The First Sunday after Eafter. for this is the witnefs of God, which he hath teftified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the haft given thine only witnefs in himfelf: he that Son to die for our fins, and believeth not God, hath made to rife again for our juftifica- him a liar, because he betion; grant us fo to put lieveth not the record that away the leaven of malice God gave of his Son. And and wickedness, that we may this is the record, that God alway ferve thee in pureness of living and truth, through the merits of the fame thy Son Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epiftle. 1 St. John v. 4, hath given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son hath not life. Hatfoever is born of The Gospel. St. John xx. 19. W God, overcometh the world; and this is the victory HE fame day at evening, TH being the firft day of were fhut, where the difciples were affembled for fear of the Jews, came Jefus and ftood in the midft, and faith unto them, Peace be unto you. And when he had fo faid, he fhowed unto them his hands and his fide. Then were the difciples glad when they faw the Lord. Then faid Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: As my Father hath sent me, even fo fend I you. And when he had faid this, he breathed on them, and faith that overcometh the world, the week, when the doors even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jefus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even Jefus Chrift; not by water only, but by water and blood And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost and these three are one. And there are three that bear witnefs in unto them, Receive ye the the earth, the spirit, and the Holy Ghoft: Whose soever water, and the blood and fins ye remit, they are remitthese three agree in one. If ted unto them: and whose we receive the witnefs of men, foever fins ye retain, they are the witness of God is greater: retained. : The The Second Sunday after Eafter. The Colle&. Who his own felf bare our fins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to fin, thould live unto right Almighty God, who haft coufnels; by whole stripes ye given thine only Son to were healed. For ye were as be unto us both a facrifice fheep going aftray; but are for fin, and alfo an example now returned unto the fhepof godly life; give us grace herd and bishop of your that we may always moft fouls. thankfully receive that his ineftimable benefit, and alfo daily endeavour ourselves to follow the bleffed steps of his moft holy life, through the fame Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The Epifile. 1 St. Pet. ii. 19. THIS The Gospel. St. John x. 11. JES ESUS faid, I am the good fhepherd: the good thepherd giveth his life for the fheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the fhepherd, whofe own the fheep are not, feeth the wolf coming, and HIS is thank-worthy, if leaveth the fheep, and fleeth; a man for confcience and the wolf catcheth them, toward God endure grief, fuf- and scattereth the sheep. The fering wrongfully. For what hireling fleeth because he is an glory is it, if when ye be buf- hireling, and careth not for feted for your faults, ye fhall the fheep. I am the good take it patiently? But if, fhepherd, and know my sheep, when ye do well, and fuffer and am known of mine. As for it, ye take it patiently, this the Father knoweth me, even is acceptable with God. For fo know I the Father: And even hereunto were ye called; I lay down my life for the because Chrift alfo fuffered fheep. And other sheep I us, leaving us an example, have, which are not of this that ye fhould follow his fteps: Who did no fin, neither was guile found in his mouth Who when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he fuffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: for fold; them also I must bring, and they fhall hear my voice; and there fhall be one fold and one shepherd. The The Third Sunday after Eafter. A The Collect. LMIGHTY God, who DE men as free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of malicioufnefs; but as the fervants of God. Honour all men: Love the brotherhood: Fear God: Honour the king. The Gospel. St. John xvi. 16. JE ESUS faid to his disciples, A little while and ye fhall not fee me; and again, a little while, and ye shall fee me; because I go to the Father. Then faid fome of his difciples this that he faith unto us, A among themfelves, What is little while and ye shall not fee me; and again, a little while and ye fhall fee me; and, Because I go to the Father? They faid therefore, What is are in error the light of thy truth, to the intent that they may return into the way of righteousness; grant unto all those who are admitted into the fellowship of Chrift's religion, that they may avoid those things that are contrary to their profeffion, and follow all fuch things as are agreeable to the fame, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. The Epifile. 1 St. Pet. ii. 11. EARLY beloved, I befeech you, as ftrangers and pilgrims, abftain from fleshly lufts, which war against this that he faith, A little the foul; having your conver- while? we cannot tell what fation honeft among the Gen- he faith. Now Jefus knew tiles; that whereas they fpeak that they were defirous to ask against you as evil doers, they him, and faid unto them, Do may by your good works, ye enquire among yourselves which they fhall behold, glo- of that I faid, A little while rify God in the day of vifita- and ye fhall not fee me; and tion. Submit yourselves to again, a little while and ye every ordinance of man for fhall fee me? Verily, verily, the Lord's fake; whether it I fay unto you, that ye fhall be to the king, as fupreme; weep and lament, but the or unto governors, as unto world thall rejoice and ye them that are fent by him, fhall be forrowful, but your for the punishment of evil- forrow fhall be turned into doers, and for the praife of joy. A woman when she is them that do well. For fo in travail hath forrow, beis the will of God, that with caufe her hour is come: but well-doing ye may put to as foon as the is delivered of filence the ignorance of foolish the child, fhe remembereth no no more the anguifh, for joy fore lay apart all filthiness and that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have forrow but I will fee you again, and your heart fhall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. fuperfluity of naughtiness, and The Gofpel. St. John xvi. 5. ESUS faid unto his difci The Fourth Sunday after Eafter. J ples, Now I go my way The Collect. to him that fent me, and Almighty God, who none of you afketh me, Whialone canft order the ther goeft thou? But because unruly wills and affections of I have faid these things unto finful men; grant unto thy you, forrow hath filled your Nevertheless I tell people, that they may love heart. the thing which thou com- you the truth; it is expedient mandeft, and defire that for you, that I go away: for which thou doft promife; that if I go not away, the Comfo, among the fundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may furely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. Ε forter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will fend him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of fin, and of righteousness, and of judg ment: Of fin; because they believe not on me: Of righteoufnefs; because I go to my Father, and ye fee me no more : Ofjudgment; because The Epifile. St. James 1. 17. VERY good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with the prince of this world is whom is no variablenefs, nei- judged. I have yet many ther shadow of turning. Of things to fay unto you, but his own will begat he us with ye cannot bear them now. the word of truth, that we fhould be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, flow to fpeak, flow to wrath; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Where Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he fhall not speak of himself; but whatfoever he fhall hear, that fhall he fpeak; and he will fhow you things to come. He fhall glorify me: for he fhall shall receive of mine, and fhall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath, are mine; therefore faid I, that he fhall take of mine, and shall show it unto you. The Fifth Sunday after Eafter. The Collect. ; Lord, from whom all good things do come grant to us thy humble fervants, that by thy holy infpi ration we may think those things that are good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the fame, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen. religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To vifit the fatherlefs and widows in their affliction, and to keep himfelf unspotted from the world. my The Gospel. St. John xvi. 23. VR Vento You, Whatsoever ERILY, verily, I fay ye fhall afk the Father in vey Name, he will give it you. in my Name: Afk, and ye Hitherto have ye afked nothing fhall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I fpoken unto you in Proverbs: the time cometh, when I fhall no more speak unto you in proverbs; but I Eye doers of the word, fhall fhow you plainly of the and not hearers only, Father. At that day ye fhall deceiving your own felves. afk in my name and I fay For if any be a hearer of the not unto you, that I will pray word, and not, a doer, he is the Father for you; for the like unto a man beholding his Father himself loveth you, natural face in a glafs. For because ye have loved me, and he beholdeth himself, and have believed that I came out The Epiftle. St. James i. 22. BE goeth his way, and ftraightway from God. I came forth forgetteth what manner of from the Father, and am come man he was. But whofo look into the world: Again, I eth into the perfect law of leave the world, and go to liberty, and continueth there- the Father. His difciples in; he being not a forgetful faid unto him, Lo, now hearer, but a doer of the work, fpeakeft thou plainly, and this man fhall be bleffed in his fpeakeft no proverb. Now are deed. If any man among you we fure that thou knoweft all feem to be religious, and things, and needest not that bridleth not his tongue, but any man fhould afk thee: by deceiveth his own heart, this this we believe that thou man's religion is vain. Pure cameft forth from God. Jefus anfwered |