The book of common prayer, and administration of the Sacraments, and other rites, and Ceremonies in the Church of England. Londini, in officina EdoVardi Whitchurche. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum. decorative border ❧ ❧ The Contents of this book. i. A Preface. two. Of Ceremonies, why some be abolished, and some retained. iii. The order how the Psalter is appointed to be read. iiii. The table for thorder of the Psalms to be said at Morning and Evening prayer. v. The order how the rest of holy Scripture is appointed to be read. vi. Proper Psalms and Lessons at Morning and Evening prayer, for certain feasts and days. seven. An Almanac. viii. The table and Calendar for Psalms and Lessons, with necessary Rules, appertaining to the same. ix. th'rder for Morning prayer and Evening prayer, throughout the year. x. The Litany. xi. The collects, Epistles and Gospels, to be used at the ministration of the holy communion, throughout the year. xii. th'rder of the ministration of the holy communion. xiii. Baptism both Public and Private. xiiii. confirmation, where also is a Cathechysme for children. xv. Matrimony. xvi. Visitation of the sick. xvii. The Communion of the sick. xviii. Burial. nineteen. The thanks giving of women after child birth. xx. A Commination against sinners, with certain prayers to be used diverse times in the year. The Preface. THere was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, (which in continuance of time) hath not been corrupted: as (among other things) it may plainly appear by the common prayers in the Church, commonly called divine service. The first original and ground whereof, if a man would search out by the ancient fathers, he shall find that the same was not ordained but of a good purpose, and for a great advancement of godliness. For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible, (or the greatest part thereof) should be read over once in the year: intending thereby, that the Clergy, and specially such as were ministers of the congregation, should (by often reading and meditation of God's word) be stirred up to Godliness themselves, and be more able also to exhort other by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were adversaries to the truth. And further, that the people (by daily hearing of holy scripture read in the church) should continually profit more and more in the knowledge of God, and be the more inflamed with the love of his true religion. But these many years passed, this godly and decente order of the ancient fathers, hath been so altered, broken, and neglected, by planting in uncertain Stories, Legends, Respondes, Verses, vain Repetitions, Commemorations, & Sinodalles, that commonly when any book of the Bible was begun, before three or four Chapters were read out, all the rest were unread. And in this sort the book of isaiah was begun in advent, and the book of Genesis in Septuagesima: but they were only begun, and never read through. After a like sort were other books of holy scripture used. And moreover, whereas Saint Paul would have such language spoken to the people in the Church, as they might understand, and have profit by hearing the same: The service in this Church of England (these many years) have been read in Latin to the people, which they understood not: so that they have heard with their ears only, and their hearts, spirit and mind, have not been edified thereby. And furthermore, notwithstanding that the ancient fathers have divided the Psalms into seven portions, whereof every one was called a Nocturne: now of late time a few of them have been daily said, and oft repeated, and the rest utterly omitted. Moreover, the numbered and hardness of the rules, called the Pie, and the manifold chaungeinges of the service, was the cause, that to turn the book only, was so hard and intricate a matter, that many times there was more business to find out what should be read, then to read it when it was found out. These inconveniences therefore considered, here is set forth such an order, whereby the same shallbe redressed. And for a readiness in this matter, here is drawn out a Calendar for that purpose, which is plain and easy to be understanden, wherein (so much as may be) the reading of holy scriptures is so set forth, that all things shallbe done in order, without breaking one piece thereof from an other. For this cause be cut of, Anthems, Respondes, Inuitatories, and such like things, as did break the continual course of the reading of the scripture. Yet because there is no remedy, but that of necessity there must be some rules: therefore certain rules are here set forth, which as they be few in numbered, so they be plain and easy to be understanden. So that here you have an order for prayer (as touching the reading of holy scripture) much agreeable to the mind and purpose of thold fathers, and a great deal more profitable and commodious, then that which of late was used. It is more profitable, because here are left out many things, whereof some be untrue, some uncertain, some vain and superstitious, and is ordained nothing to be read, but the very pure word of God, the holy scriptures, or that which is evidently grounded upon the same: and that in such a language and order, as is most easy and plain for the understanding, both of the readers and hearers. It is also more commodious, both for the shortness thereof, and for the plainness of the order, and for that the rules be few and easy. Furthermore, by this order, the Curates shall need none other books for their public service, but this book and the Bible: By the means whereof, the people shall not be at so great charge for books, as in times past they have been. And where heretofore there hath been great diversity in saying and singing in churches within this realm, some following Salisbury use, some Herforde use, some the use of Bangor, some of York, and some of Lincoln: Now from hence forth, all the whole Realm shall have but one use. And if any would judge this way more painful, because that all things must be read upon the book, whereas before by the reason of so often repetition, they could say many things by heart: If those men will weigh their labour, with the profit and knowledge which daily they shall obtain by reading upon the book, they will not refuse the pain, in consideration of the great profit that shall ensue thereof. And forasmuch as nothing can almost be so plainly set forth, but doubts may rise in the use and practising of the same: To appease all such diversity (if any arise) and for the resolution of all doubts, concerning the manner how to understand, do and execute the things contained in this book: The parties that so doubt, or diversly take any thing, shall alway resort to the bishop of the diocese, who by his discretion shall take order for the quieting and appeasing of the same, so that the same order be not contrary to any thing contained in this book. And if the bishop of the diocese be in any doubt, then may he send for the resolution thereof unto the archbishop. Though it be appointed in the aforewritten Preface, that all things shallbe read and song in the Church, in the english tongue, to the end that the congregation may be thereby edified: yet it is not mente, but when men say Morning and Evening prayer privately, they may say the same in any language that they themselves do understand. And all Priests and Deacons, shallbe bounded to say daily the morning and Evening prayer, either privately or openly, except they be letted by preaching, studying of divinity, or by some other urgent cause. And the Curate that ministereth in every Parish Church, or Chapel, being at home, & not being otherwise reasonably letted, shall say the same in the Parish Church or Chapel where he ministereth, and shall tolle a bell thereto, a convenient time before he begin, that such as be disposed may come to hear God's word, and to pray with him. ¶ Of Ceremonies, why some be abolished, and some retained. OF such Ceremonies as be used in the Church, and have had their beginning by the institution of man: some at the first were of godly intent and purpose devised, and yet at length turned to vanity and superstition: some entered into the church by undiscrete devotion, and such a zeal as was without knowledge: and forbecuse they were winked at in the beginning, they grew daily to more and more abuses: which not only for their unprofitableness, but also because they have much blinded the people, and obscured the glory of god, are worthy to be cut away & clean rejected. Other there be, which although they have been devised by man, yet it is thought good to reserve them still, aswell for a decent order in the church (for the which they were first devised) as because they parteine to edification: whereunto all things done in the Church (as the Apostle teacheth) ought to be referred. And although the keeping or omitting of a Ceremony (in itself considered) is but a small thing: yet the wilful and contemptuous transgression and breaking of a common order & discipline, is no small offence before god. Let all things be done among you (saith S. Paul) in a seemly and due order. The appointment of the which order pertaineth not to private men: therefore no man ought to take in hand, nor presume to appoint or alter any public or common order in Christ's church, except he be lawfully called and authorized thereunto. And whereas in this our time, the minds of men are so diverse, that some think it a great matter of conscience to departed from a piece of the least of their Ceremonies (they be so addicted to their old customs:) and again on the other side, some be so new fangled, that they would innovate all thing, and so do despise thold, that nothing can like them, but that is new: it was thought expedient, not so much to have respect how to please and satisfy either of these parties, as how to please god, and profit them both. And yet lest any man should be offended (whom good reason might satisfy) here be certain causes rendered, why some of the accustomed Ceremonies be put away, and some retained and kept still. Some are put away, because the great excess & multitude of them hath so increased in these latter days, that the burden of them was intolerable: whereof S. augustine in his time complained, that they were grown to such a numbered, that the state of Christian people was in worse case (concerning that matter) then were the jews. And he counseled that such yoke and burden should be taken away, as time waould serve quietly to do it. But what would S. augustine have said, if he had seen the Ceremonies of late days used among us; whereunto the multitude used in his time, was not to be compared. This our excessive multitude of Ceremonies was so great, and many of them so dark, that they did more confound and darken, then declare & set forth Chiristes' benefits unto us. And besides this, Christ's gospel is not a Ceremonial law (as much of Moses law was) but it is a religion to serve God, not in bondage of the figure or shadow, but in the freedom of spirit, being content only with those Ceremonies, which do serve to a decent order and godly discipline, and such as be apt to stir up the dull mind of man to the remembrance of his duty to god, by some notable and special signification, whereby he might be edified. Furthermore, the most weighty cause of th'abolishment of certain Ceremonies was, that they were so far abused, partly by the superstitious blindness of the rude and unlearned, and partly by the unsatiable avarice of such as sought more their own lucre, than the glory of God: that the abuses could not well be taken away, the thing remaining still. But now as concerning those persons, which peradventure will be offended, for that some of thold Ceremonies are retained still: if they considre that without some Ceremonies, it is not possible to keep any order, or quiet discipline in the church: they shall easily perceive just cause to reform their judgements. And if they think much, that any of thold do remain, & would rather have all devised a new: Then such men granting some Ceremonies convenient to be had, surely where the old may be well used, there they cannot reasonably reprove the old, only for their age, without bewraying of their own folly. For in such a case, they ought rather to have reverence unto than for their antiquity, if they will declare themselves to be more studious of unity & concord, then of innovations & newfangledness: which (asmuch as may be with the true setting forth of Christ's religion) is always to be eschewed. Furthermore, such shall have no just cause with the Ceremonies reserved, to be offended. For as those be taken away, which were most abused, & did burden men's consciences without any cause: so the other that remain, are retained for a discipline and order, which (upon just causes) may be altered & changed, & therefore are not to be esteemed equal with gods law. And moreover, they be neither dark nor dumb Ceremonies: but are so set forth, that every man may understand what they do mean, and to what use they do serve. So that it is not like that they in time to come, should be abused as the other have been. And in these our doings, we condemn no other nations, nor prescribe any thing, but to our own people only. For we think it convenient that every country should use such Ceremonies, as they shall think best to the setting forth of God's honour or glory, and to the reducing of the people to a most perfect and Godly living, without error or superstition. And that they should put away other things which from time to time they perceive to be most abused, as in men's ordinances it often chanceth diversely in diverse countries. ¶ An Act for the uniformity of common prayer, and administration of the Sacraments WHere there hath been a very Godly order set forth by authority of Parliament, for common prayer and administration of the Sacraments, to be used in the mother tongue within this Church of England, agreeable to the word of God and the primative Church, very comfortable to all good people, desiring to live in Christian conversation, & most profitable to the state of this Realm: upon the which, the mercy, favour, and blessing of almighty god, is in no wise so readily and plenteously powered, as by common prayers, due using of the Sacraments, & often preaching of the gospel, with the devotion of the hearers: And yet this notwithstanding, a great noumbre of people, in diverse parts of this realm, following their own sensuality, and living either without knowledge or due fear of God, do wilfully and damnably before almighty God, abstain and refuse to come to their Parish Churches and other places, where common prayer, administration of the Sacraments, & preaching of the word of God is used, upon the Sundays and other days, ordained to be holy days. For reformation hereof, be it enacted by the King our sovereign lord, with th'assent of the Lords and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from, and after the feast of all Saints next coming, all & every person and persons, inhabiting within this Realm, or any other the kings majesties dominions, shall diligently and faithfully, (having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent) endeavour themselves to resort to their Parish Church, or Chapel accustomed, or upon reasonable let thereof, to some usual place, where common prayer & such service of God shallbe used in such time of let, upon every Sunday, and other days, ordained and used to be kept as holy days, & then, and there to abide, orderly, & soberly, during the time of the common prayer, preachings, or other service of God, there to be used & ministered, upon pain of punishment by the Censures of the church. And for the due execution hereof, the Kings most excellent majesty, the Lords temporal, and all the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, doth in God's name, earnestly require and charge all tharchbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries, that they shall endeavour, themselves to the uttermost of their knowledges, that the due and true execution hereof, may be had throughout their Dyocesses and charges, as they will answer before God, for such evils and plagues, wherewith almighty God may justly punish his people, for neglecting this good and wholesome law. And for their authority in this behalf, be it further likewise enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and singular the same Archbishops, Bishops, & all other their officers, exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction, aswell in place exempt, as not exempt, within their Dyocesses, shall have full power and authority by this Act, to reform, correct and punish, by Censures of the church, all and singular persons which shall offend within any their jurisdictions or Dyocesses, after the said feast of all saints next coming: against this Act and statute, any other law, statute, privilege, liberty, or provision heretofore made, had, or suffered, to the contrary notwithstanding. And because there hath ariesen in the use and exercise of the foresaid common service in the Church heretofore set forth, diverse doubts for the fashion and manner of the ministration of the same, rather by the curiosity of the minister and mistakers, then of any other worthy cause: therefore, aswell for the more plain and manifest explanation hereof, as for the more perfection of the said order of common service, in some places where it is necessari to make the same prayer and fashion of service more earnest and fit to stir christian people to the true honouring of almighty God: The kings most excellent majesty, with th'assent of the lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by th'authority of the same, hath caused the foresaid order of common service, entitled, The book of Common prayer, to be faithfully & godly perused, explained, and made fully perfect: & by the foresaid authority, hath annexed and joined it, so explained and perfected to this present statute, adding also a form and manner of making & consecrating of archbishops, Bishops, priests and Deacons, to be of like force, authority & value, as the same like foresaid book entitled, The book of Common prayer, was before: and to be accepted, received, used and esteemed in like sort and manner, & with the same clauses of prousions and exceptions, to all intents, constructions and purposes, as by the Act of parliament made in the second year of the kings majesties reign, was ordained, limited, expressed, and appointed for the uniformity of service, and administration of the Sacraments throughout the realm, upon such several pains, as in the said Act of Parliament is expressed. And the said former Act to stand in full force and strength, to all intents and constructions, & to be applied, practised, and put in ure, to, and for the establishing of the book of common prayer, now explained, and hereunto annexed: & also the said form of making of Archbishops, Bishops, priests and Deacons, hereunto annexed, as it was for the former book. And by th'authority aforesaid it is now further enacted, that if any manner of person, or persons, inhabiting, & being within this Realm, or any other the kings majesties dominions, shall after the said feast of all Saints, willingly, and wittingly, hear and be present at any other manner or form of common prayer of administration of the Sacraments, of making of ministers in the churches, or of any other rites contained in the book annexed to this Act, then is mentioned and set forth in the said book, or that is contrary to the form of sundry provisions & exceptions, contained in the foresaid former statute, and shallbe thereof convicted, according to the laws of this realm, before the justices of Assize, justices of Oyer, and Determiner, justices of peace in their Sessions, or any of them, by the verdict of twelve men, or by his, or their own confession, or otherwise, shall for the first offence suffer impriesonment for six months, without bail or maynprice: and for the second offence, being likewise convicted, (as is above said,) empriesonment for one whole year: and for the third offence, in like manner, empriesonment during his or their lives. And for the more knowledge to be given hereof, and better observation of this law: Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and singular Curates, shall upon one Sunday every quarter of the year, during one whole year next following the foresaid feast of all Saints next coming, read this present Act in the Church, at the time of the most assembly: and likewise once in every year following, at the same time declaring unto the people by the authority of the scripture, home the mercy and goodness of God hath in all ages been showed to his people, in their necessities and extremities, by means of hearty and faithful prayers made to almighty god, specially where people be gathered together with one faith and mind, to offer up their hearts by prayer, as the best Sacrifices that Christian men can yield. The Table and Calendar, expressing the order of the Psalms and Lessons, to be said at the Morning and Evening prayer throughout the year, except certain proper feasts, as the rules following, more plainly declare. ¶ The order how the Psalter is appointed to be read. THe Psalter shallbe read through, once every month. And because that some Months be longer than some other be, it is thought good to make them even, by this means. To every month, shall be appointed (as concerning this purpose) just xxx days. And because january and March hath one day above the said numbered, and February which is placed between them both, hath only xxviii days: February shall borrow of either of the Months (of january & March) one day. And so the Psalter which shallbe read in February, must begin the last day of january, and end the first day of March. And whereas May, july, August, Octobre, and december, have xxxi days a piece: it is ordered that the same Psalms, shall be read the last day of the said Months, which were read the day before. So that the Psalter may begin again the first day of the next Months ensuing. Now to know what Psalms shallbe read every day, look in the Calendar, the numbered that is appointed for the Psalms, and then find the same numbered in this Table, and upon that numbered shall you see what Psalms shallbe said at Morning and Evening prayer. And where the. Cxix. Psalm is divided into xxii portions, & is overlong to be read at one time: it is so ordered, that at one time shall not be read above four or five of the said portions, as you shall perceive to be noted in this Table following. And here is also to be noted, that in this Table, and in all other parts of the service, where any Psalms are appointed, the numbered is expressed after the great English Bible, which from the ix Psalm, unto the Cxlviii. Psalm (following the division of the hebrews) doth vary in numbers from the common Latin translation. ❧ ❧ The Table for the order of the Psalms to be said at Morning and Evening prayer. ¶ Morning prayer. ¶ Evening prayer. i i. two. iii. iiii. v. vi. seven. viii. two ix. x. xi. xii. xiii. xiiii. iii xv. xvi. xvii. xviii. iiii nineteen. xx. xxi. xxii. xxiii. v xxiiii. xxv. xxvi. xxvii. xxviii. xxix. vi thirty xxxi. xxxii. xxxiii. xxxiiii. seven xxxv. xxxvi. xxxvii. viii xxxviii. xxxix. xl. xli. xlii. xliii. ix xliiii. xlv. xlvi. xlvii. xlviii. xlix. x l. li. lii. liii. liv. lv. xi lvi. lvii. lviii. lix. lx. lxi. xii lxii. lxiii. lxiiii. lxv. lxvi. lxvii. xiii lxviii. lxix. lxx. xiiii lxxi. lxxii. lxxiii. lxxiiii. xv lxxv. lxxvi. lxxvii. lxxviii. xvi lxxix. lxxx. lxxxi. lxxxii. lxxxiii. lxxxiiii. lxxxv. xvii lxxxvi. lxxxvii. lxxxviii. lxxxix. xviii xc. xci. xcii. xciii. xciiii. nineteen xcvi. xcvii. xcviii. xcix. c. ci. xx cii. ciii. ciiii. xxi cv. cvi. xxii cvii cviii. cix. xxiii cx. cxi. cxii. cxiii. cxiiii. cxv. xxiiii cxvi. cxvii. cxviii. cxix. Ind. iiii. xxv Ind. v. Ind. iiii. xxvi Ind. v. Ind. iiii. xxvii cxx. cxxi. cxxii. cxxiii. cxxiiii. cxxv. cxxvi. cxxvii. cxxviii. cxxix. cxxx cxxxi. xxviii cxxxii. cxxxiii. cxxxiiii. cxxxv. cxxxvi. cxxxvii. cxxxviii. xxix cxxxix. cxl. cxli cxlii. cxliii. thirty cxliiii. cxlv. cxlvi. cxlvii cxlviii. cxlix cl ❧ ❧ The order how the rest of holy scripture (beside the Psalter) is appointed to be read. I Hold Testament is appointed for the first Lessons, at Morning and Evening prayer, and shallbe read through, every year once, except certain books and chapters, which be least edifying, and might best be spared, and therefore be left unreadde. The new testament is appointed for the second Lessons at Morning and Evening prayer, and shallbe read over orderly every year thrice, beside the Epistles and gospels: except the apocalypse, out of the which there be only certain Lessons appointed, upon diverse proper feasts. And to know what lessons shallbe read every day: find the day of the month in the Calendar following, and there ye shall perceive the books and chapters that shall be read for the Lessons both at Morning and Evening prayer. And here is to be noted, that whensoever there be any proper Psalms or Lessons appointed for any feast, movable or unmovable: then the Psalms and lessons, appointed in the calendar, shallbe omited for the time. Ye must note also, that the Collect, Epistle and Gospel, appointed for the sunday, shall serve all the week after, except there fall some feast that hath his proper. This is also to be noted, concerning the Leap years, that the xxv day of February, which in Leap year, is counted for two days, shall in those two days, altar neither Psalm nor lesson: but the same Psalms and lessons, which be said the first day, shall also serve for the second day. Also wheresoever the beginning of any lesson, Epistle or Gospel is not expressed: there ye must begin at the beinning of the Chapter. And wheresoever is not expressed how far shall be read, there shall you read to the end of the Chapter. ¶ Proper Psalms and Lessons for diverse feasts and days, at Morning and Evening prayer. On Christmas day at morning prayer. Psalm. nineteen. Psalm. xlv. Psalm. lxxxv The first Lesson. Isaiah ix The ii Lesson. Luke ii unto And unto men a good will At Evening prayer. Psalm. lxxxix Psalm. Cx. Psal. Cxxxii The first Lesson. isaiah vii God spoke once again to Achas. etc. unto the end. The second Lesson. Tit. The kindness and love. etc. unto. foolish questions. On saint Stephen's day, at morning prayer The second Lesson. Acts vi and vii Stephen full of faith and power. unto. And when forty years were. etc. At Evening prayer. The second Lesson. Acts vii And when forty years were expired, there appeared unto Moses. etc. unto. Stephen full of the holy ghost. On saint john the evangelists day, at Morning prayer. The second Lesson. Apocalip i The whole Chapter. At Evening prayer. The second Lesson. apocalypse xxii On the Innocentes day, at morninng prayer. The first Lesson. jerem xxxi unto. Moreover I heard Ephraim. On the Circuncision day, at morning prayer The first Lesson. Genesis xvii The second Lesson. Roma ii At Evening prayer. The i Lesson. Deu ten And now Israel. etc. The second Lesson. Collossi ii On the epiphany at Morning prayer. The first Lesson. Isaiah lx The second Lesson. Luke iii And it fortuned. etc. At Evening prayer. The first Lesson. Isaiah xlix The second Lesson. john ii After this he went down to Capernaum. On Wednesday before Easter, at Evening prayer. The first Lesson. Ozee xiii xiiii. On thursday before Easter, at Morning prayer. The first Lesson. Daniel ix At Evening prayer. The first Lesson. jeremy xxxi On Good friday, at Morning prayer. The first Lesson. Genesis xxii At Evening prayer. The first lesson. Esay liii On Easter even, at Morning prayer. The first Lesson. zachary ix On Easter day, at Morning prayer. Psalm. two. Psalm. lvii. Psalm. cxi The first lesson. Exo xii The second lesson. Ro vi At Evening prayer. Psalm. cxiii Psal. cxiiii. Psal. cxviii. The second lesson. Act ii On monday in Easter week, at Morning prayer. The second Lesson. Math. xxviii At Evening prayer. The second Lesson. Acts iii On tuesdaye in Easter week, at Morning prayer. The second Lesson. Luke xxiiii unto. And behold two of them. At Evening prayer. The second Lesson. i. Corinth xu On the ascension day, at Morning prayer. Psalm. viii. Psalm. xv. Psalm. xxi. The second lesson. Ioh. xiiii At Evening prayer. Psalm. xxiiii. Psalm. lxviii. Psalm. Cviii The second lesson. Ephe. four On Whitsunday, at morning prayer. Psalm. xlviii. Psalm. lxvii. The second lesson. Acts ten Then Peter opened his. etc. At Evening prayer. Psalm. Ciiii Psalm. Cxlv. The second Lesson. Act xix It fortuned when Apollo went to Corinthum. etc. unto After these things. On Trinity sunday, at Morning prayer. The first lesson. Genesis xviii The second Lesson. Math. iii Conversion of S. Paul, at morning prayer. The second Lesson. Acts xxii unto. They heard him. At Evening prayer. The second lesson. Acts xxvi Saint Barnabies day, at morning prayer. The second lesson. Acts xiiii At Evening prayer. The second lesson. Acts xu unto. After certain days. Saint john Baptistes' day, at Morning prayer. The first lesson. Malachi iii The second lesson. Math. iii At Evening prayer. The first lesson. Malachi four The second lesson. Math. xiiii unto. When jesus heard. Saint Peter's day, at morning prayer. The second Lesson. Acts iii At Evening prayer. The second Lesson. Acts four All saints day at Morning prayer. The first lesson. Sapien iii unto. Blessed is rather the barren. The second lesson. Hebre xi xii. Saints by faith subdued. unto. If you endure chastising. At Evening prayer. The first lesson. Sapien .v. unto. His jealousy also. The second lesson. apocalypse xix unto. And I saw an Angel stand. ¶ A brief declaration when every Term beginneth, and endeth. BE it known that Easter term beginneth always the xviii day after Easter, reckoning Easter day for one, and endeth the mondaye next after the ascension day. Trinity term beginneth always the Friday next after Corpus Christi day, and endeth the wednesday fortnight after. Michaelmas Term beginneth the ninth or tenth day of October, and endeth the xxviii or xxix day of Novembre. Hilary term beginneth the xxiii or xxiiii day of january, and endeth the xii or xiii day of Februarye. In Easter term on the Ascension day. In Trinity term on the Nativity of. S. john Baptist. In Michaelmas term on all-hallows day and all soul's day. In Hillarye term, on Candlemas day: the kings judges at Westminster do not use to sit in judgement, nor upon any Sundays. ¶ An Almanac for xix years. ¶ The year of our Lord. ¶ The Golden numbered. ¶ The epact ¶ The cycle of the sun. ¶ Dominical letter. Easter day. M.D.lii 14 iiii xxi C B xvii. April. M.D.liii xv xv xxii A two. April. M.D.liiii xvi xxvi xxiii G xxv. March M.D.lv xvii seven xxiiii F xiiii. April. M.D.lvi xviii xviii xxv E D v. April. M.D.lvii xix xxix xxvi C xviii. April. M.D.lviii i xi xxvii B x. April. M.D.lix ii xxii xxviii A xxvi. March M.D.lx iii iii i G F xiiii. April. M.D.lxi four xiiii two E vi. April. M.D.lxii v xxv iii D M.D.lxiii vi xxvi iiii C M.D.lxiiii vii xvii v B A M.D.lxv viii xxviii vi G M.D.lxvi ix ix seven F M.D.lxvii x xx viii E M.D.lxviii xi i ix D D M.D.lxix xii xii x B M.D.lxx xiii xxiii xi A ¶ january hath xxxi days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson two. Lesson. i. Lesson two. Lesson iii A Kalend. Circumcisi i Goe xvii Rom. two. duty. x two b iiii No. two Genes. i Mat. i Genes. two Roma. i xi c iii No. iii iii two iiii two d Prid. No. iiii v iii vi iii xix e Nonas. v seven iiii viii iiii viii f viii Id. epiphany vi Esay. lx. Luke. iii isaiah. xlix john. two g seven Id. seven Gene. ix Math. v Genes. xi Roma. v xvi A vi Id. viii xii vi xiii vi v b v Id. ix xiiii seven xv seven c iiii Id. x xvi viii xvii viii xiii d iii Id. Sol in aqua. xi xviii ix nineteen ix two e Prid. Id. xii xx x xxi x f Idus. Hilarii. xiii xxii xi xxiii xi x g nineteen kl. Februarii. xiiii xxiiii xii xxv xii A xviii kl. xv xxvi xiii xxvii xiii xviii b xvii kl. xvi xxviii xiiii xxix xiiii vii c xvi kl. Anthoni. xvii thirty xv xxxi xv d xv kl. xviii xxxii xvi xxxiii xvi xv e xiiii kl. nineteen xxxiiii xvii xxxv i Corin. i four f xiii kl. Fab. & Bast xx xxxvi xviii xxxvii two g xii kl. Agnes. xxi xxxix nineteen xxxix iii xii A xi kl. Vincent. xxii xl xx xli iiii i b x kl. xxiii xlii xxi xliii v c ix kl. xxiiii xliiii xxii xlv vi ix d viii kl. Con Paul. xxv xlvi Act. xxii xlvii Act. xxvi. e seven kl. xxvi xlviii ma. xxiii xlix i Cor. seven xvii f vi kl. xxvii l xxiiii Exodi. i. viii vi g v kl. xxviii Exodi. two xxv iii ix A iiii kl. xxix iiii xxvi v x 14 b iii kl. thirty vi xxvii seven xi iii c Prid. kl. i viii xxviii ix xii ¶ February hath xxviii days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson two. Lesson. i. Lesson. two. Lesson d Kalend. two Exodi. x. Mark. i. Exodi. xi i. cor. xiii xi e iiii No. Puri. mary iii xii two xiii xiiii nineteen f iii No. Blaze. iiii xiiii iii xv xv viii g Prid. No. v xvi iiii xvii xvi A Nonas. Agathe. vi xviii v nineteen two. Cori. i xvi b viii Id. Doroth. seven xx vi xxi two v c seven Id. viii xxii seven xxiii iii d vi Id. ix xxiiii viii xxxii iiii xiii e v Id. x xxxiii ix xxxiiii v two f iiii Id. Sol. in Pis. xi xxxv x xl vi g iii Id. xii Le. xviii xi Levi. nineteen. seven x A Prid. Id. xiii xx xii Nun. x. viii b Idus. Valentine. xiiii Num. xi. xiii xii ix xviii c xvi kl. March. xv xiii xiiii xiiii x xii d xv kl. xvi xv xv xvi xi e xiiii kl. xvii xvii xvi xviii xii xv f xiii kl. xviii nineteen Luke. di. i xx xiii four g xii kl. nineteen xxi di. i xxii Galath. i A xi kl. Mildrede. xx xxiii two xxiiii two xii b x kl. xxi xxv iii xxvi iii i c ix kl. xxii xxvii iiii xxviii iiii d viii kl. The place of the leap year. xxiii xxix v thirty v ix e seven kl. xxiiii xxxi vi xxxii vi. f vi kl. S. Mathias xxv xxxiii seven xxxiiii Ephesi i xvii g v kl. xxvi xxxv viii xxxvi two vi A iiii kl. xxvii duty. i ix duty. two iii b iii kl. xxviii iii x iiii iiii 14 c Brid. Kl. xxix v xi vi v ¶ March hath xxxi days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson. two. Lesson. i. Lesson. two. Lesson iii d Kalend. David. thirty Deu. seven Luk. xii. deu. viii Ephe. vi e vi No. Chadde. i ix xiii x Philip. i xi f v No. two xi xiiii xii two g iiii No. Adrian. iii xiii xv xiiii iii xix A iii No. iiii xv xvi xvi iiii viii b Prid. No. v xvii xvii xviii i c Nonas. vi nineteen xviii xx two xvi d viii Id. seven xxi nineteen xxii iii v e seven Id. viii xxiii xx xxiiii iiii f vi Id. ix xxv xxi xxvi i thessa. i. xiii g v Id. Equinoctium. x xxvii xxii xxviii two ii A iiii Id. Sol in ariete xi xxix xxiii thirty iii b iii Id. xii xxxi xxiiii xxxii iiii x c Prid. Id. xiii xxxiii john. i xxxiiii v d Idus. xiiii josu. i two josu. two two. thes. i. xviii e xvii kl. Aprilis. xv iii iii iii two vii f xvi kl. xvi iiii iiii iiii iii g xv kl. xvii v v v i timo. i xv A xiiii kl. Edward. xviii vi vi vi two. iii four b xiii kl. nineteen seven seven seven iiii c xii kl. xx viii viii viii v xii d xi kl. xxi ix ix ix vi i e x kl. xxii x x xi two. timo. i f ix kl. Fast. xxiii xii xi xx two ix g viii kl. Annunci. xxiiii xxi xii xxii iii A seven kl. xxv xxiii xiii xxiiii iiii xvii b vi kl. xxvi judi. i xiiii judi. two Titus. i vi c v kl. xxvii iii xv iiii two. iii d iiii kl. xxviii v xvi vi Phile. i. 14 e iii kl. xxix seven xvii viii Heb. i. iii f Prid. Kl. thirty ix xviii x two ¶ April hath xxx days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson. two. Lesson. i. Lesson. two. Lesson g Kalend. i judic. xi joh. nineteen. judi. xii Heb. iii xi A iiii No. two xiii xx xiiii iiii b iii No. iii xv xxi xvi v nineteen c Prid. No. Ambrose iiii xvii Acts. i xviii vi viii d Nonas. v nineteen two xx seven xvi e viii Id. vi xxi iii Ruth. i viii v f seven Id. seven Rut. two iiii iii ix g vi Id. viii iiii v i Reg. i x xiii A v Id. ix i. Re. two vi iii xi two b iiii Id. Sol in tau x iiii seven v xii c iii Id. xi vi viii seven xiii x d Prid. Id. xii viii ix ix jacob. i e Idus. xiii x x xi two xviii f xviii Kl. Maii. xiiii xii xi xiii iii seven g xvii kl. xv xiiii xii xv iiii A xvi kl. xvi xvi xiii xvii v xv b xv kl. xvii xviii xiiii nineteen i Pet. i iiii c xiiii kl. xviii xx xv xxi two d xiii kl. nineteen xxii xvi xxiii iii xii e xii kl. xx xxiiii xvii xxv iiii i f xi kl. xxi xxvi xviii xxvii v g x kl. xxii xxviii nineteen xxix two. Pet. i ix A ix kl. S. Georg xxiii thirty xx xxxi two b viii kl. xxiiii two. Re. i xxi two. Re. two iii xvii c seven kl. Marke eud. xxv iii xxii iiii i john. i vi d vi kl. xxvi v xxiii vi two e v kl. xxvii seven xxiiii viii iii xiiii f iiii kl. xxviii ix xxv x iiii iii g iii kl. xxix xi xxvi xii v A Prid. kl. thirty xiii xxvii xiiii two. iii. Ioh ¶ may hath xxxi days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson. two. Lesson. i. Lesson. two. Lesson xi b Kalend Philip & ja i two. Re. xv Act. viii. two. re. xvi juoas. i c vi No. two xvii xxviii xviii Roma. i xix d v No. The cross. iii nineteen Math. i xx two viii e iiii No. iiii xxi two xxii iii f iii No. v xxiii iii xxiiii iiii xvi g Prid. No. vi iii. Re. i iiii three reg. i v v A Nonas john beaver seven two v two vi b viii Id. viii iii vi iiii seven xiii c seven Id. ix v seven ix viii ii d vi Id. x ix viii x ix e v Id. Sol in Goe xi xi ix xii x x f iiii Id. xii xiii x xiiii xi g iii Id. xiii xv xi xvi xii xviii A Prid. Id. xiiii xvii xii xviii xiii vii b Idus. xv nineteen xiii xx xiiii c xvii kl. junii. xvi xxi xiiii xxii xv xv d xvi kl. xvii iiii. Re. i xv iiii. re. two xvi four e xv kl. xviii iii xvi iiii i Cor. i. f xiiii kl. nineteen v xvii vi two xii g xiii kl. xx seven xviii viii iii i A xii kl. Heline. xxi ix nineteen x iiii b xi kl. xxii xi xx xii v ix c x kl. xxiii xiii xxi xiiii vi d ix kl. xxiiii xv xxii xvi seven xvii e viii kl. xxv xvii xxiii xviii viii vi f seven kl. xxvi nineteen xxiiii xx ix g vi kl. xxvii xxi xxv xxii x 14 A v kl. xxviii xxiii xxvi xxiiii xi iii b iiii kl. xxix xxv xxvii xxv xii c iii kl. thirty i. Esdr. i. xxviii i. Esd. iii xiii x1 d Prid. Kl. thirty iii Mark. i iiii xiiii ¶ june hath xxx days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson two. Lesson i. Lesson two. Lesson. e Kalend. i i. esd. iiii Mar. two. i. Esdr. v i. Cor. xv. xix f iiii. No. two vi iii vi xvi viii g iii. No. iii seven iiii seven two. Cor. i. xvi A Prid. No. iiii viii v viii two v b Nonas v ix vi x iii c viii. Id. vi two. Esd. i seven two. esd. iii iiii xiii d seven. Id. seven iiii viii v v ii e vi. Id. viii vi ix viii vi f v. Id. Edmond. ix ix x xiii seven x g iiii. Id. x Hester. i xi Hest. two. viii A iii. Id. Barnaby. xi iii Act. xiiii iiii Acts. xv. xviii b Prid. Id. xii v Mar. xii vi two. Cor. ix. vii c Idus. Sol in Can. xiii seven xiii viii x d xviii. kl. july. xiiii ix xiiii job. i xi xv e xvii. kl. xv job. two xv iii xii four f xvi. kl. xvi iiii xvi v xiii g xv. kl. xvii vi Luke. i seven Galath. i. xii A xiiii. kl. xviii viii two ix two i b xiii. kl. nineteen x iii xi iii c xii. kl. xx xii iiii xiii iiii ix d xi. kl. Edward king xxi xiiii v xv v e x. kl. xxii xvi vi xvii xviii vi xvii f ix. kl. Fast. xxiii nineteen seven xx Ephesi. i. vi g viii. kl. John Bap. xxiiii Mal. three Mat. iii Mal. iiii mat. xiiii. A seven. kl. xxv job. xxi. Lu. viii. job. xxii Ephes. two. 14 b vi. kl. xxvi xxiii ix xxiiii xxv iii iii c v. kl. xxvii 26.27 x xxviii iiii d iiii. kl. Fast. xxviii xxix xi thirty v xi e iii. kl. Peter apo. xxix xxxi Act. iii. xxxii Acts. iiii f Prid. kl. thirty xxxiii Luk. xii xxxiiii Ephes. vi. ¶ july hath xxxi days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson. two. Lesson. i. Lesson. two. Lesson xix g Kalend. i job. xxxv Luk. xiii job. xxxvi Philip. i viii A vi No. Visitation two xxxvii xiiii xxxviii two b v No. of our lady iii xxxix xv xi iii xvi c iiii No. iiii xli xvi xlii iiii v d iii No. v Prou. i xvii Prou. two. i e Prid. No. vi iii xviii iiii two xiii f Nonas Dog days. seven v nineteen vi iii ii g viii Id. viii seven xx viii iiii A seven Id. ix ix xxi x i thessa. i. x b vi Id. x xi xxii xii two c v Id. xi xiii xxiii xiiii iii xviii d iiii Id. xii xv xxiiii xvi iiii vii e iii Id. xiii xvii john. i xviii v f Prid. Id. Sol in Leo xiiii nineteen two xx two. thess. i xv g Idus. Margarete xv xxi iii xxii two four A xvii kl. August. xvi xxiii iiii xxiiii iii b xvi kl. xvii xxv v xxvi i timo. i xii c xv kl. xviii xxvii vi xxviii two. iii i d xiiii kl. nineteen xxix seven thirty iiii e xiii kl. xx xxxi viii Eccles. i v ix f xii kl. xxi Eccle. two. ix iii vi g xi kl. Mari mag. xxii iiii x v two. timo. i xvii A x kl. xxiii vi xi seven two vi b ix kl. Fast. xxiiii viii xii ix iii c viii kl. James apo. xxv x xiii xi iiii 14 d seven kl. xxvi xii xiiii jerem. i Titus. i iii e vi kl. seven. sleper. xxvii jere. two. xv iii two. iii f v kl. xxviii iiii xvi v Phile. i xi g iiii kl. xxix vi xvii seven Heb. i A iii kl. thirty viii xviii ix two xix b Prid. Kl. thirty x nineteen xi iii ¶ August hath xxxi days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson two. Lesson i. Lesson two. Lesson. viii c Kalend. Lammas. i jere. xii joh. xx. jer. xiii. Hebr. iiii xvi d iiii. No. two xiiii xxi xv v v e iii. No. iii xvi Acts. i. xvii vi f Prid. No. iiii xviii two nineteen seven xiii g Nonas. v xx iii xxi viii ii A viii. Id. vi xxii iiii xxiii ix b seven. Id. seven xxiiii v xxv x x c vi. Id. viii xxvi vi xxvii xi d v. Id. ix xxviii seven xxix xii xviii e iiii. Id. S. Laurence x thirty viii xxxi xiii vii f iii. Id. xi xxxii ix xxxiii jacobi. i. g Prid. Id. xii xxxiiii x xxxv two xv A Idus xiii xxxvi xi xxxvii iii four b nineteen kl. Septembris. xiiii xxxviii xii xxxix iiii c xviii. kl. Assump. mary xv xl xiii xli v xii d xvii. kl. Sol in Vir. xvi xlii xiiii xliii i Petri. i. i e xvi. kl. xvii xliiii xv xlv. xlvi. two f xv. kl. xviii xlvii xvi xlviii iii ix g xiiii. kl. nineteen xlix xvii l iiii A xiii. kl. xx li xviii lii v xvii b xii. kl. Barnard. xxi Lamen. i. nineteen Lamen. two two. Pete. i. vi c xi. kl. xxii iii xx iiii two d x. kl. Fast xxiii v xxi Ezech. two iii 14 e ix. kl. Bartho ap. xxiiii Ezec. iii. xxii vi i john. i. iii f viii. kl. xxv seven xxiii xiii two g seven. kl. xxvi xiiii xxiiii xviii iii xi A vi. kl. xxvii xxxiii xxv xxxiiii iiii b v. kl. Augustine. xxviii Danie. i xxvi Dani. two. v xix c iiii. kl. xxix iii xxvii iiii two. three joh. viii d iii kl. thirty v xxviii vi jude. i. e Prid. kl thirty seven Math. i viii Roma. i. ¶ September hath xxx days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson two. Lesson. i. Lesson. two. Lesson xvi f Kalend. i Dani. ix. Math. two Danie. x Roma. two v g iiii No. two xi iii xii iii A iii No. iii xiii iiii xiiii iiii xiii b Prid. No. iiii Ozee. i v ooze two. iii. v ii c Nonas. Dog da. end v iiii vi v. vi vi d viii Id. vi seven seven viii seven x e seven Id. seven ix viii x viii f vi Id. Nati. marry. viii xi ix xii ix xviii g v Id. ix xiii x xiiii x vii A iiii Id. x joel. i xi joel. two. xi b iii Id. xi iii xii Amos. i. xii xv c Prid. Id. xii Amos. two xiii iii xiii iv d Idus. xiii iiii xiiii v xiiii e xviii kl. Octobre. xiiii vi xv seven xv xii f xvii kl. Sol. in Libra. xv viii xvi ix xvi i g xvi kl. xvi Abdias. i xvii jonas. i. i Cor. i. A xv kl. xvii ion. two. iii xviii iiii two ix b xiiii kl. xviii Miche. i nineteen Miche. two iii c xiii kl. nineteen iii xx iiii iiii xvii d xii kl. Fast. xx v xxi vi v vi e xi kl. S. Matheto xxi seven xxii Naum. i. vi. f x kl. xxii naum. two xxiii iii seven 14 g ix kl. xxiii Abacuc. i xxiiii Abacu. two viii iii A viii kl. xxiiii iii xxv Sopho. i ix b seven kl. xxv Soph. two xxvi iii x xi c vi kl. xxvi Agge. i xxvii Agge. two xi d v kl. xxvii zacah. i xxviii zac. two. iii. xii xix e iiii kl. xxviii iii. v. Mark. i. vi xiii viii f iii kl. S Michael xxix seven two viii xiiii g Prid Kl. Jerome thirty ix iii x xv ¶ Octobre hath xxxi days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson two. Lesson. i. Lesson. two. Lesson xvi A Kalend. i zacha. xi. Mar. iiii zacha. xii i. cor. xvi v b vi No. two xiii v xiiii two. Cor. i xiii c v No. iii Malac. i vi Malac. two two. ii d iiii No. Faith iiii iii seven iiii iii e iii No. v Tobi. i viii Tobi. two. iiii x f Prid. No. vi iii ix iiii v g Nonas. seven v x vi vi xviii A viii Id. viii seven xi viii seven vii b seven Id. ix ix xii x viii c vi Id. x xi xiii xii ix xv d v Id. xi xiii xiiii xiiii x four e iiii Id. xii judith. i xv Iudit. two. xi f iii Id. Edward. xiii iii xvi iiii xii xii g Prid. Id. Sol in scor xiiii v Luk. di. i vi xiii i A Idus. xv seven di. i viii Galath. i b xvii kl. November. xvi ix two x two ix c xvi kl. xvii xi iii xii iii d xv kl. Luke evange xviii xiii iiii xiiii iiii xvii e xiiii kl. nineteen xv v xvi v vi f xiii kl. xx Sapie. i. vi Sapie. two. vi. g xii kl. xxi iii seven iiii Ephesi i 14 A xi kl. xxii v viii vi two iii b x kl. xxiii seven ix viii iii c ix kl. xxiiii ix x x iiii xi d viii kl. Chrispine xxv xi xi xii v e seven kl. xxvi xiii xii xiii vi xix f vi kl. Fast. xxvii xv xiii xvi Philip. i viii g v kl. Simon & Jude xxviii xvii xiiii xviii two A iiii kl. xxix nineteen xv Eccle. i iii xvi b iii kl. thirty Eccle. two xvi iii iiii v c Prid Kl. thirty iiii xvii v Colloss. i. ¶ November hath xxx days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson two. Lesson. i. Lesson. two. Lesson. d Kalend. All saints i Sap. iii heb. 11.12 Sapie. v Apoc. nineteen xiii e iiii No. two Eccl. vi Lu. xviii Eccle. seven Collo. two ii f iii No. iii viii nineteen ix iii g Prid. No. iiii x xx xi iiii x A Nonas. v xii xxi xiii i thessa. i b viii Id. Leonard. vi xiiii xxii xv two xviii c seven Id. seven xvi xxiii xvii iii vii d vi Id. viii xviii xxiiii nineteen iiii e v Id. ix xx john. i xxi v xv f iiii Id. x xxii two xxiii two. thess. i four g iii Id. Martin. xi xxiiii iii xxv two A Prid. Id. xii xxvi iiii xxvii iii xii b Idus. Sol in sagit. xiii xxviii v xxix i Tim. i i c xviii kl. Decembre. xiiii thirty vi xxxi two. iii d xvii kl. xv xxxii seven xxxiii iiii ix e xvi kl. xvi xxxiiii viii xxxv v f xv kl. xvii xxxvi ix xxxvii vi xvii g xiiii kl. xviii xxxviii x xxxix two. timo. i vi A xiii kl. nineteen xl xi xli two b xii kl. xx xlii xii xliii. iii 14 c xi kl. xxi xliiii xiii xlv iiii iii d x kl. xxii xlvi xiiii xlvii. Titus. i. e ix kl. S. Clement. xxiii xlviii xv xlix two. iii xi f viii kl. xxiiii l xvi li Philem. g seven kl. Katherine. xxv Baru. i xvii Baru. two Hebre. i. xix A vi kl. xxvi iii xviii iiii two viii b v kl. xxvii v nineteen vi iii c iiii kl. xxviii Isaiah. i xx Esay. two. iiii xvi d iii kl. Fast. xxix iii xxi iiii v v e Prid Kl. Andrew thirty v Acts. i. vi vi ¶ December hath xxxi days. ¶ Psalms. Morning prayer. Evening prayer. i. Lesson two. Lesson. i. Lesson. two. Lesson. f Kalend. i isaiah. seven Acts. two. isaiah. viii Heb. seven. xiii g iiii No. two ix iii x viii ii A iii No. iii x iiii xii ix x b Prid. No. iiii xiii v xiiii x c Nonas. Nicolas. v xv vi xvi xi xviii d viii Id. vi xvii di. seven xviii xii vii e seven Id. Concep ma. seven nineteen di. seven xx. xxi xiii f vi Id. viii xxii viii xxiii james. i xv g v Id. ix xxiiii ix xxv two four A iiii Id. x xxvi x xxvii iii b iii Id. xi xxviii xi xxix iiii xii c Prid. Id. Sol in cap xii thirty xii xxxi v i d Idus. Lucy. xiii xxxii xiii xxxiii i Petr. i. e nineteen kl. january. xiiii xxxiiii xiiii xxxv two. ix f xviii kl. xv xxxvi xv xxxvii iii g xvii kl. xvi xxxviii xvi xxxix iiii xvii A xvi kl. xvii xl xvii xli v vi b xv kl. xviii xlii xviii xliii two. Pet. i. c xiiii kl. nineteen xliiii nineteen xlv two 14 d xiii kl. Fast. xx xlvi xx xlvii iii iii e xii kl. Thomas ap xxi xlviii xxi xlix i john. i f xi kl. xxii l xxii li two xi g x kl. S. Clement. xxiii lii xxiii liii iii A ix kl. Fast. xxiiii liii xxiiii lv iiii xix b viii kl. Christmas. xxv isaiah. ix. Luke. two. Esay. seven Titu. iii viii c seven kl. S. Stephen. xxvi lvi ac. vi. seven lvii Act. seven. d vi kl. S. john evan xxvii lviii Apoca. i. lix Apoc. xxii xvi e v kl. Innocentes. xxviii jer. xxxi Act. xxv. Esa. lx i. john. v v f iiii kl. xxix Esay. lxi xxvi lxii two. john. i g iii kl. thirty lxiii xxvii lxiiii iii. john. i xiii A Prid. ka. thirty lxv xxviii lxvi jude. i ¶ The order where Morning and Evening prayer. shallbe used and said. The Morning and Evening prayer, shallbe used in such place of the Church, Chapel, or Chancel, and the Minister shall so turn him, as the people may best hear. And if there be any controversy therein, the matter shallbe referred to the ordinary, and he or his deputy shall appoint the place, & the chancels shall remain, as they have done in times past. And here is to be noted, that the Minister at the time of the communion, and at all other times in his ministration, shall use neither Albe, Vestment, nor Cope: but being archbishop, or Bishop, he shall have and wear a rochet: and being a Priest or Deacon, he shall have and wear a surplice only. ¶ An order for Morning prayer, daily throughout the year. At the beginning both of Morning prayer, & likewise of Evening prayer, the Minister shall read with a loud voice, some one of these sentences of the scriptures that follow. And then he shall say that, which is written after the said sentences. Ezechiel xviii. AT what time soever a sinner doth repent him of his sin from the bottom of his heart: I will put all his wickedness out of my remembrance sayeth the Lord. Psal. li. I do know mine own wickedness, and my sin is alway against me. Psal. li. Turn thy face away from our sins (O Lord) and blot out all our offences. Psalm. li A sorrowful spirit, is a sacrifice to God: despise not (O Lord) humble and contrite hearts. joel. two Rent your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: because he is gentle and merciful, he is patient and of much mercy, and such a one that is sorry for your afflictions. Dani. ix. To thee O Lord God belongeth mercy and forgiveness: for we have gone away from thee, and have not hearkened to thy voice, whereby we might walk in thy laws, which thou hast appointed for us. jerem. two Correct us, O Lord and yet in thy judgement, not in thy fury, lest we should be consumed and brought to nothing. Math. iii Amend your lives, for the kingdom of God is at hand. Luke. xv. I will go to my father and say to him: father, I have sinned against heaven, and against thee, I am no more worthy to be called thy son. Psa. cxlii Entre not into judgement with thy servants, O lord, for no flesh is righteous in thy sight. i. john. i. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us. dearly beloved brethren, the scripture moveth us in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness, & that we should not dissemble, nor cloak them before the face of almighty God our heavenly father, but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart: to th'end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy. And although we ought at all times, humbly to knowledge our sins before God: yet ought we most chief so to do, when we assemble and meet together, to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy word, and to ask those things which be requisite and necessary, aswell for the body as the soul. Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as be here present, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me. ¶ A general confession, to be said of the whole congregation after the Minister, kneeling. ALmighty and most merciful father, we have erred & strayed from thy ways, like lost sheep. We have followed to much the devices & desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in us: but thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders. Spare thou them O God, which confess their faults. Restore thou them that be penitent, according to thy promises declared unto mankind, in Christ jesus our Lord. And grant, O most merciful father, for his sake, that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of thy holy name. Amen. ¶ The absolution to be pronounced by the Minister alone. Almighty God, the father of our Lord jesus Christ, which desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness & live: and hath given power and commandment to his ministers, to declare & pronounce to his people being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins: he pardoneth and absolveth all them which truly repent, & unfeignedly believe his holy gospel. Wherefore we beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy spirit, that those things may please him which we do at this present, and that the rest of our life hereafter, may be pure and holy: so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy, through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer. Amen. Then shall the Minister begin the lords prayer. with a loud voice. over father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen. ¶ Then likewise he shall say. O Lord open thou our lips. Answer. And our mouth shall show forth thy praise. ¶ Priest. O God make speed to save us. ¶ Answer. O Lord make haste to help us. ¶ Priest. Glory be to the father, and to the son, & to the holy ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. Praise ye the Lord. ¶ Than shallbe said or sung this Psalm following. O Come let us sing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: and show ourself glad in him with Psalms. For the Lord is a great God: and a great king above all Gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hands. To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said: it is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways. Unto whom I swore in my wrath: that they should not enter into my rest. Glory be to the father, and to the son: & to the holy ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen. Then shall follow certain Psalms in order, as they be appointed in a Table, made for that purpose: except there be proper psalms appointed for that day. And at th'end of every Psalm throughout the year, and likewise in th'end of Benedictus, Benedicite, Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis, shallbe repeated. Glory be to the father, and to the son. etc. Then shallbe read two Lessons distinctly with a loud voice, that the people may hear. The first of the old Testament, the second of the new. Like as they be appointed by the Calendar, except there be proper Lessons assigned for that day: the Minister that readeth the Lesson, standing and turning him so, as he may best be hard of all such as be present. And before every Lesson, the Minister shall say thus. The first, second, third, or fourth Chapter of Genesis, or Exodus, Matthew, Mark, or other like, as is appointed in the Calendar. And in the end of every Chapter, he shall say. ¶ Here endeth such a Chapter, of such a Book. And (to th'end the people may the better hear) in such places where they do sing, there shall the Lessons be song in a plain tune, after the manner of distinct reading: and likewise the Epistle and Gospel. After the first Lesson, shall follow Te deum laudamus, in English, daily through the whole year. Te deum laudamus WE praise thee, O God: we knowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee: the father everlasting. To thee all Angels cry aloud: the heavens and all the powers therein. To thee Cherubin and Seraphin, continually do cry. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth. Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory. The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee. The goodly fellowship of the Prophets, praise thee. The noble army of Martyrs, praise thee. The holy Church throughout all the word, doth knowledge thee. The father of an infinite Majesty. Thy honourable, true, and only son. Also the holy ghost, the comforter. Thou art the king of glory, O Christ. Thou art the everlasting son of the father. When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, thou didst not abhor the virgins womb. When thou hadst overcomed the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers. Thou sittest on the right hand of God, in the glory of the father. We believe that thou shalt come to be our judge. We therefore pray thee, help thy servants, whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood. Make them to be numbered with thy Saints in glory everlasting. O Lord save thy people: and bless thine heritage. Govern them and lift them up for ever. day by day we magnify thee. And we worship thy name ever world without end. Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. O Lord have mercy upon us: have mercy upon us. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us: as our trust is in thee. O lord, in thee have I trusted: let me never be confounded. Or this canticle, Benedicite omnia opera domini domino. Benedicite O All ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye Angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise ye him and magnify him for ever, O ye heavens, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye waters that be above the firmament, bless ye the Lord, praise him and magnify him for ever. O all ye powers of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye Sun and moon, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye stars of heaven, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye showers and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye winds of God, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye fire and heat, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye winter and summer, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye dews and frosts, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye frost and cold, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye Ice and snow, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye nights and days, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye light and darkness, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye lightnings and clouds, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O let the earth bless the lord: yea, let it praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye Mountains and hills, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O all ye green things upon the earth, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye wells, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye Seas and floods, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye whales and all that move in the waters, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O all ye fowls of the air, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O all ye beasts and cattle, bless ye the lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye children of men, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O let Israel bless the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye Priests of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye servants of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye spirits and souls of the righteous, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O ye holy and humble men of heart, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him for ever. Glory be to the father, and to the son: and to the. etc. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever. etc. And after the second Lesson, shallbe used and said, Benedictus, in English as followeth. Benedictus. BLessed be the Lord God of Israel: for he hath visited and redeemed his people. And hath raised up a mighty salvation for us: in the house of his servant David. As he spoke by the mouth of his holy Prophets: which have been sense the world began. That we should be saved from our enemies: and from the hands of all that hate us. To perform the mercy promised to our forefathers. and to remember his holy covenant. To perform the oath which he swore to our forefather Abraham: that he would give us. That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies: might serve him without fear. In holiness and righteousness before him: all the days of our life. And thou child shalt be called the Prophet of the highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways. To give knowledge of salvation unto his people: for the remission of their sins. Through the tender mercy of our God: whereby the day spring, from an high hath visited us. To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Glory be to the father, and to the son: and to the holy ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever. etc. Or else this Psalm. Iubilate deo. psa. c O Be joyful in the lord (all ye lands: (serve the lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song Be ye sure that the lord he is god: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves, we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and speak good of his name. For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting: and his truth endureth from generation to generation. Glory be to the father, and to the son: and to the. etc. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shallbe: world without end. Amen. Then shallbe said the Crede, by the Minister and the people, standing. I Believe in god the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth. And in jesus christ his only son our Lord. Which was conceived by the holy ghost, borne of the virgin mary. Suffered under Ponce Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried, he descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the father almighty. From thence shall he come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the holy ghost. The holy catholic Church. The communion of saints. The forgiveness of sins. The resurrection of the body. And the life everlasting. Amen. ¶ And after that, these prayers following, aswell at Evening prayer, as at Morning prayer: all devoutly kneeling. The Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice. The Lord be with you. Answer. And with thy spirit. The Minister. ¶ Let us pray. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. ¶ Then the Minister, Clerks and people, shall say the lords prayer in English, with a loud voice. ¶ Our father which art in heaven. etc. Then the Minister standing up, shall say. O lord show thy mercy upon us. Answer. And grant us thy salvation. ¶ Priest. O Lord save the king. Answer. And mercifully hear us, when we call upon thee. ¶ Priest. Endue thy ministers with righteousness. Answer. And make thy chosen people joyful. Priest. O lord save thy people. Answer. And bless thine inheritance. Priest. give peace in our time, O Lord. Answer. Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou O God. Priest. O God, make clean our hearts within us. Answer. And take not thine holy spirit from us. Then shall follow three collects. The first of the day, which shallbe the same that is appointed at the Communion. The second for peace. The third for grace to live well. And the two last collects shall never alter, but daily be said at Morning prayer, throughout all the year as followeth. The second collect for Peace. O God, which art author of peace, and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom: defend us thy humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies, that we surely trusting in thy defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries: through the might of of jesus Christ our lord. Amen. The third Collect for grace. O Lord our heavenly father, almighty and everlasting god, which hast safely brought us in the beginning of this day: defend us the same with thy mighty power, and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger: but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy sight: through jesus christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ An order for Evening prayer throughout the year. The Priest shall say. ¶ Our father which art. etc. Then likewise he shall say. O Lord open thou our lips. Answer. And our mouth shall show forth thy praise. Priest. O God make speed to save us. Answer. Lord make haste to help us. Priest. Glory be to the father, & to the son: & to the holy ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. Praise ye the Lord. Then Psalms in order as they be appointed in the Table for Psalms, except there be proper Psalms appointed for that day. Then a Lesson of the old Testament as is appointed likewise in the Calendar, except there be proper Lessons appointed for that day. After that, Magnificat, in English as followeth. Magnificat MY soul doth magnify the Lord: and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my saviour. For he hath regarded the lowelines of his handmaiden: For behold from henceforth, all generations shall call me blessed For he that is mighty, hath magnified me: and holy is his name. And his mercy is on them that fear him: throughout all generations. He hath showed strength with his arm: he hath scattered the proud, in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seat: and hath exalted the humble and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath sent empty away. He remembering his mercy, hath helped his servant Israel: as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed for ever. Glory be to the father, and to the son: & to the holy ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shallbe: world without end. Amen. ¶ Or else this Psalm. Cantate domino. psa. xcviii O Sing unto the Lord a new song: for he hath done marvelous things. With his own right hand, and with his holy arm: hath he gotten himself the victory. The Lord declared his salvation: his ryghteouseness hath he openly showed, in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel: and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God. Show yourselves joyful unto the Lord all ye lands: sing, rejoice, and give thanks. Praise the Lord upon the harp: sing to the harp with a Psalm of thanksgiving. With trumpets also & shawms: O show yourselves joyful before the Lord the king. Let the sea make a noise and all that therein is: the round world, and they that dwell therein. Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord: for he is come to judge the earth. With righteousness shall he judge the world: and the people with equity. Glory be to the father. etc. As it was in the etc. ¶ Then a Lesson of the new Testament. And after that (Nunc dimittis) in English, as followeth. Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace: according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen: thy salvation. Which thou hast prepared: before the face of all people. To be a light to lighten the gentiles: and to be the glory of thy people Israel. Glory be to the father, and to the son, & to the holy ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now. etc. Amen. ¶ Or else this Psalm. Deus misereatur. psal lxvii. GOd be merciful unto us, and bless us: and show us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us. That thy way may be known upon earth: thy saving health among all nations, Let the people praise thee O God: yea let all the people praise thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad: for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee O God: let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth bring forth her increase: and God, even our own God shall give us his blessing. God shall bless us: and all the ends of the world shall fear him. Glory be to the father, & to the son: & to the holy ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now. etc. Then shall follow the Crede, with other prayers as is before appointed at Morning prayer after Benedictus. And with three collects: first of the day: the second of peace: third for aid against all perils, as hereafter followeth. Which two last collects shall be daily said at Evening prayer without alteration. The second Collect at Evening prayer. O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels and all just works do proceed: give unto thy servants that peace, which the world cannot give: that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee, we being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness, through the merits of jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen. The third collect, for aid against all perils. LIghten our darkness we beseech thee, O Lord, & by thy great mercy, defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, for the love of thy only son our Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. In the feasts of Christmas, the epiphany, saint Mathie, Easter, th'ascenscion, Pentecost, Saint john Baptist, Saint james, Saint Bartholomew: Saint Matthew, Saint Simon and Jude, Saint Andrew, and Trinity sunday: shallbe song or said immediately after Benedictus, this confession of our Christian faith. Quicunque vult. Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith. Which faith except every one do keep holy and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the catholic faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in unity. Neither confounding the persons: nor dividing the substance. For there is one person of the father, another of the son: and another of the holy ghost. But the Godhead of the father, of the son, and of the holy ghost is all one: the glori equal, the majesty coeternal. Such as the father is, such is the son: and such is the holy ghost. The father uncreate, the son uncreate: and the holy ghost uncreate. The father incomprehensible, the son incomprehensible: and the holy ghost incomprehensible. The father eternal, the son eternal: and the holy ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternalles: but one eternal. As also there be not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated: but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible. So likewise the father is almighty, the son almighty: and the holy ghost almighty. And yet they are not three almighty's: but one almighty. So the father is God, the son is God: and the holy ghost is God. And yet are they not three Gods: but one God. So likewise the father is Lord, the son Lord: and the holy ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords: but one Lord. For like as we be compelled by the Christian verity: to acknowledge every person by himself, to be god and Lord. So are we forbidden by the catholic religion; to say there's. be three Gods or three Lords. The father is made of none: neither created nor begotten. The son is of the father alone: not made, nor created, but begotten. The holy ghost is of the father and of the son: neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one father, not three fathers, one son, not three sons: one holy ghost, not three holy ghosts. And in this Trinity, none is afore or after other: none is greater, nor less than another. But the whole three persons: be coeternal together and coequal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid: the unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in unity, is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved: must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation: that he also believe rightly in the incarnation of our Lord jesus Christ. For the right faith is, that we believe and confess: that our Lord jesus Christ, the son of God, is god and man. God of the substance of the father, begotten before the worlds: and man of the substance of his mother, borne in the world. Perfect God, and perfect man: of a reasonable soul: and human flesh subsisting. Equal to the father as touching his Godhead: and inferior to the father, touching his manhood. Who although he be God and man: yet he is not two, but one christ. One, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh: but by taking of the manhood into God. One altogether, not by confusion of substance: but by unity of person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man: so God and man is one christ. Who suffered for our salvation: descended into hell, role again the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the father, God almighty: from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies: and shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good, shall go into life everlasting: and they that have done evil, into everlasting fire. This is the Catholic faith: which except a man believe faithfully, he can not be saved. Glory be to the father, and to the son: and to the holy ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. ¶ Thus endeth the order of Morning and Evening prayer, through the whole year. ¶ Here followeth the Litany to be used upon Sundays, Wednesdays, and fridays, and at other times, when it shallbe commanded by the ordinary. O God the father of heaven: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the father of heaven: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the son, redeemer of the world: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the son, redeemer of the world: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the holy ghost, proceeding from the father and the son: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the holy ghost, proceeding from the father and the son: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons, and one God: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons, and one God: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. Remember not lord our offences, nor the offences of our forefather, neither take thou vengeance of our sins: spare us good Lord, spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever. Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief, from sin, from the crafts and assaults of the devil, from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation. Good Lord deliver us. From all blindness of heart, from pride, vain glory and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred and malice, and all uncharitableness. Good lord deliver us. From fornication and all other deadly sin, and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh and the devil. Good Lord deliver us. From lightnings & tempests, from plague, pestilence, & famine, from battle & murder, and from sudden death. Good Lord deliver us. From all sedition and privy conspiracy, from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, & all his detestable enormities, from all false doctrine and heresy, from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment. Good Lord deliver us. By the mystery of thy holy incarnation, by thy holy Nativity and circumcision, by thy baptism, fasting, and temptation. Good Lord deliver us. By thine agony and bloody sweat, by thy cross & passion, by thy precious death & burial, by thy glorious resurrection and ascension, and by the coming of the holy ghost. Good Lord deliver us. In all time of our tribulation, in all time of our wealth, in the hour of death, and in the day of judgement. Good lord deliver us. We sinners do beseech thee to hear us (O Lord God) and that it way please thee to rule and govern thy holy church universally, in the right way. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep Edward the sixth thy servant, our king and governor. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith, fear and love, that he may always have affiance in thee, and ever seek thy honour and glory. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper, giving him the victory over all his enemies. We beseech thee to hear us good lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Pastors, & Ministers of the Church, with true knowledge & understanding of thy word: & that both by their preaching and living, they may set it forth and show it accordingly. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the counsel and all the nobility, with grace, wisdom, and understanding. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates, giving them grace to execute justice, and to maintain truth. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all nations unity, peace and concord. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee, and diligently to live after thy commandments. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give all thy people increase of grace, to hear meekly thy word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the spirit. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring in to the way of truth, all such as have erred and are deceived. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand, & to comfort and help the weak hearted, & to raise them up that fall, & finally to beat down Satan under out feet. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to secure, help and comfort, all that be in danger, necessity and tribulation. We beseech thee to hear us good lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travail by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all sick persons and young children, and to show thy piety upon all prisoners and captives. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows, and all that be desolate and oppresed. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors and slanderers, and to turn their hearts. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use, the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy holy spirit, to amend our lives according to the holy word. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us. Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us. O lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world: Grant us thy peace. O lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world: Have mercy upon us. O Christ hear us. O Christ hear us. Lord have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. ¶ Our father which art in heaven. etc. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. The versicle. O Lord deal not with us after our sins. The answer. Neither reward us after our iniquities. ¶ Let us pray. O God merciful father, that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful: mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us. And graciously hear us, that those evils which the craft and subtlety of the devil or man worketh against us, be brought to nought, and by the providence of thy goodness, they may be dispersed, the we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy church, through jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise, help us and deliver us for thy name's sake. O God we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them. O Lord arise, help us and deliver us for thine honour. Glory be to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost: as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. ¶ From our enemies defend us, O Christ. Graciously look upon our afflictions. Pietifully behold the sorrows of our heart. Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people. Favourably with mercy hear our prayers. O son of David, have mercy upon us. Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us, O christ. Graciously hear us, O Christ, graciously hear us, O lord Christ. ¶ The versicle. O Lord let thy mercy be showed upon us. ¶ The answer. As we do put our trust in thee. Let us pray. WE humbly beseech thee, O father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities, and for the glory of thy names sake, turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved: and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living, to thy honour and glory: Through our only mediator and advocate jesus Christ our lord. Amen. For rain, if the time require. O God heavenly father, which by thy son jesus Christ hast promised to all them that seek thy kingdom and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily suffenaunce: send us we beseech thee in this our necessity, such moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, and to thy honour: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For fair weather. O Lord god, which for the sin of man didst once drown all the world, except eight people, and afterward of thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again: we humbly beseech thee, that although we for our iniquities have wortheli deserved this plague of rain and waters, yet upon our true repentance, thou wilt send us such weather whereby we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season, and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives, and for thy clemency to give thee praise and glory: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. In the time of dearth and famine. O God heavenly father, whose gift it is that the rain doth fall, the earth is fruitful, beasts increases and fishes do multiply: behold we beseech thee thafftictions of thy people, and grant that the scarcity and dearth (which we do now most justly suffer for our iniquity) may through thy goodness be mercifully turned into cheapness and plenty, for the love of jesus Christ our Lord: to whom with thee and the holy ghost. etc. Or thus. O God merciful father, which in the time of Heliseus the Prophet, didst suddenly turn in Samaria, great scarcity and dearth into plenty and cheapness and extreme famine into abundance of victual: have pity upon us, that now be punished for our sins with like adversity, increase the fruits of the earth by thy heavenly benediction. And grant, that we receiving thy bountiful liberality, may use the same to thy glory, our comfort, and relief of our needy neighbours: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. In the time of War. O Almighty god, king of all kings, and governor of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners, and to be merciful to them that truly repent: save and deliver us (we humbly beseech thee) from the hands of our enemies: abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices, that we being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils to glorify thee, which art the only giver of all victory: through the merits of thy only son jesus christ our Lord. In the time of any common plague or sickness. O Almighty God: which in thy wrath in the time of king David, didst slay with the plague of pestilence ix and ten thousand, and yet remembering thy mercy didst save the rest: have pity upon us miserable sinners, that now are visited with great sickness and mortality, that like as thou didst then command thy Angel to cease from punishing: So it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ And the Litany shall ever end with this collect following. Almighty God, which haste given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee, and doest promise that when two or three be gathered in thy name, thou wilt grant their requests: fulfil now O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them, granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come, life everlasting. Amen. The collects Epistles and Gospels to be used at the celebration of the lords supper and holy Communion, through the year. The first sunday of Aduente. ¶ The collect. Almighty god, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life (in the which thy son jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility:) that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal through him: who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy ghost, now and ever. Amen. ¶ The Epistle. Rom. xiii OWe nothing to any man but this, that ye love one another. For he that loveth another, fulfilleth the law. For these commandments: Tou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt bear no false witness: Thou shalt not lust: and so forth (if there be any other commandment) it is all comprehended in this saying: namely, love thy neighbour as thyself. Love hurteth not his neighbour: therefore is love the fulfilling of the law. This also, we know the season how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is passed, the day is come nigh: let us therefore cast away the deeds of darkness; and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as it were in the day light, not in eating and drinking, neither in chaumbouring and wantonness, neither in strife and envying, but put ye on the Lord jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts of it. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. xxi ANd when they drew nigh to jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage unto Mount Olivete, then sent jesus two of his disciples, saying unto them: go into the town that lieth over against you, and anon you shall find an Ass bound, and a colt with her: loose them and bring them unto me. And if any man say ought unto you, say ye the Lord hath need of them, and straight way he will let them go. All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, saying: Tell ye the daughter of Zion: behold, thy king cometh unto thee meek, sitting upon an Ass and a colt, the foal of the Ass used to the yoke. The disciples went and did as jesus commanded them, and brought the Ass and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and set him thereon. And many of the people spread their garments in the way. Other cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. Moreover, the people that went before, and they that came after cried, saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come to jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying: who is this? And the people said: this is jesus the Prophet of Nazareth, a city of Galilee. And jesus went into the temple of god, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them: It is written: My house shallbe called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. ¶ The second Sunday in advent. ¶ The collect. BLessed Lord, which hast caused all holy scriptures, to be written for our learning: grant us that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our saviour jesus Christ. ¶ The Epistle. Rom. xv. Whatsoever things are written afore time, they are written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures, might have hope. The God of patience and consolation, grant you to be like minded one towards another, after the ensample of Christ jesus: that ye all agreeing together, may with one mouth praise God the father of our lord jesus Christ: wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ received us to the praise of God. And this I say: that jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: and that the Gentiles might praise God for his mercy, as it is written: For this cause I will praise thee among the Gentiles and sing unto thy name. And again he sayeth: rejoice ye Gentiles with his people. And again: praise the lord all ye Gentiles, and laud him all ye nations, together. And again, Esay saith: there shallbe the root of jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust, The God of hope, fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may be rich in hope, through the power of the holy ghost. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. xxi. THere shallbe signs in the sun & in the Moon, and in the stars: & in the earth the people shallbe at their wits end, through despair. The sea and the water shall roar, & men's hearts shall fail them for fear, and for looking after those things which shall come on the earth. For the powers of heaven shall move. And then shall they see the son of man come in a cloud, with power and great glory. When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh. And he showed them a similitude: behold the figtree, and all other trees: when they shoot forth their buds, ye see & know of your own selves that summer is then nigh at hand. So likewise ye also (when ye see these things come to pass) be sure that the kingdom of God is nigh. Verily I say unto you: this generation shall not pass, till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass. ¶ The third Sunday in advent. ¶ The Collect. LOrd, we beseech thee give ear to our prayers, and by thy gracious visitation, lighten the darkness of our heart, by our Lord jesus Christ. ¶ The Epistle. i Cor. iiii LEt a man this wise esteem us, even as the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of god. Furthermore, it is required of the stewards, that a man be found faithful: with me it is but a very small thing that I should be judged of you, either of man's judgement: no, I judge not mine own self, for I know nought by myself, yet am I not thereby justified. It is the Lord that judgeth me. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness, and open the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. ¶ The Gospel. Math. xi. WHen john being in prison heard the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and said unto him: Art thou he that shall come, or do we look for an other? jesus answered, and said unto them. Go & show john again what ye have heard & seen. The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the Lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor receive the glad tidings of the gospel: and happy is he that is not offended by me. And as they departed, jesus began to say unto the people concerning john: What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A read that is shaken with the wind? or what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing, are in kings houses. But what went ye out for to see: a Prophet? verily I say unto you, and more than a Prophet. For this is he of whom it is written: Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. ¶ The fourth Sunday in advent. ¶ The Collect. LOrd raise up (we pray thee) thy power, & come among us, and with great might succour us: that whereas (through our sins & wickedness) we be sorelet & hindered, thy bountiful grace & mercy (thorough the satisfaction of thy son our Lord) may speedily deliver us: to whom with thee and the holy ghost, be honour and glory world without end. ¶ The Epistle. Phili. iiii Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice. Let pour softness be known to all men: the lord is even at hand. Be careful for nothing, but in all prayer & supplication let your petitions be manifest unto god, with giving of thanks. And the peace of God (which passeth all understanding) keep your hearts and minds: through Christ jesus. ¶ The Gospel. john. i. THis is the record of john, when the jews sent Priests & Levites from jerusalem, to ask him: what art thou? And he confessed & denied not, and said plainly: I am not Christ. And they asked him: what then, art thou Helias? & he saith: I am not. Art thou the Prophet? & he answered, no. Then said they unto him: what art thou that we may give an answer unto them that sent us? what sayest thou of thyself? he said: I am the voice of a crier in the wilderness: make strait the way of the lord, as said the prophet Esay. And they which were sent, were of the Phariseis: and they asked him, and said unto him: Why baptisest thou then, if thou be not Christ, nor Helias, neither that Prophet? john answered them, saying: I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not: he it is, which though he came after me, was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to unlooce. These things were done at Bethabara beyond jordan, where john did baptize. ¶ Christmas day. ¶ The collect. Almighty God, which hast given us thy only begotten son to take our nature upon him, and this day to be borne of a pure virgin: Grant that we being regenerate and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy holy spirit, through the same our Lord jesus Christ: who liveth and reigneth with. etc. Amen. ¶ The Epistle. Hebre. i. GOd in times past, diversly and many ways spoke unto the fathers by Prophets: but in these last days he hath spoken to us by his own son, whom he hath made heir of all things, by whom also he made the world. Which (son) being the brightness of his glory, and the veri image of his substance, ruling all things with the word of his power, hath by his own person purged our sins, and sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high: being so much more excellent than the Angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the Angels said he at any time? Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. And again. I willbe his father, and he shallbe my son. And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten son into the world, he saith: and let all the Angels of God worship him. And unto the Angels he saith: He maketh his Angels spirits, & his ministers a flame of fire. But unto the son he sayeth: thy seat (O god) shallbe for ever and ever. The sceptre of thy kingdom is right sceptre. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity: wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy fellows. And thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou endurest: But they all shall wax old as doth a garment, and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shallbe changed. But thou art even the same, and thy years shall not fail. The Gospel. john. i. IN the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and God was the word. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by it, and without it was made nothing that was made. In it was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. There was sent from God, a man whose name was john. Thesame came as a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of the light. That light was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came among his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to be made sons of God: even them that believed on his name, which were borne, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor yet of the will of man, but of God. And the same word became flesh & dwelled among us, and we saw the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten son of the father, full of grace and truth. ¶ Saint Stephens day. ¶ The collect. Grant us O Lord, to learn to love our enemies by the example of thy martyr Saint Stephen who prayed for his persecutors to thee: which livest. etc. Then shall follow a collect of the Nativity, which shallbe said continually unto Neweyeares' day. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. seven ANd Stephen being full of the holy ghost, looked up steadfastly with his eyes into heaven, and saw the glory of God, & jesus standing on the right hand of God, & said: behold, I seeth heavens open, & the son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they gave a shout with a loud voice, & stopped their ears, & ran upon him all at once, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling on and saying: Lord jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice: Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had thus spoken, he fell a sleep. ¶ The Gospel. Matthew xxiii. Behold, I send unto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes, and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and some of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute them from city to city, that upon you may come all the righteous blood which hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom ye show between the temple and the aultare. Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation. O jerusalem, thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee: how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as the hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, & ye would not? Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you: ye shall not see me henceforth, till that ye say: Blessed is he the cometh in the name of the lord. Saint john Evangelists day. ¶ The collect. MErciful lord, we beseech thee to cast thy bright beams of light upon thy Church: that it being lightened by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and evangelist john, may attain to thy everlasting gifts. Through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ The Epistle. i. john. i. THat which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life: And the life appeared, and we have seen, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life which was with the father, and appeared unto us. That which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and that our fellowship may be with the father and his son jesus Chiste. And this we write unto you, that ye may rejoice, and that your joy may be full. And this is the tidings which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at al. If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. But and if we walk in light, even as he is in light, then have we fellowship with him, and the blood of jesus Christ his son, cleanseth us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we knowledge our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. ¶ The Gospel. john. xxi Jesus said unto Peter: follow thou me. Peter turned about, and saw the disciple whom jesus loved following (which also leaned on his breast at supper, & said: lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?) when Peter therefore saw him, he said to jesus: Lord, what shall he here do? jesus said unto him: if I will have him to tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die. Yet jesus said not to him, he shall not die: but if I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? The same disciple is he which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: & we know that his testimony is true. There are also many other things which jesus did, the which if they should be written every one, I suppose the world could not contain the books that should be written. ¶ Thinnocentes day. ¶ The collect. ALmighty God, whose praise this day the young Innocentes thy witnesses have confessed and showed forth, not in speaking, but in dying: mortify and kill all vices in us, that in our conversation, our life may express thy faith, which with our tongues we endue confess: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Apo. xiiii. I Looked, and lo, a lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred and xliiii thousand having his name & his father's name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the sound of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder. And I heard the voice of harpers harping with their haps. And they song as it were a new song before the seat, and before the four beasts and the elders, and no man could learn the song, but the hundred forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These follow the lamb whersover he goeth. These were redeemed from men, being the first fruits unto God, and to the lamb, and in their mouths was found no guile: for they are without spot before the throne of God. ¶ The Gospel. Math. two. THe Angel of the lord appeared to joseph in a sleep, saying: arise & take the child and his mother, & flee into Egypt, & be thou there till I bring thee word. For it will come to pass, the Herode shall seek the child to destroy him. So when he awoke, he took the child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt, and was there unto the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying: out of Egypt have I called my son. Then Herod when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, he was exceeding wroth, and sent forth men of war, and slew all the children that were in Bethleem, and in all the coasts (as many as were two years old or under) according to the time which he had diligently known out of the wisemen. Then was fulylled the which was spoken by the Prophet jeremy, whereas he said: In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, weeping, and great mourning. Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not. The Sunday after Christmas day. ¶ The collect. Almighty God which hast given us. etc. As upon Christmas day. ¶ The Epistle. Gala. iiii. ANd I say, that the heir (as long as he is a child) differeth not from a servant, though he be Lord of all, but is under tutors and governors, until the time that the father hath appointed. Even so we also, when we were children, were in bondage under the ordeinaunces of the world: But when the time was full come, God sent his son made of a woman, and made bond unto the law, to redeem them which were bond unto the law: that we through election might receive the inheritance that belongeth unto the natural sons. Because ye are sons, God hath sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, which crieth, Abba father. Wherefore now, thou art not a servant, but a son: If thou be a son, thou art also an heir of God through Christ. The Gospel. Math. i THis is the book of the generation of jesus Christ the son of David the son of Abraham: Abraham begat Isaac: Isaac begat jacob: jacob beegat judas and his brethren: judas begat Phares and Zaram of Thamar: Phares begat Esrom: Esrom begat Aram: Aram begat Aminadab: Aminadab begat Naasson: Naasson begat Salmon: Salmon begat Boos of Rahab: Boos begat Obed of Ruth: Obed begat jesse: jesse begat David the king: David the king begat Solomon, of her that was the wife of Vrie: Solomon begat Roboam: Roboam begat Abia: Abia begat Asa: Asa begat josaphat: josaphat begat joram: joram begat Osias: Osais begat joatham: joatham begat Achas: Achas begat Ezechias: Ezechias begat Manasses: Manasses begat Amon: Amon begat josias: josias begat jechonias and his brethren, about the time that they were carried away to Babylon. And after they were brought to Babylon, jechonias begat Salathiel: Salathiel begat zorobabel: zorobabel begat Abiud: Abiud begat Eliachim: Eliachim begat Azor: Azor begat Sadoc: Sadoc begat Achin: Achin begat Eliud: Eliud begat Eleasar: Eleasar begat Matthan: Matthan begat jacob: jacob begat joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was borne jesus, even he that is called Christ. And so all the generations from Abraham to David, are xiiii generations. And from David unto the captivity of Babylon, are xiiii generations. And from the captivity of Babylon unto Christ, are xiiii generations. The birth of jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary was married to joseph (before they came to dwell together) she was found with child by the holy ghost. Then joseph her husband (because he was a righteous man, and would not put her to shame (was minded privily to depart from her. But while he thus thought: behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in sleep, saying: joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Marry thy wife: for that which is conceived in her, cometh of the holy ghost. She shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying: Behold, a maid shall be with child, and shasll bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emanuel: which if a man interpret, is asmuch to say, as God with us. And joseph, assoon as he a work out of sleep, did as the Angel of the Lord had bidden him: and he took his wife unto him, and knew her not till she had brought forth her first begotten son, and called his name jesus. ¶ The circumcision of Christ. ¶ The Collect. Almighty God, which madest thy blessed son to be circumcised and obedient to the law for man: grant us the circumcision of the spirit, that our hearts and all our members being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, may in all things obey thy blessed will: through the same thy son jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Rom. iiii BLessed is that man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Came this blessedness then upon the uncyrcumcision, or upon the circumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in the circumcision, or when he was in the uncircumcision? not in time of circumcision, but when he was yet uncircumcised. And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he should be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, and that he might be the father of circumcision, not unto them only which came of the circumcised, but unto them also that walk in the steps of the faith that was in our father Abraham before the time of circumcision. For the promise (that he should be heir of the world) happened not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, then is faith but vain, and the promise of none effect. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. two. ANd it fortuned, assoon as the Angels were gone away from the shepherds into heaven, they said one to another: let us go now even unto Bethleem, and see this thing that we hear say is happened, which the Lord hath showed unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary and joseph, and the babe, laid in a manger. And when they had seen it, they published abroad the saying that was told them of that child. And all they that heard it, wondered at those things which were told them of the shepherds. But Mary kept all those sayings, and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, praising and lauding God for all the things that they had heard and seen, even as it was told unto them. And when the eight day was come that the child should be circumcised, his name was called jesus, which was named of the Angel before he was conceived in the womb. If there be a sunday between the epiphany and the Circumcision, than shallbe used the same collect, Epistle & Gospel, at the communion, which was used upon the day of Circumcision. ¶ The epiphany. ¶ The collect. O God, which by the leading of a star didst manifest thy only begotten son to the gentiles: mercifully grant, that we which know thee now by faith, may after this life have the fruition of thy glorious Godhead, through christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Ephe. iii. FOr this cause I Paul am a prisoner of jesus christ for you Heathen, if ye have heard of the ministration of the grace of God, which is given me to you ward. For by revelation showed he the mystery unto me, as I wrote afore in few words, whereby when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ: which mystery in times paste was not opened unto the sons of men, as it is now declared unto his holy Apostles and Prophets by the spirit, that the Gentiles should be inheritors also, and of the same body, & partakers of his promise of Christ, by the means of the gospel, whereof I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given unto me after the working of his power. Unto me the least of all saints is this grace given, that I should preach among the gentiles, the unsearchable riches of christ, and to make all men see what the fellowship of the mystery is, which from the beginning of the world, hath been hid in God, which made all things through jesus Christ: to the intent, that now unto the rulers and powers in heavenly things, might be known by the congregation, the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he wrought in Christ jesus our Lord: by whom we have boldness and entrance, with the confidence which is by the faith of him. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. two. WHen jesus was borne in Bethleem a city of jury, in the time of Herod the king: Behold, there came wise men from the east to jerusalem, saying: where is he that is borne king of the jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to wurshippe him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled and all the city of jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and Scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where christ should be borne. And they said unto him: at Bethleem in Iury. For thus it is written by the Prophet. And thou Bethleem in the land of jury, art not the least among the Princes of juda: for out of thee there shall come unto me, the captain that shall govern my people Israel. Then Herode (when he had privily called the wise men) he inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared: and he bade them go to Bethleem, and said: go your way thither, and search diligently for the child. And when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. When they had heard the king, they departed: and lo, the star which they saw in the east, went before them till it came and stood over the place wherein the child was. When they saw the star, they were exceeding glad, and went into the house, and found the child with mary his mother, and fell down flat, and worshipped him, and opened their treasures, and offered unto him gifts: Gold, frankincense, and Mirre. And after they were warned of God in sleep (that they should not go again to Herode) they returned into their own country another way. ¶ The first Sunday after the epiphany. ¶ The collect. Lord we beseech thee mercifully to receive the prayers of thy people which call upon thee: and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also have grace and power, faithfully to fulfil the same, through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Rom. xii. I Beseech you therefore brethren by the mercifulness of God, that ye make your bodies a quick sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto god which is your reasonable serving of god, and fashion not yourselves like unto this world: but be ye changed in your shape by the renewing of your mind, the ye may prove what thing that good & acceptable and perfect will of God is. For I say (through the grace that unto me given is) to every man among you, that no man stand high in his own conceit, more than it becometh him to esteem of himself: but so judge of himself, that he be gentle and sober, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith: for as we have many members in one body, and all members have not one office, s o we being many, are one body in Christ, and every man among ourselves one another's members. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. two. THe father and mother of jesus went to jerusalem after the custom of the feast day. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned home, the child jesus abode still in jerusalem, and his father and mother knew not of it: but they supposing him to have been in the company, came a days journey and sought him amongs their kinsfolk and acquaintance. And when they found him not, they went back again to jerusalem, and sought him. And it fortuned, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them, and posing them. And all that heard him, were astonished at his understanding and answers. And when they saw him, they marveled, and his mother said unto him: son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold, thy father & I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them: how happened that ye sought me? witted ye not that I must go about my father's business? And they understood not that saying, which he spoke unto them. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was obedient unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings together in her heart. And jesus prospered in wisdom and age, and in favour with God and men. ¶ The second Sunday after the epiphany. ¶ The collect. Almighty and everlasting god, which dost govern all things in heaven and earth: mercifully hear the supplications of thy people, and grant us thy peace all the days of our life. ¶ The Epistle. Rom. xii. SEeing that we have diverse gifts, according to the grace that is given unto us: if a man have the gift of prophecy, let him have it, that it be agreeing to the faith. Let him that hath an office, wait on his office. Let him that teacheth, take heed to his doctrine. Let him that exhorteth, give attendance to his exhortation. If any man give, let him do it with singleness. Let him that ruleth, do it with diligence. If any man show mercy, let him do it with cheerfulness. Let love be without dissimulation. Hate that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good. Be kind one to another with brotherly love. In giving honour, go one before another. Be not slothful in the business which you have in hand. Be fervent in spirit. Apply yourselves to the time. Rejoice in hope. Be patient in tribulation. Continue in prayer. Distribute unto the necessity of the saints. Be ready to harbour. Bless them which persecute you, bless I say, and curse not. Be merry with them that are merry: weep with them that weep: be of like affection one towards another. Be not high minded, but make yourselves equal to them of the lower sort. ¶ The Gospel. john. two. ANd the third day was there a marriage in Cana, a city of Galilee, and the mother of jesus was there. And jesus was called (and his Disciples) unto the marriage. and when the wine failed, the mother of jesus said unto him: they have no wine. jesus said unto her: woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. His mother said unto the ministers: whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. And there were standing there vi waterpots of stone, after the manner of purifying of the jews, containing two or three fyrkyns a piece. jesus said unto them: fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. And he said unto them: draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast: And they bore it. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water turned into wine, and knew not whence it was (but the ministers which drew the water, knew) he called the bridegroom, and said unto him: every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine, and when men be drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did jesus in Cana of Galilee, and showed his glory, and his disciples believed on him. ¶ The third Sunday after th'epiphany. ¶ The Collect. Almighty & everlasting god, mercifully look upon our infirmities: and in all our dangers and necessities, stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us, through Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Rom. xii. BE not wise in your own opinions. Recompense to no man evil for evil. provide aforehand things honest, not only before God, but also in the sight of all men. If it be possible (as much as is in you) live peaceably with all men. dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath. For it is written: vengeance is mine, I will reward, saith the lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him: if he thirst, give him drink. For in so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with goodness. ¶ The Gospel. mat. viii. WHen he was come down from the mountain, much people followed him. And behold, there came a Leper, & worshipped him, saying: Master, if thou wilt thou canst make me clean. And jesus put forth his hand & touched him, saying: I will, be thou clean: & immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And jesus said unto him: tell no man, but go & show thyself to the Priest, & offer the gift (that Moses commanded to be offered) for a witness unto them. And when jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a Centurion, & besought him, saying: Master, my servant lieth at home, sick of the dropsy, & is grievously pained. And jesus said: when I come unto him, I will heal him. The Centurion answered, & said: Sir, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, & my servant shallbe healed. For I also am a man subject to the authority of an other, & have soldiers under me: & I say to this man, go, & he goeth: & to another man, come, & he cometh: & to my servant, do this, & he doth it. When jesus heard these words, he marveled, & said to them that followed him: verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith in Israel. I say unto you, that many shall come from the East & West, and shall rest with Abraham, Isaac, and jacob in the kingdom of heaven: but the children of the Kingdom shallbe cast out into utter darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And jesus said unto the Centurion: Go thy way, and as thou believest, so be it unto thee: and his servant was healed in the self same hour. The fourth Sunday after Christmas. ¶ The collect. GOd which knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that for man's frailness we cannot always stand uprightly: Grant to us the health of body and soul, that all those things which we suffer for sin, by thy help we may well pass and overcome: through Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Ro. xiii. LEt every soul submit himself unto the authority of the higher powers: for there is no power but of God. The powers that be, are ordained of God: whosoever therefore resisteth power, resisteth the ordinance of god: But they that resist, shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not fearful to them that do good, but to them that do evil. Wilt thou be without fear of the power? do well then, and so shalt thou be praised of the same: for he is the minister of God, for thy wealth. But and if thou do that which is evil, then fear, for he beareth not the sword for nought: for he is the minister of God, to take vengeance on them that do evil. Wherefore ye must needs obey, not only for fear of vengeance, but also because of conscience, and even for this cause pay ye tribute: For they are God's ministers serving for that purpose. give to every man therefore his duty: tribute, to whom tribute belongeth: custom, to whom custom is due: fear, to whom fear belongeth: honour, to whom honour pertaineth. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. viii ANd when he entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch as the ship was covered with waves, but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying: Master save us, we perish. And he said unto them: why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there followed a great calm. But the men marveled, saying: what manner of man is this, that both winds and sea obey him? And when he was come to the other side, into the country of the Gergesites, there met with him two possessed of devils, which came out of the graves, and were out of measure fierce, so that no man might go by that way. And behold, they cried out, saying: O jesus thou son of God, what have we to do with thee: Art thou come hither to torment us before the time? And there was a good way of from them, a heerde of Swine feeding. So the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out, suffer us to go into the heerd of Swine. And he said unto them: go your ways. Then went they out, and departed into the heerd of Swine. And behold, the whole herd of Swine was carried headlong into the sea, and perished in the waters. Then they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what had happened unto the possessed of the devils. And behold, the whole city came out to meet jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts. ¶ The fifth sunday after the epiphany. ¶ The collect. Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy Church and household continually in thy true religion: that they which do lean only upon hope of thy heavenly grace, may evermore be defended by thy mighty power. Through Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Collo. iii. Put upon you as the elect of God, tender mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against another: as Christ forgave you, even so do ye. Above all these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. And the peace of God rule your hearts, to the which peace year called in one body: And see that ye be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you plenteously with all wisdom: Teach and exhort your own selves in Psalms and Hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. xiii. THe kingdom of heaven is like unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came, and sowed tars among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, & had brought forth fruit, than appeared the tars also. So the servants of the householder came, and said unto him: Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tars? He said unto them: the envious man hath done this. The servants said unto him: wilt thou then that we go and weed them up? But he said: nay, least while ye gather up the tars, ye pluck up also the wheat with them: let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers: gather ye first the tars, and bind them together in sheaves to be brent, but gather the wheat into my barn. The sixth Sunday (if there be so many) shall have the same Collect, Episstle and Gospel, that was upon the fifth sunday. ¶ The Sunday called Septuagesima. ¶ The collect. O Lord, we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy people, that we which are iustli punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness, for the glori of thy name, through jesus Christ our saviour: who liveth and reigneth world without end. ¶ The Epistle. i Cor. ix. Perceive ye not, how that they which run in a course, run all, but one receiveth the reward? So run that ye may obtain: Every man that proveth masteries abstaineth from all things. And they do it to obtain a crown that shall perish, but we to obtain an everlasting crown. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertain thing. So fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I tame my body, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means it come to pass, that when I have preached to other, I myself should be a castaway. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. xx. THe kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vinyeard. And when the agreement was made with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vinyeard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw other standing idle in the market place, and said unto them: go ye also into the vinyeard, and whatsoever is right, I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the xi hour he went out, and found other standing idle, and said unto them: Why stand ye here all the day idle? They said unto him: because no man hath hired us. He sayeth unto them: go ye also into the vinyeard, and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. So when even was come, the Lord of the vinyeard said unto his steward: call the labourers and give them their hire, beginning at the last until the first. And when they did come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny: But when the first came also, they supposed that they should have received more, and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house, saying: these last have wrought but one hour, and thou haste made them equal with us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. But he answered unto one of them, and said: Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do as me lusteth with mine own goods. Is thine eye evil because I am good? So the last shallbe first, and the first shallbe last. For many be called but few be chosen. ¶ The Sunday called Sexagesima. ¶ The collect. Lord God, which seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do: mercifully grant, that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity, through jesus christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. two. Cor. xi. YE suffer fools gladly, seeing yourselves are wise. For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage: if a man devour: if a man take: if a man exalt himself: if a man smite you on the face. I speak as concerning rebuke, as though we had been weak in this behalf. Howbeit, whereinsoever any man dare be bold (I speak foolyshlye) I dare be bold also. They are hebrews, even so am I. They are Israelites, even so am I. They are the seed of Abraham, even so am I. They are the ministers of christ (I speak like a fool) I am more. In labours more abundant: In stripes above measure: In pryeson more plenteously: In death oft: Of the jews five times received I xl stripes save one: Thrice was I beaten with rods: I was once stoned: I suffered thrice shipwreck: Night and day have I been in the deep sea. In journeying often: in perils of waters: in perils of robbers: in jeopardies of mine own nation: in ieoparadies among the Heathen: in perils in the city: in perils in wilderness: in perils in the sea: in perils among false brethren: in labour and travail: in watchings often: in hunger and thirst: in fastings often: in cold & nakedness: beside the things which outwardly happen unto me, I am cumbered daily, and do care for all congregations. Who is weak, and I am not weak: who is offended, and I burn not: If I must needs boast, I will boast of the things that concern mine infirmities. The God and father of our Lord jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. ¶ The Gospel. Luk. viii WHen much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of all cities, he spoke by a similitude. The sour went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and it was trodden down, & the fowls of the air devoured it up. And some fell on stones, & assoon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moistness. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it. And some fell on good ground, and sprang up & bare fruit an hundredth fold. And as he said these things, he cried: he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, saying: what manner of similitude is this? And he said: unto you it is given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to other by parables: that when they see, they should not see, and when they hear, they should not unberstande. The parable is this. The seed is the word of God: those that are beside the way, are they that hear: then cometh the devil and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. They on the stones are they, which when they hear, receive the word with joy, & these have no roots, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation go away. And that which fell among thorns are they, which when they have heard, go forth & are choked with cares & riches, and voluptuous living, & bring forth no fruit. That which fell in the good ground are they, which with a pure and good heart, hear the word and keep it, and bring forth fruit through patience. ¶ The Sunday called Quinquagesima. ¶ The collect. O Lord, which dost teach us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth: send thy holy ghost, & power in our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and all virtues, without the which whosoever liveth, is counted dead before thee: Grant this for thy only son jesus Christ's sake. ¶ The Epistle. i Cor. xiii Though I speak with tongues of men and of Angels, & have no love, I am even as founding brass, or as a tinkling Cymbal. And though I could prophecy, and understand all secrets, and all knowledge: yea, if I have all faith, so that I could move mountains out of their places, and yet have no love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I gave my body even that I burned, and yet have no love, it profiteth we nothing. Love suffereth long, and is courteous, love envieth not, love doth not frowardly, swelleth not, dealeth not dishonestly, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh none evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity. But rejoiceth in the truth, suffereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, hopeth all things endureth all things. Though that prophesying fail, either tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away, yet love falleth never away. For our knowledge is unperfect, and our prophesying is unperfect: But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is unperfect shallbe done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I imagined as a child. But assoon as I was a man, I put away a childishness. Now we see in a glass, even in a dark speaking: but then shall we see face to face. Now I know unperfectly: but then shall I know even as I am known. Now abideth faith, hope, and love, even these three: but the chief of these is love. ¶ The Gospel. Luk. xviii Jesus took unto him the xii and said unto them: behold, we go up to jerusalem, and all shall be fulfilled that are written by the Prophets of the son of man. For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shallbe mocked, and despitefully entreated, and spitted on. And when they have scourged him, they will put him to death, and the third day he shall rise again. And they understood none of these things. And this saying was hid from them, so that they perceived not the things which were spoken. And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh to Hieritho, a certain blind man sat by the high way side, begging. And when he heard the people pass by, he asked what it mente. And they said unto him, that jesus of Nazareth passed by. And be cried, saying: jesus thou son of David, have mercy on me. And they which went before, rebuked him, that he should bold his peace. But he cried so much the more: thou son of David have mercy on me. And jesus stood still, and commanded him to be brought unto him. And when he was come near, he asked him, saying: what wilt thou that I do unto thee? and he said: Lord, that I might receive my sight. And jesus said unto him: receive thy sight, thy faith hath saved thee. And immediately he received his sight, and followed him praising God. And all the people when then saw it gave praise unto God. ¶ The first day of Lent. ¶ The collect. ALmighty and everlasting God, which hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that be penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and knowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness, through jesus Christ. ¶ The Epistle. joel. two. Turn you unto me with all your hearts, with fasting, weeping and mourning: rent your hearts and not your clothes. Turn you unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, long suffering and of great compasson, and ready to pardon wickedness. Then (no doubt) he also shall turn and forgive: and after his chastening, he shall let your increase remain for meat and drink offerings unto the lord your god. Blow out with the trumpet in Zion, proclaim a fasting, call the congregation, and gather the people together: warn the congregation, gather the elders, bring the children and sucklings together. Let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let Priests serve the Lord between the porch and the alter, weeping and saying: be favourable, O Lord, be favourable unto thy people: let not thine heritage be brought to such confusion, lest the Heathen be Lords thereof. Wherefore should they say among the Heathen: where is now their God. ¶ The Gospel. Math. vi. WHen ye fast, be not sad as the Hypocrites are: for they disfigure their faces that it may appear unto men how that they fast. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, & wash thy face, that it appear not unto men how thou fastest, but unto thy father which is in secret: & thy father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. Lay not up for yourselves treasure upon earth, where the rust and moth both corrutp, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for you treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your hearts be also. ¶ The first Sunday in Lent. ¶ The Collect. O Lord, which for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights: give us grace to use such abstinence, that our flesh being subdued to the spirit, we may ever obey thy Godly motions, in righteousness and true holiness, to thy honour and glory: which livest and reignest. etc. ¶ The Epistle. two Cor. vi. WE as helpers exhort you, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. For he saith: I have heard thee in a time accepted. and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee. Behold, now is that accepted time: behold, now is that day of salvation. Let us give none occasion of evil, that in our office be found no fault, but in all things let us behave ourselves as the ministers of God: In much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in anguishes, in stripes, imprisonments, in strifes, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the holy ghost, in love unfeigned, in the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of righteousness of the right hand and of the left: by honour and dishonour: by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true: as unknown, and yet known: as dying, and behold we live: as chastened, and not killed: as sorrowing, and yet always merry: as poor, and yet make many rich: as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. iiii THen was jesus led away of the spirit unto wilderness, to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was at the last an hungered. And when the tempter came to him, he said: if thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered & said: it is written, man shall not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him: if thou be the son of God, cast thyself down headlong. For it is written: he shall give his Angels charge over thee, and with their hands they shall hold thee by, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. And jesus said unto him: it is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, and sayeth unto him: all these will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then sayeth jesus unto him: Avoid Satan, for it is written: Thou shalt worship the Lord thy god, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him: and behold, the Angels came and ministered unto him. The second Sunday in Lent ¶ The collect. Almighty god, which dost see that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves: keep thou us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts, which may assault and hurt the soul: hrough jesus christ. etc. ¶ The Epistle. i. thes. iii WE beseech you brethren, and exhort you by the lord jesus, that ye increase more & more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk, and to please God. For ye know what commandments we gave you by our Lord jesus christ. For this is the will of God, even your holiness: that ye should abstain from fornication, and that every one of you should know how to keep his vessel in holiness and honour, and not in the lust of concupiscence, as do the Heathen which know not God: that no man oppress and defraud his brother in bargayninq, because that the Lord is the avenger of all such things, as we told you before, and testified. For god hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God which hath sent his holy spirit among you. ¶ The Gospel. Math. xv. Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of tire & Sidon: and behold, a woman of Canaan (which came out of the same coasts) cried unto him, saying: have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David. My daughter is piteously vexed with a devil. But he answered her nothing at all. And his disciples came and besougt him, saying: send her away, for she crieth after us. But he answered, and said: I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came the and worshipped him, saying: Lord, help me. He answered & said: it is not meet to take the children's bread, and cast it to dogs. She answered, and said: truth lord, for the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters table. Then jesus answered, and said unto her: O Woman great is thy faith, be it unto thee, even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole, even the same time. ¶ The third Sunday in Lent. ¶ The Collect. We beseech thee almighty god, look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants: and stretch forth the right hand of thy majesty, to be our defence against all our enemies: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Ephesi. v BE you the followers of God as dear children, and walk in love even as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering & a sacrifice of a sweet savour to God. As for fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness let it not be once named among you, as it becometh Saints: or filthiness, or foolish talking, or jesting, which are not comely, but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, either unclean person, or covetous person (which is a worshipper of images) hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of such things, cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore companions of them. Ye mere sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light, for the fruit of the spirit consisteth in all goodness, & righteousness, & truth. Accept that which is pleasing unto the Lord, & have no fellowship with the vufruitful works of darkness, but rather rebuke them. For it is a shame even to name those things, which are done of them in secret: but all things when they are brought forth by the light, are manifest. For whatsoever is manifest, the same is light, wherefore he sayeth: a wake thou that sleepest, and stand up from death, and Christ give thee light. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. xi. Jesus was casting of a Devil, that was dumb. And when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke, and the people wondered. But some of them said: he casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils. And other tempted him, and required of him sign from heaven. But he knowing their thoughts, sasyd unto them: Every kingdom divided against itself, is desolate, and one house doth fall upon another. If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom endure? Because ye say I cast out devils through Beelzebub: If I by the help of Beelzebub cast out devils, by whose help do your children cast them out? Therefore shall they be your judges. But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. When a strong man armed watcheth his house, the things that he possesseth are in peace. But when a stronger than he cometh upon him, and overcometh him, he taketh from him all his harness (wherein he trusted) & divideth his goods. He that is not with me is against me. And he that gathereth not with me, scattereth abroad. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest. And when he findeth none, he sayeth: I will return again into my house whence I came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it swept & garnished. Then goeth he and taketh to him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. And the end of that man is worse than the beginning. And it fortuned the as he spoke these things, a certain woman of the company lift up her voice, and said unto him: happy is the womb that bore thee, and the paps which gave thee suck. But he said: yea, happy are they that hear the word of God and keep it. The fourth Sunday in Lent. ¶ The collect. Grant we beseech thee almighty god, that we which for our evil deeds are worthily punished, by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved: through our Lord jesus christ. ¶ The Epistle. Gala. iiii TEll me (ye that desire to be under the law) do ye not hear of the law? for it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman. Yea, and he which was borne of the bondwoman, was borne after the flesh: but he which was borne of the free-woman, was borne by promise: which things are spoken by an allegory. For these are two Testaments, the one from the mount Sina which gendereth unto bondage, which is Agar: For mount Sina is Agar in Arabia, and bordereth upon the city, which is now called jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children. But jerusalem, which is above, is free, which is the mother of us al. For it is written: Rejoice thou barren that bearest no children: break forth and cry, thou that travailest not. For the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Brethren, we are after Isaac the children of promise. But as then he that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the spirit: Even so is it now. Nevertheless, what sayeth the scripture? put away the bondwoman and her son. For the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. So then brethren, we are not children of the bond woman but of the free woman. ¶ The Gospel. john. vi Jesus departed over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Ciberias, and a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. And jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. And Easter, a feast of the jews, was nigh. When jesus then lift up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he said unto Philip: whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? This he said to prove him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him: two hundredth pennyworth of bread, are not sufficient for them that every man may take a little. One of his disciples (Andrew, Simon Peter's brother) saith unto him. There is a lad which hath five barley loaves, & two fishes: but what are they among so many? And jesus said: make the people sit down. There was much grass in the place: so the men sat down, in numbered about five thousand. And jesus took the bread, and when he had given thanks, he gave to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down, and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. When they had eaten enough, he said unto his disciples: gather up the broken meat which remaineth, that nothing be lost. And they gathered it together and filled xii baskets with the broken meat of the five barley loaves: which broken meat remained unto them that had eaten. Then those men (when they had seen the miracle that jesus did) said: this is of a truth the same Prophet that should come into the world. The fifth Sunday in Lent. ¶ The collect. WE beseech thee almighty God, mercifully to look upon thy people, that by thy great goodness they may be governed and preserved evermore both in boby & soul: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Hebre. ix. christ being an high Priest of good things to come, came by a greater & a more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of Goats and Calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, and found eternal redemption. For if the blood of Oxen & of Goats, and the ashes of a young cow, when it was sprinkled, purifieth the unclean as touching the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ (which through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works, for to serve the living god: And for this cause he is the mediator of the new Testament, that through death, which chanced for the redemption of those transgressions that were under the first Testament, they which are called, might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. ¶ The Gospel. job. viii. WHich of you can rebuke me of sin? If I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God, heareth gods words: Ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of god. Then answered the jews, and said unto him: say we not well that thou art a samaritan, and hast the devil? jesus answered. I have not the devil: but I honour my father, and ye have dishonoured me. I seek not mine own praise: there is one that seeketh & judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. Then said the jews unto him, now know we that thou hast the devil. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets, & thou sayest: if a man keep my saying he shall never taste of death. Art thou greater than our father Abraham which is dead? And the Prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? jesus answered. If I honour myself, mine honour is nothing: it is my father that honoureth me, which you say is your God, and yet ye have not known him, but I know him: & if I say I know him not, I shallbe a liar like unto you. But I know him and keep his saying. Your father Abraham was glad to see my day: & he saw it and rejoiced. Then said the jews unto him. Thou art not yet fifty year old, & haste thou seen Abraham? jesus said unto them: Verily verily I say unto you: ere Abraham was borne, I am. Then took they up stones to cast at him: but jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple. ¶ The Sunday next before Easter. ¶ The collect. ALmighty and everlasting God, which of thy tender love towards man, hast sent our saviour jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility: mercifully grant, that we both follow the example of his patience, and be made partakers of his resurrection: thorough the same jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Philip. two LEt the same mind be in you, that was also in Christ jesus: which when he was in the shape of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God: nevertheless, he made himself of no reputation, taking on him the shape of a servant, and became like unto man, and was found in his apparel, as a man. He humbled himself, and became obedient to the death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God hath also exalted him on high, & given him a name which is above all names: that in the name of jesus, every knee should bow, both of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth: and that all tongues should confess, that jesus Christ is Lord, unto the praise of God the father. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. xxvi ANd it came to pass, when jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, ye know that after two days shallbe Easter, and the son of man shallbe delivered over to be crucified. Then assembled together the chief Priests, and the Scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of he high Priest (which was called Caiphas) and held a counsel that they might take jesus by subtlety, and kill him. But they said: not on the holy day, lest there be an uproar among the people. When jesus was in Bethanie in the house of Simon the Leper, there came unto him a woman having an Alabaster box of precious ointment, and powered it on his head, as he sat at the board. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying: whereto serveth this waste? This ointment migtht have been well sold, and given to the poor. When jesus understood that, he said unto them: why trouble ye the woman; for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye shall not have always. And in that she hath cast this ointment on my body, she did it to bury me. Verily I say unto you: wheresoever this Gospel shallbe preached in all the world, there shall also this be told that she hath done for a memorial of her. Then one of the twelve (which was called judas Iscarioth) went unto the chief Priests, and said unto them: what will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they appointed unto him xxx pieces of silver. And from that time forth, he sought opportunity to betray him. The first day of sweet bread, the disciples came to jesus, saying to him: where wilt thou that we prepare for thee, to eat the passover? And he said: Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him: the Master sayeth, my time is at hand, I will keep my Easter by thee with my disciples. And the disciples did as jesus had appointed them, and they made ready the passover. When the even was come, he sat down with the xii And as they did eat, he said: Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him: Lord is it I? He answered and said: he that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The son of man truly goeth, as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed. It had been good for that man, if he had not been borne. Then judas, which betrayed him, answered, and said: Master, is it I? He said unto him: thou hast said. And when they were eating, jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said: Take, eat, this is my body. And he took the cup, and thanked, and gave it them, saying: Drink ye all of this: For this is my blood (which is of the new Testameant) that is shed for many, for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine tree, until the day when I shall drink it new with you in my father's kingdom. And when they had said grace, they went out unto mount Olivete. Then said jesus unto them: all ye shallbe offended because of me this night. For it is written: I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shallbe scattered abroad: but after I am riesen again, I will go before you into Galilee. Peter answered, and said unto him: though all men be offended because of thee, yet will I not be offended. jesus said unto him: verily I say unto thee, that in this same night, before the Cock krowe, thou shalt deny me thrice. Peter said unto him: yea, though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee: likewise also said all the disciples. Then came jesus with them unto a farm place, (which is called Gethsemane) and said unto the disciples. sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took with him Peter, and the two sons of zebedee, and began to wax sorrowful and heavy. Then said jesus unto them. My soul is heavy even unto the death. Tarry ye here and watch with me. And he went a little farther, and fell flat on his face, and prayed, saying: O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. And he came unto the disciples, and found them asleep, and said unto Peter: what, could ye not watch with me one hour? watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away once again and prayed, saying: O my father, if this cup may not pass away from me except I drink of it, thy will be fulfilled: and he came & found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. And he left them, and went again and prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then cometh he to his disciples, and said unto them: sleep on now and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me. While he yet spoke: lo, judas one of the numbered of the xii came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, sent from the chief Priests and Elders of the people. But he that beetrayed him, gave them a token, saying: whomesocuer I kiss, the same is he, hold him fast. And forthwith he came to jesus, and said: Hail Master, and kissed him. And jesus said unto him: friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they and laid hands on jesus, and took him. And behold, one of them that were with jesus, stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high Priests and smote of his ear. Then said jesus unto him: put up thy sword into the sheath, for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father, and he shall give me even now, more than xii legions of Angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled? For thus must it be. In that same hour said jesus to the multitude: ye be come out as it were to a thief with swords and staves, for to take me. I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye took me not. But all this is done that the scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled. And they took jesus and led him to Cayphas the high Priest, where the Scribes and the Elders were assembled. But Peter followed him afar of unto the high priests palace, and went in, and sat with the servants to see the end. The chief Priests and Elders, and all the counsel, sought false witness against jesus (for to put him to death) but found none: yea, when many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came ii false witnesses, and said: This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it again in three days. And the chief Priest; arose, and said unto him: answerest thou nothing: Why do these bear witness against thee? but jesus held his peace. And the chief Priest answered, and said unto him. I charge thee by the living God, that thou tell us, whether thou be christ the son of God. jesus said unto him: thou hast said. Nevertheless I say unto you, hereafter shall ye see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of the sky. Then the high Priest rent his clothes, saying: he hath spoken blasphemy, what need we of any more witnesses? Behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy, what think ye? They answered, and said: he is worthy to die. Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him with fists. And other smote him on the face with the palm of their hands, saying: tell us thou Christ, who is he that smote thee? Peter sat without in the court, and a damosel came to him, saying: thou also waste with jesus of Galilee: but he denied before them all, saying: I wot not what thou sayst. When he was gone out into the porch, another wench saw him, and said unto them that were there: This fellow was also with jesus of Nazareth. And again he denied with an oath, saying: I do not know the man. After a while came unto him they that stood by, & said unto Peter: surely thou art even one of them, for thy speech bewrayeth the. Then began he to curse & to swear, that he knew not the man. And immediately the Cock krew. And Peter remembered the word of jesus, which said unto him: before the cock krowe, thou shalt deny me thrice: and he went out and wept bitterly. When the morning was come, all the chief Priests and Elders of the people held a counsel against jesus, to put him to death, and brought him bound, and delivered him unto Poncyus Pilate the deputy. Then judas (which had betrayed him) seeing that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the xxx plates of silver to the chief priests and Elders, saying: I have sinned betraying the innocent blood. And they said: what is that to us? See thou to that. And he cast down the silver plates in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And the chief Priests took the silver plates, and said: It is not lawful for to put them into the treasure, because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them a potter's field to bury strangers in. Wherefore the field is called Haceldema, that is, the field of blood, until this day. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by jeremy the prophet, saying: and they took xxx silver plates, the price of him that was valued, whom they bought of the children of Israel, and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me. jesus stood before the deputy, and the deputy asked him, saying: Art thou the king of the jews? jesus said unto him: thou sayest. And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. Then said pilate unto him: hearest thou not how many witnesses they lai against thee? & he answered him to never a word: insomuch that the deputy marveled greatly. At that feast, the deputy was wont to deliver unto the people a prisoner whom they would desire. He had then a notable prisoner called Barrabas. Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said: whether will ye that I give loose unto you, Barrabas, or jesus which is called Christ & For he knew that for envy they had delivered him. When he was set down to give judgement, his wife sent unto him, saying: have thou nothing to do with that just man. For I have suffered this day many things in my sleep, because of him. But the chief priests and elders persuaded the people that they should ask Barrabas, and destroy jesus. The deputy answered, and said unto them: whether of the twain will ye that I let loose unto you? They said, Barrabas. Pilate said unto them: what shall I do them with jesus, which is called Christ? They all said unto him: let him be crucified. The deputy said: what evil hath he done? but they cried more saying, let him be crucified. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but the more business was made: he took water, & washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just person, see ye. Then answered all the people, and said: his blood be on us & on our children. Then let he Barrabas loose unto them & scourged jesus, & delivered him to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the deputy took jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him all the company, and they stripped him, & put on him a purple rob, & plaited a crown of thorns, & put it upon his head, & a read in his right hand, and vowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying: hail king of the jews: and when they had spit upon him, they took the read & smote him on the head. And after that they had mocked him, they took the rob of him again, & put his own raiment on him, & led him a way to crucify him. And as they came out, they found a man of Cirene (named Simon) him they compelled to bear his cross. And they came unto the place which is called Golgotha, the is to say (a place of dead men's skulls) and gave him vinegar mingled with gall to drink: & when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. When they had crucified him, they parted his garments & did cast lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet. They parted my garments among them, and upon my besture did they cast lots. And they sat and watched him there, & set up over his head the cause of his death written. This is jesus the king of the jews. Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left. They that passed by, reviled him, wagging their heads, & saying: thou that destroyedst the temple of god, & didst build it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the son of god come down from the cross. Likewise also the high Priests mocking him with the Scribes and Elders, said: he saved other, himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in GOD, let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the son of God. The thieves also which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth. From the sixth hour was there darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour, jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Ely, Ely, lamasabathany: that is to say, my god my god, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard thee, said: This man calleth for Helyas. And straight way one of them ran and took a sponge, and when he had filled it full of vinegar, he put it on a read, and gave him to drink. Other said: let be, let us see whether Helyas will come and deliver him. jesus when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And behold, the veil of the temple did rend in ii parts, from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the stones rend, and graves did open, and many bodies of Saints which slept, arose and went out of the graves after his resurrection, and came into the holy city, and appeared unto many. When the Centurion, and they that were with him watching jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things which happened, they feared greatly, saying: Truly this was the son of god. And many women were there (beholding him afar of) which followed jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: Among which was Mary Magdalene, & Mary the mother of james & joses, and the mother of Zebedee'S children. ¶ Monday before Easter. ¶ The Epistle. Isa. lxiii WHat is he this that cometh from Edom, with red coloured clothes of Bosra (which is so costly cloth) and cometh in so mightily with all his strength? I am he that teacheth righteousness, and am of power to help. Wherefore then is thy clothing red, and thy raiment like his that treadeth in the wine press? I have trodden the press myself alone, and of all people there is not one with me. Thus will I tread down mine enemies in my wrath, and set my feet upon them in mine indignation: And their blood shall bespring my clothes, and so will I stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is assigned in my heart, and the year when my people shallbe delivered is come. I looked about me, and there was no man to show me any help. I marveled that no man held me up. Then I held me by mine own arm, and my ferventness sustained me. And thus will I tread down the people in my wrath, and bathe them in my displeasure, and upon the earth will I lay their strength, I will declare the goodness of the Lord, yea and the praise of the Lord for all that he hath given us, for the great good that he hath done for Israel, which he hath given them of his own favour, and according to the multitude of his loving kindness. For he said: these no doubt are my people, and no shrinking children, and so he was their saviour. In their troubles he was also troubled with them, & the angel that went forth from his presence, delivered them. Of very love and kindness that he had unto them, he redeemed them. He hath borne them and carried them up, ever sense the world began. But after they provoked him to wrath, and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself. Yet remembered Israel the old time of Moses and his people, saying: where is he that brought them from the water of the sea, with them that feed his sheep? where is he that hath given his holy spirit among them? he led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them (whereby he got himself an everlasting name:) he led them in the deep, as an horse is led in the plain, that they should not stumble as a tame beast goeth in the field, & the breath given of God, giveth him rest. Thus (O god) haste thou led thy people, to make thyself a glorious name withal. Look down then from heaven, & behold the dwelling place of thy sanctuary, and thy glory. How is it that thy jealousy, thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and thy loving kindness, will not be entreated of us? yet art thou our father. For Abraham knoweth us not, neither is Israel acquainted with us. But thou lord art our father & redeemer, and thy name is everlasting, O lord, wherefore hast thou led us out of thy way? wherefore hast thou hardened our hearts that we fear thee not? Be at one with us again for thy servants sake, and for the generation of thine heritage. Thy people have had but a little of thy Sanctuary in possession: for our enemies have trodden down the holy place. And we were thine from the beginning, when thou wast not their Lord, for they have not called upon thy name. ¶ The Gospel. mar. xiiii AFter two days was Easter, and the days of sweet bread. And the high priests & the Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said: not in the feast day lest any business arise among the people. And when he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, even as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an Albaster box of ointment, called Narde, that was pure and costly, & she broke the box and powered it upon his head. And there were some that were not content within themselves, and said: what needed this waste of ointment? for it might have been sold for more than three hundredth pence, and have been given unto the poor. And they grudged against her. And jesus said: let her alone, why trouble ye her. She hath done a good work on me: for ye have poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me have ye not always. She hath done that she could, she came aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done, shallbe rehearsed in remembrance of her. And judas Iscarioth one of the twelve, went a way unto the high Priests to betray him unto them. When they heard that, they were glad, and promised that they would give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him. And the first day of sweet bread (when they offered the passover) his disciples said unto him: where with thou that we go and prepare that thou mayst eat the passover? And he sent forth two of his disciples, and said unto them: go ye unto the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water, follow him. And whithersoever he goeth in, say ye unto the good man of the house, the master saith, where is the jest chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? And he will show you a great parlour paved and prepared, there make ready for us. And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. And when it was now eventide, he came with the twelve. And as they sat at board and did eat, jesus said: vereley I say unto you, one of you (that eateth with me) shall betray me. And they began to be sorry, and to say to him one by one: is it I? and an other said: is it I? he answered and said unto them: it is one of the xii even he that dippeth with me in the platter. The son of man truly goeth as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the son of man is betrayed: good were it for that man, if he had never been borne. And as they did eat, jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, and said: Take, eat, this is my body. And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he took it to them, & they all drank of it. And he said unto them: This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God. And when they had said grace, they went out to the mount Oliuete. And jesus saith unto them: all ye shallbe offended becausse of me this night, For it is written: I will smite the shepherd, & the sheep shallbe scattered: but after that I am risen again, I will go into Galilee before you. Peter said unto him: and though all men be offended, yet will not I And jesus sayeth unto him: verily I say unto thee, that this day, even in this night, before the Cock krow twice thou shalt deny me three times, But he spoke more vehementelye: no, if I should die with thee, I will not deny thee: Likewise also said they all. And they came into a place which was named Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples: sit ye here while I go aside & pray. And he taketh with him, Peter and james, & john, And began to wax abashed and to be in an agony, & said unto them: My soul is heavy even unto the death: tarry ye here and watch. And he went forth a little, and fell down flat on the ground and prayed, that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said: Abba father, all things are possible unto thee, take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but that thou wilt be done. And he came and found them sleeping, and sayeth to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst not thou watch one hour? watch ye & pray lest ye enter into temptation: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak. And again he went aside & prayed, and spoke the same words. And he returned & found them a sleep again, for their & eyes were heavy, neither wist they what to answer him. And he came the third time and said unto them: sleep hencefurth and take your ease, it is enough. The hour is come: behold, the son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners: Rise up, let us go. Lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand. And immedyathly while he yet spoke, cometh judas (which was one of the twelve) & with him a great number of people with swords and staves, from the high priests, and Scribes, and Elders. And he that betrayed him, had given them a general token, saying: whosoever I do kiss, the same is he: take and lead him away warily. And assoon as he was come, he goeth strait way to him, and sayeth unto him: Master, Master, and kissed him: and they laid their hands on him, and took him. And one of them that stood by, drew out a sword, and smote a servant of the high Priests, and cut of his ear. And jesus answered and said unto them: ye be come out as unto a thief with swords and staves, for to take me. I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but these things come to pass that the Scripture should be fulfilled. And they all forsook him, and ran away. And there followed him a certain young man clothed in linen upon the bare: and the young men caught him, and he left his linen garment, and fled from them naked. And they led jesus away to the high priest of all, and with him came all the high priests, and the Elders, & the Scribes. And Peter followed him a great way of (even till he was come into the palace of the high Priest) and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire. And the high priests and all the counsel sought for witness against jesus to put him to death, and found none: for many bare false witness against him, but their witnesses agreed not together. And there arose certain and brought false witness against him, saying: we heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days, I will build another made without hands. But yet their witnesses agreed not together. And the high Priest stood up among them, and asked jesus, saying: answerest thou nothing? How is it that these bear witness against thee? But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high Priest asked him, and said unto him: Art thou Christ the son of the blessed? And jesus said: I am. And ye shall see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high Priest rend his clothes, and said: what need we any further of witnesses? ye have heard blasphemy, what think ye? And they all condemned him to be worthy of death. And some began to spit at him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to say unto him: Areade. And the servants buffeted him on the face. And as Peter was beneath in the Palace, there came one of the wenches of the highest priest: and when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked on him, and said: wast not thou also with jesus of Nazareth? And he denied, saying: I know him not, neither wot I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch, and the Cock krewe. And a damosel (when she saw him) began again to say to them that stood by: this is one of them. And he denied it again. And anon after, they that stood by, said again unto Peter: surely thou art one of them, for thou art of Galilee, & thy speech agreeth thereto. But he began to curse and to swear, saying: I know not this man of whom ye speak. And again the cock krewe, and Peter remembered the word that jesus had said unto him: before the cock krow twice, thou shalt deny me three times. And he began to weep. ¶ Tuesday before Easter. ¶ The Epistle. isaiah. 1. THe Lord god hath opened mine ear, therefore can I not say nay, neither withdraw myself: but I offer my back unto the smiters, and my cheeks unto the nippers. I turn not my face from shame and spitting, and the lord God shall help me: Therefore shall I not be confounded. I have hardened my face like a flyute stone, for I am sure that I shall not come to confusion. He is at hand that justifieth me, who will then go to law with me? Let us stand one against another: if there be any that will reason with me, let him come here forth to me. Behold, the lord God standeth by me, what is he then that can condemn me? lo, they shallbe like as an old cloth, the moth shall eat them up. Therefore, whoso feareth the lord among you, let him hear the voice of his servant. Whoso walketh in darkness, and no light shineth upon him, let him put his trust in the name of the lord, and hold him up by his God: but take heed, ye all kyendle a fire of the wrath of God, & stir up the coals: walk on in the glistering of your own fire, and in the coals that ye have kyendled. This cometh unto you from my hand, namely that ye shall sleep in sorrow. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. xv. ANd anon in the dawning, the high Priests held a counsel with the Elders and the Scribes, and the whole congregation, and bound jesus, & led him away, and delivered him to pilate. And Pilate asked him: art thou the King of the jews? and he answered, and said to him: thou sayest it. And the high priests accused him of many things. So pilate asked him again, saying: answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they lay to thy charge. jesus answered yet nothing, so that Pilate marveled. At that feast pilate did deliver unto them a pryesoner, whomsoever they would desire. And there was one that was named Barrabas, which lay bound with them that made insurrection: he had committed murder. And the people called unto him, and began to desire him that he would do according as he had ever done unto them. Pilate answered them, saying: will ye that I let loose unto you the King of the jews? for he knew that the high Priests had delivered him of envy. But the high priests moved the people that he should rather deliver Barrabas unto them. Pilate answered again, and said unto them: what will ye the I then do unto him, whom ye call the king of the jews? And they cried again, crucify him. Pilate said unto them: what evil hath he done? And they cried the more fervently, crucify him. And so Pilate willing to content the people, let loose Barrabas unto them, and delivered up jesus (when he had scourged him) for to be crucified. And the soldiers led him away into the common hall, and called together the whole multitude, and they clothed him with purple, and they plaited a crown of thorns, and crowned him withal, and began to salute him: Hail king of the jews. And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowed their knees and worshipped him. And when they had mocked him, they took the purple of him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him. And they compelled one that passed by, called Simon of Siren (the father of Alexander and Rufus) which came out of the field, to bear his cross. And they brought him to a place named Golgotha (which if a man interpret) is the place of dead men's skulls: and they gave him to drink, wine mingled with myrrh, but he received it not. And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them what every man should take. And it was about the third hour, and they crucified him. And the title of his cause was written. The King of the jews. And they crucified with him two thieves, the one on his right hand, & the other on his left. And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith: he was counted among the wicked. And they that went by, railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying: A wretch, thou that destroyest the temple, and buldest it again in three days, save thyself and come down from the cross. Likewise also mocked him the high Priests among themselves with the Scribes, and said: he saved other men, himself he cannot save. Let christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him, checked him also. And when the sixth hour was come, darkness arose over all the earth, until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eloy, Eloy, lamazabathany? which is (if one interpret it) my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And some of them that stood by, when they heard that, said: behold, he calleth for Helyas. And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying: let him alone, let us see whether Helias will come and take him down. But jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And veil of the temple rent in two pieces from the top to the bottom. And when the Centurion (which stood before him) saw that he so cried, and gave up the ghost, he said: truly this man was the son of God. There were also women a good way of, beholding him: among whom was Mari Magdalene, and Mary the mother of james the little, and of joses, and Mary Salome (which also when he was in Galilee, had followed him and ministered unto him) and many other women, which came up with him to jerusalem. And now when the even was come (because it was the day of preparing that goeth before the Sabbath) joseph of the city of Aramathya a noble counsellor, which also looked for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly unto pilate, and begged of him the body of jesus. And Pilate marveled that he was already dead, and called unto him the Centurion, & asked of him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew the truth of the Centurion, he gave the body to joseph, & he bought a linen cloth, and took him down, & wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone before the door of the sepulchre. And Mary Magdalene, and Mary joses beheld where he was laid. ¶ Wednesday before Easter. ¶ The Epistle. Hebre. ix. WHereas is a testament, there must also (of necessity) be the death of him that maketh the testament. For the testament taketh authority when men are dead: for it is yet of no value, as long as he that maketh the testament is alive: for which cause also, neither the first testament was ordained without blood. For when Moses had declared all the commandment to all the people, accordying to the law, he took the blood of calves and of Goats, with water and purple wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people, saying: this is the blood of the testament, which God hath appointed unto you. Moreover, he sprinkled the tabernacle with blood also, and all the ministering vessels. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission. It is need then, that the similitudes of heavenly things be purified with such things: but that the heavenly things themselves, be purified with better sacrifices than are those. For Christ is not entered into the holy places that are made with hands (which are similitudes of true things) but is entered into very heaven, for to appear now in the sight of God for us: not to offer himself often, as the high Priest entereth into the holy place every year with strange blood: for than must he have often suffered sense the world began. But now in the end of the world hath he appeared once, to put sin to flight by the offering up of himself. And as it is appointed unto all men the they shall once die, & then cometh the judgement: Even so Christ was once offered to take away the sins of many, & unto them that look for him, shall he appear again without sin, unto salvation. ¶ The Gospel. Luk. xxii THe feast of sweet bread drew nigh, which is called Easter, and the high Priests and Scribes sought how they might kill him, for they feared the people. Then entered Satan into judas, whose surname was Iscarioth (which was of the number of the xii) & he went his way and commoned with the high Priests and officers, how he might betray him unto them. And they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he consented, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them when the people were away. Then came the day of sweet bread when of necessity the passover must be offered. And he sent Peter and john, saying: Go & prepare us the passover, that we may eat. They said unto him: where wilt thou that we prepare? And he said unto them: behold, when ye enter into the city, there shall a man meet you bearing a pitcher of water: him follow into the same house that he entereth in, and ye shall say unto the good man of the house: the master sayeth unto thee, where is the geaft chamber where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? And he shall show you a great parlour paved, there make ready. And they went and found as he had said unto them, and they made ready the passover. And when the hour was come, he sat down, & the xii Apostles with him. And he said unto them: I have inwardly desired to eat this passover with you, before the I suffer. For I say unto you: henceforth will I not eat of it any more, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of god. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said: Take this, & divide it among you. For I say unto you: I will not drink of the fruit of this vine, until the kingdom of God come. And he took bread, & when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave unto them, saying: This is my body which is given for you: This do in the remembrance of me. Likewise also when he had supped, he took the cup, saying: This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. Yet behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me, is with me on the table. And truly the son of man goeth as it is appointed, but woe unto that man, by whom he is betrayed. And they began to inquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do it. And there was a strife among them, which of them should seem to be the greatest. And he said unto them: the kings of nations reign over them, and they that have authority upon them, are called gracious: but ye shall not so be. But he that is greatest among you, shall be as the younger, and he that is chief shall be as he that doth minister. For whether is greater he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? Is it not he that sitteth at meat? But I am among you, as he that ministereth. Ye are they which have bidden with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my father hath appointed to me, that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to sift you, as it were wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. And when thou art converted, strength thy brethren. And he said unto him: LORD, I am ready to go with thee into prison, and to death. And he said: I tell thee Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, till thou have denied me thrice that thou knowest me. And he said unto them: when I sent you without wallet, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, no. Then said he unto them: but now he that hath a wallet, let him take it up, and likewise his scrip. And he that hath no sword, let him sell his coat and buy one. For I say unto you, that yet the same which is written, must be performed in me: even among the wicked was he reputed: For those things which are written of me have an end. And they said: Lord, behold, here are two swords: and he said unto them: it is enough. And he came out, and went (as he was wont) to mount Oliuete. And the disciples followed him. And when he came to the place, he said unto them: pray, lest ye fall into temptation. And he got himself from them about a stones cast, and kneeled down and prayed, saying: Father, if thou wilt, remove this cup from me: Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be fulfilled. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, comforting him. And he was in an agony, and prayed the longer, and his sweat was like drops of blood, trickling down to the ground. And when be arose from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for heaviness, and he said unto them: why sleep ye? Rise and pray, lest ye fall into temptation. While he yet spoke, behold, there came a company, and he that was called judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and pressed nigh to jesus, to kiss him. But jesus said unto him: judas, betrayest thou the son of man with a kiss? When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him: Lord, shall we smite with the sword? And one of them smote a servant of the high priests, and stroke of his right ear? jesus answered and said: suffer ye thus far forth. And when he touched his ear, he healed him. Then jesus said unto the high pryestes, and rulers of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him: Ye be come out as unto a thief, with swords and staves. When I was daily with in the Temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is even your very hour, & the power of darkness. Then took they him and led him, and brought him to the high priests house. But Peter followed afar of. And when they had kindled a fire in the mids of the palace, and were set down together, Peter also sat down among them. But when one of the wenches beheld him, as he sat by fire (and looked upon him) she said: this same fellow was also with him. And he denied him, saying: woman, I know him not. And after a little while, another saw him, and said: thou art also of them. And Peter said: man I am not. And about the space of an hour after, another affirmed, saying: verily this fellow was with him also, for he is of Galilee. And Peter said: man, I wot not what thou sayest. And immediately while he yet spoke, the Cock krewe. And the lord turned back and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him: before the Cock krowe, thou shalt deny me thrice: and Peter went out & wept bitterly. And the men that took jesus, mocked him, & smote him: and when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying: Areade, who is he the smote thee? And many other things despitefully said they against him. And as soon as it was day, the Elders of the people, and the high Priests and Scribes, came together, and led him, into their counsel, saying: Art thou very Christ? tel us. And he said unto them: If I tell you, ye will not believe me: & if I ask you, you will not answer, nor let me go: hereafter shall the son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. Then said they all: Art thou then the son of God? he said: Ye say that I am. And they said: what need we of any further witness? For we ourselves have heard of his own mouth. ¶ Thursday before Easter. ¶ The Epistle. i Cor. xl. THis I warn you of, & commend not, the ye come not together after a better manner, but after a worse. For first of all, when ye come together in the congregation, I hear that there is dissension among you, and I partly believe it. For there must be sects among you, that they which are perfect among you, may be known. When ye come together therefore into one place, the lords supper cannot be eaten, for every man beginneth afore to eat his own supper. And one is hungry, and another is drunken. Have ye not houses to eat and drink in? despise ye the congregation of God, and shame them that have not? what shall I say unto you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not. That which I delivered unto you, I received of the lord. For the lord jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said. Take ye and eat, this is my body which is broken for you. This do ye in the remembrance of me. After the same manner also, he took the cup when supper was done, saying: this cup is the new Testament in my blood. This do, as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as ye shall eat this bread, & drink of this cup, ye shall show the lords death till he come. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat of this bread, and drink of this cup of the lord unworthily, shallbe guilty of the body and blood of the lord. But let a man examine himself, & so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh his own damnation, because he maketh no difference of the lords body. For this cause many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. For if we had judged ourselves, we should not have been judged. But when we are judged of the Lord, we are chastened, that we should not be damned with the world. Wherefore my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. If any man hunger, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto condemnation. Other things will I set order when I come. ¶ The Gospel. Luk. xxiii THe whole multitude of them arose, and lead him unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying: we found this fellow perverting the people, and forbidding to pay tribute to Cesar, saying that he is Christ a king. And pilate opposed him, saying: art thou the king of the jews? he answered him, and said: thou sayest it. Then said Pilate to the high priests & to the people: I find no fault in this man. And they were the more fierce, saying: he moveth the people, teaching throughout all jury, & began at Galilee even to this place. When Pilate heard mention of Galilee, he asked whether the man were of Galilee. And assoon as he knew that he belonged unto Herodes jurisdiction, he sent him to Herode, which was also at jerusalem at that time. And when Herode saw jesus, he was exceeding glad, for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him, and he trusted to have seen some miracles done by him. Then he questioned with him many words. But he answered him nothing. The high Priests and Scribes stood forth and accused him straightly. And Herode with the men of war, despised him. And when he had mocked him, he arrayed him in white clothing, and sent him again to Pilate. And the same day Pilate and Herode were made friends together. For before they were at variance. And Pilate called together the high priests, & the rulers & the people, and said unto them: ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and behold, I examine him before you, and find no fault in this man of those things whereof ye accuse him, no nor yet Herode. For I sent you unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him: I will therefore chasten him, & let him loose. For of necessity he must have let one loose to them at the feast. And all the people cried at once, saying: away with him, & deliver us Barrabas, which for a certain insurretion made in the city, and for a murder, was cast into prison. Pilate spoke again unto them, willing to let jesus loose. But they cried, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him. He said unto them the third time: what evil hath he done? I find no cause of death in him: I will therefore chasten him and let him go. And they cried with loud voices, requiring that he might be Crucified. And the voices of them, and of the high pryestes prevailed. And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required, & he let loose unto them, him that (for insurrection and murder) was cast into prison, whom they had desired: & he delivered to them jesus, to do with him what they would. And as they led him away, they caught one Simon of Cyrene coming out of the field: and on him laid they the cross, that he might bear it after jesus. And there followed him a great company of people, & of women, which bewailed and lamented him. But jesus turned back unto them, and said: ye daughters of jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days will come, in the which they shall say: Happy are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, fall on us: & to the hills, cover us. For if they do this in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? And there were two evil doers led with him to be slain. And after that they were come to the place (which is called calvary) there they crucified him & the evil doers: one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said jesus: father forgive them, for they wot not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. And the people stood and beheld. And the rulers mocked him with them, saying: he saved other men, let him save himself if he be very christ the chosen of God. The soldiers also mocked him, and came and offered him vinegar, and said: if thou be the king of jews, save thyself. And a superscription was written over him, with letters of Greek, and Latin, & Hebrew: This is the king of the jews. And one of the evil doers, which were hanged, railed on him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself & us. But the other answered and rebuked him, saying: fearest thou not god, seeing thou art in the same damnation? we are righteously punished, for we receive according to our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto jesus: Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And jesus said unto him: verily I say unto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in paradise. And it was about the sixth hour: and there was a darkness over all the earth, until the ninth hour, and the Sun was darkened, and the veil of the Temple did rent, even through the mids. And when jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And when he thus had said, he gave up the ghost. When the Centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying: verily this was a righteous man. And all the people that came together to see that sight, and saw the things which had happened, smote their breasts & returned. And all his acquaintance, & the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar of beholding these things. And behold, there was a man named joseph, a counsellor, and he was a good man & a just: the same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them, which was of Aramathia, a city of the jews, which same also waiteth for the kingdom of God: he went unto Pilate & begged the body of jesus, and took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before had been laid. And that day was the preparing of the Sabbath, and the Sabbath drew on. The women that followed after, which had come with him from Galilee, beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared sweet Odours and ointments, but rested on the Sabbath day, according to the commandment. ¶ On good friday. ¶ The collects. Almighty god, we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family, for the which our Lord jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed, and given up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the cross: who liveth and reigneth. etc. Almighty and everlasting god, by whose spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified: receive our supplications & prayers, which we offer before thee for all estates of men in thy holy congregation, that every member of the same in his vocation & ministery, may truly & godly serve thee: through our Lord jesus Christ. Merciful God, who haste made all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made, nor wouldst the death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live: have mercy upon all jews, Turks, Infidels, and Heretics, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word. And so fetch them home blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites, and be made one fold, under one shepherd jesus Christ our Lord: who liveth and reigneth. etc. ¶ The Epistle. Hebre. x. THe law (which hath but a shadow of good things to come, and not the very fashion of things themselves) can never with those sacrifices which they offer year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect. For would not then those sacrifices have ceased to have been offered, because that the offerers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins? Nevertheless, in those sacrifices is there mention made of sins every year. For the blood of Oxen & Goats can not take away sins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not have, but a body hast thou ordained me. Burnt offerings also for sin hast thou not allowed. Then said I: lo, I am here. In the beginning of the book it is written of me, that I should do thy will, O God. Above, when he saith: Sacrifice and offering, and burnt sacrifices, and sin offerings thou wouldst not have, neither haste thou allowed them (which yet are offered by the law) then said he: lo, I am here to do thy will, O God: he taketh away the first to establish the latter: by the which will, we are made holy, even by the offering of the body of jesus Christ once for al. And every Priest is ready daily, ministering and offering often times one manner of oblation, which can never take away sins. But this man, after he hath offered one sacrifice for sins, is set down for ever on the right hand of God, and from henceforth tarrieth till his foes be made his footstool. For with one offering hath he made perfect for ever, them that are sanctified. The holy ghost himself also beareth us record, even when he told before: This is the Testament that I will make unto them. After those days (sayeth the Lord) I will put my laws in their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. And where remission of these things is, there is no more offering for sins. Seeing therefore brethren, that by the means of the blood of jesus, we have liberty to enter into the holy place, by the new and living way, which he hath prepared for us through the veil (that is to say, by his flesh.) And seeing also that we have an high priest which is ruler over the house of God, let us draw nigh with a true heart in a sure faith, sprinkled in our hearts from an evil conscience, & washed in our bodies with pure water: let us keep the profession of our hope, without wavering (for he is faithful that promised) and let us consider one another, to the intent that we may provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the fellowship that we have among ourselves, as the manner of some is: but let us exhort one another, and that so much the more, because ye see that the day draweth nigh. ¶ The Gospel. joh. xviii WHen jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the broke Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he then entered with his disciples. judas which also beetrayed him, knew the place: for jesus oftimes resorted thither with his Disciples. judas then after he had received a bond of men (& ministers of the high Priests and Phariseis) came thither with lanterns, & firebrands and weapons. And jesus knowing all things that should come on him, went forth & said unto them: whom seek ye? They answered him: jesus of Nazareth. jesus said unto them: I am he. judas also which betrayed him, stood with them. Assoon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground. Then asked he them again: whom seek ye? They said, jesus of Nazareth. jesus answered: I have told you that I am he. If ye seek me, therefore let these go their way, that the saying might be fulfilled which he spoke. Of them which thou gavest me, have I not lost one. Then Simon Peter having a sword, drew it, and smote the high priests servant, & cut of his right ear. The servants name was Malchus. Therefore saith jesus unto Peter, put up thy sword into the sheath: shall I not drink of the cup which my father hath given me? Then the company and the captain, and the ministers of the jews, took jesus, and bound him, and led him away to Anna's first, for he was father in law to Cayphas, which was the high Priest the same year. Cayphas was he that gave counsel to the jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people. And Simon Peter followed jesus, and so did another disciple: that Disciple was known to the high Priest, and went in with jesus unto the palace of the high Priest. But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other Disciple (which was known to the high Priest) and spoke to the damosel that kept the door, and brought in Peter. Then said the Damosel that kept the door unto Peter. Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? he said: I am not. The servants and ministers stood there, which had made a fire of coals: for it was cold, and they warmed themselves. Peter also stood among them and warmed himself. The high Priest then asked jesus of his Disciples, and of his doctrine. jesus answered him: I spoke openly in the world: I ever taught in the Synagogue, and in the Temple whither all the jews have resoted, and in secret have I said nothing. Why askest thou me? Ask them which heard me, what I said unto them. Behold they can tell what I said. When he had thus spoken, one of them ministers which stood by, smote jesus on the face, saying: answerest thou the high Priest so? jesus answered him: If I have evil spoken, bear witness of the evil: But if I have well spoken, why smitest thou me? And Annas sent him bound unto Cayphas the high Priest. Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Then said they unto him. Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, & said: I am not. One of the servants of the high Priests, (his cousin, whose ear Peter smote of) said unto him: did not I see thee in the garden with him? Peter therefore denied again, and immediately the Cock krewe. Then led they jesus from Cayphas, into the hall of judgement. It was in the morning, and they themselves went not into the judgement hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the passover. Pilate then went out to them, and said: what accusation bring you against this man? They answered, and said unto him. If he were not an evil doer, we would not have delivered him unto thee. Then said Pilate unto them: take ye him and judge him after your own law. The jews therefore said unto him: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death, that the words of jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying what death he should die. Then Pilate entered into the judgement hall again, and called jesus, and said unto him. Art thou the king of the jews? jesus answered: sayest thou that of thyself, or did other tell it thee of me? Pilate answered: Am I a jew? Thine own nation and high priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? jesus answered: my kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my ministers surely fight, that I should not be delivered to the jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. Pilate therefore said unto him: Art thou a King then? jesus answered: thou sayest that I am a king. For this cause was I borne, & for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. And all that are of the truth, hear my voice. Pilate said unto him: what thing is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the jews, and sayeth unto them: I find in him no cause at all. Ye have a custom that I should deliver you one loose at Easter: will ye that I loose unto you the king of the jews? Then cried they all again, saying: Not him, but Barrabas, the same Barrabas was a murderer. Then Pilate took jesus therefore, & scourged him. And the soudiours' wound a crown of thorns, and put it on his head. And they did on him a purple garment, and came unto him, & said: Hail king of the jews, and they smote him on the face. Pilate went forth again, and said unto them: behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then came jesus forth wearing a crown of thorn, and a rob of purple. And he saith unto them: behold the man. When the Priests therefore and the ministers saw him, they cried, crucify him, crucify him. pilate saith unto them: take ye him and crucify him, for I find no cause in him. The jews answered him: we have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the son of GOD. When pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid, and went again into the judgement hall, and said unto jesus: whence art thou? But jesus gave him none answer. Then said pilate unto him. Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, & have power to loose thee? jesus answered: Thou couldst have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: Therefore he that delivered me unto thee, hath the more sin. And from thenceforth sought Pilate means to loose him: but the jews cried, saying: if thou let him go, thou art not Caesar's friend: for whosoever maketh himself a king, is against Ceasar. When Pilate heard that saying, he brought jesus forth, & sat down to give sentence in a place that is called the pavement, but in the Hebrew tongue, Gabbatha. It was the preparing day of Easter, about the sixth hour. And he sayeth unto the jews: behold your king. They cried, saying: away with him, away with him, crucify him. pilate saith unto them: shall I crucify your king? The high Priests answered: we have no king but Ceasar. Then delivered he him to them to be crucified. And they took jesus and led him away, and he bore his cross, and went forth into a place which is called the place of dead men's skulls: but in Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and jesus in the midst. And pilate wrote a title and put it upon the cross. The writing was, jesus of Nazareth king of the jews. This title read many of the jews: for the place where jesus was crucified, was here to the city. And it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Then said the high priests of the jews to Pilate: writ not king of the jews, but that he said: I am king of the jews. Pilate answered: what I have written that I have written. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his coat. The coat was without seam, wrought upon throughout. They said therefore among themselves: lte us not divide it, but cast lots for it who shall have it, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saying: They have parted my raiment among them, and for my coat did they cast lots. And the soldiers did such things in deed. There stood by the cross of jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Marry the wife of Cleophas, and mary Magdalene. When jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple, whom he loved, standing, he saith unto his mother: woman, behold thy son. Then said he to the disciple: behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her for his own. After these things, jesus knowing that all things were now performed, that the scripture might be fulfilled, he sayeth: I thirst. So there stood a vessel by full of vinegar: therefore they filled a sponge with vinegar, and wound it about with Isope, and put it to his mouth. Assoon as jesus then received of the vinegar, he said: It is finished, and bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. The jews therefore, because it was the preparing of the Sabbothe, that the bodies should not remain upon the Cross on the Sabbath day (for that Sabbath day, was an high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken down. Then came the soldiers and broke the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they broke not his legs: but one of the soldiers with a spear thrust him into the side, and forthwith there came out blood & water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true. And he knoweth that he sayeth true, that ye might believe also. For these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled: ye shall not break a bone of him. And again another scripture sayeth: they shall look upon him whom they have pierced. After this, joseph of Aramathia (which was a disciple of jesus, but secretly for fear of the jews) besought Pilate that he might take down the body of jesus. And Pilate gave him licence. He came therefore & took the body of jesus. And there came also Nichodemus (which at the beginning came to jesus by night) and brought of Myrrh and Aloes mingled together, about an hundredth pound weight. Then took they the body of jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the Odours, as the manner of the jews is to bury. And in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new Sepulchre wherein was never man laid: There laid they jesus therefore because of the preparing of the Sabbothe of the jews, for the Sepulchre was nigh at hand. ¶ Easter Even. ¶ The Epistle. i. Pete. iii IT is better (if the will of God be so) that ye suffer for well doing then for evil doing. Forasmuch as Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God: and was killed as pertaining to the flesh, but was quickened in the spirits. In which spirit he also went and preached to the spirits that were in prison, which sometime had been disobedient, when the long suffering of God was once looked for, in the days of Noah, while the Ark was a preparing: wherein a few, that is to say, eight souls were saved by the water, like as Baptism also now saveth us: not the putting a way of the filth of the flesh, but in that a good conscience consenteth to GOD by the resurrection of jesus Christ, which is on the right hand of God, and is gone into heaven: Angels, powers, and might, subdued unto him. ¶ The Gospel. Matthew xxvii. WHen the even was come, there came a rich man of Aramathia, named joseph, which also was jesus disciple. He went unto Pilate and begged the body of jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, & laid it in his new tomb, which he had hewn out, even in the rock, & rolled a great stone to the door of the Sepulchre, & departed. And there was marry Magdalene and the other Marry, sitting over against the Sepulchre. The next day that followeth the day of preparing, the high Priests and Phariseis came together unto pilate, saying: Sir, we remember that this deceiver said while he was yet alive: After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the Sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him away, and say unto the people, he is risen from the dead: and the last error shallbe worse than the first. Pilate said unto them: ye have a watch, go your way, make it as sure as ye can. So they went and made the Sepulchre sure with the watchmen and sealed the stone. ¶ Easter day. At morning prayer, in stead of the Psalm. O come let us. etc. These Anthems shallbe sung or said. christ rising again from the dead, now dieth not. Death from henceforth hath no power upon him. For in that he died, he died but once to put a way sin: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto god. And so likewise, count yourselves dead unto sin, but living unto God, in Christ jesus our Lord. CHrist is risen again the first fruits of them that sleep: for seeing that by man came death, by man also cometh the resurrection of the dead. For as by Adam all men do die, so by Christ, all men shallbe restored to life. ¶ The collect. Almighty god, which through thy only begotten son jesus Christ, haste overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life: we humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us, thou dost put in our minds good desires: so by thy continual help, we may bring the same to good effect, through jesus Christ our lord: who liveth and reigneth. etc. ¶ The Epistle. Collo. iii. IF ye be risen again with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on heavenly things, and not on earthly things. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in god. Whensoever Christ (which is our life) shall show himself, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your earthy members, fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is worshipping of Idols: for which things sake, the wrath of god useth to come on the children of unbelief, among whom ye walked sometime when ye lived in them. ¶ The Gospel. john. xx. THe first day of the Sabbothes came Mary Magdalen early (when it was yet dark) unto the Sepulchre, and saw the stone taken away from the grave. Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom jesus loved, and saith unto them: they have taken away the Lord out of the grave, and we cannot tell where they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came unto the Sepulchre. They ran both together, & that other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the Sepulchre. And when he had stooped down, he saw the linen clothes lying, yet went he not in. Then came Simon Peter following him, & went into the Sepulchre, & saw the linen clothes lie, & the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then went in also that other disciple which came first to the Sepulchre, & he saw & believed. For as yet they knew not the Scripture that he should rise again from death. Then the disciples went away again to their own home. ¶ Monday in Easter week. ¶ The collect. Almighty god, which through thy only begotten son jesus Christ, hast overcome death, & opened unto us the gate of everlasting life: we humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us, thou dost put in our minds good desires: so by thy continual help, we may bring the same to good effect, through jesus Christ our lord: who liveth and reigneth. etc. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. x. PEter opened his mouth, and said: of a truth I perceive that there is no respect of persons with God: but in all people, he that feareth him & worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. Ye know the preaching that god sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by jesus Christ which is Lord over all things: which preaching was published throughout all jewry (& began in Galilee, after the Baptism which john preached) how God anointed jesus of Nazareth with the holy ghost, and with power. Which jesus went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all things which he did in the land of the jews, and at jerusalem, whom they slew and hanged on tree. Him God raised up the third day and showed him openly, not to all the people, but to us witnesses (chosen before of god for the same intent) which did eat and drink with him after he arose from death. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of god to be the judge of the quick and the dead. To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name, whosoever believeth in him, shall receive remission of sins. ¶ The Gospel. Lu. xxiiii. Behold, two of the disciples went that same day to a town called Emaus, which was from jerusalem about lx furlongs: and they talked together of all the things that had happened. And it chanced while they commoned together and reasoned, jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. And he said unto them: what manner of communications are these that ye have one to another as ye walk, and are sad? And the one of them (whose name was Cleophas) answered and said unto him: art thou only a stranger in jerusalem, and haste not known the things which have chanced there in these days? he said unto them: what things? And they said unto him: of jesus of Nazareth, which was a Prophet, mighty in deed & word before God and all the people: and how the high Priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he, which should have redeemed Israel. And as touching all these things, to day is even the third day that they were done. Yea and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which came early unto the Sepulchre, and found not his body: & came, saying that they had seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us, went to the Sepulchre, and found it even to as the women had said, but him they saw not. And he said unto them: O fools and slow of heart, to believe all that the Prophets have spoken. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And he began at Moses and all the Prophets, and interpreted unto them in all scriptures which were written of him. And they drew nigh unto the town which they went unto. And he made as though he would have gone further. And they constrained him, saying: Abide with us, for it draweth towards night, & the day is far passed: And he went in to tarry with them. And it came to pass as he sat at meat with them, he took bread & blessed it, and broke, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him, and he vanished out of their sight. And they said between themselves: did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and opened to us the scriptures? And they rose up the same hour and returned to jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying: the Lord is risen in deed, and hath appeared to Simon. And they told what things were done in the way, & how they knew him in breaking of bread. Tuesday in Easter week. ¶ The collect. ALmighty father, which hast given thy only son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification: Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. xiii YE men and brethren, Children of the generation of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth god: to you is this word of salvation sent. For the inhabiters of jerusalem and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the Prophets, which are read every Sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And when they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate to kill him. And when they had fulfilled all that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in a Sepulchre. But God raised him again from death the third day, and he was seen many days of them which went with him from Galilee to jerusalem, which are witnesses unto the people. And we declare unto you, how that the promise) which was made unto the fathers) god hath fulfilled unto their children, (even unto us) in that he raised up jesus again. Even as it is written in the second Psalm: thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. As concerning that he raised him up from death, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise. The holy promises made to David, will I give faithfully unto you. Wherefore he sayeth also in an other place: Thou shalt not suffer thine holy to see corruption. For David (after that he had in his time fulfilled the will of god) fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption. But he whom God raised again, saw no corruption. Be it known unto you therefore (ye men and brethren) that through this man is preached unto you forgiveness of sins, and that by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law Moses, Beware therefore, lest that fall on you which is spoken of in the prophets: behold ye despisers, and wonder, and perish ye: for I do a work in your days, which ye shall not believe though a man declare it unto you. ¶ The Gospel. Lu. xxiiii Jesus stood in the mids of his disciples, and said unto them: peace be unto you: It is I, fear not. But they were abashed and afraid, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them: why are ye troubled, & why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is even I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit hath no flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them: Have ye here any meat? And they offered him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an Honey comb. And he took it, and did eat before them. And he said unto them: these are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you: That all must needs be fulfilled, which were written of me in the law of Moses, & in the prophets, and in the Psalms. Then opened he their wits, that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them. Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise again from death the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins, should be preached in his name among all nations, and must begin at jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. ¶ The first sunday after Easter. ¶ The collect. Almighty God. etc. As at the Communion on Easter day. ¶ The Epistle. i. john. v. ALL that is borne of god overcometh the world. And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that jesus is the son of God? This jesus Christ is he that came by water and blood, 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 which bear record in heaven: the father, the word, and the holy ghost: and these three are one. And there are three which bear record in earth: the spirit, and water, and blood: and these three are one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of god that is greater, which he testified of his son. He that believeth on the son of god, hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not god, hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son. And this is the record, how that God hath given unto us eternal life, and this life is in his son. He that hath the son, hath life: and he that hath not the son of God, hath not life. ¶ The Gospel. jon. xx. THesame day at night, which was the first day of the sabbaths, when the doors were shut (where the disciples were assembled together for fear of the jews') came jesus & stood in the mids, and said unto them: Peace be unto you. And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord. Then said jesus to them again. Peace be unto you. As my father sent me, even so send I you also. And when he had said these words, he breathed on them, and said unto them: receive ye the holy ghost. whosoever's sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them. And whosoever's sins ye retain, they are retained. ¶ The second Sunday after Easter. ¶ The collect. Almighty God, which hast given thy holy son to be unto us, both a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: give us the grace that we may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit, and also daily endeavour ourselves to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life. ¶ The Epistle. i. Pete. two THis is thank worthy, if a man for conscience toward God, endure grief, and suffer wrong undeserved. For what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye take it patiently? But and if when ye do well, ye suffer wrong & take it patiently, them is there thank with God. For hereunto verily were ye called. For Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an ensample that ye should follow his steps, which did no sin, neither was there guile found in his mouth: which when he was reviled, reviled not again: when he suffered, he threatened not: but committed the vengeance to him that judgeth rightously, which his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we being delivered from sin, should live unto righteousness. By whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray, but are now turned unto the shepherd, and bishop of your souls. ¶ The Gospel. john. x. CHrist said unto his disciples: I am the good shepherd: a good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. An hired servant, and he which is not the shepherd (neither the sheep are his own) seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep and fleeth, and the wolf catcheth and skattereth the sheep. The hired servant fleeth because he is an hired servant, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, & know my sheep, & am known of mine. As my father knoweth me, even so know I also my father. And I give my life for the sheep: and other sheep I have which are not of this fold: Them also must I bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shallbe oh fold and one shepherd. The third Sunday after Easter. ¶ The Collect. Almighty god, which showest to all men that be in error the light of thy truth, to the intent that they may return into the way of righteousness. Grant unto all them that be admitted into the fellowship of Christ's religion, that they may eschew those things the be contrary to their profession, and follow all such things as be agreeable to the same: through our Lord jesus Christ. ¶ The Epistle. i. Pete. two dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul: and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that whereas they backbite you as evil doers, they may see your good works, and praise god in the day of visitation. submit yourselves therefore to every man for the lords sake, whether it be unto the king as unto the chief head: either unto rulers as unto them the are sent of him for the punishment of evil doers, but for the laud of them that do well. For so is the will of god, that with well doing, ye may stop the mouths of foolish and ignorant men: as free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but even as the servants of God. Honour all men, love brotherly fellowship, fear God, honour the king. ¶ The Gospel. john. xvi Jesus said to his disciples: After a while ye shall not see me, & again after a while ye shall see me: for I go to the father. Then said some of his disciples between themselves: what is this that he sayeth unto us? after a while ye shall not see me, and again after a while ye shall see me, and that I go to the father? They said therefore: what is this that he saith, after a while? We cannot tell what he saith. jesus perceived that they would ask him, and said unto them: ye inquire of this between yourselves, because I said: after a while ye shall not see me, and again after a while ye shall see me. Verily, verily, I say unto you: ye shall weep & lament, but contrary wise, the world shall rejoice. Ye shall sorrow, but your sorrow shallbe turned to joy. A woman when she travaileth hath sorrow, because her hour is come. But assoon as she is delivered of the child, she remembreth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is borne into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy shall no man take from you. The fourth sunday after Easter. ¶ The collect. Almighty god, which dost make the minds of all faithful men to be of one will: Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise: that among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, whereas true joys are to be found: Through Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. james. i EVery good gift & every perfect gift, is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of change. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be the first fruit of his creatures. Wherefore (dear brethren) let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, and superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is graffed in you, which is able to save your souls. ¶ The Gospel. john. xvi. Jesus said unto his disciples: now I go my way to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me whither I go. But because I have said such things unto you, your hearts are full of sorrow. nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you the I go away. For if I go not away, that comforter will not come unto you. But if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will rebuke the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement. Of sin, because they believe not on me. Of righteousness, because I go to my father, and ye shall see me no more. Of judgement, because the prince of this world is judged already. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them away now: howbeit when he is come (which is the spirit of truth) he will lead you into all truth. He shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine, and shall show unto you. All things that the father hath, are mine: therefore said I unto you, that he shall take of mine, and show unto you. ¶ The fifth Sunday after Easter. ¶ The Collect. LOrd, from whom all good things do come: grant us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same, through out lord jesus Christ. ¶ The Epistle. james. i. see that ye be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any man hear the word, and declareth not the same by his works, he is like unto a man beholding his bodily face in a glass. For assoon as he hath looked on himself, he goeth his way, and forgeatteth immediately what his fashion was. But whoso looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein (if he be not a forgeatful hearer, but a doer of the work) the same shall be happy in his deed. If any man among you seem to be devout, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's devotion is in vain. Pure devotion, & undefiled before God the father is this: to visit the fatherless and wiedowes in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world. ¶ The Gospel john. xvi. Verily, verily, I say unto you: whatsoever ye ask the father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name. Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I spoken unto you by proverbs. The time will come, when I shall no more speak unto you by proverbs: but I shall show you plainly from my father. At that day shall ye ask in my name: And I say not unto you that I will speak unto my father for you: For the father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from god. I went out from the father, and came into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the father. His disciples said unto him: Lo, now thou talkest plainly, and speakest no proverb. Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee any question: therefore believe we, that thou camest from god. jesus answered them: now ye do believe. Behold, the hour draweth nigh, & is already come, that ye shallbe scattered every man to his own, and shall leave me alone. And yet am I not alone, for the father is with me. These words have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace, for in the world shall ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. The Ascension day. ¶ The Collect. Grant we beseech thee almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only begotten son our Lord to have ascended into the heavens: so we may also in heart and mind thither ascend, and with him continually dwell. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. i. IN the former treatise (dear Theophilus) we have spoken of all that jesus began to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the holy ghost, had given commandments unto the Apostles, whom he had chosen, to whom also he showed himself alive, after his passion (and that by many tokens) appearing unto them forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God, and gathered them together, and commanded them that they should not departed from, jerusalem, but to wait for the to promise of the father, whereof (sayeth he) ye have heard of me. For john truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy ghost, after these few days. When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? And he said unto them: it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after the holy ghost is come upon you. And ye shallbe witnesses unto me, not only in jerusalem, but also in all jewrye, and in all Samaria, and even unto the worlds end. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up on high, and a cloud received him up out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly up toward heaven as he went: behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, which also said: ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, even as ye have seen him go into heaven. ¶ The Gospel. Mar. xvi. Jesus appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and cast in their, teeth their unbelief and hardens of heart, because they believed not them which had seen that he was risen again from the dead: and he said unto them. Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to all creatures: he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. But he that believeth not shall be damned: And these tokens shall follow them that believe. In my name they shall cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues, they shall drive away serpents. And if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them. They shall lay their hand on the sick, and shall recover. So then when the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received into heaven, and is on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with miracles following. ¶ The Sunday after the Ascension day. ¶ The Collect. O God the king of glory, which hast exalted thine only son jesus Christ, with great triumph unto thy kingdom in heaven: we beseech thee leave us not coumfortles, but send to us thine holy ghost to comfort us and exalt us unto the same place whither our saviour Christ is gone before: who liveth and reigneth. etc. ¶ The Epistle. i Pe. iiii. THe end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. But above all things, have fervent love among yourselves: for love shall cover the multitude of sins. Be ye herberous one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good ministers of the manifold graces of god. If any man speak, let him talk as the words of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God ministereth to him, that God in all things may be glorified, through jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. ¶ The Gospel. john. xv. WHen the comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the father (even the spirit of truth, which proceedeth of the father) he shall testify of me. And ye shall be are witness also, because ye have been with me from the beginning. These things have I said unto you, because ye should not be offended. They shall excommunicate you: yea the time shall come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth god service. And such things will they do unto you, because they have not known the father, neither yet me. But these things I have told you, that when the time is come, ye may remember then that I told you. ¶ Whitsunday ¶ The Collect. GOd, which as upon this day hast taught the hearts of thy faithful people, by the sending to them the light of holy spirit: Grant us by the same spirit to have a right judgement in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort, through the merits of Christ jesus our saviour who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same spirit, one God world without end. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. two. WHen the fifty days were come to an end, they were all with one accord together in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as it had been the coming of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they sat. And there appeared unto them, cloven tongues, like as they had been offyre, and it fate upon each one of them: and they were all filled filled with the holy ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, even as the same spirit gave them utterance. Then were dwelling at jerusalem, jews, devout men, out of every nation of them that are under heaven. When this was noised about, the multitude came together and were astonished, because that every man heard them speak with his own language. They wondered all and marveled, saying among themselves: behold, are not all these which speak of Galilee? And how hear we every man his own tongue, wherein we were borne: Partians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the inhabiters of Mesopotamia, & of jewry, and of Capadocia, of Pontus and Asia, Phrigia, and Pamphilia, of Egypt, and of the parties of Libya, which is beside Siren, and strangers of Rome, jews and Proselytes, Greeks and Arrabians, we have heard them speak in our own tongues the great works of god. ¶ The Gospel. joh. xiiii. Jesus said unto his disciplines: If ye love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray thee father, and he shall give you another comforter, that he may abide with you for ever: even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because the world seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him: for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you coumfortles, but will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more: but ye see me. For I live, and ye shall live. That day shall ye know that I am in my father, and you in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, the same is he that loveth me. And he that loveth me, shall beloved of my father, and I will love him, and will show mine own self unto him. judas sayeth unto him, (not judas Iscarioth) Lord, what is done that thou wilt show thyself unto us, and not unto the world: jesus answered, and said unto them: if a man love me, he will keep my sayings, and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and dwell with him. He that loveth me not, keepeth not my sayings. And the word which ye hear, is not mine, but the fathers which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the comforter which is the holy ghost, whom my father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your hearts be grieved, neither fear. Ye have heard how I said unto you: I go, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would verily rejoice, because I said, I go unto the father, for the father is greater than I And now have I showed you before it come, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe. Hereafter will I not talk many words unto you. For the Prince of this world cometh, and hath naught in me. But that the world may know that I love the father. And as the father gave me commundement, even so do I. ¶ monday in whitson week. ¶ The collect. God which. etc. (As upon Whitsundaye. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. x. THen Peter opened his mouth, and said: of a truth I perceive that there is no respect of persons with god: but in all people, he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. Ye know the preaching that GOD sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by jesus christ which is Lord over all things: which preaching was published throughout all jewry (and begun in Galilee after the baptism which john preached) how God anointed jesus of Nazareth with the holy ghost and with power. Which jesus went about, doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, For God was with him. And we are witnesses of all things which he did in the land of the jews, and at jerusalem whom they stew and hanged on a tree: Him God raised by the third day, and showed him openly, not to all the people, but unto us witnesses (chosen before of god for the same intent) which did eat and drink with him after he arose from death. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, & to testify the it is he, which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick & dead. To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him, shall receive remission of sins. While Peter yet spoke these words, the holy ghost fell on all them which heard the preaching. And they of the circumcision which believed, were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was shed out the gift of the holy ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter: can any man forbidden water that these should not be baptized which have received the holy ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry a few days. ¶ The Gospel. john. iii. SO god loved the world, that he gave his only be gotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. But he that believeth on him, is not condemned. But he that believeth not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the onli begotten son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that evil doth, hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doth the truth, cometh to the light, that his deeds may be known, how that they are wrought in God. The tuesday after whitsondaye. ¶ The collect. ¶ God which. etc. (As upon whitsunday. ¶ The Epistle. Act. viii WHen the Apostles which were at jerusalem, heard say that Samaria had received the word of god, they sent unto them Peter & john. Which when they were come down, prayed for them that they might receive the holy ghost. For as yet he was come on none of them, but they were baptized only in the name of Christ jesus. Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the holy ghost. ¶ The Gospel. john. x. Verily, verily I say unto you, he that entereth not in by the door into the sheep fold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a these and a murderer. But he that entereth in by the door, is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he hath sent forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. A stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers. This Proverb spoke jesus unto them but they understood not what things they were which he spoke unto them. Then said jesus unto them again: Verily, verily, I say unto you: I am the door of the sheep. All (even as many as came before me) are thieves and murderers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door, by me if any enter in, he shallbe safe, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. A these cometh not but for to steal, kill, and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Trinity sunday. ¶ The collect. Almighty and everlasting God, which haste given unto us thy servants, grace by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the divine Majesty to worship the unity: we beseech thee, that through the steadfastness of this faith we may evermore be defended from all adversity, which livest & reignest one god, world without end. Amen. ¶ The Epistle. Apoc. iiii AFter this I looked, and behold, a door was open in heaven, and the first voice which I heard, was as it were of a trumpet talking with me, which said: come up higher, and I will show thee things which must be fulfilled hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit. And behold, a seat was set in heaven, and one sat on the seat. And he that sat was to look upon, like unto a jasper stone, and a Sardine stone. And there was a rainbow about the seat, in sight like unto an Emerald. And about the seat were xxiiii seats. And upon the seats xxiiii elders sitting, clothed in white raiment, and had on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the seat proceeded lightnings, and thunderings, and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the seat, which are the seven spirits of god. And before the seat, there was a sea of glass like unto Crystal: and in the mids of the seat and round about the seat, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a Lion: and the second beast like a Calf: and the third beast had a face as a man: and the fourth beast was like a flying Egle. And the four beasts had each of them two wings about him, and they were full of eyes within. And they did not rest day neither night, saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty, which was and is, and is to come. And when those beasts gave glori and honour, and thanks to him that sat on the seat (which liveth for ever and ever) the xxiiii elders fell down before him that sat on the throne, and worshipped him that liveth for ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: thou art worthy, O lord (our god) to receive glory and honour, and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy wills sake they are, and were created. ¶ The Gospel john. iii. THere was a man of the Phariseis named Nichodemus, a ruler of the jews. The same came to jesus by night, and said unto him: Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from god: for no man could do such miracles as thou dost, except God were with him. jesus answered, and said unto him: Verily, verily, I say unto thee: except a man be borne from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nichodemus said unto him: how can a man be borne when he is older can he enter into his mother's womb and be borne again; jesus answered: verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be borne of water, and of the spirit, he cannot entre into the kingdom to God. That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh: And that which is borne of the spirit, is spirit. Marvel not thou that I said to thee, ye must be borne from above. The wind bloweth where it lusteth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but thou canst not tell whence it cometh nor whether he goeth: So is every one the is borne of the spirit. Nichodemus answered, and said unto him: how can these things be? jesus answered, and said unto him: art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things: Verily, verily, I say unto thee: we speak that we know, and testify that we have seen, and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not: how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man ascendeth up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lift up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lift up: that whosoever believeth in him, perish not, but have everlasting life. ¶ The first Sunday after Trinity sunday. ¶ The collect. GOd the strength of all them, that trust in thee, mercifully accept our prayers: And because the weakness of our mortal nature can do no good thing without thee: grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping of thy commandments, we may please the both in will and deed: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. i joh. iiii. dearly beloved, let us love one another: for love cometh of god. And every one that loveth, is borne of god, and knoweth god. He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for god is love. In this appeareth love of God to us ward, because that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be the agreement for our sins. dearly beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also one to love another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us. Nereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his spirit. And we have seen, and do testify that the father sent the son to be the Saviour of the world: whosoever confesseth that jesus is the son of God, in him dwelleth God and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is the love perfect in us, that we should trust in the day of judgement. For as he is, even so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, for fear hath painfulness. He that feareth, is not perfect in love. We love him, for he loved us first. If a man say, I love god, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar. For how can he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, love God whom he hath not seen. And this commandment have we of him: that be which loveth God, should love his brother also. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. xv. THere was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine white, and fared deliciously every day. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, which lay at his gate full of sores, desiring to be refreshed with the crumines which fell from the rich man's board, and no man gave unto him. The dogs came also and licked his sores. And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the Angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried: And being in hell in torments, he lift up his eyes, and saw Abraham afar of and Lazarus in his bosom, and he cried and said: Father Abraham have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and coal my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said: Son, remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy pleasure, and contrariwise Lazarus received pain. But now he is comforted and thou art punished. Beyond all this, between us and you there is a great space set, so that they which would go from hence to you cannot, neither may come from thence to us. Then he said: I pray thee therefore father, send him to my father's house, (for I have five brethren) for to warn them, left they come also into this place of torment. Abraham said unto him: they have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them. And he said: nay father Abraham: but if one come unto them from the dead, they will repent. He said unto him: If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they believe, though one rose from death again. The second Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. Lord make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy name: for thou never failest to help and govern them, whom thou doest bring up in thy steadfast love. Grant this. etc. ¶ The Epistle. i joh. iii. marvel not my brethren, though the world hate you. We know that we are translated from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother, abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother, is a manslayer. And ye know that no manslayer hath eternal life abiding in him. Herby perceive we love, because he gave his life for us, and we ought to give our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My babes, let us not love in word neither in tongue: but in deed and in verity. Herby we know that we are of the verity, and can quiet our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, & knoweth all things. dearly beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we trust to Godward, & whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasant in his sight. And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his son jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave commandment. And he that keepeth his commandments, dwelleth in him, and he in him: & hereby we know that he abideth in us, even by the spirit which he hath given us. ¶ The Gospel Luk. xiiii A Certain man ordained a great supper, and bade many, and sent his servant at supper time, to say to them that were bidden: come, for all things are now ready. And they all at once began to make excuse. The first said unto him. I have bought a farm, and I must needs go and see it, I pray thee have me excused. And another said: I have bought five yoke of Oxen, and I go to prove them, I pray thee have me excused. And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. And the servant returned and brought his master word again thereof. Then was the good man of the house displeased, and said to his servant: go out quickly into the streets and quarters of the city, and bring in hither the poor and feeble, and the halt, and blind. And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou haste commanded, and yet there is room. And the Lord said unto the servant: go out unto the high ways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto you, that none of these men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. The third Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to hear us, and unto whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray: grant the by thy mighty aid we may be defended: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle i Petr. v. SVbmitte yourselves every man one to another: knit yourselves together in lowelynes of mind. For god resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Submit yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of god, that he may exalt you when the time is come. Cast all your care upon him, for he careth for you. Be sober, &, watch, for your adversary the devil, as a roaring Lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith: knowing that the same afflictions are appointed unto your brethren, that are in the world. But the god of all grace, which hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ, jesus, shall his own self (after that ye have suffered a little affliction) make you perfect, settle, strength, and stablish you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. ¶ The Gospel Luke. xv. THen resorted unto him, all the Publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Phariseis and Scribes murmured, saying: He receiveth sinners and eateth with them. But he put forth this parable unto them, laying: What man among you having an hundredth sheep (if he lose one of them) doth not of leave ninety and nine in the wilderness, & goeth after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders with joy. And assoon as he cometh home, he calleth together his lovers & neighbours, saying unto them: Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shallbe in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety & nine just persons which need no repentance. Either what woman having ten groats (if she lose one) doth not light a candle & sweep the house, & seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her lovers and her neighbours together, saying: Rejoice with me, for I have found the groat which I lost. Likewise, I say unto you shall there be joy in the presence of the Angels of god, over one sinner that repenteth. The fourth Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. GOd, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: increase and multiply upon us thy mercy, that thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal: grant this heavenly father, for jesus Christ's sake our Lord. ¶ The Epistle Ro. viii. I Suppose that the afflictions of this life, are not worthy of the glory which shall be showed upon us. For the fervent desire of the creature abideth, looking when the sons of God shall appear, because the creature is subdued to vanity against the will thereof, but for his will which hath subdued the same in hope. For the same creature shallbe delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. For we know that every creature groaneth with us also, and travaileth in pain, even unto this time: not only it, but we also which have the first fruits of the spirit, mourn in ourselves also, & wait for the adoption (of the children of God) even the deliverance of our bodies. ¶ The Gospel Luke. vi. BE ye merciful as your father also is merciful. judge not, & ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. For give, and ye shallbe forgiven. give, and it shallbe given unto you, good measure, & pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosoms. For with the same measure that ye meet withal, shall other men meet to you again. And he put forth a similitude unto them. Can the blind lead the blind? do they not both fall into the ditch? The disciple is not above his master: Every man shallbe perfect even as his master is. Why seest thou a mote in thy brother's eye, but consydereste not the beam that is in thine own eye? Either how canst thou say to thy brother? Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou seest not the beam that is in thine own eye? first thou hypocrite, cast out the beam out of thine own eye, them shalt thou see perfectly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye. ¶ The fifth Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. Grant Lord, we beseech thee, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by the governance, that thy congregation may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle i Pet. iii BE you all of one mind, and of one heart, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous, (meek) not rendering evil for evil, or rebuke for rebuke: but contrariwise bless, knowing that ye are thereunto called, even that ye should be heirs of the blessing. For he that doth long after life, and loveth to see good days: let him refrain his tongue from evil, & his lips that they speak no guile. Let him eschew evil and do good: let him seek peace, and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, & his ears are open unto their prayers. Again, the face of the Lord is over them that do evil. Moreover, who is he that will harm you, if ye follow that which is good yea, happy are ye if any trouble happen unto you for righteousness sake. Be not ye afraid for any terror of them, neither be ye troubled, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. ¶ The Gospel Luke. v. YE came to pass, that (when the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God) he stood by the lake of Genazareth, & saw two ships stand by the lakes side, but the fishermen were gone out of them, & were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships (which pertained to Simon) and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, & taught the people out of the ship. When he had left speaking, he said unto Simon: launch out into the deep, & let slip your nets to make a draft. And Simon answered, and said unto him: Master, we have laboured all night, and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, at thy commandment I will loose forth the nerre. And when they had so done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes. But their net broke, and they beckoned to their fellows (which were in the other ship) that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both ships, that they souke again. When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at jesus knees, saying: Lord go from me, for I am a sinful man. For he was astonished and all that were with him, at the draught of fishes which they had taken: and so was also james and john the sons of zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And jesus said unto Simon: fear not, from henceforth thou shalt catch men. And they brought the ships to land, and forsook all and followed him. The sixth Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. GOd Which hast prepared to them that love thee, such good things as pass all man's understanding: power into our hearts such love toward thee, that we loving thee in all things, may obtain thy promises, which exceed all that we can desire: through jesus Christ our lord. ¶ The Epistle Rom. vi. Know ye not, that all we which are baptized in jesus Christ, are baptized to die with him? We are buried then with him by baptism for to die: that likewise as Christ was raised from death by the glory of the father, even so we also should walk in a new life. For if we be grafted in death like unto him, even so shall we be partakers of the holy resurrection. Knowing this, that your old man is crucified with him also, that the body of sin might utterly be destroyed, that henceforth we should not be servants unto sin. For he that is dead, is justified from sin. Wherefore, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, knowing that Christ being raised from death, dieth no more. Death hath no more power over him. For as touching that he died, he died concerning sin once. And as touching that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise considre ye also, that ye are dead as touching sin, but are alive unto God: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Gospel Math. v. Jesus said unto his disciples: except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Phariseis, ye cannot entre into the kingdom of heaven. Ye have heard that it was said unto them of old time. Thou shalt not kill, whosoever killeth, shallbe in danger of judgement. But I say unto you: that whosoever is angry with his brother (unadvisedly) shallbe in danger of judgement. And whosoever say unto his brother, Racha: shallbe in danger of a counsel. But whosoever, faith, thou fool: shallbe in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou offerest thy gift at the altar, and there remember'st that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thine offering before the altar, and go thy way first and be reconciled to thy brother, & then come and offer thy gift. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, & the judge deliver thee to the minister, and then thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee: thou shalt not come out thence, till thou have paid the uttermost farthing. The seventh Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The collect. LOrd of all power and might, which art the author & giver of all good things: graff in our hearts the love of thy name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle Rom. vi. I Speak grossly, because of the infirmity of your flesh. As ye have given your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity (from one iniquity to an other:) even so now give over your membres servants unto righteousness, the ye may be sanctified. For when ye were servants of sin, ye were void of righteousness. What fruit had you then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things are death. But now are ye delivered from sin, & made the servants of God, & have your fruit to be sanctified, & the end everlasting life. For the reward of sin is death: but eternal life is the gift of God, through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Gospel mar. viii. IN those days, when there was a very great company, and had nothing to eat: jesus called his disciples unto him, & said unto them: I have compassion on the people, because they have been now with me three days, and have nothing to eat: And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they shall faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. And his Disciples answered him: where should a man have bread here in the wilderness, to satisfy these? And he asked them: how many loaves have ye: They said, seven. And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves: And when he had given thanks, he broke, and gave to his disciples to set before them. And they did set them before the people. And they had a few final fishes. And when he had blessed, he commanded them also to be set before them. And they did eat, and were sufficed. And they took up of the broken meat that was left, seven baskets full. And they that did eat, were about four thousand. And he sent them away. ¶ The eight sunday after Trinity. ¶ The collect. GOd, whose providence is never deceived: we humbly beseech thee, that thou wilt put away from us all hurtful things, and give those things, which be profitable for us: Through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle Ro. viii. BRethren, we are debtor, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. But if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are lead by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage to fear any more, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby ye cry: Abba father. The same spirit certifieth our spirit, that we are the sons of God. If we be sons, then are we also heirs: the, heirs I mean of God, and heirs annexed with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together with him. ¶ The Gospel. Mar. seven. BEware of false prophets, which come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns? Or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree, bringeth forth good fruits. But a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruits. A good tree cannot bring forth had fruits, neither can a bad tree bring forth good fruits. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is between down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that faith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my father which is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. ¶ The ninth sunday after Trinity. ¶ The collect. Grant to us Lord we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful: that we which cannot be without thee, may by thee be able to live according to thy will. Through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle i Corin. x Brethren, I would not that ye should beignoraunt, how that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, & were all baptized under Moses in the cloud, and in the sea, & did all eat of one spiritual meat, and did all drink of one spiritual drink. And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, which rock was Christ. But in many of them had God no delight. For they were overthrown in the wilderness. These are ensamples to us, that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted. And that ye should not be worshippers of images, as were some of them, according as it is written. The people sat down to eat and drink, & rose up to play. Nether let us be defiled with fornication, as some of them were defiled with fornication, & fell in one day three & twenty thousand. Nether let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Nether murmur ye, as some of them murmured, & were destroyed of the destroyer. All these things happened unto them for ensamples: But are written to put us in remembrance, whom the ends of the world are come upon. Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall. There hath none other temptation taken you, but such as followed the nature of man. But God is faithful, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above your strength: but shall in the mids of temptation, make a way that ye may be able to bear it. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. xvi Jesus said to his disciples. There was a certain rich man, which had a Steward, and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, & said unto him: how is it that I hear this of thee? give accounts of thy Stewardship, for thou mayst be no longer Steward. The Steward said within himself: What shall I do? for my master taketh away from me the Stewardshyppe. I cannot dig, & to beg I am ashamed. I wot what to do, that when I am put out of the Stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. So when he had called all his master's debtor together, he said unto the first: how much owest thou unto my master? And he said: an hundred tons of oil. And he said unto him: take thy bill & sit down quickly, and write fifty. Then said he to another: how much owest thou? And he said: an hundred quarters of wheat. He said unto him: take thy bill & write four score. And the Lord commended the unjust Steward, because he had done wisely. For the children of this world are in their nation wiser than the children of light. And I say unto you. Make you friends of the unrighteous Mammon, that when ye shall have need, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. The tenth Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. Let thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of thy humble servants: & that they may obtain their petitions, make them to ask such things as shall please thee: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. i Cori. xii COncerning spiritual things (brethren) I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, and went your ways unto dumb images, even as ye were led. Wherefore I declare unto you, that no man speaking by the spirit of God, defieth jesus. Also no man can say that jesus is the lord, but by the holy ghost. There are diversities of gifts, yet but one spirit. And there are differences of administrations, & yet but one Lord. And there are diverse manners of operations, and yet but one God, which worketh all in all. The gift of the spirit is given to every man, to edify withal. For to one is given through the spirit, the utterance of wisdom: To another is given the utterance of knowledge by the same spirit. To another is given faith by the same spirit. To another the gift of healing by the same spirit. To another power to do miracles. To another to prophecy. To another judgement to discern spirit. To another diverse tongues. To another the interpretation of tongues. But these all worketh the self same spirit, dividing to every man a saverall gift, even as he will. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. nineteen ANd when he was come near to Jerusalem, he beheld the city, and wept on it, saying: If thou hadst known those things which belong unto thy peace, even in this thy day thou wouldst take heed. But now are they hid from thine eyes: For the days shall come unto thee, that thy enemies shall cast a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, & make thee even with the ground, and thy children which are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee one stone upon an other, because thou knowest not the time of thy visitation. And he went into the Temple, & began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought, saying unto them. It is written, my house is the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. And be taught daily in the Temple. ¶ The eleventh sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. GOd which declarest thy almighty power, most chief in showing mercy and pity: give unto us abundantly thy grace, the we running to thy promises, may be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure: through jesus Christ our lord. ¶ The Epistle. i Cor. xv. BRethren, as pertaining to the gospel which I Preached unto you, which ye have also accepted, & in the which ye continue, by the which ye are also saved: I do you to wit after what manner I preached unto you, if ye keep it, except ye have believed in vain. For first of all I delivered unto you that which I received, how that Christ died for our sins, agreeing to the scriptures: and that he was buried, and that he arose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve. After that he was seen of more than five hundredth brethren at once, of which many remain unto this day, & many are fallen asleep. After that appeared he to james, then to all the Apostles. And last of all he was seen of me, as of one that was borne out of due time. For I am the least of the Apostles, which am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I have persecuted the congregation of God. But by the grace of God, I am that I am. And his grace which is in me, was not in vain. But I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me. Therefore, whether it were I or they, so we preached, and so ye have believed. ¶ The Gospel. Lu. xviii christ told this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves, that they were perfect, and despised other. Two men went up into the Temple to pray, the one a pharisei, & the other a publican. The Pharisei stood and prayed thus with himself. God, I thank thee the I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust adulterers, or as this publicam. I fast twice in the week. I give tithe of all that I possess. And the publican standing afar of, would not lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote his breast, saying: God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man departed home to his house justified more than the other. For every man that exalteth himself, shallbe brought low. And he that humbleth himself shallbe exalted. The twelfth sunday after Trinity. ¶ The collect. Almighty and everlasting God, which art always more ready to hear than we to pray: And art wont to give more then either we desire or deserve: power down upon us the abundance of the mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving unto us, that, that our prayer dare not presume to ask: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. two. Cor. iii such trust have through Christ to Godward, not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but if we be able unto any thing, the same cometh of God, which hath made us able to minister the nawe Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life: If the ministration of death through the letters figured in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance (which glory is done away:) why shall not the ministration of the spirit be much more glorious? for if the ministration of condemnation be glorious, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. ¶ The Gospel. Mar. seven Jesus departed from the coasts of tire and Sydon, and came unto the sea of Galilee through the mids of the Coasts of the. x. cities. And they brought unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech, and they prayed him to put his hand upon him. And when he had taken him aside from the people, he put his fingers into his ears, and did spit, and touched his tongue, and looked up to heaven, & sighed, and said unto him: Ephata, that is to say: be opened. And straight way his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plain. And he commanded them that they should tell no man. But the more he forbade them, so much the more great deal they published, saying: He hath done all things well, he hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak. ¶ The xiii sunday after Trinity. ¶ The collect. Almighty and merciful god, of whose only gift it cometh, that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable service: grant we beseech thee, that we may so tun to thy heavenly promises, that we fail not finally to attain the same: Through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Gala. iii. TO Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He faith, not in his seeds, many: but in thy seed, as of one, which is Christ. This I say, that the law which began afterward, beyond four C. and thirty. years, doth not disannul the Testament that was confirmed afore of god unto Christwarde, to make the promise of none effect. For it the inheritance come of the law, it cometh not now of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then serveth the law? The law was added because of transgression (till the seed came, to whom the promise was made:) and it was ordained by Angels in the hand of a mediator. A mediator is not a mediator of one: But god is one. Is the law then against the promise of god? God forbidden. For if there had been a law given which could have given life, than no doubt righteousness should have come by the law. But the scripture concludeth all things under sin, that the promise by the faith of jesus Christ, should be given to them that believe. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. x. HAppy are the eyes which see the things that ye see. For I tell you that many Prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them: and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him, saying: Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? he said unto him: what is written in the law? how readest thou? and he answered, & said: Love the lord thy god with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, & with all thy strength and with all thy mind, and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him: Thou hast answered right. This do, and thou shall live. But he willing to justice himself, said unto jelus. And who is my neighbour? jesus answered, and said: A certain man descended from jerusalem to Hiericho, and fell among thieves, which rob him of his raiment, & wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And it chanced the there came down a certain Priest that same way, & when he same him, he passed by. And likewise a Levite, when he went nigh to the place, came and looked on him, and passed by. But a certain Samaritaine as he journeyed came unto him: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to, and bound up his wounds, and powered in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, & brought him to a common Inn, and made provision for him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him: Take cure of him, and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will recompense thee. Which now of these three thinkest thou was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said unto him: he that showed mercy on him. Then said jesus to him: go, and do thou likewise. The xiiii Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. Almighty & everlasting god, give unto us the increase of faith, hope and charity, and that we may obtain that which thou dost promise: make us to love that which thou dost command, through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Gala. v. I Say, walk in the spirit, and fulfil not the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirit, and the spirit contrary to the flesh, these are contrary one to the other, so the ye can not do whatsoever ye would. But and if ye be led of the spirit, then are ye not under the law. The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness, worshipping of images witchcraft, hatred, variance, zeal, wrath, strife, seditions, sects, envying, murder, drunkenness, gluttony, and such like. Of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in times past, that they which commit such things, shall not be inheritors of the kingdom of God. Contrarily, the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance. Against such there is no law. They truly that are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. xvii ANd it chanced as jesus went to jerusalem, that he passed through Samaria & Galilee. And as he entered into a certain town, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar of and put forth their voices, and said: jesus Master have mercy upon us. When he saw them, he said unto them: go show yourselves unto the Priests. And it came to pass, that as they went they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was cleansed, turned back again, and with a loud voice praised God, and fell down on his face at his feet, and gave him thanks. And the same was a Samaritain. And jesus answered, & said: Are there not ten cleansed? but where are those nine? There are not found that returned again to give God praise, save only this stranger. And be said unto him: Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole. The xu Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. Keep we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy: and because the frailty of man, without thee, cannot but fall: keep us ever by thy help, & lead us to all things profitable to our salvation, through jesus Christ out Lord, Amen. ¶ The Epistle. Gala. vi. YE see how large a letter I have written to you with mine own hand. As many as desire with outward appearance to please carnally, the same constrain you to be circumcised, only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For they themselves which are circumcised, keep not the law, but desire to have you circumcised, the they might rejoice in your flesh. God forbidden that I should rejoice, but in the cross of our Lord jesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ jesus, neither circumcision availeth any thing at all, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according unto this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon Israel that pertaineth to God. From henceforth, let no man put me to business: for I bear in my body the marks of the lord jesus. Brethren, the grace of our Lord jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. vi. NO man can serve two Masters: for either he shall hate the one, and love the other, or else lean to the one, and despise the other: ye cannot serve god and Mammon. Therefore I say unto you: be not careful for your life, what ye shall eat or drink, nor yet for your body, what raiment you shall put on. Is not the life more worth them meat? and the body more of value then raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor carry into the barns: and your heavenly father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you (by taking careful thought) can add one cubit unto his stature. And why care ye for raiment? consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: They labour not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his royalty, was not clothed like one of these. Wherefore if God so cloth the grass of the field (which though it stand to day, is to morrow cast into the furnace:) shall he not much more do the same for you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying: what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? after all these things do the Gentiles seek. For your heavenvly father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But rather seek ye first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, and all these things shall be ministered unto you. Care not then for the morrow, for to morrow day shall care for itself: sufficyente unto the day, is the travail thereof. The xvi sunday after Trinity. ¶ The collect. LOrd we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy congregation: and because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Ephe. iii. I Desire that you faint not because of my tribulations that I suffer for your sakes, which is your praise. For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord jesus Christ, which is father of all that called father in heaven and in earth, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man, that christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye being rooted and grounded in love, might be able to comprehend with all Saints, what is the breadth, length, depth, and height, and to know the excellent love of the knowledge of Christ, that ye might be fulfilled with all fullness, which cometh of God. Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, be praise in the congregation by christ jesus, throughout all generations from time to time. Amen. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. seven ANd it fortuned, that jesus went into a city called Naim, and many of his disciples went with him and much people. When he came nigh to the gate of the city: behold, there was a dead man carried out, which was the only son of his mother, and she was widow, and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, had compassion on her, and said unto her: weep not. And he came nigh and touched the coffin, and they that bore him stood still. And he said: young man, I say unto thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. And there came a fear on them all. And they gave the glory unto God, saying: A great Prophet is risen up among us, and God, hath visited his people. And this rumour of him went forth throughout all jewry, and throughout all the regions which lie round about. ¶ The xvii sunday after Trinity. ¶ The collect. LOrd, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Ephe. iiii I (Which am a prisoner of the Lords) exhort you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness & meekness, with humbleness of mind, forbearing one another through love, and be diligent to keep the unity of the spirit, through the bond of peace, being one body and one spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. Let there be but one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all, which is above all, and througbe all, and in you all. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. xiii IT chanced that jesus went into the house of one of the chief Phariseis, to eat bread on the Sabbath day, and they watched him. And behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. And jesus answered, and spoke unto the Lawyers and Phariseis, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day? And they held their peace. And he took him and healed him, and let him go, and answered them, saying: which of you shall have an Ass or an Ox fallen into a pit, and will not straight way pull him out on the Sabbath day? And they could not answer him again to these things. He put forth also a similitude to the guests, when he marked how they pressed to be in the highest rooms, and said unto them: when thou art bidden to a wedding of any man, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him, and he (that bade him and thee) come and say to thee: give this man room, and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. But rather when thou art bidden, go and sit in the lowest room, that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee: friend, sit up higher. Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. For whosoever exalteth himself, shall be brought low, and he that humbleth himself, shallbe exalted. ¶ The xviii sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. LOrd, we beseech thee grant thy people grace to avoid the infections of the devil, and with pure heart & mind, to follow thee, the only god: through jesus Christ our lord. ¶ The Epistle. i Corin. i I Thank my god always on your behalf, for the grace of god which is given you by jesus. Christ, that in all things year made rich by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge: by the which things the testimony of jesus Christ was confirmed in you, so that ye are behind in no gift, waiting for the appearing of our Lord jesus christ, which shall also strength you, to the end that you may be blameless in the day of the coming of our Lord jesus Christ. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. xxii WHen the Phariseis had heard that jesus did put the Saduceis to silence, they came together: and one of them (which was a doctor of law) asked him a question, tempting him, and saying: Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law? jesus said unto him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. In these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets. While the Phariseis were gathered together, jesus asked them, saying: what think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They said unto him: the son of David. He said unto them: how then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying: The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool. If David then call him Lord, how is he then his son? And no man was able to answer him any thing, neither durst any man (from that day forth) ask him any more questions. ¶ The xix sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. O God, forasmuch as without thee, we are not able to please thee: Grant that the working of thy mercy, may in all things direct and rule out hearts: Through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Eph. iiii. THis I say and testify through the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk, in vanity of their mind, while they are blinded in their understanding, being far from a Godly life, by the means of the ignorance that is in them, and because of the blindness of their hearts, which being past repentance, have given themselves over unto wantonness, to work all manner of uncleanness, even with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ. If so be that ye have heard of him, and have been taught in him, as the truth is in jesus (as concerning the conversation in times past) to lay from you the old man, which is corrupt, according to the deceivable lusts. To be renewed also in the spirit of your mind, and to put on that new man which after God is shapen in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore put a way lying, and speak every man truth unto his neighbour, forasmuch as we are members one of another. Be angry & sin not: Let not the sun go down upon your wrath, neither give place to the backbiter. Let him that stole, steal no more: but let him rather labour with his hands the thing which is good, that he may give unto him that needeth. Let no filthy communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to edify withal, as oft as need is, that it may minster grace unto the heaters. And grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and fierceness, and wrath, and roaring, and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness. Be ye courteous one to another, merciful, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. ¶ The Gospel. Math. ix. Jesus entered into a ship, & passed over, and came into his own city: And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the dropsy, lying in a bed. And when jesus saw the faith of them, he said to the sick of the Paulsey: Son, be of good there, thy sins be forgiven thee. And behold, certain of the Scribes said within themselves this man blasphmeth. And when jesus saw their thoughts, he said: wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? Whether is it easier to say, thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say, arise and walk? But that ye may know that the son of man hath power to forgive sins in earth. Then sayeth he to the sick of the Paulsey: Arise, take up thy bed and go unto thine house. And he arose and departed to his house: But the people that saw it, marveled, and glorified God, which hath given such power unto men. ¶ The twenty sunday after Trinity. ¶ The collect. ALmighty and merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness Keep us from all things that may hurt us: that we being ready both in body and soul, may with free hearts accomplish those things that thou wouldst have done: thorough jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Ephe. v TAke heed therefore, how ye walk, circumspectly, not as unwise, but as wise men, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is, and be not drunken with wine, wherein is excess. But be filled with the spirit, speaking unto yourselves in Psalms and Nimnes, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the lord in your hearts, giving thanks always for all things unto God the father, in the name of our Lord jesus christ: submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. xxii Jesus said to his disciples: The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a King, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come. Again he sent forth other servants, saying: Tell them which are bidden: behold, I have prepared my dinner, mine Oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready, come unto the manage. But they made light of it, and went their ways: One to his farm place, another to his merchandise, and the remnant took his servants, & entreated them shamefully, and flew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth, and sent forth his men of war, and destroyed those murderers, and brent up their city. Then said he to his servants: the marriage in deed is prepared, but they which were bidden, were not worthy: Go ye therefore out into the high ways, and as many as ye find, bid them to the marriage. And the servants went forth into the high ways, and gathered together all, as many as they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding was furnished with guests. Then the king came in to see the guests: and when he spied there a man, which had not on a wedding garment, he said unto him: friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding garment? And he was even speechless. Then said the king to the ministers: take and bind him hand and foot, and cast him into utter darkness, there shallbe weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many be called, but few are chosen. The xxi sunday aftter Trinity. ¶ The collect. Grant we beseech thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful people, pardon and peace, that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve thee with a quiet mind: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Ephe. vi. MY brethren, be strong through the Lord, and through the power of his might: Put on all the armour of God, that ye may stand against all the assaults of the devil: for we wrestle not against blood and flesh, but against rule, against power, against worldly rulers, even governors of the darkness of this world, against spiritual craftiness in heavenly things. Therefore, take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the evil day, and stand perfect in all things. Stand therefore, and your loins gird with the truth, having on the breastplate of righteousness and having shoes on your feet, that ye may be prepared for the gospel of peace. Above all, take to you the shield of faith, wherewith ye may quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. And pray always with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit, and watch thereunto with all instance and supplication, for all saints and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth freely, to utter the secrets of my gospel (whereof I am a messenger in bonds) that therein I may speak freely, as I ought to speak. ¶ The Gospel. john. iiii THere was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capernaum. A ssone as the same heard, that jesus was come out of jewry into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down and heal his son. For he was even at the point of death. Then said jesus unto him: except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. The ruler said unto him: Sir, come down or ever that my son die. jesus sayeth unto him: Go thy way, thy son liveth. The man beeleved the word that jesus had spoken unto him: & he went his way. And as he was going down, the servants met him, and told him saying: thy son liveth. Then inquired be of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him: yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was the same hour in the which jesus said unto him, thy son liveth: and he believed, and all his household. This is again the second miracle that jesus did, when he was come out of jewry into Galilee. ¶ The xxii sunday after Trinity. ¶ The collect. Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy household the church, in continual godliness, that through thy protection, it may be free from all adversities, and devoutly given to serve thee in good works, to the glory of thy name: Thorough jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Philip. i. I Thank my God with all remembrance of you always in all my prayers for you, & pray with gladness, because ye are come into the fellowship of the gospel, from the firsteday until now. And am surely certified of this, that he which hath begun a good work in you, shall perform it until the day of jesus Christ as it becometh me, that I should so judge of you all, because I have you in my heart: forasmuch as ye are all companions of grace with me, even in my bonds, and in the defending and establishing of the gospel: for god is my record how greatly I long after you all, from the very heart root in jesus Christ. And this I pray, that your love may increase yet more and more in knowledge, and in all understanding, that ye may accept the things that are most excellent, that ye may be pure and such as offend no man, until the day of Christ, being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which cometh by jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. ¶ The Gospel. Matthew. xviii. PEter said unto jesus: Lord, how oft shall I forgive my brother if he sin against me, till seven times? jesus saith unto him: I say not unto thee, until seven times, but seventy times seven times. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain man: that was a king, which would take accounts of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which ought him ten thousand talentes: but forasmuch as he was not able to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant fell down, & besought him, saying: Sir, have patience with me, and I will pay thee al. Then had the lord piety on that servant, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. So the same servant went out, & found one of his fellows which ought him an hundred pence, and he laid hands on him, & took him by the throat, saying: pay that thou owest. And his fellow fell down & besought him, saying: have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he would not, but went & cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. So when his fellows saw what was done they were very sorry, and came and told unto their Lord all that had happened. Then his Lord called him, and said unto him. O thou ungracious servant, I forgave thee all that debt when thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow; even as I had piety on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the Tailors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenvly father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not (every one his brother) their trespasses. The xxiii Sunday after Trinity ¶ The collect. GOd our refuge and strength, which art the author of all godliness, be ready to hear the devout prayers of the Church: and grant that those things which we ask faithfully, we may obtain effectually: Through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Phil. iii. BRethren, be followers together of me, & look on them which walk even so as ye have us for an ensample. For many walk (of whom I have told you often, and now tell you weeping) that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is damnation whose belly is their God, and glory to their shame, which are worldly minded. But our conversation is in heaven, from whence we look for the saviour, even the Lord jesus Christ, which shall change our vile body, the he may make it like unto his glorious body: according to the working, whereby he is able also to subdue all things unto himself. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. xxii THen the Pharisees weut out, & took counsel how they might tangle him in his words. And they sent out unto him their disciples with Herodes servants, saying: Master, we know that thou art true, & teachest the way of god truly, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the outward apearaunnce of men. Tei us therefore, how thinkest thou? Is it lawful that tribute be given unto Cesar, or not? But jesus perceiving their wickendnes said: why tempt ye me ye hypocrites? Show me the tribute money. And they took him a penny. And he said unto them: whose is this image and superscription? they said unto him: Caesar's. Then said he unto them give therefore unto Ceasar, the things which are Caesar's: and unto god, those things which are gods. When they heard these words, they marveled, and left him, and went their way. ¶ The xxiiii Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The collect. LOrd, we beseech thee assoil thy people from their offences: that through thy bountiful goodness, we may be delivered from the bands of all those sins, which by our frailty we have committed: Grant this. etc. ¶ The Epistle. Colossi. i. WE give thanks to God, the father of our Lord jesus Christ, always for you in our prayers: for we have heard of your faith in Christ jesus, and of the love which ye bear to all saints, for the hopes sake which is laid up in store for you in heaven: of which hope ye heard before by the true word of the gospel, which is come unto you even as it as, fruitful, and groweth as it is also among you, from the day in the which ye heard of it, and had experience in the grace of god though the truth, as ye learned of Epaphra our dear fellow servant, which is for you a faithful minister of Christ, which also declared unto us your love which ye have in the spirit. For this cause we also, ever sense the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray for you, & to desire that ye might be fulfilled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that ye might walk worthy of the Lord, that in all things ye may please, being fruitful in all good works, and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthéd with all might, through his glorious power, unto all patience and long suffering, with joyefulnes, giving thanks unto the father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of saints in light. ¶ The Gospel. Math. ix. While jesus spoke unto the people: behold, there came a certain ruler and worshipped him, saying: my daughter is even now deceased, but come & lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. And jesus arose and followed him, and so did his disciples. And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him and touched the hem of his vesture. For she said within herself: If I may touch but even his vesture only, I shall be safe. But jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said: daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee safe. And the woman was made whole even the same time. And when jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and people making a noise, he said unto them: get you hence, for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and said: damosel arise. And the damosel arose. And this noise was abroad in all that land. ¶ The xxv Sunday after Trinity. ¶ The Collect. STiere up we beseech thee, O lord, the wills of thy faithful people: that they plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. jer. xxiii. Behold, the time cometh, sayeth the Lord, that I will raise up the righteous branch of David, which king shall bear rule, and he shall prosper with wisdom, and shall set up equity and righteousness again in earth. In his tune shall juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell without fear. And this is the name that they shall call him, even the LORD our righteousness: and therefore behold, the time cometh sayeth the Lord, that it shall be no more saide, the Lord liveth which brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egipte: But the Lord liveth which brought forth and lead the seed of the house of Israel out of the North land, and from all countries where I have scattered them, and thy shall dwell in their own land again. ¶ The Gospel. john. vi. WHen jesus lift up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip: whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? This he said to prove him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him: two hundredth pennyworth of bread are not sufficient for them, that every man may take a little. One of his disciples (Andrew, Sunon Peter's brother) said unto him. There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves and two fishes: but what are they among so many? And jesus said: make the people sit down: There was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in numbered about five thousand. And jesus took the bread, and when he had given thanks, he gave to the disciples, & the disciples to them that were set down. And likewise of the fishes as much as they would. When they had eaten enough, he sayeth unto his disciples: Gather up the broken meat which remaineth, that nothing be lost. And they gathered it together, and filled twelve baskets with the broken meat of the five barley loaved, which broken meat remained unto them that had eaten. Then those men (when they had seen the miracle that jesus did) said: this is of a truth the same prophet that should come into the world. If there be any more Sundays before Aduente Sunday, to supply the same, shallbe taken the service of some of those Sundays that were omitted between the epiphany and Septuagesima. ¶ Saint Andrew's day. ¶ The Collect. Almighty god, which didst give such grace unto thy holy Apostle Saint Andrew, that he readily obeyed the calling of thy son jesus Christ, & followed him without delay: Grant unto us all, that we being called by thy holy word, may forth with give over ourselves, obediently to follow thy holy commandments: through the same jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Roma. x. IF thou knowledge with thy mouth that jesus is the lord, and believe in thy heart that god raised him up from death: thou shalt be safe. For to believe with the heart justifieth, and to knowledge with the mouth, maketh a man safe. For the scripture faith: whosoever believeth on him, shall not be confounded. There is no difference between the jew and the Gentile. For one is Lord of all, which is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever doth call on the name of the Lord, shallbe safe. How then shall they call on him, on whom they have not believed? How shall they believe on him, on whom they have not heard? How shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, without they be sent? As it is written: how beautiful are the feet of them which bring tidings of peace, and bring tidings of good things? But the have not all obeyed to the gospel. For Esay saith: Lord, who hath believed our sayings? so then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing cometh by the word of God. But I ask: have they not heard? no doubt their sound went out into all lands, and their words into the ends of world. But I demand whether Israel did know or not? first Moses saith: I will provoke you to envy, by them that are no people, by a foolish nation I will anger you. Esay after that is bold, and sayeth: I am found of them that sought me not: I am many feast unto them that asked not after me. But against Israel he sayeth: All day long have I stretched forth my hands unto a people that believeth not, but speaketh against me. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. iiii. AS jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the Sea, (for they were fishers) and he sayeth unto them: follow me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. And they straight way left their nets and followed him. And when he was gone forth from thence, he saw other two brethren, james the son of zebedee, and john his brother, in the ship with zebedee their father mending their nets, and he called them. And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him. Saint Thomas the Apostle. ¶ The collect. ALmighty everliving god, which for the more confirmation of the faith, didst suffer thy holy Apostle Thomas to be doubtful in thy sons resurrection: grant us so perfectly, and without all doubt to believe in thy son jesus Christ, that our faith in thy sight never be reproved: hear us, O lord through the same jesus Christ: to whom with thee and the holy ghost be all honour. etc. ¶ The Epistle. Ephe. two. Now are ye not strangers, nor foreigners, but citizens with the saints, and of the household of God: and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, jesus christ himself being the head corner stone: in whom what building soever is coupled together, it groweth unto an holy temple of the Lord: in whom also ye are built together, to be an habitation of God through the holy ghost. ¶ The Gospel. john. xx. THomas one of the twelve, which is called Didimus, was not with them when jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him: we have seen the Lord. But he said unto them: except I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came jesus when the doors were shut, and stood in the mids and said: Peace be unto you. And after that, he said to Thomas: bring the finger hither, and see my hands, and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side, and be not faithless but believing. Thomas answered, and said unto him: my lord and my god. jesus said unto him: Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. And many other signs truly did jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. These are written that ye might believe that jesus christ is the son of God, and that (in believing) ye might have life through his name. The conversion of Saint Paul. ¶ The Collect. GOd which hast taught all the world, through that preaching of thy blessed Apostle Saint Paul: Grant we beseech thee, that we which have his wonderful conversion in remembrance, may follow and fulfil thy holy doctrine that he taught: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. ix. ANd Saul yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the lord: went unto the high priest, & desired of him letters to carry to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way (were they men or women) he might bring them bound to jerusalem. And when he journeyed, it fortuned that as he was come nigh to Damascus, suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven, & he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said: what art thou lord? And the Lord said: I am jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the prick. And he both trembling and astonished, said: Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him: arise, and go into the city, and it shallbe told thee what thou must do. The men which journeyed with him, stood amazed, hearing a voice but seeying no man. And Saul arose from the earth, and when he opened his eyes, he saw no man: But they lead him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. And there was a certain Disciple at Damascus, named Ananias: and to him said the Lord in a vision: Ananias? and he said: behold, I am here Lord. And the lord said unto him: arise and go into the street (which is called straight) and seek in the house of judas, after one called Saul of Tharsus. For behold, he prayeth, and hath seen in a vision, a man named Ananias, coming in to him and putting his hands on him, that he might receive his sight. Then Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at jerusalem: & here he hath authority of the high priests, to bind all that call on thy name. The Lord said unto him: go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. And Ananias went his way, & entered into the house, and put his hands on him, and said: brother Saul, the lord that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the holy ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales, and he received sight, and arose, & was baptized, and received meat, and was comforted. Then was Saul a certain days with the Disciples which were at Damascus. And straight way he preached Chrste in the Synagogues, how that he was the son of God. But all that heard him were amazed, and said: is not this he that spoiled them which called on this name in jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto thehye Priests? But Saul increased the more in strength and confounded the jews which dwelled at Damascus, affirming that this was very Christ. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. nineteen. PEter answered, and said unto jesus: behold, we have forsaken all and followed thee: what shall we have therefore? jesus said unto them: Verily I say unto you, that when the son of man shall sit in the seat of his Majesty, ye that have followed me in the regeneration, shall sit also upon xii seats, & judge the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that forsaketh house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredth fold, & shall inherit everlasting life. But many that are first shallbe last, & the last shallbe first. ¶ The purification of Saint Mary the virgin. ¶ The Colleste. Almighty and everlasting God, we humbly beseech thy Majesty, that as thy only begotten son was this day presented in the Temple, in substance of our flesh: so grant that we may be presented unto thee with pure and clear minds: By jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. ¶ The same that is appointed for the sunday. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. two. WHen the time of their Purification (after the law of Moses) was come, they brought him to jerusalem, to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord: every man child that first openeth the matrix, shallbe called holy to the Lord:) and to offer (as it is said in the law of the Lord) a pair of turtle doves, or two young Pigeons. And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon. And the same man was just and godly, and looked for the consolation of Israel, and the holy ghost was in him. And an answer had he received of the holy ghost, that he should not see death, except he first saw the Lord Christ. And he came by inspiration into the temple. ¶ Saint Mathies day. ¶ The collect. Almighty God, which in the place of the traitor judas didst choose thy faithful servant Mathie to be of the numbered of thy twelve Apostles: Grant that thy church being always preserved from false Apostles, may be ordered and guided by faithful and true pastors: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. i. IN those days Peter stood up in the mids of the disciples, and said: the numbered of names that were together, were about an hundred and twenty Ye men & brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the holy ghost, through the mouth of David, spoke before of judas, which was guide to them that took jesus. For he was numbered with us, and had obtained fellowship in this ministration. And the same hath now possessed a plat of ground, with the reward of iniquity: and when he was hanged, burst a sunder in the mids, & all his bowels gushed out. And it was known unto all the inhabiters of Jerusalem: insomuch that the same field is called in their mother tongue, Acheldama, that is to say: the bloody field. For it is written in the book of Psalms: his habitation be void, and no man be dwelling therein, & his bishopric let another take. Wherefore, of these men which have companied with us (all the time that the Lord jesus had all his conversation among us, beginning at the Baptism of john unto that same day, that he was taken up from us) must one be ordained, to be a witness with us of his resurrection. And they appointed two, joseph which is called Barsabas (whose surname was justus) and Mathias. And when they prayed, they said: Thou Lord which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he may take the room of this ministration and Apostleship, from which judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. And they gave forth their lots, & the lot fell on Mathias, and he was counted with the eleven Apostles. ¶ The Gospel. Math. xi. IN that time jesus answered, and said: I thank thee (O father) Lord of heaven & earth, because thou haste hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast showed them unto babes: verily father, even so was it thy good pleasure. All things are given unto me of my father, And no man knoweth the son, but the father: neither knoweth any man the father, save the son, and he to whomsoever the son will open him. Come unto me all ye that labour and are laden, and I will ease you. Take my yoke upon you & learn of me, for I am meek & lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls: for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. ¶ The annunciation of the virgin Mary. ¶ The collect. WE beseech thee lord, power thy grace into our hearts, that as we have known Christ thy sons incarnation, by the message of an Angle, so by his cross and passion, we may be brought unto the glory of his resurrection: Through the same Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Esay. seven GOd spoke once again unto Ahaz, saying: require a token of the Lord thy god, whether it be toward the depth beneath, or toward the height above. Then said Ahaz: I will require none, neither will I tempt the Lord. And he said: hearken to, ye of the house of David: is it not enough for you, that ye be grievous unto men, but ye must grieve my GOD also? And therefore the Lord shall give you a token: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, & thou his mother shall call his name Emanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. i. ANd in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galili, named Nazareth, to a virgin spoused to a man whose name was joseph, of the house of David, & the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel went in unto her, & said: Hail full of grace the lord is with thee: blessed art thou amog women. When she saw him, she was abashed at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation that should be. And the Aungle said unto her: fear not Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, & bear a son, & shalt call his name jesus: He shallbe great, and shallbe called the son of the highest. And the Lord God shall give unto him, the seat of his father David, and he shall reign over the house of jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there shallbe none end. Then said Mary to the angel: How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the Aungle answered, and said unto her: the holy ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shallbe borne, shallbe called the son of God. And behold thy Cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her age. And this is the sixth month, which was called barren, for with God nothing shall be unpossible. And Mary said: behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. ¶ Saint Marks day. ¶ The collect. ALmighty god, which hast instructed thy holy church, with the heavenly doctrine of thy Euangeliste Saint Mark; give us grace so to be established by thy holy gospel, that we be not like children, carried a way with every blast of vain doctrine: Through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Ephe. iiii Unto every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he sayeth: when he went upon high, healed cativitie captive, and gave gifts unto men. That he ascended, whatmeaneth it, but that he also descended first into the lowest parts of the earth? he that descended, is even the same also that ascended up above all heavens, to fulfil all things. And the very same made some Apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some shepherds and teachers, to the edifying of the saints, to the work and administration, even to the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith, and knowledge of the son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the full perfect age of Christ. That we henceforth should be no more children, wavering and carried about which every wind of doctrine, by the wylines of men, through craftiness whereby they lay await for us to deceive us. But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow in him which is the head, even Christ: in whom if all the body be coupled and knit together, throughout every joint, where with one ministereth to another (according to the operation, as every part hath his measure) he increaseth the body, unto the edifying of itself through love. ¶ The Gospel. john. xv I Am the true vine, and my father is a husbandman. Every branch that beareth not fruit in me, he will take away. And every branch that beareth fruit, will he purge, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now are ye clean through the words which I have spoken unto you. Bide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it bide in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me, can ye do nothing. If a man bide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered: And men gather them, and cast them into the fire, & they burn. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and it shallbe done for you. Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and become my disciples. As the father hath loved me, even so also have I loved you. Continue you in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall bide in my love, even as I have kept my father's commandments, & abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ¶ Saint Philip and james. ¶ The collect. Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: grant us perfectly to know thy Son jesus Christ, to be the way, the truth and the life, as thou haste taught Saint Philip, and other the apostles: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. james. i. IAmes the servant of God, and of the lord jesus Christ, sendeth greeting to the twelve Tribes which are scattered abroad. My brethren, count it for an exceeding joy, when ye fall into diverse temptations. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith gendereth patience, and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and sound, lacking nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of him that giveth it: even God, which giveth to all men indifferently, and casteth no man in the teeth, and it shallbe given him. But let him ask in faith, and waver not: for he that doubteth, is like a wave of the Sea, which is tossed of the winds, and carried with violence. Nether let that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A wavering minded man, is unstable in all his ways. Let the brother which is of low degree, rejoice when he is exalted. Again, let him that is rich, rejoice when he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass, shall he pass away. For as the sun riseth with heat, and the grass withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man perish in his ways. Happy is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. ¶ The Gospel. joh. xiiii. ANd jesus said unto his disciples: let not your hearts be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you, even unto myself: that where I am, there may ye be also. And whither I go, you know, and the way ye know. Thomas sayeth unto him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest. And how is it possible for us to know the way? jesus sayeth unto him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life: No man cometh to the father but by me: if ye had known me, ye had known my father also. And now ye know him, and have seen him. Philip sayeth unto him: Lord, show us the father, and it sufficeth us. jesus sayeth unto him: have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me? Philip, he that hath seen me, hath seen my father: and how sayest thou then, show us the father? believest not thou that I am in the father, and the father in me? The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself: But the father that dweelleth in me, is he that doth the works. believe me that I am in the father, and the father in me? Or else believe me for the sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you: he that believeth on me, the works that I do, the same shall he do also: and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my father. And whatsoever ye ask in my name, that will I do, that the father may be glorified by the son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. ¶ Saint Barnaby Apostle. ¶ The Collect. Lord almighty, which haste endued thy holy Apostle Barnabas, with singular gifts of thy holy ghost: let us not be destitute of thy manifold gifts, nor yet of grace, to use them always to thy honour and glory: Through jesus christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. xi. Tidings of these things came unto the ears of the congregation, which was in jerusalem. And they sent forth Barnabas that he should go unto Antioch. Which when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad: and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would continually cleave unto the Lord. For he was a good man, and full of the holy ghost and of faith, and much people was added unto the Lord. Then departed Barnabas to Tharsus, to seek Saul. And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it chanced that a whole year they had their conversation with the congregation there, and taught much people: in somuch that the disciples of Antioch were the first that were called christian. In those days came Prophets from the city of jerusalem unto Antioch. And there stood up one of them, named Agabus, and signified by the spirit, that there should be great dearth throughout all the world, which came to pass in the Emperor Claudius' days. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed to send succour unto the brethren which dwelled in jewry: which thing they also did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. ¶ The Gospel. john. xv. THis is my commandment, that ye love together as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man then this: the a man bestow his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Hencesforth call I not you servants, for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doth. But you have I called friends, for all things that I have heard of my father, have I opened to you: ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you to go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that what soever ye ask of the father in my name, he may give it you. ¶ Saint john baptist. ¶ The Collect. almighty God, by whose providence thy servant john Baptist was wonderfulli born, and sent to prepare the way of thy son out saviour by preaching of penance: make us so to fellow his doctrine and holy life, that we may truly repent, according to his preaching, and after his example constantly speak the truth, boldly rebuke vice, and patiently suffer for the truths sake: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Isaiah. xi. BE of good there my people, die prophets comfort my people, saith your God, comfort jerusalem at the heart, & tell her that her travail is at an end, that her offence is pardoned, the she hath received of the lords hand, sufficient correction for all her sins. A voice cried in wilderness, prepare the way of the lord in the wilderness, make straight the path of our God in the desert. Let all valleys be exalted, & every mountain & hill be laid low: whatso is crooked let it be made straight, & let the rough be made plain fields. For the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall at once see it: for why the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Thesame voice spoke. Now cry. And the Prophet answered: what shall I cry? that all flesh is grass, & that all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass is withered, the flower falleth away. Even so is the people as grass, when the breath of the lord bloweth upon them. Nevertheless, whether the grass whither, or the the flower fade away, yet the word of our god endureth for ever. Go up unto the high hill (O sion) thou that bringest good tidings lift up thy voice with power. O thou preacher jerusalem, lift it up without fear, and say unto the cities of juda: Behold your god, behold, the lord god shall come with power, & bear rule with his arm. Behold, he bringeth his treasure with him, & his works go before him. He shall feed his flock like an herdman. He shall gather the lambs together with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall kindly entreat those that bear young. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. i. Elizabeth's time came the she suould be delivered, and she brought forth a son. And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the lord had showed great mercy upon her, and rejoiced with her. And it fortuned, that in the eight day they came to circumcise the child, and called his name zachary, after the name of his father. And his mother answered and said: not so, but his name shallbe called john. And they said unto her: There is none in thy kindred the is named with this name. And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. And he asked for writing tables, and wrote, saying: his name is john. And they marveled all. And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue also, and he spoke & praised god. And fear came on all them that dwelled nigh unto him. And all these sayings was noised abroad throughout all the high country of jewry, and they the heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying: what manner of child shall this be? And the hand of the lord was with him. And his father zacharias was filled with the holy ghost, and prophesied, saying: Praised be the lord God of Israel, for he hath visited & redeemed his people. And hath raised up an horn of salvation unto us, in the house of his servant David. Even as he promised by the mouth of his holy Prophets, which were sense the world began. That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all the hate us. That he would deal mercifully with our fathers, and remember his holy covenant. And he would perform the oath which he swore to our father Abraham for to forgive us. That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear all the days of our life, in such holiness & righteousness, as are acceptable for him. And thou child shalt be called the Prophet of the highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the lord to prepare his ways. To give knowledge of salvation unto his people, for the remissionn of sins. Through the tender mercy of our god, whereby the day spring from an high hath visited us. To give light to them that sat in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. And the child grew & waxed strong in spirit, and was in wilderness till the day came, when he should show himself unto the Israelites. Saint Peter's day. ¶ The Collect. Almighty god, which by the son jesus Christ hast given to thy Apostle Saint Peter many excellent gifts, and commandest him earnestly to feed thy stock: make we beseech thee, all Bishops and Pastors diligently to preach thy holy word, and the people obediently to follow the same, that they may receive the crown of everlasting glory: though jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. xii. AT the same time Herode the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the congregation. And he killed james the brother of john with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the jews, he proceeded farther and took Peter also. Then were the days of sweet bread. And when he had caught him, he put him in prison also, & delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to be kept: intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. And Peter was kept in prison, but prayer was made without ceasing of the congregation unto god for him. And when Herode would have brought him out unto the people, the same night slept Peter between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door, kept the prison. And behold, the angel of the lord was there present, and a light shined in the habitation. And he smote Peter on the side, and stirred him up, saying: arise up quickly. And his chains fell from his hands. And the angel s; aid unto him: gird thyself, and bind on thy sandales. And he so did. And he saith unto him: cast thy garment about thee, & follow me. And he came out & followed him, and witted not that it was truth which was done by the angel, but thought he had seen a vision. When they were past the first & second watch, they came unto the iron gate, that leadeth unto the city, which opened to them by the own accord. And they went out & passed thorough one street, and forth with the Angel departed from him. And when Peter was come to himself, he said: now I know of a surety that the lord hath sent his Angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herode, and from all the waiting of the people of the jews. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. xvi. WHen jesus came into the coasts of the City which is called Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying: whom do men say that I the son of man am? They said: Some say that thou art john Baptist, some Helias, some jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them: but whom say ye that I am? Simon Peter answered, and said: Thou art Christ the son of the living god. And jesus answered, and said unto him. Happy art thou Simon the son of jonas: for flesh and blood hath not opened that unto thee, but my father which is in heaven. And I say unto thee, the thou art Peter: and upon this rock I will build my congregation. And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou bindest in earth, shall be bound in heaven: & whatsoever thou loocest in earth, shallbe loosed in heaven. ¶ Saint james the Apostle. ¶ The Collect. Grant, O merciful god, that as thy holy Apostle saint james, leaving his father and all that he had without delay, was obedient unto the calling of thy son jesus Christ, and followed him: So we, forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, may be evermore ready to follow thy commandments: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. xi. IN those days came Prophets from the city of jerusalem unto Antioch: And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit, that there should be great dearth throughout all the world, which came to pass in the Emperor Claudiug days. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed to send succour unto the brethren which dwelled in jewry: which thing they also did, and sent it to the elders, by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. At the same time Herode the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the congregation. And he killed james the brother of john with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the jews, he proceeded farther, and took Peter also. ¶ The Gospel. Math. xx. THen came to him the mother of Zebedee'S children, with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. And he said unto her: what wilt thou? She said unto him: Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. But jesus answered & said: ye wot not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They said unto him: we are. He said unto them: ye shall drink in deed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall chance unto them that it is prepared for of my father. And when the ten heard this, they disdained at the two brethren. But jesus called them unto him, and said: ye know that the princes of the nations have dominion over them, and they that are great men, exercise authority upon them. It shall not be so among you. But whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister: and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant. Even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many. ¶ Saint Bartholomewe. ¶ The Collect. O Almighty and everlasting god, which hast given grace to thy Apostle Bartholomewe truly to believe, and to preach thy word: grant we beseech thee unto thy church, both to love that he believed, and to preach that he taught: through Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. Acts. v. BY the hands of the Apostles, were many signs And wonders showed among the people. And they were all together with one accord in salomon's porch. And of other durst no man join himself to them: nevertheless the people magnified them. The number of them the believed in the lord, both of men and women, grew more and more: insomuch that they brought the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds & couches, that at the leastway the shadow of Peter, when he came by, might shadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about, unto jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: And they were healed every one. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. xxii. ANd there was a strife among them, which of them should seem to be the greatest. And he said unto them: the kings of nations reign over them, and they that have authority upon them, are called gracious lords: But ye shall not so be. But he that is greatest among you, shallbe as the younger, and he that is chief, shallbe as he that doth minister. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteh at meat? But I am among you, as he that ministereth. Ye are they which have bidden with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my father hath appointed unto me, that ye may eat & drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Saint matthew. ¶ The Collect. Almighty God, which by thy blessed son didst call Matthew from the receipt of custom to be an Apostle and Evangelist: Grant us grace to forsake all covetous desires, and inordinate love of riches, and to follow thy said son jesus Christ: who liveth and reigneth. etc. ¶ The Epistle. two. cor. iiii SEeing that we have such an office, even as god hath had mercy on us, we go not out of kind, but have cast from us the cloaks of unhonesty, and walk not in craftiness, neither handle we the word of God deceiptfullye, but open the truth, and report ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. If our gospel be yet hid, it is hid among them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ (which is the image of God) should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ jesus to be the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for jesus sake. For it is god that commandeth the light to shine out of darkness, which hath shined in our hearts, for to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of jesus Christ. ¶ The Gospel. Math. ix. ANd as jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man (named Matthew) sitting at the receipt of custom, and he said unto him: follow me. And he arose and followed him. And it came to pass as jesus sat at meat in his house: behold, many publicans also and sinners that came, sat down with jesus & his disciples. And when the Phariseis saw it, they said unto his disciples: why eateth your master with Publicans & sinners? But when jesus heard that, he said unto them: They the be strong need not the Physician, but they that are sick. Go ye rather, and learn what that meaneth: I will have mercy and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. ¶ Saint Michael and all Angels. ¶ The Collect. Everlasting God, which hast ordained and constituted the services of all Aungles and men in a wonderful order: mercifully grant that they which always do thee service in heaven, may by thy appointment succour and defend us in earth: through jesus Christ our Lord. etc. ¶ The Epistle. Apoca. xii THere was a great battle in heaven: Michael and his Angles fought with the dragon, & the dragon fought with his Angels, and prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon, the old Serpent, called the devil & Sathanas, was cast out, which deceiveth all the world. And he was cast into the earth, and his Angels were cast out also with him. And I heard a loud voice, saying: heaven is now made salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ. For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before god day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, & by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe unto the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea: for the devil is come down unto you, which hath great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. ¶ The Gospel. Mat. xviii AT the same time came the disciples unto jesus, saying: who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. jesus called a child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said: Verily I say unto you, except ye turn and become as children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven, Whosoever therefore humbleth himself as this child, that same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whosoever receiveth such a child in my name, receiveth me. But whoso doth offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world, because of offences: necessary it is the offences come: But woe unto the man by whom the offence cometh. Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot hinder thee, cut him of, and cast it from the. It is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than thou shoudest (having two hands or two feet) be cast into everlasting fire. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. It is better for the to enter into life with one eye, rather than (having two eyes) to be caft into hell fire. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones. For I say unto you: that in heaven their Angels do always behold the face of my father which is in heaven. ¶ Saint Luke the Evangelist. ¶ The Collect. Almighty god which called'st Luke the physician, whose praise is in the gospel, to be a physician of the soul: it may please thee by the wholesome medicines of his holy doctrine, to heal all the diseases of our souls: through thy son jesus christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. i. tim. iiii. Watch thou in all things, suffer afflictions, do the work thoroughly of an Evangelist, fulfil thine office unto the uttermost: be sober. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departing is at hand, I have fought a good fight, I have fulfilled my course, I have kept the faith. From henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the lord (that is a righteous judge (shall give me at that day: not to me only, but to all them the love his coming. Do thy diligence, that thou mayest come shortly unto me. For Demas hath forsaken me, and loveth this present world, and is departed unto The ssalonica. Crescens is gone to Galacia, Titus unto Dalmacia, only Lukas is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee, for he is profitable unto me for the ministration. And Tichicus have I sent to Ephesus. The cloak that I left at Croada with Carpus, when thou comest bring with thee, and the books, but specially the parchment. Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his deeds, of whom be thou ware also: for he hath greatly withstand our words. ¶ The Gospel. Luke. x. THe Lord appointed other seventy (and two) also, and sent them two and two before him into every city and plate, whether he himself would come. Therefore he said unto them: the harvest is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, to send forth labourers into the harvest. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. Bear no wallet, neither scrip, nor shoes, & salute no man by the way: into whatsoever house ye enter, first say: peace be to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: if not, it shall return to you again. And in the same house tarry still, eating and drinking such as they give. For the labourer is worthy of his reward. ¶ Simon and Jude Apostles. ¶ The Collect. Almighty God, which hast builded thy congregation upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, jesus Christ himself being the head corner stone: grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their doctrine, that we may be made an holy temple acceptable to thee: through jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle. judi. i. Judas the servant of jesus Christ, the brother of james: to them which are called and sanctified in god the father, and preserved in jesus Christ: Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplited. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, to exhort you the ye should continually labour in the faith, which was once given unto the saints. For there are certain ungodly men craftily crept in, of which it was written afore time unto such judgement. They turn the grace of our god unto wantonness, and deny God (which is the only lord) and our lord jesus Christ. My mind is therefore to put you in remembrance, forasmuch as ye once know this, how that the lord (after that he had delivered the people out of Egypt) destroyed them which after believed not. The Angels also which kept not their first state, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgement of the great day: even as Sodom and Gomor, and the cities about them, which in like manner defiled themselves with fornication and followed strange flesh, are set forth for an example, and suffer the pain of eternal fire: like wife these being deceived by dreams, defile the flesh, despise rulers, and speak evil of them that are in authority. ¶ The Gospel john. xv. THis command I you, that ye love together. If the world hate you, ye know it hated me before it hated you: If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: howbeit, because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I say unto you: the servant is not greater than the Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they have not known him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they should have had no sin: but now have they nothing to cloak their sin withal. He that hateth me, hateth my father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they should have had no sin. But now have they both seen and hated, not only me, but also my father. But this happeneth, that the saying might be fulfilled the is written in their law: They hated me without a cause. But when the comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the father, even the spirit of truth (which proceedeth of the father) he shall testify of me. And ye shall bear witness also, because ye have been with me from the beginning. ¶ All Sainetes. ¶ The Collect. Almighty God, which hast knit together thy elect in one Communion & fellowship, in the mystical body of thy son Christ our Lord: grant us grace so to follow thy holy Saints in all virtues, and godly living, that we may come to those inspeakable joys, which thou hast prepared for them that unfeignedly love thee: Through jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle Apoc. seven Behold, I john saw another Angel ascend from the rising of the Sun, which had the seal of the living God, and he cried with a loud voice to the four Angels (to whom power was given to hurt the earth and the sea) saying: Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, neither the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the numbered of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an. C. and xliiii thousand, of all the tribes of the children of Israel. Of the tribe of juda were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of Aser were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of Neptalim were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of Isachar were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of joseph were sealed xii M. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed xii M. After this I beheld: and lo, a great multitude (which no man can numbered) of all nations and people, and tongues, stood before the seat, & before the lamb, clothed with long white garments, and Palms in their hands, and cried with a loud voice, saying: salvation be ascribed to him that sitteth upon the seat of our God, and unto the lamb. And all the Angels stood in the compass of the seat, and of the Elders, and the four beasts, and fell before the seat on their faces, and worshipped God, saying: Amen. Blessing. and glory? and wisdom, and thank, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our god for evermore. Amen. ¶ The Gospel Math. v. Jesus seeing the people, went up into the mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came to him: & after that he had opened his mouth, he taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, they shall receive comfort. Blessed are the meek, for they shall receive the inheritance of the earth. Blessed are they which hunger & thirst after righteousness, for they shallbe satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see god. Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men revile you and persecute you, and shall falsely say all manner of evil sayings against you for my sake: rejoice and be glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For so persecuted they the Prophets which mere before you. ¶ The order for the administration of the lords Supper or holy Communion. SO many as intend to be partakers of the holy Communion, shall signify their names to the Curate overnight, or else in the morning afore the beginning of morning prayer, or immediately after. And if any of those be an open and notorious evil liver, so that the congregation by him is offended, or have done any wrong to his neighbours by word or deed: The Curate having knowledge thereof, shall ral him and advertise him, in any wise not to presume to the lords Table, until he have openly declared himself to have truly repent & amended his former naughty life, that the congregation may thereby be satisfied, which afore were offended: and that he have recompensed the parties, whom he hath done wrong unto, or at the least declare himself to be in full purpose so to do, as soon as he conveniently may. Thesame order shall the Curate use, with those betwixt whom he perceiveth malice and hatred to reign, not suffering them to be partakers of the lords Table, until he know them to be reconciled. And if one of the parties so at variance, be content to forgive from the bottom of his heart, all that the other hath trespassed against him, and to make amends for that he himself hath offended, and the other party will not be persuaded to a godly unity, but remain still in his frowardness and malice: The minister in that ease, aught to admit the penitent person to the holy Communion, and not him that is obstinate. ¶ The Table having at the Communion time a fair white linen cloth upon it, shall stand in the body of the Church, or in the chaunsell, where Morning prayer, and Evening prayer be appointed to be said. And the priest standing at the northside of the Table, shall say the lords prayer with this Collect following. Almighty god, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy holy spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy name: through Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall the Priest rehearse distinctly all the ten commandments: and people kneeling, shall after every Commandment asake God's mercy for their transgression of the same after this sort. Minister. God spoke these words, and said: I am the lord thy god. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me. People. Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Minister. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and vistte the sin of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and show mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments. People. Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Minister. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy god in vain: for the lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. People. Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our. etc. Minister. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. Sire days shalt thou labour and do all that thou haste to do, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou and thy son and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maid servant, thy Cattles, and the stranger that is within thy gates: for in. vi. days the lord made heaven and earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it. People. Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our. etc. Minister. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy god giveth thee. People. Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our. etc. Minister. Thou shalt do no murder. People. Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our. etc. Minister. Thou shalt not commit adultery. People. Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our. etc. Minister. Thou shalt not steal. People. Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our. etc. Minister. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. People. Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Minister. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his. People. Lord have mercy upon us, and write all these thy laws in our hearts we beseech thee. ¶ Then shall follow the Collect of the day, with one of these two collects following for the King: the Priest standing up, and saying. Priest. ¶ Let us pray. Almighty God, whose kingdom is everlasting, (& power infinite: have mercy upon the whole congregation, and so rule the heart of thy chosen servant Edward the sixth, our king & governor, that he (knowing whose minister he is) may above all things seek thy honour and glory: & that we his subjects (duly considering whose authority he hath) may faithfully serve, honour, & humbly obey him, in thee, and for thee, according to thy blessed word & ordinance: Through jesus Christ our Lord: who with thee, and the holy ghost, liveth and reigneth ever one God, world without end. Amen. Almighty and everlasting god, we be taught by thy holy word, that the hearts of kings are in thy rule and governance, & that thou dost dispose and turn them, as it seemeth best to thy godly wisdom: we humbly beseech thee, so to dispose & govern the heart of Edward the sixth, thy servant, our king and governor, that in all his thoughts, words and works, he may ever seek thy honour and glory, and study to preserve thy people committed to his charge, in wealth, peace and godliness. Grant this O merciful father, for thy dear sons sake jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ Immediately after the collects the Priest shall read the Epistle beginning thus. ¶ The Epistle written in the. 〈◊〉 Chapter of. 〈◊〉 ¶ And the Epistle ended, he shall say the Gospel, beginning thus. ¶ The Gospel written in the. 〈◊〉 Chapter of 〈◊〉 ¶ And the Epistle and Ghospel being ended, shallbe said the Crede. I Believe in one god, the father almighty maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible: And in one lord jesus Christ, the only begotten son of god, begotten of his father before all worlds: God of God, light of light, very god of very god, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the father, by whom all things were made: who for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the holy ghost, of the virgin Mary and was made man: & was crucified also for us, under Poncius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, and the third day he arose again according to the scripture: and ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of the father. And he shall come again with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have none end. And I believe in the holy ghost, the lord and giver of life, who proceedeth from the father & the son, who with the father and the son together, is worshipped & glorified, who spoke by the Prophets. And I believe one catholic and Apostolic church. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins. And I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. After the Crede, if there be no sermon, shall follow one of the homilies already set forth, or hereafter to be set forth by common auctortie. After such sermon, homely, or exhortation, the Curate shall declare unto the people whether there be any holy days or fasting days the week following: and earnestly exhort them to remember the poor, saying one or more of these sentences following, as he thinketh most convenient by his discrerion. Math. v. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven. Math. vi. Lay not up for yourselves treasure upon the earth, where the rust and moth doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal. Mat. seven. Whatsoever you would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them: for this is the law & the Prophets. Mat. seven. Not every one that sayeth unto me, Lord Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my father which is in heaven. Luke. nineteen Zache stood forth, and said unto the Lord: behold lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have done any wrong to any man, I restore four fold. i Cor. ix. Who goeth a warfare at any time of his own cost? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? i Cor. ix. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your worldly things? i Cor. ix. Do ye not know, that they which minister about holy things, live of the sacrifice? They which wait of the altar, are partakers with the altar. Even so hath the lord also ordained, that they which preach the gospel, should live of the gospel. two. Cor. ix. He which soweth little, shall reap little: and he that soweth plenteously shall reap plenteously. Let every man do according as he is disposed in his heart, not grudging, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. Gala. vi. Let him that is taught in the word, ministre unto him that teacheth, in all good things. Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap. Gala. vi. While we have time, let us do good unto all men, and specially unto them, which are of the household of faith. i Tim. vi Godliness is great riches, if a man be contented with that he hath: for we brought nothing into the world, neither may we carry any thing out. i Tim. vi Charge them which are rich in this world, that they be ready to give, and glad to distribute: laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may attain eternal life. Heb. vi. God is not unrighteous, that he will forgeat your works & labour that proceedeth of love: which love ye have showed for his name's sake, which have ministered unto saints, & yet do ministre. Heb. xiii. To do good and to distribute, forgeat not: for with such sacrfices God is pleased. i joh. iii. Whoso hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? Tob. iiii. give almose of thy goods, and turn never thy face from any poor man, and then the face of the Lord shall not be turned away from thee. Tob. iiii. Be merciful after thy power. If thou haste much, give plenteously: If thou haste little, do thy diligence gladly to give of that little: for so gatherest thou thyself a good reward in the day of necessity. Prou. nineteen. He that hath pity upon the poor, dareth unto the Lord, and look what he layeth out, it shall be paid him again. Psal. lxi. Blessed be the man that provideth for the sick and needy, the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble. Then shall the church wardens, or some other by them appointed, gather the devotion of the people, and put the same into the poor men's boar: and upon the offering days appointed, every man and woman shall pay to the curate the due and accustomed offerings: after which done, the priest shall say, Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth. Almighty and everliving God, which by thy holy Apostle, haste taught us to make prayers and supplications, and to give thanks for all men: we humbly beseech thee most mercifully to accept our almose, If there be none almose given unto the poor then shall the words of accepting our alms be left out unsaid. and to receive these our prayers which we offer unto words thy divine majesty: beseeching thee to inspire continually, the universal church with the spirit of truth, unity and our concord: and grant that all they that do confess thy holy name, may agree in the truth of thy holy word, and live in unity and godly love. We beseech thee also to save and defend all Christian Kings, Princes and governors, and specially thy servant Edward our King, that under him we may be godly and quietly governed: and grant unto his whole counsel, and to all that be put in authority under him, that they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of God's true religion and virtue. give grace (O heavenly father) to all bishops, Pastors and Curates, that they may both by their life and doctrine set forth thy true and lively word, and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments: and to all thy people give thy heavenly grace, and especially to this congregation here present, that with meek heart and due reverence, they may hear and receive thy holy word, truly serving thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of their life. And we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness (O Lord) to comfort and succour all them which in this transitory life be in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity: Grant this O father for jesus Christ's sake our only mcdiatour and advocate. Amen. Then shall follow this exhortation, at certain times when the Curate shall see the people negligent to come to the holy Communion. WE be come together at this time dereli beloved brethren, to feed at the lords supper, unto the which in God's behalf I did you all that be here present, and beseech you for the Lord jesus Christ's sake, the ye will not refuse to come thereto, being so lovingly called and bidden of God himself. Ye know how grievous and unkind a thing it is, when a man hath prepared a rich feast, decked his table with all kind of provision, so that there lacketh nothing but the guests to sit down, and yet they which be called, without any cause most unthankfully refuse to come. Which of you in such a case would not be moved? Who mould not think a great injury and wrong done unto him? Wherefore most dearly beloved in christ, take ye good heed, lest ye with drawing yourselves from this holy supper, provoke God's indignation against you. It is an easy matter for a man to say, I will not communicate, because I am otherwise letted with worldly business: but such excuses be not so easily accepted and allowed before God. If any man say, I am a grievous sinner, and therefore am afraid to come: wherefore then do you not repent and amend? When God calleth you, be you not ashamed to say you will not come? when you should return to God will you excuse yourself, and say that you be not ready? consider earnestly with yourselves how little such feigned excuse shall avail before God. They that refused the feast in the Gospel, because they had bought a farm, or would try their yokes of oxen, or because they were married, were not so excused, but counted unworthy of the heavenly feast: I for my part am here present, and according unto mine office, I bid you in the name of GOD, I call you in Christ'S behalf, I exhort you, as you love your own salvation, that ye will be partakers of this holy communion. And as the son of God did vouchsafe to yield up his soul by death upon the Cross for your health: even so it is your duty to receive the communion together in the remembrance of his death, as he himself commanded. Now if you will in nowise thus do, consider with yourselves how great injury you do unto GOD, and how sore punishment hangeth over your heads for the same. And whereas you offend GOD so fore in refusing this holy Banquete, I admonish, exhort, and beseech you, that unto this unkindness ye will not add any more. Which thing ye shall do, if ye stand by as gazers and lookers on them that do communicate, and be no partakers of the same yourselves. For what thing can this be accounted else, than a further contempt and unkindness unto God? Truly it is a great unthankfulness to say nay when ye be called: but the fault is much greater when men stand by, and yet will neither eat nor drink this holy communion with other. I pray you what can this be else, but even to have the mysteries of christ in derision? It is said unto all: Take ye and eat. Take and drink ye all of this: do this in remembrance of me. With what face then, or with what countenance shall ye hear thes; e words? What will this be else, but a neglecting, a des; pies; ing and mocking of the Tes; tament of Chris; te? Wherefore, rather than you should s; o do, depart you hence, and give place to them that be Godly dies; poes; ed. But when you depart, I bees; each you pondre with yourselves from whom you depart: ye depart from the lords table, ye depart from your brethren, and from the banquet of most heavenly food. These things if ye earnestly consider, ye shall by God's grace return a better mind: for the obtaining whereof we shall make our humble petitions, while me shall receive the holy communion. ¶ And some time shallbe said this also at the discretion of the Curate. dearly beloved, forasmuch as our duty is to render to almighty God our heavenly father most hearty thanks, for that he hath given his son our saviour jesus Christ, not only to die for us, but also to be our spiritual food and sustenance, as it is declared unto us, aswell by God's word, as by the holy sacraments of his blessed body and blood, the which being so comfortable a thing to them which receive it worthily, and so dangerous to them that will presume to receive it unworthily: My duty is to exhort you to consider the bignitie of the holy mystery, and the great peril of the unmorthye receiving thereof, and so to search and examine your own consciences, as you should come holy and clean to a most godly and heavenly feast: so that in no wise you come, but in the marriage garment, required of God in holy scripture: and so come and be received, as worthy partakers of such a heavenly table. The way and means thereto is: first to examine your lives and conversation by the rule of God's commandments, and wherein soever ye shall perceive yourselves to have offended, either by will, word, or deed, there bewail your own sinfullines, confess yourselves to almighty god with full purpose of amendment of life. And if ye shall perceive your offences to be such, as be not only against God, but also against your neighbours: than ye shall reconcile yourselves unto them, ready to make restitution and satisfaction according to the uttermost of your powers, for all injuries & wrongs done by you to any other: and like wise being ready to forgive other that have offended you, as you would have forgiveness of your offences at gods hand: for otherwise the receiving of the holy Communion, doth noting else but increase your damnation. And because it is requisite that no man should come to the holy Communion, but with a full trust in God's mercy, & with a quiet conscience: therefore if there be any of you which by the means aforesaid, cannot quiet his own conscience, but requireth further comfort or counsel: then let him come to me, or some other discrete and learned minister of god's word, and open his grief, that he may receive such ghostly counsel, advise, and comfort, as his conscience may be relieved: and that by the ministry of God's word he may receive comfort and the benefit of absolution to the quieting of his conscience, and avoiding of all Scruple and doubtfulness. Then shall the priest say this exhortation. dearly beloved in the Lord: ye that mind to come to the holy Communion of the body and blood of our saviour Christ, must consider what S. Paul writeth to the Corinthians: how he exhorteth all persons diligently to try and examine themselves, before they presume to eat of that bread, and drink of that cup, for as the benefit is great if with a truly penitent heart and lively faith, we receive that holy Sacrament (for then we spiritually eat the flesh of christ, and drink his blood, than we dwell in christ, and christ, in us, ●…e be one with christ, and christ, with us:) so is the danger great, if we receive the same unworthily. For than we be guilty of the body and blood of Christ our Saviour. We eat and drink our own damnation, not considering the lords body. We kindle God's wrath against us, we provoke him to plague us with diverse diseases and sundry kinds of death. Therefore, if any of you be a blasphemer of God, an hinderer or slanderer of his to word, an adulterer, or be in malice or envy, or in any other grievous crime, bewail your sins, and come not to this holy Table, lest after the taking of that holy Sacrament, the Devil entre into you, as he entered into judas, and fill you full of all iniquities, and bring you to destruction both of body and soul: judge therefore yourselves (brethren) that ye be not judged of the Lord. Repent you truly for your sins past, have a lively and steadfast faith in Christ our Saviour. amend your lives, and be in perfect charity with all men, so shall ye be meet partakers of those holy mysteries. And above all things, ye must give most humble and hearty thanks to God the father, the son, and the holy ghost, for the redemption of the world, by the death and passion of our Saviour Christ both God and man: who did humble himself, even to the death upon the Cross for us miserable sinners, which lay in darkness and shadow of death, that he might make us the children of God, and exalt us to everlasting life. And to th'end that we should alway remember the exceeding great love of our Master and only Saviour jesus Christ, thus dying for us, and the innumerable benefits (which by his precious bloodshedding) he hath obtained to us, he hath instituted and ordained holy mysteries as pledges of his love, and continual remembrance of his death, so our great and endless comfort. To him therefore with the father and the holy ghost, let us give (as we are most bounden) continual thanks: submitting our slues wholly to his holy will and pleasure, and studying to serve him in true holiness and righteousness all the days of our life. Amen. ¶ Then shall the priest say to them that come to receive the holy Communion. YOu that do truly & earnestly repent you of your sins, & be in love & charity with your neighbours, & intend to lead a new life, following the commandments of God, and walking from hencefurh in his holy may's: Draw near, & take this holy Sacrament to your comfort, make your humble coufession to almighty God before this congregation here gathered together in his holy name, meekly kneeling upon your knees. Then shall this general confession be made, in the name of all those that are minded to receive the holy Communion, either by one of them, or else by one of the Minissters, or by the Priest himself, all kneeling humbly upon their knees. Almighty god, father of our lord jesus Christ, maker of all things, judge of all men, we knowledge & bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy divine Majesty: provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us: we do earnestly repent, & be heartelry sorry for these our misdoings: the remembrance of them is grievous unto us the burthe of them is intolerable: have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us most merciful father, for thy son our Lord jesus Chriestes sake: forgive us all that is past, & grant that we may ever hereafter, serve and please thee, in newness of life, to the honour and glory of thy name: Through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ Then shall the Priest or the Bishop being present, stand up, and turning himself to the people, says thus. Almighty God our heavenly father, who of his great mercy, hath promised forgiveness of sins to all them, which with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him: have mercy upon you, pardon & deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strength you in all goodness, and bring you to everlasting life: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ Then shall the priest also say. Hear what comfortable words our saviour Christ saith, to all that truly turn to him. Come unto me all that travail and be heavy laden, and I shall refresh you. So God loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, to th'end that all that believe in him, should not perish, but have life everlasting. ¶ Hear also what Saint Paul sayeth. This is a true saying, a worthy of all men to be received, that jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. ¶ Hear also what Saint john sayeth. If any man sin, we have an advocate with the father, jesus Christ righteous, and he the propitiation for our sins. After the which, the priest shall proceed, saying. life up your hearts. Answer. We lift them up unto the Lord. Priest. Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. Answer. It is meet and right so to do. Priest. It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord holy father, almighty everlasting god. ¶ Here shall follow the proper Preface according to the time, if there be any specially appointed: or else immediately shall follow. Therefore with Angels etc. ¶ Proper Prefaces. Upon Christmas day, and seven days after. BEcause thou didst give jesus Christ, thine only son, to be borne, as this day for us, who by the operation of the holy ghost, was made very man, of the substance of thee, virgin mary his mother, and that without spot of sin, to make us clean from all sin. Therefore. etc. ¶ Upon Easter day, and seven days after. But chiefly are we bound to praise thee, for the glorious resurrection of thy son jesus Christ our Lord: for he is the very Paschal lamb, which was offered for us, & hath taken away the sin of the world, who by his death hath destroyed death, and by his rising to life again, hath restored to us everlasting life. Therefore. etc. ¶ Upon the Ascension day, and seven days after. Through thy most dear beloved son, jesus Christ our Lord: who after his most glorious resurrection, manifestly appeared to all his apostles, and in their sight ascended up into heaven, to prepare a place for us, that where he is, thither might we also ascend, and reign with him in glory. Therefore with. etc. ¶ Upon whitsunday and six days after. THrough jesus Christ our Lord, according to whose most true promise, the holy ghost came down this day from heaven, with a sudden great sound, as it had been a mighty wind, in the likeness of fiery tongues, lighting upon the Apostles, to teach them, and to lead them to all truth, giving them both the gift of diverse languages, and also boldness with fervent zeal, constantly to preach the Gospel unto all nations, whereby we are brought out of darkness and error, into the clear light and true knowledge of thee, and of thy son jesus Christ. Therefore with. etc. ¶ Upon the feast of Trinity only. IT is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that me should at all tunes, and in all places give thanks to thee, O Lord, almighty and everlasting God, which art one God, one lord, not one only person, but three persons in one substance: for that which we believe of the glory of the father, the same we believe of the son, and of the holy ghost, without any difference or inequality. Therefore with. etc. ¶ After which Preface shall follow immediately. ¶ Therefore with Angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee, and saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts: heaven and earth are full of thy glory, glory be to thee, O Lord most high. Then shall the Priest kneeling down at God's board, say in the name of all them that shall receive the Communion, this prayer following. WE do not presume to come to this thy Table (O merciful Lord) trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold & great mercies: we be not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table, but thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: grant us therefore (gracious Lord) so to eat the flesh of thy dear son jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, & our souls washed through his most precious blood: and that we may evermore dwell in him and he in us. Amen. ¶ Then the Priest standing up, shall say as followeth. Almighty God our heavenly father, which of thy tender mercy didst give thine only son jesus Christ, to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption, who made there by his one oblation of himself once offered, a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world: and did institute, and in his holy Gospel command us, to continue a perpetual memory of that his precious death, until his coming again. Hear us O merciful father we beseech thee: & grant that we receiving these thy creatures of bread & wine, according to thy son our Saviour jesus Christ's holy institution, in remembrance of his death and passion, may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood: who in the same night that he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave it to his Disciples, saying: Take, eat, this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Likewise after supper he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying: Drink ye all of this, for this is my blood of the new Testament, which is shed for you and for many, for remission of sins: do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me. Then shall the Minister first receive the Communion in both kinds himself, and next deliver it to other Ministers, if any be there present (that they may help the chief Minister, and after to the people in their hands kneeling. And when he delivereth the bread, he shall say. Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith, with thanks giving. And the minister that delivereth the cup, shall say. Drink this in remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for thee, and be thankful. Then shall the Priest say the lords prayer, the people repeating after him every petition. After shallbe said as followeth. O Lord and heavenly father, we thy humble servants, entirely desire thy fatherly goodness, mercifully to accept this our Sacrifice of praise and thanks giving: moste beseeching thee to grant that by the merits and death of thy son jesus Christ, and through faith in his blood, we and all thy whole church, may obtain remission of our sins, and all other benefits of his Passion. And here we offer and present unto thee, O lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively Sacrifice unto thee, humbly beseeching thee, that all we which be partakers of this holy Communion, may be fulfilled with thy grace and heavenly benediction. And although we be unworthy, through our manifold sins, to offer unto thee any sacrifice: yet we beseech thee to accept this our bounden duty and service, not weighing our merits, but pardoning our offences, through jesus Christ our Lord: by whom and with whom, in the unity of the holy ghost, all honour and glory be unto thee O father almighty, world without end. Amen. Or this. Almighty and everliving god, we most heartily thank thee, for that thou dost vouchsafe to feed us, which have duly received these holy mysteries, with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood of thy son our saviour jesus Christ, and dost assure us thereby of thy favour and goodness toward us, and that we be very members incorporate in thy mystical body, which is the blessed company of all faithful people, and be also heirs through hope, of thy everlasting kingdom, by the merits of the most precious death and Passion of thy dear son: we now most humbly beseech thee, heavenly father, so to assist us with thy grace, that we may continue in that holy fellowship, and do all such good works as thou hast prepared for us to walk in, through jesus Christ our Lord: to whom with thee and the holy ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. Then shallbe said or sung. Glory be to GOD on high. And in earth peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee, for thy great glory. O Lord GOD heavenly king, God the father almighty. O Lord, the only begotten son jusu Chrysse: O Lord God, Lame of God, son of the father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us: Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world: receive our prayer. Thou that fittest at the right hand of God the father, have mercy upon us: For thou only art holy: Thou only are the Lord: Thou only (O Christ) with the holy ghost, art most high, in the glory of God the father Amen. Then the Priest or the Bishop, if he be present, shall let them depart with this blessing. THe peace of God which passeth all understamnding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his son jesus Christ our Lord: and the blessing of God almighty, the father, the son, and the holy ghost, be amongst you, and remain with you always. Amen. collects to be said after the Offertory, when there is no Communion, every such day one. And the same may be said also, as often as occasion shall serve, after the collects, either of Morning and Evening prayer, Communion, or Litany, by the discretion of the Minister. ASsist us mercifully, O Lord, in these our supplications and prayers, and dispose the way of thy servants, toward the attaynement of everlasting salvation: that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life, they may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help: through Christ our Lord. Amen. O Almighty Lord and everliving God, vouchsafe we beseech thee, to direct, sanctify and govern both our hearts and bodies, in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy commandments: that through thy most mighty protection, both here and ever, we may be preserved in body and soul: through our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. Grant we beseech thee almighty god, that the words which we have heard this day with our outward ears, may through thy grace be so grafted inwardly in our hearts, that they may bring for the in us, the fruit of good living, to the honour and praise of thy name: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Prevent us O Lord in all our doings, with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help, that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee: we may glorify thy holy name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life: through jesus christ our Lord, Amen. Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, which knowest our necessities before we ask, and our ignorance in ask: we beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities, and those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, vouchsafe to give us for the worthiness of thy son jesus Christ our Lourde. Amen. Almighty God, which haste promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy sons name: we beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto thee: and grant that those things which we faithfully asked according to the will, may effectually be obtained, to the relief of our necessity, and to the setting forth of thy glory: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Upon the holy days, if there be no Communion, shallbe said all that is appointed at the Communion, until the end of the Homely, concluding with the general prayer, for the whole state of Christ's church militant here in earth, & one or more of these collects before rehearsed, as occasion shall serve. And there shallbe no celebration of the lords supper, except there be a good noumbre to commnunicate with the priest, according to his discretion. And if there be not above twenty persons in the Parish of discretion to receive Communion: yet there shallbe no Communion, except four, or three at the least, communicate with the priest. And in Cathedral and Collegiate churches, where be many priests and Deacons, they shall all receive the Communion with the Minister every Sunday at the least, except they have a reasonable cause to the contrary. And to take away the superstition, which any person hath, or might have in the bread and wine, it shall suffice that the bread be such, as is usual to be eaten at the Table with other meats, but the best and purest wheat bread, that convenienly may be gotten. And if any of the bread or wine remain, the Curate shall have it to his own use. Although no order can be so perfectly devised, but it may be of son, either for their ignorance and infirmity, or else of malice and obstinacy, misconcostrued, depraved, and interpreted in a wrong part: And yet because brotherly charity willeth, that so much as conveniently may be, offences should be taken away: therefore we willing to do the same. Whereas it is ordained in the book of common prayer, in the administration of the lords Supper, that the communicantes kneeling should receive the holy Communion: which thing being well mente, for a signification of the humble & grateful acknowledging of the benefices of Christ given unto the worthy receiver, and to avoid the profanation and disordre which about the holy Communion might else ensue. lest yet the same kneeling might be thought or taken otherwise, we do declare that it is not meant thereby, that any adoration is done, or aught to be done, either unto the Sacramental bread or wine there bodily received, or unto any real and essential presence there being of Christ's natural flesh and blood. For as concerning the Sacramental bread and wine, they remain still in their very natural substances, and therefore may not be adored, for that were Idolatry to be abhorred of all faithful Christians. And as concerning the natural body and blood of our saviour Christ, they are in heaven and not here: for it is against the truth of Chryestes true natural body, to be more in places then in one at one time. The bread and wine for the Communion, shall be provided by the Curate and the church wardens, at the charges of the Parish, & the Parish shallbe discharged of such sums of money, or other duties, which hitherto they have paid for the same, by order of their houses every sunday. And note, that every Parishioner shall communicate, at the least three times in the year: of which, Easter to be one: and shall also receive the Sacraments, and other rites, according to the order in this Book appointed. And yearly at Easter, every Parishioner shall reckon with his Person, Vicar, or Curate, or his, or their deputy, or deputies, and pay to them or him, all Ecclesiastical duties, accustomably due, then and at that time to be paid. ¶ The Ministration of Baptisine to be used in the Church. IT appeareth by ancient writers, that the Sacrament of Baptism in the old time, was not commonly ministed, but at two times in the year: at Easter, and Whitsuntide. At which times it was openly ministered, in the presence of all the congregation: which custom (now being grown out of use) although it cannot for many considerations be well restored again, yet it is thought good to follow the same as near as conveniently may be: wherefore the people are to be admonished, that it is most convenient that baptism should not be ministered but upon Sundays, and other holy days, when the most numbered of people may come together, aswell for that the congregation there present may testify the receiving of them that be newly baptized into the numbered of Christ's Church, as also because in the Baptism of infants, every man present may be put in remembrance of his own profession made to God in his Baptism. For which cause; also, it is expedient that Baptism be ministered in the English tongue. Nevertheless, (if necessity so require) children may at all times be baptized at home. ¶ Public Baptism. When there are children to be baptized upon the sunday, or holy day, the Parents shall give knowledge overnight, or in the Morning, afore the beginning of Morning prayer, to the Curate. And then the godfathers, godmothers, & people with the children, must be ready at the Fonie, either immediately after the last Lesson at Morning prayer, or else immediately after the last Lesson at Evening prayer, as the Curate by his discretion shall appoint. And the standing there, the Priest shall ask whether the children be baptized or no. If they answer, no: Then shall the Priest say thus. dearly beloved, forasmuch as all men be conceived and borne in sin, and that our Saviour Christ sayeth, none can enter into the kingdom of God (except he be regenerate, and borne a new of water and the holy ghost:) I beseech you to call upon God the father, through our lord jesus Christ, the of his bounteous mercy, he will grant to these children, that thing which by nature they cannot have, that they may be baptized with water and the holy ghost, and received into Christ's holy church, and be made lively members of the same. ¶ Then the Priest shall say. ¶ Let us pray. Almighty and everlasting god, which of thy great mercy didst save Noah and his family in the Ark, from perishing by water: and also didst; safely lead the children Israel thy people through the red Sea, figuring thereby thy holy Baptism, and by the Baptism of thy well-beloved son jesus christ, didst sanctify the flood jordan and all other waters, to the mystical washing away of sin: We beseech thee for thy infinite mercies, that thou myit mercifully look upon these children, sanctify them and wash them with thy holy ghost, that they being delivered from thy wrath, may be received into the Ark of Christ's church: and being steadfast in faith, joyful through hope, and rooted in charity, may so pass the waves of this troublesome world, that finally they may come to the land of everlasting life, there to reign with thee, world without end, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Almighty and immortal god, the aid of all that need, the helper of all that flee to thee for succour, the life of them that believe, and the resurrection of the dead: We call upon thee for these infants, that they coming to thy holy Baptism, may receive remisston of their sins by spiritual regeneration. Receive them (O Lord) as thou hast promised by thy well-beloved son, saying: Ask & you shall have, seek and you shall find, knock and it shallbe opened unto you. So give now unto us the ask. Let us that seek find. Open the gate unto us that knock, the these infants may enjoy the everlasting benediction of thy heavenly washing, and may come to the eternal kingdom, which thou hast promised by Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall the Priest say: hear the words of the Gospel written by Saint Mark in the tenth Chapter. Mark. x. AT a certain time they brought children unto Christ that he should touch them, and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when jesus saw it, he was displeased, and said unto them: suffer little children to come unto me, and forbidden them not, for to such belongeth the kingdom of god. Verily I say unto you, whosoever doth not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not entre therein. And when he had taken them up in his arms, he put his hands upon them and blessed them. After the Gospel is read, the Minister shall make this brief exhortation upon the words of the Gospel. Friends, you hear in this Gospel the words of our saviour Christ, that he commanded the children to be brought unto him: Now he blamed those that would have kept them from him: Now he exhorted all men to follow their innocency. You perceive how by his outward gesture and deed, he declared his good will toward them. For he embraced them in his arms, he laid his hands upon them, and blessed them: doubt not ye therefore, but earnestly believe, that he will likewise favourably receive these present infants, that he will embrace them with the arms of his mercy, that he will give unto them the blessing of eternal life, and make them partakers of his everlasting kingdom. Wherefore we being thus persuaded of the good will of our heavenly father toward these infants declared by his son jesus Christ, & nothing doubting but that he favourably alloweth this charitable work of ours in bringing these children to his holy Baptism: let us faithfully and devoutly give thanks unto him, and say. Almighty & everlasting god, heavenly father, we give thee humble thanks, that thou haste vouchsafed to call us to the knowledge of thy grace and faith in thee: increase this knowledge, and confirm this faith in us evermore: give thy holy spirit to these infants, that they may be borne again, and be made heirs of everlasting salvation, through our Lord jesus Christ: who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy spirit, now & for ever. Amen. ¶ Then the Priest shall speak unto the Godfathers and Godmothers, on this wise. Well-beloved friends, ye have brought these children here to be baptized: ye have prayed that our Lord jesus Christ would vouchsafe to receive them, to lay his hands upon them, to bless than, to release them of their sins, to give them the kingdom of heaven, and everlasting life. Ye have heard also that our lord jesus Christ hath promised in his gospel to grant all these things that ye have prayed for: which promise he for his part will most surely keep and perform: Wherefore after this promise made by christ, these infants must also faithfully for their part promise by you that be their sureties, that they will forsake the devil and all his works, and constantly believe gods holy word, and obediently keep his commandments. Then shall the Priest demand of the Godfathers and Godmothers these questions following. Dost thou forsake the devil and all his works, the vain pomp, and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow, nor be led by them? Answer. I forsake them all. Minister. Dost thou believe in god the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth? And in jesus Christ his only begotten son our lord, and that he was conceived by the holy ghost, borne of the virgin Mary: that he suffered under Poncyus Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried: that he went down into hell, and also did rise again the third day: that he ascended into heaven, and litteth at the right hand of god the father almighty, and from thence shall come again at the end of the world, to judge the quick and the dead? And dost thou believe in the holy ghost, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the remission of sins, the resurrection of the flesh, and everlasting life after death? Answer. All this I steadfastly believe. Minister. Wilt thou be baptized in this faith? Answer. That is my desire. Then shall the Priest say. O Merciful god, grant that the old Adam in these children may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them. Amen. Grant that all carnal affections may die in them, and that all things belonging to the spirit, may live and grow in them. Amen. Grant that they may have power and strength to have victory, and to triumph against the devil, the world and the flesh. Amen. Grant that whosoever is here dedicated to thee by our office and ministry, may also be endued with heavenly virtues, & everlastingly rewarded through thy mercy, O blessed lord God, who dost live and govern all things world without end. Amen. Almighty everliving God, whose most dearly beloved son jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of our sins, did shed out of his most precious side both water & blood, and gave commandment to his disciples that they should go teach all nations, and baptize them in the name of the father, the son, and of the holy ghost: Regard we beseech thee, the supplications of thy congregation, and grant that all thy servants which shall be baptized in this water, may receive the fullness of thy grace, and ever remain in the noumbre of thy faithful and elect children, through jesus christ our Lord. Then the Priest shall take the child in his hands, and ask the name: and naming the child, shall dip it in the water, so it be discreetly and warily done, saying. N I baptize thee in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen. And if the child be weak, it shall suffice to power water upon it, saying the foresaid words. N I baptize thee in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen. Then the Priest shall make a cross upon the child's forehead, saying. WE receive this child into the congregation of Christ's stock, and do sign him with the sign of the cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil: and to continue Christ's faithful souldioure and servant, unto his lives end. Amen. Then shall the Priest say. seeing now dearly beloved brethren, that these children be regenerate and grafted into the body of Christ's congregation: let us give thanks unto God for these benefits, & with one accord make our prayers unto almighty God, that they may lead the rest of their life, according to this beginning. Then shallbe said. Our father which art in heaven. etc. Then shall the Priest say. WE yield thee hearty thanks most merciful father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy holy spirit, to receive him for thy own child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy congregation. And humbly we beseech thee to grant that he being dead unto sin, and living unto righteousness, and being buried with Christ in his death, may crucify the old man, and utterly abolish the whole body of sin: that as he is made partaker of the death of thy son, so he may be partaker of his resurrection. So that finally with the residue of thy holy congregation he may be inheritor of thine everlasting kingdom: through Christ our Lord. Amen. At the last end, the Priest calling the Godfathers and Godmothers together, shall say this short exhortation following. Forasmuch as these children have promised by you to forsake the Devil and all his works, to believe in God, and to serve him: you must remember that it is your parts and duties to see that these infants be taught so soon as they shallbe able to learn what a solemn vow, promise and profession they have made by you. And that they may know these things the better, ye shall call upon them to hear sermons. And chyeftye ye shall provide that they may learn the Crede, the lords prayer, and the ten Commandments in the English tongue, and all other things which a Christian man ought to know and believe, to his soul's health: and that these children, may be vertuoustlye brought up, to lead a godly and Christian life, remembering alway that Baptism doth represent unto us our profession, which is to follow the example of our saviour Christ, and to be made like unto him: that as he died and rose again for us, so should we which are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness, continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue, and godliness of living. The Minister shall command that the children be brought to the Bishop to be confirmed of him, so soon as they can say in their vulgar tongue, the articles of the faith, the lords prayer, and the ten commandments: and be further instructed in the catechism set forth for that purpose, accordingly as it is there expressed. ¶ Of them that be baptized in private houses, in time of necessity. The Pastors and Curates shall oft admonish the people, that they defer not the Baptism of infants any longer than the sunday, or other holy day next after the child be borne, unless upon a great and reasonable cause declared to the Curate, and by him approved. And also they shall warn them, that without great cause and necessity, they baptize not children at home in their houses. And when great need shall compel them so to do, that then they minister it on this fashion. first let them that be present call upon God for his grace, and say the lords prayer, if the time will suffer, And then one of them shall name the child, and dip him in the water, or power water upon him, saying these words. N I baptize thee in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen. And let them not doubt, but that the child so baptized, is lawfully and sufficiently baptized, & ought not to be baptized again in the Church. But yet nevertheless, if the child which is after this sort baptized, do afterward live: it is expedient that he be brought into the Church, to the intent the Priest may examine and try, whether the child be lawfully baptized or no. And if those that bring any child to the church do answer that he is already baptized, then shall the Priest examine them further. By whom the child was baptized. Who was present when the child was baptized? Whether they called upon God for grace and succour in that necessity? With what thing, or what matter they did baptize the child? With what words the child was baptized. Whether they think the child to be lawfully and perfectly baptized? And if the minister shall prove by the answers of such as brought the child, that all things were done as they ought to be: Then shall not be Christian the child again, but shall receive him as one of the flock of the true Christian people, saying thus. I Certify you, that in this case ye have done well, & according unto due order concerning the baptizing of this child, which being borne in original sin, and in the wrath of god, is now by the laver of regeneration in Baptism, received into the number of the children of God, and heirs of everlasting life: for our Lord jesus Christ doth not deny his grace and mercy unto such infants, but most lovingly doth call them unto him, as the holy Gospel doth witness to our comfort, on this wise. Mark. x. AT a certain time they brought children unto Christ that he should touch them, and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when jesus saw it, he was displeased, and said unto them: suffer little children to come unto me, and forbidden them not, for to such belongeth the kingdom of god. Verily I say unto you, whosoever doth not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not entre therein. And when he had taken them up in his arms, he put his hands upon them and blessed them. After the Gospel is read, the Minister shall make this exhortation upon the words of the Gospel. Friends, you hear in this Gospel the words of our saviour Christ, that he commanded the children to be brought unto him: Now he blamed those that would have kept them from him: Now he exhorted all men to follow their innocency. Ye perceive how by his outward gesture and deed, he declared his good will toward them. For he embraced them in his arms, he laid his hands upon them, and blessed them: doubt ye not therefore, but earnestly believe, that he hath likewise favourably received this present infant, that he hath embraced him with the arms of his mercy, that he hath given unto him the blessing of eternal life, and made him partaker of his everlasting kingdom. Wherefore we being thus persuaded of the good will of our heavenly father declared by his son jesus christ towards this infant: Let us faithfully and devoutly give thanks unto him, and say the prayer which the Lord himself taught, and in declaration of our faith, let us recite the articles contained in our Crede. Here the Minister with the Godfathers and Godmothers shall say. Our father which art in heaven. etc. Then shall the priest demand the name of the child, which being by the Godfathers and Godmothers pronounced, the Minister shall say. doest thou in the name of this child forsake the Devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all the covetous desires of the same, the carnal desires of the flesh, and not to follow and be lead by them? ¶ Answer. I forsake them all. ¶ Minister. Dost thou in the name of this child profess this faith, to believe in God the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth. And in jesus christ his only beegotten son our Lord: and that he was conceived by the holy ghost, borne of the virgin Marry: that he suffered under: Poncyus pilate, was crucified, dead and buried: that he went down into hell, and also did rise again the third day: that he ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of god the father almighty: and from thence he shall come again at the end of the world, to judge the quick and the dead? And do you in his name believe in the holy ghost. The holy catholic Church. The Communion of Saints. The remission of sins. resurrection, and everlasting life after death? ¶ Answer. All this I steadfastly believe. ¶ Let us pray. Almighty and everlasting God heavenly father, we give thee humble thanks, for that thou haste vouchsafed to call us to the knowledge of thy grace and faith in thee: increase this knowledge, and confirm this faith in us evermore: give thy holy spirit to this infant, that he being borne again, and being made heir of everlasting salvation, through our Lord jesus Christ, may continue thy servant, and attain thy promise, through the same our Lord jesus Christ thy son: who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same holy spirit everlastingly. Amen. Then shall the Minister make this exhortation to the Godfathers and Godmothers. Forasmuch as this child hath promised by you to forsake the devil and all his works, to believe in God, and to serve him: you must remember that it is your part and duty to see that this infant be taught so soon as he shallbe able to learn what a solemn vow, promise, and profession he hath made by you: and that he may know these things the better, ye shall call upon him to hear sermons: And chief ye shall provide that he may learn the Crede, the lords prayer, and the ten Commandments in the english tongue, and all other things which a christian man ought to know and believe, to his soul's health: and that this child may be virtuously brought up to lead a godly and a christian life: Remembering alway that Baptism doth represent unto us our profession, which is to follow the example of our saviour Christ, and be made like unto him: that as he died and rose again for us: so should we which are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness, continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and Godliness of living. And so forth as in Public Baptism. But if they which bring the infants to the Church, do make an uncertain answer to the priests questions, and say that they cannot tell what they thought, did or said in that great fear and trouble of mind, (as oftentimes it chanceth) then let the priest baptize him in form above written, concerning Public baptism, saving that at the dipping of the child in the font, he shall use this form of words. If thou be not baptized already. N. I baptize thee in the name of the father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghost. Amen. ¶ Confirmation, wherein is contained a catechism. for children. TO the end that Confirmation may be ministered to the more edifying of such as shall receive it (according unto. S. Paul's doctrine, who teacheth that all things should be done in the Church to the edification of the same) it is thought good, that none hereafter shallbe confirmed, but such as can say in their mother tongue, the Articles of the faith, the lords prayer, and the ten Commandments: And can also answer to such questions of this short catechism, as the bishop (or such as he shall appoint) shall by his discretion appose them in. And this order is most convenient to be observed for diverse considerations. first, because that when children come to the years of discretion, and have learned what their Godfathers and Godmothers promised for them in baptism, they may then themselves with their own mouth, & with their own consent, openly before the Church ratify and confirm the same: and also promise, that by the grace of God, they will evermore endeavour themselves faithfully to observe and keep such things, as they by their own mouth and confession have assented unto. Secondly forasmuch as Confirmation is ministered to them that be baptized, that by imposition of hands and prayer, they may receive strength and defence against all temptations to sin, and the assaults of the world and the Devil: it is most meet to be ministered when children come to that age, that partly by the frailty of their own flesh partly by the assaults of the world and the Devil, they begin to be in danger to fall into sundry kinds of sin. Thirdly, for that it is agreeable with the usage of the Church in times past, whereby it was ordained that Confirmation should be ministered to them that were of perfect age, that they being instructed in Christ'S religion, should openly profess their own faith and promise, to be obedient unto the will of God. And that no man shall think that any detriment shall come to children by deferring of their confirmation, he shall know for truth, that it is certain by God's word, that children being baptized, have all things necessary for their salvation, and be undoubtedly saved. A catechism, that is to say, an instruction to be learned of every child before he be brought to be Confirmed of the bishop. Question. What is your name? Answer. N. or. M. Question. Who gave you this name? Answer. My godfathers and godmothers in my Baptism, wherein I was made a member of christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. Question. What did your godfathers and godmothers then for you? Answer. They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should forsake the devil and all his works and pomps; the vanities of the wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh. Secondly, that I should believe all the articles of the christian faith. And thirdly, that I should keep Gods holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life. Question. Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe and to do as they have promised for thee? Answer. Yes verily. And by God's help so I wil And I heartily thank our heavenly father, that he hath called me to this state of salvation, through jesus Christ our saviour. And I pray god to give me his grace, that I may continue in the same unto my lives end. Question. Rehearse the articles of thy belief. Answer. I Believe in god the father almighty, maker of heaven & of earth. And in jesus Christ his only son our lord. Which was conceived of the holy ghost, borne of the of virgin Mary. Suffered under Ponce Pilate, was crucified; dead and buried, he descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of god the father almighty. From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the holy ghost. The holy catholic Church. The communion of Saints. The forgiveness of sins. The resurrection of the body. And the life everlasting. Amen. Question. What dost thou chieflly learn in these articles of thy belief? Answer. first, I learn to believe in god the father, who hath made me and all the world. Secondly, in God the son, who hath redeemed me and all mankind. Thirdly, in god the holy ghost, who sanctifieth me and all the elect people of god. Question. You said that your godfathers and godmothers did promise for you that you should keep gods commandments. Tell me how many there be. Answer. Ten. Question. Which be they? Answer. THesame which God spoke in the twenty Chapter of Exodus, saying: I am the Lord thy god which have brought thee out of the land of Egipte, out of the house of bondage. i. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me. two. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy god am a jealous god, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and show mercy unto thousands in them that love me & keep my commandments. iii. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy god in vain: for the lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. iiii. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day. Six days shalt thou labour & do all that thou hast to do: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it. v. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy god giveth thee. vi. Thou shalt do no murder. seven. Thou shalt not commit adultery. viii. Thou shalt not steal. ix. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. x. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his. Question. What dost thou chiefly learn by these commandments? Answer. I learn two things. My duty towards god, and my duty towards my neighbour. Question. What is thy duty towards God? Answer. My duty towards God is to believe in him, to fear him, and to love him with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength. To worship him. To give him thanks. To put my whole trust in him. To call upon him. To honour his holy name and his word, and to serve him truly all the days of my life. Question. What is thy duty towards thy neighbour? Answer. My duty towards my neighbour is, to love him as myself. And to do to all men as I would they should do unto me. To love, honour and succour my father and mother. To honour and obey the king and his ministers. To submit myself to all my governors, teachers, spiritual Pastors and Masters. To order myself lowly and reverently to all my betters. To hurt no body by word nor deed. To be true and just in all my dealing. To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart. To keep my hands from picking and stealing, and my tongue from evil speaking, lying and slandering. To keep my body in temperance, soberness, and chastity. Not to covet nor desire other men's goods. But learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me. Question. My good child know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace, which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer. Let me hear therefore if thou canst sat the lords prayer. Answer. Our father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done will be done in earth as it is in heaven. give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not in to temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen. Question. What desirest thou of God in this prayer. Answer. I desire my Lord God our heavenly father, who is the giver of all goodness, to send his grace unto me and to all people, that we may worship him, serve him, and obey him as we ought to do. And I pray unto God, that he will send us all things that be needful both for our souls and bodies. And that he will be merciful unto us, and forgive us our sins: and that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily. And that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness, and from our ghostly enemy, and from everlasting death. And this I trust he will do of his mercy and goodness, through our Lord jesus Christ. And therefore I say. Amen. So be it. So soon as the children can say in their mother tongue, the Articles of the faith, the lords prayer, the ten commandments: and also can answer to such questions of this short catechism, as the Bishop (or such as he shall appoint) shall by his discretion appose them in: then shall they be brought to the bishop by one that shallbe his Godfather, or Godmother, that every child may have a witness of his confirmation. And the bishop shall confirm them on this wise. ¶ Confirmation. Our help is in the name of the Lord. Answer. Which hath made both heaven and earth. Minister. Blessed is the name of the Lord. Answer. henceforth world without end. Minister. Lord hear our prayer. Answer. And let our cry come to thee. ¶ Let us pray. Almighty & everliving God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these thy servants by water and the holy ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins: strengthen them we beseech thee (O lord) with the holy ghost the comforter, and daily increase in them thy manifold gifts of grace, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and ghostly strength, the spirit of knowledge and true godliness: and fulfil them (O Lord) with the spirit of thy holy fear. Amen. Then the Bishop shall lay his hand upon every child severally, saying. Defend, O Lord this child with thy heavenly grace, that he may continue thine for ever, and daily increase in thy holy spirit more and more, until he come unto thy everlasting kingdom. Amen. Then shall the bishop say. ALmighti everliving god, which makest us both to will and to do those things that be good and acceptable unto thy Majesty: we make our humble supplications unto thee for these children, upon whom (after the example of thy holy Apostles) we have laid our hands, to certify them (by this sign) of thy favour and gracious goodness toward them: let thy fatherly hand we beseech thee, ever be over them: let thy holy spirit ever be with them, and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of thy word, that in the end they may obtain the everlasting life through out Lord jesus Christ: who with thee and the holy ghost liveth and reigneth one God, world without end. Amen. Then the bishop shall bless the children, thus saying. The blessing of god almighty, the father, the son, and the holy ghost, be upon you and remain with you for ever. Amen. ¶ The Curate of every parish, or some other at his appointment, shall diligently upon Sundays and holy days, half an hour before Evensong, openly in the church instruct and examine so many children of his parish sent unto him, as the time will serve, and as he shall think convenient in some part of this catechism. And all fathers, mothers, Masters and Dames, shall cause their children, servants, and prentices (which have not learned their catechism) to come to the Church at the time appointed, and obediently to hear, & be ordered by the Curate, until such time as they have learned all that is here appointed for them to learn. And whensoever the bishop shall give knowledge for children to be brought afore him to any convenient place, for their confirmation: Then shall the Curate of every parish either bring or send in writing, the names of all those children of his parish, which can say the Articles of their faith, the lords prayer, and the ten commandments: and also how many of them can answer to tother questions contained in this catechism. And there shall none be admitted to the holy Communion, until such time as he can say the catechism, and be confirmed. ¶ The form of Solemnisation of Matrimony. ¶ first the bannes must be asked three several Sundays or holy days in the time of service, the people being present after the accustomed manner. And if the persons that would be married dwell in diverse Parishes, the bannes must be asked in both parishes: and the Curate of th'one Parish shall not solemnize Matrimony betwixt them, without a certificate of the bannes being thrice asked from the Curate of the other Parish. At the day appointed for Solemnisation of Matrimony, the persons to be married shall come into the body of the Church with their friends and neighbours. And there the Priest shall thus say. dearly beloved friends, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of his congregation, to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony, which is an honourable estate instituted of God in paradise, in the time of man's innocency: signifying unto us the mystical union, the is betwixt Christ and his church: which holy estate Christ adorned & beautified with his presence and first miracle that he wrought in Cana of Galilee, and is commended of Saint Paul to be honourable among all men, & therefore is not to be enterprised, not taken in hand unadvisedly, lightly, or wanton, to satisfy men's carnal lusts and appetites, like bruit beasts that have no understanding: but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, sobrely, & in the fear of god: Duly considering the causes for which Matrimony was ordained. One was the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and praise of God. secondly, it was ordained for a remedy against sin, & to avoid fornication, that such persons as have not the gift of continency, might marry, & keep themselves undefiled members of Christ's body. Thirdly, for the mutual society, help & comfort, that the one aught to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity: into the which holy estate these two persons present come to be joined. Therefore, if any man can show any just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together: let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. ¶ And also speaking to the persons that shallbe married, he shall say. I require and charge you (as you will answer at the dreadful day of judgement, when the secrets of all hearts shallbe disclosed) that if either of you do know any impediment why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, that ye confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as be coupled together otherwise then God's word doth allow, are not joined together by God, neither is their Matrimony lawful. At which day of marriage, if any man do allege and declare any impediment why they may not be coupled together in matrimony, by God's law, or the laws of this Realm: and will be bound and sufficient sureties with him, to the parties, or else put in a caution to the full value of such charges as the persons to be married doth sustain to prove his allegation: then the Solemnisation must be deferred unto such time as the truth be tried. If no impediment be alleged, then shall the Curate say unto the man. N, Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, coumforte her, honour and keep her, in sickness and in health? And forsaking all other, keep thee only to her, so long as you both shalt live? ¶ The man shall answer. I will. ¶ Then shall the priest say to the woman. N, Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him and serve him, love, honour and keep him, in sickness and in health, and forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as you both shall live? The woman shall answer. I will. ¶ Then shall the Minister say. Who giveth this woman to be married unto this man? And the Minister receiving the woman at her father or friends hands, shall cause the man to take the woman by the right hand, and so either to give their troth to other. The man first saying. I N. take thee N. to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us departed, according to gods holy ordinance: And thereto I plight thee my troth. Then shall they lose their hands, & the woman taking again the man by the right hand, shall say. I N. take thee N. to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love, cherish, & to obey, till death us departed, according to gods holy ordinance: And thereto I give thee my troth. Then shall they again lose their hands, and the man shall give unto the woman a ring, laying the same upon the book with the accustomed duty to the Priest & Clerk. And the Priest taking the ring, shall deliver it unto the man, to put it upon the fourth finger of the woman's left hand. And the man taught by the Priest, shall say. With this ring I thee wed: with my body I thee worship: & with all my worldly goods I thee endow. In the name of the father, & of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen. Then the man leaving the ring upon the fourth finger of the woman's left hand, the Minister shall say. ¶ Let us pray. O Eternal god, creator and preserver of all mankind, giver of all spiritual grace, the author of everlasting life: Send thy blessing upon these thy servants, this man and this woman, whom we bless in thy name, that as Isaac and Rebecca lived faithfully together, so these persons may surely perform and keep the vow and covenant betwixt them made: whereof this ring given and received, is a token and pledge, and may ever remain in perfect love and peace together, and live according unto thy laws: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall the Priest join their right hands together and say. Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. Then shall the Minister speak unto the people. Forasmuch as N. and N. have consented together in holy wedlock, and have witnessed the same before god and this company, and thereto have given and pledged their troth either to other, and have declared the same by giving and receiving of a ring, and by joining of hands: I pronounce that they be man and wife together. In the name of the father, of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen. And the Minister shall add this blessing. God the father, god the son, god the holy ghost, bless, preserve, and keep you: the Lord mercifully with his favour look upon you, and so fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace, that you may so live together in this life, that in the world to come, you may have life everlasting. Amen. Then the Minister or Clerks, going to the lords table, shall say or sing this psalm following. Beati omnes. ps. cxxviii. BLessed are all they that fear the lord: and walk in this ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands: O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be. Thy wife shallbe as the fruitful vine: upon the walls of thy house. Thy children like the Olive branches: round about thy table. Lo, thus shall the man be blessed: that feareth the Lord. The Lord from out of Zion, shall bless thee: that thou shalt see Jerusalem in prosperity, all thy life long. Yea, that thou shalt see thy children's children: and peace upon Israel. Glory be to the father. etc. As it was in the. etc. Or else this psalm following. Deus misereatur. psal lxvii. GOd be merciful unto us and bless us: and show us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us. That thy way may be known upon the earth: thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee (O God:) yea let all the people praise thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad: for thou shalt judge the stock righteously, and govern the nations upon the earth. Let the people praise thee (O god:) let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth bring forth her increase: and god, evenour God, shall give us his blessing. God shall bless us, and all the ends of the world shall fear him. Glory be to the father. etc. As it was in the. etc. The Psalm ended, and the man and the woman kneeling afore the lords table: the Priest standing at the table, and turning his face toward them, shall say. Lord have mercy upon us. Answer. Christ have merry upon us. Minister. Lord have mercy upon us. ¶ Our father which art in heaven. etc. And lead us not into temptation. Answer. But deliver us from evil. Amen. Minister. O Lord save thy servant, and thy handmaid. Answer. Which put their trust in thee. Minister. O Lord send them help from thy holy place. Answer. And evermore defend them. Minister. Be unto them a tower of strength. Answer. From the face of their enemy. Minister. O Lord hear our prayer. Answer. And let our cry come unto thee. The Minister. O God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of jacob, bless these thy servants, and so we the seed of eternal life in their minds, that whatsoever in thy holy word they shall profitably learn, they may in deed fulfil the same. Look O Lord mercifully upon them from heaven, and bless them. And as thou didst send thy blessing upon Abraham and Sara to their great comfort: so vouchsafe to send thy blessing upon these thy servants, that they obeying thy will, and always being in safety under thy protection, may abide thy love unto their lives end: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. This prayer next following shallbe omitted, where the women is passed child birth. O Merciful lord & heavenly father, by whose gracious gift mankind is increased: we beseech thee assist with thy blessing these two persons, that they may both be fruitful in procreation of children, and also live together so long in godly love and honesty that they may see their children's children, unto the third & fourth generation, unto thy praise and honour: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O God, which by thy mighty power hast made all things of naught, which also after other things set in order, didst appoint that out of man (created after thine own image and similitude) woman should take her beginning: and knitting them together, didst teach that it should never be lawful to put a sunder those, whom thou by matrimony hadst made one: O God which hast consecrated the state of matrimony to such an excellent mystery, that in it is signified and represented the spiritual marriage & unity betwixt Christ & his church: Look mercifully upon these thy servants, that both this man may love his wife, according to thy word (as christ did love his spouse the church, who gave himself for it, loving & cherishing it even as his own flesh.) And also the this woman may be loving & amiable to her husband as Rachel, wife as Rebecca, faithful & obedient as Sara, and in all quietness, sobriety & peace, be a follower of holy and godly matrons: O Lord bless them both, & grant them to inherit thy everlasting kingdom: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall the Priest say. Almighty God, which at the beginning did create our first parents Adam and Eve, and did sanctify & join them together in marriage: power upon you the riches of his grace, sanctify and bless you, that ye may please him both in body and soul, and live together in holy love, unto your lives end. Amen. Then shall begin the Communion, and after the Gospel shallbe said a sermon, wherein ordinarily (so oft as there is any marriage) thoffice of a man & wife shallbe declared, according to holy scripture: or if there be no sermon, the Minister shall read this that followeth. Al ye which be married, or which intend to take the holy estate of matrimony upon you: hear what holy scripture doth say, as touching the duty of husbands toward their wives, and wives toward their husbands. Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Ephesians the fifth Chapter) doth give this commandment to all married men. Ye husbands love your wives, even as Christ loved the church, & hath given himself for it, to sanctify it, purging it in the fountain of water, through thy word, that he might make it unto himself, a glorious congregation, not having spot or wrinkel, or any such thing, but that it should be holy & blameless. So men are bound to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife, loveth himfelse. For never did any man hate his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the lord doth the congregation: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This mystery is great, but I speak of christ and of the congregation. Nevertheless, let every one of you so love his own wife, even as himself. Likewise the same saint Paul (writing to the Colossians) speaketh thus to all men that be married. Colo. iiii Ye men love your wives, and be not bitter unto them. Hear also what Saint Peter the Apostle of christ, which was himself a married man (sayeth unto all men that are married.) i. pete. iii Ye husbands, dwell with your wives according to knowledge: giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel, and as heirs together of the grace of life, so that your prayers be not hindered. Hertherto ye have heard the duty of the husband toward the wife. Now likewise ye wives, hear & learn your duty towards your husbands, even as it is plainly set forth in holy scripture. Saint Paul (in the forenamed Epistle to the Ephesians) teacheth you thus. Ephesi. v Ye women, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the lord: for the husband is the wives head even as Christ is the head of the Church. And he is also the saviour of the whole body. Therefore as the church or congregation is subject unto Christ: so likewise let the wives also be in subjection unto their own husbands in all things. And again he saith: Let the wife reverence her husband. And (in his Epistle to the Collossians) saint Paul giveth you this short Lesson. Colos. iii Ye wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is convenient in the Lord. Saint Peter also doth instruct you very godly, thus saying: i. pete. iii. Let wives be subject to their own husbands, so that if any obey not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear, wbose apparel let it not be outward, with broided here and trimming about with gold, either in putting on of gorgeous apparel: but let the hid man which is in the heart, be without all corruption, so that the spirit be mild and quiet which is a precious thing in the sight of god. For after this manner (in the old time) did the holy women which trusted in god apparel themselves, being subject to their own husbands: as Sara obeyed Ibraham calling him Lord, whose daughters ye are made, doing well, and being not dismayed with any fear. ¶ The new married persons (the same day of their marriage) must receive the holy Communion. ¶ The order for the visitation of the sick. The Priest entering into the sick persons house, shall say. Peace be in this house, and to all that dwell in it. When he cometh into the sick man's presence, he shall say kneeling down. Remember not lord our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers. Spare us good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. ¶ Our father which art in heaven. etc. And lead us not into temptation. Answer. But deliver us from evil. Amen. Minister. O Lord save thy servant. Answer. Which putteth his trust in thee. Minister. Send him help from thy holy place. Answer. And evermore mightily defend him. Minister. Let the enemy have none advantage of him. Answer. Nor the wicked approach to hurt him. Minister. Be unto him O Lord, a strong tower. Answer. From the face of his enemy. Minister. Lord hear our prayers. Answer. And let our cry come unto thee. The Minister. O Lord look down from heaven, behold, visit and relieve this thy servant: Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy, give him comfort and sure confidence in thee: Defend him from the danger of the enemy, and keep him in perpetual peace and safety: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Hear us almighty and most merciful god and saviour. Extend thy accustomed goodness to this thy servant which is grieved with sickness: Visit him, O Lord, as thou didst visit Peter's wives mother, and the captains servant. So visit and restore unto this sick person his former health (if it be thy will) or else give him grace so to take thy visitation, that after this painful life ended, he may dwell with thee in life everlasting. Amen. Then shall the Minister exhort the sick person after this form or other like. dearly beloved, know this: that almighty God is the Lord of life and death, and over all things to them pertaining, as youth, strength, health, age, weakness, and sickness. Wherefore, whatsoever your sickness is, know you certainly, that it is god's visitation. And for what cause soever this sickness is sent unto you, whether it be to try your patience for the example of other, and that your faith may be found in the day of the Lord laudable, glorious, & honourable, to the increase of glory, & endless felicity: Or else it be sent unto you to correct and amend in you, whatsoever doth offend the eyes of our heavenly father: know you certainly, that if you truly repent you of your sins, and bear your sickness patiently, trusting in God's mercy for his dear son jesus Christ's sake, and render unto him humble thanks for his fatherly visitation, submitting yourself wholly to his will: it shall turn to your profit, and help you forward in the right way that leadeth unto everlasting life. ¶ If the person visited be very sick, than the Curate may end his exhortation in this place. ¶ Take therefore in good worth the chastement of the Lord: For whom the Lord loveth, be chastiseth. Yea (as Saint Paul saith) he scourgeth every son which he receiveth: if you endure chastisement, he offereth himself unto you, as unto his own children. What son is he that the father chastiseth not? If ye be not under correction (whereof all true children are partakers) then are ye bastards & not children. Therefore, seeing that when our carnal fathers do correct us, we reverently obey them: shall we not now much rather be obedient to our spiritual father, and so live? And they for a few days do chastise us after their own pleasure, but he doth chastise us for our profit, to the intent he may make us partakers of his holiness. These words, good brother, are God's words, & written in holy scripture for our comfort & instruction that we should patiently and with thanksgiving, bear our heavenvly father's correction, whensoever by any manner of adversity it shall please his gracious goodness to visit us. And there should be no greater comfort to Christian persons, then to be made like unto Christ by suffering patiently adversities, troubles, & sicknesses. For he himself went not up to joy, but first he suffered pain: he entered not into his glory, before he was crucified. So truly our way to eternal joy, is to suffer here with Christ, & our door to enter into eternal life, is gladly to die with Christ, that we may rise again from death, & dwell with him in everlasting life. Now therefore taking your sickness which is thus profitable for you, patiently: I exhort you in the name of God, to remember the profession which you made unto God in your Baptism. And forasmuch as after this life, there is account to be given unto the righteous judge, of whom all must be judged without respect of persons: I require you to examine yourself, & your state, both toward God and man: so that accusing and condemning yourself for your own faults, you may find mercy at our heavenvly father's hand for Christ's sake, and not be accused and condemned in that fearful judgement. Therefore I shall shortly rehearse the articles of our faith, that ye may know whether you do believe as a christian man should or no. ¶ Here the Minister shall rehearse the Articles of the faith, saying thus. ¶ Dost thou believe in God the father almighty? And so forth as it is in Baptism. ¶ Then shall the Minister examine whether he be in charity with all the world: Exhorting him to forgive from the bottom of his heart, all persons that have offended him: and if he have offended other, to ask them forgiveness: And where he hath done injury or wrong to any man, that he make amends to the uttermost of his power. And if he have not afore disposed his goods, let him than make his will. But men must be oft admonished, that they set an order for their temporal goods and lands when they be in health. And also declare his debts what he oweth, and what is owing unto him, for dischargeing of his conscience, and quietness of his executors. These words before rehearsed, may be said before the Minister begin his prayer, as he shall see cause. The Minister may not forgeat, nor omit to move the sick person, (and that most earnestly) to liberality toward the poor. Here shall the sick person make a special confession, if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter. After which confession, the Priest shall absolve him after this sort. Our Lord jesus Christ, who hath left power to his church to absolve all sinners, which truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences: and by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen. ¶ And then the Priest shall say the Collect following. ¶ Let us pray. O Most merciful God, which according to the multitude of thy mercies, dost so put away the sins of those which truly repent, that thou remember'st them no more: open thy eye of mercy upon this thy servant, who most earnestly desireth pardon & forgiveness. Renew in him most loving father, whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the devil, or by his own carnal will and frailness: preserve and continue this sick member in the unity of thy church: consider his contrition, accept his tears, assuage his pain, as shallbe seen to thee most expedient for him. And forasmuch as he putteth his full trust only in thy mercy, Impute not unto him his former sins, but take him unto thy favour: through the merits of thy most dearly beloved son jesus Christ. Amen. ¶ Then the Minister shall say this Psalm. In te domine speravi. psal lxxi. IN thee O Lord have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion: but rid me, and deliver me into thy righteousness, incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong hold (whereunto I may alway resort:) thou hast promised to help me, for thou art my house of defence and my castle. deliver me (O my God) out of the hand of the ungodly: out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. For thou (O Lord God) art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope even from my youth. Through thee have I been holden up ever sense I was borne: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb, my praise shall alway be of thee. I am become as it were a monster unto many: but my sure trust is in thee. Oh let my mouth be filled with thy praise: (that I may sing of thy glory) and honour all the day long. Cast me not away in the time of age: forsake me not when my strength faileth me. For mine enemies speak against me, and they that lay wait for my soul, take their counsel together, saying: GOD hath forsaken him, persecute him, and take him, for there is none to deliver him. Go not far from, O God: my GOD, haste thee to help me. Let them be confounded and perish, that are against my soul: let them be covered with shame and dishonour, that seek to do me evil. As for me, I will pacienly abide always: and will praise thee more and more. My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousness and salvation: for I know no end thereof. I will go forth in the strength of the Lord god: and will make mention of thy righteousness only. Thou (O God) hast taught me from my youth up until now: therefore I will tell of thy wondrous works. Forsake me not (O God in mine old age, when I am grey headed: until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, & thy power to all them that are yet for to come. Thy righteousness (O god) is very high, & great things are they that thou hast done: O god who is like unto thee? O what great troubles and adversities hast thou showed me? and yet didst thou turn and refresh me, yea and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again. Thou haste brought me to great honour: and comforted me on every syed. Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulness (O God) playing upon an instrument of music: unto thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou holy one of Israel. My lips will be fain, when I sing unto thee: and so will my soul whom thou hast delivered. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded and brought unto shame, that seek to do me evil. Glory be to the father, and to the son: and to the. etc. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. ¶ Adding this. O Saviour of the world, save us, which by thy cross and precious blood hast redeemed us, help us we beseech thee O God. Then shall the Minister say. THe almighty Lord, which is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under earth, do bow and obey: be now and evermore thy defence, and make thee know and feel, that there is no other name under heaven given to man, in whom, and through whom, thou mayst receive health and salvation, but only the name of our Lord jesus Christ. Amen. ¶ The Communion of the Sick. Forasmuch as all mortal men be subject to many sudden perils, diseases, and sicknesses, & ever uncertain what time they shall departed out of this life: Therefore, to thintent they may be always in a readiness to die whensoever it shall please almighty God to call them, the Curates shall diligenly from time to time, but specially in the plague time, exhort their parishioners, to the oft receiving in the Church of the holy Communion of the body and blood of our saviour Christ. Which (if they do) they shall have no cause in their sudden visitation to be unquieted for lack of the same: but if the sick person be not able to come to the Church, and yet is desirous to receive the Communion in his house, than he must give knowledged overnight, or else early in the morning to the Curate, signifying also how many be appointed to Communicate with him. And having a convenient place in the sick man's house, where the Curate may reverently minister, & a good numbered to receive the Communion with the sick person, with all things necessary for the same, he shall there minister the holy Communion. The Collect. Almighty everliving God, maker of mankind, which dost correct those whom thou dost love, and chastisest every one whom thou dost rcceyve: we beseech to have mercy upon this thy servant visited with thy hand, and to grant that he may take his sickness patiently, and recover his bodily health (if it be thy gracious will) and whensoever his soul shall depart from the body, it may be without spot presented unto thee: through jesus Christ our lord Amen. The Epistle. Hebr. xii. MI son despise not the correction of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth, him he correcteth, yea & he scourgeth every son, whom be receiveth. The Gospel. john. v. Verily verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come unto damnation, but he passeth from death unto life. At the time of the distribution of the holy Sacrament, the Priest shall first receive the Communion himself, and after minister unto them that be appointed to Communicate with the sick. But if any man, either by reason of extremity of sickness, or for lack of warning in due time to the Curate, or for lack of company to receive with him, or by any other just impediment, do not receive the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood: then the Curate shall instruct him, that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and steadfastly believe that jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the cross for him, and shed his blood for his redemption, earnestly remembering the benefits he hath thereby, and giving him hearty thanks therefore, he doth eat and drink the body and blood of our saviour Christ, profitably to his soul's health, although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth. When the sick person is visited, and receiveth the holy Communion all at one time, than the Priest for more expedition shall cut of the form of the visitation at the Psalm. In thee O Lord have I put my trust, and go straight to the Communion. In the time of plague, Sweat, or such other like courageous times of sicknesses or diseases, when none of the parish or neighbours can be gotten to Communnicate with the sick in their houses, for fear of the infection: upon special request of the diseased, the minister may alonely Communicate with him. ¶ The order for the Burial of the dead. The Priest meeting the corpse at the Church style, shall say: Or else the Priests and clerks shall sing, and so go either unto the Church, or towards the grave. john. xi. I Am the resurrection and the life (saith the Lord) he the believeth in me, yea though he were dead, yet shall live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me: shall not die for ever. job. nineteen. I Know that my redeemer liveth, and that I shall rise out of the earth in the last day, and shallbe covered again with my skin, and shall see god in my flesh: yea, and I myself shall behold him, not with other, but with the same eyes. i Tim. vi WE brought nothing into this world, neither may we carry any thing out of this world. The Lord giveth, and the lord taketh away. job. i. Even as it hath pleased the lord, so cometh things to pass: blessed be the name of the Lord. When they come at the grave, whiles the corpse is made ready to be laid into the earth, the Priest shall say, or the Priest and clerks shall sing. job. ix. MAn that is borne of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery: he cometh up and is cut down like a flower, he flieth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In the mids of life we be in death: of whom may we seek for secure but of thee, O Lord, which for our sins justly art displeased: yet O lord god most holy, O lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death. Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts, shut not up thy merciful eyes to our prayers: But spare us lord most holy, O god most mighty, O holy and merciful saviour, thou most worthy judge eternal, suffer us not at our last hour for any pains of death, to fall from thee. Then while the earth shallbe cast upon the body by some standing by, the Priest shall say. FOrasmuch as it hath pleased almighty god of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed: we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure & certain hope of resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be like to his glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself. Then shallbe said or sung. I Heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me: writ from hence for thee, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Even so sayeth the spirit, that they rest from their labours. Then shall follow this lesson, taken out the xu Chapter, to the Corinthians, the first Epistle. CHrist is risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that sleep. For by a man came death, and by a man came the resurrection of the dead. For as by Adam all die: even so by Christ shall all be made alive, but every man in his own order. The first is Christ, than they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he hath delivered up the kingdom to god the father, when he hath put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign till he hath put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shallbe destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he sayeth, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. When all things are subdued unto him, then shall the son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that god may be all in all: else what do they which are baptized over the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized over them? yea, and why stand we alway then in jeopardy? by our rejoicing which I have in Christ jesus our Lord, I die daily. That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men, what avantageth it me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat & drink, for to morrow we shall die. Be not ye deceived, evil words corrupt good manners. Awake truly out of sleep, & sin not. For some have not the knowledge of god. I speak this to your shame. But some man will say: how arise the dead? With what body shall they come? thou fool, that which thou sowest, is not quickened except it die. And what sowest thou? thou sowest not the body the shallbe, but bare corn, as of wheat or some other: but god giveth it a body at his pleasure, to every seed his own body. All flesh is not one manner of flesh: but there is one manner of flesh of men, & other manner of flesh of beasts, & other of fishes, another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, & there are bodies terrestrial. But the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one manner glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, & another glory of the stars. For one star differeth from another in glory: so is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it riseth again in incorruption. It is sown in dishonour, it riseth again in honour. It is sown in weakness, it riseth again in power. It is sown a natural body, it riseth again a spiritual body. There is a natural body, & there is a spiritual body, as it is also written: the first man Adam was made a living soul, and the last Adam was made a quickening spirte. How beit, that is not first which is spiritual, but the which is natural, & then that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: The second man is the lord from heaven, heavily. As is the earthy, such are they that be earthy. And as is the heavenly, such are they the are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, so shall we bear the Image of the heavenly. This say I brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of god, neither doth corruption inherit uncorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep: but we shall all be changed, and that in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye by the last trump. For the trump shall blow, & the dead shall rise incorruptible, and we shallbe changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, & this mortal must put on immortality. When this corruptible hath put on incorruption, & this mortal hath put on immortality: then shallbe brought to pass the saying that is written. Death is swallowed up in victory: Death, where is thy sting? Hell where is thy victory. The sting of Death is sin: and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be unto god, which hath given us victory, through our Lord jesus Christ. Therefore my dear brethren, be ye steadfast and unmovable, always rich in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know, now that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. The Lesson ended, the Priest shall say. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. ¶ Our father which art in heaven. etc. And lead us not into temptation. Answer. But deliver us from evil. Amen. The Priest. Almighty god, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and in whom the souls of them that be elected, after they be delivered from the burden of the flesh, be in joy & felicity: We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this N. our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world: beseeching thee, that it may please thee of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the numbered of thine elect, and to hast thy kingdom, that we with this our brother, & all other departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation & bliss, both in body & soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory. Amen. ¶ The collect. O Merciful god, the father of our lord jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life, in whom whosoever believeth, shall live though he die. And whosoever liveth and believeth in him, shall not die eternally: who also taught us (by his holy Apostle Paul) not to be sorry as men without hope, for them that sleep in him: We meekly beseech thee (O father) to raise us from the death of sin, unto the life of righteousness: that when we shall departed this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is this our brother doth: and that at the general resurrection in the last day, we may be found acceptable in thy sight, and receive that blessing which thy well-beloved son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee, saying. Come ye blessed children of my father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Grant this we beseech thee O merciful father, through jesus Christ our mediator and redeemer. Amen. ¶ The thanks giving of women after child birth, commonly called the Churching of women. The woman shall come into the church, and there shall kneel down in some convenient place, nigh unto the place where the Table standeth: and the Priest standing by her, shall say these words, or such like as the case shall require. FOrasmuch as it hath pleased almighty god of his goodness to give you safe deliverance, and hath preserved you in the great danger of childbirth, ye shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God and pray. ¶ Then shall the Priest say this Psalm. I Have lifted up mine eyes unto the hills: from whence cometh my help. My help cometh even from the Lord: which hath made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: and he that keepeth thee will not sleep. Behold, he that keepeth Israel, shall neither flumber nor sleep. The lord himself is thy keeper: the lord is thy defence upon thy right hand. So that the Sun shall not burn thee by day: neither the Moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: yea it is even he that shall keep thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in: from this time forth for evermore. Glory be to the father, and to the son. etc. As it was in the beginning, is now. etc. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. ¶ Our father which art in heaven. etc. And lead us not into temptation. Answer. But deliver us from evil. Amen. Priest. O Lord, save this woman thy servant. Answer. Which putteth her trust in thee. Priest. Be thou to her a strong tower. Answer. From the face of her enemy. Priest. Lord hear our prayer. Answer. And let our cry come unto thee. Priest. ¶ Let us pray. O Almighty god, which hast delivered this woman thy servant from the great pain & peril of child birth: Grant we beseech thee (most merciful father) that she through thy help, may both faithfully live & walk in her vocation, according to thy will in this life present: And also may be partaker of everlasting glori in the life to come, through jesus Christ our lord. Amen ¶ The woman that cometh to give her thanks, must offer accustomed offerings: and if there be a Communion, it is convenient that she receive the holy Communion. ¶ A Commination against sinners, with certain prayers to be used diverse times in the year. ¶ After Morning prayer, the people being called together by the ringing of a bell, and assembled in the Church, the English Litany shallbe said, after the accustomed manner: which ended, the Priest shall go into the pulpit, and say thus. BRethren, in the primative Church there was a godly discipline, that at the beginning of Lent, such persons as were notorious sinners, were put to open penance, & punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord. And that others admonished by their example, might be more afraid to offend. In the stead whereof, until the said discipline may be restored again (which thing is much to be wished:) it is thought good, that at this time (in your presence) should be read the general sentences of God cursing against impenitent sinners: gathered out of the xxvii Chapter of Deuteronomie, and other places of scripture. And that ye should answer to every sentence. Amen. To th'intent that you, being admonished of the great indignation of god against sinners, may the rather be called to earnest and true repentance, and may walk more warily in these dangerous days, fleeing from such vices, for the which ye affirm with your own mouths, the curse of God to be due. Cursed is the man that maketh any carved or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the crafts man, and putteth it in a secret place to worship it. And the people shall answer and say. Amen. Ministre. Cursed is he that curseth his father and mother. Answer. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that removeth away the mark of his neighbour's land. Answer. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that maketh the blind to go out of his way. Answer. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that letteth in judgement, the right of the stranger, of them that be fatherless, and of wiedowes. Answer. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. Answer. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that lieth with his neighbour's wife. Answer. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that taketh reward to slay the soul of innocent blood. Answer. Amen. Minister. Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man, and taketh man for his defence: and in his heart goeth from the Lord. Answer. Amen. Ministre. Cursed are the unmerciful, the fornicators and adulterers, and the covetous persons, the worshippers of images, slanderers, drunkards, and extortioners. Answer. Amen. The Minister. NOw, seeing that all they be accursed (as the Prophet David beareth witness) psa. cxviii which do err & go a stray from the commandments of god: let us remembering the dreadful judgement hanging over our heads, and being always at hand) return unto our Lord God, with all contrition and meekness of heart, bewailing and lamenting our sinful life, knowledgeing and confessing our offences, and seeking to bring forth worthy fruits of penance. Math. iii For now is the Axe put unto the root of the trees, so that every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire. Hebre. x. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god: Psalm. x he shall power down rain upon the sinners, snares, fire & brimstone, storm and tempest, this shallbe their portion to drink. Esa. xxvi For lo, the lord is comen out of his place to visit the wickedness of such as dwell upon the earth. Mala. iii But who may abide the day of his coming? who shallbe able to endure when he appeareth? His fan is in his hand, and he will purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the barn: Math. iii but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire. The day of the lord cometh as a these upon the night, and when men shall say peace, and all things are safe: i. Tess. v. then shall suddenly destruction come upon them, as sorrow cometh upon a woman travailing with child, Roma. two and they shall not escape: then shall appear the wrath of God in the day of vengeance, which obstinate sinners, through the stubbornness of their heart, have heaped unto themself, which despised the goodness, patience, and long sufferance of God, prover. i when he called them continually to repentance. Then shall they call upon me, saith the lord, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early but they shall not find me, & that because they hated knowledge, and received not the fear of the Lord, but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction: then shall it be to late to knock, when the door shallbe shut, and to late to cry for mercy, when it is the time of justice. O terrible voice of most just judgement, which shallbe pronounced upon them, when it shallbe said unto them: go ye cursed into the fire everlasting, which is prepared for the devil and his Angels: Mat. xxv therefore brethren take we heed betime, while the day of salvation lasteth: two. Cor. vi. for the night cometh when none can work: joh. ix. but let us while we have the light, believe in the light, and walk as the children of the light, that we be not cast into the utter darkness where is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Mat. xxv Let us not abuse the goodness of God, which calleth us mercifully to amendment, and of his endless piety promiseth us forgiveness of that which is past, if (with a whole mind and true heart) we return unto him: for though our sins be red as scarlet, they shallbe as white as Snow: isaiah. i. Ezechiel. xxviii. and though they be like purple, yet shall they be as white as wool. Turn you clean (saith the Lord) from all your wickedness, and your sin shall not be your destruction. Cast away from you all your ungodliness that ye have done, make you new hearts and a new spirit: wherefore will ye die, O ye house of Israel? Seeing that I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth (saith the lord god.) i. john. two Turn you then & you shall live. Although we have sinned, yet have we an advocate with the father, jesus Christ the righteous: isaiah. liii. and he it is that obtaineth grace for our sins, for he was wounded for our offences, and smitten for our wickedness. Let us therefore return unto him, who is the merciful receiver of all true penitent sinners, assuring ourself, that he is ready to receive us, and most willing to pardon us, if we come to him with faithful repentance: If we will submit ourselves unto him, & from henceforth walk in his ways. If we will take his easy yoke & light burden upon us, to follow him in lowliness, patience, and charity, Math. xi. & be ordered by the governance of his holy spirit, seeking always his glory, & serving him duly in our vocation, with thanks giving. This if we do, Christ will deliver us from the curse of the law, and from the extreme malediction which shall light upon them that shallbe set on the left hand: Mat. xxv. and he will set us on his right hand, and give us the blessed benediction of his father, commanding us to take possession of his glorious kingdom, unto the which he vouchsafe to bring us all, for his infinite mercy. Amen. Then shall they all kneel upon their knees: & the Priests and Clerks kneeling (where they are accustomed to say the Litany,) shall say this Psalm. Miserere mei deus. Psalm. li Have mercy upon me (O God) after thy great goodness: according to the multitude of thy mercies, do away mine offences. Wash me thoroughly fro my wickedness: and cleanse me from me sin. For I knowledge my faults: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and clear when thou art judged. Behold, I was shapen in wickedness: and in sin hath my mother conceived me. But lo, thou requirest truth in inward parties: & shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly. Thou shalt purge me with Isope, and I shallbe clean: thou shalt wash me, and I shallbe whiter than snow. Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness: that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Turn thy face from my sins: and put out all my misdeeds. Make me a clean heart (O God:) and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy spirit from me. O give me the comfort of thy help again: and stablish me with thy free spirit. Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked: and sinners shallbe converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloudguiltinesse (O God) thou that art the God of my health: and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness. Thou shalt open my lips (O Lord:) my mouth shall show thy praise. For thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it thee: but thou delightest not in burnt offerings. The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit: a broken and a contrite heart (O God) shalt thou nor despise. O be favourable and gracious unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt offerings and oblations; then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar. Glory be to the father, and to the son, and etc. As it was in the beginning, and is now. etc. Amen. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. ¶ Our father which art in heaven. etc. And lead us not into temptation. Answer. But deliver us from evil. Amen. Minister. O Lord save thy servants. Answer. Which put their trust in thee. Minister. Send unto them help from above. Answer. And evermore mightily defend them. Minister. Help us O God our saviour. Answer. And for the glory of thy names sake deliver us, be merciful unto us sinners, for thy name's sake. Minister. O Lord hear our prayers. Answer. And let our cry come unto thee. ¶ Let us pray. O Lord, we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers, and spare all those which confess their sins to thee: that they (whose consciences by sin are accused) by thy merciful pardon may be absolved: Through christ our Lord Amen. O Most mighty god and merciful father, which hast compassion of all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made: which wouldst not the death of a sinner, but that he should rather turn from sin, & be saved: mercifully forgive us our trespasses, receive and comfort us, which be grieved and wearied which the burden of our sin. Thy property is to have mercy, to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins: spare us therefore good lord, spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed. enter not into judgement with thy servants, which be vile earth, and miserable sinners: but so turn thy ire from us, which meekly knowledge our vileness, & truly repent us of our faults: so make haste to help us in this world, that we may ever live with thee, in the world to come: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall the people say this that followeth, after the Minister. Turn thou us, O good Lord, and so shall we be turned: be favourable (O lord) be favourable to thy people, which turn to thee in weeping, fasting and praying: for thou art a merciful God, full of compassion, long suffering, and of a great piety. Thou sparest when we deserve punishment, and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy. Spare thy people good Lord, spare them, and let not thy heritage be brought to confusion: hear us (O lord) for thy mercy is great, and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us. Here endeth the book of common prayer. The psalter or Psalms of David, after the translation of the great Bible, pointed as it shallbe said or sung in Churches. ☞ decorative border containing printer's device of Edward Whitchurch ¶ The Psalms of David. Beatus vir qui non abiit. psal. i. Morning prayer. BLessed is that man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly: nor stand in the way of sinners, and hath not sit in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law will he exercise himself day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the water side: that will bring forth his fruit in due season. His leaf also shall not wither: and look whatsoever he doth, it shall prosper. As for the ungodly, it is not so with them: but they are like the chaff which the wind scattereth away (from the face of the earth.) Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the judgement: neither the sinners in the congregation of the righteous. But the lord knoweth the way of the righteous: and the way of the ungodly shall perish. Quare fremuerunt gentes. psal. two. WHy do the Heathen so furiously rage together: and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together: against the Lord, and against his anointed. Let us break their bands a sunder: and cast away their cords from us. He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath: and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king: upon my holy hill of Zion. I will preach the law, whereof the lord hath said unto me: thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Desire of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance: and the uttermost part of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron: and break them in pieces like a potter's bessell. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be learned ye that are judges of the earth. Serve the Lord in fear: and rejoice (unto him) with reverence. Kiss the son left he be angry, and so ye perish from the (right) way: if his wrath be kiendled (yea but a little) blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Domine quid multiplicati. psal. iii. LOrd how are they increased that trouble me? many are they that rise against me. Many one there be that say of my soul: there is no help for him in (his) God. But thou O Lord art my defender: thou art my worship, and the lifter up of my head. I did call upon the Lord with my voice: and he heard me out of his holy hill. I laid me down and slept: and rose up again, for the Lord sustained me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people: that have set themselves against me round about. Up Lord and help me, O my God: for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheek bone, thou haste broken the teeth of the ungodly. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: and thy blessing is upon the people. Cum invocarem. psal. iiii. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou haste set me at liberty when I was in trouble, have mercy upon me, and hearken unto my prayer. O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme mine honour: and have such pleasure in vanity, and seek after leasing? Know this also, that the Lord hath chosen to himself the man that is godly: when I call upon the Lord, he will hear me. Stand in awe, and sin not: comen with your own heart, and in your chamber, and be still. Offer the sacrifice of righteousness: and put your trust in the Lord. There be many that will say: who will show us any good. LORD lift thou up: the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou haste put gladness in my heart: sense the time that their corn and wine (and oil) increased. I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest: for it is thou Lord only, that makest me dwell in safety. Verba mea auribus. Psalm. v. POnder my words, O LORD: consider my meditation. O hearken thou unto the voice of my calling, my king and my God: for unto thee will I make my prayer. My voice shalt thou hear betimes O Lord: early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. For thou art the God that hath no pleasure in wickedness: neither shall any evil dwell with thee. Such as be foolish, shall not stand in thy sight: for thou hatest all them that work vanity. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor both the bloudthirstye and deceitful man. But as for me, I will come into thy house, even upon the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. Lead me, O lord, in thy righteousness, because of mine enemies: make thy way plain before my face. For there is no faithfulness in his mouth: their inward parts are very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulchre: they flatter with their tongue. Destroy thou them, O God, let them perish through their own imaginations: cast them out in the multitude of their ungodliness, for they have rebelled against thee. And let all them that put their trust in thee rejoice: they shall ever be giving of thanks, because thou defendest them: they that love thy name shallbe joyful in thee. For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous: and with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him, as with a shield. Domine ne in furore. Psalm. vi. Evening prayer O Lord, rebuke me not in thine indignation: neither chasten me in thy displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O Lord: for I am weak, O Lord heal me, for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore troubled: but Lord how long wilt thou punish me? Turn thee, O Lord, and deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercy's sake. For in death no man remembreth thee: and who will give thee thanks in the pit? I am weary of my groaning, every night wash I my bed: and water my couch with my tears. My beauty is gone for very trouble: and worn away because of all my enemies. Away fro me all yet that work vanity: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. The Lord hath heard my petition: the Lord will receive my prayer. All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed: they shallbe turned back, and put to shame suddenly. Domine deus meus. psalm. seven. O Lord my God, in thee have I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me. Left he devour my soul like a Lion, and tear it in pieces: while there is none to help. Oh Lord my God, if I have done any such thing: or if there be any wickedness in my hands. If I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me: yea, I have delivered him, that without any cause, is mine enemy. Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, and take me: yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Stand up O Lord in thy wrath, and lift up thyself: because of the indignations of mine enemies, arise up for me in the judgement that thou hast commanded. And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee: for their sakes therefore, life up thyself again. The Lord shall judge the people, give sentence with me, O Lord: according to my righteousness, and according to the innocency that is in me. Oh let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end: but guide thou the just. For the righteous god: trieth the very hearts and reins. My help cometh of God: which preserveth them that are true of heart. God is a righteous judge (strong and patient:) and God is provoked every day. If a man will not turn, he will wheat his sword: he hath bend his bow, and made it ready. He hath prepared for him the instruments of death: he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. Behold, he travaileth with mischief: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness. He hath graven and digged up a pit: and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other. For his travail shall come upon his own head: and his wickedness shall fall upon his own pate. I will give thanks unto the Lord according to his righteousness: and will praise the name of the Lord the most highest. Domine dominus noster. Psalm. viii. O Lord our governor, how excellent is thy name in all the world? thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings haste thou ordained strength because of thine enemies: that thou mightest: still the enemy and the avenger. For I will consider thy heavens, even the work of thy fingers: the Moon and the stars which thou hast ordained. What is man that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou madest him lower than the Angels: to crown him with glory and worship. Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands: and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. All sheep and oxen: yea, and the beasts of the field. The fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea: and whatsoever walketh thorough the paths of the seas. O Lord our governor: how excellent is thy name in all the world. Confitebor tibi. Psalm. ix. Morning prayer I Will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, with my whole heart: I will speak of all thy marvelous works. I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: yea, my songs will I make of thy name, O thou most highest. While mine enemies are driven back: they shall fall, and perish at thy presence. For thou hast maintained my right and my cause: thou art set in the throne that judgest right. Thou haste rebuked the Heathen, and destroyed the ungodly: thou haste put out their name for ever and ever. O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: even as the cities which thou haste destroyed, their memorial is perished with them. But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath also prepared his seat for judgement. For he shall judge the world in righteousness: and minister true judgement unto the people. The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed; even a refuge in due time of trouble. And they that know thy name, will put their trust in thee: for thou Lord haste never failed them that seek thee. O praise the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: show the people of his doings. For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembreth them: and forgeatteth not the complaint of the poor. Have mercy upon me (O Lord:) consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death. That I may show all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. The Heathen are sunken down in the pit that they made: in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken. The Lord is known to execute judgement: the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. The wicked shallbe turned unto hell: and all the people that forgeat God. For the poor shall not be alway forgotten: the patient abiding of the meek, shall not perish for ever. Up Lord and let not man have the upper hand: let the Heathen be judged in thy sight. Put them in fear (O Lord:) that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men. Vt quid domine. psalm. x. WHy standest thou so far of (O Lord:) and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble? The ungodly for his own lust doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined. For the ungodly hath made boast of his own hearts desire: and speaketh good of the covetous (whom God abhorreth.) The ungodly is so proud, that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts. His ways are alway grievous, thy judgements are far above out of his sight: and therefore defieth he all his enemies. For he hath said in his heart: tush, I shall never be cast down, there shall no harm happen unto me. His mouth is full of cursing, and disobeyed and fraud: under his tongue is ungodliness and vanity. He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets: and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent, his eyes are set against the poor. For he lieth waiting secretly: even as a Lion lurketh he in his den, that he may ravish the poor. He doth ravish the poor: when he geatteth him into his net. He falleth down and humbleth himself: that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hand of his captains. He hath said in his heart: tush, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and he will never see it. Arise (O Lord God) and life up thine hand: forgeat not the poor. Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God? while he doth say in his heart, tush, thou God carest not for it. Surely thou hast seen it: for thou beholdest ungodliness, and wrong. That thou mayest take the matter into thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee, for thou art the helper of the friendless. Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious: take away his ungodliness, and thou shalt find none. The Lord is king for ever and ever: and the Heathen are perished out of the land. Lord, thou haste heard the desire of the poor: thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkened thereto. To help the fatherless and poor unto their right: that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them. In domino confido. psalm. xi. IN the Lord put I my trust: how say ye then to my soul, that she should fly as bird unto the hill. For lo, the ungodly bend their bow: and make ready their arrows within the quiver, that they may privily shoot at them, which are true of heart. For the foundations will be cast down: and what hath the righteous done? The Lord is in his holy Temple: the lords seat is in heaven. His eyes consydre the poor: and his eye lids trieth the children of men. The LORD alloweth the righteous: but the ungodly and him that delighteth in wickedness, doth his soul abhor. Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, storm and tempest: this shallbe their portion to drink. For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness: his countenance will behold the thing that is just. Saluum me fac domine. Psalm. xii. Evening prayer. Help (me) Lord, for there is not on godly man left: for the faithful are minished from among the children of men. They talk of vanity, every one with his neighbour: they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart. The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips: and the tongue that speaketh proud things. Which have said: with our tongue will we prevail, we are they that ought to speak, who is Lord over us? Now for the coumforteles troubles sake of the needy: & because of the deep sighing of the poor. I will up (sayeth the Lord:) and will help every one from him that swelleth against him, and will set them at rest. The words of the Lord are pure words: even as the silver, which from earth is tried and purified seven times in the fire. Thou shalt keep them (O Lord:) thou shalt preserve him from this generation for ever. The ungodly walk on every side, when they are exalted: the children of men are put to rebuke. Vsquequo domine. Psalm. xiii. How long wilt thou forgeat me O Lord, for ever: how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I seek counsel in my soul, and be so vexed in my heart: how long shall mine enemies triumph over me? consider and hear me, Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death. lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: for if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it. But my trust is in thy mercy: and my heart is joyful in thy salvation. I will sing of the Lord, because he hath dealt so lovingly with me: (yea, I will praise the name of the Lord the most highest.) Dixit incipiens. psal. xiiii. THe fool hath said in his heart: there is no God. They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings: there is not one that doth good (no not one.) The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men: to see if there were any that would understand, and seek after God. But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable: there is none that doth good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have deceived: the person of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness is in their ways: and the way of peace have they not known, there is no fear of god before their eyes. Have they no knowledge that they are all such workers of mischief? eating up my people as it were bread. And call not upon the Lord: there were they brought in great fear (even where no fear was) for God is in the generation of the righteous. As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor: because he putteth his trust in the Lord. Who shall give salvation unto Israel out of Zion? when the Lord turneth the captivity of his people, then shall jacob rejoice, and Israel shallbe glad. Domine quis habitabit. psal. xv. Morning prayer. Lord who shall dwell in thy tabernacle: who shall rest upon thy holy hill? Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life: and doth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart. He that hath used no deceste in his tongue: nor done evil to his neighbours, and hath not slandered his neighbours. He that setteth not by himself, but is lowly in his own eyes: and maketh much of them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth unto his neigbboure and dysapoynteth him not: though it were to his own hindrance. He that hath not given his money upon usury: nor taken reward against the innocent. Whoso doth these things shall never fall. Conserua me domine. psal. xvi. Preserve me, O god: for in thee have I put my trust. O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord: thou art my god, my goods are nothing unto thee. At my delight are upon the Saints that are in the earth: and upon such as excel in virtue. But they that run after another God: shall have great trouble. Their drink offerings of blood will not I offer: neither make mention of their names within my lips. The lord himself is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou shalt maintain my lot. The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground: yea, I have a goodly heritage. I will thank the Lord for giving me warning: my reins also chasten me in the night season. I have set god always before me: for he is on my right hand, therefore I shall not fall. Wherefore my heart was glad, and my glory rejoiced: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For why? thou shalt not leave my soul in hell: neither shalt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption. Thou shalt show me the path of life: in thy presence is the fullness of joy, and at thy right hand there is pleasure for, evermore. Exaudi domine justiciam. psal. xvii. HEeare the right, O lord, consider my complaint: and hearken unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips. Let my sentence come forth from thy presence: and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equal. Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season, thou hast tried me, and shall find no wickedness in me: for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend. Because of men's works that are done against the words of thy lips: I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer. O hold thou up my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps slip not. I have called upon thee, O god, for thou shalt hear me: incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words. Show thy marvelous loving kindness, thou that art the saviour of them that trust in thee: from such as resist thy right hand. keep me as the apple of an eye: hide me under the shadow of thy wings. From the ungodly that trouble me: mine enemies compass me round about, to take away my soul. They are enclosed in their own fat: and their mouth speaketh proud things. They lie waiting in out may on every side: turning their eyes down to the ground. Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey: and as it were a Lion's whelp lurking in secret places. Up Lord, disappoint him and cast him down: deliver my soul from the ungodly, which is a sword of thine. From the men of thy hand, O Lord, from the men I say, and from the evil world: which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure. They have children at their desire: and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I will behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it. Diligain te domine. psal. xviii. Evening prayer. I Will love thee, O Lord, my strength, the Lord is my stony rock and my defence, my saviour, my God, and my might, in whom I will trust: my buckler, the horn also of my salvation, and my refuge. I will call upon the Lord which is worthy to be praised: so shall I be safe fro mine enemies. The sorrows of death compassed me: and the overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid. The pains of hell came about me: the snares of death overtook me. In my trouble will I call upon the Lord: and complain unto my God. So shall he hear my voice out of his (holy) temple: and my complaint shall come before him, it shall entre even into his ears. The earth trembled and quaked: the very foundations also of the hills shaken and were removed, because he was wroth. There went a smoke out of his presence: a consuming fire out of his mouth, so that coals were kindled at it. He bowed the heavens also and came down: and it was dark under his feet. He road upon the Cherubins and did fly: he came flying upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place: his pavilion round about him; with dark water and thick clouds to cover him. At the brightness of his presence, his clouds removed: hail stones, and coals of fire. The Lord also thundered out of heaven: and the highest gave his thunder, hail stones and coals of fire. He sent out his arrows and scattered them: he cast forth lygh: enynges, and destroyed them. The springs of waters were seen: and the foundations of the round world were discovered at thy chiding, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasure. He shall send down from the high to fetch me: and shall take me out of many waters. He shall deliver me from my strongest enemy, and from them which hate me: for they are to mighty for me. They prevented me in the day of my trouble: but the lord was my upholder. He brought me forth also into a place of liberty: he brought me forth, even because he had a favour unto me. The Lord shall reward me after my righteous dealing: according to the cleanness of my hands, shall he recompense me. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord: and have not forsaken my god as the wicked doth. For I have an eye unto all his laws: and will not cast out his commandments from me. I was also uncorrupt before him: and eschewed mine own wickedness. Therefore shall the Lord reward me after my righteous dealing: and according unto the cleanness of my hands in his eye sight. With the holy thou shalt be holy: and with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect. With the clean, thou shalt be clean: and with the froward thou shalt learn frowardness. For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity, and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud. Thou also shalt light my Candle: the lord my god shall make my darkness to be light. For in thee I shall discomfort an host of men: and with the help of my god, I shall leap over the wall. The way of god is an underfiled way, the word of the lord also is tried in the fire: he is the defender of all them that put their trust in him. For who is god but the Lord? or who hath any strength, except our God. It is God that girdeth me with strength of war: and maketh my way perfect. He maketh my feet like hearts feet: & setteth me up on high He teacheth my hands to fight: and mine arms shall break even a bow of steel. Thou hast given me the defence of thy salvation: thy right hand also shall hold me up, thy loving correction shall make me great. Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go: that my foot steps shall not slide. I will follow upon mine enemies and overtake them: neither will I turn again, till I have destroyed them. I will smite them, that they shall not be able to stand: but fall under my feet. Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou shalt throw down mine enemies under me. Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me: and I shall destroy them that hate me. They shall cry, but there shall be none to help them: yea, even unto the Lord shall they cry, but he shall not hear them. I will beat them as small as the dust before the wind: I will cast them out, as the clay in the streets. Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people: and thou shalt make me the head of the heathen. A people whom I have not known: shall serve me. Assoon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: but the strange children shall dissemble with me. The strange children shall fail: and be afraid out of their prisons. The Lord liveth: and blessed be my strong helper, and praised be the God of my salvation. Even the god which seeth that I be avenged: & subdueth the people unto me. It is he that delivereth me from my (cruel) enemies, and setteth me up above mine adversaries: thou shalt rid me from the wicked man. For this cause I will give thanks unto thee O lord, among the Gentiles: and sing praises unto thy name. Great prosperity giveth he unto his king: and showeth loving kindness unto David his anointed, and unto his seed for evermore. Celi enarrant gloriam dei. psal. nineteen. Morning prayer. THe heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament showeth his handy work. One day telleth another: and one night certifieth another. There is neither speech nor language: but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands: and their words into the ends of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun: which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chaumbre, and rejoiceth as a Giant to run his course. It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven, & runneth about unto the end of it again: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The law of the Lord is an undefiled law, converting the soul: the testimony of the lord is sure, and giveth wisdom unto the simple. The statutes of the lord are right, and rejoice the heart: the commandment of the lord is pure, and giveth light unto the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, and endureth for ever: the judgements of the lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they then gold, yea then much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honey comb. Moreover, by them is thy servant taught: and in keeping of them there is great reward. Who can tell how oft he offendeth? O cleanse thou me from my secret faults. Keep the servant also from presumptuous sins, lest they get the dominion over me: so shall I be undefiled, and innocent from the great offence. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart: be (always) acceptable in thy sight. O lord: my strength and my redeemer. Exaudiat te dominus. psal. xx. THe Lord hear thee in the day of trouble: the name of the God of jacob defend thee. Send thee help from the sanctuary: and strength thee out of Zion. Remember all thy offerings: and accept thy brent sacrifice. Grant thee thy hearts desire: and fulfil all thy mind. We will rejoice in thy salvation, & triumph in the name of the Lord our God: the Lord perform all thy petitions. Now know I that the lord helpeth his anointed, and will hear him from his holy heaven. Even with the wholesome strength of his right hand. Some put their trust in charets, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we are riesen, and stand upright. Save Lord, and hear us, O king of heaven: when we call (upon thee.) Domine in virtute tua. psal. xxi. THe King shall rejoice in thy strength O Lord: exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation. Thou hast given him his hearts desire: and hast not denied him the request of his lips. For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness: and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head. He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life: even for ever and ever. His honour is great in thy salvation: glory & great worship shalt thou lay upon him. For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity: and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance. And why? because the king putteth his trust in the lord: and in the mercy of the most highest, he shall not miscarry. All thine enemies shall feel thy hand: thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee. Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of thy wrath: the lord shall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall consume them. Their fruit shalt thou root out of the earth: and their seed from among the children of men. For they intended mischief against thee: and imagined such a devise, as they are not able to perform. Therefore shalt thou put them to flight: and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them. Be thou exalted Lord, in thy own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. Deus deus meus. psal. xxii. Evening prayer. MY God, my god (look upon me:) why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health, and from the words of my complaint? O my god, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest. And thou continuest holy: O thou worship of Israel. Our fathers hoped in thee, they trusted in thee: and thou didst deliver them. They called upon thee, and were helped: they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded. But as for me, I am a worm and no man: a very scorn of men, and the outcast of the people. All they that see me, laugh me to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake the head, saying. He trusted in god that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, if he will have him. But thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb: thou waste my hope when I hanged yet upon my mother's breasts. I have been left unto thee ever sense I was borne: thou art my god even from my mother's womb. O go not from me, for trouble is hard at hand: and there is none to help me. Many oxen are come about me: fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side. They gape upon me with their mouths: as it were a romping and roaring lion. I am powered out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the mids of my body, is even like melting ware. My strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue cleaveth to my gums: and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death. For (many) dogs are come about me: and the counsel of the wicked layeth siege against me. They pierced my hands and my feet: I may tell all my bones, they stand staring and looking upon me. They part my garments among them: and cast lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me O Lord: thou art my succour, hast thee to help me. deliver my soul from thy swoeorde: my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the Lion's mouth: thou hast heard me also from among the horns of the Unicorns. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the mids of the congregation will I praise thee. O praise the lord ye that fear him: magnify him all ye of the seed of jacob, and fear him all ye seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor: he hath not hid his fare from him, but when he called unto him, he heard him. My praise is of thee in the great congregation: my vows will I perform in the sight of them that fear him. The poor shall eat and be satisfied: they that seek after the lord shall praise him, your heart shall live for ever. All the ends of the world shall remember themselves, and be turned unto the lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him. For the kingdom is the Lords: and he is the governor among the people. All such as be fat upon earth: have eaten and worshipped. Al they that go down into the dust, shall kneel before him: and no man hath quickened his own soul. My seed shall serve him: they shallbe counted unto the lord for a generation. They shall come, and the heavens shall declare his righteousness: unto a people that shallbe borne whom the lord hath made. Dominus regit me. psal. xxiii. THe Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing. He shall feed me in a green pasture: and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort. He shall convert my soul: and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death: I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff comfort me. Thou shalt prepare a table before me, against them that trouble me: thou hast anointed my head with Oil, and my cup shallbe full. But (thy) loving kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: & I will dwell in the house of the lord for ever. Domini est terra. psal. xxiiii. Morning prayer. THe earth is the lords, and all that therein is: the compass of the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the Seas: and prepared it upon the sloudes. Who shall ascend into the hill of the lord? or who shall rise up in his holy place? Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart: and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour. He shall receive the blessing from the lord: and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek him: even of them that seek thy face O jacob. Lift up your heads, O ye gates: and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors, and the king of glory shall come in. Who is the king of glory? it is the lord strong and mighty, even the Lord, mighty in battle. Lift up your heads (O ye gates:) and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors, and the king of glory shall come in. Who is the king of glory? even the Lord of hosts, he is the king of glory. Ad te domine. psal. xxv. INto thee (O Lord) will I lift up my soul, my God, I have put my trust in thee: O let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies triumph over me. For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed: but such as transgress without a cause, shallbe put to confusion. Show me thy ways, O lord: and teach me thy paths. Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me, for thou art the god of my salvation: in thee hath been my hope all the day long. Cal to remembrance (O Lord) thy tender mercies: and thy loving kindness, which hath been ever of old. Oh remember not the sins and offences of my youth: but according to thy mercy think thou upon me (O Lord) for thy goodness. Gracious and righteous is the lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. Them that be meek shall he guide in judgement: and such as be gentle, them shall he learn his way. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth: unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. For thy name's sake, O Lord: be merciful unto my sin, for it is great. What man is he that feareth the lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. His soul shall dwell at ease: and his seed shall inherit the land. The secrets of the Lord are among them that fear him: and he will show them his covenant. Mine eyes are ever looking unto the lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me: for I am desolate and in misery. The sorrows of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my troubles. Look upon mine adversity and misery: and forgive me all my sin. consider mine enemies how many they are: & they bear a tyrannous hate against me. O keep my soul and deliver me: let me not be confounded for I have put my trust in thee. Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me: for my hope hath been in thee. Deliver Israel, O God: out of all his troubles. judica me domine. Psal. xxvi. BE thou my judge (O lord) for I have walked innocently: my trust hath been also in the lord, therefore shall I not fall. Examine me, O Lord: and prove me: try out my reins and my heart. For thy loving kindness is ever before mine eyes: and I will walk in thy truth. I have not dwelled with vain persons: neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful. I have hated the congregation of the wicked: and will not sit among the ungodly. I will wash my hands in innocency, O Lord: and so will I go to thine altar. That I may show the voice of thanksgiving: and tell of all thy wondrous works. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house: and the place where thine honour dwelleth. O shut not up my soul with the sinners: nor my life with the blood thirty. In whose hands is wickedness: and their right hands are full of gifts; But as for me, I will walk innocently: O deliver me, and be merciful unto me. My foot standeth right: I will praise the Lord in the congregations. Dominus illuminacio. psal. xxvii. Evening prayer. THe lord is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I fear? the lord is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraid. When the wicked (even mine enemies and my foes) came upon me to eat up my flesh: they stumbled and fell. Though an host of men were laid against me, yet shall not my heart be afraid: and though there rose up war against me, yet will I put my trust in him. One thing have I desired of the Lord, which I will require: even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the lord, and to visit his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his Tabernacle: yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone. And now shall he life up my head: above mine enemies round about me. Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness: I will sing and speak praises unto the lord. Hearken unto my voice, O lord, when I cry unto thee: have mercy upon me, and hear me. My heart hath talked of thee, seek ye my face: thy face lord will I seek. O hide not thou thy face fro me: nor cast thy servant away in displeasure. Thou hast been my succour: leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me: the lord taketh me up. Teach me thy way, O lord: and lead me the right way, because of mine enemies. Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries: for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as speak wrong. I should utterly have fainted: but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the lord, in the land of the living. O tarry thou the lords leisure: be strong and he shall comfort thine heart, and put thou thy trust in the Lord. Ad te domine clamabo. psal. xxviii. Unto thee will I cry, O lord my strength: think no scorn of me, lest if thou make thee as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit. Hear the voice of my humble petitions when I cry unto thee: when I hold up my hands toward the mercy seat of thy holy Temple. O pluck me not away (neither destroy me) with the ungodly and wicked doers: which speak friendly to their neighbours, but imagine mischief in their hearts. Reward them according to their deeds: and according to the wickedness of their own inventions. Recompense them after the work of their hands: pay them that they have deserved. For they regard not in their mind the works of the lord, nor the operation of his hands: therefore shall he break them down, and not build them up. Praised be the lord: for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions. The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart hath trusted in him: and I am holpen, therefore my heart danceth for joy, and in my song will I praise him. The lord is their strength: and he is the wholesome defence of his anointed. O save thy people, and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance: feed them and set them up for ever. Afferte domino. psal. xxix. BRing unto the Lord, O ye mighty (bring young Rams unto the Lord:) ascribe unto the Lord worship and strength. give the lord the honour due unto his name: worship the lord with holy worship. It is the Lord that commandeth the waters: it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder. It is the Lord that ruleth the sea, the voice of the lord is mighty in operation: the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedar trees: yea, the lord breaketh the cedars of Libanus He made them also to skip like a calf: Libanus also and Syrion like a young unicorn. The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire: the voice of the lord shaketh the wilderness, yea the lord shaketh the wilderness of Cades. The voice of the lord maketh the Hinds to bring forth young, and discovereth the thick bushes: in his Temple doth every man speak of his honour. The lord sitteth above the water flood: and the lord remaineth a king forever. The lord shall give strength unto his people: the lord shall give his people the blessing of peace. Exaltabo te domine. psal. thirty. Morning prayer. I Will magnify thee, O Lord, for thou hast set me up: and not made my foes to triumph over me. O lord my god, I cried unto thee: and thou haste healed me. Thou Lord hast brought my soul out of hell: thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit. Sing praises unto the lord (O ye Saints of his:) and give thanks unto him, for a remembrance of his holiness. For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and in his pleasure is life: heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be removed: thou lord of thy goodness hadst made my hill so strong. Thou didst turn thy face (fro me:) and I was troubled. Then cried I unto thee O lord: and got me unto my lord right humbly. What profit is there in my blood: when I go down to to the pit? Shall the dust give thanks unto thee: or shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord be thou my helper. Thou hast turned my heaviness to joy: thou hast put of my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness. Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing: O my God, I will give thanks unto the for ever. In te domine speravi. psal. xxxi. IN thee O lord have I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion, deliver me in thy righteousness. Bow down thine ear to me: make haste to deliver me. And be thou my strong rock, and house of defence: that thou mayest save me. For thou art my strong rock and my castle: be thou also my guide, and lead me for thy name's sake. Draw me out of the net, that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. Into thy hands I commend my spirit: for thou hast redeemed me O Lord, thou God of truth. I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities: and my trust hath been in the Lord. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble, and hast known my soul in adversity. Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: but hast set my feet in a large room. Have mercy upon me, O lord, for I am in trouble: & mine eye is consumed for veri heaviness, even my soul & my body. For my life is waxed old with heaviness: and my years with mourning. My strength faileth me because of mine iniquity: and my bones are corrupt. I became a reproof among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbours: and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me, and they that did see me without, conveyed themselves from me. I am clean forgotten, as a dead man out of mind: I am become like a broken vessel. For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude: and fear is on every side, while they conspire together against me, and take their counsel to take away my life. But my hope hath been in thee, O Lord: I have said thou art my God. My time is in thy hand, deliver me from the hand of mine enemies: and from them that persecute me. Show thy servant the light of thy countenance: and save me for thy mercy's sake. Let me not be confounded, O lord, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confusion, and be put to silence in the grave. Let the lying lips be put to silence: which cruelly, disdainfully, & despitefully, speak against the righteous. O how plentiful is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee: and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee, even before the sons of men. Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence, from the provoking of all men: thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues. Thanks be to the lord: for he hath showed me marvelous great kindness in a strong city. And when I made haste, I said: I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes. Nevertheless, thou hardest the voice of my prayer: when I cried unto thee. O love the lord, all ye his Saints: for the lord preserveth them that are faithful, and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer. Be strong, and he shall stablish your heart: all ye that put your trust in the Lord. Beati quorum. Psalm. xxxii. Evening prayer. Blessed is he, whose unrighteousness is forgiven: and whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man, unto whom the lord imputeth no sin: and in whose spirit there is no guile. For while I held my tongue, my bones consumed away, through my daily complaining. For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night: and my moisture is like the drought in the Summer. I will knowledge my sin unto thee: and mine unrighteousness have I not hid. I said, I will confess my sins unto the lord: and so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. For this shall every one that is godly, make his prayer unto thee: in a time when thou mayest be found, but in the great water floods they shall not come nigh him. Thou art a place to hide me in, thou shalt preserve me from trouble: thou shalt compass me round about with songs of deliverance. I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go: and I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not like horse and mule, which have no understanding: whose mouths must be holden with bit and bridle, lest they fall upon thee. Great plagues remain for the ungodly: but whoso putteth his trust in the lord, mercy embraceth him on every side. Be glad, O ye righteous and rejoice in the Lord: and be joyful all ye that are true of heart. Exultate justi in domino. Psalm. xxxiii. Rejoice in the lord, O ye righteous: for it becometh well the just to be thankful. Praise the lord with harp: sing Psalms unto him with the lute and instrument of ten strings. Sing unto the Lord a new song: sing praises justly (unto him) with a good courage. For the word of the Lord is true: and all his works are faithful. He loveth righteousness and judgement: the earth is full of the goodness of the lord. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made: and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were upon an heap: and layeth up the deep as in a treasure house. Let all the earth fear the lord: stand in awe of him all ye that dwell in the world. For he spoke, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood fast. The lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect (and casteth out the counsels of princes.) The counsel of the Lord shall endure for ever: and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation. Blessed are the people whose god is the Lord jehovah: & blessed are the folk that have chosen him to be their inheritance. The lord looked down from heaven, and beheld all the children of men: from the habitation of his dwelling, he considereth all them that dwell in the earth. He fashioned all the hearts of them: and understandeth all their works. There is no king that can be saved by the multitude of an host: neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength. A horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man: neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength. Behold, the eye of the lord is upon them that fear him: and upon them that put their trust in his mercy. To deliver their souls from death: and to feed them in time of dearth. Our soul hath patiently tarried for the lord: for he is our help, and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him: because we have hoped in his holy name. Let thy merciful kindness (O lord) be upon us: like as we have put our trust in thee. Benedicam dominum. Psalm. xxxiiii. I Will alway give thanks unto the Lord: his praise shall ever be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the lord: the humble shall hear thereof and be glad. O praise the Lord with me, and let us magnify his name together. I sought the Lord, and he heard me: yea, he delivered me out of all my fear. They had an eye unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. Lo, the poor crieth, and the Lord heareth him: yea and saveth him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him: and delivereth them. O taste and see how gracious the Lord is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the Lord, ye that be his saints: for they that fear him, lack nothing. The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they which s; eke the Lord, s; hall want no manner of thing that is good. Come ye children, and hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that lusteth to live, and would fain see good days? keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips that they speak no guile. Eschew evil and do good: seek peace and ensue it. The eyes of the Lord, are over the righteous: and his ears are open unto their prayers. The countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil: to root out the remembrance of them from of the earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth them: and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and will save such as be of an humble spirit. Great are the troubles of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of all. He keepeth all his bones: so that not one of them is broken. But misfortune shall stay the ungodly: and they that hate the righteous, shallbe desolate. The Lord delivereth the souls of his servants: and all they that put their trust in him, shall not be destitute. judica domine nocentes. Psalm. xxxv. Morning prayer. Plead thou my cause O Lord, with them that strive with me: and fight thou against them that fight against me. Lay hand upon the shield and buckler: and stand up to help me. Bring forth the spear: and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back, and brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me. Let them be as the dust before the wind: and the angel of the Lord scattering them. Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them. For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause: yea, even without a cause have they made a pit for my soul. Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself: that he may fall into his own mischief. And my soul be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation. And my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him the is to strong for him? yea, the poor & him the is in misery, from him the spoileth him. False witness did rise up: they laid to my charge things that I know not. They rewarded me evil for good: to the great discoumforte of my soul. Nevertheless, when they were sick I put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: & my prayer shall turn into mine own bosom. I behaved myself, as though it had been my friend, or my brother: I went heavily, as one the mourneth for his mother. But in mine adversity they rejoiced & gathered them together: yea, the very abjects came together against me unawares, making mows at me and ceased not. With the flatterers were busy mockers: which gnashed upon me with their teeth. Lord, how long, wilt thou look upon this? O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me, and my darling from the lions. So will I give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. O let not them that are mine enemy's triumph over me ungodly: neither let them wink with their eyes that hate me without a cause. And why? their commoning is not for peace: but they imagine deceitful words against them the are quiet in the land. They gaped on me with their mouths and said; fie on thee, fie on thee, we saw it with our eyes. This thou hast seen, O lord: hold not thy tongue then, go not far fro me, O Lord. Awake and stand up to judge my quarrel: Avenge thou my cause, my God and my lord. judge me, O lord my God, according to thy righteousness: and let them not triumph over me. Let them not say in their hearts, there there, so would we have it: neither let them say, we have devoured him. Let them be put to confusion and shame together, that rejoice at my trouble: let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonour that boast themselves against me. Let them be glad and rejoice that favour my righteous dealing: yea let them say always, blessed be the lord which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. And as for my tongue, it shallbe talking of thy righteousness, and of thy praise all the day long. Dixit iniustus Psal. xxxvi. My heart showeth me the wickedness of the ungodly: that there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flatreth himself in his own sight until his abominable sin be found out. The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit: he hath left of to behave himself wisely, & to do good. He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way: neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil. Thy mercy O Lord, reacheth unto the heaven: and thy faithfulness unto the clouds. Thy righteousness standeth like the strong mountains: thy judgements are like the great deep. Thou lord shalt save both man and beast, how excellent is thy mercy O God? and the children of men, shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shallbe satisfied with the plenteousness of thy house: and thou shalt give them drink of thy pleasures, as out of the river. For with thee is the well of life: and in thy light shall we see light. O continue forth thy loving kindness unto them the know thee: and thy righteousness unto them that are true of heart. O let not the foot of pride come against me: and let not the hand of the ungodly cast me down. There are they fallen (all) that work wickedness: they are cast down, and shall not be able to stand. Noli emulari. Psalm. xxxvii. Evening prayer. FRet not the self because of the ungodly neither be thou envious against the evil doers. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass: and be withered even as the green herb. Put thou thy trust in the Lord, and be doing good: dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thou in the Lord, and he shall give thee thy hearts desire. Commit thy way unto the Lord, and put thy trust in him: and he shall bring it to pass. He shall make thy righteousness as clear as the light: and thy just dealing as the noon day. Hold thee still in the lord, and abide patiently upon him: but grieve not thyself at him, whose way doth prosper against the man that doth after evil counsels. Leave of from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil. Wicked doers shallbe rooted out: and they that patiently abide the lord, those shall inherit the land. Yet a little while, and the ungodly shallbe clean gone: thou shalt look after his place, and he shallbe away. But the meek spirited shall possess the earth: and shallbe refreshed in the multitude of peace. The vugodly seeketh counsel against the just: and gnassheth upon him with his teeth. The lord shall laugh him to scorn: for he hath seen, that his day is coming. The ungodly have drawn out the sword, and have bended their bow: to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of a right conversation. Their sword shall go thorough their own heart: and their bow shallbe broken. A small thing that the righteous hath: is better than great riches of the ungodly. For the arms of the ungodly shallbe broken: and the lord upholdeth the righteous. The lord knoweth the days of the godly: and their inheritance shall endure for ever. They shall not be confounded in the perilous time: and in the days of dearth they shall have enough. As for the ungodly, they shall perish, and the enemies of the lord shall consume as the fat of lambs: yea, even as the smoke shall they consume away. The ungodly borroweth and payeth not again: but the righteous is merciful, and liberal. Such as be blessed of god, shall possess the land: and they that be cursed of him shallbe rooted out. The Lord ordereth a good man's going: and maketh his way acceptable to himself. Though he fall, he shall not be cast away: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. I have been young, and now am old: & yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread. The righteous is ever merciful, and dareth: and his seed is blessed. Fly from evil, and do the thing that is good: and dwell for evermore. For the lord loveth the thing that is right: he forsaketh not his that be godly, but they are preserved for ever. (The righteous shallbe punished:) as for the seed of the ungodly, it shallbe rooted out. The righteous shall inherit the land: and dwell therein for ever. The mouth of the righteous is excercised in wisdom: and his tongue willbe talking of judgement. The law of his god is in his heart: and his goings shall not slide. The ungodly seeth the righteous, and seeketh occasion to slay him. The lord will not leave him in his hand: nor condemn him when he is judged. Hope thou in the lord, and keep his way, and he shall promote thee: that thou shalt possess the land, when the ungodly shall perish, thou shalt see it. I myself have seen the ungodly in great power: and flourishing like a green bay tree. And I went by, and lo, he was gone: I sought him, but (his place) could no where be found. Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right for that shall bring a man peace at the last. As for the transgressors, they shall perish together: and the end of the ungodly is, they shall be rooted out at the last. But the saluaryon of the righteous cometh of the Lord: which is also their strength in the time of trouble. And the Lord shall stand by them, and save them: he shall deliver them from the ungodly, and shall save them because they put their trust in him. Domine ne in furore. psal. xxxviii Morning prayer. But me not to rebuke (O Lord) in thine anger: neither chasten me in thy heavy displeasure. For thine arrows stick fast in me: and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no health in any flesh, because of thy displeasure: neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin. For my wickednesses are gone over my head: and are like a sore burden, to heavy for me to bear. My wounds stink & are corrupt: through my foolishness. I am brought into so great trouble and misery: that I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with afore disease: and there is no whole part in my body. I am feeble and sore smitten: I have roared for the very disquietness of my heart. Lord, thou knowest all my desire: and my groaning is not hid from thee. My heart panteth, my strength hath failed me: and the light of mine eyes is gone from me. My lovers and my neighbours did stand looking upon my trouble: and my kinsmen stood afar of. They also that sought after my life, laid snares for me: and they that went about to do me evil, talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long. As for me, I was like a deaf man and heard not: and as one that is dumb, which doth not open his mouth. I became even as a man that heareth not: and in whose mouth are no reproofs. For in thee, O Lord, have I put my trust: thou shalt answer for me, O Lord my God. I have required, that they (even mine enemies) should not triumph over me: for when my foot slipped, they rejoiced greatly against me. And I truly am set in the plague: & my heaviness is ever in my sight. For I will confess my wickedness: and be sorry for my sin. But mine enemies live, and are mighty: and they that hate me wrongfully, are many in number. They also that reward evil for good, are against me: because I follow the thing that good is. Forsake me not (O Lord my God:) be not thou far fro me. Haste thee to help me: O Lord (God) my salvation. Dixi cuftodiam vias. psal. xxxix. I Said, I will take heed to my ways: that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth (as it were with a bridle:) while the ungodly is in my sight. I held my tongue and spoke nothing: I kept silence, yea even from good words, but it was pain & grief to me. My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing: the fire kiendled, and (at the last) I spoke with my tongue. Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live. Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long: and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee, and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now lord, what is my hope? truly my hope is even in thee. Deliver me from all mine offences: and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. I became dumb, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doing. Take thy plague away from me: I am even consumed by the means of thy heavy hand. When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore is but vanity. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling: hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner: as all my fathers were. Oh spare me a little, that I may recover my strengeth: before I go hence and be no more seen. Expectans expectavi. Psalm. xl. I Waited patiently for the lord: and be inclined unto me, and heard my calling. He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay: and set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth: even a thanks giving unto our God. Many shall see it and fear: and shall put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord: and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies. O Lord my God, great are thy wondrous works, which thou hast done: like as be also thy thoughts which are to usward, and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I would declare them and speak of them: they should be more than I am able to express. Sacrifice and meateoffering thou wouldst not have: but mine ears hast thou opened. Burnt offerings, and sacrifice for sin, hast thou not required: then said I, lo I come. In the volume of the Book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O my God: I am content to do it, yea thy law is within my heart. I have declared the righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I will not refrayve my lips, O Lord, and that thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart: my talking hath been of thy truth and of thy salvation. I have not kept back thy loving mercy and truth: from the great congregation. Withdraw not thou thy mercy fro me O Lord: let thy loving kindness and thy truth always preserve me. For innumerable troubles are come about me, my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up: yea, they are more in number then the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me. O Lord, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me: make haste (O Lord) to help me. Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it: let them be driven backward and put to rebuke that wish me evil. Let them be desolate and rewarded with shame that say unto me: fie upon thee, fie upon thee. Let all those that seek thee, be joyful & glad in thee: & let such as love thy salvation say always, the lord be praised. As for me, I am poor and needy: but the Lord careth for me. Thou art my helper and redeemer: make no long tarrying (O my God.) Beatus qui intelligit. Psalm. xli. Evening prayer. Blessed is he that considereth the poor (& needy:) the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble. The Lord preserve him and keep him alive, that he may be blessed upon earth: and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies. The Lord comfort him, when he lieth sick upon his bed: make thou all his bed in his sickness. I said, Lord be merciful unto me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. Mine enemies speak evil of me: when shall he die, and his name perish? And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself, and when he cometh forth, he telleth it. All mine enemies whisper together against me: even against me do they imagine this evil. Let the sentence of giltynes proceed against him: and now that he lieth, let him rise up no more. Yea, even mine own familiar friend whom I trusted: (which did also eat of my bread,) hath laid great wait for me. But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord: raise thou me up again, and I shall reward them. By this I know that thou favourest me: that mine enemy doth not triumph against me. And when I am in health, thou upholdest me: and shalt set me before thy face for ever. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: world without end. Amen. Quemadmodum. Psalm. xlii. Like as the heart desireth the water brooks: so longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is a thirst for god, yea even for the living god: when shall I come to appear before the presence of god? My tears have been my meat day and night: while they daily say unto me, where is now thy God? Now when I think thereupon, I power out my heart by myself: for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God. In the voice of praise and thanksgiving: among such as keep holy day. Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul: and why art thou so unquiet within me. Put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks, for the help of his countenance. My God, my soul is vexed within me: therefore will I remember thee, concerning the land of jordane, and the little hill of Hermon. One deep calleth another, because of the noise of thy water pipes: all thy waves and storms are gone over me. The Lord hath granted his loving kindness: on the day time and in the night season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life. I will say unto the God of my strength, why hast thou forgotten me? why go I thus heavenly, while the enemy oppresseth me? My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword: while mine enemies (that trouble me) cast me in the teeth. Namely while they say daily unto me: where is now thy God? Why art thou so vexed (O my soul:) and why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God: for I will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. judica me deus. Psalm. xliii Give sentence with me (O God) and defend my cause against the ungodly people: O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man. For thou art the God of my strength, why hast thou put me from thee? and why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? Oh send out thy light and thy truth that they may lead me: and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling. And that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness: and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee (O God) my God. Why art thou so heavy (O my soul?) and why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. Deus auribus nostris. Psalm. xliiii. Morning prayer. WE have heard with our ears (O god) our fathers have told us: what the hast done in their time of old. How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them in: how thou hast destroyed the nations, and cast them out. For they got not the land in possession through their own sword: neither was it their own arm that helped them. But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou hadst a favour unto them. Thou art my kings (O God:) send help unto jacob. Through thee will we overthrow our enemies: and in thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow: it is not my sword that help me. But it is thou that savest us from our enemy: and puttest them to confusion that hate us. We make our boast of God all day long: and will praise thy name for ever. But now thou art far of, and puttest us to confusion: and goest not forth with our armies. Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies: so that they which hate us, spoil our goods. Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep: and haste scattered us among the Heathen. Thou sellest thy people for nought: and takest no money for them. Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours: to be laughed to scorn and had in derision, of them that are round about us. Thou makest us to be a by word among the Heathen: and that the people shake their heads at us. By confusion is daily before me: and the shame of my face hath covered me. For the boyce of the slanderer and blasphemer: for the enemy and avenger. And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forgeat thee: nor behave ourselves frowardly in thy covenant. Our heart is not turned back: neither our steps gone out of thy way. No not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons: and covered us with the shadow of death. If we have forgotten the name of our god, and held up our hands to any strange God: shall not God search it out? for he knoweth the very secrets of the heart. For thy sake also are we killed all the day long: and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain. Up Lord, why sleepest thou: awake, and be not absent from us for ever. Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our misery and trouble. For our soul is brought low unto the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the ground. Arise and help us: and deliver us for thy mercy sake. Eructavit cor meum. Psalm. xlv. MY heart is inditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made unto the king. My tongue is the pen: of a ready writer. Thou art fairer than the children of men: full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh (O thou most mighty:) according to thy worship and renown. Good luck have thou with thine honour: ride on because of the word of truth, of meekness & righteousness, and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shallbe subdued unto thee: even in the midst among the Kings enemies. Thy seat (O God) endureth for ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: wherefore God (even thy God) hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. All thy garments smell of Myrrh, Aloes, and Cassia: out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad. Kings daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in a vesture of gold (wrought about with diverse colours.) hearken (O daughter) and consider, incline thine ear: forgeat also thine own people, and thy father's house. So shall the king have pleasure in thy beauty: for he is thy Lord (God) and worship thou him. And the daughter of Tire shall be there with gift: like as the rich also among the people shall make their supplication before thee. The Kings daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. She shallbe brought unto the king in raiment of needle work: the virgins that be her fellows, shall bear her company, and shallbe brought unto thee. With joy and gladness shall they be brought: and shall enter into the Kings palace. In stead of thy fathers thou shalt have children: whom thou mayst make Princes in all lands. I will remember thy name from one generation unto another: therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end. Deus noster refugium. Psalm. xlvi. GOd is our hope and strength: a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be moved: & though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea. Though the waters thereof rage and swell: and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same. The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God: the holy place of the tabernacle of the most highest. God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed: God shall help her, and that right early. The Heathen make much a do, and the kingdoms are moved: but God hath showed his voice, and the earth shall melt away. The Lord of hosts is with us: the god of jacob is our refuge. O come hither, and behold the works of the Lord: what destruction he hath brought upon the earth. He maketh wars to cease in all the world: he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and burneth the chariotes in the fire. Be still then and know that I am God: I willbe exalted among the Heathen, and I willbe exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of jacob is our defence. Omnes gentes plaudite. Psalm. xlvii. Evening prayer. Clap your hands together (all ye people:) O sing unto God with the voice of melody. For the Lord is high and to be feared: he is the great king upon all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us: and the nations under our feet. He shall choose out an heritage for us: even the worship of jacob whom he loved. God is gone up with a merry noise: and the Lord with the sound of the trump. O sing praises, sing praises unto our God: O sing praises, sing praises unto our King. For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. God reigneth over the Heathen: God sitteth upon his holy seat. The Princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham: for God (which is very high exalted) doth defend the earth as it were with a shield. Magnus dominus. Psalm. xlviii. GReat is the Lord, and highly to be praised: in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill. The hill of Zion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth: upon the northside lieth the city of the great King, God is well known in her palaces, as a sure refuge. For lo, the kings of the earth: are gathered and gone by together. They marveled to see such things: they were astonished, and suddenly cast down. Fear came there upon them and sorrow: as upon a woman in her travail. Thou shalt break the ships of the sea: through the East wind. Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the lord of hosts, in the city of our god; god upholdeth the same for ever. We wait for thy loving kindness, O god: in the mids of thy temple. O god, according unto thy name, so is thy praise unto the worlds end: thy right hand is full of righteousness. Let the mount Zion rejoice, and the daughters of juda be glad: because of thy judgements. Walk about Zion, and go round about her: and tell the towers thereof. Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses: that ye may tell them that come after. For this God is our God for ever and ever: he shallbe our guide unto death. Audite he gentes. psal. xlix. O Hear ye this, all ye people: ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world. High and low, rich and poor: one with another. My mouth shall speak of wisdom: and my heart shall muse of understanding. I will incline mine ear to the parable: and show my dark speech upon the harp. Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness? and when the wickedness of my heel's compasseth me round about. There be some that put their trust in their goods: and boast themselves in the multitude of their richesses. But no man may deliver his brother: nor make agreement unto god for him. For it cost more to redeem their souls: so that he must let that alone for ever. Yea, though he live long: and see not the grave. For he seeth that wisemen also die, and perish together: as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other. And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever: and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another, and call the lands after their own names. Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour: seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish, this is the way of them. This is their foolishness: and their posterity praise their saying. They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning: their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling. But god shall deliver my soul from the place of hell: for he shall receive me. Be not thou afraid though one be made rich: or if the glory of his house be increased. For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth: neither shall his pomp follow him. For while he lived, he counted himself an happy man: and so long as thou dost well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee. He shall follow the generations of his fathers: and shall never see light. Man being in honour, hath no understanding: but is compared unto the beasts; that perish. Deus deorum dominus. psal. l. Morning prayer. THe lord, even the most mighty god: hath spoken and called the world from the rising up of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of Zion hath god appeared: in perfect beauty. Our god shall come, and shall not keep silence: there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest that be stirred up round about him. He shall call the heaven from above: and the earth, that he may judge his people. Gather my saints together unto me: those that have made a covenant with me, with sacrifice. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Hear, O my people, and I will speak: I myself will testify against thee, O Israel, for I am God, even thy God. I will not reprove thee, because of thy sacrifices, or for thy burnt offerings: because they were not alway before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy folds. For all the beasts of the forest are mine: and so are the rattelles upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls upon the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are in my sight. If I be hungry I will not tell thee; for the whole world is mine, and all that therein is. Thinkest thou that I will eat bulls flesh: and drink the blood of goats. Offer unto god thanks giving: and pay thy vows unto the most highest. And call upon me in the time of trouble: so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me. But unto the ungodly said God: why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth? Whereas thou hatest to be reformed: and hast cast my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst unto him: and hast been partaker with the adulterers. Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickedness: and with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit. Thou sattest and spakest against thy brother: yea, and hast slandered thine own mother's son. These things haste thou done, and I held my tongue: and thou thoughtest (wickedly) that I am even such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee and set before thee, the things that thou hast done. O consider this, ye that forgeat god: lest I pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you. Whoso offereth me thanks & praise, he honoureth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation right, will I show the salvation of God. Miserere mei deus. psal. li. Have mercy upon me (O god) after thy great goodness: according unto the multitude of thy mercies, do away mine offences. Wash me througlye fro my wickedness: and cleanse me from my sin. For I knowledge my faults: & my sine is ever before me. Against thee only have I sinned, & done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and clear when thou art judged. Behold, I was shapen in wickedness: and in sin hath my mother conceived me. But lo, thou requirest truth in the inward parts: and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly. Thou shalt purge me with I soap, and I shallbe clean: thou shalt wash me, and I shallbe whiter than snow. Thou shalt make me hear joy and gladness: that the bones which thou hast broken, may rejoice. Turn thy face from my sins: & put out all my misdeeds. Make me a clean heart (O God:) and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy spirit from me. O give me the comfort of thy help again: and stablish me with thy free spirit. Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked: & sinners shallbe converted unto thee. deliver me from blood guiltiness, O god, thou that art the god of my health: & my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness. Thou shalt open my lips, O lord: my mouth shall show thy praise. For thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it thee: but thou delightest not in burnt offerings. The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not despise. O be favourable and gracious unto Zion: build thou the walls of jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt offerings and oblations: then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar. Quid gloriaris in malicia. Psalm. lii. WHy boastest thou thyself, thou tyrant: that thou canst do mischief. Whereas the goodness of god: endureth yet daily. Thy tongue imagineth wickedness: and with lies thou cuttest like a sharp razor. Thou hast loved ungraciousness more than goodness: and to talk of lies more than righteousness. Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt: O thou false tongue. Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever: he shall take thee and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, and root thee out of the land of the living. The righteous also shall see this, and fear: and shall laugh him to scorn. Lo, this is the man that took not God for his strength: but trusted unto the multitude of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. As for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of god: my trust is in the tender mercy of god, for ever and ever. I will alway give thanks unto thee, for that thou hast done: and I will hope in thy name, for thy saints like it well. Dixit insipiens. Psalm. liii. Evening prayer. The foolish body hath said in his heart: there is no God. Corrupt are they, and become abominable in their wickedness: there is none that doth good. God looked down from heaven upon the children of men: to see if there were any that would understand seek after God. But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable: there is also none that doth good, no not one. Are not they without understanding that work wickedness: eating up my people as if they would eat bread they have not called upon god. They were afraid, where no fear was: for God hath broken the bones of him that besieged thee, thou hast put them to confusion because God hath despised them. Oh that the salvation were given unto Israel out of Zion: Oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivity. Then should jacob rejoice, & Israel should be right glad. Deus in nomine tuo. Psalm. liv. Save me (O god) for thy name's sake: and avenge me in thy strength. Hear my prayer (O God:) and hearken unto the words of my mouth. For strangers are riesen up against me: and tyrants (which have not god before their eyes) seek after my soul. Behold, God is my helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: destroy thou them in thy truth. An offering of a free heart will I give thee, and praise thy name (O Lord:) because it is so comfortable. For he hath delivered me out of all my trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies. Exaudi deus. Psalm. lv. Hear my prayer (O God:) and hide not thyself frommy petition. Take heed unto me, and hear me: how I mourn in my prayer, and am vexed. The enemy crieth so, and the ungodly cometh on so fast: for they are minded to do me some mischief, so maliciously are they set against me. My heart is disquieted within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me: and horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. And I said, O that I had wings like a dove: for than would I sly a way, and be at rest. Lo, then would I get me a way far of: and remain in the wilderness. I would make haste to escape: because of the stormy wind and tempest. Destroy their tongues (O Lord) and divide them: for I have spied unrighteousness and strife in the city. Day and night go they about within the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. Wickedness is therein: deceit and guile go not out of their streets. For it is not an open enemy that hath done me this dishonour: for than I could have borne it. Neither was it mine adversary, that did magnify himself against me: for then (peradventure) I would have hid myself from him. But it was even thou my companion: my guide, and my own familiar friend. We took sweet counsel together: and walked in the house of god as friends. Let death come hastily upon them and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. As for me, I will call upon god: and the Lord shall save me. In the evening and morning, and at noon day will I pray (and that instantly:) and he shall hear my voice. It is he that hath delivered my soul in peace: from the battle that was against me, for there were many with me. Yea, even God that endureth for ever shall hear me, and bring them down: for they will not turn nor fear god. He laid his hands upon such as be at peace with him; and he broke his covenant. The words of his mouth were softer than butter, having war in his heart: his words were smother than oil, and yet be they very sword. O cast thy burden upon the lord, and he shall nourish thee: and not suffer the righteous to fall for ever. And as for them: thou (O God) shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloudthyrstie & deceitful men shall not live out half their days: nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee (O lord.) Miserere mei deus quoniam. Psalm. lvi. Morning prayer. Be merciful unto me (O god) for man goeth about to devour me: he is daily fighting and troubling me. Mine enemies are daily in hand to swallow me up: for they be many the fight against me, O thou most highest. Nevertheless, though I am sometime afraid: yet I put my trust in thee. I will praise god, because of his word: I have put my trust in god, and will not fear what flesh can do unto me. They daily mistake my words: all that they imagine is to do me evil. They hold all together, and keep themselves close: and mark my steps when they lay wait for my soul. Shall they escape for their wickedness? thou (O god) in thy displeasure shall call them down. Thou tellest my flittings: put my tears into thy bottle, are not these things noted in thy book? Whensoever I call upon thee, then shall mine enemies be put to flight: this I know, for God is on my side. In god's words will I rejoice: in the lords word will I comfort me. Yea, in God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. Unto thee (O God) will I pay my vows: unto thee will I give thanks. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling: that I may walk before god in the light of the living. Miserere mei deus. psalm. lvii. BE merciful unto me (O god) be merciful unto me, for my soul trusteth in thee: and under the shadow of thy wings shallbe my refuge, until this tyranny be overpast. I will call unto the most high God: even to the God that shall perform the cause which I have in hand. He shall send from heaven: and save me from the reproof of him that would eat me up. God shall send forth his mercy and truth: my soul is among Lions. And I lie even among thee children of men (that are set on fire:) whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. Set up thyself (O god) above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth. They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the mids of it themselves. My heart is fixed (O God) my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up my glory, awake lute and harp: I myself will awake right early. I will give thanks unto thee (O Lord) among the people: and I will sing unto thee among the nations. For the greatness of thy mercy reacheth unto the heavens: and thy truth unto the clouds. Set up thyself (O God) above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth. Si vere utique justiciam. Psalm. lviii. ARe your minds set upon righteousness, O ye congregation: and do ye judge the thing that is right, O ye sons of men? Yea, ye imagine mischief in your heart upon the earth: and your hands deal with wickedness. The ungodly are froward, even from their mother's womb: as soon as they be borne, they go astray and speak lies. They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent: even like the deaf Adder that stoppeth her ears. Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer: charm he never so wisely. Break their teeth (O God) in their mouths, smite the chaw bones of the Lions (O Lord:) let them fall away like water that runneth a pace, and when they shoot their arrows, let them be rooted out. Let them consume away like a snail, and be like the untimely fruit of a woman: and let them not see the sun. Or ever our pots be made hot with thorns: so let indignation vex him, even as a thing that is raw. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the ungodly. So that a man shall say, verily there is a reward for the righteous: doubtless; there is a God that judgeth in the earth. Eripe me de inimicis. Psalm. lix. Evening prayer. Deliver me from mine enemies (O God:) defend me from them that rise up against me. O deliver me from the wicked doers: and save me from the bloudthyrstie men. For lo, they lie waiting for my soul: the mighty men are gathered together against me, without any offence or fault of me (O Lord.) They run and prepare themselves without my fault: arise thou therefore to help me, and behold. Stand up (O lord God of hosts) thou God of Israel, to visit all the heathen: and be not merciful unto them that offend of malicious wickedness. They go too and fro in the evening they grin like a dog: and run about through the city. Behold, they speak with their mouth: and swords are in their lips: for who doth hear. But thou (O Lord) shalt have them in derision; and thou shalt laugh all Heathen to scorn. My strength will I ascribe unto thee: for thou art the god of my refuge. God showeth me his goodness plenteously: and God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. Slay them not, lest my people forgeat it: but scatter them abroad among thy people, and put them down (O Lord) our defence. For the sin of their mouth, and for the words of their lips they shallbe taken in their pride: and why? their preaching is of cursing and lies. Consume them in thy wrath, consume them that they may perish: and know that it is God which ruleth in jacob, and unto the ends of the world. And in the evening they will return: green like a dog, and will go about the city. They will run here and there for meat: and grudge if they be not satisfied. As for me, I will sing of thy power, and will praise thy mercy betimes in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for thou (O God) art my refuge and my merciful God. Deus repulistinos. psalm. lx. O God, thou that hast cast us out and scattered us abroad: thou haste also been displeased, O turn thee unto us again. Thou hast moved the land and divided it: heal the sores thereof, for it shaketh. Thou hast showed thy people heavy things: thou haste given us a drink of deadly wine. Thou hast given a token for such as fear thee: that they may triumph because of the truth. Therefore were thy beloved delivered: help me with thy right hand and hear me. God hath spoken in his holiness, I will rejoice and divide Sichem: and meet out the valley of Sucoth. Gilead is mine, and Manasses is mine: Ephraim also is the strength of my head, juda is my law giver. Moab is my wash pot, over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia be thou glad of me. Who will lead me into the strong city: who will bring me into Edom? Hast thou not cast us out (O god?) wilt not thou (O god) go our with our hosts. O be thou our help in trouble: for vain is the help of man. Thorough God me shall do great acts: for it is he that shall tread down our enemies. Exaudi deus depreca. psal. lxi. Hear my crying (O god:) give ear unto my prayer. From the ends of the earth will I call unto thee: when my heart is in heaviness. Oh set me up upon the rock that is higher than I: for thou haste been my hope, and a strong tower for me against the enemy. I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever: and my trust shallbe under the covering of thy wings. For thou, O Lord, haste heard my desires: and hast given an heritage unto those that fear thy name. Thou shalt grant the king a long life: that his years may endure thorough out all generations. He shall dwell before God for ever: O prepare thy loving mercy and feythfulnes, that they may preserve him. So will I alway sing praise unto thy name: that I may daily perform my vows. Nun deo subiecta. psalm. lxii. Morning prayer. MY soul truly waiteth still upon God: for of him cometh my salvation. He verily is my strength and my salvation: he is my defence so that I shall not greatly fall. How long will ye imagine mischief against every man? ye shall be slain all the sort of you, yea as a tottering wall shall ye be, and like a broken hedge. Their devise is only how to put him out whom god will exalt: their delight is in lies, they give good words with their mouth, but curse with their heart. Nevertheless, my soul wait thou still upon God: for my hope is in him. He truly is my strength, and my salvation: he is my defence so that I shall not fall. In god is my health and my glory: the rock of my might, and in god is my trust. O put your trust in him always (ye people:) power out your hearts before him, for god is our hope. As for the children of men, they are but vain: the children of men are deceitful upon the weights, they are altogether lighter than vanity itself. O trust not in wrong and robbery, give not yourselves unto vanity: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. God spoke once and twice: I have also heard the same, that power belongeth unto god. And that thou lord art merciful: for thou rewardest every man according to his work. Deus deus meus. psal. lxiii. O God thou art my god: early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee: my flash also longeth after thee, in a barren & dry land where no water is. Thus have I looked for thee in holiness: that I might behold thy power and glory. For thy loving kindness is better than the life itself: my lips shall praise thee. As long as I live, will I magnify thee on this manner: and lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shallbe satisfied, even as it were with marry and fatness: when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips. Have I not remembered thee in my bed: and thought upon thee, when I was waking? Because thou hast been my helper: therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. My soul hangeth upon thee: thy right hand hath upholden me. These also that seek the hurt of my soul: they shall go under the earth. Let them fall upon the edge of the sword: that they may be a portion for foxes. But the king shall rejoice in god, all they also that swear by him shall be commended; for the mouth of them that speak lies, shallbe stopped. Eaudi deus orationem meam. psal. lxiiii. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hid me from the gathering together of the froward: and from the insurrection of wicked doers. Which have whet their tongue like a sword: & shoot out their arrows, even bitter words. That they may privily shoot at him which is perfect: suddenly do they him and fear not. They courage themselves in mischief: and common among themselves how they may lay snares, and say that no man shall see them. They imagine wickedness, and practise it: that they keep secret among themselves, every man in the deep of his heart. But god shall suddenly shoot at them with swift arrow: that they shallbe wounded. Yea their own tongues shall make them fall: insomuch that whoso seeth them, shall laugh them to scorn. And all men that see it, shall say, this hath God done: for they shall perceive that it is his work. The righteous shall rejoice in the lord, and put his trust in him: and all they that are true of heart shallbe glad. Tedecet himnus. psal. lxv. Evening prayer. THou, O god, art praised in Zion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed, in jerusalem. Thou that hearest the prayer: unto thee shall all flesh come. My misdeeds prevail against me: Oh he thou merciful unto our sins. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and receivest unto thee: he shall dwell in thy court, and shallbe satisfied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy holy temple. Thou shalt show us wonderful things in thy righteousness (O god) of our salvation: thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea. Which in his stength setteth fast the mountains: and is girded about with power. Which stilleth the raging of the sea, and the noise of his waves: and the madness of his people. They also that dwell in the uttermost parts (of the earth) shallbe afraid at thy tokens: thou that makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise thee. Thou visitest the earth, and blessest it: thou makest it very plenteous. The river of God is full of water: thou preparest their corn, for so thou providest for the earth. Thou watrest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof: thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness: and thy clouds drop fatness. They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wilderness: and the little hills shall rejoice on every side. The folds shallbe full of sheep: the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing. Iubilate deo. psal. lxvi. O Be joyful in god, all ye lands: sing praises unto the honor of his name, make his praise to be glorious. Say unto god, O how wonderful art thou in thy works: thorough the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies be found liars unto thee. For all the world shall Worship thee sing of thee, and praise thy name. O come hither and behold the works of God: how wonderful he is in his doing, toward the children of men. He turned the sea into dry land: so that they went thorough the water on foot, there did we rejoice thereof. He ruleth with his power for ever: his eyes behold the people, and such as will not believe, shall not be able to exalt themselves. O praise our God (ye people:) and make the voice of his praise to be heard. Which holdeth our soul in life: and suffereth not our feet to slip. For thou (O god) hast proved us: thou also hast tried us, like as silver is tried. Thou broughtest us into the snare: and laid trouble upon our loins. Thou suffered'st men to ride over our heads: we went thorough fire and water, and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: and will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips, and spoke with my mouth, when I was in trouble. I will offer unto thee, fat burnt sacrifices, with the incense of rams: I will offer bullocks and goats. O come hither, and hearken all ye that fear god: and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul. I called unto him with my mouth: and gave him praises with my tongue. If I incline unto wickedness with my heart: the lord will not hear me. But god hath heard me: and considered the voice of my prayer. Praised be god which hath not cast out my prayer: nor turned his mercy fro me. Deus miscreatur nostri. Psal. lxvii. GOd be merciful unto us, and bless us: and show us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us. That thy way may be known upon earth: thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee O God: yea let all the people praise thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad: for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee, O god: let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth bring furthher increase: and God, even our own god shall give us his blessing. God shall bless us: and all the ends of the world shall fear him. Exurgat deus. Psalm. lxviii. Morning prayer. LEt God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him fly before him. Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away: and like as wax melteth at the fire, so let the ungodly perish at the presence of god. But let the righteous be glad, and rejoice before God: let them also be merry and joyful. O sing unto god, and sing praises unto his name: magnify him that rideth upon the heavens, as it were upon an horse, praise him in his name, yea and rejoice before him. He is a father of the fatherless, and defendeth the cause of widows: even god in his holy habitation. He is the god that maketh men to be of one mind in an house, & bringeth the prisoners out of captivity: but letteth the runneagates continue in scarceness. O god, when thou goest forth before the people: when thou goest through the wilderness. The earth shaken, and the heavens dropped at the presence of Ood: even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of god, which is the god of Israel. Thou, O god, sendest a gracious rain upon thine inheritance: and refreshedst it when it was weary. Thy congregations shall dwell therein: for thou (O God) hast of thy goodness prepared for the poor. The Lord gave the word: great was the company of the preachers. Kings with their armies did fly, and were discomfited: and they of the household divided the spoil. Though ye have lain among the pots: yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove, that is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold. When the almighty scattered kings for their sake: then were they as white as snow in Salmon. As the hill of Basan, so is god's hill: even an high hill as the hill of Basan. Why hop ye so, ye high hills, this is god's hill, in the which it pleaseth him to dwell? yea, the Lord will abide in it for ever. The charettes of god are twenty M. even thousands of Angels: and the Lord is among them, as in the holy place of Sinai. Thou art gone up on high, thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men: yea, even for thine enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them. Praised be the lord daily: even the god which helpeth us, and powered his benefits upon us. He is our god, even the god of whom cometh salvation: god is the lord by whom we escape death. God shall wound the head of his enemies: and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickedness. The Lord hath said, I will bring my people again as I did from Basan: mine own will I bring again, as I did some time from the deep of the sea. That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemiesand that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the same. It is well seen, O god, how thou goest: how thou, my god and king, goest in the sanctuary. The fingers go before, the minstrels follow after: in the midst are the damosels playing with the tyrants. give thanks, O Israel, unto god the lord in the congregations: from the ground of the heart. There is little Benjamin their ruler: and the princes of juda their counsel, the princes of zabulon, and the princes of Nephtali. Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee: stablish the thing O God, that thou hast wrought in us. For thy temples sake at jerusalem: so shall kings bring presents unto thee. When the company of the spear men, and multitude of the mighty are scattered abroad among the beasts of the people (so that they humbly bring pieces of silver:) & when he hath scattered the people that delight in war. Then shall the Princes come out of Egypt: the Morions land shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. Sing unto God, O ye kingdoms of the earth: O sing praises unto the Lord. Which sitteth in the heavens over all from the beginning: lo, he doth send out his voice, yea and that a mighty voice. Ascribe ye the power to God over Israel: his worship and strength is in the clouds. O God, wonderful art thou in thy holy places: even the God of Israel, he will give strength and power unto his people, blessed be God. Saluum me fac deus. Psal. lxix Evening prayer. Save me, O God: for the waters are come in, even unto my soul. I stick fast in the deep mire where no ground is: I am come into deep waters, so that the floods run over me. I am weary of crying, my throat is dry: my sight faileth me, for waiting so long upon my god. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltless are mighty. I paid them the things that I never took: God thou knowest my simpleness, & my faults are not hid from thee. Let not them that trust in thee, O lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my cause: let not those that seek thee be confounded through me, O Lord God of Israel. And why? for thy sake have I suffered reproof: shame hath covered my face. I am become a stranger unto my brethren: even an aleant unto my mother's children. For the zeal of thine house hath even. eaten me: and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen upon me. I wept and chastened myself with fasting: and that was turned to my reproof. I put on a sackcloth also: and they jested upon me. They that sit in the gate speak against me: and the drunkards make songs upon me. But Lord I make my prayer unto thee: in an acceptable time. Hear me O God, in the multitude of thy mercy: even in the truth of thy salvation. Take me out of the mire that I sink not: Oh let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. Let not the water flood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Hear me, O lord, for thy loving kindness is comfortable: turn the unto me, according to the multitude of thy mercies. And hide not thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, Oh hast thee and hear me. Draw nigh unto my soul and save it: Oh deliver me because of mine enemies. Thou hast known my reproof, my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all in thy sight. Thy rebuke hath broken my heart, I am full of heaviness: I looked for some to have piety on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me. They gave me gall to eat: and when I was thirty, they gave me vinegar to drink. Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withal: and let the things (that should have been for their wealth) be unto them an occasion of falling. Let their eyes be blinded that they see not: and ever bow thou down their backs. power out thine indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them. Let their habitation be void: and no man to dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten: and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded. Let them fall from one wickedness to another: and not come into thy righteousness. Let them be wiped out of the book of the living: and not to be written among the righteous. As for me, when I am poor and in heaviness: thy help (O God) shall life me up. I will praise the name of god with a song: and magnify it with thanks giving. This also shall please the Lord: better than a bullock, that hath horns and hooves. The humble shall consider this, and be glad: seek ye after god, and your soul shall live. For the lord heareth the poor: and despiseth not his prisoners. Let heaven and earth praise him: the sea, and all that moveth therein. For god will save Sion, and build the cities of juda: that men may dwell there, and have it in possession. The posterity also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein. Deus in adiutorium. psal. lxx. HAst thee, O god, to deliver me: make haste to help me O Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion that wish me evil: Let them (for their reward) be soon brought to shame: that cry over me, there there. But let all those that seek thee, be joyful and glad in thee: and let all such as dilighte in thy salvation say alway, the lord be praised. As for me, I am poor and in misery: haste thee unto me (O god.) Thou art my helper and my redeemer: O Lord make no long tarrying. In te domine speravi. psal. lxxi. Morning prayer. IN thee, O lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion: but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousness incline thine ear unto me & save me. Be thou my strong hold (whereunto I may alway resort:) thou hast promised to help me, for thou art my house of defence and my castle. Deliver me, O my god, out of the hand of the ungodly: out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. For thou, O lord god, art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope even from my youth. Through thee have I been holden up ever sense I was borne: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb, my praise shallbe alway of thee. I am become as it were a monster unto many: but my sure trust is in thee. Oh let my mouth be filled with thy praise: (that I may sing of thy glory) and honour all the day long. Cast me not away in the time of age: forsake me not when my strength faileth me. For mine enemies speak against me, and they that lay wait for my soul, take their counsel together, saying: God hath forsaken him, persecute him and take him, for there is none to deliver him. Go not far fro me, O god: my god, haste thee to help me. Let them be confounded and perish, that are against my soul: let them be covered with shame and dishonour, that seek to do me evil. As for me, I will patiently abide alway: and will praise thee more and more. My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousness and salvation: for I know no end thereof. I will go forth in the strength of the Lord god: and will make mention of thy righteousness only. Thou (O god) haste taught me from my youth up until now: therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works. Forsake me not (O God) in mine old age, when I am grey headed: until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come. Thy righteousness (O god) is very high, & great things are they that thou haste done: O god who is like unto thee? O what great troubles and adversities hast thou showed me? and yet diddest thou turn and refresh me, yea and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again. Thou hast brought me to great honour: and comforted me on every side. Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulness (O god) playing upon an instrument of music: unto thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou holy one of Israel. My lips will be fain, when I sing unto thee: and so will my soul whom thou hast delivered. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded and brought unto shame, that seek to do me evil. Deus judicium. psal. lxxii. Give the king thy judgements (O god:) and thy righteousness unto the kings son. Then shall be judge the people according unto right: and defend the poor. The mountains also shall bring peace: and the little hills, righteousness unto the people. He shall keep the simple folk by their right: defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrong doer. They shall fear thee as long as the Sun and Moon endureth: from one generation to another. He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool: even as the drops that water the earth. In his time shall the righteous flourish: yea, and abundance of peace, so long as the Moon endureth. His dominion shallbe also from the one sea to the other: and from the stoud unto the worlds end. They that dwell in the wilderness shall kneel before him: his enemies shall lick the dust. The kings of Tharsis and of the Isles shall give presents: the kings of Araby and Saba shall bring gifts. All kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall do him service. For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth: the needy also, and him that hath no helper. He shallbe favourable unto the simple and needy: and shall preserve the souls of the poor. He shall deliver their souls from falsehood and wrong: and dear shall their blood be in his sight. He shall live, and unto him shall be given of the gold of Arabia: prayer shallbe made ever unto him, and daily shall he be praised. There shallbe an heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills: his fruit shall shake like Libanus, and shallbe green in the city, like grass upon the earth. His name shall endure for ever, his name shall remain under the sun among the posterities: which shallbe blessed thorough him, and all the heathen shall praise him. Blessed be the lord god, even the god of Israel: which only doth wondrous things. And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and all the earth shallbe filled with his majesty. Amen. Amen. Quam bonus Israel. psal. lxxiii. Evening prayer. TRuly God is loving unto Israel: even unto such as are of a clean heart. Nevertheless, my feet were almost gone: my treadings bade well-nigh slipped. And why? I was grieved at the wicked: I do also see the ungodly in such prosperity. For they are in no peril of death: but are lusty and strong. They come in no misfortune like other folk: neither are they plagued like other men. And this is the cause that they be so holden with pride: and overwhelmed with cruelty. Their eyes swell for fatness: & they do even what they lust. They corrupt other, and speak of wicked blasphemy: their talking is against the most highest. For they stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven: and their tongue goeth through the world. Therefore fall the people unto them: and there out suck they no small advantage. Tush (say they) how should God perceive, ●…is there knowledge in the most highest? Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the world and these have riches in possession: and I said, then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. All the day long have I been punished: and chastened every morning. Yea, and I had almost said even as they: but lo, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children. Then thought I to understand this: but it was to hard for me. Until I went into the Sanctuary of God: then understood I the end of these men. Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery places: and castest them down, and destroyest them. O how suddenly do they consume: perish, and come to a fearful end. Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh: so shalt thou make their image to vanish out of the city. Thus my heart was grieved: and it went even through my reins. So foolish was I and ignorant: even as it were a beast before thee. Nevertheless, I am alway by thee: for thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel: and afterward receive me with glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth, that I desire in comparison of thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but god is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. For lo, they that forsake thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that commit fornication against thee. But it is good for me to hold me fast by god, to put my trust in the lord god: and to speak of all thy works, in the gates of the daughters of Zion. Vt quid deus repulisti. psal. lxxiiii. O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long? why in thy wrath so hot against the Sheep of thy pasture. O Think upon thy congregation: whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old. Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance: and mount Zion wherein thou hast dwelled. Lift up thy 〈◊〉 that thou mayest utterly destroy every enemy: which hath done evil in thy Sanctuary. Thine adversaries roar in the mids of thy congregations: and set up their banners for tokens. He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees: was known to bring it to an excellent work. But now the break down all the carved work thereof: with axes and hammers. They have set fire upon thy holy places: and have defiled the dwelling place of thy name, even unto the ground. Yea, they said in their hearts, let us make havoc of them altogether: thus have they brent up all the houses of god in the land We see not our tokens, there is not one Prophet more: no not one is there among us that understandeth any more. O god, how long shall the adversary do this dishonour? how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name, for ever? Why withdrawest thou thy hand? why pluckest thou not thy right hand out of thy bosom, to consume the enemy? For God is my king of old: the help that is done upon earth, he doth it himself. Thou didst divide the Sea, through thy power: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Thou smotest the heads of Leviathan in pieces: and gavest him to be meat for the people in the wilderness. Thou broughtest out fountains and waters out of the hard Rocks: thou drivedst up mighty waters. The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. Remember this, O lord, how the enemy hath rebuked: and how the foolish people hath blasphemed thy name. O deliver not the soul of the Turtle Dove, unto the multitude of the enemies: and forgeat not the congregation of the poor for ever. Look upon the covenant: for all the earth is full of darkness, and cruel habitations. O let not the simple go away ashamed: but let the poor and needy give praise unto thy name. Arise O god, maintain thine own cause: remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily. Forgeat not the voice of thine enemies: the presumption of them that hate thee, increaseth ever more and more. Confirebimur tibi. psal. lxxv. Morning prayer. INto thee (O god) do we give thanks: unto thee do we give thanks. Thy name also is nigh: and that do thy wondrous works declare. When I receive the congregation: I shall judge according unto right. The earth is weak, and all the inhabitors thereof: I bear up the pillars of it. I said unto the fools, deal not so madly: and to the ungodly, set not up your horn. Set not up your horn on high: and speak not with a stiff neck. For promotion cometh neither from the East, nor from the West, nor yet from the South. And why? god is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. For in the hand of the lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same. As for the dregs thereof: all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them, and suck them out. But I will talk of the god of jacob: & praise him for ever. All the horns of the ungodly also will I break: and the horns of the righteous shallbe exalted. Notus in judea. Psal. lxxvi. IN jewry is god known: his name is great in Israel. At Salem is his tabernacle: and his dwelling in Zion. There broke he the arrows of the bow: the shield, the sword, and the battle. Thou art of more honour and might: then the hills of the robbers. The proud are rob, they have slept their stepe: and all the men (whose hands were mighty) have found nothing. At thy rebuke (O god of jacob) both the charet and horse is fallen. Thou, even thou art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight, when thou art angry? Thou didst cause thy judgement to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still. When god arose to judgement: and to help all the meek upon earth. The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise: and the fierceness of other shalt thou restrain. Promise unto the lord your god, and keep it all ye that be round about him: bring presents unto him that aught to be feared. He shall restrain the spirit of Princes: and is wonderful among the kings of the earth. Voce mea ad dominum. Psal. lxxvii. I Will cry unto God with my voice: even unto God will I cry with my voice, & he shall harken unto me. In the time of my trouble I sought the lord: my sore ran and ceased not, in the night season my soul refused comfort. When I am in heaviness, I will think upon god: when my heart is vexed and will complain. Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so feeble that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old: and the years that are past. I call to remembrance my song, and in the night I common with mine own heart, and search out my spirits. Will the Lord absent himself for ever? and will he be no more entreated? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? and will he shut up his loving kindness in displeasure? And I said, it is mine own infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most highest. I will remember the works of the Lord: and call to mind thy wonders of old time. I will think also of all thy works: and my talking shallbe of thy doings. Thy way, O God, is holy: who is so great a god as our God? Thou art the God that doth wonders: and hast declared thy power among people. Thou hast mightily delivered thy people: even the sons of jacob and joseph. The waters saw thee, O God: the waters saw thee and were afraid, the depths also were troubled. The clouds powered out water, the air thundered: & thine arrows went abroad. The voice of the thunder was heard round about: the lightnings shone upon the ground, the earth was moved and shaken withal. Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters: and thy foot steps are not known. Thou leddest thy people like sheep: by the hand of Moses and Aaron. Attendite popule. psal. lxxviii. Evening prayer. Hear my law, O my people: incline your ears unto the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare hard sentences of old. Which we have heard and known: and such as our fathers told us. That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come: but to show the honour of the lord, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done. He made a covenant with jacob, and gave Israel a law: which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children. That their posterity might know it: and the children which were yet unborn. To the intent that when they came up: they might show their children the same. That they might put their trust in God: and not to forgeat the workers of god, but to keep his commandments. And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit cleaveth not steadfastly unto God. Like as the children of Ephraim: which being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the day of battle. They kept not the covenant of God: and would not walk in his law. But forgot what he had done: and the wonderful works that he had showed for them. marvelous things did he in the sight of our fathers in the land of Egypt: even in the field of zoan. He divided the sea, and let them go through: he made the waters to stand on a heap. In the day time also he led them with a cloud: and all the night through with a light of fire. He clave the hard rocks in the wilderness: and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth. He brought waters out of the stony rock: so that it gushed out like the rivers. Yet for all this, they sinned more against him: and provoked the most highest in the wilderness. They tempted God in their hearts: and required meat for their lust. They spoke against God also, saying: shall god prepare a table in the wilderness? He smote the stony rock in deed, that the water gushed out, and the streams flowed withal: but can he give bread also, or provide flesh for his people? When the Lord heard this, he was wroth: so the fire was kindled in jacob, & there came up heavy displeasure against Israel. Because they believed not in God: and put not their trust in his help. So he commanded the clouds above: and opened the doors of heaven. He rained down Manna also upon them for to eat: and gave them food from heaven. So man did eat Angel's food: for he sent them meat enough. He caused the East wind to blow under the heaven: and through his power he brought in the Southweste wind. He rained flesh upon them as thick as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. He let it fall among their tents: even round about their habitation. So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire, they were not disappointed of their lust. But while the meat was yet in their mouths, the heavy wrath of god came upon them: and slew the wealthiest of them, yea, and smote down the chosen men that were in Israel. But for all this, they sinned yet more: and believed not his wondrous works. Therefore their days did he consume in vanity: and their years in trouble. When he slew them, they sought him: and turned them early, and inquired after God. And they remembered that God was their strength: and that the high god was their redeemer. Nevertheless, they did but flatter him with their mouths: and dissembled with him in their tongues. For their heart was not whole with him: neither continued they steadfast in his covenant. But he was so merciful: that he forgave their misdeeds, and destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away: and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise. For he considered that they were but flesh: and that they were even a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. Many a time did they provoke him in the wilderness: and grieved him in the desert. They turned back, and tempted god: and moved the holy one in Israel. They thought not of his hand: and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy. How he had wrought his miracles in Egipte: and his wonders in the field of Zoan. He turned their waters into blood: so that they might not drink of the rivers. He sent louse among them and devoured them up: & frogs to destroy them. He gave their fruits unto the caterpillar: and their labour unto the grasshopper. He destroyed their vines with hail stones: and their mulberry trees with the frost. He smote their cattle also with hail stones: & their flocks with hot thunderbolts. He cast upon them the furiousness of his wrath: anger, displeasure, and trouble, and sent evil Angels among them. He made a way to his indignation, and spared not their soul from death: but gave their life over to the Pestilence. And smote all the first borne in Egypt: the most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham. But as for his own people, he led them forth like sheep: & carried them in the wilderness like a flock. He brought them out safely, that they should not fear: & overwhelmed their enemies with the sea. And brought them in the borders of his sanctuary: even in his mountain, which he purchased with his right hand. He cast out the heathen also before them: caused their land to be divided among them for an heritage, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. So they tempted and displeased the most high god: & kept not his testimonies. But turned their backs and fell away like their forefathers: starting aside like a broken bow. For they grieved him with their hill altars: and provoked him to displeasure with their images. When God heard this, he was wroth: and took sore displeasure at Israel. So that he forsook the tabernacle in Silo: even the tent that he had pitched among them. He delivered their power into captivity: and their beauty into the enemy's hand. He gave his people over also into the sword: and was wroth with his inheritance. The fire confumed the young men: and their maidens were given to marriage. Their Priests were slain with the sword: and there were no widows to make lamentation. So the Lord awaked as one out of stepe: & like a Giant refreshed with wine. He smote his enemies in the hindre parts: and put them to a perpetual shame. He refused the tabernacle of joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim. But chose the tribe of juda: even the hill of Zion, which he loved. And there he builded his temple on high: and laid the foundation of it like the ground which he hath made continually. He chose David also his servant: and took him away from the sheep folds. As he was following the ewes great with young ones, he took him: that he might feed jacob his people, & Israel his inheritance. So he fed them with a faithful and true heart: and ruled them prudently with all his power. Deus venerunt. psalm. lxxix. Morning prayer. O God, the Heathen are come into thy inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled, and made jerusalem an heap of stones. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given, to be meat unto fowls of the air: and the flesh of thy saints, unto the beasts of the land. Their blood have they shed like water on every side of jerusalem: and there was no man to bury them. We are become an open shame to our enemies: a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us. Lord how long wilt thou be angry: shall thy jealousy burn like fire for ever? Power out thine indignation upon the Heathen that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. For they have devoured jacob: & laid waste his dwelling place. O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon: for we are come to great misery. Help us, O god of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: O deliver us, and be merciful unto our sins for thy name sake. Wherefore do the Heaten say: where is now their God? O let the vengeance of thy servants blood that is shed: be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight. O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee: according to the greatness of thy power, preserve thou those that are appointed to die. And as for the blasphemy (wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee:) reward thou them O Lord, seven fold into their bosom. So we that be thy people, and sheep of of thy pasture, shall give thee thanks for ever: & will alway be showing forth thy praise, from generation to generation. Qui regis Israel. Psalm. lxxx. Hear O thou shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest joseph like a sheep: show thyself also, thou that sittest upon the, Cherubins. Before Ephraim, Ben jamin, and Manasses: stir up thy strength, and come and help us. Turn us again, O God: show the light of thy countenance, and we shallbe whole. O Lord god of hosts: how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth? Thou feedest them with the bread of tears: and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink. Thou haste made us a very strife unto our neighbours: & our enemies laugh us to scorn. Turn us again, thou God of hosts: show the light of thy countenance, and we shallbe whole. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Heathen, and planted it. Thou madest room for it: and when it had taken root, it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it: and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar trees. She stretched out her branches unto the sea: and her boughs unto the river. Why hast thou then broken down her hedge? that all they which go by, pluck of her grapes. The wild bore out of the wood doth root it up: and the wild beasts of the field devour it. Turn thee again thou God of hosts, look down from heaven: behold and viset this vine. And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted: and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself. It is brent with fire, and cut down: and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self. And so will not we go back from thee: Oh let us live, and we shall call upon thy name. Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts: show the light of thy countenance, and we shallbe whole. Exultate deo. Psalm. lxxxi. Sing we merely unto god our strength: make a cheerful noise unto the god of jacob. Take the Psalm, bring hither the tabret: the merry harp with the lute. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon: even to the time appointed, and upon our solemn feast day. For this was made a statute for Israel: and a law of the God of jacob. This he ordained in joseph for a testimony: when he came out of the land of Egypt, and had heard a strange language. I eased his shoulder from the burden: and his hands were delivered from (making) the pots. Thou called'st upon me in troubles, and I delivered thee: and heard thee, what time the storm fell upon thee. I proved thee also: at the waters of strife. Hear, O my people: and I will assure thee O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me. There shall no strange god be in thee: neither shalt thou worship any other god. I am the lord thy god, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide and I shall fill it. But my people would not hear my boyce: and Israel would not obey me. So I gave them up unto their own hearts lust: and let them follow their own imaginations. O that my people would have hearkened unto me: for if Israel had walked in my ways. I should soon have put down their enemies; and turned my hand against their adversaries. The haters of the lord should have been found liars: but their time should have endured for ever. He should have fed them also with the finest wheat flower: and with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee. Deus stetit in Sinagoga. Psal. lxxxii. Evening prayer. GOd standeth in the congregation of Princes: he is judge among gods. How long will ye give wrong judgement: and accept the persons of the ungodly? Defend the poor and fatherless: see that such as be in need and necessity have right. deliver the outcast and poor: save them from the hand of the ungodly. They will not be learned, nor understand, but walk on still in darkness: all the foundations of the earth be out of course. I have said: ye are Gods, and ye all are children of the most highest. But ye shall die like men: and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O god, and judge thou the earth: for thou shalt take all heathen to thine inheritance. Deus quissimilis. psal. lxxxiii. HOld not thy tongue, O god: keep not still silence, refrain not thyself O god. For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring: and they that hate thee have lift up their head. They have imagined craftily against thy people: and taken counsel against thy secret ones. They have said, come and let us root them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have cast their heads together with one consent: and are confederate against thee. The tabernacles of the Edomites and the Ismaelites: the Moabites, and Hagarenes. Geball and Ammon, and Amelech; the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tire. Assur also is joined unto them: and hath helped the children of Loth. But do thou to them as unto the Madianites: unto Sisera, and unto jabin at the broke of Kison. Which perished at Endor: and became as the dung of the earth. Make them and their Princes like Oreb and zeb: yea make all their Princes like as zeba and Salmana. Which say: let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. O my god, make them like unto a wheel: and as the stubble before the wind. Like as the fire that burneth up the wood: and as the flame that consumeth the mountains. Persecute them even so with thy tempest: and make them afraid with thy storm. Make their faces ashamed, O Lord: that they may seek thy name. Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more: let them be put to shame and perish. And they shall know, that thou (whose name is jehovah) art only the most highest over all the earth. Quam dilecta tabernacula. Psal. lxxxiiii. O How amiable are thy dwellings: thou Lord of hosts. My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young: even thy altars O Lord of hosts, my king and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be always praising thee. Blessed is that man, whose strength is in thee: in whose heart are thy ways. Which going through the veil of misery, use it for a well: and the pools are filled with water. They will go from strength to strength: and unto the God of Gods appeareth every one of them in Zion. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken O God of jacob. Behold, O God our defender: and look upon the face of thine anointed. For one day in thy courts: is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door keeper in the house of my god: then to dwell in the tents of ungodliness. For the lord god is a light and defence: the Lord will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life. O Lord God of hosts: blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee. Benedixisti domine. psal. lxxxv. LOrd thou art become gracious unto thy land: thou hast turned a way the captivity of jacob. Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people: and covered all their sins. Thou hast taken a way all thy displeasure: and turned thyself from thy wrathful indignation. Turn us then, O God our saviour: and let thine anger cease from us. Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever? & wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to an other? Wilt thou not turn again and quicken us? that thy people may rejoice in thee. Show us thy mercy, O Lord: and grant us thy salvation. I will hearken what the lord god will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace unto his people and to his saints, that they turn not again. For his salvation is nigh them that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall flourish out of the earth: and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. Yea, the lord shall show loving kindness: and our land shall give her increase. Righteousness shall go before him: and he shall direct his going in the way. Inclina domine aurem. psal. lxxxvi. Morning prayer. BOw down thine ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am poor and in misery. Preserve thou my soul, for I am holy: my god save thy servant, that putteth his trust in thee. Be merciful unto me, O lord: for I will call daily upon thee. Comfort the soul of thy servant: for unto thee (O lord) do I lift up my soul. For thou lord art good and gracious: and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee. give eare Lord unto my prayer: and ponder the voice of mine humble desires. In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou hearest me. Among the gods there is none like unto thee (O Lord:) there is not one that can do as thou dost. All nations whom thou hast made, shall come and worship thee, O Lord: and shall glorify thy name. For thou art great, and dost wondrous things: thou art God alone. Teach me thy way (O Lord) and I will walk in thy truth: O knit my heart unto thee, that it may fear thy name. I will thank thee, O lord my God, with all my heart: and will praise thy name for evermore. For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell. O God, the proud are riesen against me: and the congregation of naughty men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes. But thou (O Lord God) artful of compassion and mercy: long suffering, plenteous in goodness and truth. O turn thee then unto me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the son of thine handmaid. Show some good token upon me for good, that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou Lord hast helped me, and comforted me. Fundamenta eius. Psal. lxxxvii. HEr foundations are upon the holy hills: the Lord loved the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of jacob. Very excellent things are spoken of thee: thou city of God. I will think upon Rahab and Babylon: with them that know me. Behold ye the Philistines also: and they of tire with the Morions, lo there was he borne. And of Zion it shallbe reported, that he was borne in her: and the most high shall stablish her. The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people: that he was borne there. The singers also and Trumpeters shall he rehearse: all my fresh springs shallbe in thee. Domine deus salutis. psal. lxxxviii. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: O let my prayer enter into thy presence, incline thine ear unto my calling. For my soul is full of trouble: and my life draweth nigh unto hell. I am counted as one of them that go down unto the pit: and I have been even as a man that hath no strength. Free among the dead, like unto them that be wounded and lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance: and are cut away from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darkness: and in the deep. Thine indignation lieth hard upon me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms. Thou hast put a way mine acquaintance far fro me: and made me to be abhorred of them. I am so fast in prison: that I can not get forth. My sight faileth for very trouble: Lord I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto the. Dost thou show wonders among the dead? or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee? Shall thy loving kindness be showed in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? & thy righteousness in the land, where all things are forgotten? Unto thee have I cried, O Lord: and early shall my prayer come before thee. Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul: and hidest thy face fro me? I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die: (even from my youth up) thy terrors have I suffered, with a troubled mind. Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me: and the fear of thee hath undone me. They came round about me daily like water: and compassed me together on every side. My lovers and friends hast thou put a way fro me: and hide mine acquaintance out of my sight. Misericordias domini. psal. lxxxix. Evening prayer. MY s; ong shallbe alway of the loving kindness of the Lord: with my mouth will I ever be showing thy truth: from one generation to another. For I have said, mercy shallbe set up for ever: thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens. I have made a covenant with my chosen: I have sworn unto David my servant. Thy seed will I stablish for ever: and set up thy throne from one generation to another. O Lord, the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous works: and thy truth in the congregation of the saints. For who is he among the clouds: that shallbe compared unto the Lord. And what is he among the Gods: that shallbe like unto the Lord? God is very greatly to be feared in the counsel of the Saints: and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. O Lord God of hosts: who is like unto thee? thy truth (most mighty Lord) is on every side. Thou rulest the raging of the sea: thou stillest the waves thereof, when they arise. Thou haste subdued Egipte, and destroyed it: thou haste scattered thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, & all that therein is. Thou haste made the North and the South: Tabor and Hermon, shall rejoice in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Righteousness and equity is the habitation of thy seat: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Blessed is the people (O Lord) that can rejoice in thee: they shall walk in the light of thy countenance. Their delight shallbe daily in thy name: and in thy righteousness shall they make their boast. For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy loving kindness thou shalt lift up our horns. For the lord is our defence: the holy one of Israel is our King. Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy Saints, and saydste: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people. I have found David my servant: with my holy oil have I anointed him. My hand shall hold him fast: and my arm shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not be able to do him violence: the son of wickedness shall not hurt him. I shall smite down his foes before his face: and plague them that hate him. My truth also and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his dominion also in the sea: and his right hand in the floods. He shall call me: thou art my father, my God, and my strong salvation. And I will make him my first borne: higher than the Kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore: and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever: and his throne as the days of heaven. But if his children forsake my law: and walk not in my judgements. If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments: I will visit their offences with the rod, and their sin with scourges. Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him: nor suffer my truth to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips: I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David. His seed shall endure for ever: and his seat is like as the sun before me. He shall stand fast for evermore as the moan: and as the faithful witness in heaven. But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine anointed: and art displeased at him. Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant: and cast his crown to the ground. Thou hast overthrown all his hedges: and broken down his strong holds. Al they that go by, spoil him: and he is become a rebuke to his neighbours. Thou haste set up the right hand of his enemies: and made all his adversaries to rejoice. Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword: and givest him not victory the battle. Thou hast put out his glory: and cast his throne down to the ground. The days of his youth hast thou shortened: and covered him with dishonour. Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself, for ever? & shall thy wrath burn like fire? O remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men, for nought? What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? and shall he deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Lord, where are thy old loving kindness: which thou sworest unto David in thy truth? Remember (Lord) the rebuke that thy servants have: & how I do bear in my bosom the rebukes of many people. Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee: and slandered the footsteps of thine anointed, praised be the Lord for evermore. Amen. Domine refugium. psalm. xc. Morning prayer. Lord thou hast been our refuge: from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art god fro everlasting, and world without end. Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, come again ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight, are but as yesterday: seeing that is passed as a watch in the night. Assoon as thou scatterest them, they are even as a sleep: & fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green and groweth up: but in the evening it is cut down (dried up) and withered. For we consume away in thy displeasure: and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. Thou haste set our misdeeds before thee: and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are therescore years and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength them but labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter as man feareth, so is thy displeasure. O teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Turn thee again (O lord) at the last: and be gracious unto thy servants. O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon: so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. Comfort us again, now after the time that thou haste plagued us: and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity. Show thy servants thy mark: and their children thy glory. And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us: prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our handy work. Qui habitat. Psalm. xci. WHoso dwelleth under the defence of the most high: shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. I will say unto the lord: thou art my hope and my strong hold, my God, in him will I trust. For he shall deliver thee from the snare of thy hunter: and from the noisome pestilence. He shall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be safe under his feathers: his faithfulness and truth shallbe thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day. For the pestilence that walketh in the darkness: nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon day. A thousand shall fall beside thee: and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee. Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold: and see the reward of the ungodly. For thou lord art my hope: thou hast set thine house of defence very high. There shall no evil happen unto thee: neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his Angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee in their hands: that thou hurt not thy foot against the stone. Thou shalt go upon the Lion and adder: the young Lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore shall I deliver him: I shall set him up, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will hear him: yea, I am with him in trouble, I will deliver him, and bring him to honour. With long life will I satisfy him: & show him my salvation. Bonum est confitere. Psalm. xcii. IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the lord: & to sing praises unto thy name, O most high. To tell of thy loving kindness early in the morning: and of thy truth in the night season. Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the lute: upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp. For thou Lord hast made me glad through thy works: and I will rejoice in giving praise, for the operations of thy hands. O lord, how glorious are thy works: and thy thoughts are very deep. An unwise man doth not well consider this: and a fool doth not understand it. When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when all the works of wickedness do storyshe: then shall they be destroyed for ever, but thou lord art the most high for evermore. For lo, thine enemies, O Lord, lo thine enemies shall perish: and all the workers of wickedness shallbe destroyed. But my horn shall be exalted, like the horn of an unicorn: for I am anointed with fresh oil. Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies: and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wicked that rise up against me. The righteous shall flourish like a Palm tree: and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus. Such as be planted in the house of the lord: shall flourish in the courts (of the house of our God.) They shall also bring forth more fruit in their age: and shallbe fat and well liking. That they may show how true the Lord my strength is: and that there is none unrighteousness in him. Dominus regnavit. Psalm. xciii. Evening prayer. THe Lord is king, hath put on glorious apparel: the lord hath put on his apparel, and girded himself with strength. He hath made the round world so sure: that it cannot be moved. Ever sense the world began hath thy seat been prepared: thou art from everlasting. The floods are risen (O Lord) the floods have lift up their noise: the floods lift up their waves. The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly: but yet the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier. Thy testimonies O Lord are very sure: holiness becometh thine house for ever. Deus ultionum. Psal. xciiii. O Lord god to whom vengeance belongeth: thou god to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself. Arise thou judge of the world: and reward the proud after their deserving. Lord how long shall the ungodly: how long shall the ungodly triumph. How long shall wicked doers speak so disdainfully: and make such proud boasting. They smite down thy people, O Lord: and trouble thine heritage. They murder the widow, and the stranger: and put the fatherless to death. And yet they say, tush, the Lord shall not see: neither shall the god of jacob regard it. Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that made the eye, shall he not see? Or he that nurtereth the Heathen: it is he that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not punish? The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man: that they are but vain. Blessed is the man, whom thou chastenest (O lord:) and teachest in thy law. That thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity: until the pit be digged up for the ungodly. For the Lord will not fail his people: neither will he forsake his inheritance. Until righteousness turn again unto judgement: all such as be true of heart shall follow it. Who will rise up with me against the wicked? or who will take my part against the evil doers? If the Lord had not helped me: it had not failed, but my soul had been put to silence. But when I said, my foot hath slipped: thy mercy (O lord) helped me up. In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart: thy comforts have refreshed my soul. Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stole of wickedness: which imagineth mischief as a law? They gather them together against the soul of the righteous: and condemn the innocent blood. But the lord is my refuge: and my god is the strength of my confidence. He shall recompense them their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice: yea, Lord our God shall destroy them. Venite exultemus. psal. xcv. Morning Prayer. O Come, let us sing unto the lord: let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanks giving: and show ourselves glad in him with Psalms. For the Lord is a great God: and a great king above all Gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his and he made it: and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is (the Lord) our god: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hands. To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness. When your fathers tempted me: proved me and saw my works. Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said: it is a people that door err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways. Unto whom I swore in my wrath: that they should not enter into my rest. Cantate domino canticum. psal. xcvi. O Sing unto the lord a new song: sing unto the lord, all the whole earth. Sing unto the Lord, and praise his name: be telling of his salvation from day to day. Declare his honour unto the Heathen: and his wonders unto all people. For the lord is great, and cannot worthily be praised: he is more to be feared then all gods. As for all the gods of the Heathen, they be but Idols: but it is the Lord that made the heavens. Glory and worship are before him: power and honour are in his Sanctuary. ascribe unto the Lord (O ye kindreds of the people:) ascribe unto the Lord worship and power. Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his name: bring presents, and come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth stand in awe of him. Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is king: and that it is he which hath made the round world so fast that it cannot be moved, and how that he shall judge the people righteously. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is. Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord. For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: and with righteousness to judge the world, and the people with his truth. Domimus regnavit. Psal. xcvii. THe Lord is king: the earth may be glad thereof, yea the multitude of the Isles may be glad thereof. Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgement are the habitation of his seat. There shall go a fire before him: and bunre up his enemies on every side. His lightenings gave shine unto the world: the earth saw it and was afraid. The hills melted like wax at the presence of the lord: at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. The heavens have declared his righteousness: and all the people have seen his glory. Confounded be all they that worship carved images, and that delight in vain gods: worship him all ye gods. Zion heard of it, and rejoiced: and the daughters of juda were glad, because of thy judgement O Lord. For thou lord art hire then all that are in the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. O ye that love the Lord, see that ye hate the thing which is evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly. There is sprung up a light for the righteous: and a joyful gladness for such as be true hearted. Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous: and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness. Cantate domino. Psal. xcviii. Evening prayer. O Sing unto the Lord a new song: for he hath done marvelous things. With his own right hand, and with his holy arm: hath he gotten himself the victory. The Lord declared his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the Heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel: and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our god. Show pour selves joyful unto the Lord all ye lands: sing, rejoice, and give thanks. Psrayse the Lord upon the harp: sing to the harp with a Psalm of thanksgiving. With trumpets also and shawms: O show yourselves joyful before the Lord the King. Let the Sea make a noise, and all that therein is: the round world, and they that dwell therein. Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord: for he is come to judge the earth. With righteousness shall he judge the world: and the people with equity. Dominus regnavit. psalm. xcix. THe Lord is king, be the people never so unpatient: he sitteth between the Cherubins, be the earth never so unquiet. The Lord is great in Zion: and high above all people. They shall give thanks unto thy name: which is great, wonderful, and holy. The Kings power loveth judgement, thou haste prepared equity: thou hast executed judgement and righteousness in jacob. O magnify the Lord our God: and fall down before his footstool, for he is holy. Moses and Aaron among his Priests, and Samuel among such as call upon his name: these called upon the Lord, and he heard them. He spoke unto them out of the cloudy pillar: for they kept his testimonies, and the law that he gave them. Thou heardest them (O Lord our God:) thou forgavest them, O God, and punishedst their own inventions. O magnify the Lord our God: and worship him upon his holy hill, for the Lord our God is holy. Iubilate deo. psalm. c. O Be joyful in the lord (all ye lands:) serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves, we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and speak good of his name. For the lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting: and his truth endureth from generation to generation. Misericordiam &. psalm. ci. MY song shallbe of mercy and judgement: unto thee (O lord) will I sing. O let me have understanding: in the way of godliness. When wilt thou come unto me: I will walk in my house with a perfect heart. I will take no wicked thing in hand: I hate the sins of unfaithfulness, there shall no such cleave unto me. A froward heart shall departed from me: I will not know a wicked person. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour: him will I destroy. Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomach: I will not suffer him. Mine eyes look upon such as be faithful in the land: that they may dwell with me. Whoso leadeth a godly life: he shallbe my servant. There shall no deceitful person dwell in my house: he that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my sight. I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land: that I may root out all wicked doers from the city of the Lord. Domine exaudi oracionem meam. psalm. cii. Morning prayer. Hear my prayer, O Lord: and let my crying come in unto thee. Hide not thy face fro me in the time of my trouble: incline thine ears unto me when I call, O hear me, and that right soon. For my days are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are brent up, as it were a firebrand. My heart is smitten down, and withered like graze: so that I forgeat to eat my bread. For the voice of my groaning; my bones will scant cleave to my flesh. I am become like a Pelican of the wilderness: and like an Owl that is in the desert. I have watched, and am even as it were a sparrow: that sitteth alone upon the house top. Mine enemies revile me all the day long: and they that are mad upon me, are sworn together against me. For I have eaten ashes as it mere bread: and mingled my drink with weeping. And that because of thine indignation and wrath: for thou hast taken me up, and cast me down. My days are gone like a shadow: and I am withered like grass. But thou (O lord) shalt endure for ever: and thy remembrance throughout all generations. Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for it is time that thou have mercy upon her, yea the time is come. And why? thy servants think upon her siones: and it pietieth them to see her in the dust. The Heathen shall fear thy name, O Lord: and all the Kings of the earth thy Majesty. When the Lord shall build up Zion: and when his glory shall appear. When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poor destitute: and despiseth not their desire. This shallbe written for those that come after: and the people which shallbe borne, shall praise the Lord. For he hath looked down from his sanctuary: out of the heaven did the lord bebold the earth. That he might hear the mournings of such as be in captivity: and deliver the children appointed unto death. That they may declare the name of the Lord in Zion: and his worship at jerusalem. When the people are gathered together: and the kingdoms also to serve the Lord. He brought down my strength in my journey: and shortened my days. But I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of mine age: as for thy years, they endure througeout all generations. Thou Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundations of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: they all shall wax old as doth a garment. And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. The children of the servants shall continue: and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight. Benedic anima mea. psalm. ciii. Praise the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul: and forgeat not all his benefits. Which forgiveth all thy sin: and healeth all thine infirmities. Which saveth thy life from destruction: and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindness. Which satisfied thy mouth with good thyges: making thee young and lusty as an Eagle. The Lord executeth rygteousnes and judgement: for all them that are oppressed with wrong. He showed his ways unto Moses: his works unto the children of Israel. The lord is full of compassion and mercy: long suffering, and of great goodness. He will not always be chiding: neither kepet he his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins: nor rewarded us according to our wickednesses. For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth: so great is his mercy also toward them that fear him. Look how wide also the East is from the West: so far hath he set our snnes from us. Yea like as a father pitieth his own children: even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. For he knoweth whereof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust. The days of man are but as grass: for he flourisheth as a flower of the field. For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone: and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever, and ever, upon them that fear him: and his righteousness upon childers children. Even upon such as keep his covenant: and think upon his commandments to do them. The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven: and his kingdom ruleth over all. O praise the Lord ye Angels of his, ye that excel in strength: ye that fulfil his commandment, and hearken unto the voice of his words. O praise the Lord all ye his hosts: ye servants of his, that do his pleasure. O speak good of the Lord all ye works of his, in all places of his dominion: praise thou the Lord, O my soul. Benedic anima mea. psalm. ciiii. Evening prayer. PRaise the Lord, O my soul, O Lord my God: thou art become exceeding glorious, thou art clothed with majesty and honour. Thou deckest thyself with light, as it were with a garment: and spredest out the heavens like a curtain. Which layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind. He maketh his angels spirits: and his ministers a flaming fire. He laid the foundations of the earth: that it never should move at any time. Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment: the waters stand in the hills. At thy rebuke they sty: at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid. They go up as high as the hills, and down in the valleys beneath: even unto the place which thou hast appointed for them. Thou hast set them their bonds which they shall not pass: neither turn again to cover the earth. He sendeth the springs into the rivers, which run among the hills. All beasts of the field drink thereof: and the wild Asses quench their thirst. Beside them shall the fowls of the air have their habitation: and sing among the branches. He watereth the hills from above: the earth is filled with the fruit of thy works. He bringeth forth grass for the cattle: and green herb for the service of men. That he may bring food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the heart of man: & oil to make him a cheerful countenance, and bread to strength man's heart. The trees of the Lord also are full of sap: even the Ceders of Libanus which he hath planted. Wherein the birds make their nests: and the fir trees are a dwelling for the Stork. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats: and so are the stony rocks for the Coneys. He appointed the Moon for certain seasons: and the Sun knoweth his going down. Thou makest darkness that it may be night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do move. The lions roaring after their pray: do seek their meat at God. The Sun ariseth, and they get them away together: and lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth to his work and to his labour: until the evening. O Lord, how manifold are thy works? in wisdom hast thou made them all, the earth is full of thy riches. So is the great and wide sea also: wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships, and there is that Leviathan: whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein. These wait all upon thee: that thou mayst give them meat in due season. When thou givest it them, they gather it: and when thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good. When thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: when thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their dust. When thou lettest thy breath go forth, they shallbe made: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth. The glorious majesty of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works. The earth shall tremble at the look of him: if he do but touch the hills, they shall smoke. I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will praise my God while I have my being. And so shall my words please him: my joy shallbe in the Lord. As for sinners, they shallbe consumed out of the earth, and the ungodly shall come to an end: praise thou the lord, O my soul praise the Lord. Confitemini domino. psalm. cv. Morning prayer. O give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his name: tell the people what things he hath done. O let your songs be of him, and praise him: and let your talking be of all his wondrous works. Rejoice in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. Seek the Lord and his strength: seek his face evermore. Remember the marvelous works that he hath done: his wonders, and the judgements of his mouth. O ye seed of Abraham his servant: ye children of jacob his chosen. He is the Lord our God: his judgements are in all the world. He hath been always mindful of his covenant and promise: that he made to a thousand generations. Even the covenant that he made with Abraham: and the oath that he swore unto Isaac. And appointed the same unto jacob for a law: and to Israel for an everlasting Testament. Saying, unto thee will I give the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance. When there was yet but a few of them: and they strangers in the land. What time as they went from one nation to another: from one kingdom to another people. He suffered no man to do them wrong: but reproved even kings for their sakes. touch not mine anointed: and do my Prophets no harm. Moreover, he called for a dearth upon the land: and destroyed all the provision of bread. But he had sent a man before them: even joseph which was sold to be a bond servant. Whose feet they hurt in the stocks: the iron entered into his soul. Until the time came that his cause was known: the word of the Lord tried him. The king sent, and delivered him: the Prince of the people let him go free. He made him Lord also of his house: and ruler of all his substance. That he might inform his Princes after his will: and teach his Senators wisdom. Israel also came into Egypt: and jacob was a stranger in the land of Ham. And he increased his people exceedingly: and made them stronger than their enemies. Whose heart turned so that they hated his people: and dealt untruly with his servants. Then sent he Moses his servant: and Aaron, whom he had chosen. And these showed his tokens among them: and wonders in the land of Ham. He sent darkness, and it was dark: and they were not obedient unto his word. He turned their waters into blood: and slew their fish. Their land brought forth frogs: yea, even in their kings chambres. He spoke the word, and there came all manner of flies: and lice in all their quarters. He gave them hail stones for rain: and slambes of fire in their land. He smote their vines also, and fig trees: and destroyed the trees, that were in their coasts. He spoke the word, and the grasshoppers came, & Caterpillars innumerable: & did eat up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. He smote all the first borne in their land: even the chief of all their strength. He brought them forth also with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among their tribes. Egypt was glad at their departing: for they were afraid of them. He spread out a cloud to be a covering: and fire to give light in the night season. At their desire, he brought quails: and he filled them with the bread of heaven. He opened the rock of stone, and the waters flowed out: so that rivers ran in the dry places. For why? he remembreth his holy promise: and Abraham his servant. And he brought forth his people with joy: and his chosen with gladness. And gave them the lands of the Heathen: and they took the labours of the people in possession. That they might keep his statutes: & observe his laws. Confitemini domino. psal. cvi. Evening prayer. O give thanks unto the lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. Who can express the noble acts of the lord: or show forth all his praise? B1essed are they that alway keep judgement: and do righteousness. Remember O lord, according to thy favour, that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation. That I may see the felicity of thy chosen: and rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance. We have sinned with our fathers: we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly. Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance: but were disobedient at the sea, even at the red sea. Nevertheless, he helped them for his name's sake: that he might make his power to be known. He rebuked the red sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep, as through a wilderness. And he saved them from the adversaries hand: and delivered them from the hand of the enemy. As for those that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them: there was not one of them left. Then believed they his words: and sang praise unto him. But within a while they forgot his works: and would not abide his counsel. But lust came upon them in the wilderness: and they tempted god in the desert. And he gave them their desire: and sent leanness withal into their soul. They angered Moses also in the tents: and Aaron the saint of the Lord. So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiram. And the fire was kiendled in their company: the flame brent up the ungodly. They made a calf in Horeb: and worshipped the molten image. Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf: that eateth hay. And they forgot god their saviour: which had done so great things in Egypt. Wondrous works in the land of Ham: and fearful things by the red sea. So he said, he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his choose stand before him in the gap: to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them. Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land: and gave no credence unto his word. But murmured in their tents: and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. Then lift he up his hand against them: to overthrow them in the wilderness. To cast out their seed among the nations: and to scatter: them in the lands. They joined themselves unto Baal Peor: and eat the offerings of the dead. Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions: and the plague was great among them. Then stood up Phinees, & prayed: & so the plague ceased. And that was counted unto him forrighteousnes: among all posterities for evermore. They angered him also at the waters of strife: so that he punished Moses for their sakes. Because they provoked his spirit so: that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. Neither destroyed they the Heathen: as the Lord commanded them. But were mingled among the Heathen: and learned their works. Insomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to their own decay: yea, they offered their sons, and daughters unto devils. And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters: whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, and the land was defiled with blood. Thus were they stained with their own works: and went a whoring with their own inventions. Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people: insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. And he gave them over into the hand of the Heathen: and they that hated them, were Lords over them. Their enemies oppressed them: & had them in subjection. Many a time did he deliver them: but they rebelled against him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness. Nevertheless, when he saw their adverstie: he heard their complaint. He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies: yea, he made all those that had led them away captive to pity them. Deliver us O lord our god, and gather us from among the Heathen: that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and make our boast of thy praise. Blessed be the Lord god of Israel, from everlasting and world without end: and let all people say. Amen. Confitemini domino. Psal. cvii Morning prayer. O give thanks unto the lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. Let them give thanks: whom the Lord hath redeemed, and delivered from the hand of the enemy. And gathered them out of the lands: from the East, and from the west, from the North, and from the South. They went astray in the wilderness out of the way: and found no city to dwell in. Hungry, and thirsty: their soul fainted in them. So they cried unto the lord in their trouble: and he delivered them from their distress. He led them forth by the right way: that they might go to the city where they dwelled. O that men would therefore praise the lord, for his goodness: and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men. For he satisfied the empty soul: and filleth the hungry soul with gladness. Such as sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: being fast bound in misery and iron. Because they rebelled against the words of the lord: and lightly regarded the counsel of the most high. He also brought down their heart thorough heaviness: they fell down, and there was none to help them up. So when they cried unto the lord in their trouble: he delivered them out of their distress. For he brought them out of darkness: and out of the shadow of death: and broke their bonds in sunder. O that men would therefore praise the lord for his goodness: and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men. For he hath broken the gates of brass: and smitten the bars of iron in sunder. Foolish men are plagued for their offence: and because of their wickedness. Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they were even hard at deaths door. So, when they cried unto the lord in their trouble: he delivered them out of their distress. He sent his word and healed them: and they were saved from their destruction. O that men would therefore praise the lord for his goodness: and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men. That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanks giving: and tell out his works with gladness. They that go down to the sea ships: and occupy their business in great waters. These men see the works of the lord: and his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth: which lifteth up the waves thereof. They are carried up to heaven, and down again to the deep: their soul melteth away because of the trouble. They rele to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man: and are at their wits end. So when they cry unto lord in their trouble: he delivereth them out of their distress. For he maketh the storm to cease: so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad, because they be at rest: and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. O that men would therefore praise the lord for his goodness: and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men. They that would exalt him also in the congregation of the people: and praise him in the seat of the elders. Which turneth the floods into a wilderness: and drieth up the water springs. A fruitful land maketh he barren: for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Again, he maketh the wilderness a standing water: and water springs of a dry ground. And there he setteth the hungry: that they may build them a city to dwell in. That they may sow their land: and plant vineyards to yield them fruits of increase. He blesseth them so that they multiply exceedingly: and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. And again, when they are minished and brought low: through oppression, through plague or trouble. Though he suffer them to be evil entreated through Tyrants: & let them wander out of the way in the wilderness. Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery: and maketh him households like a flock of sheep. The righteous will consider this, and rejoice: and the mouth of all wickedness shallbe stopped. Whoso is wise, will ponder these things: and they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. Paratum cormeum. psal. cviii. Evening prayer. O God, my heart is ready (my heart is ready:) I will sing and give praise, with the best member that I have. Awake thou lute and harp: I myself will awake right early. I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing praises unto thee, among the nations. For thy mercy is greater than the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. Set up thyself O god, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth. That thy beloved may be delivered: let thy right hand save them, and hear thou me. God hath spoken in his holiness: I will rejoice therefore, and denied Sichem, and meet out the valley of Sucoth. Gilead is mine, and Manasses is mine: Ephraim also is the strength of mine head. juda is my law giver, Mcab is my washepot: over Edom will I cast out my shoe, upon the Philistines will I triumph. Who will lead me into the strong city? and who will bring me into Edom? Hast not thou forsaken us O god? and wilt not thou god, go forth with our hosts? O help us against the enemy: for vain is the help of man. Through god we shall do great Acts: and it is he that shall tread down our enemies Deus laudem. psal. cix. HOld not thy tongue (O god) of my praise: for the mouth of the ungodly, yea and the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me. And they have spoken against me with false tongues: they compassed me about also with words of hatred, & fought against me without a cause. For the love that I had unto them: lo they take now the contrary part, but I give myself unto prayer. Thus have they rewarded me evil for good: and hatred for my good will. Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. When sentence is given upon him, let him be condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sin. Let his days be few: and let an other take his office. Let his children be fatherless: and his wife a wiedowe. Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread: let them seek it also out of desolate places. Let the extortioner consume all that he hath: and let the strangers spoil his labour. Let there be no man to piety him: nor to have compassion upon his fatherless children. Let his posterity be destroyed: and in the next generation, let his name be clean put out. Let the wickedness of his fathers, be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be done away. Let them alway be before the lord: that he may root but the memorial of them from of the earth. And that because his mind was not to do good: but persecuted the poor helpless man, that he might slay him that was vexed at the heart. His delight was in cursing, and it shall happen unto him: he loved not blessing, therefore shall it be far from him. He clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment: and it shall come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. Let it be unto him as a cloak that he hath upon him: and as the girdle that he is alway girded withal. Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies: and to those that speak evil against my soul. But deal thou with me (O lord god) according unto thy name: for sweet is my mercy. O deliver me, for I am helpless and poor: and my heart is wounded within me. I go hence like the shadow that departeth: and am driven away as the grasshopper. My knees are weak through fasting: my flesh is dried up for want of fatness. I became also a rebuke unto them: they that looked upon me, shaked their heads. Help me, (O Lord my God:) Oh save me according to thy mercy. And they shall know how that this is thy hand: and that thou Lord hast done it. Though they curse, yet bless thou: and let them be confounded that rise up against me, but let thy servant rejoice. Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame: and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a cloak. As for me, I will give great thanks unto the lord with my mouth: and praise him among the multitude. For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor: to save his soul from unrighteous judges. Dixit dominus domino meo. Psal. cx. Morning prayer. THe lord said unto my lord: sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Zion: be thou ruler even in the midst among thine enemies. In the day of thy power shall the people offer the free will offerings with an holy worship: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. The lord swore and will not repent: thou art a Priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedech. The lord upon the right hand: shall wound even kings, in the day of his wrath. He shall be judge among the heathen: be shall fill the places with dead bodies, and smite in sunder the heads over diverse cowtreies'. He shall drink in the broke of the way: therefore shall he life up his head. Confitebor tibi domine. psal. cxi. I Will give thanks unto the lord, with my whole heart: secretly among the faithful, and in the congregation. The works of the lord are great: sougt out of all them that have pleasure therein. His work is worthy to be praised and had in honour: and his righteousness, endureth for ever. The merciful and gracious lord hath so done his marvelous works: that they ought to be had in remembrance. He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he shall ever be mindful of his covenant. He hath showed his people the power of his works: that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. The works of his hands are verity and judgement: all his commandments are true. They stand fast for ever and ever: and are done in truth and equity. He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever, holy and reverent is his name. The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do thereafter, the praise of it endureth for ever. Beatus vir. psal. cxii. BLessed is the man that feareth the lord: he hath great delight in his commandments. His seed shallbe mighty upon earth: the generation of the faithful shallbe blessed. Riches and plenteousness shallbe in his house: and his rightteousnes endureth for ever. Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darkness: he is merciful, loving and righteous. A good man is merciful and dareth: and will guide his words with discretion. For he shall never be moved: and the righteous shallbe had in an everlasting remembrance. He will not be afraid for any evil tidings: for his heart standeth fast, and believeth in the Lord. His heart is established and will not shrink: until he see his desire upon his enemies. He hath dispersed abroad, and given to the poor: and his righteousness remaineth for ever, his horn shall be exalted with honour. The ungodly shall see it, and it shall grieve him: he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away, the desire of the ungodly shall perish. Laudate pueri. psal. cxiii. PRaise the lord (ye servants:) O praise the name of the lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord: from this time forth for evermore. The lords name is praised: from the rising up of the Sun, unto the going down of the same. The lord is high above all heathen: and his glory above the heavens. Who is like unto the lord our god, that hath his dwelling so high? and yet humbleth himself, to behold the things that are in heaven and earth. He taketh up the simple out of the dust: and lifteth the poor out of the mire. That he may set him with the princes: even with the princes of his people. He maketh the barren woman to keep house: and to be a joyful mother of children. In exitu Israel. Psal. cxiiii. Evening prayer. WHen Israel came out of Egipte: and the house of jacob from among the strange people. juda was his sanctuary: and Israel his dominion. the sea saw that, and fled: jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like Rams: and the little hills like young sheep. What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou steddest? and thou jordan that thou wart driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like Rams? and ye little hills like young sheep? Tremble thou earth at the presence of the lord: at the presence of the god of jacob. which turned the hard rock into a standing water: and the flint stone into a springing well. Non nobis domine. Psal. cxv. NOt unto us (O Lord) not unto us, but unto thy name give the praise: for thy loving mercy, and for thy truths sake. Wherefore shall the heathen say: where is now their God? as for our god he is in heaven: he hath done whatsoever pleased him. Their Idols are silver and gold: even the work of men's hands. They have mouth and speak not: eyes have they and see not. They have ears, and hear not: noses have they and smell not. They have hands and handle not: feet have they and walk not, neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them: and so are all such as put their trust in them. But thou house of Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their succour and defence. Ye house of Aaron, put your trust in the lord: he is their helper and defender. Ye that fear the Lord, trust ye in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. The Lord hath been mindful of us, and he shall bless us: even he shall bless the house of Israel, he shall bless the house of Aaron. He shall bless them that fear the Lord: both small and great. The Lord shall increase you more and more: you and your children. Ye are the blessed of the Lord: which made heaven and earth. All the whole heavens are the Lords: the earth hath he given to the children of men. The dead praise not thee (O Lord:) neither all they that go down into the silence. But we will praise the Lord: from this time forth for evermore. Dilexi quoniam. Psal. cxvi. Morning prayer. I Am well pleased: that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer. That the hath inclined his care unto me: therefore will I call upon him, as long as I live. The snares of death compassed me round about: and the pains of hell gate hold upon me. I shall find trouble and heaviness, and I shall call upon the name of the lord: (O lord) I beseech thee deliver my soul. Gracious is the lord and righteous: yea out god is merciful. The lord preserveth the simple: I was in misery, and he helped me. Turn again then unto thy rest O my soul: for the lord hath rewarded thee. And why? thou hast delivered my soul from death: mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the lord: in the land of the living. I believed, and therefore will I speak: but I was sore troubled, I said in my haste, all men are liars. What reward shall I give unto the Lord: for all the benefits that he hath done unto me? I will receive the cup of salvation: and call upon the name of the lord. I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people: right dear in the sight of the Lord, is the death of his saints. Behold (O lord) how that I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid, thou hast broken my bones in sunder. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving: and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the sight of all his people: in the courts of the lords house, even in the midst of thee, O jerusalem, Praise the Lord. Laudate dominum. psal. cxvii. O Praise the Lord all ye heathen: praise him all ye nations. For his merciful kindness is ever more and more toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever, Praise the Lord. Consitemini domino. psal. cxviii. O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: because his mercy endurerth for ever. Let Israel now confess that he is gracious: and that his merry endureth for ever. Let the house of Aaron now confess: that his mercy endureth for ever. Yea, let them now that fear the Lord confess: that his mercy endureth for ever. I called upon the Lord in trouble: and the lord heard me at large. The lord is on my side: I will not fear what man doth unto me. The lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon mine enemies. It is better to trust in the lord: then to put any confidence in man. It is better to trust in the lord: then to put any confidence in Princes. All nations compassed me round about: but in the name of the lord will I destroy them. They kept me in on every side, they kept me in (I say) on every side: but in the name of the lord I will destroy them. They came about me like Bees: and are extinct, even as the fire among the thorns, for in the name of the lord I will destroy them. Thou hast thrust sore at me, that I might fall: but the lord was my help. The lord is my strength and my song: and is become my salvation. The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous: the right hand of the lord bringeth mighty things to pass. The right hand of the lord hath the pre-eminence: the right hand of the lord bringeth mighty things to pass. I will not die, but live: and declare the works of the lord. The lord hath chastened and corrected me: but he hath not given me over unto death. Open me the gates of righteousness: that I may go into them, and give thanks unto the lord. This is the gate of the lord: the righteous shall enter into it. I will thank thee, for thou hast heard me: and art become my salvation. Thesame stone which the builders refused: is become the head stone in the corner. This is the lords doing: & it is marvelous in our eyes. This was the day which the lord hath made: we will rejoice and be glad in it. Help (me) now O lord: O lord, send us now prosperity. B1essed be he that cometh in the name of the lord: we have wished you good luck, ye that be of the house of the lord. God is the lord, which hath showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, yea even unto the horns of the altar. Thou art my god, and I will thank thee: thou art my God, and I will praise thee. O give thanks unto the lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. Beati immaculati. psal. cxix. Evening prayer. BLessed are those that be undefyied in the way: and walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies: and seek him wih their whole heart. for they which do no wickedness: walk in his ways. Thou hast charged: that we shall diligently keep thy commandments. O that my ways were made so direct: that I might keep thy statutes. So shall I not be confounded: while I have respect unto all the commandments. I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart: when I shall have learned the judgements of thy righteousness. I will keep thy Ceremonies: O forsake me not utterly. In quo corrigit. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? even by ruling himself after thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments. Thy words have I hid within mine heart: that I should not sin against thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes. With my lips have I been telling: of all the judgements of thy mouth. I have had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies: as in all manner of riches. I will talk of thy commandments: and have respect unto thy ways. My delight shallbe in thy statutes: and I will not forgeat thy word. Retribue servo. I Do well unto thy servant: that I may live and keep thy word. Open thou mine eyes: that I may see the wondrous things of thy law. I am a stranger upon earth: O hide not thy commandments. My soul breaketh out for the very servant desire: that he hath always unto thy judgements. Thou hast rebuked the proud: and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments. O turn fro me shame and rebuke: for I have kept thy testimonies. Prince's also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes. For thy testimonies are my delight: and my counsellors. Adhesit pavimento. MY soul cleaveth to the dust: O quicken thou me according to thy word. I have knowledged my ways: and thou heardest me: O teach me thy statutes. Make me to understand the way of thy commandments: and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. My soul melteth away for very heaviness: comfort thou me according to thy word. Take fro me the way of lying: and cause thou me to make much of thy law. I have chosen the way of truth: and thy judgements have I laid before me. I have sticken unto thy testimonies: O Lord confound me not. I will run the way of thy commandments: when thou hast set my heart at liberty. Legem pone. Morning prayer. Teach me O Lord, the way of thy statutes: and I shall keep it unto the end. give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law: yea, I shall keep it with my whole heart. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments: for theirin is my desire. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies: and not to covetousness. O turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity: and quicken thou me in thy way. O establish thy word in thy servant: that I may fear thee. Take away the rebuke that I am afraid of: for thy judgements are good. Behold, my delight is in thy commandments: O quicken me in thy righteousness. Et veniat super me. LEt thy loving mercy come also unto me, O lord: even thy salvation according unto thy word. So shall I make answer unto my blasphemers: for my trust is in thy word. O take not the word of thy truth utterly out of my mouth: for my hope is in thy judgements. So shall I always keep thy law: yea, for ever and ever. And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy commandments. I will speak of thy testimonies also, even before kings: and will not be ashamed. And my delight shallbe in thy commandments: which I have loved. My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments which I have loved: and my study shallbe in thy statutes. Memor esto verbi tui. O Think upon thy servant, as concerning thy word: wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust. Thesame is my comfort in my trouble: for thy word hath quickened me. The proud have had me exceedingly in derision: yet have I not shrinked from thy law. For I remember thine everlasting judgements, O lord: and rececyved comfort. I am horribly afraid: for the ungodly that forsake thy law. Thy statutes have been my songs: in the house of my pilgrimage. I have thought on thy name O Lord, in the night season: and have kept thy law. This I had: because I kept thy commandments. Portio mea domine. THou art my portion O lord: I have promised to keep thy law. I made mine humble petition in thy presence with my whole heart: O be merciful unto me, according unto thy word. I called mine own ways to remembrance: and turn my feet into thy testimonies. I made haste: and prolonged not the time to keep thy commandments. The congregation of the ungodly have rob me: but I have not forgotten thy law. At midnight I will rise, to give thanks unto thee: because of thy righteous judgements. I am a companion of all them that fear thee: and keep thy commandments. The earth, O Lord is full of thy mercy: O teach me thy statutes. Bonitatem fecisti. O Lord, thou hast dealt graciously with thy servant: according unto thy word. O learn me true understanding and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. Before I was troubled I went wrong: but now have I kept thy word. Thou art good and gracious: O teach me thy statutes. The proud have imagined a lie against me: but I will keep thy commandments with my whole heart. Their heart is fat as brawn: but my delight hath been in thy law. It is good for me that I have been in trouble: that I may learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is dearer unto me: then thousands of gold and silver. Manus tue fecerunt me. Evening prayer. THy hands have made me and fashioned me: O give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. They that fear thee will be glad when they see me: because I have put my trust in thy word. I know, O Lord, that thy judgements are right: and that thou of very faithfulness hast caused me to be troubled. O let thy merciful kindness be my comfort: according to thy word unto thy servant. O let thy loving mercies come unto me that I may live: for thy law is my delight. Let the proud be confounded, for they go wickedly about to destroy me: but I will be occupied in thy commandments. Let such as fear thee, and have known thy testimonies: be turned unto me. Oh let my heart be sound in thy statutes: that I be not ashamed. Defecit anima mea. MY soul hath longed for thy salvation: and I have a good hope, because of thy word. Mine eyes long sore for thy word: saying, O when wilt thou comfort me? For I am become like a bottle in the smoke: yet do I not forgeat thy statutes. How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou be avenged of them that persecute me? The proud have digged pits for me: which are not after thy law. Al thy commandments are true: they persecute me falsely, O be thou my help. They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I forsook not thy commandments. O quicken me after thy loving kindness: and so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth. Ineternum domine. O Lord, thy word: endureth for ever in heaven. Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another: thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day, according to thine ordinance: for all things serve thee. If my delight had not been in thy law: I should have perished in my trouble. I will never forgeat thy commandments: for with them thou hast quickened me. I am thine, Oh save me: for I have sought thy commandments. The ungodly laid wait for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. I see that all things come to an end: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Quomodo dilexi. LOrd, what love have I unto thy law? all the day long is my study in it. Thou, through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than my teachers: for thy testimonies are my study. I am wiser than the aged, because I keep thy commandments. I have refrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy word. I have not shrunk from thy judgements: for thou teachest me. O how sweet are thy words unto my throat? yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth. Through thy commandments I get understanding: therefore I hate all wicked ways. Lucerna pedibus meis. Morning prayer. THy word is a lantern unto my feet: and a light unto my paths. I have sworn, and am steadfastly purposed: to keep thy righteous judgements. I am troubled above measure: quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word. Let the free-will offerings of my mouth please thee, O lord: and teach me thy judgements. My soul is always in my hand: yet do not I forgeat thy law. The ungodly have laid a snare for me: but yet I swerved not from thy commandments. Thy testimonies have I claimed as mine heritage for ever: and why? they are the very joy of my heart. I have applied my heart to fulfil thy statutes always: even unto the end. Iniquos odio habui. I Hate them that imagine evil things: but thy law do I love. Thou art my defence and shield: and my trust is in thy word. Away from me ye wicked: I will keep the commandments of my God. O stablish me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be disappointed of my hope. Hold thou me up, and I shallbe safe: yea, my delight shallbe ever in thy statutes. Thou hast trodden down all them that depart from thy statutes: for they imagine but deceit. Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee: and I am afraid of thy judgements. Feci judicium. I Deal with the thing that is lawful and right: O give me not over unto mine oppressors. Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good: that the proud do me no wrong. Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health: & for the word of thy righteousness. O deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy: and teach me thy statutes. I am thy servant: O grant me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies. It is time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand: for they have destroyed thy law. For I love thy commandments: above gold and precious stone. Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments: and all false ways I utterly abhor. Mirabilia. THy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. When thy word goeth forth: it giveth light and understanding, even unto the simple. I opened my mouth, and drew in my breath: for my delight was in thy commandments. O look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me: as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Ordre my steps in thy word: and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me. O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of men: and so shall I keep thy commandments. Show the light of thy countenance upon thy servant: and teach me thy statutes. Mine eyes gush out with water: because men keep not thy law. justus es domine. RIghteous are thou, O Lord: and true is thy judgement. The testimonies that thou hast commanded: are exceeding righteous and true. My zeal hath even consumed me: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. Thy word is tried to the uttermost: and thy servant loveth it. I am small, and of no reputation: yet do not I forgeat thy commandments. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness: and thy law is the truth. Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me: yet is my delight in thy commandments. The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: O grant me understanding, and I shall live. Clamavi in toto cord meo. Evening prayer. I Call with my whole heart: hear me O Lord, I will keep thy statutes. Yea, even upon thee do I call: help me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. Early in the morning do I cry unto thee: for in thy word is my trust. Mine eyes prevent the night watches: that I might be occupied in thy words. Hear my voice (O lord) according unto thy loving kindness: quicken me according as thou art wont. They draw nigh that of malice persecute me: and are far from thy law. Be thou nigh at hand, O Lord: for all thy commandments are true. As concerning thy testimonies, I have known long sense: that thou hast grounded them for ever. Vide humilitatem. O Consider mine adversity, and deliver me: for I do not forgeat thy law. Avenge thou my cause, and deliver me: quicken me, according unto thy word. Health is far from the ungodly: for they regard not thy statutes. Great is thy mercy, O lord: quicken me as thou art wont. Many there are that trouble me, and persecute me: yet do not I serve from thy testimonies. It grieveth me when I see the transgressors: because they keep not thy law. consider O Lord, how I love thy commandments: O quicken me according to thy loving kindness. Thy word is true from everlasting: all the judgements of thy righteousness endure for evermore. Principes persecuti sunt. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy words. I am as glad of thy word: as one that findeth great spoils. As for lies, I hate & abhor them: but thy law do I love. Seven times a day do I praise thee: because of thy righteous judgements. Great is the peace that they have which love thy law: and they are not offended at it. Lord, I have looked for thy saving health: and done after thy commandments. My soul hath kept thy testimonies: and loved them exceedingly. I have kept thy commandments and testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. Appropinquet deprecatio. LEt my complaint come before thee, O Lord: give me understanding, according unto thy word. O let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word. My lips shall speak of thy praise: when thou hast taught me thy statutes. Yea, my tongue shall sing of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteous. Let thine hand help me: for I have chosen thy commandments. I have longed for thy saving health O Lord: and in thy law is my delight. O let my soul live, and it shall praise thee: and thy judgements shall help me. I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: Oh seek thy servant, for I do not forgeat thy commandments. Ad dominum cum tribularer. psal. cxx. Morning prayer. WHen I was in trouble, I called upon the lord: and he healed me. Deliver my soul (O lord) from lying lips: and from a deceitful tongue. What reward shallbe given or done unto thee, thou false tongue? even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals. Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech: and to have mine habitation among the tents of Cedar. My soul hath long dwelled among them: that be enemies unto peace. I labour for peace, but when I speak unto them thereof: they make them ready to battle. Levaui oculos meos. psal. cxxi. I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills: from whence cometh my help. My help cometh even from the lord: which hath made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: and he that keepeth thee, will not sleep. Behold, he that keepeth Israel: shall neither slumber nor sleep. The lord himself is thy keeper: the lord is thy defence upon thy right hand. So that the sun shall not burn thee by day: neither the Moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in: from this time forth for evermore. Letatussum. psal. cxxii. I Was glad when they said unto me: we will go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand in thy gates: O jerusalem. jerusalem is builded as a city: that is at unity in itself. For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the lord: to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the lord. For there is the seat of judgement: even the seat of the house of David. O pray for the peace of jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls: and plenteousness within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions sakes: I will wish thee prosperity. Yea, because of the house of the lord our God: I will seek to do thee good. Ad te levaui oculos meos. psal. cxxiii. Unto thee life I up mine eyes: O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden, unto the hand of her masters: even so our eyes wait upon the lord our God, until he have mercy upon us. Have mercy upon us, O lord, have mercy upon us: for we are utterly despised. Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy: and with the despitefulness of the proud. Nisi quia dominus. psal. cxxiiii. IF the Lord himself had not been on our side (now may Israel say:) If the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us. They had swallowed us up quick: when they were so wrathfully displeased at us. Yea, the waters had drowned us: and the stream had gone over our soul. The deep waters of the proud: had gone even over our soul. But praised be the Lord, which hath not given us over for a pray unto their teeth. Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fouler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered. Our help standeth in the name of the Lord: which hath made heaven and earth. Qui confidunt in domino. psal. cxxv. THey that put their trust in the Lord, shallbe even as the Mount Zion: which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever. The hills stand about Jerusalem: even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore. For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous: lest the righteous put their hand unto wickedness. Do well, O Lord: unto those that be good and true of heart. As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness: the Lord shall lead them forth with the evil doers, but peace shallbe upon Israel. In convertendo. psal. cxxvi. Evening prayer. WHen the lord turned again the captivity of Zion: then were we like unto them that dream. Then was out mouth filled with laughter: and our tongue with joy. Then said they among the Heathen: the lord hath done great things for them. Yea the lord hath done great things for us already: whereof we rejoice. Turn our captivity, O lord: as the rivers in the south. They that sow in tears: shall reap in joy. He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed: shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him. Nisi dominus edifica. psal. cxxvii. EXcept the Lord build the house: their labour is but lost that build it. Except the Lord keep the city: the watch man waketh but in vain. It is but lost labour that ye hast to rise up early, and so late take rest: and eat the bread of carefulness, for so he giveth his beloved sleep. Lo, children, and the fruit of thy womb: are an heritage and gift, that cometh of the Lord. Like as the arrows in the hand of the Giant: even so are the young children. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. Beati omnes. psal. cxxviii. BLessed are all they that fear the Lord: and walk in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labours of thine hands: O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be. Thy wife shallbe as the fruitful vine: upon the walls of thine house. Thy children like the Olive branches: round about thy table. Lo, thus shall the man be blessed: that feareth the Lord. The Lord from out of Zion, shall so bless thee: that thou shalt see jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long. Yea, that thou shalt see thy childres children: and peace upon Israel. Sepe expugnaverunt. psal. cxxix. Many a time have they fought against me, fro my youth up: (may Israel now say.) Yea, many a time have they vexed me fro my youth up: but they have not prevailed against me. The plowers ploughed upon my back: and made long furrows. But the ritghteous Lord: hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces. Let them be confounded and turned backward: as many as have evil will at Zion. Let them be even as the grass growing upon the house tops: which withereth afore it be plucked up. Whereof the mower filleth not his hand: neither he that bindeth up the sheaves, his bosom. So that they which go by, say not so much as the lord prosper you: we wish you good luck, in the name of the Lord. Deprofundis clamavi. psal. cxxx. Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O lord: lord hear my voice. Oh let thine ears consider well: the voice of my complaint. If thou lord will be extreme to mark what is done amiss: O lord, who may abide it? For there is mercy with thee: therefore shalt thou be feared. I look for the lord, my soul doth wait for him: in his word is my trust. My soul flieth unto the lord, before the morning watch: (I say before the morning watch.) O Israel trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy: and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel: from at his sins. Domine non est exaltatum. psal. cxxxi. LOrd, I am not high minded: I have no proud looks. I do not exercise myself in great matters: which are to high for me. But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, like as a child that is waned from his mother: yea my soul is even as a waned child. O Israel trust in the lord: from this time forth for evermore. Memento domine David. psal. cxxxii. Morning prayer. Lord remember David: and all his trouble. How he swore unto the lord: and vowed a vow unto the almighty God of jacob. I will not come within the tabernacle of my house: nor climb up into my bed. I will not suffer my eyes to sleep, nor my eye lids to slumbre: neythter the temples of my head to take any rest. Until I find out a place for the temple of the Lord: an habitation for the mighty God of jacob. Lo, we heard of the same at Ephrata: and found it in the wood. We will go into his Tabernacle: and fall low on our knees before his footstool. Arise O lord, into thy resting place: thou, and the Ark of thy strength. Let thy Priests be clothed with righteousness: and let thy saints sing with joyfulness. For the servant David's sake: turn not away the presence of thine anointed. The Lord hath made a faithful oath unto David: and he shall not shrink from it. Of the fruit of thy body: shall I set upon thy seat. If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimonies, that I shall learn them: their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore. For the Lord hath chosen Zion to be an habitation for himself: he hath longed for her. This shallbe my rest for ever: here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein. I will bless her victuals with increase: and will satisfy her poor with bread. I will deck her Priests with health: and her saints shall rejoice, and sing. There shall I make the horn of David to flourish: I have ordained a lantern for mine anointed. As for his enemies, I shall cloth them with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish. Ecce quam bonum. psal. cxxxiii. Behold, how good and joyful a thing it is: brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down unto the heard: even unto Aaron's beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing. Like as the dew of Hermon: which fell upon the hill of Zion. For there the Lord promised his blessing: and life for evermore. Ecce nunc benedicite dominum. Psalm. cxxxiiii. Behold (now) praise the Lord: all ye the servants of the Lord. Ye that by night stand in the house of the Lord: (even in the courts of the house of our God.) Lift up your hands in the sanctuary: and praise the lord. The lord that made heaven and earth: give thee blessing out of Zion. Laudate dominum. psalm. cxxxv. O Praise the Lord, laud ye the name of the Lord: praise it, O ye servants of the Lord. Ye that stand in the house of the lord: in the courts of the house of our God. O praise the lord, for the lord is gracious: O sing praises unto his name, for it is lovely. For why, the lord hath chosen jacob unto himself: and Israel for his own possession. For I know that the Lord is great: and that our Lord is above all Gods. Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven and in earth: and in the Sea, and to all deep places. He bringeth forth the clouds from the ends of the world: and sendeth forth lightnings with the rain, bringing the winds out of his treasures. He smote the first borne of Egypt: both of man & of beast. He hath sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O thou land of Egipte: upon Pharaoh, and all his servants. He smote diverse nations: and slew mighty kings. Sehon, king of the Amorites, and Og the king of Basan: and all the kingdoms of Canaan. And gave their land to be an heritage: even an heritage unto Israel his people. Thy name O lord, endureth for ever: so doth thy memorial O Lord, from one generation to another. For the Lord will avenge his people: and be gracious unto his servants. As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold: the work of men's hands. They have mouths and speak not: eyes have they, but they see not. They have ears, and yet they hear not: neither is there any breath in their mouths. They that make them, are like unto them: and so are all they that put their trust in them. Praise the lord ye house of Israel: praise the lord ye house of Aaron. Praise the Lord ye house of Levi: ye that fear the lord, praise the Lord. Praised be the Lord out of Zion: which dwell that jerusalem. Confitemini domino. Psalm. cxxxvi. Evening prayer. O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth forever. O give thanks unto the God of all gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. O thank the Lord of all Lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. Which only doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. Which by his excellent wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever. Which laid out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. Which hath made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever. The Sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever. The Moon and the stars to govern the night: for his mercy endureth for ever. Which smote Egypt with their first borne: for his mercy endureth for ever. And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever. With a mighty hand and stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever. Which divided the red Sea in two parts: for his mercy endureth for ever. And made Israel to go thorough the mids of it: for his mercy endureth for ever. But as for Pharaoh and his host he overthrew them in the red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. Which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever. Which smote great kings: for his merci endureth for ever. Yea, and slew mighty kings: for his mercy endureth for ever. Sehon king of the Ammorites: for his mercy endureth for ever. And Og the king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever. And gave away their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever. Even for an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever. Which remembered us when we were in trouble: for his mercy endureth for ever. And hath delivered us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever. Which giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks unto the god of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks to the Lord of Lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. Super flumina. psalm. cxxxvii. BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we remembered (thee O) Zion. As for our haps, we hanged them up: upon the trees that are therein. For they that led us away captive, required of us then a long and melody in our heaviness: sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall me sing the lords song: in a strange land? If I forgeat thee, O Jerusalem: let my right hand forgeat her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let me tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth: yea if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth. Remember the children of Edom O Lord: in the day of Jerusalem, how they said, down with it, down with it, even to the ground. O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery: yea, happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou haft served us. Blessed that he be, that taketh thy children: and throweth them against the stones. Confitebor tibi domine. psalm. cxxxviii. I Will give thanks unto thee, O lord, with my whole heart: even before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name, because of thy loving kindness and truth: for thou hast magnified thy name, and thy word above all things. When I called upon thee, thou heardest me: and enduedst my soul with much strength. All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord: for they have heard the words of thy mouth. Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: that great is the glory of the Lord. For though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: as for the proud, he beholdeth them afar of. Though I walk in the midst of trouble, yet shalt thou refresh me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand upon the furiousness of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. The Lord shall make good his loving kindness toward me: yea, thy mercy, O lord, endureth for ever, despise not then the works of thine own hands. Domine probasti me. Psalm. cxxxix. Morning prayer. O Lord, thou hast searched me out and known me: thou knowest my down sitting, and mine uprising, thou understandest my thoughts long before. Thou art about my path, and about my bed: and spiest out all my ways. For lo, there is not a word in my tongue: but thou, O lord, knowest it altogether. Thou hast fashioned me behind and before: and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is to wonderful and excellent for me: I cannot attain unto it. Whether that I go then from thy spirit? Or whether shall I go then from thy presence? If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: if I go down to hell, thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning: and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea. Even there also shall thy hand lead me: & thy right hand shall hold me. If I say peradventure the darkness shall cover me: them shall my night be turned to day. Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee: but the night is as: clear as the day, the darkness and light (to thee) are both alike. For my reins are thine: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wondrously made: marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. My bones are not hid from thee: though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect: and in thy book were all my members written. Which day by day were fashioned: when as yet there was none of them. How dear are thy counsels unto me, O gods? how great is the sum of them? If I tell them, they are more in number then the sand: when I wake up, I am present with thee. Wilt thou not slay the wicked, O god? departed from me ye blood thirsty men. For they speak unrighteously against thee: and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Do not I hate them, O lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? Yea, I hate them right sore: even as though they were mine enemies. Try me, O god, and seek the ground of mine heart: prove me, and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me: and lead me in the way everlasting. Eripe me domine. psal. cxl. Deliver me O lord, from the evil men: and preserve me from the wicked men. Which imagine mischief in their hearts: and stir up strife all the day long. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poison is under their lips. Keep me O lord from the hands of the ungodly: preserve me from the wicked men, which are purposed to overthrow my goings. The proud have laid a snare for me, and spread a net abroad with cords: yea, and set traps in my way. I said unto the lord, thou art my god: hear the voice of my prayers, O Lord. O lord god, thou strength of my health: thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. Let not the ungodly have his desire O Lord: let not his mischievous imagination prosper, lest they be to proud. Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them: that compass me about. Let hot burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire, and into the pit, that they never rise up again. A man full of words shall not prosper upon the earth: evil shall hunt the wicked person to overthrow him. Sure I am that the lord will avenge the poor: and maintain the cause of the helpless. The righteous also shall give thanks unto thy name: and the just shall continue in thy sight. Domine clamavi. psal. cxli LOrd, I call upon thee, hast thee unto me: and consider my voice, when I cry unto thee. Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense: and let the lifting up of my hands, be an evening sacrifice. Set a watch O Lord, before my mouth: and keep the door of my lips. O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing: let me not be occupied in ungodly works, with the men that work wickedness, lest I eat of such things as please them. Let the righteous rather smite me friendly: and reprove me. But let not their precious balms break mine head: yea, I will pray yet against their wickedness. Let their judges be overthrown in stony places: that they may hear my words, for they are sweet. Our bones lie scattered before the pit: like as when one breaketh and heweth wood upon the earth. But mine eyes look unto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust, O cast not out my soul. Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me: and from the traps of the wicked doers. Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together: and let me ever escape them. Voce mea ad dominum. psal. cxlii. Evening prayer. I Cried unto the lord with my voice: yea, even unto the Lord did I make my supplication. I powered out my complaints before him: and showed him of my trouble. When my spirit was in heaviness, thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walk, have they privily laid a snare for me. I looked also upon my right hand: and see, there is no man that would know me. I had no place to fly unto: and no man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O lord, and said: thou art my hope and my portion, in the land of the living. Consider my comylaynt: for I am brought very low. O deliver me from my persecutors: for they are to strong for me. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks unto thy name: which thing if thou wilt grant me, them shall the righteous resort unto my company. Domine exaudi. psal. cxliii. Hear my prayer O Lord, and consider my desire: hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousness sake. And enter not into judgement with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. For the enemy hath persecuted my soul, he hath smitten my life down to the ground: he hath laid me in the darkness, as the men that have been long dead. Therefore is my spirit vexed within me: and my heart within me is desolate. Yet I do remember the time paste, I muse upon all thy works: yea, I exercise myself in the works of thy hands. I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul gaspeth unto thee, as a thirsty land. Hear me, O lord, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down to the pit. O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the morning, for in thee is my trust: show thou me the way that I should walk in, for I lift up my soul unto thee. Deliver me, O lord, from mine enemies: for I fly unto thee, to hide me. Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee: for thou art my god, let thy loving spirit lead me forth unto the land of righteousness. Quicken me, O lord, for thy name's sake: and for thy righteousness sake, bring my soul out of trouble. And of thy goodness slay mine enemies: and destroy all them that vex my soul, for I am thy servant. Benedictus dominus. psal. cxliiii. Morning prayer. BLessed be the Lord my strength: which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My hope, and my fortress, my castle and deliverer, my defender in whom I trust: which subdueth my people that is under me. Lord what is man that thou hast such respect unto him? or the son of man, that thou so regardest him? Man is like a thing of nought: his time passeth away like a shadow. Bow thy heavens, O lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Cast forth the lightning, and tear them: shoot out thine arrows, and consume them. Send down thine hand from above: deliver me and take me out of the great waters, from the hand of strange children. Whose mouth talketh of vanity: and their right hand is a right hand of wickedness. I will sing a new song unto thee, O god: and sing praises unto thee upon a ten stringed lute. Thou that givest victory unto kings: and hast delivered David thy servant, from the peril of the sword. Save me and deliver me from the hand of struange children: whose mouth talketh of vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity. That our sons may grow up as the young plants: and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple. That our garners may be full and plenteous with all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands, and ten thousands in our streets. That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no decay: no leading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets. Happy are the people that be in such a case: yea, blessed are the people which have the lord for their God. Exaltabo te deus. psal. cxlv. I Will magnify thee, O god my king: and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Every day will I give thanks unto thee: and praise thy name for ever and ever. Great is the lord, and marvelous, worthy to be praised: there is no end of his greatness. One generation shall praise thy work unto another: and declare thy power. As for me, I will be talking of thy worship: thy glory, thy praise, and wondrous works. So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvelous acts: and I will also tell of thy greatness. The memorial of thine abundant kindness, shallbe showed: and men shall sing of thy righteousness. The lord is gracious and merciful: long suffering, and of great goodness. The lord is loving unto every man: and his mercy is over all his works. All thy works praise thee, O lord: and thy saints give thanks unto thee. They show the glory of thy kingdom: & talk of thy power. That thy power, thy glory, and mightiness of thy kingdom might be known unto men. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom: and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages. The Lord upholdeth all such as fall: and lifteth up all those that be down. The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord: and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand: and fillest all things living with plenteousness. The lord is righteous in all his ways: and holy in all his works. The lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: yea, all such as call upon him faythtfully. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will help them. The lord preserveth all them that love him: but scattereth abroad all the ungodly. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy name, for ever and ever. Lauda anima mea. psal. cxlvi. PRaise the lord, O my soul: while I live will I praise the lord, yea as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my god. O put not your trust in Princes: nor in any child of man: for there is no help in them. For when the breath of man goeth forth: he shall turn again to his earth, and then all his thoughts perish. Blessed is he that hath the God of jacob for his help: and whole hope is in the Lord his god. Which made heaven and earth, the Sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth his promise for ever. Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong: which feedeth the hungry. The lord loseth men out of prison: the lord giveth sight to the blind. The lord helpeth them that are fallen: the Lord careth for the righteous. The lord careth for the strangers, he defendeth the fatherless and widow: as for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down. The lord thy god, O Zion, shall be king for evermore: and throughout all generations. Laudate dominum. psal. cxlvii. Evening prayer. O Praise the lord, for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God: yea a joyful and pleasant thing is it to be thankful. The lord doth build up Jerusalem: and gather together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth those that are broken in heart: and giveth medicine to heal their sickness. He telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names. Great is our lord, and great is his power: yea, his wisdom is infinite. The lord setteth up the meek: and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground. O sing unto the lord with thanksgiving: sing praise upon the harp unto our god. Which covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth: and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains, (and herb for the use of men.) Which giveth fodder unto the cattle: and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him. He hath not pleasure in the strength of an horse: neither delighteth he in any man's legs. But the lords delight is in them that fear him: and put their trust in his mercy. Praise the Lord, O jerusalem: praise thy God, O Zion. For he hath made fast the bars of thy gates: and hath blessed thy children within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders: and filleth the with flower and wheat. He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: and his word runneth very swiftly. He giveth snow like wool: and scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who is able to abide his frost? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he bloweth with his wind, and the waters slow. He showeth his word unto jacob: his statutes and ordinances unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation: neither have the Heathen knowledge of his laws. Laudate dominum de celis. psalm. cxlviii. O Praise the lord of heaven: praise him in the height. Praise him all ye Angels of his: praise him all his host. Praise him sun and Moon: praise him all ye stars and light. Praise him all ye heavens: and ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the Lord, for (he spoke the word, and they were made) he commanded, and they were created. He hath made them fast for ever and ever: he hath given them a law, which shall not be broken. Praise the Lord upon earth: ye dragons, & all diepes. Fire and hail, snow and vapours: wind and storm, fulfilling his word. Mountains and all hills: fruitful trees and all cedars. Beasts and all cattle: worms and feathered fowls. Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the world. Young men and maidens, old men and children, praise the name of the Lord: for his name only is excellent, and his praise above heaven and earth. He shall exalt the horn of his people, all his saints shall praise him: even the children of Israel, even the people that serveth him. Cantate domino. psalm. cxlix. O Sing unto the Lord a new song: let the congregation of saints praise him. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with tabret and harp. For the Lord hath pleasure in his people: and helpeth the meek hearted. Let the saints be joyful with glory: let them rejoice in their beds. Let the praises of God be in their mouth: and a two edged sword in their hands. To be avenged of the Heathen: and to rebuke the people. To bind their kings in chains: and their nobles with links of iron. That they may be avenged of them, as it is written: such honour have all his saints. Laudate dominum. psalm. cl. O Praise God in his holiness: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him in his noble acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him in the sound of the trumpet: praise him upon the lute and harp. Praise him in the cymbals and dances: praise him upon the strings and pipe. Praise him upon the well tuned cymbals: praise him upon the loud cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath: praise the Lord. ¶ The end of this Book. ¶ Certain godly prayers, to be used for sundry purposes ¶ A general confession of sins to be said every morning. O Almighty God our heavenly father, I confess and knowledge that I am a miserable & a wretched sinner, and have manifold ways most grievously transgressed thy most godly commandments, thorough wicked thoughts, ungodly lusts, sinful words and deeds, and in my whole life. In sin am I borne and conceived, and there is no goodness in me, inasmuch as if thou shouldest entre into thy narrow judgement with me, judging me according unto the same, I were never able to suffer or abide it, but must needs perish, and be damned for ever. So little help, comfort or succour, is there either in me, or in any other creature. Only this is my comfort (O heavenly father) that thou didst not spare thy only dear beloved son, but didst give him up unto the most bitter, and most vile and slanderous death of the cross for me, that he might so pay the ransom for my sins, satisfy thy judgement, still and pacify thy wrath, reconcile me again unto thee, and purchase me thy grace & favour, and everlasting life. Wherefore, thorough the merit of his most bitter death and passion, and thorough his innocent bloodshedding, I beseech thee, O heavenly father, that thou wilt vouchsafe to be gracious and merciful unto me, to forgive, and to pardon me all my sins, to lighten my heart with thy holy spirit, to renew, confirm and strengthen me with a right and a perfect faith, and to inflame me in love toward thee and my neighbour, that I may henceforth with a willing and a glad heart, walk as it becometh me, in thy most godly commandments, and so glorify & praise thee everlastingly. And also that I may with a free conscience and quiet heart in all manner of temptations, afflictions, or necessities, & even in the very pangs of death, cry boldly and merely unto thee, and say: I believe in God the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth. And in jesus Christ. etc. But O lord God heavenly father, to comfort myself in affliction and temptation with these articles of the christian faith, it is not in my power. For faith is thy gift, and forasmuch as thou wilt be prayed unto, and called upon for it, I come unto thee, to pray and beseech thee, both for that, and for all my other necessities, even as thy dear beloved son our Saviour christ jesus hath himself taught us. And from the very bottom of my heart, I cry and say: O our father which art in heaven. etc. ¶ Prayers to be said in the morning. O Merciful Lord God heavenly father, I render most high laudes, praise, and thanks unto thee, that thou hast preserved me both this night, and all the time and days of my life hitherto under thy protection, and hast suffered me to live until this present hour. And I beseech thee heartily, thou wilt vouchsafe to receive me this day, and the residue of my whole life from henceforth into thy tuition, ruling and governing me with thy holy spirit, that all manner of darkness of misbelief, infidelity, and of carnal lusts and affections, may be utterly chased and driven out of my heart, and that I may be justified and saved both body and soul thorough a right and a perfect faith, and so walk in the light of thy most godly truth to thy glory and praise, and to the profit and furtherance of my neighbour, thorough jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Amen. ALl possible thanks that we are able, we render unto thee, O Lord jesus Christ: for that thou hast willed this night past to be prosperous unto us, and we beseech thee likewise to prosper all this same day unto us, for thy glory, and for the health of our soul: and that thou which art the true light, not knowing any going down, and which art the sun eternal, giving life, food and gladness unto all things: vouchsafe to shine into our minds, that we may not any where stumble to fall into any sin, but may through thy good guiding and conducting, come to the life everlasting. Amen. O Lord jesus Christ, which art the true sun of the world, evermore arising & never going down, which by thy most wholesome appearing & fight dost bring forth, preserve, nourish and refresh all things, aswell that are in heaven, as also that are on earth: we beseech thee mercifully and favourably to shine into our hearts, that the night and darkness of sins, and the mists of errors on every side driven away, thou brightly shining within our hearts, we may all our life space go without any stumbling or offence, & may decently and seemly walk (as in the day time) being pure and clean from the works of darkness, and abounding in all good works which god bath prepared for us to walk in: which with father and with the holy ghost, livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen. O God and lord jesus Christ, thou knowest, yea & hast also taught us how great the infirmity & weakness of man is, and how certain a thing it is, that it can nothing do without thy godly help. If man trust to himself, it cannot be avoided, but that he must headlong run and fall, into a thousand undoings and mischiefs: O our father, have thou piety & compassion upon the weakness of us thy children, be thou priest & ready to help us, always showing thy mercy upon us, & prospering whatsoever we godly go about: so that thou giving us light, we may see what things are truly good in deed, thou encouraging us, we may have an earnest desire to the same, and thou being our guide, we may come where to obtain them: for we having nothing but mistrust in ourselves, do yield and commit ourselves full and whole unto the alone, which workest all things in all creatures to thy honour & glory. So be it. ¶ A prayer against temptation O Lord jesus Christ, the only stay and fence of our mortal state, our only hope, our only salvation, our glory, & our triumph, who in the flesh (which thou hadst for our only cause taken upon thee) didst suffer thyself to be tempted of Satan, and who only and alone of all men didst utterly overcome & vanquish sin, death, the world, the devil, and all the kingdom of hell: and whatsoever thou hast to overcomed, for our behoof it is that thou hast overcomed it: neither hath it been thy will to have any of thy servants keep battle or fight with any of the foresaid evis, but of purpose to reward us with a crown of the more glory for it: and to th'intent that thou mightest likewise overthrow Satan in thy members, as thou hadst afore done in thine own person, give thou (we beseech thee) unto us thy soldiers (O Lion most victorious of the tribe of juda) strength against the roaring Lion, which continually wandereth to and fro, seeking whom he may devour. Thou being that same serpent, the true giver of health and life that were nailed on high upon a tree, give unto us thy little silly ones, wiliness against the deceitful a waiting of the most subtile serpent. Thou being a lamb as white as snow, the vanquisher of Satan's tyranny, give unto us thy little sheep the strength and virtue of thy spirit, that being in our own selves weak and feeble, and in thee strong valeant, we may withstand and overcome all assaults of the devil, so that our ghostly enemy may not glory on us, but being conquerors through thee, we may give thanks to thy mercy, which never leaveth them destitute that put their trust in thee: who livest and reignest God for ever without end. Amen. ¶ A prayer for obtaining of wisdom Sapien. ix. O God of our fathers, and Lord of mercy, thou that hast made all things with thy word, and ordained man through thy wisdom that he should have domination over the creature which thou haste made, that he should order the world according to equity & righteousness, & execute judgement with a true heart: give me wisdom which is ever about thy seat, & put me not out from among thy children: for I thy servant & son of thy handmaid, am a feeble person, of a short time, and to young to the understanding of thy judgement & laws: yea though a man be never to perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall be nothing worth. Oh send thy wisdom out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of thy majesty, that she may be with me, and labour with me, that I may know what is acceptable in thy sight, for she knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall conduct me right soberly in my works, and preserve me in her power. So shall my works be acceptable. Amen. A Prayer against worldly carefulness. O Most dear & tender father, our defender & nourisher, endue us with thy grace, that we may cast of the great blindness of our minds & carefulness of worldly things, & may put our whole study & care in keeping of thy holy law. And that we may labour and travail for our necessities in this life, like the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, without care. For thou hast promised to be careful for us, and hast commanded that upon thee we should cast all our care, which livest and reignest, world without end. Amen. A prayer necessary for all persons. O Merciful God, I a wretched bed sinner reknowledge myself bound to keep thy holy commandments, but yet unable to perform them, and to be accepted for just, without the righteousness of jesus Christ thy only son, who hath perfectly fulfilled thy law, to justify all men that believe and trust in him. Therefore grant me grace I beseech thee, to be occupied in doing of good works, which thou commandest in holy scripture, all the days of my life to thy glory, and yet to trust only in thy mercy, & in Christ's merits to be purged from my sins, and not in my good works, be they never so many. give grace to love thy holy word fervently, to search the Scritptures diligently, to read them humbly, to understand them truly, to live after them effectually. Order my life to, O Lord, that it be always acceptable unto thee. give me grace not to rejoice in any thing that displeaseth thee, but evermore to delight in those things that please thee, be they never so contrary to my desires. Teach me so to pray, that my petitions may be graciously heard of thee. Keep me upright among diversity of opinions and judgements in the world, that I never serve from thy truth, taught in holy scripture. In prosperity, O Lord save me that I wax not proud. In adversity, help me that I neither despair nor blaspheme thy holy name, but taking it patiently, to give thee thanks, and trust to be delivered after thy pleasure. When I happen to fall into sin thorough frailty, I beseech thee to work true repentance in my heart, that I may be sorry without desperation, trust in thy mercy without pres; umption, that I may amend my life and become truly religious without hypocrisy, lowly in heart without feigning, faithful and trusty without deceitpte, merry without lightness, sad without mistrust, sober without slothfulness, content with mine own, without covetousness. To tell my neighbour his faults charitably without dissimulation. To instruct my household in thy laws truly. To obey our King and all governors under him unfeignedly. To receive all laws and common ordinances (which disagreeth not from thy holy word) obediently. To pay every man that which I own unto him truly. To backbite no man, nor slander my neighbour secretly, and to abhor all vice, loving all goodness earnestly. O Lord grant me thus to do, for the glory of thy holy name. Amen. ¶ A prayer necessary to be said at all times. O Bountiful jesus, O sweet saviour, O Christ the son of God, have piety upon me, mercifully hear me, and despise not my prayers. Thou hast created me of nothing, thou hast redeemed me from the bondage of sin, death, and hell, neither with gold nor silver, but with thy most precious body once offered upon the cross, & thine own blood shed once for all for my ransom: therefore cast me not away, whom thou by thy great wisdom hast made: despise me not whom thou hast redeemed with such a precious treasure. Nor let my wickedness destroy that, which thy goodness hath builded. Now whiles I live, O jesus have mercy on me, for if I die out of thy favour, it willbe to late afterward to call for thy mercy: whiles I have time to repent, look upon me with thy merciful eyes, as thou didst vouchsafe to look upon Peter thine Apostle, that I may bewail my sinful life, and obtain thy favour, and die therein. I reknowoledge, that if thou shouldest deal with me according to very justice, I have deserved everlasting death. Therefore I appeal to thy high throne of mercy, trusting to obtain God's favour, not for my merits, but for thy merits, O jesus, who hast given thyself an acceptable sacrifice to thy father to appease his wrath, and to bring all sinners, (truly repenting and amending their evil life) into his favour again. Accept me, O lord, among the number of them that shallbe saved, forgive me my sins, give me grace to lead a godly & innocent life, grant me thy heavenvly wisdom, inspire my heart with faith, hope, & charity: give me grace to be humble in prosperity, patient in adversity, obedient to my rulers, faithful unto them that trust me, dealing truly with all men, to live chastened in wedlock, abhor adultery, fornication, & all uncleanness, to do good after my power unto all men, to hurt no man, the thy name may be glorified in me, during this present life, & that I afterward may obtain everlasting life thorough thy merci, & the merits of thy passion. amen. ¶ Certain prayers, taken out of the service daily used in the queens house. Mondai ALmighty god the father of mercy, & god of all comfort, the which only forgive sin, forgive unto us our sins good Lord, forgive unto us our sins, that by the multitude of thy mercies, they may be covered & not imputed unto us, & by the operation of the holy ghost, we may have power and strength hereafter to resist sin: by our saviour and Lord jesus Christ. Amen. Tuesday O Lord God, which despisest not a contrite heart, & forgeattest the sins and wickedness of a sinner, in what hour soever he doth mourn & lament his old manner of living: Grant unto us O lord, true contrition of heart, that we may vehemently despise our sinful life passed, and wholly be converted unto thee, by our Saviour and Lord jesus Christ. Amen. wednesday. O Merciful father, by whole power & strength we may overcome our enemies both bodily & ghostly: grant unto us O Lord, that according to our promise made in baptism, we may overcome the chief enemies of our soul, that is, the desires of the world, the pleasures of the flesh, & the suggestions of the wicked spirit, & so after lead our lives in holiness & righteousness, the we may serve thee in spirit & in truth, & that by our saviour & lord jesus Christ. Amen. Thursday. O Almighty & everlasting god, which not only givest every good and perfit gift, but also increasest those gifts the thou hast given: we most humbly beseech thee merciful God, to encreafse in us the gift of faith, that we may truly believe in thee, & in thy promises made unto us, & that neither by our negligence, nor infirmity of the flesh, nor by grievousness of temptation, neither by the subtle crafts & assaults of the devil, we be driven from faith in the blood of our saviour and Lord jesus Christ. Amen. Friday. Grant unto us O merciful God, we most heartily beseech thee, knowledge and true understanding of thy word, that all ignorance expelled, we may know what thy will & pleasure is in all things, & how to do our duties, & truly to walk in our vocation, and that also we may express in our living those things that we do know: that we be not only knowers of thy word good Lord, but also be workers of the same: by our saviour and Lord jesus Christ Amen. saturday. O Alimightie god, which hast prepared everlasting life to all those that be thy faithful servants: grant unto us lord, sure hope of the life everlasting, that we being in this miserable world, may have some taste and feeling of it in our hearts: and that not by our deserving, but by the merits & deserving of our saviour and lord jesus Christ. Amen O Merciful god, our only aid, succour & strength at all times, grant unto us, O lord, the in the time of prosperity, we be not proud, and so forgeat thee, but that with our whole power and strength we way clean unto thee: and in the time of adversity, that we fall not to infidelity, and desperation, but that always with a constant faith we may call for help unto thee: grant this O lord for our advocate sake, and saviour jesus Christ. Amen. Sunday O Almighty and merciful lord, which givest unto thy elect people the holy ghost, as a sure pledge of thy heavenly kingdom: Grant unto us O Lord, this holy spirit, that he may bear witness with our spirit that we be thy children, and heirs of thy kingdom, and that by the operation of this spirit we way kill all carnal lusts, unlawful pleasures, concupiscence, evil affections contrary unto thy will: by our Saviour and Lord jesus Christ. Amen. ¶ A prayer for trust in God. THe beginning of the fall of man, was trust in himself. The beginning of the restoring of man, was distrust in himself, & trust in god. O most gracious & most wise guide our saviour Christ, which dost lead them the right way to immortal blessedness, which truly and unfeignedly trusting in thee, commit themself to thee: Grant us, that like as we be blind and feeble in deed, so we may take and repute ourselves, that we presume not of ourselves to see to ourselves, but so far to see, that alway we may have thee before our eyes, to follow thee being our guide, to be ready at thy call most obediently, and to commit ourselves wholly unto thee: that thou which only knowest the way, mayest lead us the same way unto our heavenly desires. To thee with the father and the holy ghost be glory for ever. Amen. ¶ A prayer for the concord of Christ's Church. ARise lord, let thine enemies be scattered, thy haters put to flight, the righteous and Christ's disciples make pleasant and merry, let them sing praises & pleasant songs unto thee, let them blow abroad thy magnificence, let them most highly advance thy majesty, let thy glory grow, let the kingdom of Christ from heaven among the chosen be enlarged: be thou the father of the fatherless, the judge of the widows, and the protector of them, namely whom the world forsaketh, whose consciences be troubled, whom the world pursueth for Christ's sake, which be needy and wrapped full of misery. In thy house O Lord, let us dwell in peace and concord, give us all one heart, one mind, one true interpretation upon thy word. Pluck of the bands aswell from the consciences as from the bodies of the miserable captives, & of them also which as yet be hedged in within the lists of death, and unadvisedly strive against grace. How dry (Lord) is the flock of thine heritage: I pray thee power down largely the showers of thy graces, let a more plenteous fruitfulness chance, let thy people be strengthened with thy spirit: Grant us lord thy word abundantly, so that there may be many preachers of thy Gospel, which may within themselves holily conspire and agree. Let the Church the spouse of christ, deal large spoils of the conquered Satan. All that believe in thee, by christ (O Lord GOD of health) mought lift thee up with praises, might renown thee and extol thee. We be entered into the voyage of salvation. Conduct us luckelye unto the port, that being delivered by thee from the very death, we may escape and come to the very life. Fynyshe the thing that thou hast begun in us, make us to increase from faith to faith, leave us not to our own will and choice, for it is slippery & ready to fall. To the thunderbolts of thy word put violence, that we may give the glory to thee alonely. give to thy people courage and power, to withstand sin, and to obey thy word in all things, O Lord God most glorious and excellent over all. ¶ A Prayer against the enemies of Christ's truth. deliver me O lord, from the ungodly and stiff necked persons, for thou seest how in their hearts they imagine mischief, and have great pleasure to pick quarrels, their tongues be more sharp than any adders sting, and under their lips lurketh poison of adders. But O merciful Lord, let me not fall into their hands, that they handle not me after their own lusts. Thou only art my God, thou must hear my piteous plaint: Lord that rulest all together, that art the strength and power of my defence, be thou as a salad on my head, whensoever the ungodly shall assault me: neyter suffer thou not the wicked thus to prosper in their matters. Suffer not their crooked and malicious stomachs to increase, and spitefully revile thee. Look upon thy poor wretch's cause, and rid me out of these daily grievances, then shall I with a right up heart and pleasant countenance, extol and magnify thy holy name. Amen. ¶ A Prayer for patience in trouble. Now haste thou O Lord, humbled and plucked me down? I dare now uneaths make my prayers unto thee, for thou art angry with me, but not without my deserving. Certainly I have sinned Lord, I confess it, I will not deny it. But Oh my god, pardon my trespasses, release my debts, render now thy grace again unto me, stop my wounds, for I am all to plagued and beaten: yet lord, this notwithstanding, I abide patiently, and give mine attendance on thee, continually waiting for relief at thy hand, and that not without skill, for I have received a token of thy favour and grace towards me, I mean thy word of promise concerning Christ, who for me was offered on the cross for a ransom, a sacrifice, and price for my sins: wherefore according to that thy promise, defend me Lord by thy right hand, and give a gracious ear to my requests, for all man's stays are but vain. Beat down therefore mine enemies thine own self with thy power, which art mine only aider and protector O Lord god almighty. Amen. ¶ A Prayer to be said at night going to bed. O Merciful Lord God heavenly father, whether we sleep or wake, live or die, we are always thine. Wherefore I beseech thee heartily, that thou wilt vouchsafe to take care and charge of me, and not to suffer me to perish in the works of darkness, but to kindle the light of thy countenance in my heart, that thy godly knowledge may daily increase in me, thorough a right and pure faith, & that I may always be found to walk and live after thy will and pleasure, thorough jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Amen. ¶ A Prayer to be said at the hour of death. O Lord jesus, which art the only health of all men living, and the everlasting life of them which die in faith: I wretched sinner give & submit myself wholly unto thy most blessed wil And I being sure that the thing cannot perish which is committed unto thy mercy, willingly now I leave this frail and wicked flesh, in hope of the resurrection, which in better wise shall restore it to me again. I beseech thee most merciful lord jesus Christ, that thou wilt by thy grace, make strong my soul against all temptations, and that thou wilt cover & defend me with the buckler of thy mercy against all the assaults of the devil. I see and knowledge that there is in myself no help of salvation, but all my confidence, hope & trust, is in thy most merciful goodness. I have no merits nor good works which I may allege before thee: Of sins and evil works (alas) I see a great heap, but through thy mercy I trust to be in the numbered of them, to whom thou wilt not impute their sins, but take and accept me for righteous and just, & to be the inheritor of everlasting life. Thou merciful Lord wert borne for my sake, thou didst suffer both hunger & thirst for my sake, thou didst preach & teach, thou didst pray and fast for my sake, thou didst all good works & deeds for my sake, thou suffered'st most grievous pains and torments for my sake. And finally, thou gavest thy most precious body to die, and thy blood to be shed on the cross for my sake. Now most merciful saviour, let all these things profit me, which thou freely haste given me, that hast given thyself for me. Let thy blood cleanse and wash away the spots & foulness of my sins. Let thy righteousness hide and cover my unrighteousness. Let the merits of thy passion & blood, be the satisfaction for my sins. give me lord thy grace, that my faith & salvation in thy blood waver not in me, but ever be firm and constant, that the hope of thy mercy & life everlasting, never decay in me, that charity wax not cold in me: finally, that the weakness of my flesh be not overcome with the fear of death. Grant me merciful saviour, that when death hath shut up the eyes of my body, yet that the eyes of my soul may still behold & look upon thee: that when death hath taken away the use of my tongue & speech, yet that my heart may cry and say unto thee, (In manus tuas domine, commendo spiritum meum,) that is to say: O lord, into thy hands I give and committte my soul. (Dommine jesu accipe spiritum meum.) Lord jesus receive my soul unto thee. Amen. ¶ Imprinted at London in Fleetstreet at the sign of the Sun, over against the conduit, by Edward Whytchurche.