage. So those servants the wicked. And take the helmet went out into the highways, and of salvation, and the sword of the gathered together all, as many Spirit, which is the word of God. as they found, both bad and praying always with all prayer good: and the wedding was fur-and supplication in the Spirit, nished with guests. And when and watching thereunto with all the king came in to see the perseverance, and supplicatica |