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<P>&leaf; THE Epi&s;tels and Go&s;pels for <HI>euery Sonday and Ho|ly</HI> day throughout the whole <HI>yeare. After the v&s;e of the Church of</HI> England.</P>
<P>1574</P>
<P><HI>Imprinted at</HI> London by Iohn <HI>Aw|deley, dwellyng in lit|tle</HI> Brittain &s;treete without <HI>Alder&s;gate.</HI></P>
<P>&para;Cum priuilegio.</P>
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<HEAD>&para;The Epi&s;tles and Go&s;pels for euery <HI>Sun|day and Holy day throughout the whole yeare.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fir&s;t Sunday in Aduent.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. iii.</HEAD>
<P>_OWe nothing to any man but thys, that ye loue one another. For he that loueth ano|ther, fulfilleth the law. For the&s;e commaun|dements: Thou &s;halt not commit adultery: Thou &s;halt not kyl: Thou &s;halt not &s;teale: Thou &s;halt not beare fal&s;e witnes: Thou &s;halt not lu&s;t, and &s;o foorth (if there be any other commaundement) it is all comprehended in this &s;aying, namely: Loue thy neighbour as thy &s;elfe. Loue hurteth not hys neigh|bour: therefore is loue the fulfilling of the lawe. This al&s;o we know the &s;ea&s;on how that it is time that we &s;hould now awake out of &s;leepe, for now is our &s;aluati|on nerer then when we beleued. The night is pa&s;&s;ed, the day is come nye: let vs therefore ca&s;t awaye the deedes of darknes, and let vs put on the armour of light. Let vs walke hone&s;tlye, as it were in the day light: not in eating and drinking, neither in chambring nor wanton|nes, neither in &s;trife and enuying: but put ye on the Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and make no proui&s;ion for the fle&s;h, to fulfill the lu&s;tes of it.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xxi.</HEAD>
<P>ANd when they drew nye to Ieru&s;alem and were come to Bethphage vnto mount Oliuet, then &s;ent Ie&s;us two of his Di&s;ciples &s;aying vnto them: Go into the towne that lieth ouer again&s;t you, and anon you &s;hall finde an A&s;&s;e bound and her Colt with her, loo&s;e
<PB REF="3"> them, &amp; bring them vnto me. And if any man &s;ay ought vnto you, &s;ay ye, the Lord hath nede of them, &amp; &s;traight way he wyl let them go. Al this was done that it might be fulfylled which was &s;poken by the Prophet, &s;aying: Tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold thy king commeth vnto thee meeke, &s;ytting vpon an A&s;&s;e &amp; a Colt, the foale of the A&s;&s;e v&s;ed to the yoke. The Di&s;ciples went, and did as Ie&s;us commaunded them, and brought the A&s;&s;e and the Colt, and put on them their clothes, and &s;et hym thereon. And many of the people &s;pread their garments in the way. Other cut downe braunches from the trees and &s;trawed them in the way. Moreouer the people that went before, and they that came after cryed, &s;aying: <HI>Ho|&s;anna</HI> to the &s;onne of Dauid, ble&s;&s;ed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord, <HI>Ho&s;anna</HI> in the highe&s;t. And when he was come to Ieru&s;alem, all the City was mo|ued, &s;aying: Who is this? And the people &s;ayd: this is Ie&s;us the Prophet of Nazareth, a city of Galile. And Ie&s;us went into the Temple of God, &amp; ca&s;t out all them that &s;old and bought in the Temple, and ouerthrew the tables of the money chaungers, and the &s;eates of them that &s;old Dooues, and &s;ayd vnto them: It is written, my hou&s;e &s;hall be called the hou&s;e of prayer, but ye haue made it a denne of theeues.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The &s;econd Sunday in Aduent.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. xv.</HEAD>
<P>WHat &s;oeuer thinges are written aforetyme, they are written for our learning, that we through pacience and comfort of the &s;criptures, myght haue hope. The God of pacience and con&s;olation, graunt you to bee lyke mynded one towardes another, after the en&s;ample of
<PB REF="3"> Chri&s;t Ie&s;u: that ye all agreeing together, may with one mouth prai&s;e God the Father of our Lord Ie&s;u Chri&s;t: Wherfore receyue ye one another, as Chri&s;t receiued vs, to the pray&s;e of God. And this I &s;ay: that Ie&s;u Chri&s;t was a mini&s;ter of the circumci&s;ion for the truth of God, to confirme the promi&s;es made vnto the fathers, and that the Gentiles might prai&s;e god for his mercy, as it is writte~: For this cau&s;e I wil prai&s;e thee among the Gentils, and &s;inge vnto thy name. And a|gaine he &s;ayth: Reioyce ye Gentils with his people. And againe: prai&s;e the Lord all ye Gentils, and laude him all ye nations together. And agayne E&s;ay &s;ayth: There &s;hall bee the roote of Ie&s;&s;e, &amp; he that &s;hal ry&s;e to raigne ouer the Gentiles, in him &s;hal the Gentils tru&s;t. The God of hope fill you with al ioy and peace in bele|uing, that ye may be rytch in hope through the power of the holy gho&s;t.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xxi.</HEAD>
<P>THer &s;halbe &s;ignes in the &s;unne and in the moone, and in the &s;tars: and in the earth, the people &s;hall be at their wittes ende, thorow di&s;paire. The &s;ea and the water &s;hal roare, and mens harts &s;hal faile the~ for feare, and for looking after tho&s;e thinges which &s;hal come on y^e earth. For the powers of heauen &s;hall moue. And then &s;hall they &s;ee the Sonne of man come in a cloude, with power and great glorye. When the&s;e thinges beginne to come to pa&s;&s;e, then looke vp, and lift vp your heads, for your redemption draweth nye. And he &s;hewed the~ a &s;imilitude: Behold the Figtree, and al other trees: whe~ they &s;hoote foorth their buds, ye &s;ee &amp; know of your own &s;elues that &s;ummer is then nie at ha~d. So likewi&s;e ye al&s;o (whe~ ye &s;ee the&s;e things
<PB REF="4"> come to pa&s;&s;e) be &s;ure that the kyngedome of God is nye. Verely I &s;ay vnto you, this generation &s;hall not pa&s;&s;e, tyll all bee fulfyled. Heauen and earth &s;hall pa&s;&s;e, but my woordes &s;hall not pa&s;&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The third Sunday in Aduent.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Cor. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>LEt a man this wy&s;e e&s;teeme vs, euen as the mini|&s;ters of Chri&s;t, and Stewardes of the &s;ecretes of God. Furthermore it is required of the Stewarde that a man be founde faythfull: with me it is but a very &s;mall thing that I &s;hould be iudged of you, eyther of mans iudgement: no I iudge not mine owne &s;elfe, for I knowe nought by my &s;elfe, yet am I not thereby iu&s;tified. It is the Lord that iudgeth me. Therefore iudge nothing before the time, vntyll the Lord come, which wyll lyghten thynges that are hyd in darknes, and open the coun&s;ayles of the hartes: and then &s;hall euery man haue prai&s;e of God.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xi,</HEAD>
<P>WHen Iohn being in pri&s;on heard the works of Chri&s;t, he &s;ent two of his Di&s;ciples: and &s;ayd vnto him: Art thou he that &s;hal come, or do we looke for another? Ie&s;us aun&s;wered &amp; &s;aid vnto them: Go, and &s;hew Iohn agayne what ye haue heard and &s;eene. The blinde receiue theyr &s;ight, the lame walke, the leapers are clen&s;ed, and the deafe heare, the deade are ray&s;ed vp, and the poore receiue the glad tidinges of the Go&s;pell: and happy is he that is not offended by me. And as they departed, Ie&s;us began to &s;ay vnto the people concerning Iohn: What went ye out into the wildernes to &s;ee? A reede that is &s;haken with the wind? Or what went you out to &s;ee? A man clothed in
<PB REF="4"> &s;oft rayme~t? Behold, they that weare &s;oft clothing, are in kinges hou&s;es. But what went you out for to &s;ee? A Prophet? Verely I &s;ay vnto you, and more then a pro+phet. For this is hee of whom it is written: Behold, I &s;ende my Me&s;&s;enger before thy face, which &s;hall pre|pare thy way before thee.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fourth Sunday in Aduent.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Phillip. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>REioyce in the Lord alway, and againe I &s;ay re|ioyce. Let your &s;oftnes be knowen to all men, the Lord is euen at hand. Be careful for nothing, but in all prayer and &s;upplication let your peticions be ma|nyfe&s;t vnto God, wyth geuing of thankes. And the peace of God (which pa&s;&s;eth all vnder&s;tanding) keepe your harts and mynds, through Chri&s;t Ie&s;u.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. i.</HEAD>
<P>THis is the recorde of Iohn, when the Iewes &s;ent Prie&s;tes and Leuites from Ieru&s;alem, to a&s;ke him: what art thou? And he confe&s;&s;ed and deny|ed not, and &s;aid plainely: I am not Chri&s;t. And they a&s;|ked him, what then? art thou Helias? And he &s;ayd: I am not. Art thou that Prophet? And he an&s;wered no. Then &s;aid they vnto him: what art thou, that we may geue an an&s;wer bnto the~ that &s;ent vs: What &s;aie&s;t thou of thy &s;elfe? He &s;aid: I am the voice of a Cryar in the wildernes: make &s;traight the way of the Lord, as &s;aid the Prophet E&s;ay. And they which were &s;ent, were of the Phari&s;eis, and they a&s;ked him, and &s;ayde vnto him: Why bapti&s;e&s;t thou then, if thou be not Chri&s;t, nor Helias, neither that Prophet? Iohn an&s;wered the~ &s;aying: I bapti&s;e with water, but ther &s;tandeth one a|mong you whom ye know not, he it is which though he came after me, was before me, who&s;e &s;hooe latchet I
<PB REF="5"> am not worthye to vnloo&s;e. The&s;e thinges were done in Bethabara beyond Iordan, wher Iohn did bapti&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Chri&s;tmas day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Hebrues. i.</HEAD>
<P>GOd in times pa&s;t, diuer&s;ly &amp; many waies &s;pake vnto the Fathers by Prophetes: but in the&s;e la&s;t daies he hath &s;poken vnto vs by his own &s;onne, whom he hath made Heire of al things, by whom al&s;o he made the worlde. Which Sonne being the bryght|nes of his glory, and the very image of his &s;ub&s;taunce ruling al things with the word of his power, hath by his own per&s;on purged our &s;ins, &amp; &s;itteth on the right hand of the maie&s;tie on hie: being &s;o much more excel|lent then the Angels, as he hath by inheritaunce obtei+ned a more excellent name the~ they. For vnto which of the Angels &s;ayd he at any time: Thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee? And againe, I wyl be his Father, and hee &s;hall be my Sonne. And agayne, when hee bryngeth in the fir&s;t begotten Sonne into the worlde, he &s;ayth: and let all the Angels of God woor&s;hip hym. And vnto the Angels hee &s;ayth: hee maketh hys Angels &s;pirites, and hys Mini&s;ters a flame of fire. But vnto the Sonne he &s;ayth: thy &s;eate, O God, &s;hall be for euer and euer. The &s;cepter of thy kingdome is a right &s;cepter. Thou ha&s;t loued righ|teou&s;nes, and hated iniquitie: wherfore God, euen thy God hath annoynted thee with oyle of gladne&s;&s;e a|boue thy felowes. And y^u Lord in the beginning ha&s;t layde the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the workes of thy handes. They &s;hall peri&s;h, but thou endure&s;t: but they all &s;hall waxe olde as doth a gar|ment, and as a ve&s;ture &s;halt thou chaunge them, and
<PB REF="5"> they &s;hall bee chaunged: But thou art euen the &s;ame, and thy yeares &s;hall not fayle,</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. i.</HEAD>
<P>IN the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, &amp; God was the word. The &s;ame was in the beginning with God. Althings were made by it, &amp; without it was made nothing y^t was made. In it was life, &amp; the life was the light of men: and the light &s;hineth in the darknes, &amp; the darknes comprehended it not. There was &s;ent from God a man, who&s;e name was Iohn. The &s;ame came as a witnes, to beare wyt|nes of the lyght, that all men through him might be|leue. He was not that light, but was &s;ent to beare wit|nes of the light. That lyght was the true light, which lyghtneth euery man that commeth into the world. He was in the worlde, and the world was made by hym, and the worlde knewe hym not. He came amonge hys owne, and his own receiued him not. But as many as receiued him, to them gaue he power to bee made the &s;onnes of God: euen them that beleued on hys name, whych were borne not of bloude, nor of the wyll of the fle&s;h, nor yet of the wyll of man, but of God. And the &s;ame word became fle&s;h, and dwelt among vs, &amp; we &s;aw the glory of it, as the glory of the onely begot|ten Sonne of the Father, ful of grace and truth.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saint Stephens day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. vii.</HEAD>
<P>ANd Steuen being full of the holy Gho&s;t, looked vp &s;tedfa&s;telye with his eyes into heauen, and &s;awe the glorye of God, &amp; Ie&s;us &s;tanding on the right hande of God, and &s;ayde: beholde, I &s;ee the heauens open, and the &s;onne of man &s;tanding on the
<PB REF="6"> right hande of God. Then they gaue a &s;houte with a loude voice, and &s;topped theyr eares, and ran vpon him al at once, and ca&s;t him out of the City, and &s;toned him. And the wytne&s;&s;es layd downe their clothes at a yong mans frete who&s;e name was Saule. And they &s;toned Steuen, callyng on, and &s;aying: Lord Ie&s;u receyue my &s;pirite. And he kneeled down, &amp; cryed with a loude voyce: Lord, laye not this &s;ynne to their charge. And when he had thus &s;poken, he fell a &s;leepe.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xxiii.</HEAD>
<P>BEholde, I &s;end vnto you Prophets and wi&s;e men, and Scribes, and &s;ome of them ye &s;hal kil and cru|cify, and &s;ome of them &s;hall ye &s;courge in your Si|nagogs, and per&s;ecute them from city to city, that vpon you may come all the righteous bloude which hath bene &s;hed vpon the earth, from the bloude of righte|ous Abell, vnto the bloud of Zacharias the Sonne of Barachias, whom ye &s;lew betwene the temple and the aulter. Verelye I &s;aye vnto you, all the&s;e things &s;hall come vpon this generation. O Ieru&s;alem, Ieru&s;alem, thou that kille&s;t the Prophets, and &s;tone&s;t them which are &s;ent vnto thee: how often would I haue gathered thy children together, euen as the Hen gathereth her Chicknes vnder her wings, and ye would not? Behold your hou&s;e is left vnto you de&s;olate. For I &s;aye vnto you, ye &s;hall not &s;ee me hence forth, tyll ye &s;ay: ble&s;&s;ed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord.</P>
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</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saint Iohn Euangeli&s;tes day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Iohn i.</HEAD>
<P>THat whych was from the beginning, whych we haue hearde which we haue &s;eene with our eyes,
<PB REF="6"> which wee haue looked vpon, and our hands haue handeled of the worde of lyfe. And the life appeared, and we haue &s;ene, and beare wytnes, and &s;hewe vnto you that eternall life which was with the Father, and appeared vnto vs. That which wee haue &s;eene and heard, declare we vnto you that ye al&s;o may haue felow+&s;hyp with vs, and that our felow&s;hip may be with the Father and hys Sonne Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. And this we write vnto you, that ye may reioyce, and that your ioye may be full. And this is the tidinges which we haue heard of hym, and declare vnto you, that God is lyght, and in him is no darknes at all. If we &s;ay we haue felow&s;hip wyth hym and walke in darknes, we lie, and do not the truth. But and if we walke in light, euen as he is in light, then haue we felow&s;hyp wyth hym and the bloud of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t hys Sonne, clean|&s;eth vs from al &s;yn. If we &s;ay we haue no &s;inne, we de|ceiue our &s;elues, and the truth is not in vs. If we knowledge our &s;ynnes, he is faythfull and iu&s;t to for|geue vs our &s;ynnes, and to clean&s;e vs from al vnrigh|teou&s;nes. If we &s;ay we haue not &s;ynned, we make him a lyer, and hys worde is not in vs.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xxi.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us &s;aid vnto Peter, folow thou me. Peter turned about, and &s;aw the Di&s;ciple whom Ie&s;us loued folo+wing (which al&s;o leaned on his brea&s;t at &s;upper, and &s;aid Lord: which is he that betraieth thee?) When Pe|ter therfore &s;aw him, he &s;aid to Ie&s;us: Lord, what &s;hal he here do? Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto him: if I wil haue hym to tary till I come, what is that to thee? Folowe thou me. Then went this &s;aying abrode among the Bre|thren,
<PB REF="7"> that that Di&s;ciple &s;hould not dye. Yet Ie&s;us &s;aid not to him: he &s;hal not die, but if I wil that he tary tyl I come, what is that to thee. The &s;ame Di&s;ciple is he which te&s;tifieth of the&s;e thinges, and wrote the&s;e things and we know that his te&s;timonie is true. Ther are al&s;o many other things which Ie&s;us did, the which if they &s;hould be wrytten euery one, I &s;uppo&s;e the world could not conteyne the bookes that &s;hould bee written.</P>
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</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Innocentes day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle Apoca. xiii.</HEAD>
<P><HI>I</HI> Looked and lo, a lambe &s;tood on the Mount Sion, and with him an .C. and .xliiij. thou&s;and, hauing his name and hys Fathers name written in their fore|heades. And I heard a voyce from heauen as the &s;ound of manye waters, and as the voyce of a great thunder. And I heard the voyce of Harpes, harpynge wyth their Harpes. And they &s;oong as it were a newe &s;onge before the &s;eate and before the .iiij. bea&s;tes and the elders, and no man could learne the &s;onge, but the hundred fortie and foure thou&s;and, which were rede|med from the earth. The&s;e are they which wer not de|filed with wome~, for they are virgins. The&s;e folow the Lambe where&s;oeuer he goeth. The&s;e were redeemed from men beinge the fir&s;t fruites vnto God and to the Lambe, and in their mouthes was found no guyle, for they are without &s;pot before the throne of God.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. ii,</HEAD>
<P>THe Aungell of the Lord appeared to Io&s;eph in a &s;leepe, &s;aying: ary&s;e &amp; take the childe and his mo|ther, &amp; flee into Egipt, &amp; be thou ther til I bring thee woord. For it wil come to pa&s;&s;e y^t Herod &s;hal &s;eeke
<PB REF="7"> the Child to de&s;troy him. So when he awoke, he tooke the childe and his Mother by night, and departed into Egypt, and was there vnto the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was &s;poken of the Lord by the Prophet &s;aying: Out of Egipt haue I called my &s;onne. Then Herode when he &s;aw that he was mocked of the wy&s;e men, he was exceeding wroth, and &s;ent forth men of warre, and &s;lew all the children that were in Bethe|lem, and in all the coa&s;tes (as many as were two yeares old or vnder) according to the tyme which he had dili|gently knowen out of the wi&s;e men. Then was fulfilled that which was &s;poken by the Prophet Ieremy, where as he &s;aid: In Rama was ther a voyce heard, lamenta|cion, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weping for her children, and would not be comforted, becau&s;e they were not.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Sunday after Chri&s;tmas day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Gala. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>ANd I &s;ay, that the Heire (&s;o long as he is a chyld) differeth not from a &s;eruant, though he be Lord of all, but is vnder Tutours and Gouernours, vntyll the tyme that the father hath appoynted. Euen &s;o we al&s;o, when we were children, were in bondage vnder the ordinances of the world, but when the time was full come, God &s;ent his &s;onne made of a woman, and made bond vnto the law, to redeme them which wer bond vn|to the law, that we through election might receiue the in+heritance that belongeth vnto the naturall &s;onnes. Be|cau&s;e ye are &s;onnes, God hath &s;ent the &s;pirit of his &s;o~ne into your hartes, which cryeth <HI>Abba,</HI> Father, wherefore now thou art not a &s;eruaunt, but a &s;onne: If thou be a &s;onne, thou art al&s;o an heire of God through Chri&s;t.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. i.</HEAD>
<P>THys is the booke of the generation of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t the &s;onne of Dauid, the &s;onne of Abraham: Abra|ham begat I&s;aac, I&s;aac begat Iacob, Iacob be|gat Iudas and hys brethren, Iudas begat Phares and Zaram of Thamar, Phares begat E&s;rom, E&s;rom begat Aram, Aram begat Aminadab, Aminadab begat Naa&s;&s;on, Naa&s;&s;on begat Salmon, Salmon begat Boos of Rahab, Boos begat Obed of Ruth, Obed begat Ie&s;&s;e, Ie&s;&s;e begat Dauid the king, Dauid the king begat Salomon of her that was the wife of Vrie, Salomon begat Roboam, Roboam begat Abia, Abia begat A&s;a, A&s;a begat Io&s;aphat, Io&s;aphat begat Io|ram, Ioram begat O&s;ias, O&s;ias begat Ioatham, Io|atham begat Achas, Achas begat Ezechias, Ezechias begat Mana&s;&s;es, Mana&s;&s;es begat Amon, Amon be|gat Io&s;ias, Io&s;ias begat Ieconias and his brethren, about the time that they wer caried away to Babilo~. And after they were brought to Babylon, Ieconias begat Salathiell, Salathiel begat Zorobabel. Zorobabel be|gat Abiud, Abiud begat Eliachim, Eliachim begat A|zor, Azor begat Sadoc, Sodoc begat Achin, Achin be|gat Eliud, Eliud begat Marthan, Marthan begat Ia|cob, Iacob begat Io&s;eph the hu&s;band of Mary, of whom was borne Ie&s;us, euen he that is called Chri&s;t. And &s;o all the generations from Abraham to Dauid, are .xiiij. generations. And from Dauid vnto the captiuitie of Ba+bilon, are .xiiij. generations. And from the captiuitie of Babilon vnto Chri&s;t are .xiiij. generations.</P>
<P>The birth of Chri&s;t was on this wi&s;e: when his mo|ther Marye was maried to Io&s;eph (before they came to dwel together) &s;he was found with child by the holy
<PB REF="8"> gho&s;t. Then Io&s;eph her hu&s;band (becau&s;e he was a righ+teous man, &amp; would not put her to &s;hame) was minded priuelie to depart fro~ her. But while he thus thought, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him in a &s;leepe &s;aying: Io&s;eph, thou &s;onne of Dauid, feare not to take vnto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is concei|ued in her commeth of the holy gho&s;t. She &s;hall bring forth a &s;onne, and thou &s;halt call his name Ie&s;us, for he &s;hal &s;aue his people from their &s;ynnes.</P>
<P>Al this was done that it might be fulfilled which was &s;poken of the Lord by the Prophet, &s;aying: Behold a mayde &s;halbe with childe, and &s;hall bring forth a &s;onne, and they &s;hal call hys name <HI>Emanuel:</HI> which (if a man in|terpret) is as much to &s;ay, as God with vs. And Io&s;eph a&s;&s;one as he awoke out of &s;leepe, did as the Angel of the Lord had bidden him, and he tooke hys wife vnto him, and knew her not, tyll &s;he had brought foorth her fyr&s;t begotten Sonne, and called his name Ie&s;us.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Circumci&s;ion of Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>BLe&s;&s;ed is that man to whom the Lord will not im|pute &s;yn. Came this ble&s;&s;ednes then vpon the vn|circumci&s;ion, or vpon the circum&s;icion al&s;o? For we &s;ay y^t faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteou&s;nes. How was it then reckoned, when he was in the circum|ci&s;ion, or when he was in the vncircumci&s;ion? Not in tyme of circumci&s;ion, but when he was yet vncircum|ci&s;ed. And he receyued the &s;igne of circumci&s;ion, as a &s;eale of the righteou&s;nes of fayth, which he had yet be|yng vncircumci&s;ed, that he &s;hould be the Father of all them that beleue, though they be not circu~ci&s;ed, that righ+teou&s;nes might be imputed to them al&s;o: and that he
<PB REF="9"> might be the Father of circumci&s;ion, not vnto them one|ly which came of the circumci&s;ed, but vnto them al&s;o that walke in the &s;teps of the faith that was in our father A|braham before the time of circumci&s;ion. For the promi&s;e (that he &s;hould be heire of the world) happened not to Abraha~ or to his &s;ede through the law, but through the righteou&s;nes of faith. For if they which are of the law be heires, the~ is faith but vain, &amp; the promis of none effect.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. ii.</HEAD>
<P>ANd it fortuned a&s;&s;oone as the Angels were gone away from the Shepheardes into heauen, they &s;ayd one to another: let vs go euen now vnto Be|thelem, and &s;ee this thing that we heare &s;ay is hapned, which the Lord hath &s;hewed vnto vs. And they came with ha&s;t, and found Mary and Io&s;eph, and the Babe layd in a maunger. And when they had &s;ene it, they pub+li&s;hed abroad that &s;aying that was tolde them of that child. And al they that heard it, wondred at tho&s;e things which were told them of the Shepheards. But Mary kept al the&s;e &s;ayings, and pondred them in her hart. And the Shepheards returned, pray&s;ing and lauding God for all thinges that they had heard and &s;ene euen as it was told vnto them. And when the eight day was come, that the Childe &s;hould be circumci&s;ed, hys name was called Ie&s;us, which was named of the Aungell before he was conceiued in the wombe.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Epiphany.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Ephe&s;. iii.</HEAD>
<P>FOr this cau&s;e I Paule a pry&s;oner of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, for you Heathen, if you haue heard of the mini&s;trati|on of the grace of God, which is geuen me to you ward. For by reuelation &s;hewed he the mi&s;tery vnto me,
<PB REF="9"> as I wrote afore in few woordes, whereby when ye reade, ye may vnder&s;tand my knowledge in the mi&s;te|ry of Chri&s;t, which mi&s;tery in times pa&s;t was not ope|ned vnto the &s;onnes of men, as it is now declared vnto his holy Apo&s;tels and Prophetes by the &s;pirite: that the Gentiles &s;hould be inheritours al&s;o, &amp; of the &s;ame bodye, and partakers of his promi&s;e in Chri&s;t, by the meanes of the Go&s;pel, wherof I am made a Mini&s;ter, according to the gift of the grace of God, which is ge|uen vnto me after the working of his power. Vnto me the lea&s;t of all Saintes is this grace geuen, that I &s;hould preache among the Gentiles the vn&s;earchable ritches of Chri&s;t, &amp; to make all men &s;ee what y^e felow|&s;hip of the mi&s;tery is, which from the beginning of the world hath bene hid in God, which made all thinges through Ie&s;us Chri&s;t: to thentent that now vnto the rulers &amp; powers in heauenly things might be knowen by the congregation the manifold wi&s;dome of God, ac|cording to the eternall purpo&s;e which he wrought in Chri&s;t Ie&s;u our Lord: by whom we haue boldnes &amp; entrance with the confidence which is by the fayth of him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. ii.</HEAD>
<P>WHen Ie&s;us was borne in Bethelem a City of Iewry, in the time of Herod the king: behold, ther came wi&s;e men from the Ea&s;t to Ieru&s;a|lem, &s;aying: Where is hee that is borne Kyng of the Iewes? For we haue &s;ene his &s;tarre in the Ea&s;t, and are come to wor&s;hip him. When Herod the kyng had heard the&s;e thinges, he was troubled, and all the city of Ieru&s;alem with hym. And when he had gathered al the chiefe Prie&s;ts &amp; Scribes of the people together, he demaunded of them where Chri&s;t &s;hould be borne.
<PB REF="10"> And they &s;ayd vnto him, at Bethelem in Iewry. For thus it is written by the Prophet: And thou Bethlem in the land of Iewry art not the lea&s;t among y^e Prin|ces of Iuda: for out of thee there &s;hall come vnto me the Captaine that &s;hal gouern my people I&s;rael. Then Herod, when he had priuely called the wy&s;e men, he en|quired of them diligently what tyme the &s;tarre appea|red, and he bad them go to Bethlem, and &s;aid: go your way thether, and &s;earch diligently for the chylde. And when ye haue found him, bring me word agayne, that I may come and woor&s;hip him al&s;o. When they had heard the king, they departed, and loe the &s;tarre which they &s;aw in the Ea&s;t, went before them, tyll it came and &s;tood ouer the place wherin the child was. When they &s;aw the &s;tarre, they were exceeding glad, and went in|to the hou&s;e, and found the child with Mary his mo|ther, and fell downe flat, and wor&s;hipped him, and ope|ned their trea&s;ures and offered vnto him gifts: gold, Frankincens and Mirre. And after they were warned of God in a &s;lepe, y^t they &s;hould not go againe to Herod: they returned into their owne countrey another way.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fit&s;t &s;unday after the Epiphany.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. xii.</HEAD>
<P><HI>I</HI> Be&s;che you therfore brethren, by the mercyfulnes of of God that yee make your bodies a quicke &s;acrifice, holy and acceptable vnto God which is your rea|&s;onable &s;eruing of God, and fa&s;hion not your &s;elues lyke vnto this world: but be ye chaunged in your &s;hape by the renuing of your minde, that ye may proue what thing that good and acceptable and perfecte wyll of God is. For I &s;ay (through the grace that vnto me geue~ is) to euery man among you that no man &s;tande high
<PB REF="10"> in his own conceite, more then it becommeth him to e&s;teme of him&s;elfe: but &s;o iudge of him&s;elfe, that ht be gentell and &s;ober, according as God hath dealt to euery man the mea&s;ure of faith. For as we haue many members in one body, and al members haue not one office: &s;o we being many, are one body, in Chri&s;t, and euery man among our &s;elues one a nothers members.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. ii.</HEAD>
<P>THe Father and Mother of Ie&s;us went to Ieru&s;a|lem after the cu&s;tome of the fea&s;t day. And when they had fulfylled the dayes, as they returned home, the Childe Ie&s;us abode &s;tyll in Ieru&s;alem and his father &amp; mother knew not of it: but they &s;uppo&s;ing him to haue bene in the company, came a daies iourney and &s;ought him amonge&s;t their kin&s;folke and acquain+taunce. And whe~ they found him not, they went back a|gayne to Ieru&s;alem, and &s;ought him. And it fortuned that after three dayes they found him in the temple, &s;it+ting in the midde&s;t of the Doctours, hearing them and po&s;ing them. And all that heard hym, wer a&s;tonied at his vnder&s;tanding and an&s;wers. And when they &s;aw hym, they merueiled, and his mother &s;ayd vnto him: Sonne why ha&s;t thou thus dealt with vs? Behold thy Father and I haue &s;ought thee &s;orowing. And he &s;aid vnto them: how happened that ye &s;ought me? wi&s;t you not that I mu&s;t go about my Fathers bu&s;ynes? And they vnder&s;tood not that &s;aying which he &s;pake vnto them. And he went down with them, and came to Na|zareth and was obedient vnto them: but his Mother kept all the&s;e &s;ayinges together in her hart. And Ie&s;us pro&s;pered in wi&s;edome and age, and in fauour with God and men.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<PB REF="11">
<HEAD>&para;The &s;econd &s;onday after the Epiphany.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle Roma. xii.</HEAD>
<P>SEing that we haue diuers gyftes, according to the grace that is geuen vnto vs: if a man haue the gift of prophecy, let him haue it, that it be agreeing to the fayth. Let him that hath an office, waite on his office. Let him that teacheth, take hede to his doctrine. Let him that exhorteth, geue attendance to his exhor|tacion. If any man geue, let him do it with &s;ynglenes. Let hym that ruleth, do it with cherefulnes. Let loue be without di&s;&s;imulation. Hate that which is euil, and cleaue to that which is good. Be kynde one to another with brotherly loue: in geuing honor, go one before an other. Be not &s;louthful in the bu&s;ynes which you haue in hand. Be feruent in Spirit. Apply your &s;elues to the time. Reioyce in hope. Be pacient in tribulation. Conti|nue in prayer. Di&s;tribute vnto y^e nece&s;&s;ity of the &s;aynts. Be ready to harbour. Ble&s;&s;e them which per&s;ecute you: ble&s;&s;e I &s;ay, and cur&s;e not. Be mery with them that are mery, wepe with them that wepe. Be of lyke affection one towardes another. Be not hye minded, but make your &s;elues equall to them of the lower &s;ort.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. ii.</HEAD>
<P>ANd the third day was ther a mariage in Cana, a City of Galile, and the Mother of Ie&s;us was ther. And Ie&s;us was called (and his di&s;ciples) vn+to the mariage. And when the wine failed, the mother of Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto him: they haue no wine. Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto her: woman, what haue I to do with thee: mine houre is not yet come. His mother &s;aid vnto the Mini|&s;ters, what&s;oeuer he &s;aith vnto you, do it. And there were &s;tanding ther .vi. waterpots of &s;tone, after the ma|ner
<PB REF="11"> of purifiying of the Iewes, conteining two or three firkins apece. Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto them: fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them vp to the brim. And he &s;ayd vnto them: draw out now, and beare vnto the Gouernour of the fea&s;t: and they bare it When the ruler of the fea&s;t had ta&s;ted the water turned into wine, and knewe not whence it was (but the mini&s;ters which drew the water, knew) he called the bridegrome, and &s;aid vnto him euery man at the begynning doth &s;et|forth good wine, &amp; when men be dronk the~ that which is wor&s;e: but thou ha&s;t kept the good wine vntil nowe. This beginning of miracles did Ie&s;us in Cana of Ga|lile, &amp; &s;hewed his glory, &amp; his di&s;ciples beleued on him.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The third &s;unday after the Epiphany.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. xii.</HEAD>
<P>BE not wi&s;e in your owne opinions. Recompence to no man euyll for euill. Prouide aforehande thinges hone&s;t, not onelye before God, but al&s;o in the &s;yght of all men. If it be po&s;&s;ible (as much as is in you) lyue peaceably with all men. Dearely beloued auenge not your &s;elues, but rather geue place vnto wrath. For it is written, vengeaunce is mine, I wyll reward, &s;ayth the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feede him, if he thir&s;t, geue him drinke, For in &s;o doing thou &s;halte heape coales of fire on his head. Be not ouercome of euill, but ouercome euil with goodnes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. viii.</HEAD>
<P>WHen he was come down from the mountaine, much people folowed him. And behold there came a leper, and wor&s;hipped him, &s;aying: Mai&s;ter, if thou wilt, y^e can&s;t make me cleane. And Ie&s;us put forth hys hande and touched him, &s;aying: I wil, be thou cleane: &amp; imme+diatly
<PB REF="12"> his lepor&s;y was clean&s;ed. And Ie&s;us &s;aid to him tel no man, but go &amp; &s;hew thy &s;elfe to the prie&s;t, &amp; offer the gift (that Moi&s;es commaunded to be offred) for a witnes vnto them. And when Ie&s;us was entred into Capernauin, ther came vnto him a Centurion, and be|&s;ought him, &s;aying: Mai&s;ter, my &s;eruant lieth at home &s;ick of the pal&s;ey, and is greuou&s;ly payned. And Ie&s;us &s;ayd: When I come vnto hym, I wyll heale him. The Ce~turion an&s;wered &amp; &s;aid: Sir, I am not worthy that thou &s;houlde&s;t come vnder my roofe: but &s;peake the word onely, and my &s;eruaunt &s;halbe healed. For I al&s;o am a man &s;ubiect to the autority of an other, and haue &s;ouldiours vnder me, and I &s;ay to this man, go: and he goeth, and to another man, come, and he commeth, and to my &s;eruant, do this, and he doth it. Whe~ Ie&s;us heard the&s;e words, he maruayled, and &s;aid to them that folo|wed him: verely I &s;ay vnto you, I haue not found &s;o great fayth in I&s;rael. I &s;ay vnto you, that many &s;hall come from the Ea&s;t and We&s;t, and &s;hall re&s;t with Abra|ham, I&s;aac, and Iacob in the kingdome of heauen, but the children of the kingdome &s;halbe ca&s;t out into vtter darknes, ther &s;halbe weeping &amp; gna&s;hyng with teeth. And Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto the Centurion: go thy way, and as thou beleue&s;t, &s;o be it vnto thee, &amp; his &s;eruant was healed in the &s;elfe &s;ame houre.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fourth &s;unday after the Epiphany.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. xii.</HEAD>
<P>LEt euery &s;oule &s;ubmit him&s;elfe vnto the aucthority of the higher powers, for there is no power but of God. The powers that be ar ordained of God, who &s;oeuer therfore re&s;i&s;teth power, re&s;i&s;teth the ordinance of God, but they that re&s;i&s;t &s;hall receiue to them &s;elues
<PB REF="12"> damnatio~. For rulers ar not fearful to them y^t do good, but to them that do euil. Wilt thou be without feare of the power? do wel then, &amp; &s;o &s;halt thou be prai&s;ed of the the &s;ame, for he is the mini&s;ter of God for thy wealth. But &amp; if thou do that which is euil, the~ fear, for he bea|reth not the &s;word for nought: for he is the mini&s;ter of god, to take vengeaunce on the~ that do euil. Wherfore ye mu&s;t nedes obey, not onely for feare of vengeaunce, but al&s;o becau&s;e of con&s;cience: &amp; euen for this cau&s;e pay ye tribute, for they are Gods mini&s;ters &s;eruing for that purpo&s;e. Geue to euery man therfore his duty: Tribute to whom tribute belongeth: Cu&s;tom to whom cu&s;tom is due: feare to whom feare belongeth: honoure to whom honour pertaineth.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. viii.</HEAD>
<P>ANd when he entred into a Ship, his di&s;ciples folo|wed him. And behold ther aro&s;e a great tempe&s;t in the &s;ea, in &s;omuch as y^e &s;hip was couered with waues but he was a &s;leepe. And his Di&s;ciples came to him, &amp; awoke him, &s;aying: Mai&s;ter &s;aue vs, we peri&s;h. And he &s;aid vnto the~: why are ye fearefull, O ye of litle fayth? Then he aro&s;e, &amp; rebuked the windes &amp; the &s;ea, &amp; ther folowed a great calme. But the men marueiled &s;aying: what maner of man is this, that both windes and &s;ea obey him? And when he was come to the other &s;ide, into the country of the Gerge&s;ites, ther met with hym ij. po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of Deuils, which came out of the graues, &amp; were out of mea&s;ure fierce, &s;o that no man might go by that way. And behold, they cried out &s;aying: O Ie&s;u y^u &s;onne of God, what haue we to do with thee? Art thou come hither to torme~t vs before y^e time. And ther was a good wai of fro~ the~ a herd of &s;wine feding. So y^e diuels
<PB REF="13"> be&s;ought him, &s;aying: if thou ca&s;t vs out, &s;uffer vs to go into the herd of &s;wine. And he &s;aid vnto them: go your wayes. Then went they out, and departed into the herd of &s;wine. And behold the whole herd of &s;wine was caryed headlong into the &s;ea, &amp; peri&s;hed in the waters. Then they that kept them, fled and went their waies into the City and tolde euery thing &amp; what had happe|ned vnto the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the deuils. And behold, the whole city came out to mete Ie&s;us &amp; whe~ they &s;aw him they be&s;ought him y^t he wold depart out of their coa&s;tes</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fift Sunday after the Epiphany.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Philip. ii.</HEAD>
<P>PUt vpon you as the elect of God, tender mercy, kind+nes, humblenes of minde, mekenes, long &s;uffering, forbearing one another, and forgeuing one another if any man haue a quarell agayn&s;t another: as Chri&s;t forgaue you, euen &s;o do ye. Aboue all the&s;e thinges put one loue, which is the bond of perfectnes. And the peace of God rule your hartes, to the which peace ye are called in one body: And &s;ee that ye be thankefull. Let the word of Chri&s;t dwel in you plenteou&s;ly with all wi&s;dome. Teach and exhort your own &s;elues in P&s;al|mes and Himnes, and &s;pirituall Songes, &s;ynging with grace in your hartes to the Lord. And what&s;oeuer ye do in word or deede do al in the name of the Lord Ie&s;u, geuing thankes to God the Father by him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xiii.</HEAD>
<P>THe kyngdome of heauen is lyke vnto a man which &s;owed good &s;eede in the field: but while men &s;lept, his enemye came and &s;owed tares amonge the wheate, and went his waye. But when the blade was &s;proong vp, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared
<PB REF="13"> the tares al&s;o. So the &s;eruants of the hou&s;holder came and &s;ayd vnto him: Syr, did&s;t not thou &s;ow good &s;eede in thy field? From whence then hath it tares? He &s;ayd vnto them: the enuious man hath done thys. The &s;er|uauntes &s;ayd vnto hym: wylt thou then that we go and weede them vp? But he &s;ayd naye: lea&s;te while ye gather vp the tares, ye plucke vp al&s;o the wheate with them: let both grow together vntyll the harue&s;t, and in the tyme of harue&s;t I wyll &s;ay to the reapers, gather ye fir&s;t the tares and bynd them together in &s;heaues to be brent, but gather the wheate into my barne.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The &s;unday called Septuage&s;ima.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Cor. ix.</HEAD>
<P>PErceyue ye not how that they which run in acour&s;e, run all, but one receiueth the reward: So runne that ye may obtaine. Euery man that proueth ma&s;te+ries, ab&s;taineth from althings. And they do it to obtain a crown that &s;hal peri&s;h, but we to obtain an euerla&s;ting crowne. I therfore &s;o run not as at an vncertain thing, &s;o fyght I, not as one that beateth the ayre, but I tame my body, &amp; bring it into &s;ubiection, lea&s;t by any meanes it come to pa&s;&s;e, that when I haue preached to other, I my &s;elfe &s;hould be ca&s;t away.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xx.</HEAD>
<P>THe kingdome of heauen is like vnto a man that is a hou&s;holder, whych went out earely in the morning to hyre labourers into his vineyard. And when the a|grement was made with the labourers for a peny a daye, he &s;ent them into hys vineyard. And he went out about the third houre &amp; &s;aw other &s;tanding idle in the market place, &amp; &s;ayd vnto them: go ye al&s;o into the vine|yard, &amp; what&s;oeuer is ryght I wyll geue you. And they
<PB REF="14"> went their way. Agayne he went out about the .vi. &amp; .ix. houre, &amp; did likewi&s;e. And about the .xi. houre he went out &amp; found other &s;tanding idle &amp; &s;aid vnto them: Why &s;tand ye here al day idle? They &s;ayd vnto him: becau&s;e no man hath hired vs. He &s;ayd vnto them: Go ye al&s;o into the vineyard, &amp; what&s;oeuer is right, that &s;hal ye re+ceue. So when euen was come, the Lord of y^e vineyard &s;aid vnto his Steward: cal the labourers &amp; geue them their hire, beginning at the la&s;t vntil the fir&s;t. And whe~ they did come that came about the .ix. houre, they rece|ued euery ma~ a peny. But when the fir&s;t came al&s;o, they &s;uppo&s;ed that they &s;hould haue receiued more, and they likewi&s;e receiued euery ma~ a peny. And when they had receued it, they murmured again&s;t the good man of the hou&s;e &s;aying: The&s;e la&s;t haue wrought but one houre, and thou ha&s;t made them equall wyth vs which haue borne the burthen and heate of the day. But he an&s;we|red vnto one of them and &s;ayd: Friende, I doo thee no wrong, did&s;t thou not agree with me for a peny? Take that thyne is, and go thy way: I wyll geue vnto this la&s;t, euen as vnto thee. Is it not lawfull for me to do as me lu&s;teth with myne owne good? Is thyne eye euyll becau&s;e I am good? So the la&s;t &s;hall be fir&s;t, &amp; the fir&s;t &s;hall be la&s;t. For many are called, but few are cho&s;en.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The &s;unday called Sexage&s;ima.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. ii. Cor. xi.</HEAD>
<P>YE &s;uffer fooles gladly, &s;eing ye your &s;elues are wy&s;e: for ye &s;uffer if a ma~ bring you into bondage, if a ma~ deuour, if a man take, if a man exalt hym &s;elfe, if a man &s;mite you on the face. I &s;peake as concerning rebuke, as though we had bene weake in this behalfe. Howbe|it wherin &s;oeuer any man dare be bolde (I &s;peake foo|li&s;hly) I dare be bold al&s;o. They are Hebrues, euen &s;o
<PB REF="14"> am I. They are I&s;raelites, euen &s;o am I. They are the &s;eede of Abraham, euen &s;o am I. They ar the mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t (I &s;peake like a foole) I am more. In labours more aboundant, in &s;tripes aboue mea&s;ure, in pry&s;on more plenteou&s;ly, in death oft. Of the Iewes fiue times receiued I .xl. &s;tripes &s;aue one. Thri&s;e was I beate~ with rods. I was once &s;toned. I &s;uffered thri&s;e &s;hipwracke. Night &amp; day haue I ven in the deepe &s;ea. In iourneing often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in ieoper|dies of myne own natio~, in ieoperdies among the Hea|then, in perils in y^e city, in perils in wildernes, in perils in the &s;ea, in perils among fal&s;e brethre~, in labour &amp; tra|uel, in watchings often, in hunger &amp; thir&s;t, in fa&s;tinges often, in cold &amp; nakednes, be&s;yde the things which out|wardly happen vnto me. I am combred dayly, &amp; do care for all congregatio~s. Who is weake, &amp; I am not weake? Who is offended, &amp; I burn not? If I mu&s;t nedes boa&s;t I wyl boa&s;t of the thinges that concerne mine infirmi|ties. The God &amp; father of our lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t which is ble&s;&s;ed for euermore, knoweth that I lye not.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. viii.</HEAD>
<P>WHen much people were gathered together, &amp; were come to him out of al cities, he &s;pake by a &s;imilitude. The &s;ower went out to &s;owe hys &s;eede, &amp; as he &s;owed, &s;ome fell by the way &s;ide, &amp; it was troden downe, &amp; the foules of the ayre deuoured it vp, &amp; &s;ome fel on &s;tones, &amp; a&s;&s;one as it was &s;prong vp, it withered away, becau&s;e it lacked moi&s;tnes, &amp; &s;ome fel amo~g thornes, &amp; the thornes &s;pra~g vp with it &amp; choked it, &amp; &s;ome fel on good grou~d, &amp; &s;pra~g vp &amp; barefruit, an c. fold, &amp; as he &s;aid the&s;e things he cried: He y^t hath eares to heare, let him hear. And his di&s;ciples a&s;ked him &s;aying: what maner of &s;imilitude is
<PB REF="15"> And he &s;aid: vnto you it is geuen to know the &s;ecretes of the kingdom of God, but to other by parables, that whe~ they &s;ee, they &s;hould not &s;ee: &amp; when they heare, they &s;hould not vnder&s;tand. The parable is this: The &s;eede is the word of God, tho&s;e that are be&s;ide the way, ar they that heare: then co~meth the deuil &amp; taketh away the word out of their hartes, lea&s;te they &s;hould beleue &amp; be &s;aued. They on the &s;tones ar they which whe~ they heare, receiue the word with ioy, &amp; the&s;e haue no rotes, which for a while beleue, &amp; in time of temptacion go a|way. And y^t which fell among thorns are they, which when they haue heard, go forth and are choked with cares and riches, &amp; voluptuous lyuing, and bring forth no fruite. That which fell in the good ground are they, which with a pure and good hart, heare the word and kepe it, and bring forth fruit through pacience,</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The &s;unday called Quinquage&s;ima.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. 1. Cor. xiii.</HEAD>
<P>THough I &s;peake with toungs of men and of An|gels, and haue no loue, I am euen as &s;ounding bra&s;&s;e, or as a tinkling Cimbal. And though I could prophecy &amp; vnder&s;tand al &s;ecrets &amp; al knowledge: yea if I haue al faith, &s;o that I could moue mountains out of their places, &amp; yet haue no loue, I am nothing. And though I be&s;tow all my goods to fede the poore, &amp; though I gaue my body euen that I burned, and yet haue no loue, it profiteth me nothing. Loue &s;uffreth lo~g, and is curteous, loue enuieth not, loue doth not fro|wardly, &s;welleth not, dealeth not di&s;hone&s;tly, &s;eketh not her own, is not prouoked to anger, thinketh none euil, reioy&s;eth not in iniquity. But reioy&s;eth in the truth &s;uffreth al things, beleueth al things, hopeth al things,
<PB REF="15"> endureth althinges. Though that prophecying faile, either tounges cea&s;e, or knowledge vani&s;h away, yet loue falleth neuer away. For our knowledge is vnper|fect, and our prophecying is vnperfect. But when that which is perfit is come, the~ that which is vnperfit &s;hal be done away. When I was a child, I &s;pake as a child, I vnder&s;tod as a child, I imagined as a child. But a&s;|&s;one as I was a man, I put away childi&s;hnes. Now we &s;ee in a glas, euen in a dark &s;peaking: but then &s;hal we &s;ee face to face. Now I know vnperfitly, but then &s;hal I know euen as I am knowe~. Now abideth faith hope &amp; loue, euen the&s;e .iii. but the chief of the&s;e is loue.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xvii.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us tooke vnto him the .xii. and &s;ayd vnto them: Behold, we go vp to Ieru&s;alem, and all &s;hall be ful|filed that are written by the Prophets of the &s;onne of man. For he &s;hal be deliuered vnto the Gentiles, and &s;halbe mocked, and de&s;pitefully intreated, and &s;pytted on. And whe~ they haue &s;courged him, they wil put him to death, and the third day he &s;hal ri&s;e again. And they vnder&s;tood none of the&s;e things. And this &s;aying was hid from them, &s;o that they perceiued not the thinges which were &s;poken. And it came to pa&s;&s;e, that as he was come nigh to Hierico, a certaine blynde man &s;at by the hie way &s;ide begging. And when he heard the peo|ple pa&s;&s;e by, he a&s;ked what it ment? And they &s;aid vnto him, that Ie&s;us of Nazareth pa&s;&s;ed by. And he cried &s;aying: Ie&s;u thou &s;onne of Dauid, haue mercy on me. And they which went before rebuked him, that he &s;hould hold his peace&punc; But he cried &s;o much the more: thou &s;onne of Dauid haue mercye on me. And Ie&s;us &s;tood &s;till, and commaunded him to be brought vnto
<PB REF="16"> him. And when he was come neare, he a&s;ked him &s;ay|ing: what wilt thou that I do vnto thee? and he &s;ayd. Lord, that I might receiue my &s;ight. And Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto him: receiue thy &s;ight thy &s;ayth hath &s;aued thee. And immediately hee receiued his &s;ight, and folowed him pray&s;ing God. And all the people when they &s;aw it, gaue prai&s;e vnto God.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fir&s;t day in Lent called A&s;hwen&s;day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Ioell. ii.</HEAD>
<P>TVrne you vnto me with all your hearts, with fa&s;|ting, weeping and mourning: rent your harts and not your clothes. Turne you vnto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful, long &s;uffering and of great compa&s;&s;ion, and ready to pardon wickednes. Then (no doubt) hee al&s;o &s;hall turn and forgeue: and af|ter his cha&s;tening, he &s;hall let your encrea&s;e remaine for meate and drink off ringes vnto the lord your God. Blowe out with the trumpet in Sion, proclaime a fa&s;|ting, call the co~gregation, gather the people together: warne the congregation and gather the Elders, bring the children and Sucklings together. Let the bride|grom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her clo&s;eth. Let the Prie&s;tes &s;erue the Lord betwene the Porch &amp; the aulter, weeping and &s;aying: be fauourable O Lord, be fauourable vnto thy people, let not thine heritage be brought to &s;uch confu&s;ion, lea&s;t the Hea|then by Lords thereof. Wherefore &s;hould they &s;ay a|mong the Heathen where is now their God?</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">.</HEAD>
<P>WHen ye fa&s;t be not &s;ad as the Hipocrits are: for they di&s;figure their faces that it may appeare vnto men how that they fa&s;t. Verely I &s;ay vn|to
<PB REF="16"> you, they haue their reward. But y^u when thou fa&s;te&s;t, anoint thine head, &amp; wa&s;h thy face, that it appeare not vnto men how thou fa&s;te&s;t, but vnto thy father which is in &s;ecret, and thy father which &s;eeth in &s;ecret, &s;hal re|ward thee openly. Lay not vp for your &s;elues trea&s;ure vpon earth, wher neither ru&s;t nor moth doth curupt, &amp; wher theeues do not break thorow &amp; &s;teale, But lay vp for you trea&s;ures in heaue~: wher neither ru&s;t nor moth doth corrupt, &amp; wher theues do not break through nor &s;teale. For wher your trea&s;ure is, there will your harts be al&s;o.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fir&s;t Sunday in Lent.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. ii. Cor. vi.</HEAD>
<P>WE as helpers exhort you, y^t ye receiue not the grace of God in vaine. For he &s;aith I haue heard thee in a time accepted, &amp; in the day of &s;aluation haue I &s;uccou|red thee. Behold now is y^t accepted time, behold now is that day of &s;aluation. Let vs geue none occa&s;ion of euil that in our office be found no fault: but in al things let vs behaue our &s;elues as y^e mini&s;ters of god, in much pacience in affections, in nece&s;&s;ities, in angui&s;hes, in gripes, inpri&s;onments, in &s;trifes, in labours, in wat|chings, in fa&s;tings, in purenes, in knowledge, in long-&s;uffering, in kindnes in the holy gho&s;t, in loue vnfained in the word of truth, in y^e power of God: by the armour of righteou&s;nes of the right hand and of the left: by ho|nour &amp; di&s;honour, by euil report &amp; good report: as de|ceiuers and yet true, as vnknowen and yet knowen, as dying, and behold we liue, as cha&s;tened and not killed, as &s;orowing &amp; yet alway mery, as poore &amp; yet make ma+ny rich, as hauing nothing, &amp; yet po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing althings.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>THen was Ie&s;us led away of the Spirite into Wil|dernes, to be tempted of the Deuyll. And when he
<PB REF="17"> had fa&s;ted forty daies and forty nightes, he was at the la&s;t an hungred. And whe~ the Tempter came to him, he &s;aid: If thou be the &s;onne of God, commaund that the&s;e &s;tones be made bread. But he an&s;wered &amp; &s;ayd: it is written, Man &s;hall not lyue by bread onelye, but by euery woorde that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the deuil taketh him vp into the holy city, and &s;etteth him on a pinacle of the Temple, and &s;ayth vnto him: If thou be the Sonne of God, ca&s;t thy &s;elfe downe headlong. For it is written, he &s;hall geue hys Angels charge ouer thee, and with their handes they &s;hall hold thee vp, lea&s;t at any time thou da&s;h thy foote again&s;t a &s;tone. And Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto him, it is writ|ten againe: Thou &s;halt not tempt the Lord thy God. Agayne the deuill taketh him vp into an exceding hye mountaine, and &s;hewed him all the kyngdomes of the world, and the glory of them, and &s;aith vnto hym: All the&s;e wyll I geue thee, if thou wylt fall downe &amp; wor|&s;hip me. Then &s;aith Ie&s;us vnto him, auoyde Sathan, for it is wrytten: Thou &s;halt woor&s;hip the Lord thy God, &amp; him onely &s;halt thou &s;erue. Then the deuill left him: &amp; behold the Angels came &amp; mini&s;tred vnto him.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The &s;econd Sunday in Lent.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. The&s;&s;a. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>WE be&s;ech you brethren and exhort you by the Lord Ie&s;us, that ye encrea&s;e more and more, euen as ye haue receiued of vs how ye ought to walke, &amp; to plea&s;e God. For ye know what commaundementes we gaue you by our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. For this is the wyll of God, euen your holynes: that ye &s;hould ab&s;tayne from fornication, &amp; that euery one of you &s;hould know how to keepe his ve&s;&s;el in holynes and honour, &amp; not in the
<PB REF="17"> lu&s;t of concupi&s;cence as do the Heathen which know not God: that no man oppre&s;&s;e &amp; defraud his brother in bargayning, becau&s;e that the lord is the auenger of all &s;uch things as we tolde you before, and te&s;tified. For God hath not called vs vnto vnclennes, but vnto holy|nes. He therefore that de&s;pi&s;eth, di&s;pi&s;eth not a man, but God, which hath &s;ent his holy &s;pirit among you.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xv.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us went thence, and departed into the coa&s;tes of Tyre and Sidon: and behold, a woman of Canaan (which came out of the &s;ame coa&s;tes) cryed vnto him, &s;aying: haue mercy on me, O Lord, thou &s;onne of Dauid. My daughter is pyteou&s;ly vexed with a deuill. But he an&s;wered her nothing at all. And hys di&s;ci|ples came and be&s;ought him, &s;aying: &s;end her away for &s;he cryeth after vs. But he aun&s;wered, and &s;ayd: I am not &s;ent but to the lo&s;t &s;heepe of the hou&s;e of I&s;rael. Then came &s;he and wor&s;hipped him: &s;aying: Lord help me. He an&s;wered and &s;aid: It is not meete to take the childrens bread, and ca&s;t it to Dogs. She an&s;wered &amp; &s;ayd: Truth Lord, yet the Dogs eate of the croomes which fall from their mai&s;ters table. Then Ie&s;us aun&s;wered, and &s;ayd vnto her: O woman, great is thy faith, be it vnto thee, euen as thou wilt. And her daugh+ter was made whole, euen the &s;ame tyme.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The third &s;unday in Lent.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Ephe. v.</HEAD>
<P>BE you folowers of God as deare chlldren, and walke in loue euen as Chri&s;t loued vs, and gaue him&s;elfe for vs an offering &amp; a &s;acrifice of a &s;weete &s;auour to God. As for fornication, and all vnclennes, or couetou&s;nes, let it not be once named among you, as for
<PB REF="18"> it beco~meth Saintes: or filthines, or fooli&s;h talking, or ie&s;ting, which are not comly, but rather geuing of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremo~ger, either vncleane per&s;on, or couetous per&s;on (which is a woor|&s;hipper of Images) hath any inheritance in the king|dome of Chri&s;t &amp; of God. Let no man deceue you with vain words: For becau&s;e of &s;uch things commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of di&s;obedience. Be not ye therfore companions of them. Ye were &s;ometimes darknes, but now are ye lyght in the Lord: walke as children of lyght, for the truth of the &s;pirit con&s;i&s;teth in al goodnes, and righteou&s;nes and truth. Accept that which is plea&s;ing vnto the Lord, &amp; haue no felow&s;hip with the vnfruitful workes of darknes, but rather re|buke them. For it is a &s;hame euen to name tho&s;e things which are done of them in &s;ecrete: but all things when they are brought foorth by the light, are manife&s;t. For what&s;oeuer is manife&s;t, the &s;ame is light, wherfore he &s;aith: Awake thou that &s;leepe&s;t, and &s;tand vp from death, and Chri&s;t &s;hal geue thee lyght.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xii.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us was ca&s;ting out a deuill that was dum. And when he had ca&s;t out the deuyll, the dumme &s;pake, and the people wondered. But &s;ome of them &s;ayd: he ca&s;teth out Deuyls thorow Belzebub the chiefe of the deuils. And other tempted him and required of him a &s;igne from heauen. But he knowing their thoughts &s;aid vnto them: Euery kingdom deuided again&s;t it &s;elf is de&s;olate: and one hou&s;e doth fall vpon another. If Sathan al&s;o be deuided again&s;t him &s;elfe, how &s;hall his kingdome endure? Becau&s;e ye &s;aye I ca&s;t out de|uils through Belzebub: if I by the helpe of Belzebub
<PB REF="18"> ca&s;t out Deuils, by who&s;e helpe do your children ca&s;t them out? therefore &s;hal they be your iudges. But if I with the finger of God ca&s;t out deuils, no doubt y^e king+dome of God is come vpon you. When a &s;trong man ar|med watcheth his hou&s;e, y^e things that he po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth are in peace: But when a &s;tronger then he commeth vpon him, and ouerco~meth him, he taketh from him all hys harnes (wherin he tru&s;ted) and deuideth his goods. He y^t is not with me is again&s;t me. And he that gathereth not with me, &s;cattereth abroade. When the vncleane &s;pirit is gone out of a ma~, he walketh through dry pla|ces &s;eking re&s;t. And when he findeth none, he &s;aith, I wil returne againe into my hou&s;e whence I came out, And when he co~meth he fyndeth it &s;wept &amp; garni&s;hed. Then goeth he and taketh to him &s;euen other &s;pirites wor&s;e then him &s;elfe, &amp; they enter in &amp; dwel there. And the end of that man is wor&s;e then the beginning. And it fortuned that as he &s;pake the&s;e things, a certain wo|man of the company lift vp her voyce, &amp; &s;ayd vnto him: Happy is the wombe that bare thee, &amp; the paps which gaue thee &s;ucke. But he &s;ayd, yea happy are they that heare the woord of God and keepe it.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fourth &s;unday in Lent.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Gala. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>TEll me (ye that de&s;yre to be vnder the law) doo ye not heare of the law? For it is written, that Abra|ham had two &s;onnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. Yea, and he which was borne of the bondwoman, was born after the fle&s;h: but he which was borne of the freewoman, was borne by promi&s;e: which thinges are &s;poken by an Allegorye. For the&s;e are two Te&s;taments, the one from the mount Syna, which gendereth vnto bondage, which is Agar: For
<PB REF="19"> mount Sina is Agar in Arabia, and bordereth vpon the city which is now called Ieru&s;alem, and is in bon|dage with hee children. But Ieru&s;ale~, which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs al. For it is written, Reioyce thou barren that beare&s;t no children, breake foorth &amp; cry, thou that trauele&s;t not: For the de&s;olate hath many moe children, then &s;he which hath an Hu&s;|band. Brethren we are after I&s;aac the children of pro|mi&s;e. But as then hee that was borne after the fle&s;h, per&s;ecuted him that was borne after the &s;pirit: Euen &s;o is it now. Neuertheles what &s;ayth the Scripture? Put away the bondwoman &amp; her &s;onne. For the &s;onne of the bondwoman &s;hall not be heire with the &s;onne of the frewoman. So then brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the freewoman.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. vi.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us departed ouer the &s;ea of Galile, which is the &s;ea of Tiberias, &amp; a great multitude followed hym, becau&s;e thei &s;aw his miracles which he did on them that were di&s;ea&s;ed. And Ie&s;us went vp into a moun|taine, &amp; there he &s;at with his Di&s;ciples. And Ea&s;ter, a fea&s;t of the Iewes was nye. When Ie&s;us then lift vp his eyes, and &s;aw a great company come vnto hym, he &s;ayd vnto Philip: Whence &s;hall we bye bread y^t the&s;e may eate? This he &s;ayd to proue him, for he him &s;elfe knew what he would do Philip an&s;wered him: two hundreth penyworth of bread are not &s;ufficient for them, that euery man may take a litle. One of his di&s;|ciples (Andrew, Simon Peters brother) &s;ayth vnto him: There is a Lad here which hath fiue barly loues &amp; two fi&s;hes, but what are they among &s;o many? And Ie&s;us &s;ayd: make the perple &s;yt downe. There was
<PB REF="19"> much gra&s;&s;e in y^e place: &s;o y^e men &s;at down, in number about fiue thou&s;and. And Ie&s;us tooke the bread, and when he had geuen thanks he gaue it to the di&s;ciples, &amp; the Di&s;ciples to them that wer &s;et down, &amp; likewi&s;e of y^e fi&s;hes a&s;much as they would. When they had eate~ inough, he &s;aid vnto his di&s;ciples: gather vp y^e broken meat which remaineth, y^t nothing be lo&s;t. And they ga|thered it together, &amp; filled .xij. ba&s;kets with the broken meate of the fiue barley loues: which broken meate re|mained vnto them y^t had eaten. Then tho&s;e men (when they had &s;ene the miracle y^t Ie&s;us did) &s;aid: this is of a truth the &s;ame Prophet y^t &s;hould come into the world.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fift &s;unday in Lent.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Hebru. ix.</HEAD>
<P>CHri&s;t being an hie prie&s;t of good things to come, came by a greater and a more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, y^t is to &s;ay, not of this buil|ding, neither by the bloud of Goates &amp; Calues, but by his own bloud he entred in once into y^e holy place, and found eternall redemption. For if the bloud of Oxen and of Goates, and the a&s;hes of a yong Cowe, when it was &s;princkled, purifieth the vncleane as touching the purifying of the fle&s;h: how much more &s;hall the bloude of Chri&s;t (which through the eternall &s;pirite, offered him &s;elfe without &s;pot to God) purge your con&s;cience from dead works, for to &s;erue the liuing God? And for this cau&s;e he is the Mediatour of the new te&s;tament, that through death, which chaunced for the redemptio~ of tho&s;e tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions that were vnder the fir&s;t te&s;ta|ment, they which are called, myght receiue the pro|mi&s;e of eternall inheritaunce.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<PB REF="20">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. vii.</HEAD>
<P>WHich of you can rebuke me of &s;inne: If I &s;aye the truth, why do ye not beleue me? He that is of God, heareth Gods words: Ye therfore heare them not, be|cau&s;e ye ar not of God. The~ an&s;wered the Iewes &amp; &s;aid vnto him: &s;ay we not wel y^t thou art a Samaritan, and ha&s;t the deuill? Ie&s;us an&s;wered: I haue not the deuil, but I honour my father, &amp; ye haue di&s;honoured me. I &s;eeke not mine own prai&s;e: ther is one y^t &s;eketh &amp; iud|geth. Verely, verely. I &s;ay vnto you, if a man keepe my &s;aying, he &s;hall neuer &s;ee death. Then &s;aid the Iewes vnto him: now know we y^t thou ha&s;t the deuil. Abraha~ is dead, and the Prophets, &amp; thou &s;aie&s;t, if a man keepe my &s;aying he &s;hal neuer ta&s;t of death. Art thou greater then our father Abraham which is dead? And the pro|phets are dead: whom make&s;t thou thy &s;elfe? Ie&s;us an|&s;wered: if I honour my &s;elfe, my honour is nothing, it is my father that honoureth me, which you &s;ay is your God, &amp; yet ye haue not knowen him, but I know him: &amp; if I &s;ay I know him not, I &s;hall be a lyer like vnto you. But I know him and keepe his &s;aying. Your fa|ther Abraham was glad to &s;ee my day: &amp; he &s;aw it and reioyced. The~ &s;aid y^e Iewes vnto him: thou art not yet fyfty yere old, &amp; ha&s;t y^e &s;eene Abraham? Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto them: Verely verely I &s;ay vnto you: ere Abraha~ was borne I am. Then tooke they vp &s;tones to ca&s;t at him, but Ie&s;us hid him&s;elfe and went out of the temple.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The &s;unday next before Ea&s;ter.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD> The Epi&s;tle. Coll. iii.</HEAD>
<P>LEt the &s;ame mind be in you, that was al&s;o in Chri&s;t Ie&s;u: which when he was in the &s;hape of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God, neuer|theles he made him&s;elfe of no reputacio~, taking on him
<PB REF="20"> the &s;hape of a &s;eruant, &amp; became like vnto man, &amp; was found in his apparell as a man. He humbled him &s;elf, &amp; becam obedient to y^e death, euen the death of the cro&s;&s;e. Wherfore god hath al&s;o exalted him on hie, &amp; geue~ him a name which is aboue all names, that in the name of Ie&s;us euery knee &s;huld bow both of things in heauen, &amp; things in earth, and things vnder the earth, &amp; that all tounges &s;hould confe&s;&s;e that Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is the Lord, vnto the prai&s;e of God the Father.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xxvi.</HEAD>
<P>ANd it cam to pas, when Ie&s;us had fini&s;hed al the&s;e &s;ayinges, he &s;ayd vnto his di&s;ciples: ye know that after .ij. dayes &s;halbe ea&s;ter, &amp; the &s;on of man &s;halbe de|liuered ouer to be crucified. Then a&s;&s;e~bled together the chiefe prie&s;ts &amp; the Scribes &amp; the Elders of the people vnto the palace of the hye Prie&s;te (which was called Caiphas) &amp; held a coun&s;ell that they might take Ie&s;us by &s;ubtelty &amp; kill him. But they &s;aid not on the holiday lea&s;t ther be any vproare amo~g the people. Whe~ Ie&s;us was in Bethany in y^e hou&s;e af Simon the Leper, ther came vnto him a woman hauing an Alabla&s;ter boxe of precious ointme~t, &amp; poured it on his head as he &s;at at y^e bord: but whe~ his di&s;ciples &s;aw it, they had indigna|cion &s;aying, wherto &s;erueth this wa&s;t? This ointment might haue ben wel &s;old &amp; geue~ to the poore. When Ie|&s;us vnder&s;tood y^t, he &s;aid vnto the~: why trouble ye the woman? for &s;he hath wrought a good worke vpo~ me. For ye haue y^e poore alwaies with you, but me ye &s;hal not haue alwaies. And in y^t &s;he hath ca&s;t this ointment on my body, &s;he did it to bury me: verely I &s;ay vnto you wher&s;oeuer this go&s;pel &s;halbe preached in al y^e world, ther &s;hal al&s;o this be told y^t &s;he hath don for a memori|all
<PB REF="21"> of her. Then one of the .xij. which was called Iudas I&s;carioch went to the chiefe Prie&s;ts &amp; &s;ayd vnto them: What wyl ye geue me, &amp; I will deliuer him vnto you? And they appoynted vnto him .xxx. peeces of &s;yluer. And from that time forth he &s;ought oportunitye to be|tray him. The fir&s;t day of &s;weete bread, the Di&s;ciples came to Ie&s;us, &s;aying to him: Where wylt thou that we prepare for thee to eate the Pa&s;&s;eouer? And he &s;aid go into the Citie to &s;uch a man, and &s;ay vnto him: the Mai&s;ter &s;ayth my time is at hand, I wyl keepe my Ea|&s;ter by thee with my Di&s;ciples. And the di&s;ciples dyd as Ie&s;us had appointed them, and they made ready the Pa&s;&s;eouer. When the euen was come, he &s;at downe with the .xii. And as they did eate, he &s;ayde: Verely I &s;ay vnto you, that one of you &s;hall betray me. And they were exceeding &s;orowfull, and began euery one of them to &s;ay vnto him: Lord is it I? He aun&s;wered and &s;aid: he that dippeth his hand with me in the di&s;h, the &s;ame &s;hall betray me. The &s;onne of man truly go|eth, as it is written of him: but wo be vnto that man by whom the Sonne of man is betrayed. It had bene good for that man, if he had not bene borne. Then Iudas which betrayed him an&s;wered &amp; &s;aid: Mai&s;ter is it I? He &s;aid vnto him: thou ha&s;t &s;aid, &amp; when they were eating, Ie&s;us tooke bread, &amp; when he had geuen thanks he brake it &amp; gaue it to the di&s;ciples and &s;ayd: Take, eate, this is my body. And he tooke the cup, and thanked, &amp; gaue it to them &s;aying: drinke ye al of this: for this is my bloud (which is of the newe te&s;tament) that is &s;hed for many, for the remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins. But I &s;ay vnto you, I wil not drinke hence forth of this fruit of the vine tree, vntil the day when I &s;hal drink it new
<PB REF="21"> with you in my fathers kingdome. And when they had &s;aid grace, they went out vnto mount Oliuet. Then &s;ayd Ie&s;us vnto them: all ye &s;hall be offended becau&s;e of me this night. For it is written: I wil &s;mite the &s;hep+herd &amp; the &s;heepe of the flocke &s;halbe &s;cattered abroad, but after I am ri&s;en againe, I will go before you into Galile. Peter an&s;wered &amp; &s;aid vnto him: though all men be offended becau&s;e of thee, yet will I not be of|fended. Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto him: verely I &s;ay vnto thee, that in this &s;ame night, before the Cock crow thou &s;halt deny me thri&s;e. Peter &s;aid vnto him: yea, though I &s;hould dye with thee, yet will I not deny thee: like|wi&s;e al&s;o &s;aid al y^e di&s;ciples. Then came Ie&s;us with the~ vnto a farme place (which is called <HI>Gerh&s;emane</HI>) and &s;aid vnto the di&s;ciples: Sit ye here while I go &amp; pray yonder. And he toke with him Peter, &amp; the two &s;onnes of Zebede, &amp; began to waxe &s;orowful and heauy. Then &s;aid Ie&s;us vnto them: My &s;oul is heauy eue~ vnto the death. Tary ye here and watch with me. And he went a litle farther, &amp; fel flat on his face and prayed &s;aying: O my father, if it be po&s;&s;ible let this cup pa&s;&s;e from me, neuertheles, not as I wyll, but as thou wilt. And he came vnto the di&s;ciples, &amp; found the~ a &s;leepe, &amp; &s;aid vn|to Peter: what could ye not watch with me one hour? watch and pray that ye enter not into temptacion: the &s;pirit is willing, but the fle&s;h is weake. He went away once again and praied &s;aying: O my father, if this cup may not pas away fro~ me except I drink of it, thy will be fulfilled: and he came &amp; found them a &s;leepe againe, for their eies were heauy. And he left the~ &amp; went again &amp; praied the third time &s;aying the &s;ame words. Then co~meth he to his di&s;ciples &amp; &s;ayd vnto them, &s;leepe on
<PB REF="22"> now and take your re&s;t. Behold, the houre is at hand, and the Sonne of man is betrayed into the handes of &s;ynners. Ry&s;e, let vs be goyng: behold he is at hand that doth betray me. While he yet &s;pake, loe Iudas one of the number of the twelue came, &amp; with hym a great multitude with &s;wordes &amp; &s;taues, &s;ent from the chiefe Prie&s;tes &amp; Elders of the people. But he that betrayed him, gaue them a token &s;aying: Whom &s;oeuer I ki&s;&s;e, the &s;ame is he, hold him fa&s;t. And forthwith he came to Ie&s;us and &s;ayd, hayle Mai&s;ter, &amp; ki&s;&s;ed him. And Ie|&s;us &s;ayd vnto him: Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they &amp; layd hands on Ie&s;us, &amp; tooke him. And behold, one of them that were with Ie&s;us, &s;tret|ched out his hand, &amp; drew his &s;word, and &s;troke a &s;er|uant of the hye Prie&s;t, &amp; &s;mote of his eare. Then &s;ayd Ie&s;us vnto him, put vp thy &s;word into the &s;heath, for all that take the &s;word, &s;hall peri&s;h with the &s;woord. Thinke&s;t thou that I ca~not now pray to my Father, &amp; he &s;hal geue me euen now more then xij. legions of An|gels? But how the~ &s;hal the &s;criptures be fulfilled? For thus mu&s;t it be. In that &s;ame houre &s;ayd Ie&s;us to the multitude: Ye be come out as it were to a theefe wyth &s;wordes &amp; &s;taues for to take me. I &s;at dayly with you teaching in the temple, &amp; ye tooke me not. But all this is done that the &s;criptures of the Prophetes myght be fulfilled. Then all the di&s;ciples for&s;ooke him, and fled. And they tooke Ie&s;us, &amp; lead him to Caiphas the hye Prie&s;t, wher the Scribes and the Elders were a&s;&s;em|bled. But Peter followed hym a farre of vnto the hye Prie&s;ts palace and went in, &amp; &s;at wyth the &s;eruants to &s;ee the end. The chiefe Prie&s;ts &amp; Elders, and all the coun&s;el &s;ought fal&s;e witnes again&s;t Ie&s;us, to put him
<PB REF="22"> to death, but found none: yea, when many fal&s;e witne&s;|&s;es came, yet found they none. At the la&s;t came .ij. fal&s;e witne&s;&s;es, &amp; &s;aid: this felow &s;aid I am able to de&s;troy the temple of God and to builde it again in three daies. And the chiefe prie&s;t aro&s;e, and &s;aid vnto him: an&s;we|re&s;t thou nothing? Why do the&s;e beare witnes again&s;t thee? But Ie&s;us held his peace. And the cheife prie&s;t an&s;wered &amp; &s;aid vnto him. I charge thee by y^t liuing God, that thou tel vs, whether thou be Chri&s;t the &s;o~ne of God. Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto him: thou ha&s;t &s;aid: Neuer|theles I &s;ay vnto you hereafter &s;hall ye &s;ee the &s;o~ne of man &s;itting on the right hand of power, and comming in the cloudes of the &s;kye. Then the hie prie&s;t rent his clothes, &s;aying: he hath &s;poken bla&s;phemy, what neede we of any more witne&s;&s;es? Behold now ye haue heard his bla&s;phemy, what thinke ye? They aun&s;wered and &s;aid, he is worthy to dye, then they &s;pit in his face, and buffeted him with fi&s;tes, and other &s;mote him on the face with the palme of their hands &s;aying: tel vs thou Chri&s;t, who is he that &s;mot thee: Peter &s;at without in the courte, and a Damo&s;ell came to hym, &s;aying: thou al&s;o wa&s;t with Ie&s;us of Galile: but he denied before them all &s;aying: I wot not what thou &s;aie&s;t. When he was gone out into the porch another wench &s;aw him and &s;aid vnto them that were there: This felow was al&s;o w^t Ie&s;us of Nazareth. And again he deinied with an oth, &s;aying I do not know y^e ma~. After a while came vnto him they y^t &s;tood by, &amp; &s;aid vnto Peter &s;urely thou art eue~ one of the~ for thy &s;pech bewraieth thee. The~ be|gan he to cur&s;e &amp; to &s;were, y^t he knew not y^e ma~. And im+mediately y^e Cock crew: and Peter remembred y^e word of Ie&s;u which &s;aid vnto him before y^e cock crow, thou &s;halt deny me thri&s;e: and he we~t out and wept bitterly.
<PB REF="23"> When the morning was come al the chief prie&s;ts and Elders of the people held a coun&s;ell again&s;t Ie&s;us, to put him to death, &amp; brought him bound, and deliuered him vnto Poncius Pilat y^e deynty. The~ Iudas (which had betrayed him) &s;eeing that he was condemned, re|pented him &s;elf, and brought againe y^e .xxx. plates of &s;il|uer to y^e chiefe prie&s;tes and Elders, &s;aying: I haue &s;in|ned betraying the innocent bloud. And they &s;aid: what is that to vs? See thou to that. And he ca&s;t down the &s;iluer plates in the temple, and departed and went and hanged him&s;elfe. And the chiefe prie&s;ts tooke the &s;iluer plates, and &s;ayd: It is not lawfull for to put them into the trea&s;ure, becau&s;e it is the price of bloud. And they tooke coun&s;aile, and bought with the~ a potters field to bury &s;traungers in. Wherfore the field is called <HI>Achel|dema,</HI> that is, the fielde of bloud, vntil this day. Then was fulfylled that which was &s;poken by Ieremy the Prophet, &s;aying: and they tooke .xxx. &s;iluer plates, the price of him y^t was valued, whom they boughte of the children of I&s;rael, and gaue them for the potters field, as the Lord appointed me. Ie&s;us &s;tood before the de|putie, and the deputy a&s;ked him &s;aying: art y^u the king of the Iewes? Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto him: thou &s;aye&s;t. And when he was accu&s;ed of the chiefe Prie&s;tes &amp; Elders he an&s;wered nothing. Then &s;ayd Pilat vnto him: hea|re&s;t thou not how many witne&s;&s;es they lay agayn&s;t thee? and he an&s;wered him to neuer a word, in &s;o much y^t the deputy merueiled greatly. At that fea&s;t the deputy was wont to deliuer vnto y^e people a pri&s;oner who~ they would de&s;ire. He had the~ a notable pri&s;oner called Bar|rabas. Therfore whe~ they wer gathered together, Pi|lat &s;aid: whether wil ye y^t I giue lo&s;e vnto you Barabas
<PB REF="23"> or Ie&s;us which is called Chri&s;t. For he knew that for enuy they had deliuered him. When he was &s;et down to geue iudgeme~t, his wife &s;ent vnto him &s;aying: haue thou nothing to do with that iu&s;t ma~. For I haue &s;uf|fred this day may things in my &s;leepe becau&s;e of hym. But the chief Prie&s;ts &amp; Elders per&s;waded the people that they &s;hould a&s;ke Barrabas &amp; de&s;troy Ie&s;us. The Deputy an&s;wered &amp; &s;ayd vnto them: whether of the twayne wyll ye that I let loo&s;e vnto you? They &s;ayd Barrabas. Pilate &s;ayd vnto them: what &s;hal I do the~ with Ie&s;us which is called Chri&s;t? They al &s;ayd vnto him: let him be crucified. The Deputy &s;aid: what euil hath he done? But they cryed the more &s;aying: let him be crucified. When Pilate &s;aw that he could preuayle nothing, but y^t more bu&s;ynes was made, he tooke wa|ter &amp; wa&s;hed his handes before the people, &s;aying: I am innocent of the bloud of this iu&s;t per&s;on, ye &s;hal &s;ee Then an&s;wered all the people &amp; &s;ayd: His bloud be on vs and on our children. Then let he Barrabas loo&s;e vnto them, and &s;courged Ie&s;us, &amp; deliuered hym to be crucified. Then the &s;oldiours of the deputy tooke Ie|&s;us into the common hall, &amp; gathered vnto him all the company, and they &s;tripped him, &amp; put on him a purple robe, and platted a crowne of thornes, and put it vpon his head, and a rede in his right hand, and bowed the knee before him, and mocked him &s;aying: Hayle kyng of the Iewes. And when they had &s;pyt on hym, they tooke the reede and &s;mote him on the head. And after that they had mocked him, they tooke the robe of hym againe, and put his own rayment on him, &amp; lead hym away to crucify him. And as they came out, they found a man of Ciren (named Simon) him they compelled
<PB REF="24"> to beare his cro&s;&s;e. And thei came vnto the place which is called <HI>Golgotha,</HI> that is to &s;ay, a place of dead mens &s;culs, &amp; gaue him viniger mingled with gall to drynk. And when he had ta&s;ted therof, he would not drinke. When they had crucified him, they parted his garme~ts and dyd ca&s;t lots, that it might be fulfilled which was &s;poken by the Prophet: They parted my garmentes among them, and vpon my ve&s;ture did they ca&s;t lots. And they &s;at and watched him there, &amp; &s;et vp ouer hys head the cau&s;e of hys death wrytten: Thys is Ie&s;us the king of the Iewes. Then were there two theeues crucified with him, one on the right hand, &amp; an other on the leaft. They that pa&s;&s;ed by reuiled him, wagging their heades and &s;aying: Thou that de&s;troyed&s;t the temple of God, and didde&s;t build it in three daies, &s;aue thy &s;elfe. If thou be the Sonne of God, come downe from the cro&s;&s;e. Likewi&s;e al&s;o all the hye Prie&s;ts moc|ked him, with the Scribes &amp; Elders, and &s;aid: He &s;a|ued other, him &s;elfe he cannot &s;aue. If he be the kyng of I&s;rael, let him now come down from the cro&s;&s;e, and we wyl beleue him. He tru&s;ted in God, let him deliuer him now, if he wyll haue hym: For he &s;ayd, I am the &s;onne of God. The theeues al&s;o which were crucified with him, ca&s;t the &s;ame in hys teeth. From the &s;yxt houre was there darknes ouer all the land, vntyll the ninth houre. And about the nynth houre Ie&s;us cryed with a loud voyce &s;aying: <HI>Eloy, Eloy, Lama&s;abacthani?</HI> That is to &s;ay, My God, my God, why ha&s;t thou for&s;a|ken me? Some of them that &s;toode there, when they heard that, &s;ayd: This man calleth for Helias. And &s;trayght way one of them ran &amp; tooke a &s;poonge, and when he had filled it ful of viniger, he put it on a rede,
<PB REF="24"> and gaue him drink. Other &s;aid: let be, let vs &s;ee whe|ther Helias wyl come &amp; delyuer hym. Ie&s;us when he cried againe with a loud voice, yelded vp the Go&s;t. And behold, the vaile of the temple did rent in two partes, from the top to the bottom, &amp; the earth did quake, and the &s;tones rent, &amp; graues did open, &amp; many bodies of Saints which &s;lept, aro&s;e &amp; went out of their graues after his re&s;urrection, &amp; came into the holy City, &amp; ap|peared vnto many. When the Centurion, &amp; they that were with him watching Ie&s;us, &s;aw the earth quake, and tho&s;e things that happened, they feared greatly &s;aying: Truly this was the &s;onne of God. And many women wer ther, beholding him a far of, which folow|ed Ie&s;us from Galile, mini&s;tring vnto him. Among which was Mary Magdalen, &amp; Mary the mother of Iames &amp; Io&s;es, and the mother of Zebedes children.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Monday before Ea&s;ter.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. E&s;ay. lxiii.</HEAD>
<P>WHat is hee thus that commeth from Edom, with red coulored clothes of Bo&s;ra (which is &s;o co&s;tly cloth) &amp; commeth in &s;o mightely with all his &s;trength? I am he that teacheth righteou&s;nes, &amp; am of power to helpe. Wherfore then is thy clothing red, and thy rayment lyke his that treadeth the wyne pre&s;&s;e? I haue troden the pre&s;&s;e my &s;elfe alone, &amp; of all people there is not one with me. Thus wyll I treade down mine enemies in my wrath, &amp; &s;et my feete vpon them in myne indignation. And their bloud &s;hall be &s;princle my clothes, &amp; &s;o wyl I &s;tayne all my rayment. For the day of vengeance is a&s;&s;igned in my hart, &amp; the yere when my people &s;halbe deliuered, is come. I loo|ked about me, &amp; ther was no ma~ to &s;hew me any help.
<PB REF="25"> I marueiled that no man held me vp. Then I helde me by mine own arme, and my feruentnes &s;u&s;tained me. And thus wlll I tread downe the people in my wrath, and bath them in my di&s;plea&s;ure, &amp; vpon the earth will I lay their &s;trength. I wil declare the goodnes of the Lord yea and the prai&s;e of the Lord for al that he hath geuen vs for the great good that he hath done for I&s;|rael, which he hath geuen them of his owne fauor, &amp; according to the multitude of his louing kindnes: for he &s;aid the&s;e no doubt are my people, and no &s;hrinking children, &amp; &s;o he was their &s;auiour. In their troubles he was al&s;o troubled with them, and the Aungel that went forth from his pre&s;ence, delyuered them. Of very loue and kindnes that he had vnto them, he redemed them. He hath borne them &amp; caried them vp euer &s;ynce the world bega~: but after they prouoked him to wrath &amp; vexed his holy minde, he was their enemy, &amp; fought again&s;t them him&s;elfe. Yet remembred I&s;rael the olde time of Moi&s;es and his people, &s;aying: wher is he that brought them from the water of the &s;ea, with them y^t fed his &s;heepe? Wher is he that hath geue~ his holy &s;pi|rit among the~? he led the~ by the right hand of Mo&s;es with his glorious arme, deuiding y^e water before the~ whereby he gat hym&s;elfe an euerla&s;ting name. He led them in the depe as an hors is led in the plaine, y^t they &s;hould not &s;tumble, as a tame bea&s;t goeth in the field, &amp; the breath geue~ of God, geueth him re&s;t. Thus O god ha&s;t thou led thy people, to make thy &s;elfe a glorious name with al. Looke down then from heauen, and be|hold the dwellyng place of thy &s;anctuarye, &amp; thy glory. How is it y^t thy gelou&s;y, thy &s;trength, the multitude of thy mercyes, &amp; thy louing kyndnes wyl not be entrea|ted
<PB REF="25"> of vs: yet art thou our father. For Abraham kno|weth vs not, neither is I&s;rael acquainted with vs: but thou Lord art our father &amp; redemer, and thy name is euerla&s;ting. O Lord, wherfore ha&s;t thou led vs out of thy way? wherfore ha&s;t thou hardened our harts y^t we fear thee not? Be at one with vs again for thy &s;eruants &s;ake, and for the generation of thine heritage. Thy peo|ple haue had but a litel of thy Sanctuary in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion: for our enemies haue trode down thy holy place. And we were thine from the beginning, when thou wa&s;t not their Lord, for they haue not called vpo~ thy name,</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Mark. xiiij.</HEAD>
<P>AFter two dayes was Ea&s;ter, and the dayes of &s;wete bread. And the hie prie&s;tes and the &s;cribes &s;ought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they &s;aid: not in the fea&s;t day, lea&s;t any bu&s;ines ary&s;e among the people. And when he was in Bethany in the hou&s;e of Simon y^e Leper, euen as he &s;at at meate, there came a woman hauing an Alaba&s;ter box of ointment called Nard, that was pure and co&s;tly, &amp; &s;he broke the boxe and poured it vpon his head. And ther were &s;ome y^t were not content within the~&s;elues &amp; &s;aid: what needed this wa&s;t of ointme~t? for it might haue bene &s;old for more then three hundreth pence, and haue bene geuen to the poore. And they grud+ged again&s;t her. And Ie&s;us &s;aid: let her alone why trou+ble ye her? She hath done a good worke on me, for ye haue poore with you alwaies, &amp; when&s;oeuer ye wil ye may do them good: but me ye haue not alwaies. She hath done y^e &s;he could, &s;he came aforeha~d to anoint my body to the burying Verely I &s;ay vnto you, where&s;oe|uer this Go&s;pel &s;halbe preached throughout the whole
<PB REF="26"> worlde, this al&s;o that &s;he hath done, &s;hall be rehear|&s;ed in remembraunce of her. And Iudas I&s;carioth one of the twelue went away vnto the hie Prie&s;tes to betraye him vnto them: When they heard that, they were glad and promi&s;ed that they woulde geue him money. And he &s;ought how he might conuenientlye betraye hym. And the fir&s;t daye of &s;weete breade, (when they offred the pa&s;&s;ouer) his di&s;ciples &s;aid vn|to him: where wilt thou that we go, and prepare that thou mai&s;t eate the Pa&s;&s;ouer? And he &s;ent foorth two of his Di&s;ciples, and &s;ayde vnto them: Go ye into the Citie, and there &s;hal meete you a man bearing a pitcher of water, follow hym. And whether &s;oeuer he goeth in, &s;ay ye vnto the good man of the hou&s;e: the mai&s;ter &s;ayth were is the gea&s;te chamber, where I &s;hal eate y^e pa&s;&s;ouer with my di&s;ciples? And he will &s;hewe you a-great parlor pauid and prepared, there make ready for vs. And his di&s;ciples went and found as he had &s;ayd vnto them: and they made ready the Pa&s;&s;eouer. And when it was euentide, he came with the .xij. And as they &s;at at bord and did eate, Ie&s;us &s;ayd verely I &s;ay vnto you, one of you (that eateth with me) &s;hall betray me. And they began to be &s;ory and to &s;ay to him one by one: is it I? and an other &s;aide: is it I? he aun&s;wered and &s;ayd vnto them: it is one of the .xij. euen he that dippeth with me in the platter. The Sonne of man truly goeth as it is written of him. but wo vnto that man by whom the Sonne of man is betraied: good were it for that man, if he had neuer bene borne. And as they did eate, Ie&s;us tooke bread and when he had geuen thankes, he brake it and gaue it to them and &s;ayd: Take, eate thys is my body. And he tooke the
<PB REF="26"> cup, and when he had geuen thankes, he gaue it to them and they all drauke of it. And he &s;aid vnto them, this is my bloud of the new te&s;tament, which is &s;hed for many. Verely I &s;ay vnto you: I wyll drinke no more of the fruite of the vine, vntill that day that I drinke it newe in the kingdome of god. And when they had &s;aid grace, they went out to the mount Oliuete. And Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto them: all ye &s;halbe offended be|cau&s;e of me this night. For it is written, I will &s;mite the &s;hephard and the &s;heepe &s;halbe &s;cattered: but after that I am ri&s;en againe I wil go into Galile before you Peter &s;ayde vnto him: and though all men be offen|ded, yet wyll not I. And Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto him: verely I &s;ay vnto thee, that thys day euen in this night, be|fore the Cocke crowe twi&s;e thou &s;halt deny me three times. But hee &s;pake more vehemently: no if I &s;hould dye with thee, I will not deny thee. Likewi&s;e al&s;o &s;aid they all. And they came into a place which is named <HI>Geth&s;emane,</HI> and he &s;ayd to his Di&s;ciples: &s;it ye here while I go a&s;yde and praye. And he taketh wyth hym Peter, Iames, and Iohn, and began to waxe aba&s;h|ed and to be in an agony, and &s;ayd vnto them: my &s;oule is heauy euen vnto the death, tary ye here and watch. And he went foorth a litle and fell downe flat on the ground and praied, y^t if it wer po&s;&s;ible the hour myght pa&s;&s;e from him. And he &s;aid: Abba father al things are po&s;&s;ible vnto thee, take away this cup from me, neuer|theles not as I wyll, but that thou wilt be done. And he came and found them &s;leeping, and &s;ayd to Peter: Simon &s;leepe&s;t thou? Coulde&s;t not thou watch one houre? Watch ye and pray, lea&s;t ye enter into tempta|cion: the &s;pirite truly is ready, but the fle&s;h is weake.
<PB REF="27"> And againe he went a&s;ide and praied, &amp; &s;pake the &s;ame words. And he returned and found them a &s;lepe again for their eies wer heauy, neither wi&s;t they what to an|&s;wer him. And he came the third time and he &s;aid vn|to them &s;leepe hence forth and take your ea&s;e, it is in|ough. The houre is come: behold the &s;onne of man is betrayed into the handes of &s;inners. Ri&s;e vp let vs go Lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand. And immediately while he yet &s;pake, co~meth Iudas (which was one of the twelue) and with him a great nu~ber of people with &s;wordes and &s;taues fro~ the hie prie&s;tes and Scribes &amp; Elders. And he that betraied hym, had geuen them a generall token &s;aying: who&s;oeuer I do ki&s;&s;e, the &s;ame is he, take &amp; lead him away warely. And a&s;&s;oone as he was come, he goeth &s;traight way to him, and &s;aith vn|to him: Mai&s;ter, mai&s;ter, and ki&s;&s;ed him: and they laid their hands on him, and tooke him: and one of them that &s;tood by, drew out a &s;word, &amp; &s;mot a &s;eruaunt of the hie prie&s;te &amp; cut of his eare. And Ie&s;us an&s;wered &amp; &s;aid vnto them: ye be come out as vnto a theefe with &s;wordes and &s;taues, for to take me: I was dayly with you in the temple teaching &amp; ye tooke me not: but the&s;e things come to pa&s;&s;e that the &s;cripture &s;hould be fulfil|led. And they al for&s;ooke him and ran away. And ther folowed him a certain yong man clothed in linnen vpon the bare, and the yong men caught him, and he left his linnen garment and fled from them naked. And they led Ie&s;us away to the hye prie&s;t of all, and with hym came all the hye Prie&s;tes and the Elders &amp; the &s;cribes. And Peter folowed him a great way of (euen till he was come into the palace of the hye prie&s;t) and he &s;at with the &s;eruauntes, and warmed him &s;elfe at the
<PB REF="27"> fire. And the hie Prie&s;tes &amp; all the coun&s;ell &s;ought for witnes agayn&s;t Ie&s;us to put him to death, and found none: for many beare fal&s;e wines again&s;t hym, but their witne&s;&s;es agreed not together. And there aro&s;e certaine and brought fal&s;e witnes again&s;t him &s;aying: we heard him &s;ay, I wyll de&s;troy this temple that is made w^t hands, &amp; within three daies, I wil build an o|ther made without hands. But yet their witne&s;&s;es a|greed not together. And the hie prie&s;t &s;tood vp among them, and a&s;ked Ie&s;us &s;aying: aun&s;were&s;t thou no|thing? how is it that the&s;e bear witnes again&s;t thee? But he held his peace, &amp; an&s;wered nothing. Againe the hie prie&s;t a&s;ked him, and &s;aid vnto him: art thou Chri&s;t the &s;onne of the ble&s;&s;ed? And Ie&s;us &s;aid: I am. And ye &s;hall &s;ee the &s;onne of man &s;ytting on the right hand of power, and comming in the cloudes of heauen. Then the hie prie&s;t rent his clothes, and &s;ayd, what neede we any further of witne&s;&s;es? ye haue heard bla&s;phemy, what thinke ye? And they all condemned hym to be worthy of death. And &s;ome began to &s;pit at him, and to couer his face, and to beat him with fi&s;tes, and to &s;ay vnto hym: arede, and the &s;eruants buffeted him on the face. And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there came one of the wenches of the hie prie&s;t, and when &s;hee &s;aw Peter warming hym&s;elfe, &s;he looked on hym and &s;aid: wa&s;t not thou al&s;o with Ie&s;us of Nazareth? &amp; he denied &s;aying: I know him not, neither wote I what thou &s;aie&s;t. And he went out into y^e porch, &amp; the cock crew, and a damo&s;ell (when &s;he &s;aw him) began a|gaine to &s;ay to them that &s;tood by, this is one of them. And he denied it againe, &amp; anon after they y^t &s;tood by &s;aid againe vnto Peter: &s;urely thou art one of them, for
<PB REF="28"> thou art of Galile, and thy &s;peech agreeth therto. But he began to cur&s;&s;e and to &s;weare &s;aying: I know not this man of whom ye &s;peake. And again the cock crew, and Peter remembred the word that Ie&s;us had &s;ayd vnto hym: before the cocke crow twi&s;e thou &s;halt deny me three times And he began to weepe.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Tue&s;day before Ea&s;ter.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. E&s;ay. i.</HEAD>
<P>THe lord God hath opened mine eare, therfore can I not &s;ay nay, neyther with draw my &s;elf: but of|fer my back vnto the &s;miters, and my cheekes to the nippers. I turne not my face fro &s;hame &amp; &s;pitting, and the lord God &s;hall helpe me. Therefore &s;hall I not be confounded. I haue hardened my face lyke a flynte &s;tone, for I am &s;ure that I &s;hall not come to confu&s;ion. He is at hand that iu&s;tifieth me, who wyll then go to law with me? Let vs &s;ta~d one again&s;t another: if ther be any that wil rea&s;on with me, let him come here forth to me. Behold, the Lord God &s;tandeth by me, what is he then y^t can condemne me? Lo, they &s;halbe lyke as an olde cloth, y^e moth &s;hal eate them vp. Therfore who &s;oeuer feareth the Lord among you, let him heare the voice of his &s;eruant. Who&s;o walketh in darknes, &amp; no light &s;hineth vpon him, let him put his tru&s;t in y^t name of the Lord, &amp; hold him vp by his God: but take hede, ye al kindle a fire of y^e wrath of God, &amp; &s;tir vp y^e coales: walke on in the gli&s;tering of your own fyre, and in the coales that ye haue kindeled. This commeth vnto you from my hand, namely that ye &s;hall &s;leepe in &s;orow.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Mark. xx.</HEAD>
<P>ANd anone in the dawning, the hie Prie&s;tes held a coun&s;ell wyth the Elders and the Scribes, and
<PB REF="28"> the whole congregation, and bound Ie&s;us and led him awaye, and delyuered him to Pilate. And Pilate a&s;ked him: art thou the king of the Iewes? and he aun&s;wered and &s;aid to him: thou &s;aie&s;t it. And the hye Prie&s;tes accu&s;ed him of many things. So Pilate a&s;ked hym agayne &s;aying: aun&s;were&s;t thou nothing? Be|hold how many thynges they lay to thy charge. Ie&s;us aun&s;wered yet nothing, &s;o that Pilate marueyled. At that fea&s;t Pilate did delyuer vnto them a pri&s;oner, whom &s;oeuer they would de&s;ire. And there was one that was named Barrabas, which lay bound wyth them that made in&s;urrection: he had committed mur|ther. And the people called vnto hym, and began to de&s;ire hym that hee would do according as he had euer done vnto them. Pilat an&s;wered them &s;aying: wil ye that I let loo&s;e vnto you the king of the Iewes? for he knew that the hie Prie&s;tes had deliuered him of en|uy. But the hie prie&s;tes moued the people that he &s;huld rather deliuer Barrabas vnto them. Pilate aun&s;wered agayne and &s;ayd to them: what wil ye that I then do vnto him, whom ye call the king of the Iewes? And they cryed againe, crucify him. Pilate &s;ayd vnto them what euil hath he don? And they cried the more ferue~t|ly, crucify him. And &s;o Pilate wylling to content the people, let loo&s;e Barrabas vnto them, and deliuered vp Ie&s;us (when he had &s;courged him) for to be crucified. And the &s;oldiours led him away into the common hall &amp; called together the whole multitude, &amp; they clothed him with purple, and they platted a crowne of thorns and crowned hym with all, and began to &s;alute hym: haile kyng of the Iewes. And they &s;mote him on the head with a rede and dyd &s;pyt vpon hym, and bowed
<PB REF="29"> theyr knees and wor&s;hipped him. And when they had mocked him, they tooke the purple of hym, and put hys own clothes on him &amp; led him out to crucify him. And they compelled one y^t pa&s;&s;ed by, called Simon of Ciren (the father of Alexander and Rufus) which came out of the field, to beare his cro&s;&s;e. And they brought him to a place named <HI>Golgotha,</HI> which if a man interprete, is the place of dead mens &s;culs: and they gaue hym to drinke wine mingled wyth mir, but he receiued it not. And when they had crucified him, they parted his gar+ments, ca&s;ting lottes vpon them what euery man &s;hould take. And it was about the third houre, &amp; they crucified him. And the title of hys cau&s;e was written: The King of the Iewes. And they crucified with hym two theeues. the one on hys right hand, and the other on his left. And the &s;cripture was fulfilled, which &s;aith: he was counted amonge the wicked. And they that went by railed on hym wagging their heads &amp; &s;aying: a wretch, thou that de&s;troie&s;t the temple, and builde&s;t it againe in three daies &s;aue thy &s;elfe and come downe from the cro&s;&s;e. Likewi&s;e al&s;o mocked hym the hie prie&s;tes among them&s;elues with the Scribes, &amp; &s;ayd: he &s;aued other, him&s;elfe he cannot &s;aue. Let Chri&s;t the king of I&s;rael de&s;cende now from che cro&s;&s;e, that we may &s;ee and beleue. And they that were crucified with hym, checked hym al&s;o. And when the &s;ixth houre was come, darkenes aro&s;e ouer all the earth, vntil the ninth hour, And at the ninth houre Ie&s;us cried with a loude voice &s;aying: <HI>Eloy, Eloy, Lama&s;abathany?</HI> which is (if one interpret it) My God my God why ha&s;t y^u for&s;aken me? And &s;ome of them that &s;tood by, when they heard that &s;aid: behold he calleth for Helias, and one ran and fil|led
<PB REF="29"> a &s;ponge full of viniger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke, &s;aying let him alone, let vs &s;ee whe+ther Helias will come and take hym downe. But Ie|&s;us cryed with a loud voice and gaue vp the gho&s;t. And the vale of the temple rent in two peeces, from the top to the bottom. And when the Centurion (which &s;tood before him) &s;aw that he &s;o cried &amp; gaue vp the gho&s;t, he &s;aid: truly this man was the Sonne of God. There were al&s;o women a good waye of beholding hym: a+mong whom was Mary Magdalen and Marye the mother of Iames the litle, and of Io&s;es, and Marye Salome (which al&s;o when he was in Galile had folo|wed him) and many other wome~ which came vp with him to Ieru&s;alem. And now when the euen was come, (becau&s;e it was the day of preparing that goeth before the Sabboth) Io&s;eph of the City of Aramathia a noble Coun&s;aylour, which al&s;o looked for the kingdome of God, came and went in boldly vnto Pilate, and beg|ged of him the body of Ie&s;u. And Pilate marueyled that he was already dead and called vnto him the Cen|turyon, and a&s;ked of hym whether he had bene any whyle dead: And when he knewe the truth of the Centurion, he gaue the body to Io&s;eph, &amp; hee bought a lynnen clothe, and tooke him downe, and wrapped him in the linnen cloth, and laid hym in the Sepulchre that was he wen out of a rock, and roled a &s;tone before the doore of the Sepulchre. And Marye Magdalene, and Marye Io&s;es behelde where he was layd.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The weden&s;day before Ea&s;ter.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Hebru. ix.</HEAD>
<P>WHere as is a te&s;tament, there mu&s;t al&s;o (of nece&s;&s;i|ty) be the death of hym that maketh the te&s;tament.
<PB REF="30"> For the Te&s;tament taketh aucthority when men are dead: for it is yet of no value, as long as he that ma|keth the Te&s;tament is aliue: for which cau&s;e al&s;o nei|ther the fyr&s;t Te&s;tament was ordeyned without bloud. For when Moi&s;es had declared all the com|maundementes to all the people, according to the law hee tooke the bloud of Calues and of Goates, wyth water and purple wool, and i&s;ope, and &s;prinkled both the Booke and all the people, &s;aying: Thys is the bloud of the Te&s;tament whych God hath appoynted vnto you. Moreouer hee &s;princkled the tabernacle with bloude al&s;o, and all the mini&s;tring ve&s;&s;els. And almo&s;t all thinges are by the law purged with bloude, and without &s;hedding of bloud is no remi&s;&s;ion. It is neede then that the &s;imilitudes of heauenly things bee purifyed wyth &s;uch thinges: but that the hea|uenly thinges them&s;elues, be purified with better &s;a|crifices then are made with hands (which are &s;imili|tudes of true thinges) but is entred into very heauen, for to appeare now in the &s;ight of God for vs: not to offer him&s;elfe often as the hie Prie&s;t entreth into the holy place euery yeare with &s;traunge bloud, for then mu&s;t he haue often &s;uffred &s;ince the world began. But now in the end of the world hath he appeared once to put &s;in to flight by the offering vp of hym&s;elfe. And as it is appointed vnto all men that they &s;hall once dye, and then commeth the iudgement: Euen &s;o Chri&s;t was once offered to take away the &s;yns of many, and vnto them that looke for hym, &s;hall he appeare againe without &s;inne vnto &s;aluacion.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<PB REF="30">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xxii.</HEAD>
<P>THe fea&s;t of &s;weete bread drew nye, which is cal|led Ea&s;ter, and the hye Prie&s;tes and Scribes &s;ought how they might kyll hym, for they feared the people. Then entred Sathan into Iudas, who&s;e &s;ir name was I&s;carioth (which was of the number of the twelue) and hee went his waye and communed with the hie Prie&s;tes and officers how he myght be|tray hym vnto them. And they were glad, and pro|mi&s;ed to geue him money. And hee con&s;ented and &s;ought oportunity to betray him vnto them, when the people were away. Then came the day of &s;weete breade when of nece&s;&s;ity the Pa&s;&s;eouer mu&s;t be offe|red. And he &s;ent Peter and Iohn, &s;aying: go and prepare vs the Pa&s;&s;eouer, that we may eate. They &s;ayd vnto him: where wilt thou that we prepare? and hee &s;ayd vnto them: behold, when ye enter into the City, there &s;hall a man meete you bearing a pitcher of water, him folow into the &s;ame hou&s;e that he entreth in, and ye &s;hall &s;ay vnto the good man of the hou&s;e: the mai&s;ter &s;ayth vnto thee: where is the ge&s;t chamber where I &s;hall eate the pa&s;&s;eouer with my Di&s;ciples? And hee &s;hall &s;hew a great parler pauid, there make readye. And they went and found as he had &s;ayd vn|to them and they made ready the Pa&s;&s;eouer. And when the houre was come, hee &s;at downe and the twelue Apo&s;tles with hym. And he &s;ayd vnto them: I haue inwardly de&s;ired to eate this Pa&s;&s;eouer with you before that I &s;uffer. For I &s;ay vnto you: hence|forth wyll I not eate of it any more, vntyll it bee ful|filled in the kingdome of God. And hee tooke the Cup, and gaue thankes, and &s;ayd: Take this, and deuide it among you. For I &s;ay vnto you: I wyll not drynke
<PB REF="31"> of the fruite of this vyne vntill the kingdome of God come. And hee tooke bread, and when he had geuen thanks, he brake it, and gaue vnto them &s;aying: This is my body which is geuen for you, this do in the reme~|braunce of me. Likewi&s;e al&s;o when he had &s;upped, he tooke the cup &s;aying: Thys cup is the new te&s;tament in my bloud which is &s;hed for you: Yet behold the hand of him that betrayeth me, is with me on the table. And truely the &s;onne of man goeth as it is appointed, but woe vnto that man by whom he is betrayed. And they began to enquire among them &s;elues, which of them it was that &s;hould do it. And there was a &s;tryfe a|mong them, which of them &s;hould &s;eeme to be the grea+te&s;t. And he &s;aid vnto them y^e kinges of nacions reigne ouer them, and they that haue aucthoryty vpon them are called gracious: but ye &s;hall not &s;o be. But he y^t is greate&s;t among you, &s;hall be as the yonger, and hee y^t is chiefe, &s;halbe as he that doth mini&s;ter. For whether is greater he that &s;itteth at meat, or he that &s;erueth? Is not he that litteth at meate? But I am among you, as he that mini&s;treth. Ye are they which haue bidde~ with me in my temptacions. And I appointed vnto you a kingdome, as my father hath appointed to me, that ye may eate and drinke at my table in my kingdom, &amp; &s;it on &s;eates, iudging the twelue tribes of I&s;raell. And y^e Lord &s;aid: Simon, Simon, behold Sata~ hath de&s;ired to &s;ift you as it were wheate, but I haue praied for thee that thy fayth fayle not. And when thou art conuerted, &s;trength thy brethren. And he &s;aid vnto him: lord I am ready to go with thee into pri&s;on, and to death. And he &s;ayd: I tel thee Peter, the cock &s;hall not crow thys day til y^u haue denied me thri&s;e y^t thou knowe&s;t me. And he
<PB REF="31"> &s;ayd vnto them, when I &s;ent you without wallet, and &s;crip and &s;hoes, lacked ye any thing? And they &s;aid no. Then &s;ayd he vnto them: but now he that hath a wal|let, let him take it vp, &amp; likewi&s;e his &s;crip. And he that hath no &s;worde, let him &s;ell his coate &amp; bie one. For I &s;ay vnto you that yet y^e &s;ame which is written, mu&s;t be performed in me: euen amo~g y^e wicked was he reputed For tho&s;e things which are written of me, haue their end. And they &s;ayd Lord, behold here are .ii. &s;words, &amp; he &s;aid vnto the~ it is inough. And he came out &amp; went as he was wont, to mount Oliuet, and the di&s;ciples fo|lowed him. And when he came to y^e place, he &s;aid vnto them, pray le&s;t ye fal into temptacion. And he gat him &s;elfe fro~ them about a &s;tone ca&s;t, and kneeled down &amp; praied &s;aying: Father if thou wilt remoue this cup fro~ me: Neuertheles not my will but thine be fulfilled: &amp; ther appeared an angel vnto him fro~ heauen co~forting him. And he was in an agony, &amp; praied the longer, and his &s;weate was like drops of bloud trickling down to the ground. And when he aro&s;e fro~ praier, &amp; was come to his di&s;ciples, he found them &s;leeping for heauines, &amp; he &s;aid vnto the~: why &s;lepe ye? Ri&s;e &amp; pray, lea&s;t ye fall into temptation. While he yet &s;pake, behold ther came a co~pany, and he that was called Iudas, one of y^e twelue we~t before them &amp; prea&s;ed nye to Ie&s;us to ki&s;&s;e him. But Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto him: Iudas, betraie&s;t y^u the &s;onne of man with a ki&s;&s;e? When they which were about him &s;aw what would folow thei &s;aid vnto him: lord, &s;hal we &s;mite with the &s;word? &amp; one of them &s;mote a &s;eruant of y^e hie prie&s;t, &amp; &s;troke of his right eare. Ie&s;us an&s;wered &amp; &s;ayd: &s;uffer ye thus far forth. And when he touched his eare he healed him. Then Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto the hie
<PB REF="32"> Prie&s;tes &amp; rulers of the temple &amp; the elders which wer come to him: Ye be come out as vnto a theefe, with &s;words and &s;taues. When I was dayly with you in the temple, ye &s;treatched forth no handes again&s;t me: but this is euen your very hour and the power of dark+nes. Then tooke they him and led him, and brought him to y^e hie Prie&s;tes hou&s;e. But Peter folowed a far of. And when they had kinled a fire in the mid&s;t of the palace and were &s;et down together, Peter al&s;o &s;at down amonge them. But when one of the wenches be helde him, as he &s;at by the fire (and looked vpon hym) &s;he &s;ayd: this &s;ame felow was al&s;o with him. And he denied him, &s;aying: woma~ I know him not. And after a litle while, another &s;aw him and &s;aid: thou art al&s;o of them. And Peter &s;ayd man I am not. And about the &s;pace of an houre after, another affirmed, &s;aying: verely this felow was with him al&s;o, for he is of Galile And Peter &s;ayd, ma~ I wot not what thou &s;aie&s;t, &amp; im|mediately while he yet &s;pake the Cock crew. And y^e lord turned backe &amp; looked vpon Peter. And Peter remem|bred the word of the Lord, how he had &s;ayd vnto hym, before the Cock crow, thou &s;halt deny me thri&s;e: &amp; Pe|ter went out and wept bytterly. And the men y^t tooke Ie&s;us mocked him, &amp; &s;mot him, &amp; when they had blind folded him, they &s;troke him on the face, and a&s;ked him &s;aying: arede, who is he y^t &s;mot thee? And many other thinges di&s;pitfully &s;ayd they again&s;t him. And a&s;&s;oone as it was day, the elders of the people, &amp; the hie pri&s;tes &amp; Scribes came together, and led him into their coun|&s;ell &s;aying: art thou very Chri&s;t? tell vs. And he &s;ayd vnto them: if I tell you, ye wil not beleue me, and if I a&s;ke you, you wil not an&s;wer me nor let me go: hereaf|ter
<PB REF="32"> &s;hal the &s;onne of man &s;it on the right hand of the po+wer of God. Then &s;aid they al: art thou then the &s;on of God? He &s;ayd: ye &s;ay that I am. And they &s;ayd, what neede we any further witnes. For wee our &s;elues haue heard of his owne mouth.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The thur&s;day before Ea&s;ter.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Cor. xi.</HEAD>
<P>THis I warne you of &amp; commend not, that ye come not together after a better maner, but after a wor&s;e For fir&s;t of al, whe~ ye come together in the co~gregation I heare y^t ther is di&s;cention among you, &amp; I partly be|leue it. For there mu&s;t be &s;ectes among you, that they which are perfect among you may be knowen. When ye come together therfore into one place, the Lords &s;up+per cannot be eaten, for euery man beginneth afore to eate his own &s;upper, and one is hungry, &amp; an other is dronken. Haue ye not hou&s;es to eate &amp; drink in? de&s;pi&s;e ye the congregation of God, and &s;hame them that haue not? What &s;hall I &s;ay vnto you? &s;hal I prai&s;e you? in this I prai&s;e ye not. That which I deliuered vnto you I receiued of the Lord. For the Lord Ie&s;us, the &s;ame night in which he was betrayed, tooke bread, &amp; when he had geuen thanks he brake it &amp; &s;aid: Take ye &amp; eate this is my body which is broke~ for you. This do ye in reme~brau~ce of me. After the &s;ame maner al&s;o he tooke y^e cup whe~ &s;upper was don &s;aying: this cup is y^e new te|&s;tame~t in my blud, this do as oft as ye drink it, in reme~|braunce of me. For as often as ye &s;hal eate this bread, &amp; drink of this cup ye &s;hal &s;hew y^e Lords death til he come Wherfore, who&s;oeuer &s;hal eate of this bread &amp; drinke of this cup of y^e Lord vnworthely, &s;halbe gilty of y^e body &amp; bloud of the Lord. But let a man examine him&s;elfe, and
<PB REF="33"> &s;o let him eate of the bread, and drink of the cup. For he that eateth &amp; drinketh vnworthely, eateth &amp; drinketh his own damnation: becau&s;e he maketh no difference of the Lords body. For this cau&s;e many are weake and &s;icke among you, &amp; many &s;leepe. For if we had iudged our &s;elues, we &s;hould not haue bene iudged. But when we are iudged of the Lord, we are cha&s;tened, that we &s;hould not be damned with the world: Wherfore my brethre~ when ye come together to eate tary one for an|other. If any man hunger let him eat at home, that ye come not together vnto condemnacion: Other things wil I &s;et in order when I come.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xxii.</HEAD>
<P>THe whole multitude of them aro&s;e, &amp; led him vnto Pilate. And they began to accu&s;e him &s;aying: we found this felow peruerting the people, and for|bidding to paye tribute to Cea&s;ar, &s;aying that hee is Chri&s;t a king. And Pilate appo&s;ed him &s;aying, art thou the king of the Iewes? He an&s;wered him, &amp; &s;aid: thou &s;aie&s;t it. Then &s;aid Pilate to the hie Prie&s;ts and to the people: I fynd no fault in this man. And they wer the more fierce, &s;aying: he moueth the people, teaching throughout all Iurye, and bega~ at Galile, euen to this place. When Pilate hearde mention of Galile, he a&s;ked whether the man were of Galile: &amp; a&s;&s;one as he knew that he belonged to Herods iuri&s;diction, he &s;ent him to Herod, which was al&s;o at Ieru&s;ale~ at that tyme. And when Herod &s;aw Ie&s;us, he was exceding glad, for he was de&s;irous to &s;ee him of a long &s;ea&s;o~, becau&s;e he had herd many things of him, and he tru&s;ted to haue &s;eene &s;ome miracles don by him. Then he que&s;tioned w^t him many words. But he an&s;wered him nothing. The hie
<PB REF="33"> Prie&s;tes and Scribes &s;tood forth and accu&s;ed him &s;traightly. And Herod with his men of war de&s;pi&s;ed hym. And when he had mocked him, he araied him in white clothing and &s;ent him againe to Pilate. And the &s;ame day Pilat and Herod were made Frendes toge|ther. For before they were at variaunce. And Pilat cal|led together the hie Prie&s;tes, and the rulers, and the people, and &s;aid vnto them: ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one that peruerteth the people, and behold I examine him before you, and finde no faulte in this man of tho&s;e things whereof ye accu&s;e him, no nor yet Herod. For I &s;ent you vnto him, and lo nothing wor|thy of death is done vnto him: I wyll therfore cha&s;ten hym, and let him loo&s;e. For of nece&s;&s;ity he mu&s;t haue let one loo&s;e to them at that fea&s;t. And all the people cried at once, &s;aying: away with him and deliuer vs Barra|bas: which for a certaine in&s;urrection made in the city, and for a murther, was ca&s;t into pri&s;on. Pilate &s;pake agayne vnto them, willing to let Ie&s;us loo&s;e. But they cryed &s;aying: crucify him, crucifye hym. He &s;ayd vnto them the third time: what euill hath he done? I finde no cau&s;e of death in hym: I wil therfore cha&s;ten hym and let him go. And they cried with loud voices, requi|ring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the hie Prie&s;tes preuailed. And Pilat gaue &s;en|tence that it &s;hould be as they requyred, and he let loo&s;e vnto them, him that (for in&s;urrection and murther) was ca&s;t into pri&s;on, whom they had de&s;yred: and he deliuered to them Ie&s;us, to do with him what they would. And as they led him away, they caught one Si|mon of Ciren coming out of the field, and on him laide they the Cro&s;&s;e, that he might beare it after Ie&s;us.
<PB REF="34"> And ther folowed him a great company of people, and of women, which bewayled and lamented him. But Ie&s;us turned back vnto them and &s;ayd: ye daughters of Ieru&s;alem, wepe not for me, but wepe for your chil|dren. For behold the daies wil come, in the which they &s;hall &s;ay: Happy are the barren, and the wombes that neuer bare, and the pappes which neuer gaue &s;ucke. Then &s;hal they begin to &s;ay to the Mountaines, fal on vs, and to the hils couer vs. For if they do thys in a greene tree, what &s;hal be don in the dry? And ther wer two euyll doers led with hym to be &s;layne. And after that they were come to the place (which is called Cal|uery) there they crucified hym and the euyll doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then &s;aid Ie&s;us: father forgeue them, for they wote not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and ca&s;t lottes. And the people &s;tood and beheld. And the rulers moc|ked him with them, &s;aying he &s;aued other men, let him &s;aue him &s;elfe, if he be vecy Chri&s;t the cho&s;en of God. The &s;ouldiours al&s;o mocked him, and came and offered him viniger and &s;aid: if thou be the king of the Iewes &s;aue thy &s;elfe. And a &s;uper&s;cription was written ouer him, with letters of Greeke, and Latin, and Hebrue. Thys is the king of the Iewes. And one of the euyll doers, which were hanged, rayled on him, &s;aying: If y^u be Chri&s;t, &s;aue thy &s;elfe &amp; vs. But the other aun&s;wered &amp; rebuked him &s;aying: feare&s;t y^u not God, &s;eeing thou art in the &s;ame damnatio~? we are righteou&s;ly puni&s;hed for we receiue according to our dedes, but this ma~ hath done nothing ami&s;&s;e. And he &s;ayd vnto Ie&s;us: Lord remember me when y^u comme&s;t into thy kingdom. And Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto hym: verely I &s;ay vnto thee, to day
<PB REF="34"> &s;halt thou be with me in paradi&s;e. And it was about the &s;yxt hour, &amp; ther was a darknes ouer all the earth, vntill the ninth houre, &amp; the &s;un was darkned, and the vaile of the temple did rent, eue~ through the mid&s;t. And whe~ Ie&s;us had cried with a loud voice, he &s;aid: Father, into thy hands I co~mend my &s;pirit. And when he thus had &s;aid: he gaue vp the go&s;t. When the Centurion &s;aw what had happened, he glorifed God &s;aying: verely this was a righteous man. And all the people y^t came together to that &s;yght, and &s;aw the things which had hapned, &s;mot their bre&s;tes and returned. And al his ac|quaintance, and the women that folowed him fro~ Ga|lile &s;tood a far of beholding the&s;e things. And behold, ther was a man named Io&s;eph a Coun&s;ailer, &amp; he was a good man and a iu&s;t, the &s;ame had not con&s;ented to the coun&s;ell &amp; deede of them, which was of Aramathia a City of the Iewes, which al&s;o wayted for the king|dome of God: he went vnto Pilat, and begged the body of Ie&s;us, and tooke it down &amp; wrapped it in a lynnen cloth, and laid it in a &s;epulchre that was hewe~ in &s;tone wherein neuer man before had bene laid. And that day was the preparing of the Sabboth, and the Saboth drew on. The women that followed after, which had come with him from Galile beheld the &s;epulchre, &amp; how hys body was layd. And they returned and prepared &s;wete odours and oyntments, but re&s;ted on the Sab|both day, according to the commaundementes.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Good Friday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Hebru. x.</HEAD>
<P>THe law which hath but a &s;hadow of good things to come, and not the very fa&s;hyon of things them &s;elues, can neuer with tho&s;e Sacrifyces, which
<PB REF="35"> they offer yeare by yeare continually, make the com|mers therunto perfite. For would not then tho&s;e Sa|crifices haue cea&s;ed to haue bene offered, becau&s;e that the offerers once purged &s;hould haue had no more con&s;cience of &s;ynnes. Neuertheles, in tho&s;e Sacrifices is ther mencion made of &s;ynnes euery yeare. For the bloud of Oxen and Goates cannot take away &s;ynnes. Wherfore when he commeth into the world, he &s;ayth: Sacrifice and offering thou woulde&s;t not haue, but a body ha&s;t thou ordained me. Burnt offeringes al&s;o for &s;inne ha&s;t thou not allowed. Then &s;ayd I: lo I am here. In the beginning of the booke it is written of me, that I &s;hould do thy wyll, O God. Aboue, when he &s;aith: Sacrifice and offering, and burnt &s;acrifices, and &s;inne offeringes thou woulde&s;t not haue, neither ha&s;t thou alowed them (which yet are offered by the law) then &s;ayd he: Loe, I am here to do thy wyll, O God: He taketh away the fyr&s;t to e&s;tabli&s;h the latter, by the which wyll we are made holye, euen by the offering of the body of Ie&s;u Chri&s;t once for all. And euery Prie&s;t is ready daylye mini&s;tring and offering often tymes one manner of oblation, which can neuer take away &s;yns. But thys man after he had offered one &s;acrifice for &s;yns, is &s;et down for euer on the right hand of God and from henceforth tarieth tyll his foes be made hys foote&s;tole. For with one offering hath he made perfect for euer them that are &s;anctified. The holy Gho&s;t him &s;elfe al&s;o beareth vs record euen when he told before: Thys is the Te&s;tament that I wyll make vnto them. After tho&s;e daies (&s;ayth the Lord) I wil put my lawes in their hartes, and in their minds wyl I write them, and theyr &s;ynnes and iniquities wyll I remember no|more.
<PB REF="35"> And where remi&s;&s;ion of the&s;e things is, there is no more offering for &s;yns. Seing therefore brethren that by the meanes of the bloud of Ie&s;u, we haue liber|ty to enter into the holy place by the new and liuing way, which he hath prepared for vs, through the vaile that is to &s;ay by his fle&s;h. And &s;eing al&s;o that we haue an hie prie&s;t which is ruler ouer the hou&s;e of God, let vs draw nye with a true hart in a &s;ure fayth, &s;princkled in our harts from an euil con&s;cience, and wa&s;hed in our bo|dies with pure water: let vs keepe the profe&s;&s;ion of our hope without wauering (for he is faithfull that promi|&s;ed) &amp; let vs con&s;ider one another, to the entent that we may prouoke vnto loue, &amp; to good works, not for&s;aking the felow&s;hip that we haue among our &s;elues as the maner of &s;ome is, but let vs exhort one another, &amp; that &s;o much the more becau&s;e ye &s;ee y^t the day draweth nie.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xviii.</HEAD>
<P>WHen Ie&s;us had &s;poken the&s;e words, he went forth with his di&s;ciples ouer the broke Cedron wher was a garden, into the which he then en|tred with his di&s;ciples. Iudas which al&s;o betraied him knew the place: for Ie&s;us oft times re&s;orted thether with his Di&s;ciples. Iudas then after he had receiued a band of men (&amp; mini&s;ters of the hye prie&s;ts &amp; Phari|&s;ies) came thether with lanterns, and fyrebrands, and weapons. And Ie&s;us knowing all things that &s;hould come on him, went foorth and &s;ayd vnto them: whom &s;eeke ye? They aun&s;wered him: Ie&s;us of Nazareth. Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto them: I am he. Iudas al&s;o which be|trayed him, &s;tood with them. A&s;&s;one the~ as he had &s;aid vnto them: I am he, they went backward &amp; fell to the ground. Then a&s;ked he them againe: Whom &s;eeke ye?
<PB REF="36"> They &s;ayd, Ie&s;us of Nazareth. Ie&s;us aun&s;wered, I haue told you that I am he. If ye &s;eeke me therfore, let the&s;e go their way, that the &s;aying myght be fulfylled which he &s;pake: Of them which thou gaue&s;t me, haue I not lo&s;t one. Then Simon Peter hauing a &s;word, drew it, &amp; &s;mote the hie Prie&s;ts &s;eruaunt, and cut of his right eare. The &s;eruantes name was Malchus. Ther+fore &s;ayd Ie&s;us vnto Peter, put vp thy &s;word into thy &s;heath: &s;hall I not drinke of the cup which my father hath geuen me? Then the company &amp; the captayn, and the mini&s;ters of the Iewes tooke Ie&s;us &amp; bound him, and led him away to Annas fir&s;t, for he was father in law to Caiphas, which was the hie prie&s;t y^e &s;ame yere. Caiphas was he that gaue coun&s;el to the Iewes, that it was expedient that one man &s;hould die for y^e people. And Simon Peter folowed Ie&s;us, &amp; &s;o dyd another Di&s;ciple, that di&s;ciple was knowen to the hie prie&s;t, &amp; went in with Ie&s;us into the palace of the hye Prie&s;t. But Peter &s;tood at the doore without. Then went out that other Di&s;ciple (which was knowen to the hye prie&s;t) and &s;pake to the damo&s;el that kept the doore, &amp; brought in Peter. Then &s;aid the damo&s;el that kept the doore vnto Peter: art not thou al&s;o one of this mans di&s;ciples? He &s;aid, I am not. The &s;eruants &amp; mini&s;ters &s;tood ther, which made a fire of coales, for it was cold, &amp; they warmed them &s;elues. Peter al&s;o &s;tood among the~ and warmed him &s;elf. The hie prie&s;t then a&s;ked Ie&s;us of his di&s;ciples &amp; of his doctrine. Ie&s;us an&s;wered him: I &s;pake openly in the world, I euer taught in the Si|nagoge, &amp; in the temple whither al the Iewes haue re|&s;orted, and in &s;ecret haue I &s;ayd nothyng: Why a&s;ke&s;t thou me? A&s;ke the~ which heard me, what I &s;aid vnto
<PB REF="36"> them. Behold they can tell what I &s;aid. When he had thus &s;poken, one of the mini&s;ters which &s;tood by, &s;mot Ie&s;us on the face, &s;aying: an&s;were&s;t thou the hie prie&s;t &s;o? Ie&s;us an&s;wered him: if I haue euil &s;poken, beare wytnes of the euill, but if I haue well &s;poken, why &s;mite&s;t thou me? And Annas &s;ent him bound vnto Caiphas the hye Prie&s;t. Simon Peter &s;tood and war|med him&s;elfe. Then &s;ayd they vnto hym: art not thou al&s;o one of hys di&s;ciples? He denyed it and &s;ayd: I am not. One of the &s;eruants of the hye prie&s;tes (his co&s;yn who&s;e eare Peter &s;mote of) &s;ayd vnto him: did not I &s;ee thee in the garden with him? Peter therfore deni|ed againe, and immediatly the Cock crew. Then led they Ie&s;us from Caiphas into the hall of iudgement. It was in the morning, &amp; they them &s;elues went not in to the iudgement hall, lea&s;t they &s;huld be defiled, but y^t they might eate the Pa&s;&s;eouer. Pilat then went out to them, &amp; &s;aid: What accu&s;ation bring you agayn&s;t thys man? They an&s;wered &amp; &s;aid vnto him: if he were not an euyll doer, we would not haue deliuered hym vnto thee? Then &s;aid Pilat vnto them: take ye him &amp; iudge him after your own law. The Iewes therfore &s;aid vn+to him: it is not lawful for vs to put any man to death, that the wordes of Ie&s;us might be fulfilled which he &s;pake, &s;ignifiyng what death he &s;hould dye. The~ Pilat entred into the iudgement hall againe, &amp; called Ie&s;us, &amp; &s;aid vnto him: Art y^u the king of the Iewes? Ie&s;us an&s;wered: &s;aie&s;t thou that of thy &s;elfe, or did other tell it thee of me? Pilat an&s;wered: am I a Iew? Thyne own nation &amp; hie prie&s;ts haue deliuered thee vnto me, what ha&s;t thou done? Ie&s;us an&s;wered my kingdome is not of this world. If my kyngdome were of thys
<PB REF="37"> world, then would my mini&s;ters &s;urely fight, that I &s;hould not be deliuered to the Iewes, but now is my kingdome not from hence. Pilate therefore &s;ayd vnto him: Art thou a kyng then? Ie&s;us aun&s;wered: thou &s;aye&s;t that I am a kyng. For this cau&s;e was I borne, &amp; for this cau&s;e came I into the world, that I &s;hould beare witnes vnto the truth. And al y^t are of the truth heare my voice. Pilate &s;ayd vnto him: what thyng is truth? And when he had &s;aid this, he went out againe to the Iewes, &amp; &s;aid vnto them: I find in him no cau&s;e at all. Ye haue a cu&s;tome that I &s;hould deliuer you one loo&s;e at Ea&s;ter, wyl ye that I lo&s;e vnto you the king of the Iewes? Then cried they all agayne &s;aying: Not hym, but Barrabas: the &s;ame Barrabas was a mur|therer. Then Pilate tooke Ie&s;us therfore &amp; &s;courged him. And the &s;oldiours wound a crowne of thornes, &amp; put it on his head. And they dyd on him a purple gar|ment, &amp; came vnto him &amp; &s;aid: Haile king of y^e Iewes, &amp; they &s;mote him on the face. Pilat went forth agayne and &s;aid vnto them: behold I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I finde no fault in him. Then came Ie&s;us forth, wearing a crowne of thorne, and a robe of purple. And he &s;aid vnto them: behold y^e man. When the Prie&s;tes therfore &amp; the mini&s;ters &s;aw hym, they cryed: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate &s;ayd vnto them: take ye him &amp; crucify him, for I finde no cau&s;e in him. The Iewes an&s;wered him, we haue a law, &amp; by our law he ought to dye, becau&s;e he made him &s;elfe the &s;onne of God. When Pilat heard that &s;aying, he was the more afraid, and went againe into the iudgement hall, &amp; &s;ayd vnto Ie&s;us, whence art thou? But Ie&s;us gaue him none an&s;wer. Then &s;ayd Pilate vnto hym:
<PB REF="37"> Speake&s;t thou not vnto me? Knowe&s;t thou not that I haue power to crucify thee, and haue power to loo&s;e thee? Ie&s;us an&s;wered, thou coulde&s;t haue no power at all agayn&s;t me, except it were geuen thee from aboue. Therfore he that deliuered me vnto thee, hath y^e more &s;ynne. And from thenceforth &s;ought Pilate meanes to lo&s;e him: but y^e Iewes cried &s;aying, if thou let him go, thou art not Ce&s;ars friend: for who&s;oeuer maketh him &s;elf a king, is again&s;t Ce&s;ar. Whe~ Pilat heard that &s;ay|ing, he brought Ie&s;us forth, &amp; &s;at downe to geue &s;en|tence, in a place that is called the Pauement, but in the Hebrue tou~g <HI>Gabbatha.</HI> It was the preparyng day of Ea&s;ter, about the &s;ixt hour. And he &s;aid vnto y^e Iewes, behold your king. They cryed &s;aying: away with him, away with him, crucify hym. Pilate &s;ayd vnto them: &s;hal I crucify your king? The hye prie&s;tes an&s;wered: we haue no king but Ce&s;ar. Then deliuered he him to them to be crucified. And they tooke Ie&s;us, &amp; led him away, and he bare his cro&s;&s;e, &amp; went forth into a place which is called the place of dead mens &s;culs, but in He|brue <HI>Golgotha,</HI> wher they crucified him, and two other with him, on either &s;ide one, &amp; Ie&s;us in the mid&s;t. And Pilat wrote a title, &amp; put it vpon y^e cro&s;&s;e. The writing was: Ie&s;us of Nazareth king of the Iewes. Thys title read many of y^e Iewes, for the place wher Ie&s;us was crucified, was nere to the city. And it was writ|ten in Hebrue, Greeke &amp; Latin. Then &s;aid y^e hie prie&s;ts of the Iewes to Pilate, write not king of the Iewes, but that he &s;ayd, I am king of the Iewes. Pilate an|&s;wered: what I haue written, that haue I wrytten. Then the &s;oldiours when they had crucified Ie&s;us, tooke his garments, &amp; made foure parts to euery &s;ol|diour
<PB REF="38"> a part, and al&s;o hys coate. The coate was with|out &s;eame, wrought vpon throughout. They &s;aid ther|fore among them&s;elues: let vs not deuide it, but ca&s;t lottes for it who &s;hall haue it, that the &s;cripture might be fulfilled, &s;aying: They haue parted my rayment a|mong them, and for my coate did they ca&s;t lots. And the &s;oldiours did &s;uch things in deede. There &s;tood by the cro&s;&s;e of Ie&s;us, his mother, &amp; his mothers &s;i&s;ter, Ma|ry the wyfe of Cleophas and Mary Magdalen. When Ie&s;us therfore &s;aw his mother, and the di&s;ciple whom he loued, &s;tanding, he &s;aith vnto his mother: woman, behold thy &s;onne. Then &s;aid he to the di&s;ciple: behold thy mother, and from that houre the di&s;ciple tooke her for his owne. After the&s;e things, Ie&s;us knowing that althings wer now perfourmed, that y^e &s;cripture might be fulfilled, he &s;aith I thir&s;t. So there &s;tood a ve&s;&s;ell by ful of vineger, therefore they filled a &s;ponge with vine|ger and wound it about with i&s;ope, and put it to his mouth. A&s;&s;oone as Ie&s;us then receiued of the vineger, he &s;aid: it is fini&s;hed, and bowed his head and gaue vp the gho&s;t. The Iewes therfore, becau&s;e it was the pre|paring of the Sabboth, that the bodies &s;hould not re|maine vpon the cros on the Sabboth day (for the Sa|both day was an hie day) be&s;ought Pilat that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken down. Then came the &s;oldiours and brake the legs of the fir&s;t, &amp; of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Ie&s;us, and &s;aw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: but one of the &s;oldiours with a &s;pare thru&s;t him into the &s;yde, &amp; forth with, there came out bloud &amp; water. And he that &s;aw it bare record, &amp; his record is true. And he knoweth that
<PB REF="38"> he &s;aith true, that ye might beleue al&s;o. For the&s;e things wer done that the &s;cripture &s;hould be fulfilled: ye &s;hall not breake a bone of him. And againe another &s;cripture &s;aith: they &s;hall looke vpon him whom they haue pear|&s;ed. After thys Io&s;eph of Aramathia (which was a di&s;|ciple of Ie&s;us, but &s;ecretly for feare of the Iewes) be|&s;ought Pilat y^t he might take down the body of Ie&s;us And Pilat gaue him licence. He came therfore &amp; tooke y^t body of Ie&s;us, &amp; there came al&s;o Nicodemus (which at y^e beginning came to Ie&s;us by night) &amp; brought of myr and aloes mingled together about an hundreth pounde weight. Then tooke they the body of Ie&s;us, &amp; wound it in linne~ clothes with y^e odours, as the maner of y^e Iewes is to bury. And in the place where he was crucified, ther was a garde~, &amp; in the garden a new Se|pulchre, wherin was neuer ma~ laid. Ther laid they Ie|&s;us therfore, becau&s;e of the preparing of the Sabboth of the Iewes, for the &s;epulchre was nie at hand.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Ea&s;ter euen.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Peter. iii.</HEAD>
<P>IT is better if the wyl of God be &s;o, that ye &s;uffer for wel doing, the~ for euil doing. For as much as Chri&s;t hath once &s;uffred for &s;yns, the iu&s;t for the vniu&s;t, to bring vs to God, and was killed as partayning to the fle&s;h, but was quickened in the &s;pirit. In which &s;pirit he al&s;o went &amp; preached to the &s;pirits that were in pri|&s;on, which &s;omtime had bene di&s;obedient, whe~ the long &s;uffering of God was once looked for in y^e daies of Noe while the Arke was a preparing: wherin a few, that is to &s;ay, eight &s;oules were &s;aued by the water, lyke as Bapti&s;me al&s;o now &s;aueth vs: not the putting awaye of the fylth of the fle&s;he, but in that a good
<PB REF="39"> con&s;cience co~&s;enteth to God by the re&s;urrectio~ of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, which is on the right hand of God, &amp; is gone in to heauen, angels, powers &amp; might &s;ubdued vnto him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xxvii.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the euen was come, there came a ritch man of Aramathia named Io&s;eph, which al&s;o was Ie&s;us Di&s;ciple. He went vnto Pilate and begged the body of Ie&s;us. Then Pilat commaunded the body to be deli|uered. And when Io&s;eph had taken the body, he wrap|ped it in a cleane linne~ cloth, &amp; laid it in his new toumbe which he had hewen out, euen in the rock, and roled a great &s;tone to the doore of the Sepulchre &amp; departed. And there was Mary Magdalen and the other Ma|ry &s;itting ouer again&s;t the Sepulchre. The next day y^t foloweth the day of preparing, the hie Prie&s;tes and Phari&s;eis came together vnto Pilat &s;aying: Syr, we remember that this deceiuer &s;aid while he was yet a|liue: after three dayes I will ri&s;e againe. Commaund therfore that the &s;epulchre be made &s;ure vntill the third day, lea&s;t his di&s;ciples come and &s;teale him away, and the la&s;t errour &s;hall be wor&s;e then the fir&s;t. Pilat &s;ayd vnto them: ye haue a watch, go your way, make it as &s;ure as ye can So they went and made the Sepulchre &s;ure with the watch men, and &s;ealed the &s;tone.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Ea&s;ter day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Colo. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>IF ye be ry&s;en againe with Chri&s;t, &s;eeke tho&s;e things which are aboue, where Chrl&s;t &s;itteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on heauenly things &amp; not on earthly things. For ye are dead, &amp; your life is hid w^t Chri&s;t in God, when&s;oeuer Chri&s;t which is our lyfe, &s;hal &s;hew him &s;elfe, then &s;hall ye al&s;o appeare with
<PB REF="39"> hym in glorye. Mortifie therefore your earthly mem|bers, fornication vnclennes, vnnatural lu&s;t, euil concu|pi&s;cence and couetou&s;nes, which is woor&s;hipping of idols: for which thinges &s;ake the wrath of God v&s;eth to come on the children of vnbeleefe, among whom ye walked &s;ometime when ye lyued in them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xx.</HEAD>
<P>THe fir&s;t day of the &s;abbothes, came Mary Mag|dalen earely (when it was yet darke) vnto the Sepulchre, and &s;aw the &s;tone taken away from the graue. Then &s;hee ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other di&s;ciple whom Ie&s;us loued, and &s;ayth vnto them: they haue taken away the Lord out of the graue, and we cannot tell where they haue layd hym. Peter therfore went foorth and that other di&s;ciple, and came vnto the Sepulchre. They ran both together, and that other di&s;ciple did out run Peter, and came fir&s;t to the Sepulchre. And when he had &s;touped down he &s;aw the linnen clothes lying, yet went hee not in. Then came Simon Peter folowing him, and went in|to the Sepulchre, and &s;aw the linnen clothes lie, and the napkin that was about hys heade not lying with the linnen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by it &s;elfe. Then went in al&s;o that other Di&s;ciple which came fir&s;t to the Sepulchre, and he &s;aw and beleued. For as yet they knew not the &s;cripture that he &s;hould ri&s;e againe from death. Then the Dl&s;ciples went a|way againe to their owne home.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Monday in Ea&s;ter weeke.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. x.</HEAD>
<P>PEter opened his mouth, and &s;aid: of a truth I per|ceiue that there is no re&s;pect of per&s;ons with God:
<PB REF="40"> but in al people, he that feareth him and worketh righ|teou&s;nes, is accepted with him. Ye know the preaching that God &s;ent vnto the children of I&s;raell, preaching peace by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t which is Lord ouer all things: which preaching was publi&s;hed throughout al Iewry (and began in Galile, after the Bapti&s;me which Iohn preached) how God annoynted Ie&s;us of Nazareth with the holy gho&s;t &amp; with power. Which Ie&s;us went about doing good, and healing all that were oppre&s;&s;ed of the deuil, for God was with him. And we ar witne&s;|&s;es of all things which he did in the land of the Iewes and at Ieru&s;alem, whom they &s;lew and hanged on tree. Him God rai&s;ed vp the third day, and &s;hewed him openly, not to al the people, but to vs witne&s;&s;es (cho&s;en before of God for the &s;ame intent) which did eate and drink with him after he aro&s;e from death. And he com|maunded vs to preach vnto the people, and to te&s;tifye that it is hee which was ordained of God to be the iudge of the quick and the deade. To him geue all the prophetes witnes, that through hys name who&s;oeuer beleueth in him, &s;hall receyue remi&s;&s;ion of &s;yns.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xxiii.</HEAD>
<P>BEhold, two of the Di&s;ciples went that &s;ame day to a towne called Emaus, which was from Ieru&s;a|lem about .lx. furlongs, and they talked together of all the thinges that had happened. And it chaunced while they commoned together and rea&s;oned, Ie&s;us hym&s;elfe drew nere &amp; went with them. But their eyes were holden y^t they &s;hould not know him. And he &s;ayd vnto them, what maner of communications are the&s;e that ye haue one to another as ye walke, and are &s;ad? And the one of them who&s;e name was Cleophas aun|&s;wered
<PB REF="40"> and &s;ayd vnto him: art thou onely a &s;traunger in Ieru&s;alem, and ha&s;t not knowen the things which haue chaunced ther in the&s;e daies? He &s;aid vnto them: what thinges? And they &s;ayd vnto hym, of Ie&s;us of Nazareth which was a Prophet mighty in deede and word before God and all the people: and how the hie Prie&s;tes and our rulers deliuered him to be condem|ned to death, &amp; haue crucified him. But we tru&s;ted that it had bene he which &s;hould haue redemed I&s;rael. And as touching all the&s;e thinges, to day is euen the third day that they were done: Yea and certaine women of our company made vs a&s;tonied which came earely vn|to the &s;epulchre, &amp; found not his body, and came, &s;aying that they had &s;eene a vi&s;ion of angels, which &s;aid that he was aliue. And certain of them which were with vs went to the &s;epulchre, and found it euen &s;o as the wo|men had &s;ayd, but him they &s;aw not. And he &s;ayd vnto them: O fooles and flow of hart to beleue all that the Prophets haue &s;poken, ought not Chri&s;t to haue &s;uffe|red the&s;e things, and to enter into his glory? And he began at Moi&s;es and all the Prophets, and interpre|ted vnto them in all &s;criptures which were written of hym. And they drewe nye vnto the towne which they went vnto. And he made as though he wold haue gon further. And they con&s;trained him &s;aying: abide with vs, for it draweth towards night, &amp; the day is far pa&s;|&s;ed. And he went in to tary with them. And it came to pa&s;&s;e as he &s;at at meat with them he tooke bread &amp; ble&s;|&s;ed it, and brake &amp; gaue to them. And their eies were o|pened, &amp; they knew him, &amp; he vani&s;hed out of their &s;ight and they &s;aid betwene them&s;elues: did not our harts burne within vs while he talked with vs by the way,
<PB REF="41"> and opened to vs the &s;criptures? And they ro&s;e vp the &s;ame houre, and returned to Ieru&s;alem, and found the eleue~ gathered together, &amp; them that were with them &s;aying: the Lord is ri&s;en in deede &amp; hath appeared vn|to Simon. And they told what things were done in the way, and how they knew him in breaking of bread.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Tue&s;day in Ea&s;ter weeke.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. xiii.</HEAD>
<P>YE men and brethren, children of the generation of Abraham, and who&s;oeuer among you feareth God to you is this woord of &s;aluation &s;ent. For the inhabi|ters of Ieru&s;alem and their rulers, becau&s;e they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the Prophets, which are read euery Sabboth day, they haue fulfilled them in condemning him. And whe~ they found no cau&s;e of death in him, yet de&s;ired they Pilate to kill him. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of hym, they tooke hym downe from the tree and put hym in a Se|pulchre. But God ray&s;ed him agayne from death the third day, and he was &s;ene many daies of them which went with him fro~ Galile to Ieru&s;alem, which ar wit|ne&s;&s;es vnto the people. And we declare vnto you how that the promis (which was made vnto y^e fathers) god hath fulfilled vnto their children (euen vnto vs) in that he rai&s;ed vp Ie&s;us again. Euen as it is written in the &s;econd P&s;alme: thou art my &s;onne, this day haue I be|gotten thee. As concerning that he rai&s;ed him vp from death, now no more to returne to corruption, he &s;ayd on this wi&s;e: The holy promi&s;es made to Dauid, wyll I geue faithfully vnto you. Wherefore he &s;ayth al&s;o in an other place: Thou &s;halt not &s;uffer thine holy one to &s;ee corruptio~. For Dauid (after that he had in his time
<PB REF="41"> fulfylled the wyll of God) fell on &s;leepe, and was layd vnto his fathers, and &s;aw corruption. But he whom God rai&s;ed againe, &s;aw no corruption. Be it knowen vnto you therfore (ye men and brethren) that through this man is preached vnto you forgeuenes of &s;innes, &amp; that by him all that beleue are iu&s;tified from al things, from which ye could not be iu&s;tified by the law of Moi|&s;es. Beware therfore lea&s;t that fall on you which is &s;po|ken of in the Prophets: behold ye de&s;pi&s;ers &amp; wonder, and peri&s;h ye, for I do a worke in your daies, which ye &s;hal not beleue, though a man declare it vnto you.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xxiiii.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us &s;tood in the midde&s;t of his Di&s;ciples, and &s;ayd vnto the~: peace be vnto you: It is I, feare not. But they were aba&s;hed and afraide, and &s;uppo&s;ed that they had &s;ene a &s;pirit. And he &s;aid vnto them: why are ye troubled, and why do thoughts ari&s;e in your harts? Behold my handes and my feete, that it is euen I my &s;elfe. Handle me and &s;ee, for a &s;pirit hath no fle&s;h and bones as ye &s;ee me haue. And when he had thus &s;poke~, he &s;hewed them his hands &amp; his feete. And while they yet beleued not for ioy, and wondered, he &s;ayd vnto them: Haue ye here any meate? And they offered him a peece of broyled fy&s;h, and of a hoony combe. And he tooke it, and did eate before them. And he &s;aid vnto the~: the&s;e are the words which I &s;pake vnto you, whyle I was yet with you. That all mu&s;t needes be fulfylled which were wrytten of me in the law of Moy&s;es, and in the Prophets, and in the P&s;almes. Then opened he their wits that they might vnder&s;tand the &s;criptures, &amp; &s;aid vnto them: Thus it is wrytten, &amp; thus it behoued Chri&s;t to &s;uffer, and to ri&s;e againe from death the third
<PB REF="42"> day, and that repentaunce &amp; remi&s;&s;ion of &s;yns &s;hould be preached in his name among all nacions, and mu&s;t be|gin at Ieru&s;alem. And ye ar witnes of the&s;e things.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fir&s;t Sunday after Ea&s;ter.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Iohn. v.</HEAD>
<P>ALl that is born of God, ouerco~meth the world. And this is the victory that ouerco~mmeth the world, euen our fayth. Who is he that ouerco~meth the world but he that beleueth y^t Ie&s;us is the &s;on of God? This Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is he that came by water and bloud, not by water onely, but by water and bloud. And it is the &s;pirit that beareth witnes, becau&s;e the &s;pirit is truth. For there are three which beare record in heauen: the father, the word, and the holy Gho&s;t, &amp; the&s;e three are one. And ther are three which beare record in earth, the &s;pirit, &amp; water, and bloud: and the&s;e three are one. If we receiue the witnes of men, the witnes of God is greater. For this is the witnes of God that is greater which he te&s;tified of his &s;onne. He that beleueth on the &s;onne of God, hath the witnes in him&s;elfe. He that be|leueth not God, hath made him a lier, becau&s;e he bele|ueth not the record y^t God gaue his &s;onne. And this is the record, how y^t God hath geuen vnto vs eternal life, &amp; this life is in his &s;onne. He that hath the &s;onne, hath life: and he that hath not y^e &s;onne of God, hath not life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xx.</HEAD>
<P>THe &s;ame day at night which was the fyr&s;t day of the Sabboths when the doers were &s;hut (where the Di&s;ciples were a&s;&s;embled together for feare of the Iewes) came Ie&s;us and &s;tood in the midde&s;t, &amp; &s;ayd vnto them: Peace be vnto you. And when he had &s;o &s;ayd, he &s;hewed vnto them hys hands and hys &s;ide.
<PB REF="42"> Then wer the di&s;ciples glad when they &s;aw the Lord Then &s;aid Ie&s;us vnto them againe: Peace be vnto you As my Father &s;ent me, euen &s;o &s;end I you al&s;o. And when he had &s;ayd the&s;e wordes, he breathed on them and &s;ayd vnto them: receiue ye the holy gho&s;t. Who&s;o|euers &s;yns ye remit, they are remitted vnto them. And who&s;oeuers &s;yns ye retaine, they are retayned.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The &s;econd Sunday after Ea&s;ter.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Peter. ii.</HEAD>
<P>THis is thanke worthy, if a man for con&s;cience to|ward God endure griefe, and &s;uffer wrong vnde|&s;erued. For what prai&s;e is it, if whe~ ye be buffeted for your faultes, ye take it paciently? But &amp; if when ye do well ye &s;uffer wronge and take it paciently, then is there thanke with God. For hereunto verely were ye called. For Chri&s;t al&s;o &s;uffered for vs, leauing vs an en|&s;ample that we &s;huld folow his &s;teps which did no &s;in, neither was ther guile found in his mouth, which whe~ he was reuiled, reuiled not again, when he &s;uffred, he threatned not: but committed the vengeaunce to him y^t iudgeth righteou&s;ly, which his own &s;elfe bare our &s;ins in his body on the tree, y^t we being deliuered from &s;yn, &s;hould liue vnto righteou&s;nes. By who&s;e &s;trips ye were healed. For ye were as &s;hepe going a&s;tray, but are now turned vnto the &s;hepehard and Bi&s;hop of your &s;oules.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. x.</HEAD>
<P>CHri&s;t &s;ayd vnto his Di&s;ciples: I am the good &s;hephard: a good &s;hephard geueth hys lyfe for the &s;heepe. An hyred &s;eruaunt, and hee which is not the &s;hepheard (neither the &s;hepe are his own) &s;eeth the Woolfe comming and leaueth the &s;hepe and fleeth, and the Woolfe catcheth and &s;cattereth the &s;heepe.
<PB REF="43"> The hyred &s;eruaunt fleeth becau&s;e he is an hyred &s;er|uaunt and careth not for the &s;heepe. I am the good &s;hepheard, and know my &s;heepe, and am knowen of mine: as my father knoweth me, euen &s;o know I al&s;o my father. And I geue my life for the &s;heepe, and other &s;heepe I haue which are not of this folde: Them al&s;o mu&s;t I bring, and they &s;hall heare my voyce, and there &s;hall be one folde, and one &s;hepheard.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The third Sunday after Ea&s;ter.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle .i. Peter. ii.</HEAD>
<P>DErely beloued, I be&s;ech you as &s;traungers and pilgrimes, ab&s;taine from fle&s;hly lu&s;ts which fight again&s;t the &s;oule: and &s;ee that ye haue hone&s;t con|uer&s;ation among the Gentyls, that wher as they back|bite you as euil doers, they may &s;ee your good workes and pray&s;e God in the day of vi&s;itacion. Submit your &s;elues therfore to euery man for the Lords &s;ake, whe|ther it be vnto the king as vnto the chiefe head, either vnto rulers as vnto them that are &s;ent of him for the puni&s;hment of euyl doers, but for the laud of them that do wel: for &s;o is the wl of God that with wel doing ye may &s;top the mouthes of foli&s;h &amp; ignorant men: as free, &amp; not as hauing the liberty for a clock of maliciou&s;nes, but euen as the &s;eruants of God. Honour all men, loue brotherly felow&s;hip, feare God, honour the king.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xvi.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us &s;ayd to his di&s;ciples: After a while ye &s;hal not &s;ee me, and again after a while ye &s;hal &s;ee me, for I go to the Father. Then &s;aid &s;ome of his di&s;ciples be|twene them&s;elues, what is this that he &s;aith vnto vs: after a while ye &s;hall not &s;ee me, &amp; againe after a while ye &s;hal &s;ee me, &amp; that I go to the father. They &s;aid ther|fore
<PB REF="43"> what is this that he &s;aith: after a wyle. We cannot tell what he &s;aith. Ie&s;us perceyued that they would a&s;ke him, and &s;ayd vnto them: ye enquire of this be|twene your &s;elues, becau&s;e I &s;aid: after a while ye &s;hal not &s;ee me, and again after a while ye &s;hall &s;ee me: Ve|rely, verely I &s;ay vnto you, ye &s;hall weepe and lament, but contrarywi&s;e the world &s;hal reioyce. Ye &s;hal &s;orow but your &s;orow &s;halbe turned into ioy. A woman when &s;he trauaileth hath &s;orow, becau&s;e her houre is come, but a&s;&s;oone as &s;he is delyuered of the Child, &s;hee reme~|breth no more the angui&s;h, for ioy that a man is borne into the world. And ye now therfore haue &s;orow: but I will &s;ee you againe, and your hearts &s;hal reioyce and your ioy &s;hall no man take from you.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fourth Sunday after Ea&s;ter.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Iames. i.</HEAD>
<P>EVery good gift, &amp; euery perfect gift, is from aboue, and commeth down from the father of lights, with who~ is no variablenes, neither &s;hadow of chaunge. Of his own wil begat he vs with the word of truth, y^t we &s;hould be the fir&s;t fruites of his creatures, Wherfore (deare brethren) let euery man be &s;wift to heare, &s;low to &s;peeke, &s;low to wrath. For y^e wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God. Wherfore lay apart al filthines, and &s;uperfluity of maliciou&s;nes, and receiue with mekenes the word that is graffed in you, which is able to &s;aue your &s;oules.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xvi.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us &s;aid vnto his di&s;ciples: now I go my way to him that &s;ent me, &amp; none of you a&s;keth me whether I go. But becau&s;e I haue &s;aid &s;uch things vnto you your harts are ful of &s;orow. Neuertheles I tel you the
<PB REF="44"> truth, it is expedient for you that I go away. For if I go not away, the co~forter will not come vnto you. But if I depart, I wil &s;end him vnto you. And when he is come he will rebuke the world of &s;ynne, and of righte|ou&s;nes, and of iudgement. Of &s;yn becau&s;e they beleue not on me. Of righteou&s;nes, becau&s;e I go to my father, and ye &s;hal &s;ee me no more. Of iudgement, becau&s;e the prince of this world is iudged already. I haue yet many things to &s;ay vnto you, but ye cannot beare them away now: how be it when he is come (which is the &s;pirit of truth) he wyll leade you into all truth. He &s;hall not &s;peake of him &s;elfe, but what&s;oeuer he &s;hall heare, that &s;hall he &s;peake: and he wyll &s;hew you things to come. He &s;hal glorify me, for he &s;hal receyue of mine, and &s;hal &s;hew vnto you. Althinges that the Father hath, are mine: therefore &s;ayd I vnto you, that he &s;hall take of mine, and &s;hew vnto you.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fyft Sunday after Ea&s;ter.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Iames. i.</HEAD>
<P>SEe that ye be doers of the worde, and not hearers onely, deceiuing your own &s;elues, For if any man heare the word, and declareth not the &s;ame by hys workes, he is like vnto a man beholding his bodely face in a glas: For a&s;&s;oone as he hath looked on him|&s;elf, he goeth his way and forgetteth immediatly what his fa&s;hion was. But who&s;o looketh in the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein (if he be not a forget|full hearer, but a doer of the worke) the &s;ame &s;halbe hap+py in his deede. If any man among you &s;eeme to be de|uout, and refrayneth not his tounge, but deceyueth his owne hart, this mans deuotion is in vayne. Pure de|uotion and vndefyled before God the father is this: to
<PB REF="44"> vi&s;yt the fatherles &amp; widdowes in their aduer&s;ity, and to keepe him &s;elfe vn&s;potted of the world.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xvi.</HEAD>
<P>VErely, verely I &s;ay vnto you, what&s;oeuer ye a&s;ke the father in my name, he wil geue it you. Hitherto haue ye a&s;ked nothing in my name. A&s;ke and ye &s;hall receiue y^t your ioy may be ful. The&s;e things haue I &s;poke~ vnto you by prouerbes. The time wil come when I &s;hall no more &s;peake vnto you by prouerbes: but I &s;hall &s;hew you plainly fro~ my father. At that day &s;hal ye a&s;ke in my name: And I &s;ay vnto you that I will &s;peake vnto my father for you. For y^e father him&s;elfe loueth you, becau&s;e ye haue loued me, &amp; haue beleued y^t I cam out fro~ God. I went out fro~ the father, &amp; cam into the world. Again I leaue the world &amp; go to the father. His Di&s;ciples &s;aid vnto him: Lo, now thou talke&s;t plainly, and &s;peake&s;t no prouerbe. Now are we &s;ure that thou knowe&s;t althings and nede&s;t not that any man &s;hould a&s;ke thee any que|&s;tion, therfore beleue we that thou camme&s;t from God. Ie&s;us an&s;wered the~: now ye do beleue. Behold y^e houre draweth nie, and is already come, that ye &s;hal be &s;catte|red euery man to his owne, and &s;hall leaue me alone. And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. The&s;e wordes haue I &s;poken vnto you, that in me ye might haue peace, for in the world &s;hal ye haue tribula|cion: but be of good chere I haue ouercome the world.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;A&s;cention day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. i.</HEAD>
<P>IN the former treati&s;e (deare Theophilus) we haue &s;poken of al y^t Ie&s;us began to do &amp; teach, vntil y^e day in which he was take~ vp, after y^t he through the holy
<PB REF="45"> gho&s;t had geuen commaundements vnto the Apo&s;tles whom he had cho&s;en, to whom al&s;o he &s;hewed him&s;elfe aliue after his pa&s;&s;ion, and that by many tokens appea|ring vnto them forty daies, &amp; &s;peaking of the kingdom of God, and gathered them together and commaunded them that they &s;hould not depart from Ieru&s;alem, but to waite for the promi&s;e of the father, wherof (&s;aith he) ye haue heard of me. For Iohn truly bapti&s;ed with wa|ter, but ye &s;hal be bapti&s;ed with y^e holy gho&s;t, after the&s;e few daies. When they therfore wer come together they a&s;ked of him &s;aying: Lord, wilt y^u at this time re&s;tore a|gaine the kingdome of I&s;rael? And he &s;aid vnto them: it is not for you to know y^e times or the &s;ea&s;ons which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye &s;hall re|ceaue power after the holy gho&s;t is come vpo~ you. And ye &s;hall be witnes vnto me, not onely in Ieru&s;alem, but al&s;o in all Iewry, &amp; in all Samaria, and euen vnto the worlds end. And when he had &s;poken the&s;e thinges, while they beheld, he was taken vp on hye, and a cloud receiued him vp out of theyr &s;ighte. And while they looked &s;tedfa&s;tly vp toward heauen as he went, behold two men &s;tood by the~ in white aparel, which al&s;o &s;aid: ye men of Galile, why &s;tand ye ga&s;ing vp into heauen? This &s;ame Ie&s;us which is take~ vp from you into hea|uen, &s;hal come, eue~ as ye haue &s;ene him go into heauen.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Mark. xv.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us appeared vnto the eleuen, as they &s;at at meate: and ca&s;t in their teeth their vnbeliefe and hardnes of hart, becau&s;e they beleued not them which had &s;eene that he was ri&s;en again from the dead: and he &s;aid vn|to them: Go ye into al the world, &amp; preach the Go&s;pel to all creatures, he y^t beleueth &amp; is bapti&s;ed, &s;halbe &s;aued,
<PB REF="45"> but he y^t beleueth not, &s;halbe damned. And the&s;e tokens &s;hal folow them that beleue. In my name they &s;hal ca&s;t out deuils, they &s;hal &s;peake with new tonges, they &s;hal driue away &s;erpents, &amp; if they drink any deadly thing it &s;hall not hurt the~. They &s;hal lay theyr hand of the &s;ick &amp; they &s;hal recouer. So then when the Lord had &s;poken vnto them, he was receiued into heauen, and is on the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached euery where, the Lord working with them and confir|ming the woord with miracles folowing.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Sunday after the A&s;cencion day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Peter. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>THe end of all things is at hand: be ye therfore &s;ober and watch vnto praier. But aboue all things haue feruent loue among your &s;elues, for loue &s;hal couer the multitude of &s;ynnes. Be ye herberous one to another without grudging. As euery ma~ hath receued the gift, euen &s;o mini&s;ter y^e &s;ame one to another, as good mini|&s;ters of y^e manifold graces of God. If any man &s;peake, let him talke as the words of God. If any ma~ mini&s;ter, let him do it as of the hability which god mini&s;treth to him, y^t God in al things may be glorified through Ie&s;u Chri&s;t, to whom be prai&s;e &amp; dominion for euer &amp; euer.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xv.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the Comforter is come whom I wil &s;end vnto you from the father (euen the &s;pirit of truth, which procedeth of the father) he &s;hal te&s;tify of me. And ye &s;hal beare witnes al&s;o becau&s;e ye haue bene with me from the beginning. The&s;e things haue I &s;aid vnto you, be|cau&s;e ye &s;hould not be offended. They &s;hal excommuni|cate you: Yea, the time &s;hal come, that who&s;oeuer killeth you, wil thinke y^t he doth God &s;eruice. And &s;uch things
<PB REF="46"> wyl they do vnto you, becau&s;e they haue not knowen y^e father, neither yet me. But the&s;e thinges I haue told you, y^t when the time is come, ye may remember then that I told you.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;VVhit&s;onday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. ii.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the fifty dayes were at an ende, they were all with one accord together in one place, &amp; &s;odaynly ther came a &s;ound fro~ heauen, as it had bene the com|ming of a mighty winde, &amp; it filled all the hou&s;e where they &s;at. And there appeared vnto them clouen tou~gs, like as they had bene of fire, and it &s;at vpon ech one of them, &amp; they were all filled with the holy Gho&s;t, &amp; be|gan to &s;peake with other tounges: euen as the &s;ame &s;pirit gaue them vtteraunce. Then were dwelling at Ieru&s;alem Iewes, deuout men, out of euery nation of them that are vnder heauen. When this was noy&s;ed about, the multitude came together, &amp; were a&s;tonyed, becau&s;e that euery man heard them &s;peake wyth hys own language. They wondred all &amp; marueled, &s;aying among the~&s;elues: behold, are not al the&s;e which &s;peake of Galile? And how heare we euery man his own tou~g wherin we wer born? Parthians &amp; Medes, and Ela|mites, and the inhahiters of Me&s;opotamia, &amp; of Iew|ry, and of Capadocia, of Pontus &amp; A&s;ia, Phrigia and Pamphilia, of Egipt, &amp; of the parties of Libia, which is be&s;ide Siren, &amp; &s;traungers of Rome, Iewes &amp; Pro+&s;elites, Greekes and Arabians, we haue heard them &s;peake in our own toungs the great workes of God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xiiii.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us &s;aid vnto his di&s;ciples: If ye loue me, kepe my co~maundements, &amp; I wil pray the father, &amp; he &s;hall geue you another comforter, that he may abide with
<PB REF="46"> you for euer: euen y^e &s;pirit of truth, who~ the world can|not receiue, becau&s;e the world &s;eeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and &s;halbe in you. I will not leaue you comfortles, but wil come to you. Yet a litle while, and the worlde &s;eeth me no more: but ye &s;ee me. For I liue, and ye &s;hall lyue. At that day &s;hall ye know that I am in my father, and you in me, &amp; I in you. He that hath my commaun|dements and keepeth them, the &s;ame is he that loueth me. And he that loueth me, &s;halbe beloued of my father, and I wil loue him, and wil &s;hew mine own &s;elfe vnto him. Iudas &s;aith vnto him (not Iudas I&s;carioth:) Lord what is done that thou wilt &s;hew thy &s;elfe vnto vs, and not vnto the world? Ie&s;us an&s;wered and &s;aid vnto them: if a man loue me, he will keepe my &s;ayings, and my Father wyll loue him, and we wyll come vnto him, and dwell with him. He that loueth me not, kee|peth not my &s;ayinges. And the word which ye heare is not mine, but the fathers which &s;ent me. The&s;e things haue I &s;poken vnto you, being yet pre&s;ent with you. But the comforter which is the holy gho&s;t whom my Father wyll &s;ende in my name, he &s;hall teach you al|thinges, and bring althinges to your rememberaunce what&s;oeuer I haue &s;aid vnto you. Peace I leaue with you, my peace I geue vnto you. Not as the world ge|ueth, geue I vnto you. Let not your harts be greued, neither feare. Ye haue heard how I &s;aid vnto you I go and come againe vnto you. Yf ye loued me, yee would verely reioyce, becau&s;e I &s;ayd, I go vnto the Fa|ther. For the Father is greater then I. And now I haue &s;hewed you before it came, that when it is come to pa&s;&s;e, ye might beleue. Hereafter wyll I not talke
<PB REF="47"> many wordes vnto you. For the Prince of this world commeth, and hath nought in me. But that the world may know that I loue the Father. And as the Father gaue me commaundement, euen &s;o do I.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Monday in whit&s;on weeke.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. x.</HEAD>
<P>THen Peter opened his mouth &amp; &s;aid: of a truth I perceiue that there is no re&s;pect of per&s;ons wyth God, but in all people he that feareth him &amp; wor|keth righteou&s;nes, is accepted with him. Ye know the preaching that God &s;ent vnto the chyldren of I&s;rael, preaching peace by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, which is Lord ouer althinges: which preaching was publi&s;hed through|out all Iewry (and began in Galile, after the bapti&s;me which Iohn preached) how God annointed Ie&s;us of Nazareth with the holy Gho&s;t &amp; with power. Which Ie&s;us went about doyng good, and healyng all that were oppre&s;&s;ed of the deuyll. For God was with him. And we are witne&s;&s;es of althings which he did in the land of the Iewes, and at Ieru&s;alem, whom they &s;lew and hanged on a tree. Hym God ray&s;ed vp the third day, and &s;hewed him openly, not to all the people, but vnto vs witne&s;&s;es (cho&s;en before of God for the &s;ame entent) which dyd eate and drinke with him after hee ro&s;e from death. And he commaunded vs to preache vnto the people, and to te&s;tify that it is he which was ordayned of God to be the Iudge of the quick and the dead. To hym geue all the Prophetes wytnes, that through his name who&s;oeuer beleueth in hym, &s;hall receiue remi&s;&s;ion of &s;yns. While Peter yet &s;pake the&s;e wordes, the holy Gho&s;t fell on all them which heard the preaching. And they of the circumci&s;ion which be|leued,
<PB REF="47"> were a&s;tonied, as many as came with Peter: be|cau&s;e that on the Gentiles al&s;o was &s;hed out the gift of the holy gho&s;t. For they heard them &s;peake with tou~gs and magnify God. Then an&s;wered Peter: can any man forbid water that the&s;e &s;hould be bapti&s;ed which haue receiued the holy Gho&s;t as well as we? And he com|maunded them to be bapti&s;ed in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tary a few dayes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. iii.</HEAD>
<P>SO God loued the world, that he gaue hys onely be+gotten &s;onne, that who&s;oeuer beleueth in him &s;huld not peri&s;h, but haue euerla&s;ting life. For God &s;ent not his &s;onne into the world to condemne the world, but that the world through him might be &s;aued. But he that beleueth on him, is not condemned. But he that beleueth not, is condempned all redy, becau&s;e he hath not beleued in the name of the onely begotten &s;onne of God. And this is the condempnacion: that light is come into the world, and men loued darknes more the~ light, becau&s;e their dedes were euil. For euery one that doth euil, hateth the light, neither co~meth to the light, lea&s;t his deedes &s;hould be reproued. But he that doth the truth, commeth to the lyght, that his deedes may be knowen, how that they are wrought in God.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Tue&s;day &s;n whit&s;un weeke.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. viii.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the Apo&s;tles which were at Ieru&s;alem heard &s;ay that Samaria had receiued the woord of God, they &s;ent vnto them Peter and Iohn. Which whe~ they were come down, praied for them that they might re|ceiue the holy Gho&s;t. For as yet he was come on none of them, but they were bapti&s;ed onely in the name of
<PB REF="48"> Chri&s;t Ie&s;us. Then they layd their handes on them, and they receiued the holy Gho&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. x.</HEAD>
<P>VErely, verely I &s;ay vnto you: he that entreth not in by the doore into the &s;hepefold, but climeth vp &s;ome other way, the &s;ame is a theefe &amp; a murtherer. But he that entreth in by the doore, is the Shepheard of the &s;heepe: To him the porter openeth, &amp; the &s;heepe heare his voice, &amp; he calleth his own &s;hepe by name, and lea|deth them out. And when he hath &s;ent forth his owne &s;hepe, he goeth before them, &amp; the &s;hepe folow him: for they know his voice. A &s;traunger wyl they not folow, but wyll flee from hym, for they know not the voyce of &s;traungers. This prouerbe &s;pake Ie&s;us vnto the~, but they vnder&s;tood not what things they were which he &s;pake vnto them. Then &s;ayd Ie&s;us vnto them againe: Verely, verely I &s;ay vnto you, I am the doore of the &s;hepe. Al (euen as many as came before me) ar theues &amp; murtherers, but the &s;hepe did not heare them. I am the doore, by me if any enter in, he &s;hal be &s;afe, &amp; &s;hal go in &amp; out, and finde pa&s;ture. A theefe co~meth not but for to &s;teale, kyll, and de&s;troy, I am come that they might haue life, &amp; that they might haue it more abou~dantly.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Trinitie Sunday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Apoca. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>AFter this I looked, &amp; behold a doore was open in heauen, and the fir&s;t voyce which I heard, was as it were of a trumpet talkyng wyth me, which &s;ayde: Come vp hither, &amp; I wil &s;hew thee things which mu&s;t be fulfilled hereafter. And immediately I was in the &s;pirit: And behold a &s;eat was &s;et in heauen, &amp; one &s;at on y^e &s;eat. And he that &s;at was to looke vpon like vnto
<PB REF="48"> a Ia&s;par &s;tone, and a Sardine &s;tone. And there was a raine bow about the &s;eat, in &s;ight lyke vnto an Eme|rauld. And about the &s;eate were .xxiiii. &s;eates. And vp|on the &s;eates .xiiij. elders &s;itting, clothed in whyte ray|ment, and had on their heades crownes of gold. And out of the &s;eate proceeded lightnings, and thundrings and voyces, and there were &s;euen lampes of fyre bur|ning before the &s;eate, which are the &s;euen &s;pirites of God. And before the &s;eate there was a &s;ea of glas lyke vnto Chri&s;tal, and in the midde&s;t of the &s;eate and round about the &s;eate were foure bea&s;tes full of eyes before and behinde. And the fyr&s;t bea&s;t was lyke a Lion: and the &s;econd bea&s;t was lyke a Calfe: and the third bea&s;t had a face as a man: and the fourth Bea&s;t was like a &s;lying Eagle. And the foure bea&s;tes had ech of the~ &s;ixe winges about him, and they were ful of eyes with in. And they did not re&s;t day nor night, &s;aying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord god almighty, which was, and is, &amp; is to come. And when tho&s;e bea&s;tes gaue glory &amp; honour and thankes to him that &s;at on the &s;eate (which liueth for euer &amp; euer) the .xxiiij. Elders fel down before him that &s;at on the throne &amp; wor&s;hipped him that liueth for euer, and ca&s;t their crownes before the throne, &s;aying: thou art worthy, O Lord (our God) to receiue glory, and honour, and power: for thou ha&s;t created althings and for thy wyls &s;ake they are and were created.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. iii.</HEAD>
<P>THere was a man of the Phari&s;eis named Nicode|mus a Ruler of the Iewes, y^e &s;ame came to Ie&s;us by night and &s;aid vnto him: Rabbi, we know that thou art a Teacher come from God: for no man could do &s;uch myracles as thou doe&s;t, except God were wyth
<PB REF="49"> hym. Ie&s;us aun&s;wered and &s;ayd vnto hym: Verely, verely I &s;ay vnto thee, except a man be borne from a|boue, he cannot &s;ee the kingdome of God. Nicodemus &s;ayd vnto him: how can a man be borne when hee is olde? Can hee enter into hys mothers wombe and be born again? Ie&s;us an&s;wered: verely, verely I &s;ay vnto thee, except a man be borne of water and the &s;pirit, he cannot enter into the kingdome of God. That which is borne of the fle&s;h, is fle&s;h: and that which is borne of the &s;pirit, is &s;pirit. Maruaile not thou that I &s;ayd to thee, ye mu&s;t be borne from aboue. The wynde blo|weth where it lu&s;teth, and thou heare&s;t the &s;ound ther|of, but thou can&s;t not tell whence it commeth, or whe|ther it goeth: So is euerye one that is borne of the &s;pirit. Nicodemus an&s;wered and &s;ayd vnto him: how can the&s;e things be? Ie&s;us an&s;wered and &s;ayd vnto him: Art thou a Mai&s;ter in I&s;rael, and knowe&s;t not the&s;e thinges? Verelye, verelye I &s;ay vnto thee: we &s;peake that we know, and te&s;tifye that we haue &s;eene, and ye receiue not our wytnes. If I haue tolde you earthly thinges, and ye beleue not: how &s;hal ye beleue if I tell you of heauenly thinges? And no man a&s;cen|deth vp to heauen, but he that came downe from hea|uen, euen the &s;onne of man which is in heauen. And as Moi&s;es lyft vp the Serpent in the wildernes: euen &s;o mu&s;t the &s;onne of man be lift vp, that who&s;oeuer bele|ueth on him, peri&s;h not, but haue euerla&s;ting lyfe.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fir&s;t Sunday after Trinity Sunday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Iohn. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>DEarly beloued, let vs loue one another, for loue co~|meth of God. And euery one that loueth, is borne of God, and knoweth God. He that loueth not, know|eth
<PB REF="49"> not God, for God is loue. In this appeareth the the loue of God to vs warde, becau&s;e that God &s;ent his onely begotten &s;on into the world, that we might liue through him. Herein is loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and &s;ent his &s;onne to be the agre|ment for our &s;yns. Dearly beloued if God &s;o loued vs, we ought al&s;o one to loue another. No man hath &s;eene God at any time. If we loue one another, god dwelleth in vs, &amp; his loue is perfect in vs. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in vs, becau&s;e he hath geuen vs of his Spirit. And we haue &s;eene and do te&s;tyfy that the father &s;ent the &s;on to be y^e &s;auior of the world. Who&s;oeuer confe&s;&s;eth that Ie&s;us is the &s;onne of God, in him dwelleth God, &amp; he in god. And we haue knowe~ and beleued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue &amp; he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in god, and God in him. Herein is the loue perfect in vs, that we &s;hould tru&s;t in y^e day of iudgeme~t. For as he is, euen &s;o are we in this world. There is no feare in loue, but perfect loue ca&s;teth out feare: for feare hath painfulnes. He that feareth, is not perfect in loue. We loue him, for he loued vs fyr&s;t. If a man &s;ay: I loue god and yet hate his bro|ther, he is a lyer, for how can hee that loueth not his brother whom he hath &s;eene, loue God whom he hath not &s;ene? And this co~mau~dement haue we of him that he which loueth God, &s;hould loue his brother al&s;o.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xvi.</HEAD>
<P>THere was a certain ritch man, which was clothed in purple and fyne white, and fared deliciou&s;ly e|uery day: And ther was a certaine begger named Lazarus, which lay at his gate full of &s;ores, de&s;yring to be refre&s;hed wyth the crummes which fell from the
<PB REF="50"> ritch mans boord, &amp; no man gaue vnto him. The dogs came al&s;o and lyked his &s;ores. And it fortuned that the begger dyed, &amp; was caryed by the aungels into Abra|hams bo&s;ome. The ritch man al&s;o died &amp; was buried, and being in hell in tormentes, he lyft vp his eyes and &s;aw Abraham a farre of and Lazarus in his bo&s;ome, and he cryed and &s;ayd, father Abraham haue mercy on me, and &s;end Lazarus that he may dip the typ of his finger in water, and coole my toung, for I am tormen|ted in this flame. But Abraham &s;aid: Sonne remem|ber that thou in thy life time receiued&s;t thy plea&s;ure, &amp; contrary wi&s;e Lazarus receued paine. But now he is comforted, and thou art puni&s;hed. Beyonde all this be|twene vs and you there is a great &s;pace &s;et, &s;o that they which would go from hence to you cannot, neither may come from thence to vs. Then he &s;aid: I pray thee therefore father, &s;end him to my Fathers hou&s;e (for I haue fiue brethren) for to warne them, lea&s;t they come al&s;o into this place of torment. Abraham &s;aid vnto him: they haue Moi&s;es and the Prophets, let them heare them. And he &s;aid: nay father Abraham, but if one come vnto them from the dead, they wyll repent. He &s;ayd vn|to him, if they heare not Moy&s;es &amp; the Prophets, nei|ther wil they beleue though one ro&s;e fro~ death againe.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The &s;econd &s;unday after Trinitie Sunday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Iohn. iii.</HEAD>
<P>MEruaile not my brethren, though the world hate you. We know y^t we are tran&s;lated fro~ death vnto life, becau&s;e we loue the brethren. He y^t loueth not his brother, abideth in death. Who&s;oeuer hateth hys brother, is a man&s;lear. And ye know that no man&s;lear hath eternall lyfe abiding in him. Hereby perceiue we
<PB REF="50"> loue, becau&s;e he gaue his lyfe for vs, and we ought to geue our liues for the brethren. But who &s;o hath this worldes good, and &s;eeth his brother haue neede, and &s;hutteth vp hys compa&s;&s;ion from him, how dwelleth the loue of God in him? My babes, let vs not loue in worde, neyther in toung, but in deede and verity. Here|by we know that we are of the verity, and can quiet our harts before him. For if our hart condempne vs, God is greater then our hart, and knoweth althings. Dear|ly beloued, if our hart condempne vs not, then haue we tru&s;t to God ward, and what&s;oeuer we a&s;ke we re|ceiue of him, becau&s;e we keepe his commaundements, and do tho&s;e things which are plea&s;aunt in his &s;ight. And this is his commaundement, that we beleue on the name of his Sonne Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and loue one an|other, as he gaue commaundeme~t. And he that kepeth hys commaundementes, dwelleth in hym, and he in him: and hereby we know that he abideth in vs euen by the &s;pirit which he hath geuen vs.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pel. Luke. xiiii.</HEAD>
<P>A Certayne man ordeined a great &s;upper, and bad many, &amp; &s;ent his &s;eruaunt at &s;upper time to &s;ay to them that were bidden: come, for althings are now redy. And they all at once began to make excu&s;e. The fyr&s;t &s;ayd vnto him: I haue bought a farme, &amp; I mu&s;t needes go and &s;ee it. I pray thee haue me excu&s;ed And another &s;aid: I haue bought fyne yoke of Oxen, and I go to proue them. I pray thee haue mee excu|&s;ed. And an other &s;ayd: I haue maryed a wyfe, and therefore I cannot come. And the Seruaunt retur|ned and brought his Mai&s;ter woorde agayne therof. Then was the good man of the hou&s;e di&s;plea&s;ed, and
<PB REF="51"> &s;aid vnto his &s;eruant: go out quickly into the &s;treetes and quarters of the city, &amp; bring in hither the poore and feble, &amp; the halt &amp; blind. And the &s;eruant &s;aid: Lord, it is done as thou ha&s;t co~maunded, &amp; yet there is roume. And the Lord &s;ayd vnto the &s;eruant: go out into y^e hye waies and hedges, &amp; compell them to come in, that my hou&s;e may be fylled. For I &s;ay vnto you, that none of the&s;e men which were bidden, &s;hall ta&s;te of my &s;upper.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The third Sunday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Peter. v.</HEAD>
<P>SVbmit your &s;elues euery man one to another, knyt your &s;elues together in lowlines of minde. For God re&s;i&s;teth the proude, and geueth grace to the humble. Submit your &s;elues therfore vnder the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you when the tyme is come. Ca&s;t all your care vpon hym, for he careth for you. Be &s;ober &amp; watch, for your aduer&s;ary y^e deuil, as a roaring Lion, walketh about, &s;eeking whom he may deuour, whom re&s;i&s;t &s;tedfa&s;t in the faith: knowing that y^e &s;ame afflictions are appoynted vnto your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace which hath cal|led vs vnto his eternal glory by Chri&s;t Ie&s;u, &s;hall hys own &s;elfe (after that ye haue &s;uffered a little affliction) make you perfect, &s;ettle, &s;trength, and &s;tabli&s;h you. To him be glory and dominion for euer and euer. Amen.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xv.</HEAD>
<P>THen re&s;orted vnto him al the Publicans and &s;yn|ners for to heare hym. And the Phari&s;eys and Scribes murmured &s;aying: He receiueth &s;inners and eateth with them. But he put foorth this parable vnto the~ &s;aying: What man among you hauing an hu~|dred &s;heepe (if he lo&s;e one of the~) doth not leaue ninety
<PB REF="51"> and nine in the wildernes &amp; goeth after that which is lo&s;t, vntill he finde it? And when he hath founde it, he layeth it on his &s;houlders with ioy. And a&s;&s;oone as he commeth home, he calleth together his louers and neighbours &s;aying vnto them: Reioyce with me, for I haue found my &s;hepe which was lo&s;t. I &s;ay vnto you, that likewi&s;e ioy &s;halbe in heauen ouer one &s;ynner that repenteth, more then ouer ninety and nine iu&s;t per&s;ons which nede no repentaunce. Either what woman ha|uing ten groates (if &s;he loo&s;e one) doth not light a can|dle &amp; &s;wepe the hou&s;e, &amp; &s;eke dilygently til &s;he finde it: and when &s;he hath found it &s;he calleth her louers and her neighbours together, &s;aying: Reioyce with me, for I haue found the groat which I lo&s;t. Lykewi&s;e. I &s;ay vnto you, &s;hall there be ioy in the pre&s;ence of the Aun|gels of God ouer one &s;ynner that repenteth.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The fourth &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. viii.</HEAD>
<P><HI>I</HI> Suppo&s;e that the afflictions of this life are not wor|thy of the glory which &s;halbe &s;hewed vpon vs. For the feruent de&s;yre of the creature abydeth looking when the &s;onnes of God &s;hall appeare, becau&s;e the creature is &s;ubdued to vanity again&s;t the wyll therof. but for his wyll which hath &s;ubdued the &s;ame in hope. For the &s;ame creature &s;hall be deliuered from the bon|dage of corruption, into the gloryous liberty of the &s;onnes of God. For we know that euery creature gro|neth with vs al&s;o, and trauaileth in payne, euen vnto this tyme, not onely it, but we al&s;o which haue the fyr&s;t fruites of the &s;pirit, mourne in our &s;elues al&s;o and wayte for the adopcion (of the children of God) euen the deliueraunce of our bodies.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<PB REF="52">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. vi.</HEAD>
<P>BE ye mercyfull, as your Father al&s;o is mercyfull. Iudge not, &amp; ye &s;hal not be iudged: condemn not, and ye &s;hal not be condemned. Forgeue, &amp; ye &s;hal be forgeuen. Geue, and it &s;halbe geuen vnto you, good mea&s;ure, and pre&s;&s;ed downe, and &s;haken together, and running ouer &s;hall men geue into your bo&s;omes. For with the &s;ame mea&s;ure that ye mete withal, &s;hal other men mete to you againe. And he put forth a &s;imilitude vnto them: Can the blind leade the blind? do they not both fal into the ditche? The di&s;ciple is not aboue hys mai&s;ter. Euery man &s;halbe perfect euen as his mai&s;ter is. Why &s;ee&s;t thou a mote in thy brothers eye, but con|&s;idere&s;t not the beame that is in thine own eye? Either how can&s;t thou &s;ay to thy brother: Brother, let me pul out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou &s;ee&s;t not the beame y^t is in thine own eye? Fir&s;t, thou hipocrite, ca&s;t out the beame out of thine own eye, the~ &s;halt thou &s;ee perfectly to put out y^e mote y^t is in thy brothers eye.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .v. Sunday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Peter. iii.</HEAD>
<P>BE ye all of one mynde, &amp; of one hart. Loue as bre|thren. Be pityful, be curteous, meeke, not rendryng euil for euil, rebuke for rebuke: but co~trariwi&s;e ble&s;&s;e, knowing that ye are therunto called, euen y^t ye &s;hould be heires of the ble&s;&s;ing. For he y^t doth long after lyfe, &amp; loueth to &s;ee good daies, let him refrain his toung fro~ euyl, and his lyps that they &s;peake no guile. Let hym e&s;chew euil, &amp; do good, let him &s;eeke peace and en&s;ue it. For the eyes of the Lord are ouer the righteous, &amp; hys eares are open vnto their praiers. Againe, the face of the Lord is ouer them that do euil. Moreouer, who is
<PB REF="52"> he that wyl harme you, if ye folow that which is good? Yea, happy are ye if any trouble happen vnto you for righteou&s;nes &s;ake. Be not ye afrayd for any terrour of them, neyther be ye troubled, but &s;anctifie the Lorde God in your hartes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pel. Luke. v.</HEAD>
<P>IT came to pa&s;&s;e that (when the people prea&s;ed vpon him to heare the woord of God) he &s;tood by the lake of Genazareth, &amp; &s;aw two &s;hyps &s;tand by the lakes &s;ide, but the fi&s;her men were gone out of them, &amp; were wa&s;hing their nets. And he entred into one of y^e &s;hips (which pertained to Simon) and prayed him that he would thru&s;t out a litle fro~ the land. And he &s;at down and taught the people out of the &s;hyp. When he had left &s;peaking, he &s;ayd vnto Simo~: Launch out into the deepe, and let &s;lyp your nets to make a draught. And Simon aun&s;wered and &s;ayd vnto him: May&s;ter, we haue laboured all night, and haue taken nothing. Ne|uertheles at thy commaundement I wyll loo&s;e foorth the net. And when they had &s;o done, they inclo&s;ed a great multitude of fy&s;hes: But their net brake, and they beckened to their felowes (which wer in the other &s;hip) that they &s;hould come and helpe them. And they came and fylled both the &s;hyppes that they &s;oonke a|gayne. When Simon Peter &s;aw this, he fel downe at Ie&s;us knees, &s;aying: Lord, go from me, for I am a &s;ynfull man. For he was a&s;tonyed, and all that were with hym, at the draught of Fi&s;hes which they had taken, and &s;o was al&s;o Iames and Iohn the &s;onnes of Zebede, which were partners with Simon. And Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto Simon: feare not, from hence forth y^u &s;halt catch men. And they brought the &s;hips to land,
<PB REF="53"> and for&s;ooke all, and followed hym.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The &s;ixt Sunday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. vi.</HEAD>
<P>KNow ye not that al we which are bapti&s;ed in Ie|&s;us Chri&s;t, are bapti&s;ed to die with him? We are buried the~ with him by bapti&s;me for to dye. That likewi&s;e as Chri&s;t was ray&s;ed from death by the glory of the Father, euen &s;o we al&s;o &s;hould walke in a newe life. For if we be graft in death lyke vnto him, euen &s;o &s;hall we be partakers of the holy re&s;urrection. Know|ing this, that your old man is crucified wyth him al&s;o, that the body of &s;ynne might vtterly be de&s;troyed, that henceforth we &s;hould not be &s;eruaunts vnto &s;ynne. For he that is dead, is iu&s;tified from &s;yn. Wherefore if we be dead with Chri&s;t, we beleue that we &s;hall al&s;o lyue with him: knowing that Chri&s;t being rai&s;ed fro~ death, dieth no more. Death hath no more power ouer hym. For as touching that he dyed, he dyed concerning &s;yn once, &amp; as touching that he liueth, he liueth vnto God. Likewi&s;e co~&s;ider ye al&s;o, y^t ye ar dead as touching &s;yn, but are aliue vnto God, thorow Ie&s;us Chri&s;t our lord.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. v.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us &s;aid vnto his di&s;ciples: except your righteou&s;|nes excede the righteou&s;nes of the Scribes &amp; Pha|ri&s;eis, ye cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen. Ye haue heard that it was &s;aid vnto them of old tyme. Thou &s;halt not kill, who&s;oeuer killeth &s;halbe in daun|ger of iudgement. But I &s;ay vnto you: that who&s;oeuer is angry with his brother (vnadui&s;edly) &s;halbe in daun|ger of iudgement. And who&s;oeuer &s;ayth vnto his bro|ther, Racha: &s;hal be in daunger of a coun&s;ell. But who|&s;oeuer &s;aith thou foole, &s;hall be in daunger of Hell fyre.
<PB REF="53"> Therfore if thou offere&s;t thy gift at the altar, and there remembre&s;t that thy brother hath ought again&s;t thee, leaue there thine offering before the altar, and go thy way fir&s;t, &amp; be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Agree with thine aduer&s;ary quickely, whiles thou art in the way with him, lea&s;t at any time the aduer&s;ary deliuer thee to the iudge, and the iudge deliuer thee to the mini&s;ter, and then thou be ca&s;t into pri&s;on. Verely I &s;ay vnto thee, thou &s;halt not come out thence, tyl thou haue payed the vttermo&s;t farthing.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .vii. Sunday after Trinity Sunday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. vi.</HEAD>
<P>I Speake gro&s;ly, becau&s;e of the infirmity of your fle&s;h. As ye haue geuen your members &s;eruaunts to vnclennes and to iniquity (from one iniquity to another) euen &s;o now geue ouer your members &s;er|uaunts vnto righteou&s;nes, that ye may be &s;anctified, For when ye were &s;eruaunts of &s;yn, ye were voide of righteou&s;nes. What frut had you then in tho&s;e things wherof ye ar now a&s;hamed? for the end of tho&s;e things are death. But now are ye deliuered from &s;yn, and made the &s;eruants of God, and haue your fruite to be &s;ancti|fied, and the end euerla&s;ting life. For the reward of &s;yn is death, but eternall lyfe is the gyft of God, through Ie&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Mark. viii.</HEAD>
<P>IN tho&s;e daies when ther was a very great company and had nothing to eate: Ie&s;us called his di&s;ciples vnto him, and &s;aid vnto them: I haue compa&s;&s;ion on the people, becau&s;e they haue bene now with me three daies, and haue nothing to eate, and if I &s;end them a|way fa&s;ting to theyr owne hou&s;es, they &s;hall faynt by
<PB REF="54"> the way: for diuers of them came from far. And his di&s;|ciples an&s;wered him: where &s;hould a man haue bread here in y^e wildernes, to &s;ati&s;fy the&s;e? And he a&s;ked the~: how many loues haue ye? They &s;aid &s;euen. And he com+maunded the people to &s;yt down on the ground. And he tooke the &s;euen loaues, and whe~ he had geuen thanks, he brake, and gaue to his di&s;ciples to &s;et before them. And they did &s;et them before the people. And they had a few &s;mal fi&s;hes. And when he had ble&s;&s;ed, he co~maun+ded them al&s;o to be &s;et before them. And they did eate, and were &s;uffi&s;ed. And they tooke vp of the broke~ meate that was left &s;euen ba&s;kets full. And they y^t dyd eate, were about foure thou&s;and. And he &s;ent them away.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .viii. Sunday after Trinity Sunday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. viii.</HEAD>
<P>BRethren, we are debters not to the fle&s;h to liue af|ter the fle&s;h. For if ye liue after the fle&s;h ye &s;hal die, but if ye through the &s;pirit do mortify the deedes of the body, ye &s;hall liue. For as many as are led by the &s;pirit of God, they are the &s;ons of God. For ye haue not receiued the &s;pirit of bondage to feare any more, but ye haue receiued the &s;pirit of adoption, wherby ye cry <HI>Ab|ba</HI> father. The &s;ame &s;pirit certifieth our &s;pirit, that we are the &s;onnes of God. If we be &s;onnes, then are we heires: y^e heires I meane of God, and heires annexed with Chri&s;t, if &s;o be that we &s;uffer with him, that we may be glorified together with him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. vii.</HEAD>
<P>BEware of fal&s;e Prophetes, which come to you in &s;hepes clothing, but inwardly they are rauening wolues: Ye &s;hall know them by theyr fruites. Do men gather grapes of thornes, or figs of thi&s;tles? euen
<PB REF="54"> &s;o euery good tree bringeth forth good fruites, but a corrupt tree bringeth foorth euil fruits. A good tree can not bring forth bad fruits, neither can a bad tree bring forth good fruites. Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewen down, and ca&s;t into the fire. Wher+fore by their fruites ye &s;hall know the~. Not euery one y^t &s;aith vnto me, Lord, Lord, &s;hal enter into the kingdom of heauen. but he that doth the will of my father which is in heauen, he &s;hal enter into the kingdom of heauen.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .ix. &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Cor. x.</HEAD>
<P>BRethren, I would not that ye &s;hould be ignoraunt, how that our fathers were all vnder the cloude, and all pa&s;&s;ed through the &s;ea, and were all bapti&s;ed vnder Moy&s;es in the cloud, and in the &s;ea, and did all eate of one &s;pirituall meate, and did all drinke of one &s;piritual drinke. And they dranke all of one &s;piritual Rocke that folowed them, which Rocke was Chri&s;t. But in many of them had God no delight. For they wer ouerthrowe~ in the wildernes. The&s;e are en&s;amples to vs, that we &s;hould not lu&s;t after euyll thinges, as they lu&s;ted. And that ye &s;hould not be wor&s;hippers of images, as were &s;ome of them according as it is written. The people &s;atte downe to eate and drinke, and ro&s;e vp to playe. Neyther let vs be defiled wyth fornication, as &s;ome of them were defiled with fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thou&s;ande. Neyther let vs tempt Chri&s;t as &s;ome of them tempted, and were de&s;troyed of &s;erpentes. Neyther murmur yee, as &s;ome of them murmured, and were de&s;troyed of the De&s;troyer. All the&s;e thinges happened vnto them for en&s;aum|ples: But are wrytten to put vs in remembraunce, whom the endes ot the worlde are come vpon.
<PB REF="55"> Wherfore, let him that thinketh he &s;tandeth take heede lea&s;t he fall. There hath none other temptacion taken you, but &s;uch as folowed the nature of man. But God is faithfull, which &s;hall not &s;uffer you to be tempted aboue your &s;trength: but &s;hall in the midde&s;t of temptacion make away that you may be able to beare it.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xvi.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us &s;aid to his di&s;ciples: There was a certain rich man, which had a &s;teward, and the &s;ame was accu|&s;ed vnto him, that he had wa&s;ted his goodes. And he called him, and &s;aid vnto him: how is it that I heare this of thee? Geue accoumpts of thy Steward&s;hip, for thou maye&s;t be no longer Steward. The Steward &s;ayd within thy &s;elfe: what &s;hall I do? for my mai&s;ter taketh away from me the &s;teward&s;hyp. I cannot dyg, &amp; to beg I am a&s;hamed. I wote what to do, that when I am put out of the &s;teward&s;hip, they may receaue me into theyr hou&s;es. So when he had called all his mai|&s;ters detters together, he &s;ayd vnto the fyr&s;t: how much owe&s;t thou vnto my ma&s;ter? And he &s;aid: an hun|dred tunnes of oyle. And he &s;ayd vnto him take thy byl and &s;it downe quickly, and write fifty. Then &s;ayd he to another: how much owe&s;t thou? and he &s;aid an hundred quarters of wheate. He &s;ayd vnto him: take thy byl and write foure &s;core. And the Lord commended the vniu&s;t &s;teward, becau&s;e he had done wy&s;ely. For the children of this world are in their nation wi&s;er then the childre~ of light. And I &s;ay vnto you: Make you friends of the vnrighteous Mammon, that when ye &s;hall haue nede, they may receiue you into euerla&s;ting habitacions.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .x. Sunday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="55">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Cor. xii.</HEAD>
<P>COncerning &s;pirituall things brethren, I would not haue you ignoraunt. Ye know that ye were Gentils, and went your way vnto dum Images euen as ye were lead. Wherefore I declare vnto you, that no man &s;peaking by the &s;pirit of God, defieth Ie|&s;us. Al&s;o no man can &s;ay that Ie&s;us is the Lord, but by the holy Gho&s;t. Ther are diuer&s;ities of giftes, yet but one &s;pirit. And ther are differences of admini&s;tra|tions, and yet but one Lord. And there are diuers ma|ners of operations, &amp; yet one God, which worketh al in all. The gift of the &s;pirit is geuen to euery man to ede|fy withal. For to one is geuen through the &s;pirite, the vtterance of wy&s;dome: To another is geuen the vtte|rance of knowledge by the &s;ame &s;pirit. To another is geuen fayth by the &s;ame &s;pirit. To another the gift of healyng by the &s;ame &s;pirit. To another power to doo miracles. To another prophecy. To another iudge|ment to di&s;cerne &s;pirites. To another diuers toungs. To another the interpretacion of tounges, by the&s;e all worketh the &s;elfe &s;ame &s;pirite, deuidyng to euerye man a &s;euerall gyft, euen as he wyll.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xix.</HEAD>
<P>ANd when he was come neare to Ieru&s;alem, he be|held the city; &amp; wept on it &s;aying: If thou hadde&s;t knowen tho&s;e thynges which belong vnto thy peace, eue~ in this thy day, thou woulde&s;t take hede. But now are they hid from thine eyes. For the daies &s;hall come vnto thee, y^t thy enemies &s;hal ca&s;t a banke about thee, and compa&s;&s;e thee round, &amp; keepe thee in on euery &s;ide and make thee euen with the ground, and thy children which are in thee. And they &s;hall not leaue in thee one &s;tone vpon another, becau&s;e thou knowe&s;t not y^e tyme
<PB REF="56"> of thy vi&s;itation. And he went into the temple and be|gan to ca&s;t out them that &s;olde therein, and them that bought &s;aying vnto them: It is written, my hou&s;e is the hou&s;e of prayer, but ye haue made it a denne of theeues. And he taught dayly in the temple.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xi. &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Cor. i.</HEAD>
<P>BRethren, as pertayning to the Go&s;pell, which I preached vnto you, which ye haue accepted, &amp; in the which ye continue, by the which ye are al&s;o &s;aued: I do you to weete after what maner I preached vnto you, if ye keepe it, except ye haue beleued in vaine. For fir&s;t of al, I deliuered vnto you that which I receiued, how that Chri&s;t died for our &s;yns agreing to the &s;crip|tures: And y^t he was buried, &amp; that he ro&s;e againe the third day according to the &s;criptures: And that he was &s;ene of Cephas, then of the twelue. After that he was &s;eene of mo the~ fiue hundred brethren at once, of which many remayne vnto this day, and many are fallen a &s;leepe. After that appeared he to Iames, then to all the Apo&s;tels. And la&s;t of all he was &s;eene of me, as of one that was borne out of due time. For I am the lea&s;t of y^e Apo&s;tles, which am not worthy to be called an apo&s;tle, becau&s;e I haue per&s;ecuted the congregation of God. But by the grace of God, I am y^t I am. And his grace which is in me, was not in vayne. But I laboured more abou~dantly then they al, yet not I but the grace of God which is with me. Therfore, whether it were I or they, &s;o we preached, and &s;o ye haue beleued.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xviii.</HEAD>
<P>CHri&s;t told this parable vnto certayne which tru|&s;ted in the~ &s;elues that they wer perfect, &amp; de&s;pi&s;ed
<PB REF="56"> other. Two men went vp into the temple to pray, the one a Phaci&s;ey, &amp; the other a Publican. The Phari&s;ey &s;tood &amp; praied thus with him &s;elfe: God I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extorcioners, vniu&s;t, adulterers, or as this Publican. I fa&s;t twi&s;e in y^e weke, I geue tithe of al y^t I po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e. And the Publican &s;tan|ding a far of, would not lift vp his eyes to heauen, but &s;mot his bre&s;t &s;aying: God be merciful to me a &s;ynner. I tel you this ma~ departed home to his hou&s;e iu&s;tified more then y^e other. For euery man y^t exalteth him&s;elf, &s;halbe brought low, &amp; he y^e humbleth him&s;elf &s;halbe ex|alted.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xii. &s;unday after Trinity.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. ii. Corin. iii.</HEAD>
<P>SVch tru&s;t haue we through Chri&s;t to God ward, not that we are &s;ufficient of our &s;elues to thynke anye thing of our &s;elues, but if we be able vnto any thyng, the &s;ame co~meth of God, which hath made vs able to mini&s;ter the new te&s;tament, not of the letter, but of the &s;pirit. For the letter killeth, but the &s;pirite geueth lyfe. If the mini&s;tration of death through the letters figu|red in &s;tones was glorious, &s;o y^t the children of I&s;rael could not behold the face of Mo&s;es, for the glory of his countenance (which glory is done away:) why &s;hal not the mini&s;tration of the &s;pirit be much more gloryous? For if y^e mini&s;tracion of conde~nation be glorious, much more doth the mini&s;tration of righteou&s;nes exceede in glory.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pel. Mark. vii.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us departed from the coa&s;tes of Tire and Sidon and came vnto the &s;ea of Galile through the myd|de&s;t of the coa&s;tes of the tenne Cyties, and they brought vnto hym one that was deafe, and had an impediment in hys &s;peeche, and they prayed hym to
<PB REF="57"> put his hand vpon hym. And when he had taken him a&s;ide from y^e people, he put his fingers into his eares, &amp; did &s;pit and touched his toung, and looked vp to hea|uen and &s;ighed, and &s;ayd vnto him: Ephata, that is to &s;ay: be opened. And &s;traight way his eares wer opened and the &s;tring of his toung was loo&s;ed, and he &s;pake plaine. And he commaunded them that they &s;hould tell no man. But the more he forbad them, &s;o much the more a great deale they publi&s;hed &s;aying: He hath done althings well, he hath made both the deafe to heare, and the dum to &s;peake.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xiiii &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Gala. iii.</HEAD>
<P>TO Abraham &amp; his &s;eede were the promi&s;es made. He &s;aith not in his &s;eedes as of many: but in thy &s;ede as of one, which is Chri&s;t. This I &s;ay, y^t the law which began afterward, beyonde foure hundred &amp; thirty yeares, doth not di&s;anul the te&s;tament that was confirmed afore of God vnto Chri&s;tward, to make the promi&s;e of none effect. For if the inheritaunce come of the law, it co~meth not now of promi&s;e. But God gaue it to Abraham by promi&s;e. Wherfore then &s;erueth the law? the law was added becau&s;e of tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion (tyll the &s;eede came to whom the promi&s;e was made) and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediatour. A mediatour is not a Mediatour of one, but God is one. Is the law then again&s;t the promi&s;e of God? God for|byd. For if there had bene a law geue~ which could haue geuen lyfe, then do doubte righteou&s;nes &s;hould haue come by the law. But the Scripture concludeth al|thinges vnder &s;yn, that the promi&s;e by the faith of Ie|&s;us Chri&s;t &s;hould be geuen to them that beleue.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<PB REF="57">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. x.</HEAD>
<P>HAppy are the eies which &s;ee the things that ye &s;ee For I tell you that many Prophetes and kinges haue de&s;yred to &s;ee tho&s;e things which ye &s;e, and haue not &s;eene them, and to heare tho&s;e things which ye heare, and haue not heard them. And beholde, a cer|taine Lawyer &s;tood vp and tempted him &s;aying: Mai|&s;ter, what &s;hall I do to enherite eternall lyfe? He &s;ayd vnto him: what is written in the law? How reade&s;t thou? And he an&s;wered and &s;aid: Loue the Lord thy God with all thy hart, and with all thy &s;oule, and with al thy &s;trength, and with all thy mind: and thy neigh|bour as thy &s;elfe. And he &s;aid vnto him: thou ha&s;t aun|&s;wered right. This do, and thou &s;halt liue. But he wil|ling to iu&s;tify him&s;elf, &s;ayd vnto Ie&s;us: and who is my neighbour? Ie&s;us an&s;wered and &s;aid: A certaine man de&s;cended from Ieru&s;alem ro Hiericho, and fel among theeues, which robbed him of his raiment, and woun|ded him and departed, leauing him halfe dead. And it chaunced that there came downe a certaine prie&s;t that &s;ame way, and when he &s;aw him, he pa&s;&s;ed by. And like+wi&s;e a Leuit, when he went nye to the place, came and looked on him, and pa&s;&s;ed by. But a certayne Samari|tan as he iourneied, came vnto him, and when he &s;aw him, he had compa&s;&s;ion on him, and went to him, and bound vp his woundes, and poured in oyle and wyne, and &s;et him on his owne bea&s;t, and brought him to a common Inne, and made proui&s;ion for hym. And on the morow, when he departed he tooke out two penre, &amp; gaue them to the hoa&s;te and &s;ayd vnto him: Take cure of him, and what&s;oeuer thou &s;pende&s;t more when I come againe, I will recompence thee. Which now
<PB REF="58"> of the&s;e three thinke&s;t thou was neighboure vnto him that fell amonge the theeues? And he &s;ayd vnto him: he that &s;hewed mercy on hym. Then &s;ayd Ie&s;us to him: go and do thou likewi&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xiiii. &s;unday after Trinitie Sunday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Galarh. v.</HEAD>
<P><HI>I</HI> Say, walke in the &s;pirite, and fulfill not the lu&s;t of the fle&s;h, for the fle&s;h lu&s;teth contrarye to the &s;piritr, and the &s;pirit contrary to the fle&s;h: the&s;e are contra|ry one to another, &s;o that ye cannot do what &s;o euer ye would. But and if ye be led of the Spirite, then are yee not vnder the law. The deedes of the fle&s;h are manife&s;t, which are the&s;e: adultery, fornication, vn|cleane&s;&s;e, wantonnes, wor&s;hipping of images, witch|crafte, hatred, variaunce, zeale, wrath, &s;tryfe, &s;edici|ons, &s;ectes, enuiynge, murder, dronkennes, glutto|nye, and &s;uch lyke. Of the which I tell you before as I haue told you in tymes pa&s;t, that they which com|mit &s;uch thinges, &s;hall not bee inheritours of the king|dome of God. Contrarily, the fruite of the Spirit is loue, ioye, peace, long&s;uffering, gentlene&s;&s;e, good|nes, faythfulnes, meekenes, temperaunce. Again&s;t &s;uch there is no law. They truly that are Chri&s;tes, haue crucified the fle&s;h with the affections and lu&s;tes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pel. Luke. xvii.</HEAD>
<P>ANd it chaunced as Ie&s;us went to Ieru&s;alem, that he pa&s;&s;ed through Samaria and Galile. And as he entred into a certaine town, there met him ten men that were Lepers, which &s;tood a farre of and put forth their voyces, and &s;ayd: Ie&s;us Mai&s;ter haue
<PB REF="58"> mercy on vs. When he &s;aw them, he &s;ayd vnto them: go &s;hew your &s;elues vnto the Prie&s;tes. And it came to pa&s;&s;e, that as they went they were clean&s;ed. And one of them, when hee &s;aw that hee was clen&s;ed, tur|ned back againe, and wyth a loud voice prai&s;ed God, and fell downe on his face at his feete and gaue him thankes. And the &s;ame was a Samaritane. And Ie&s;us an&s;wered, and &s;aid: are there not ten clen&s;ed? but where are tho&s;e nine? There are not found that returned againe to geue God pray&s;e, &s;aue onely thys Straunger. And he &s;ayd vnto hym: ary&s;e go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xv. Sunday after Trinity Sunday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Gala. iii.</HEAD>
<P>YE &s;ee how large a Letter I haue written to you with mine own hand. As many as de&s;ire with outward appearaunce to plea&s;e carnally, the &s;ame con&s;traine you to be circumci&s;ed onely, lea&s;t they &s;hould &s;uffer per&s;ecution for the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t. For they them &s;elues which are circumci&s;ed, keepe not the law, but de&s;yre to haue you circumci&s;ed, that they might re|ioyce in your fle&s;h. God forbid that I &s;huld reioyce, but in the cro&s;&s;e of our Lord Ie&s;u Chri&s;t, wherby y^e world is crucified vnto me, &amp; I vnto the world. For in Chri&s;t Ie&s;u neither circumci&s;ion auaileth any thing at al, nor vncircumci&s;ion, but a new creature. And as many as walke according vnto this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and vpon I&s;raell that partaineth to God. From hence forth, let no man put me to bu&s;ines: For I beare in my body the markes of the Lord Ie&s;u. Brethren the grace of our lord Ie&s;u Chri&s;t be with your &s;pirit. <HI>Amen</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<PB REF="59">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. vi.</HEAD>
<P>NO man can &s;erue two mai&s;ters: for either he &s;hal hate the one, and loue the other, or els leane to the one, and de&s;pi&s;e the other: yee cannot &s;erue God and Mamon. Therefore I &s;ay vnto you: be not carefull for your lyfe, what ye &s;hall eate or drinke: or yet for your body, what rayment you &s;hall put on. Is not the lyfe more woorth then meate? and the body more of value then raiment? Behold the foules of the ayre, for they &s;ow not, neither do they reape, nor cary into barens: and your heauenly father feedeth them. Are ye not much better then they? Which of you (by taking carefull thought) can adde one cubite vnto hys &s;tature? And why care ye for rayment? Con&s;ider the Lillies of the field how they growe: they labour not, neither do thy &s;pinne. And yet I &s;ay vnto you, that e|uen Salomon in all his roialtye, was not clothed lyke one of the&s;e: Wherefore, if God &s;o cloth the gra&s;&s;e of the field (which though it &s;tand to day, is to morowe ca&s;t into the fornace:) &s;hall he not much more do the &s;ame for you, O ye of little fayth? Therefore take no thought &s;aying: what &s;hall we eate? or what &s;hall we drinke? or where with &s;hall we be cloathed? after all the&s;e things do the Gentiles &s;eeke. For your heauen|lye Father knoweth that ye haue neede of all the&s;e thinges. But rather &s;eeke yee fyr&s;t the kyngdome of God, and the righteou&s;nes therof, and all the&s;e things &s;hall bee mini&s;tred vnto you. Care not then for the mo|rowe, for to morowe day &s;hall care for it &s;elfe, &s;ufficient vnto the day, is the trauaile thereof.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xvi. Sunday after Trinity Sunday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Ephe. iii.</HEAD>
<PB REF="59">
<P><HI>I</HI> De&s;ire that you faynt not becau&s;e of my tribulati|ons that I &s;uffer for your &s;akes, which is your pray&s;e. For thys cau&s;e I bowe my knees vnto the Father of our lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, which is Father of al that is called Father in heauen and in earth, that he would graunt you according to the ritches of his glo|ry, that ye may be &s;trengthned with might by his &s;pi|rit in the inner man, that Chri&s;t may dwell in your hartes by fayth, that ye being rooted and grounded in loue, might be able to comprehende with all Saintes, what is the bredth, length, depth and height, and to know the excelle~t loue of the knowledge of Chri&s;t, that ye might be fulfilled with all fulnes, which commeth of God. Vnto hym that is able to do exceding aboun|dantly aboue all that we a&s;ke or thinke, according to the power that worketh in vs, be pray&s;e in the congre|gacion by Chri&s;t Ie&s;us throughout all generations from time to time. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. vii.</HEAD>
<P>ANd it fortuned that Ie&s;us went into a city cal|led Naim, and many of his di&s;ciples went with him, and much people. When he came nye to the gate of the City: behold there was a man caried out which was the onely Sonne of his mother, and &s;he was a widow, and much people of the City was with her. And when the Lord &s;aw her, he had compa&s;&s;ion on her, and &s;ayd vnto her: weepe not. And he came nie and touched the coffin, and they that bare him &s;tood &s;till. And he &s;ayde: yong man I &s;ay vnto thee, ari&s;e. And hee that was dead &s;at vp, and began to &s;peake. And he deliuered him to his mother. And there came a feare on them all. And they gaue the glory vnto God,
<PB REF="60"> &s;aying: a great Prophet is ri&s;en vp amonge vs, and God hath vi&s;ited his people. And this rumour of him went foorth throughout all Iewry and throughout all the regions which lye rounde about.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xvii. &s;unday after Trinitie Sunday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Ephc. iiii.</HEAD>
<P><HI>I</HI> (Which am a pri&s;oner of the Lordes) exhort you, that ye walke woorthy of the vocation wherwith ye are called, with all lowlynes and meekenes, with humblenes of mind, forbearing one another through loue, and be diligent to keepe the vnity of the &s;pirit through the bond of peace, being one body and Spi|rite, euen as ye are called in one hope of your calling. Let there be but one Lord, one fayth, one Bapti&s;me, one God and Father of all, which is aboue all, and through all, and in you all.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke. xiiii.</HEAD>
<P>IT chaunced that Ie&s;us went into the hou&s;e of one of the chiefe Phari&s;es to eate breade on the Sab|both day: and they watched him. And behold there was a certaine man before him which had the drop&s;y. And Ie&s;us aun&s;wered &amp; &s;pake vnto the Lawiers and Phari&s;eis, &s;aying: is it lawfull to heale on the Sab|both day? And they helde their peace. And he tooke hym and healed him, and let him goe, and an&s;wered them &s;aying: which of you &s;hal haue an a&s;&s;e or an Oxe fallen into a pyt, and wyll not &s;traight way pull him out on the Sabboth day? And they could not aun&s;wer him againe to the&s;e thinges. He put forth al&s;o a &s;imi|litude to the gea&s;tes, when he marked how they prea|&s;ed to be in the highe&s;t roumes, and &s;ayd vnto them:
<PB REF="60"> When thou art bidden to a wedding of any man, &s;yt not down in the hie&s;t roume, lea&s;t a more honourable man then thou be bidden of hym, and he (that had him and thee) come and &s;ay to thee: geue thys man roume&punc; and thou begyn with &s;hame to take the lowe&s;t roume. But rather when thou art bidden, go and &s;it in the lo|we&s;t roume, that when he that bad thee, commeth, he may &s;ay vnto thee: friend, &s;yt vp higher. Then &s;halt thou haue wor&s;hip in the pre&s;ence of them that &s;yt at meate with thee. For who&s;oeuer exalteth hym &s;elfe, &s;halbe brought low, and he that humbleth hym &s;elfe, &s;halbe exalted.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xviii. &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. i. Cor. iii.</HEAD>
<P><HI>I</HI> Thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe for the grace of God which is geuen you by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, that in all thinges ye are made rytche by hym in all vtteraunce, and in all knowledge: by the which things the te&s;timony of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t was confyrmed in you: &s;o that yee are behind in no gyft, wayting for the ap|pearing of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, which &s;hall al&s;o &s;trength you to the ende, that you maye be blame|les in the daye of the comming of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xvi.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the Phari&s;eis had heard that Ie&s;us did put the Saduces to &s;cilence, they came toge|ther: and one of them (which was a doctor of law) a&s;ked him a que&s;tion, tempting hym and &s;aying: Mai&s;ter, which is the greate&s;t commaunde|ment
<PB REF="61"> in the law? Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto him. Thou &s;halt loue thy Lord God with all thy hart, and with all thy &s;oule, and with al thy mind. This is the fyr&s;t and grea|te&s;t commaundement: And the &s;econd is like vnto it. Thou &s;halt loue thy neighbour as thy &s;elfe. In the&s;e two commaundements hang all the law and the Pro|phetes. While the Phari&s;es gathered together, Ie&s;us a&s;ked them &s;aying: what thinke ye of Chri&s;t, who&s;e &s;onne is he? They &s;aid vnto him: the Sonne of Da|uid. He &s;ayd vnto them: how then doth Dauid in &s;pi|rite call hym lord &s;aying: The Lord &s;aid vnto my Lord &s;it thou on my right hand till I make thine ennemies thy foote&s;toole: If Dauid then call him Lord, how is he then his Sonne? And no man was able to an&s;wer him any thing, neither dur&s;t any man (from that day foorth) a&s;ke hym any mo que&s;tions.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xix. &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Ephe. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>THis I &s;ay and te&s;tify through the Lord, that ye hence forth walke not as other Gentiles walke, in vanity of their mind, while thei ar blinded in their vnder&s;tanding, being far fro~ a godly life, by the meanes of the ignorance that is in them, &amp; becau&s;e of the blind|nes of their hartes, which being pa&s;t repentance, haue geuen the~ &s;elues ouer vnto wanto~nes, to worke al ma|ner of vnclennes, eue~ with gredines. But ye haue not &s;o learned Chri&s;t, if &s;o be that ye haue heard of him, &amp; haue bene taught in him, as the truth is in Ie&s;u (as concerning the conuer&s;acion in times pa&s;t) to lay from you the old man, which is corrupt, according to the de|ceiuable lu&s;ts. To be renued al&s;o in the &s;pirit of your mind, and to put on that new man, which after God is
<PB REF="61"> &s;hapen in righteou&s;nes and true holynes. Wherfore put away lying, and &s;peake euery man truth vnto his neighbour, fora&s;much as we are members one of ano|ther. Be angry and &s;ynne not. Let not the &s;unne go down vpon your wrath, neither geue place to the back biter. Let hym that &s;tole, &s;teale no more: but let him rather labour wyth hys handes the thinge whych is good, that he may geue hym that needeth. Let not fylthye communication proceede out of your mouth. But that which is good to edefy with all, as oft as neede is, that it may mini&s;ter grace vnto the hearers, and greue not the holy &s;pirit of God, by whom ye are &s;ealed vnto the day of redemption. Let all bitternes, &amp; fearcenes, and wrath, and roaring, and cur&s;ed &s;pea|king, be put away from you, with all malicyou&s;nes. Be ye courteous one to another, mercyfull, forgeuing one another, euen as God for Chri&s;tes &s;ake hath for|geuen you.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. vii.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us entred into a &s;hyp and pa&s;&s;ed ouer, and came into hys owne City: And beholde they brought to him a man &s;ycke of the Paul&s;ey, lying in a bedde. And when Ie&s;us &s;aw the faith of them, he &s;aid to the &s;ycke of the Paul&s;ey: Sonne be of good chere, thy &s;ynnes be forgeuen thee. And behold, certaine of the Scrybes &s;ayd within them &s;elues: this man bla&s;phe|meth. And when Ie&s;us &s;aw their thoughts he &s;ayd, wherefore thinke you euill in your harts? whether is it ea&s;yer to &s;ay, thy &s;ynnes be forgeuen thee, or to &s;ay, ari&s;e and walke? But that ye may know that the &s;on of man hath power to forgeue &s;ynnes in earth. Then &s;ayth hee to the &s;icke of the Pal&s;ey: Ari&s;e, take vp thy
<PB REF="62"> bed and go vnto thine hou&s;e. And he aro&s;e and depar|ted to his hou&s;e: But the people that &s;aw it, maruey|led, and gloryfied God, which hath geuen &s;uch power vnto men.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xx. Sunday after Trinity Sunday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Ephe. v.</HEAD>
<P>TAke heede therefore how ye walke circum&s;pectly: not as vnwi&s;e, but as wi&s;e men redeeming the time, becau&s;e the dayes are euill. Wherfore, be ye not vnwi&s;e but vnder&s;tand what the will of the Lord is, and be not dronken with wyne, wherein is exce&s;&s;e. But bee ye fylled with the &s;pirite, &s;peaking vnto your &s;elues in P&s;almes and Himnes, and &s;pirituall &s;ongs, &s;ynging and making melody to the Lorde in your hartes, geuing thankes alwayes for all thinges vn|to God the Father in the name of our Lord Ie|&s;us Chri&s;t: &s;ubmitting your &s;elues one to another in the feare of God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xx.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us &s;ayd to hys Di&s;ciples. The kingdome of heauen is lyke vnto a man that was a king which made a mariage for hys &s;onne, and &s;ent foorth hys &s;eruauntes to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come. Againe hee &s;ent foorth other &s;eruauntes, &s;aying: Tell them which are bidden, behold I haue prepared my dinner, myne Oxen and my fatlinges are killed, and althings ar ready, come vnto the mariage. But they made light of it, &amp; went their waies: One to his farme place, ano|ther to his marchaundi&s;e, and the other <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">oke his &s;er|uants, and intreated them &s;hamefully, and &s;lew them.
<PB REF="62"> But when the kyng heard thereof, he was wroth, and &s;ent forth hys men of warre, and de&s;troyed tho&s;e mur|therers, and brent vp theyr City. Then &s;ayd he to his &s;eruauntes: The mariage in deede is prepared, but they which wer bidden, were not worthy. Go ye ther|fore out into the hye wayes, and as many as ye fynde, byd them to the Mariage. And the &s;eruauntes went foorth into the hye wayes, and gathered together all, as many as they could fynde, both good and bad. And the weddyng was furni&s;hed with ge&s;tes. Then the kyng came in to &s;ee the ge&s;tes, and when he &s;pyed ther a man which had not on a wedding garment, he &s;ayde vnto hym: Friende, how camme&s;t thou in hether, not hauing a wedding garment? And he was euen &s;pech|les. Then &s;ayde the kyng to the mini&s;ters: Take and bynde hym hand &amp; foote, and ca&s;t hym into vtter dark|nes, there &s;hall be weeping and gna&s;hing of teeth. For many are called, but few be cho&s;en.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xxi. &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Ephe. vi.</HEAD>
<P>MY brethren, be &s;trong through the Lord, &amp; tho|row the power of his myght. Put on all the ar|mour of God, that ye may &s;tand agayn&s;t all the a&s;&s;aultes of the Deuyll. For we wre&s;tle not agayn&s;t bloud and fle&s;he, but agayn&s;t rule, agayn&s;t power, a|gain&s;t worldly rulers, euen gouernors of the darknes of this world, agayn&s;t &s;pirituall craftynes in heauenly thinges. Wherfore take vnto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to re&s;i&s;t in the euyll day, and &s;tand perfect in althinges. Stand therfore and your loines gyrt with the truth, hauing on the bre&s;t plate of righteou&s;nes, &amp; hauing &s;hoes on you feete, y^t ye may be
<PB REF="63"> prepared for the Go&s;pel of peace. Aboue all take to you the &s;hield of fayth, wherewith ye may quentch all the firy dartes of the wicked. And take the helmet of &s;al|uation, and the &s;word of the &s;pirit, which is the woord of God. And pray alwaies with al maner of praier and &s;upplication in the &s;pirit, and watch therunto with all in&s;taunce and &s;upplications for all Sayntes, and for me, that vtterance may be geuen vnto me, that I may open my mouth freely to vtter the &s;ecretes of my Go&s;|pel (wherof I am a me&s;&s;enger in bondes) that therein I may &s;peake freely as I ought to &s;peake.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pel. Iohn. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>THere was a certayne Ruler, who&s;e &s;onne was &s;icke at Capernaum, a&s;&s;oone as the &s;ame heard that Ie&s;us was come out of Iewry into Galile, hee went vnto hym, and be&s;ought hym that he would come downe and heale his &s;onne: for he was euen at the poynt of death. Then &s;ayd Ie&s;us vnto him: except ye &s;ee &s;ignes and wonders, ye wyl not beleue. The ru|ler &s;ayd vnto him: Syr, come downe or euer that my &s;onne dye. Ie&s;us &s;aid vnto him: go thy way thy &s;onne lyueth. The man beleued the woord that Ie&s;us had &s;poken vnto hym. And he went hys way, and as hee was going downe, the &s;eruauntes met hym, and told hym &s;aying: thy &s;onne lyueth. Then enquired hee of them the houre when he began to amende. And they &s;ayd vnto him: ye&s;terday at the &s;euenth houre the fe|uer left him. So the father knew that it was the &s;ame houre, in the which Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto him: Thy &s;onne lyueth. And he beleued, and all his hou&s;hold. This is agayne the &s;econde myracle that Ie&s;us dyd when hee was come out of Iewry into Galile.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<PB REF="63">
<HEAD>&para;The .xxiii. &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Phi. i.</HEAD>
<P><HI>I</HI> Thanke my God with all remembraunce of you al|waies in all my praiers for you, and pray with glad|nes. Becau&s;e ye are come into the felow&s;hip of the Go&s;pell, from the fyr&s;t day vntill now. And am &s;urely certified of this, that hee which hath begone a good woorke in you, &s;hall performe it vntill the day of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, as it becommeth me that I &s;hould &s;o iudge of you all, becau&s;e I haue you in my hart: for &s;omuch as ye are all companions of grace with me, euen in my bonds and in the defending and e&s;tabli&s;hing of the go&s;|pell: for God is my record how greatly I longe after you all, from the verye hart roote in Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. And thys I praye, that your loue may encrea&s;e yet more &amp; more in knowledge, and in all vnder&s;tanding, that ye may accept the thinges that are mo&s;t excellent, that ye may be pure, and &s;uch as offend no man, vntyll the day of Chri&s;t, being fylled with the fruit of righte|ou&s;nes, which commeth by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t vnto the glo|ry and pray&s;e of God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xviii.</HEAD>
<P>PEter &s;ayd vnto Ie&s;us: Lord, how ofte &s;hall I for|geue my brother, if he &s;ynne again&s;t me, til &s;euen times? Ie&s;us &s;aith vnto him: I &s;ay not vnto thee vntill &s;euen tymes, but &s;euenty tymes &s;euen tymes. Therefore is the kingdome of heauen likened vnto a certaine man that was a king, which would take ac|coumptes of his &s;eruaunts. And when he had begon to recken, one was brought vnto hym which oughte
<PB REF="64"> him tenne thou&s;ande talentes: but fora&s;much as hee was not able to pay, his Lord commaunded him to be &s;olde, and hys wyfe and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The &s;eruaunt fell downe, and be&s;ought hym &s;aying: Syr haue pacience wyth me, and I wyll pay thee all. Then had the Lord pity on that &s;eruaunt, and loo&s;ed hym, and forgaue hym the debt. So the &s;ame &s;eruaunt went out, and found one of hys fellowes whych ought hym an hundred pence, and he layde handes on hym, and tooke hym by the throte, &s;aying: paye that thou owe&s;t. And hys fel|low fell downe and be&s;ought hym, &s;aying: haue paci|ence with me, and I wyll pay thee all. And he would not, but went and ca&s;t him into pry&s;on, tyll hee &s;hould pay the debt. So when hys fellowes &s;aw what was done, they were verye &s;orye, and came and tolde vnto theyr Lorde all that had happened. Then the Lorde called hym, and &s;ayde vnto hym: O thou vngracious &s;eruaunt, I forgaue thee all that debt when thou de|&s;yred&s;t me: &s;houlde&s;t not thou al&s;o haue had compa&s;&s;i|on on thy fellowe, euen as I had pitye on thee? And hys Lord was wrothe, and delyuered hym to the Iai|lers, tyll hee &s;houlde paye all that was due vnto hym. So lykewy&s;e &s;hall my heauenly Father doo al&s;o vnto you, if ye from your hartes forgeue not (euery one his brother) their tre&s;pa&s;&s;es.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xxiii. &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Philip. iii.</HEAD>
<P>BRethren, be followers together of me, and looke on them whych walke euen &s;o as ye haue vs for
<PB REF="64"> an en&s;ample. For many walke, of whom I haue told you often, and now tell you weeping, that they are the enemies of the cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, who&s;e ende is damna|tion, who&s;e belly is their God, &amp; glory to their &s;hame, which are worldly mynded. But our conuer&s;ation is in heauen, from whence we looke for the &s;auiour, euen the Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, which &s;hall chaunge our vyle body, that he may make it lyke vnto hys gloryous bo|dy, according to the working, whereby he is able al&s;o to &s;ubdue all thinges vnto hym &s;elfe.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xxii.</HEAD>
<P>THen the Phari&s;ies went out, and tooke coun&s;ayl how they might tangle hym in his wordes. And they &s;ent out vnto hym their di&s;ciples wyth He|rodes Seruauntes &s;aying: May&s;ter, wee knowe that thou art true, and teache&s;t the way of God truly, ney|ther care&s;t thou for anye man, for thou regarde&s;t not the outwarde appearaunce of men: Tell vs therefore how thinke&s;t thou, is it lawfull that tribute be geuen vnto Cea&s;ar, or not? But Ie&s;us perceyuing theyr wickednes, &s;ayde: Why tempt ye me you hipocrites? &s;hew me the tribute money. And they tooke hym a pe|ny. And he &s;ayd vnto them: who&s;e is this image and &s;uper&s;cription? They &s;ayd vnto hym Cea&s;ars. Then &s;ayd hee vnto them: geue therefore vnto Cea&s;ar, the things which are Ce&s;ars: and vnto God tho&s;e things which are Gods. When they heard the&s;e words, they marueiled and left hym, and went theyr way.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xxiiii. &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="65">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Colo&s;. i.</HEAD>
<P>WE geue thankes to God the father of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t alwaies for you in our prayers, for we haue heard of your fayth in Chri&s;t Ie|&s;u, and of the loue which ye beare to all Sayntes, for the hopes &s;ake which is layd vp in &s;tore for you in hea|uen: Of which hope ye heard before by the true word of the Go&s;pell, which is come vnto you, euen as it is fruitfull, and groweth, as it is al&s;o among you, from the day in the which ye heard of it, and had experience in the grace of God through the truth, as ye learned of Epaphra our deare fellowe &s;eruaunt, whych is for you a faythfull Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t, which al&s;o declared vnto vs your loue which ye haue in the &s;pirit. For this cau&s;e we al&s;o, euer &s;ynce the day we heard of it, haue not cea&s;ed to pray for you, and to de&s;ire that ye might be fulfilled with the knowledge of hys wyl, in all wy&s;|dome and &s;pirituall vnder&s;tandyng, that ye myght walke woorthye of the Lorde, that in all thynges ye may plea&s;e, beyng fruitfull in all good workes, and in|crea&s;ing in the knowledge of God, &s;trengthened with all might through his gloryous power, vnto all paci|ence &amp; long &s;uffering with ioyfulnes, geuing thankes vnto the Father which hath made vs meete to be par|takers of the inheritance of Saintes in light.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. ix.</HEAD>
<P>WHen Ie&s;us &s;pake vnto the people, behold ther came a certaine Ruler, and wor&s;hipped hym &s;aying: My daughter is euen now decea&s;ed, but come and lay thy hand vpon her, and &s;he &s;hal lyue. And Ie&s;us aro&s;e and followed hym, and &s;o dyd hys
<PB REF="65"> Di&s;ciples. And behold, a woman which was di&s;ea&s;ed with an i&s;&s;ue of blond twelue yeres, came behind him, and touched the hem of his ve&s;ture. For &s;he &s;ayd with|in her&s;elfe: If I may touch but euen his ve&s;ture onely, I &s;hall be &s;afe. But Ie&s;us turned him about, and when he &s;aw her, he &s;ayd: daughter, be of good comfort, thy fayth hath made thee &s;afe. And the woman was made whole euen the &s;ame tyme. And when Ie&s;us came into the rulers hou&s;e, and &s;aw the Min&s;trels and people making a noy&s;e, he &s;ayd vnto them: get you hence, for the maid is not dead but &s;leepeth. And they laughed him to &s;corne. But when the people were put foorth, he went in, and tooke her by the hand, and &s;ayd damo&s;ell ary&s;e. And the damo&s;ell aro&s;e. And this noy&s;e went abrode into all that land.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The .xxv. &s;unday after Trinity &s;unday.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Iere. xxiii.</HEAD>
<P>BEhold the time commeth, &s;ayth the Lord, that I wyll ray&s;e vp the righteous braunch of Dauid, which Kyng &s;hall beare rule, and he &s;hall pro&s;per with wi&s;edome, and &s;hall &s;et vp equity and righteou&s;|nes againe in earth. In his time &s;hall Iuda be &s;aued, and I&s;raell &s;hall dwell without feare. And thys is the name that they &s;hall call him, euen the Lord our righ|teou&s;nes: and therefore behold, the tyme commeth &s;ayth the Lord, that it &s;hal be no more &s;ayd, the Lord lyueth which brought the children of I&s;raell out of the land of Egypt: But the Lord liueth which brought foorth and lead the &s;eede of the hou&s;e of I&s;raell out of the North land, and from all countries where I haue &s;cattered them, and they &s;hall dwell in their own land agayne.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<PB REF="66">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. vi.</HEAD>
<P>WHen Ie&s;us lyft vp his eyes, and &s;aw a great company come vnto him, he &s;ayd vnto Philip: whe~ce &s;hal we buy bread that the&s;e may eate? This he &s;aid to proue him, for he him&s;elfe knew what he would do. Philip aun&s;wered hym: two hundreth peniworth of bread are not &s;ufficient for them, that e|uery man may take a little. One of his di&s;ciples (An|drewe, Simon Peters brother) &s;ayd vnto him: There is a lad here, which hath fiue barly loaues and two fi|&s;hes: but what are they among &s;o many? And Ie&s;us &s;ayd make the people &s;it down. There was much gras in the place. So the men &s;at downe in number about fyue thou&s;and. And Ie&s;us tooke the breade, and when he had geuen thankes, he gaue to the di&s;ciples, and the di&s;ciples to them that were &s;et downe. And likewi&s;e of the fi&s;hes as much as they would. When they had ea|ten inough, he &s;ayd vnto his di&s;ciples: Gather vp the broken meate which remayneth, that nothing be lo&s;t. And they gathered it together, and fylled twelue ba&s;|kets with the broken meate of the fyue barely loues, which broken meate remained vnto them that had ea|ten. Then tho&s;e men (when they had &s;eene the miracle that Ie&s;us did) &s;ayd: thys is of a truth the &s;ame Pro|phet that &s;hould come into the world.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saint Andrew the Apo&s;tles day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Roma. x.</HEAD>
<P>IF thou knowledge with thy mouth that Ie&s;us is the Lord&punc; &amp; beleue in thy hart that God rai&s;ed him vp from death, thou &s;halt be &s;afe. For to beleue with the hart iu&s;tifieth, &amp; to knowledge with the mouth, ma|keth a man &s;afe. For the &s;cripture &s;aith: who&s;oeuer be|leueth
<PB REF="66"> on him, &s;hal not be confounded. There is no dif|ference betwene the Iewe and the Gentile. For one is Lord of al, which is ritch vnto al that cal vpon him. For who&s;oeuer doth cal on the name of the lord, &s;halbe &s;afe. How then &s;hal they cal on him, on whom they haue not beleued? How &s;hal thei beleue on him on who~ thei haue not hearde? How &s;hall they heare without a Preacher? And how &s;hall they preache except they be &s;ent? As it is wrytten: how beautifull are the feete of them which bring tydinges of peace, and bring tidinges of good things? But they haue not al obeyed to the go&s;pell. For E&s;ay &s;aith: Lord who hath beleued our &s;ayings? So then fayth commeth by hearing, and hearing co~meth by the word of God. But I a&s;ke: haue they not heard? No doubt their &s;ound went out into al lands, and their words into the ends of the world. But I demau~d whe|ther I&s;rael did know or not. Fir&s;t Moy&s;es &s;aith: I wil prouoke you to enuy, by the~ that are no people, by a foo|li&s;h nation I wyll anger you. E&s;ay after that is bold &amp; faith: I am fou~d of them y^t &s;ought me not. I am mani|fe&s;t vnto them y^t a&s;ked not after me, but again&s;t I&s;rael he &s;aith: Al day long haue I &s;tretched forth my hands to a people that beleueth not, but &s;peaketh again&s;t me.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>AS Ie&s;us walked by y^e &s;ea of Galile, he &s;aw two bre+thren: Simon which was called Peter &amp; Andrew his brother, ca&s;ting a net into the &s;ea (for they were fi&s;|&s;hers) &amp; he &s;aith vnto the~: folow me, &amp; I will make you to become fi&s;hers of men. And they &s;trait way left their nets and folowed him. And when he was gone foorth from thence, he &s;aw other two brethren, Iames the &s;onne of Zebede, and Iohn hys brother, in the &s;hip
<PB REF="67"> with Zebede theyr father mending their nettes, and he called them. And they immediatly left the &s;hip and theyr father, and folowed him.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saint Thomas Apo&s;tles day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Ephe. ii.</HEAD>
<P>NOw ye are not &s;traungers nor foreners, but cite|zens with the &s;ayntes, and of the hou&s;holde of God: and are buylt vpon the foundation of the Apo&s;tles and Prophets, Ie&s;us Chri&s;t him&s;elfe being the head corner &s;tone: in whom what bulding &s;oeuer is coupeled together, it groweth vnto an holy temple of the Lord: in whom al&s;o ye are builte together to be an habitacion of God through the holy Gho&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xx.</HEAD>
<P>THomas one of the twelue, which is called Didi|mus, was not with them when Ie&s;us came. The other di&s;ciples therefore &s;aid vnto him: we haue &s;eene the Lord. But he &s;ayd vnto them: except I &s;ee in his handes the print of the nailes, and put my finger into the print of the nailes, and thru&s;t my hand into his &s;yde, I wyl not beleue. And after eight dayes againe his Di&s;ciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Ie&s;us when the doores were &s;hut, and &s;tood in the midde&s;t and &s;ayd: peace be vnto you. And after that he &s;ayd to Thomas: bring thy fynger hither, and &s;ee my handes, and reach thy hand and thru&s;t it into my &s;yde, and be not faithles, but bele|uing. Thomas aun&s;wered and &s;ayd vnto hym: my Lord and my God, Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto hym: Thomas, becau&s;e thou ha&s;t &s;eene me, thou ha&s;t beleued: ble&s;&s;ed are they that haue not &s;eene and yet haue beleued. And many other &s;ignes trulye did Ie&s;us in the pre&s;ence of
<PB REF="67"> his di&s;iples, which are not writte~ in this booke. The&s;e are written that ye might beleue that Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is the &s;onne of God, and that (in beleuing) ye might haue lyfe through his name.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Conuertion of Saynt Paule.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. ix.</HEAD>
<P>ANd Saule yet breathing out threatnings and &s;laughter again&s;t the di&s;ciples of the Lord: went vnto the high Prie&s;t, and de&s;ired of him letters to cary to Dama&s;co to the Sinagoges: that if he found any of thys way (were they men or women) he might bring the~ bound to Ieru&s;alem. And when he iournied, it fortuned y^t as he was come nigh to Dama&s;co, &s;oden|ly there &s;hined round about him a lyght from heauen, &amp; he fell to the earth, &amp; herd a voyce &s;aying to him: Saul Saul why per&s;ecute&s;t thou me? And he &s;ayd: what art thou Lorde? And the Lord &s;ayd: I am Ie&s;us whom thou per&s;ecute&s;t. It is hard for thee to kicke again&s;t the pricke. And he both trembling and a&s;tonied, &s;aid: Lord what wylt thou haue me to do? And the lord &s;ayd vnto him ary&s;e and go into the City, and it &s;halbe told thee what thou mu&s;t do. The men which iourneyed with hym &s;tood ama&s;ed, hearing a voyce, but &s;eeing no man. And Saule aro&s;e from the earth, and when he opened his eyes, he &s;aw no man. But they led him by the hand, and brought him into Dama&s;co. And he was three dayes without &s;ight, and neither did eate nor drinke. And there was a certaine di&s;ciple at Dama&s;co, named Ananias, and to him &s;ayd the Lord in a vi&s;ion: Anani|as, &amp; he &s;ayd behold, I am here Lord. And the Lord &s;ayd vnto him: ari&s;e &amp; go into the &s;treete which is cal|led &s;treight: &amp; &s;eeke in the hou&s;e of Iudas after one
<PB REF="68"> called Saul of Thar&s;us. For behold he praieth, &amp; hath &s;ene in a vi&s;ion a man named Ananias, comming vnto him, and putting his handes on him, that he might re|ceiue his &s;yght. Then Ananias aun&s;wered: Lord, I haue heard by many of this man, howe much euyll he hath done to thy Saints at Ieru&s;alem: &amp; here he hath authority of the hye Prie&s;ts to binde all that cal on thy name. The Lord &s;aid vnto him: go thy way, for he is a cho&s;en ve&s;&s;ell vnto me, to beare my name before the Gentiles &amp; kings, and the childre~ of I&s;rael. For I wyl &s;hew hym how great thynges hee mu&s;t &s;uffer for my names &s;ake. And Ananias went his way, &amp; entred in|to the hou&s;e, and put his handes on him, &amp; &s;ayd: Bro|ther Saul, the Lord that appeared vnto thee in y^e way as thou ca~me&s;t, hath &s;ent me that thou mighte&s;t receue thy &s;ight, &amp; be filled with the holy Gho&s;t. And immedi|atly ther fel from his eyes as it had bene &s;cales, and he receiued &s;yght, &amp; aro&s;e, and was bapti&s;ed, &amp; receiued meate, and was comforted. Then was Saul a certain dayes wyth the Di&s;ciples whych were at Dama&s;co. And &s;traightway he preached Chri&s;t in the Sinagogs how that he was the &s;onne of God. But all that heard him wer ama&s;ed and &s;aid: Is not this he that &s;poyled them which called on this name in Ieru&s;alem, &amp; came hether for that intent that he might bring them bound vnto the hye Prie&s;tes? But Saul encrea&s;ed the more in &s;trength, and confounded the Iewes which dwelt at Dama&s;co, affirming that this was very Chri&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xix.</HEAD>
<P>PEter an&s;wered and &s;ayd vnto Ie&s;us: Behold, we haue for&s;aken all and folowed thee, what &s;hall we haue therfore? Ie&s;us &s;ayde vnto them: Verely I
<PB REF="68"> &s;ay vnto you, that when the &s;onne of man &s;hal &s;yt in y^e &s;eate of his Maie&s;tye, ye that haue folowed me in the regeneration, &s;hal &s;yt al&s;o vpon .xij. &s;eates, &amp; iudge the twelue tribes of I&s;rael. And euery one that for&s;aketh hou&s;e, or brethren, or &s;y&s;ters, or Father or Mother, or wife or children, or landes for my names &s;ake, &s;hall re|ceiue an hundred fold, &amp; &s;hall inherite euerla&s;ting lyfe. But many that ar fir&s;t, &s;halbe la&s;t, &amp; the la&s;t &s;halbe fir&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Purification of the virgin Mary.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Mala. iii.</HEAD>
<P>BEhold I &s;end my Me&s;&s;enger which &s;hall prepare the way before me, and &s;odaynlye &s;hall the Lord who~ ye &s;eeke come vnto his temple, &amp; the me&s;&s;en|ger of the couenant whom ye de&s;ire. Behold he co~meth &s;aith the Lord of Saboth: Who &s;hall endure in y^e day of his co~ming, or who &s;hal &s;tand to behold him? For he is as a trying fire, &amp; as the herbe that Fullers &s;coure withal, and he &s;hal &s;yt trying &amp; purging &s;iluer, and &s;hal purify the &s;onnes of Leuy, and &s;hal fine them as gold &amp; &s;yluer, and they &s;hal bring offerings vnto the Lord of ryghteou&s;nes, and the Sacrifice of Iuda and Ieru&s;a|lem &s;hall be delicious vnto the Lord, as in the old time and in the yeares that were in the beginning.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke ii.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the time of their purification (after the law of Moy&s;es) was come, they brought him to Ieru&s;a|lem to pre&s;ent him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord: Euery Manchilde that fir&s;t openeth the Matrix, &s;hal be called holy to the Lord,) &amp; to offer (as it is &s;ayd in the law of the Lord) a paire of Turtle doues, or .ii. yong Pigeons. And behold ther was a ma~ in Ieru&s;ale~, who&s;e name was Simeon. And the &s;ame man was iu&s;t &amp; godly, and looked for the con&s;olation of
<PB REF="69"> I&s;rael, and the holy gho&s;t, was in him. And an an&s;wer had he receiued of the holy Gho&s;t, that he &s;hould not &s;ee death, except he fyr&s;t &s;aw the Lord Chri&s;t. And he came by in&s;piration into the temple.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saynt Mathies day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. i.</HEAD>
<P>IN tho&s;e dayes Peter &s;tood vp in the mid&s;t of the di&s;|ciples and &s;ayd: the number of names that were to|gether, were about an hundred and twenty. Ye men and brethren, the &s;cripture mu&s;t needes haue bene ful|filled, which the holy gho&s;t, through the mouth of Da|uid &s;pake before of Iudas, which was guide to them that tooke Ie&s;us. For he was nombred with vs, and had obtayned felow&s;hip in this Mini&s;tration. And the &s;ame hath now po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed a plot of ground, with the re|ward of iniquity: &amp; when he was hanged, he bur&s;t a &s;under in the midde&s;t, and his bowels gu&s;hed out. And it was knowen vnto all the inhabiters of Hieru&s;alem: in &s;o much that the &s;ame fielde is called in their mother tounge, Acheldema, that is to &s;ay: the bloudy fielde. For it is written in the booke of P&s;almes: his habitation be voyd, &amp; no man be dwelling therein, and his bi&s;hop|ricke let another take. Wherefore, of the&s;e men which haue companied with vs (al the time that the Lord Ie+&s;us had all his conuer&s;ation among vs, beginning at y^e Bapti&s;me of Iohn vnto y^e &s;ame day that he was taken vp from vs) mu&s;t one be ordeined to be a witnes with vs of his re&s;urrection. And they appointed two, Io&s;eph which is called Bar&s;abas who&s;e &s;irname was Iu&s;tus and Mathias. And when they prayed they &s;ayd. Thou Lord which knowe&s;t the hartes of all men, &s;hew whe|ther of the&s;e two thou ha&s;t cho&s;en, that he may take the
<PB REF="69"> roume of thys Mini&s;tration and Apo&s;tle&s;hyp, from which Iudas by tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion fell, that he might go to his owne place. And they gaue foorth theyr lots, and the lot fell on Mathias, and he was coumpted with the eleuen Apo&s;tles.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xi.</HEAD>
<P>IN that time Ie&s;us an&s;wered and &s;ayd: I thanke thee, O Father, Lord of heauen and earth, becau&s;e thou ha&s;t hyd the&s;e thinges from the wy&s;e and pru|dent, and ha&s;t &s;hewed them vnto babes: Verely Fa|ther, euen &s;o was it thy good plea&s;ure. All things are geuen vnto me of my father. And no man knoweth the Sonne, but the Father, neither knoweth any man the Father, &s;aue the Sonne, and he to whom &s;oeuer the &s;onne will open him. Come vnto me all ye that labour and are laden, and I wyll ea&s;e you. Take my yoke vp|on you, and learne of me, for I am meeke and lowly in hart, and ye &s;hall fynde re&s;t vnto your &s;oules, for my yoke is ea&s;y, and my burden is lyght.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;The Annunciation of the virgin Mary.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. E&s;ay. vii.</HEAD>
<P>GOd &s;pake once again vnto Ahaz &s;aying: require a token of the lord thy God, whether it be toward the depth beneath, or toward the heyght aboue. Then &s;ayd Ahaz: I wyll require none, neyther will I tempt the Lord. And he &s;ayd harken to, ye of the hou&s;e of Dauid, is it not inough for you that ye be greeuous vnto men, but ye mu&s;t greeue my God al&s;o? And ther|fore the Lord &s;hall geue you a token: Behold, a vyrgin &s;hal conceaue &amp; beare a &s;onne, &amp; thou his mother &s;halt cal his name <HI>Emanuel.</HI> Butter &amp; hony &s;hal he eate, that he may know to refu&s;e the euill, and chu&s;e the good.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<PB REF="70">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pel. Luke. i.</HEAD>
<P>ANd in the &s;yxt moneth, the Aungel Gabriell was &s;ent from God vnto a City of Galile, named Na|zareth, to a virgin &s;pou&s;ed to a man who&s;e name was Io&s;eph, of the hou&s;e of Dauid, and the virgins name was Marye. And the Angell went in vnto her and &s;ayd: Hayle full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Ble&s;&s;ed art thou among women. When &s;hee &s;aw him, &s;hee was aba&s;hed at his &s;aying, and ca&s;te in her minde what maner of &s;alutation that &s;hould be. And the An|gell &s;ayd vnto her: feare not Mary, for thou ha&s;t found grace with God. Behold, thou &s;halt conceyue in thy wombe, and beare a Sonne, and &s;halt call hys name Ie&s;us: He &s;halbe great, and &s;halbe called the &s;onne of the highe&s;t. And the Lord God &s;hall geue vnto hym the &s;eate of his Father Dauid, and he &s;hall reigne ouer the hou&s;e of Iacob for euer, and of his kingdome there &s;halbe none ende. Then &s;ayd Mary to the Aungell: How &s;hall this be, &s;eeing I know not a man? And the Angell an&s;wered, &amp; &s;aid vnto her: The holy gho&s;t &s;hal come vpon thee, and the power of the hye&s;t &s;hall ouer|&s;hadow thee. Therfore al&s;o that holy thing which &s;hal be borne, &s;halbe called the &s;on of God. And behold thy Co&s;in Elizabeth, &s;he hath al&s;o conceiued a &s;onne in her age &amp; this is the &s;ixt moneth, which was called baren for with god nothing &s;halbe vnpo&s;&s;ible. And Mary &s;aid behold y^e hand maid of the lord, be it vnto me acording to thy woord. And the Angell departed from her.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saynt Markes day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Ephe. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>VNto euery one of vs is geuen grace, according to the mea&s;ure of the gift of Chri&s;t. Wherefore he
<PB REF="70"> &s;aith when he went vpon hie, he led captiuity captiue, and gaue gifts vnto men. That he a&s;cended, what mea+neth it, but that he al&s;o de&s;cended fir&s;t into the lowe&s;t parts of the earth? He that de&s;cended is euen the &s;ame al&s;o y^t a&s;cended vp aboue al heauens, to fulfil althings. And the very &s;ame made &s;ome Apo&s;tles, &s;ome Pro|phets, &s;ome Euangeli&s;ts, &s;ome &s;hepheards, &amp; teachers to the edifying of the &s;aints, to the worke and admini|&s;tratio~, euen to the edifying of y^e body of Chri&s;t, till we al come to the vnity of the faith &amp; knowledge of the &s;on of God, vnto a perfect man vnto the mea&s;ure of the ful perfect age of Chri&s;t. That we henceforth &s;hould be no more children, wauering &amp; caried about w^t euery wind of doctrin by y^e wilines of me~, through craftines wher+by they lay awayt for vs to deceiue vs. But let vs folow the truth in loue, and in althings grow in him which is the head euen Chri&s;t, in whom if al the body be cou|pled and knit together, throughout euery ioynt, wher|with one mini&s;treth to another (according to the opera+tion, as euery part hath his mea&s;ure) he encrea&s;eth the body, vnto the edifying of it &s;elfe through loue.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xv.</HEAD>
<P><HI>I</HI> Am the true vine, and my father is a hu&s;bandman. Euery braunch that beareth not fruit in me he wyll take away. And euery braunch that beareth fruit wil he purge that it may bring foorth more fruit. Now are ye clean through the words which I haue &s;poke~ vnto you. Bide in me: &amp; I in you. As the brau~ch cannot beare fruit of it &s;elf except it bide in y^e vine: no more can ye ex|cept ye abide in me. I am y^e vine, ye are y^e braunches, he that abideth in me, &amp; I in him, y^e &s;ame bringeth foorth much fruit. For w^tout me ca~ ye do nothing. If a ma~ bide
<PB REF="71"> not in me, he is ca&s;t foorth as a braunch, &amp; is withered And men gather the~, and ca&s;t them into the fire, &amp; they burn. If ye abide in me, &amp; my words abide in you, a&s;ke what ye wil, and it &s;hal be don for you. Herein is my fa|ther glorified, y^t ye beare much fruit, &amp; become my di&s;ci|ples: As the father hath loued me euen &s;o al&s;o haue I loued you. Continue you in my loue. If ye keepe my co~|maundements, ye &s;hal byde in my loue, euen as I haue kept my fathers commaundements &amp; bide in his loue. The&s;e things haue I &s;poken vnto you, y^t my ioy might remaine in you, and that your ioy might be full.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saint Phillip and Iames day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Iames. i.</HEAD>
<P>IAmes the &s;eruaunt of God, and of the Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, &s;endeth greting to the twelue Tribes which are &s;cattered abroade. My brethren, count it for an exceeding ioy, when ye fall into diuers temptacions: knowing this, that the trying of your fayth gendreth pacience, and let pacience haue her perfect woorke, that ye may be perfect and &s;ound, lacking nothing. If any of you lack wi&s;dome, let hym a&s;ke of hym that geueth it, euen God, which geueth to all men indifferently, and ca&s;teth no man in the teeth, and it &s;hal be geuen him. But let hym a&s;ke in fayth, and wauer not: for he that doubteth, is lyke a waue of the &s;ea, which is to&s;t of the windes and caried with violence. Neither let that man thinke that he &s;hall receaue any thing of the Lorde. A waueryng mynded man, is vn&s;table in all hys wayes. Let the brother which is of lowe degree, reioyce when hee is exalted. Againe let hym that is rytch, reioyce when hee is made lowe: For euen as the floure of the gra&s;&s;e &s;hall hee pa&s;&s;e awaye.
<PB REF="71"> For as the &s;un ri&s;eth with heat and the gras withereth and his flower falleth away, &amp; the beuty of the fa&s;hion of it pery&s;heth: euen &s;o &s;hal the ritch man peri&s;h in hys wayes. Happy is the man that endureth temptacion For when he is tried, he &s;hall receiue the crown of lyfe, which the Lord hath promi&s;ed to them that loue him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xiiii.</HEAD>
<P>ANd Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto hys di&s;ciples: let not your hartes be troubled, if ye beleue in God, beleue al&s;o in me. In my Fathers hou&s;e are many man|&s;ions. If it were not &s;o I would haue told you, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I wyll come agayne and receiue you euen vnto my &s;elfe: that where I am there may ye be al&s;o. And whither I go, you know, and the way ye know. Tho|mas &s;ayth vnto him: Lord we know not whither thou goe&s;t. And how is it po&s;&s;ible for vs to know the way? Ie&s;us &s;ayd vnto him, I am the way, and the truth and the life. No man commeth to the father but by me, if ye had knowen me, ye had knowen my Father al&s;o. And now ye know him and haue &s;eene him. Phillip &s;aid vn|to him Lord &s;hew vs the father, and it &s;uffi&s;eth vs. Ie|&s;us &s;aith vnto him: haue I beene &s;o long time with you, and yet ha&s;t thou not knowen me? Philip, he that hath &s;eene me, hath &s;eene my Father: and how &s;aie&s;t thou then, &s;hew vs the Father, beleue&s;t not thou that I am in the father, and the father in me. The words that I &s;peake vnto you, I &s;peake not of my &s;elfe, but the father that dwelleth in mee, is he that doth the workes. Beleue me that I am in the father and the fa|ther in me: Or els beleue me for the workes &s;ake. Ve|rely, verely I &s;ay vnto you: he that beleueth on me, the
<PB REF="72"> works that I do the &s;ame &s;hall he do al&s;o, and greater workes then the&s;e &s;hal he do, becau&s;e I go vnto my Fa|ther. And what&s;oeuer ye a&s;ke in my name, that wyll I do, that the Father may be glorified by the Sonne. If ye &s;hall a&s;ke any thing in my name, I wyl do it.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saynt Barnabes day the Apo&s;tle.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. xi.</HEAD>
<P>TIdinges of the&s;e things came vnto the eares of the congregation, which was in Ieru&s;alem. And they &s;ent foorth Barnabas that he &s;hould go vn|to Antioch, whych when he came and had &s;eene the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpo&s;e of hart they would continually cleaue vn|to the Lorde. For he was a good man, and full of the holy gho&s;t and of fayth, and much people was added vnto the Lord. The~ departed Barnabas to Thar&s;us, to &s;eke Saule. And whe~ he had found him, he brought him vnto Antioch. And it chaunced that a whole yeare they had theyr conuer&s;ation with the congregation there, and taught much people: in &s;o much that the di&s;|ciples of Antioch were the fir&s;t that were called Chri|&s;tians. In tho&s;e dayes came Prophets from the City of Ieru&s;alem vnto Antioch. And there &s;tood vp one of them named Agabus, and &s;ignified by the &s;pirit that there &s;hould be great dearth throughout all the world which came to pas in the Emperor Claudius dayes. Then the di&s;ciples euery man according to theyr abili|tye, purpo&s;ed to &s;ende &s;uccour vnto the brethren which dwelt in Iewry, whych thing they al&s;o dyd, and &s;ent it to the Elders, by the hands of Barnabas and Saule.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xv.</HEAD>
<P>THis is my commaundement, that ye loue toge|ther as I haue loued you. Greater loue hath no
<PB REF="72"> man then thys, that a man be&s;towe hys lyfe for hys friendes. Ye are my friendes, if ye do what &s;oeuer I commaund you. Hence forth cal I not you &s;eruaunts, for the &s;eruaunt knoweth not what hys Lord doth. But you haue I called friendes, for all thinges that I haue heard of my Father haue I opened to you. Ye haue not cho&s;en me, but I haue cho&s;en you, and or|dayned you, to go and bryng foorth fruite, and that your fruite &s;hould remayne: that what &s;oeuer ye a&s;ke of the Father in my name, he may geue it you.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saynt Iohn Bapti&s;tes day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. E&s;ay. xl.</HEAD>
<P>BE of good chere my people, O ye Prophetes com|fort my people &s;aith your God, comfort Ieru&s;alem at the hart, &amp; tell her that her trauail is at an end, that her offences is pardoned, that &s;he hath receiued of the Lords hand &s;ufficient correction for al her &s;yns. A voice cried in wildernes, prepare the way of y^e Lord in the wildernes, make &s;traight the path for our God in the de&s;ert. Let all valeies be exalted, &amp; euery moun|taine and hyll be layde low. What &s;o is crooked, let it bee made &s;traight, and let the rough bee made playne fieldes. For the glory of the Lord &s;hal appeare, and al fle&s;h &s;hal at once &s;ee it: for why the mouth of the Lord hath &s;poken it. The &s;ame voyce &s;pake: Now cry. And the Prohet an&s;wered: what &s;hal I cry? That all fle&s;h is gra&s;&s;e, and that all the goodlynes thereof, is as the floure of the field. The gra&s;&s;e is wythered, the floure falleth away: Euen &s;o is the people as gra&s;&s;e, when the breath of the Lord bloweth vpon them. Neuerthe+les, whether the gra&s;&s;e wyther, or that the floure vade away, yet the woorde of our God endureth for euer.
<PB REF="73"> Go vp vnto the hie hyll (O Sion) thou that brynge&s;t good tidinges, lyft vp thy voyce with power, O thou Preacher Ieru&s;alem. Lyft it vp wythout feare, &amp; &s;ay vnto the cities of Iuda: Behold your God, behold the Lord God &s;hall come with power, and beare rule with his arme. Behold he bringeth his trea&s;ure with him, and his workes go before him. He &s;hal feede his flocke lyke an Heardman. Hee &s;hall gather the Lambes to|gether with his arme, and cary them in hys bo&s;ome, and &s;hall kindly intreate tho&s;e that beare young.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pel. Luke. i.</HEAD>
<P>ELizabethes time came that &s;he &s;huld be deliuered, &amp; &s;he brought forth a &s;onne. And her neyghbours and her Co&s;ens heard how the Lord had &s;hewed great mercy vpon, and reioyced with her. And it fortu|ned that in the eyght day they came to circumci&s;e the childe, and called his name Zachary, after the name of his father. And his mother an&s;wered and &s;ayd: not &s;o, but his name &s;hall be called Iohn. And they &s;ayde vnto her: There is none in thy kynred that is named with this name. And they made &s;ygnes to hys father how he would haue him called. And he a&s;ked for wri|ting tables, and wrote &s;aying, his name is Iohn. And they maruayled all. And hys mouth was opened im|mediately, and his toung al&s;o, &amp; he &s;pake and pray&s;ed God. And feare came on all them that dwelt nye vnto him. And al the&s;e &s;ayings was noi&s;ed abrod through|out all the hye country of Iewry, and they that heard them, layd them vp in their hartes, &s;aying: what ma|ner of child &s;hal this be? And the hand of the Lord was with him. And his father Zacharias was fylled wyth the holy Gho&s;t, &amp; prophecied &s;aying: Pray&s;ed be the
<PB REF="73"> Lord God of I&s;raell for he hath vi&s;ited and redemed his people. And rai&s;ed vp an horne of &s;aluation vnto vs in the hou&s;e of his &s;eruaunt Dauid. Euen as he promi|&s;ed by the mouth of his holy Prophetes, which were &s;ince the world began: that we &s;hould be &s;aued fro~ our enemies &amp; fro~ the hand of all y^t hate vs. That he would deale mercifully with our fathers, and remember his holy couenaunt, &amp; he would performe the oth which he &s;ware to our father Abraham for to geue vs. That we being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies might &s;erue hym wythout feare all the dayes of our lyfe, in &s;uch holines and righteou&s;nes, as are acceptable for him. And thou childe &s;halt be called the Prophet of the highe&s;t, for thou &s;halt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his waies. To geue knowledge of &s;aluacion vnto his people for the remi&s;&s;ion of &s;yns. Through the tender mercy of our God whereby the day &s;pring from an hye hath vi&s;ited vs. To geue light to them that &s;at in darknes, and in the &s;hadow of death, to guide our feete into the way of peace. And the Childe grewe and waxed &s;trong in &s;pirit &amp; was in wildernes till the day came, when he &s;hould &s;hew him&s;elfe vnto the I&s;raelits</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saynt Peters day the Apo&s;tle.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. xii.</HEAD>
<P>AT the &s;ame time Herod the king &s;tretched foorth his handes to vexe certain of the congregation. And he kylled Iames the Brother of Iohn with the &s;worde. And becau&s;e he &s;aw it plea&s;ed the Iewes, he proceded further and tooke Peter al&s;o. Then were the dayes of &s;wete bread. And when hee had caught him, he put hym in pri&s;on al&s;o and deliuered hym to four quarternions of &s;ouldiers to bee kept, intending
<PB REF="74"> after Ea&s;ter to bringe him foorth to the people. And Peter was kepte in pri&s;on, but prayer was made with out cea&s;ing, of the congregation vnto God for him. And when Herod woulde haue brought him out vnto the people, the &s;ame night &s;lepte Peter betwene two &s;oldiers, bound with two chaines: and the kepers before the doore, kept the pri&s;on. And behold the Aun|gell of the Lord was there pre&s;ent, and a light &s;hined in the habitation. And he &s;mot Peter on the &s;ide, and &s;tir|red him vp, &s;aying ari&s;e vp quickly. And his chaines fel from his hands. And the Aungell &s;ayd vnto him: girde thy &s;elfe, and bind on thy &s;andales. And he &s;o did. And he &s;ayde vnto him: ca&s;t thy garment about thee and fo|low me. And he came out and folowed him, and wi&s;t not that it was truth which was done by the Angell, but thought hee had &s;eene a vi&s;ion. When they were pa&s;t the fir&s;t and &s;econd watch, they came vnto the yron gate, that leadeth vnto the city, which opened to them by the owne accord, and they went out and pa&s;&s;ed tho|row one &s;treete &amp; foorthwith the Angel departed from him. And when Peter was come to him&s;elfe he &s;ayd: now I know of a &s;uretye that the Lord hath &s;ent his angel, and hath deliuered me out of the hand of Herod and from all waiting of the people of the Iewes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xv.</HEAD>
<P>WHen Ie&s;us came into the coa&s;tes of the City which is called Ce&s;area Philippy, he a&s;ked his di&s;ciples &s;aying: whom do men &s;ay that I the &s;on of man am? They &s;ayd: Some &s;ay that thou art Iohn Bapti&s;t, &s;ome Helias, &s;ome Ieremias, or one of the Prophets. He &s;aid vnto them: but whom &s;ay ye that I am? Simon Peter aun&s;wered and &s;ayde: Thou art
<PB REF="74"> Chri&s;t the &s;on of the liuing God. And Ie&s;us aun&s;wered and &s;aid vnto him. Happy art thou Simon the &s;onne of Ionas, for fle&s;h and bloud hath not opened that vnto thee, but my father which is in heauen. And I &s;ay vnto thee that thou art Peter: and vpon this rocke I will builde my congregacion. And the gates of hell &s;hall not preuaile again&s;t it. And I wil geue vnto thee the keies of the kingdome of heauen. And what&s;oeuer thou bin|de&s;t in earth, &s;halbe bound in heauen, and what&s;oeuer thou loo&s;e&s;t in earth, &s;halbe loo&s;ed in heauen.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saint Iames the Apo&s;tle.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. xi.</HEAD>
<P>IN tho&s;e dayes came Prophetes from the City of Ieru&s;alem vnto Antioch: and there &s;tood vp one of them named Agabus and &s;ignified by the &s;pirite that there &s;hould be great dearth throughout all the world, which came to pa&s;&s;e in the Emperour Claudius dayes. Then the di&s;ciples euery man according to hys abilitye, purpo&s;ed to &s;end &s;uccour vnto the brethren which dwelt in Iewry, which thing they al&s;o did and &s;ent it to the elders by the handes of Barnabas and Saule. At the &s;ame time Herod the kinge &s;tretched foorth his handes to vexe ceriaine of the congregation And hee killed Iames the brother of Iohn with the &s;word. And becau&s;e he &s;aw it plea&s;ed the Iewes, he proceeded further and tooke Peter al&s;o.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xx.</HEAD>
<P>THen came to him the mother of Zebedes children with her &s;onnes, wor&s;hipping him, and de&s;iring a certain thing of him: and he &s;ayd vnto her: what wilt thou? Shee &s;ayd vnto him: Graunt that the&s;e my two Sonnes may &s;yt, the one on thy right hand,
<PB REF="75"> and the other on thy lefte, in thy kingdome. But Ie|&s;us an&s;wered and &s;ayd: yee wote not what ye a&s;ke, are ye able to drinke of the cup that I &s;hall drinke of, and to be bapti&s;ed with the bapti&s;me that I am bapti&s;ed with? They &s;aid vnto him: we are. He &s;ayd vnto them ye &s;hal drink in deede of my cup, &amp; be bapti&s;ed with the bapti&s;me y^t I am bapti&s;ed with, but to &s;yt on my right hand and on my left is not mine to geue, but it &s;hall chaunce vnto them that it is prepared for of my Father And when the .x. heard this they di&s;dayned at the two brethren. But Ie&s;us called them vnto hym and &s;ayd: ye know that the princes of the nacions haue domini|on ouer them, and they that are great men exerci&s;e auc|thority vpon them. It &s;hall not be &s;o among you. But who&s;oeuer will be great among you, let him bee your mini&s;ter: and who&s;oeuer wyll be chiefe among you, let him be your &s;eruaunt. Euen as the &s;onne of man came not to be mini&s;tred vnto, but to mini&s;ter, and to geue his life a redemption for many.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saynt Bartholmewes day the Apo&s;tle.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Actes. v.</HEAD>
<P>BY the handes of the Apo&s;tels, were many &s;ignes and wonders &s;hewed among the people. And they were all together with one accord in Salomons porch. And of other dur&s;t no man ioyne hym &s;elfe to them: neuertheles the people magnified them. The numbre of them that beleued in the Lord, both of men and women, grew more and more: in&s;omuch that they brought the &s;ick into the &s;treetes, and layde them on beds and couches, that at the lea&s;t way the &s;hadow of Peter when he came by might &s;hadow &s;ome of them. There came al&s;o a multitude out of the Cytyes round
<PB REF="75"> about vnto Ieru&s;alem, bringing &s;icke folkes, and them which were vexed with vncleane &s;pirites, and they were healed euery one.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Luke xxii.</HEAD>
<P>ANd ther was a &s;trife among them which of them &s;hould &s;eeme to be the greate&s;t. And he &s;ayd vnto them: the kinges of nations raign ouer them, and they that haue auctority vpon them, are called gracious Lords: But ye &s;hall not &s;o be. But he that is greate&s;t among you &s;hal be as the yonger, and he that is chiefe, &s;hal be as he that doth mini&s;ter. For whether is grea|ter he that &s;itteth at meate, or he that &s;erueth? Is not he y^t &s;itteth at meate? But I am among you as he that mini&s;treth. Ye are they which haue bidden with me in my temptacio~s. And I appoint vnto you a kingdome, as my Father hath appointed vnto me, that yee may eate and drinke at my table in my kingdome, and &s;yt on &s;eates iudgeing the twelue Tribes of I&s;raell.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saynt Mathewes day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. ii. Cor. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>SEing that we haue &s;uch an office, euen as God hath had mercy on vs, we go not out of kind but haue ca&s;t from vs the clokes of vnhone&s;tye, and walke not in craftines, neyther handle we the woord of God deceit|fully, but open the truth, and report our &s;elues to eue|ry mans con&s;cience in the &s;ight of God. If our Go&s;pell be yet hyd, it is hyd amonge them that are lo&s;t, in whom the God of thys world hath blinded the minds of them which beleue not, lea&s;t the light of the Go&s;pell of the glorye of Chri&s;t (which is the image of God) &s;hould &s;hine vnto them. For we preach not our &s;elues, but Chri&s;t Ie&s;us to be the Lord, and our &s;elues your
<PB REF="76"> &s;eruauntes for Ie&s;us &s;ake. For it is God that commau~+deth the light to &s;hine out of darknes, which hath &s;hi|ned in our hartes, for to geue the light of y^e knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. ix.</HEAD>
<P>ANd as Ie&s;us pa&s;&s;ed foorth from thence, he &s;aw a man named Mathew, &s;ytting at the receipt of cu&s;tome, and he &s;ayd vnto him: folow me. And he aro&s;e and folowed him. And it came to pas as Ie&s;us &s;at at meate in his hou&s;e: behold many Publicans al&s;o and &s;ynners that came, &s;at down with Ie&s;us and his Di&s;ciples. And when the Phari&s;eis &s;aw it, they &s;ayd vnto his di&s;ciples: why eateth your mai&s;ter with Pub|licans and &s;inners? But whe~ Ie&s;us heard that, he &s;aid vnto them: They that be &s;trong neede not the Phi&s;i|tion, but they that are &s;icke. Go ye rather and learne what that meaneth: I wyll haue mercy and not &s;acri|fice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but &s;yn|ners to repentaunce.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saynt Michael and all Angels day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Apo. ii.</HEAD>
<P>THere was a great battayle in heauen: Michael &amp; his Aungels fought with the Dragon, and the Dragon fought with his Aungels, and preuailed not, neither was their place found any more in heauen. And the great dragon that old &s;erpent called the De|uyll and Sathanas was ca&s;t out, which deceiueth all the world. And he was ca&s;t into the earth, and his an|gels were ca&s;t out al&s;o with him. And I heard a loud voyce &s;aying: in heauen is now made &s;aluation and &s;trength, and the kingdome of one God, and the power of hys Chri&s;t. For the accu&s;er of our brethren is ca&s;t
<PB REF="76"> downe, which accu&s;ed them before God day and night. And they ouercame him by the bloud of the Lambe, &amp; by the woorde of their te&s;timonye, and they loued not their lyues vnto the death. Therfore reioyce heauens, and ye that dwell in them. Wo vnto the inhabitours of the earth, and of the &s;ea, for the Deuyll is come downe vnto you, which hath great wrath, becau&s;e hee know|eth that he hath but a &s;hort tyme.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. xviii.</HEAD>
<P>AT the &s;ame time came the Di&s;ciples vnto Ie&s;us, &s;aying: Who is the greate&s;t in the kyngdome of heaue~? Ie&s;us called a child vnto him, and &s;et him in the myd&s;t of them, &amp; &s;ayd: verely I &s;ay vnto you, ex|cept ye turne and become as children, ye &s;hall not enter into the kingdom of heauen. Who&s;oeuer therfore hum|bleth him&s;elfe as this child, that &s;ame is the greate&s;t in the kyngdome of heauen. And who &s;o euer receyueth &s;uch a childe in my name, receueth me: but who &s;o doth offend one of the&s;e litle ones which beleue in me, it wer better for him that a myl&s;tone were hanged about his necke, &amp; that he were drowned in the depth of the &s;ea. Wo vnto the world becau&s;e of offences, nece&s;&s;ary it is that offences come. But wo vnto the man by who~ the offences co~meth. Wherfore if thy hand or thy foote hin+der thee, cut him of, &amp; ca&s;t it from thee. It is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather then thou &s;houlde&s;t (hauing two hands or two feete) be ca&s;t into euerla&s;ting fire. And if thine eye offe~d thee, pluck it out &amp; ca&s;t it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather then (hauing two eyes) to be ca&s;t into hel fire. Take hede that ye de&s;pi&s;e not one of the&s;e litle ones: for I &s;ay vnto you y^t in heaue~ their angels do
<PB REF="77"> alwaies behold y^e face of my father which is in heauen.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Saint Luke the Euangeli&s;t.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. ii. Timo. iiii.</HEAD>
<P>WAtch thou in althinges, &s;uffer afflictions, do the woorke throughly of an Euangeli&s;t, fulfyll thine of|fice vnto the vttermo&s;t, be &s;ober. For I am now ready to be offered, and the tyme of my departing is at hand. I haue fought a good fight, I haue fulfilled my cour&s;e I haue kept the fayth. From henceforth their is layd vp for me a crowne of righteou&s;nes, which the Lord (that is a righteous iudge) &s;hal geue to me at y^t day, not to mee onelye, but to all them that loue hys com|ming. Do thy diligence, that thou maye&s;t come &s;hort|ly vnto me: For Demas hath for&s;aken me, and loueth this pre&s;ent world and is departed vnto The&s;&s;alonica. Cre&s;ens is gone to Galacia. Titus vnto Dalmacia, onely Lucas is with me. Take Marke and bring him with thee, for he is profitable vnto me for the mini&s;tra|tion, and Tichicus haue I &s;ent to Ephe&s;us. The cloke that I left at Troada with Carpus, when thou com|me&s;t bringe with thee, and the bookes, but &s;pecially the parchment. Alexander the Copper&s;mith did me much euill: the Lord reward hym according to hys deedes, of whom be thou ware al&s;o. For he hath great|ly with&s;tood our woords.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pel. Luke. x.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lord appoynted other &s;euentye al&s;o, and &s;ent them two and two before him, into euerye Citye and place, whyther hee hym &s;elfe woulde come. Therefore he &s;ayd vnto them, the harue&s;t is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harue&s;t to &s;end foorth labourers into the harue&s;t.
<PB REF="77"> Go your waies, behold I &s;ende you foorth as Lambes among Wolues, beare no wallet, neither &s;crip nor &s;hoes and &s;alute no man by the way, into what&s;oeuer hou&s;e you enter, fyr&s;t &s;ay: peace be to this hou&s;e. And if the &s;on of peace be there, your peace &s;hall re&s;t vpon him, if not it &s;hal returne to you againe. And in the &s;ame hou&s;e tary &s;tyll, eating and drinking &s;uch as they geue, for the labourer his worthy of his reward.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;Simon and Iudes day Apo&s;tles.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Iude. i.</HEAD>
<P>IVdas the &s;eruaunt of Ie&s;u Chri&s;t, the brother of Iames to them which are called and &s;anctifyed in God the Father, and pre&s;erued in Ie&s;u Chri&s;t. Mer|cy vnto you, and peace and loue be multiplied. Beloued when I gaue al diligence to write vnto you of the com|mon &s;aluation, it was needefull for me to wryte vnto you to exhort you that ye &s;hould continually labour in the fayth, which was once geuen vnto the Sayntes. For there are certayne vngodly men craftely crept in, of which it was written afore tyme vnto &s;uch iudge|ment. They turne the grace of our God vnto wantones and deny God (which is the onely Lord) and our Lord Ie&s;u Chri&s;t. My minde is therfore to put you in reme~|braunce, for a&s;much as ye once know this, how that the Lord (after that he had deliuered the people out of Egipt) de&s;troied the~ which after beleued not. The An|gels al&s;o which kept not their fir&s;t &s;tate, but left their own habitacio~, he hath re&s;erued in euerla&s;ting chaines vnder darknes, vnto the iudgement of the great day, euen as Sodom and Gomor, &amp; the Cities about them, which in lyke maner defiled them&s;elues with fornicati|on, and followed &s;traunge fle&s;h, are &s;et foorth for an ex|ample,
<PB REF="78"> &amp; &s;uffer the payne of eternall fire: lykewi&s;e the&s;e being deceiued by dreames defyle the fle&s;h, de&s;py&s;e ru|lers, and &s;peake euyll of them that are in aucthority.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Iohn. xv.</HEAD>
<P>THis I commaund you that ye loue together. If the world hate you, ye know it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would loue his own, how be it becau&s;e ye are not of the world but I haue cho&s;en you out of the world, ther+fore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I &s;ayd vnto you: the &s;eruaunt is not greater then hys Lord. If they haue per&s;ecuted me, they wyll per&s;ecute you, if they haue kept my &s;aying, they wyl keepe yours al&s;o. But all the&s;e things wyll they do vnto you for my names &s;ake, becau&s;e they haue not knowen him that &s;ent me. If I had not come and &s;poken vnto them, they &s;hould haue had no &s;ynne: but now haue they nothing to cloke theyr &s;ynne withall. He that hateth me, hateth my Father al&s;o. If I had not done among them the woorkes which none other man did, they &s;hould haue had no &s;ynne. But now haue they both &s;eene and hated, not onely me but al&s;o my Father. But this happeneth, that the &s;aying might be fulfylled that is written in their law. They hated me without a cau&s;e. But when the comforter is come, whom I wyll &s;ende vnto you from the Father, euen the &s;pirit of truth which procee|deth of the Father, hee &s;hall te&s;tifie of me. And ye &s;hall beare witnes al&s;o becau&s;e ye haue beene with me from the beginning.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="day">
<HEAD>&para;All Saintes day.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="78">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle. Apo. vii.</HEAD>
<P>BEholde, I Iohn &s;aw another Angel a&s;cend from the ri&s;ing of the Sunne which had the &s;eale of the lyuing God, and hee cryed with a loud voyce to the foure Aungels (to whom power was geuen to hurt the earth and the Sea) &s;aying: hurt not the earth, neither the Sea, neither the trees, tyll we haue &s;ealed the Seruauntes of our God in their foreheades. And I heard the number of them which were &s;ealed, and there were &s;ealed an .C. and .xliiij. thou&s;ande of all the Tribes of the children of I&s;rael. Of the tribe of Iuda were &s;ealed .xij.M. Of the tribe of Ruben were &s;ealed. xij.M. Of the tribe of Gad were &s;ealed .xij.M. Of the tribe of A&s;&s;et were &s;ealed .xij.M. Of the tribe of Nep|talim were &s;ealed .xij.M. Of the tribe of Mana&s;&s;es were &s;ealed .xij.M. Of the tribe of Simeon were &s;ea|led .xij.M. Of the tribe of Leui were &s;ealed .xij.M. Of the tribe of I&s;achat were &s;ealed .xij.M. Of the tribe of Zabulon were &s;ealed .xij.M. Of the tribe of Io&s;eph were &s;ealed .xij.M. Of the tribe of Beniamin were &s;ea|led .xij.M. After this I behelde and lo, a great multi|tude (which no man can number) of all nacions and people, and tounges, &s;toode before the &s;eate and be|fore the Lambe, and clothed with long white gar|mentes, and Palmes in their handes, and cried with a loud voice, &s;aying: &s;aluacion be a&s;cribed to him that &s;itteth vpon the &s;eate of God, and vnto the Lambe. And all the Aungels &s;tood in the compa&s;&s;e of the &s;eate, and of the elders and the foure bea&s;tes and fell before the &s;eate on their faces, and wor&s;hipped God &s;aying: Amen. Ble&s;&s;ing and glory and wi&s;dome and thankes, and honour, and power, and mighte, be vnto our God for euermore. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="gospel">
<PB REF="79">
<HEAD>&para;The Go&s;pell. Math. v.</HEAD>
<P>IE&s;us &s;eing the people, went vp into the mountaine, and when hee was &s;et, hys Di&s;ciples came to hym, and after that hee had opened his mouth he taught them &s;aying: Ble&s;&s;ed are the poore in &s;pirit, for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen. Ble&s;&s;ed are they that mourne, for they &s;hall receiue comfort. Ble&s;&s;ed are the meeke, for they &s;hall receyue the inheritaunce of the earth. Ble&s;&s;ed are they which hunger and thir&s;t after ryghteou&s;nes, for they &s;hall bee &s;ati&s;fied. Ble&s;&s;ed are the mercyfull, for they &s;hall obtayne mercye. Ble&s;&s;ed are the pure in hart, for they &s;hall &s;ee God. Ble&s;&s;ed are the peace makers, for they &s;hall be called the chyldren of God. Ble&s;&s;ed are they which &s;uffer per&s;ecution for righteou&s;nes &s;ake, for theirs is the kyngdome of hea|uen. Ble&s;&s;ed are ye when men reuyle you, and per&s;e|cute you, and &s;hall fal&s;ely &s;ay all maner of euyl &s;ayinges agayn&s;te you for my &s;ake: Reioyce and bee glad, for great is your reward in heauen, for &s;o per&s;ecuted they the Prophetes which were before you.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>&leaf;Imprinted at Lon|don by Iohn Awdely dwelling in little Britaine &s;treete without Alder&s;gate.</P>
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