loving thee above all things, may cause, shall be in danger of the obtain thy promises, which exceed judgment: and whosoever shall all that we can desire, through say to his brother, Raca, shall be Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. in danger of the council: but The Epistle. Rom. vi. 3. whosoever shall say, Thou fool, KNOW ye not that so many of shall be in danger of hell fire. us as were baptized into Jesus Therefore, if thou bring thy gift Christ, were baptized into his to the altar, and there rememberdeath? Therefore we are buried est that thy brother hath aught with him by baptism into death against thee, leave there thy gift that like as Christ was raised up before the altar, and go thy way, from the dead by the glory of the first be reconciled to thy brother, Father, even so we also should and then come and offer thy gift. walk in newness of life. For if Agree with thine adversary quickwe have been planted together ly, whilst thou art in the way in the likeness of his death, we with him; lest at any time the shall be also in the likeness of his adversary deliver thee to the resurrection: Knowing this, that judge, and the judge deliver thee our old man is crucified with him. to the officer, and thou be cast that the body of sin might be de-into prison. Verily I say unto stroyed, that henceforth we should thee, thou shalt by no means not serve sin. For he that is dead, come out thence, until thou hast is freed from sin. Now if we be paid the uttermost farthing. dead with Christ, we believe that

we shall also live with him; know-The seventh Sunday after Trinity. ing that Christ being raised from The Collect. the dead, dieth no more; death TO ORD of all power and might, hath no more dominion over him. who art the author and giver For in that he died, he died unto of all good things; graft in our sin once; but in that he liveth. hearts the love of thy name, inhe liveth unto God. Likewise crease in us true religion, nourish reckon ye also yourselves to be us with all goodness, and of thy dead indeed unto sin; but alive great mercy keep us in the same, unto God, through Jesus Christ through Jesus Christ our Lord. our Lord. Amen.

The Gospel. St. Matt. v. 20. JESUS said unto his disciples,

The Epistle. Rom. vi. 19. Speak after the manner of Except your righteousness men, because of the infirmity shall exceed the righteousness of of your flesh: for as ye have yieldthe Scribes and Pharisees, yeled your members servants to unshall in no case enter into the cleanness, and to iniquity, unto kingdom of heaven. Ye have iniquity; even so now yield your heard that it was said by them of members servants to righteousold time, Thou shalt not kill; and ness, unto holiness. For when whosoever shall kill, shall be in ye were the servants of sin, ye danger of the judgment. But were free from righteousness. say unto you, that whosoever is What fruit had ye then in those angry with his brother without a things, whereof ye are now asham

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The Epistle. Rom. viii. 12.

́ed? for the end of those things humbly beseech thee to put away is death. But now being made from us all hurtful things, and to free from sin. and become ser-give us those things which are vants to God, ye have your frui profitable for us, through Jesus unto holiness, and the end ever-Christ our Lord. Amen. Jasting life. For the wages of sin death: but the gift of God is BRETHREN, we are debtors eternal life, through Jesus Christ not to the flesh, to live after our Lord. the flesh: For if ye live after the The Gospel St. Mark, viii. 1. desh, ye shall die; but if ye Nthose days the multitude be-through the Spirit do mortify the ing very great, and having no-deeds of the body, ye shall live. thing to eat, Jesus called his dis For as many as are led by the ciples unto him, and saith unto Spirit of God, they are the sons of them, I have compassion on the God. For ye have not received multitude, because they have now the spirit of bondage again to been with me three days, and have fear; but ye have received the nothing to eat and if I send them spirit of adoption, whereby we away fasting to their own houses, cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit they will faint by the way: for itself beareth witness with our divers of them came from far. spirit, that we are the children And his disciples answered him, of God. And if children, then From whence can a man satisfy heirs; heirs of God, and joint these men with bread here in the heirs with Christ: if so be that wilderness? And he asked them, we suffer with him, that we may How many loaves have ye? And also be glorified together. they said, Seven And he com- The Gospel. St. Matt. vii. 15. manded the people to sit down on BEWARE of false prophets the ground: and he took the se- which come to you in sheep's ven loaves, and gave thanks, and clothing, but inwardly they are brake, and gave to his disciples to ravening wolves. Ye shall know set before them: and they did set them by their fruits: Do men gathem before the people. And they ther grapes of thorns, or figs of had a few small fishes; and he thistles? Even so every good tree blessed, and commanded to set bringeth forth good fruit; but a them also before them. So they corrupt tree bringeth forth evil did eat, and were filled; and they fruit. A good tree cannot bring took пр of the broken neat that forth evil fruit; neither can a corwas left, seven baskets. And they rupt tree bring forth good fruit. that had eaten were about four Every tree that bringeth not forth thousand. And he sent them good fruit, is hewn down, and cast away.

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into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the God, whose never failing pro- kingdom of heaven; but he that vidence ordereth all things doeth the will of my Father, who both in heaven and earth; we is in heaven.

The Collect.

The ninth Sunday after Trinity. There hath no temptation taken The Collect. you, but such as is common to GRANT to us, Lord, we be-man: but God is faithful, who will seech thee, the spirit to think not suffer you to be tempted above and do always such things as are that ye are able; but will with right; that we who cannot do any the temptation also make a way thing that is good without thee, to escape, that ye may be able Tay by thee be enabled to live to bear it.

according to thy will, through Je- The Gospel. St. Luke, xvi. 1. sus Christ our Lord. Amen. JESUS said unto his disciples,

There was a certain rich man

The Epistle. 1 Cor. x. 1. BRETHREN, I would not that who had a steward; and the same ye should be ignorant, how was accused unto him, that he that all our fathers were under had wasted his goods. And he the cloud. and ali passed through called him, and said unto him, the sea; and were all baptized How is it that I hear this of thee? unto Moses in the cloud, and in the Give an account of thy stewardsea; and did all eat the same spi-ship; for thou mayest be no longritual meat, and did all drink the er steward. Then the steward same spiritual drink; (for they said within himself, What shall I drank of that spiritual Rock that do? for my lord taketh away from followed them; and that Rock was me the stewardship: I cannot dig; Christ.) But with many of them to beg I am ashamed. I am reGod was not well pleased; for they solved what to do, that when I am were overthrown in the wilder-put out of the stewardship, they ness. Now these things were our may receive me into their houses. examples, to the intent we should So he called every one of his lord's not lust after evil things, as they debtors unto him, and said unto also lusted. Neither be ye idola- the first. How much owest thou tors, as were some of them: as unto my lord? And he said, An it is written, The people sat down hundred measures of oil. And he to eat and drink, and rose up to said unto him, Take thy bill, and play. Neither let us commit for-sit down quickly, and write fifty. nication, as some of them commit- Then said he to another, And how ted, and fell in one day three much owest thou? And he said, and twenty thousand. Neither let An hundred measures of wheat. us tempt Christ, as some of them And he said unto him, Take thy also tempted, and were destroyed bill, and write fourscore. And of serpents. Neither murmur ye, the lord commended the unjust as some of them also murmured, steward, because he had done and were destroyed of the de-wisely: for the children of this stroyer. Now all these things world are in their generation happened unto them for ensam-wiser than the children of light. ples: and they are written for And I say unto you, Make to our admonition, upon whom the yourselves friends of the mammon ends of the world are come. of unrighteousness; that when Wherefore let him that thinketh ye fail, they may receive you inhe standeth, take heed lest he fall. to everlasting habitations.

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The tenth Sunday after Trinity. [known, even thou, at least in this The Collect. thy day, the things which belong LET thy merciful ears. O Lord. Junto thy peace! but now they be open to the prayers of thy are hid from thine eyes. For the humble servants; and that they days shall come upon thee, that may obtain their petitions make thine enemies shall cast a trench them to ask such things as shail about thee, and compass thee please thee, through Jesus Christ round, and keep thee in on every our Lord. Amen. side, and shall lay thee even with

The Epistle. 1 Cor. xii. 1. the ground, and thy children CONCERNING spiritual gifts, within thee: and they shall not

brethren, I would not have leave in thee one stone upon an you ignorant. Ye know that yeother; because thou knowest not were Gentiles, carried away unto the time of thy visitation. And these dumb idols even as ye were he went into the temple, and beled. Wherefore I give you to un- an to cast out them that sold derstand, that no man, speaking therein, and them that bought, say by the Spirit of God, calleth Je-ing unto them, It is written, My sus accursed; and that no man can house is the house of prayer; but say that Jesus is the Lord, but by ye have made it a den of thieves. the Holy Ghost. Now there are And he taught daily in the temple. diversities of gifts, but the same

Spirit. And there are differences The eleventh Sunday after Trinity. of administrations, but the same The Collect. Lord. And there are diversities God, who declarest thy Alof operations, but it is the same mighty power chiefly in show God who worketh all in all. But ing mercy and pity; mercifully the manifestation of the Spirit is grant unto us such a measure of given to every man to profit with-thy grace, that we, running the al. Forto one is given by the Spirit way of thy commandments, may the word of wisdom; to another, obtain thy gracious promises, and the word of knowledge by the be made partakers of thy heavensame Spirit; to another, faith byly treasure, through Jesus Christ the same Spirit; to another, the our Lord. Amen.

gifts of healing by the same Spi- The Epistle. 1 Cor. xv. 1. rit; to another, the working of mi- BRETHREN, I declare unto racles; to another, prophecy; to you the Gospel which I preachanother, discerning of spirits; toled unto you, which also ye have another, divers kinds of tongues; received, and wherein ye stand, to another, the interpretation of by which also ye are saved, if ye tongues. But all these worketh keep in memory what I preached that one and the self-same Spirit, unto you, unless ye have believed dividing to every man severally in vain. For I delivered unto you a he will. first of all, that which I also reThe Gospel. St. Luke, xix. 41. [ceived, how that Christ died for AND when he was come near, our sins, according to the Scrip

he beheld the city, and wept tures; and that he was buried; and over it, saying, If thou hadst that he rose again the third day,

according to the Scriptures; and The twelfth Sunday after Trinity. that he was seen of Cephas; then The Collect.

of the twelve: After that, he was ALMIGHTY and everlasting seen of above five hundred breth- God, who art always more ren at once; of whom the great-ready to hear than we to pray, and er part remain unto this present art wont to give more than either but some are fallen asleep. After we desire or deserve; pour down that he was seen of Jaines; then upon us the abundance of thy of all the Apostles: and last of all mercy, forgiving us those things he was seen of me also, as of one whereof our conscience is afraid, born out of due time. For I am and giving us those good things the least of the Apostles, that am which we are not worthy to ask, not meet to be called an Apostle, but through the merits and mebecause I persecuted the Church diation of Jesus Christ thy Son of God. But, by the grace of God, our Lord. Amen. I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed upon 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, so we preach, and so ye believed.

The Epistle. 2 Cor. iii. 4. SUCH trust have we through

Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the The Gospel. St. Luke, xviii. 9. letter, but of the Spirit: for the JESUS spake this parable unto letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth certain which trusted in them-life. But if the ministration of selves that they were righteous, death, written and engraven in and despised others: Two men stones, was glorious, so that the went up into the temple to pray; children of Israel could not steadthe one a Pharisee, and the other fastly behold the face of Moses a Publican. The Pharisee stood for the glory of his countenance, and prayed thus with himself: which glory was to be done away; God. I thank thee, that I am not how shall not the ministration of as other men are, extortioners, the Spirit be rather glorious? For unjust, adulterers, or even as this if the ministration of condemnaPublican fast twice in the tion be glory, much more doth week, I give tithes of all that the ministration of righteousness possess. And the Publican stand- exceed in glory. ing afar off, would not lift up so The Gospel. St. Mark, vii. 31. much as his eyes unto heaven, but JESUS, departing from the smote upon his breast, saying, God coast of Tyre and Sidon, came be merciful to me a sinner. I tell unto the sea of Galilee, through you, this man went down to his the midst of the coasts of Decahouse justified rather than the polis, and they bring unto him other: for every one that exalteth one that was deaf, and had an imhimself, shall be abased; and he pediment in his speech; and they that humbleth himself, shall be beseech him to put his hand upon exalted. him. And he took him aside from