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these three are one. And there are three that bear witnefs in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood and thefe three agree in one. If we receive the witnefs of men, the

took it, and did eat hefore them. there are three that bear reAnd he said unto them, Thefe cord in heaven, the Father, the are the words which I fpake Word,and the Holy Ghost: and unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Mofes, and in the Prophets, and in the Pfalms concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that witnefs of God is greater: for they might understand the this is the witnefs of God, which Scriptures, and faid unto them, he hath teftified of his Son. Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Chrift to fuffer, and to rife from the dead the third day; and that repentance and remiffion of fins fhould be caufe he believeth not the repreached in his Name among all nations, beginning at Jerufalem. And ye are witneffes of these things.

The first Sunday after Eafter.

The Collest.
Lmighty Father, who hast

A given thine only Son to
die for our thins, and to rife to

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He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God, hath made him a liar, be

cord 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 Gospel. S. John 20.19. He fame day, at evening, The fag the Yrst day of the

gain for our juftification; Grant week, when the doors were us fo to put away the leaven of fhut, where the difciples were malice and wickedness, that we affembled for fear of the Jews, may alway ferve thee in pure- came Jefus, and ftood in the nefs of living and truth,through the merits of the fame thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The Epiftle. 1 S. John 5.4.

Hatfoever is born of God

midft, and faith unto them, Peace be unto you. And when he had fo faid, he fhewed unto them his hands and his fide. Then were the difciples glad

and this is the victory that over- faid Jefus to them again, Peace cometh the world, even our be unto you: As my Father faith. Who is he that overco- hath fent me, even fo fend I meth the world, but he that be. you. And when he had said lieveth that Jefus is the Son of this, he breathed on them, and God? This is he that came by faith unto them, Receive ye water and blood, even Jefus the Holy Ghoft. Whose foever Chrift; not by water only, but fins ye remit, they are remitby water and blood; and it is ted unto them; and whose fothe Spirit that beareth witness, ever fins ye retain, they are rebecause the Spirit is truth. For tained.

The

The fecond Sunday after Eafter. the fhepherd, whofe own the
The Collect.
fheep are not, feeth the wolf

Almighty God, who haft coming, and leaveth the sheep,

given thine only Son to and fleeth; and the wolf catchbe unto us both a facrifice for eth them, and scattereth the fin, and alfo, an ensample of sheep. The hireling fleeth, begodly life; Give us grace, that caufe he is an hireling, and cawe may always moft thankful- reth not for the fheep. I am ly receive that his ineftimable the good fhepherd, and know benefit, and alfo daily endea- my feep, and am known of vour our felves to follow the mine. As the Father knoweth bleffed steps of his moft holy me, even fo know I the Father: life, through the fame Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epiftle. S. Pet. 2. 19. His is thank-worthy, if a man for confcience toward they fhall hear my voice; and God, endure grief, fuffering there fhall be one fold, and wrongfully. For what glory is one fhepherd.

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it, if when ye be buffeted for

and I lay down my life for the fheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them alfo I must bring; and

The Collect.
Aeft to them that be in er-
Lmighty God, who shew-

your faults, ye fall take it pa- The third Sunday after Eafter. tiently? But if when ye do well, and fuffer for it, ye take it patiently; this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ror the light of thy truth, to ye called because Chrift alfo the intent that they may return = fuffered for us, leaving us an into the way of righteousness; e example, that ye fhould follow Grant unto all them that are his fteps: who did no fin, nei- admitted into the fellowship of ther was guile found in his Chrifts Religion, that they may mouth who when he was re- efchew thofe things that are viled, reviled not again; when contrary to their profeffion, and he fuffered, he threatned not; follow all fuch things as are a but committed himself to him grecable to the fame, through that judgeth righteoufly: Who our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen. his own felf bare our fins in his being dead to fin, the und live Doll as Itrangers and pilown body on the tree, that we The Epistle 1 S. Pet. 2.11. Early beloved, I beseech unto rightcoufnefs; by whofe grims,abftain from fleshly lufts ftripes ye were healed. For ye which war against the foul; were as fheep going aftray; but having your converfation hoare nowreturned unto theShep- neft among the Gentiles; that herd and Bishop of your fouls. whereas they fpeak against you The Gofpel. S. John 10. 11. Efus faid, I am the good fhep- good works which they fhall be as evil-doers, they may by your

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veth his life for the fheep. But vifitation. Submit your felves
he that is an hireling, and not to every ordinance of man for

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the Lords fake, whether it be for joy that a man is born into to the king as fupreme; or un- the world. And ye now thereto governors, as unto them that fore have forrow: but I will fee are fent by him, for the punish you again, and your heart fhall ment of evil-doers, and for the rejoyce, and your joy no man praise of them that do well. taketh from you.

For fo is the will of God, that

The Collect. Almighty God, who alone canft order the unruly

with well-doing ye may put to The fourth Sunday after Easter. filence the ignorance of foolish menus free and not using your liberty for a cloke of malicioufnefs; but as the fervants wills and affections of finful of God. Honour all men. men; Grant unto thy people, Love the brotherhood. Fear that they may love the thing God. Honour the king. which thou commandeft, and The Gofpel. S. John 16. 16. defire that which thou dost pros Efus faid to his difciples, A mife; that fo among the funJ little while and ye shall not dry, and manifold change of fee me, and again, a little while the world, our hearts may fure fhall fee me, becaufe I ly there be fixed, where true go to the Father. Then faid joys are to be 'found, through fome of his difciples among themfelves, What is this that

and ye

he faith unto us, A little while

Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
The Epiftle. S. James 1. 17.
EVery good gift, and every

and ye fhall not fee me; and perfect gift is from above, again, a little while and ye fhall and cometh down from the Fa fee me; and, Because I go to ther of lights, with whom is no the Father? They faid there- variablenefs, neither fhadow of fore, What is this that he faith, turning. Of his own will begat A little while? we cannot tell he us with the word of truth what he faith. Now Jefus knew that we fhould be a kind of that they were defirous to ask first-fruits of his creatures. him, and said unto them, Do ye Wherefore, my beloved breenquire among your felves of thren, let every man be swift that I faid, A little while and to hear, flow to fpeak, flow to ye fhall not fee me; and again, wrath; for the wrath of man a little while and ye fhall fee worketh, not the righteousness me? Verily verily I fay unto of God. Wherefore lay apart you, that ye fhall weep and la- all filthinefs, and fuperfluity of ment, but the world fhall re- naughtiness, and receive with joyce and ye fhall be forrow- meeknefs the engrafted word, ful, but your forrow fhall be which is able to fave your fouls. turned into joy. A woman The Gospel. S. John 16. 5. when he is in travail, hath Efus faid unto his difciples, forrow, because her hour is Now I go my way to him come: but as foon as the is de- that fent me, and none of you livered of the child, fhe re- asketh me,Whithergoeft thou? membreth no more the anguish, But because I have faid thore

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things unto you, forrow hath not a doer, he is like unto a filled your heart. Nevertheless, man beho d`ng his natural face I tell you the truth, it is expe- in a glass. For he beholdeth dient for you that I go away: himself, and goeth his way, and for if I go not away, the Com- ftraightway forgetteth forter will not come unto you; manner of man he was. But but if I depart, I will fend him whofo looketh into the perfect unto you. And when he is law of liberty, and continueth come, he will reprove the world therein; he being not a forgetof fin,and of righteoufnefs, and ful hearer, but a doer of the of judgment: Of fin; becaufe work, this man fhall be blessed they believe not on me: Of in his deed. If any man among righteoufnefs; becaufe I go to you feem to be religious, and my Father, and ye fee me no bridleth not his tongue, but demore: Of judgment; because ceiveth his own heart, this mans the prince of this world is judg- religion is vain. Pure religion, ed. I have yet many things to and undefiled before God and fay unto you, but ye cannot the Father, is this, To vifit the bear them now. Howbeit, when fatherlefs and widows in their he, the Spirit of truth is come, affliction, and to keep himself he will guide you into all truth: utfpotted from the world. for he fhall not fpeak of him- The Gofpel. S John 16.23. Telf but whatsoever he fhall Whatfoever ye fhall ask 7Erily verily I fay unto you, hear, that fhall he fpeak, and he will fhew you things to the Father in my Name, he come. He fhall glorifie me: will give it you, Hitherto have for he fhall receive of mine, ye asked nothing in my Name: and fhall fhew it unto you. All Ask, and ye fhall receive, that things that the Father hath, are mine: therefore faid I, that he fhall take of mine, and fhall thew it unto you.

The fifth Sunday after Eafter.
The Collect.

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your joy may be full. These things have Ifpoken unto you in proverbs: the time cometh when I fhall no more fpeak unto you in proverbs, but I fhall Thew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my

things do come; Grant to that I will pray the Father for us thy humble fervants, that by you, for the Father himself thy holy infpiration we may loveth you, because ye have lothink thofe things that be good, ved me, and have believed that and by thy merciful guiding I came out from God. I came may perform the fame,through forth from the Father, and am our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen. come into the world : Again, I The Epifile. S. James 1. 23. leave the world, and go to the Eye doers of the word, and Father. His difciples faid unto not hearers only, deceiving him, Lo, now fpeakeft thou your own felves. For if any plainly, and fpeakeft no probe a hearer of the word, and verb. Now are we fure that

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thou knoweft all things, and manded them that they fhould needeft not that any man not depart from Jerufalem, but

fhould ask thee: by this we
believe that thou cameft forth
from God. Jefus anfwered
them, Do ye now believe? Be
hold, the hour cometh, yea, is
now come, that ye fhall be feat-
tered every man to his own, and
fhall leave me alone: and yet I
am not alone, becaufe the Fa-
ther is with me. These things
have I spoken unto you, that in
me ye might have peace. In
the world ye fall have tribu-
lation;
but be of good cheer, I
have overcome the world.

The Afcenfion-day.

The Collect.

Rant, we beseech thee, Al

wait for the promise of the Father, which, faith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water, but ye fhall be baptized with the Holy Ghoft not many days hence. When they therefore were come together, they asked 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 fhall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye fhall be witneffes unto me, both in Jerufalem, and in

G mighty God, that like as all Judea, and in Samaria, and we do believe thy only begotten unto the uttermoft part of the Son our Lord Jefus Chrift to earth. And when he had fpohave afcended into the heavens; ken thefe things, while they fo we may also in heart and beheld, he was taken up, and mind thither afcend, and with a cloud received him out of him continually dwell, who their fight. And while they liveth and reigneth with thee looked ftedfaftly toward hea and the Holy Ghoft, one God, ven, as he went up, behold, world without end. Amen.

For the Epiftle. Acts 1. 1.
He former treatife have I

two men ftood by them in white apparel, which also faid, Ye men of Galilee, why ftand

I made, O Theophilus, of ye gazing up into heaven? I his

all that Jefus began both to do fame Jefus which is taken up and teach, until the day in from you into heaven, fhall so which he was taken up, after come in like manner as ye have that he through the Holy feen him go into heaven. Ghoft had given command. The Gofpel. S. Mark 16, 14. ments unto the Apoitles whom

he had chofen. To whom alio JEfus appeared unto the ele

ven as they fat at meat, and he fhewed himself alive after upbraided them with their unhis paffion, by many infallible belief and hardness of heart, proofs, being feen of them for- because they believed not them ty days, and fpeaking of the which had feen him after he things pertaining to the king- was rifen. And he faid unto dom of God: and being affem- them, Go ye into all the bled together with them, com- world, and preach the Gospel

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