ers, Gather ye together first the children, let no man deceive tares, and bind them in bundles you: he that doeth righteousness to burn them; but gather the is righteous, even as he is righwheat into my barn. The sixth Sunday after the teous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. God, whose blessed Son was The Gospel. St. Matt. xxiv. 23. manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil, and THEN if any man shall say make us the sons of God, and heirs unto you, Lo, here is Christ, of eternal life; grant us, we be-orthere; believe it not. For there seech thee, that having this hope, shall arise false Christs and false we may purify ourselves, even as prophets, and shall show great he is pure; that when he shall ap that (if it were possible) they signs and wonders; insomuch pear again with power and great glory, we may be made like unto shall deceive the very elect. Behim in his eternal and glorious hold, I have told you before. kingdom; where, with thee, O Wherefore, if they should say Father, and thee, O Holy Ghost, unto you, Behold, he is in the he liveth and reigneth, ever one desert; go not forth: behold, he God, world without end. Amen. is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth The Epistle. 1 John, iii. 1. BEHOLD what manner of love even unto the west; so shall also the Father hath bestowed the coming of the Son of man upon us, that we should be called be. For wheresoever the carthe sons of God; therefore the case is, there will the eagles be world knoweth us not, because it gathered together. Immediately knew him not. Beloved, now are after the tribulation of those we the sons of God; and it doth days, shall the sun be darkened, not yet appear what we shall be: and the moon shall not give but we know, that when he shall her light, and the stars shall fall appear, we shall be like bim; for from heaven, and the powers of we shall see him as he is. And the heavens shall be shaken. And every man that hath this hope in then shall appear the sign of the him purifieth himself, even as he Son of man in heaven; and then is pure. Whosoever committeth shall all the tribes of the earth sin, transgresseth also the law; mourn,and they shall see the Son of for sin is the transgression of the man coming in the clouds of healaw. And ye know that he was ven, with power and great glory. manifested to take away our sins; And he shall send his angels with and in him is no sin. Whosoever a great sound of a trumpet, and abideth in him, sinneth not: they shall gather together his whosoever sinneth, hath not seen elect from the four winds, from him, neither known him. Little one end of heaven to the other. cause no man hath hired us. He The Sunday called Septuagesima, And about the eleventh hour he or the third Sunday before Lent. went out, and found others standThe Collect. ing idle, aud saith unto them, Lord, we beseech thee favour-Why stand ye here all the day ably to hear the prayers of idle? They say unto him, Bethy people, that we, who are just-saith unto them, Go ye also into ly punished for our offences, may the vineyard, and whatsoever is be mercifully delivered by thy goodness, for the glory of thy right, that shall ye receive. So when even was come, the Lord name, through Jesus Christ our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth of the vineyard saith unto his with thee and the Holy Ghost. steward, Call the labourers, and ever one God, world without end. give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they re Amen. The Epistle. 1 Cor. ix. 24. KNOW ye not, that they which ceived every man a penny. But run in a race, run all, but one when the first came they supposreceiveth the prize? So run, that ed that they should have receivye may obtain. And every man ed more; and they likewise rethat striveth for the mastery, is ceived every man a penny. And temperate in all things. Now when they had received it, they they do it to obtain a corruptible murmured against the good man crown, but we an incorruptible: of the house, saying, These last I therefore so run, not as uncer- have wrought but one hour, and tainly; so fight I, not as one that thou hast made them equal unto beateth the air: But I keep under us, which have borne the burden my body, and bring it into sub- and heat of the day. But he anjection, lest that by any means, swered one of them, and said, wher: I have preached to others, Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst I myself should be a castaway. not thou agree with me for a penThe Gospel. St. Matt. xx. 1. ny? Take that thine is, and go THE kingdom of heaven is like thy way; I will give unto this last unto a man that is an house-even as unto thee. Is it not lawholder, which went out early in ful for me to do what I will with the morning to hire labourers into mine own? Is thine eye evil, be his vineyard. And when he had cause I am good? So the last agreed with the labourers for a shall be first, and the first last; for penny a day, he sent them into many be called, but few chosen. his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw The Sunday called Sexagesima, or others standing idle in the mar- the second Sunday before Lent. ket-place, and said unto them. Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give Lord God, who seest that we you. And they went their way. put not our trust in any thing Again he went out about the sixth that we do; mercifully grant that and ninth hour, and did likewise. by thy power we may be defend The Collect. ed against all adversity, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. YE The Gospel. St. Luke, viii. 4. WHEN much people were gaThe Epistle. 2 Cor. xi. 19. thered together, and were E suffer fools gladly, seeing come to him out of every city, ye yourselves are wise. For he spake by a parable: A sower ye suffer if a man bring you into went out to sow his seed; and as bondage, if a man devour you, if he sowed, some fell by the way a man take of you, if a man exalt side, and it was trodden down, himself, if a man smite you on and the fowls of the air devoured the face. I speak as concerning it; and some fell upon a rock, and reproach, as though we had been as soon as it was sprung up, it weak: howbeit, whereinsoever withered away, because it lacked any is bold (I speak foolishly) moisture; and some fell among am bold also. Are they Hebrews? thorns, and the thorns sprang up so am I are they Israelites? so with it, and choaked it; and other am I: are they the seed of Abra-fell on good ground, and sprang ham? so am I: are they ministers up, and bare fruit an hundred fold. of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am And when he had said these more: In labours more abundant; things, he cried, He that hath In stripes above measure; in pri-ears to hear, let him hear. And sons more frequent; in deaths oft. his disciples asked him, saying, Of the Jews five times received What might this parable be? And forty stripes save one; thrice was he said, Unto you it is given to I beaten with rods; once was I know the mysteries of the kingstoned; thrice I suffered ship-dom of God: but to others in wreck; a night and a day I have parables; that seeing they might been in the deep; in journeyings not see, and hearing they might often; in perils of waters; in pe- not understand. Now the pa rils of robbers; in perils by mine rable is this: the seed is the own countrymen; in perils by word of God. Those by the way the heathen; in perils in the city; side are they that hear; then in perils in the wilderness; in pe-cometh the devil, and taketh away rils in the sea; in perils among the word out of their hearts, lest false brethren; in weariness and they should believe and be sav painfulness; in watchings often; ed. They on the rock are they, in hunger and thirst; in fastings which, when they hear, receive often; in cold and nakedness; be- the word with joy; and these sides those things that are with- have no root, which for a while out, that which cometh upon me believe, and in time of tempta daily, the care of all the Churches. tion fall away. And that which Who is weak, and I am not weak? fell among thorns are they, which, who is offended, and I burn not? when they have heard, go forth, If I must needs glory, I will glory and are choaked with cares, and of the things which concern mine riches, and pleasures of this life, infirmities. The God and Father and bring no fruit to perfection. of our Lord Jesus Christ, which But that on the good ground are is blessed for evermore, knoweth they, which, in an honest and that I lie not. good heart, having heard the The Collect. word, keep it, and bring forth fruit ther there be knowledge, it shall with patience. vanish away. For we know in The Sunday called Quinquages- But when that which is perfect is part, and we prophesy in part. ima, or the next Sunday be- come, then that which is in part fore Lent. (shall be done away. When I was Lord, who hast taught us that derstood as a child, I thought as la child, I spake as a child, I unall our doings without charity a child; but when I became a are nothing worth; send thy Holy man, I put away childish things. Ghost, and pour into our hearts For now we see through a glass that most excellent gift of charity, darkly; but then face to face: the very bond of peace, and of, all virtues; without which, who-shall I know even as also I am now I know in part; but then soever liveth is counted dead be-known. And now abideth faith, fore thee: Grant this for thine hope, charity, these three; but only Son Jesus Christ's sake. the greatest of these is charity. 10 1 Amin. The Epistle. 1 Cor. xiii. 1. The Gospel. St. Luke, xviii 31. THOUGH I speak with the THEN Jesus took unto him the tongues of men and of angels, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, twelve, and said unto them, and have not charity, I am be-and all things that are written by ling cymbal: And though I have of man shall be accomplished. fone as sounding brass or a tink- the prophets concerning the Son the gift of prophecy, and under- For he shall be delivered unto stand all mysteries, and all know-the Gentiles, and shall be mockledge; and though I have all faith, ed, and spitefully entreated, and tains, and have not charity, I amjhim, and put him to death; and nothing. And though I bestow the third day he shall rise again. and though I give my body to be these things and this saying my goods to feed the poor, And they understood none of burned, and have not charity, it was hid from them, neither knew suffereth long, and is kind; cha-ken. And it came to pass, that as profiteth me nothing. Charity they the things which were spority envieth not; charity vaunt-he was come nigh unto Jericho, doth not behave itself unseemly; way side begging; and hearing eth not itself; is not puffed up; a certain blind man sat by the seeketh not her own; is not easi- the multitude pass by, he asked ly provoked; thinketh no evil; what it meant. all And they told And they which Joiceth in the truth; beareth all ed by. And he cried, saying, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but re-him, that Jesus of Nazareth passthings, believeth all things, hop-Jesus, thou Son of David, have ther there be prophecies, they should hold his peace; but he Charity never faileth: but whe-[went before rebuked him, that he Jetongues, they shall cease; whe-Son of David, have mercy o shall fail; whether there be cried so much the more, Thou me. And Jesus stood and com- sinner, but rather that he should manded him to be brought unto turn from his sin, and be saved him and when he was come mercifully forgive us our tresnear, he asked him, saying, What passes; receive and comfort us, wilt thou that I should do unto who are grieved and wearied thee? And he said, Lord, that with the burden of our sins. Thy may receive my sight. And Je-property is always to have mersus said unto him, Receive thy cy; to thee only it appertaineth sight, thy faith hath saved thee. to forgive sins: spare us thereAnd immediately he received his fore, good Lord, spare thy peosight, and followed him, glorify-ple, whom thou hast redeemed: ing God: and all the people, enter not into judgment with thy when they saw it, gave praise servants, who are vile earth, and unto God, miserable sinners; but so turn The first day of Lent, commonly thine anger from us, who meekly called Ash-Wednesday. acknowledge our vileness, and truly repent us of our faults; and The Collect. Amen. Then shall the People say this that followeth, after the Minister. TURN thou us, O good Lord, ALMIGHTY and everlasting so make haste to help us in this God, who hatest nothing that world, that we may ever live thou hast made, and dost forgive with thee in the world to come, the sins of all those who are pe-through Jesus Christ our Lord. nitent; create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, and so shall we be turned. may obtain of thee, the God of Be favourable, O Lord, be favourall mercy, perfect remission and able to thy people, who turn to forgiveness, through Jesus Christ thee in weeping, fasting and pray our Lord. Amen. This Collect is to be read every day in God. full of compassion, long sufing. For thou art a merciful Lent, after the Collect appointed for the day. fering, and of great pity. Thou At Morning Prayer, the Litany being sparest when we deserve punishended, shall be said the following Pray-ment, and in thy wrath thinkest ers, immediately before the general upon mercy. Špare thy people, Thanksgiving. Lord, we beseech thee, mer-good Lord, spare them; and let cifully hear our prayers, and not thine heritage be brought to spare all those who confess their confusion. Hear us, O Lord, for ins unto thee; that they, whose thy mercy is great; and after the consciences by sin are accused, multitude of thy mercies look by thy merciful pardon may be upon us, through the merits and absolved, through Christ our mediation of thy blessed Son, Lord. Amen. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Most mighty God, and mer- For the Epistle. Joel, ii. 12. ciful Father, who hast com-TURN ye even to me, saith the passion upon all men, and hatest Lord, with all your heart, nothing that thou hast made; and with fasting, and with weep who wouldest not the death of aling, and with mourning. And |