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to thy flock, that they may be his footstool. For by one offer. saved among the remnant of the ing he hath perfected for ever true Israelites, and be made one them that are sanctified: wherefold under one Shepherd, Jesus of the Holy Ghost also is a witness Christ our Lord, who liveth and to us: for after that he had said reigneth with thee and the Holy before, This is the covenant that Spirit, one God, world without I will make with them after those end. Amen. days, saith the Lord; I will put The Epistle. Heb. x. 1. my laws into their hearts, and in THE law having a shadow of their minds will I write them; and good things to come, and their sins and iniquities will I renot the very image of the things, member no more. Now, where can never, with those sacrifices remission of these is, there is no which they offered year by year more offering for sin. Having, continually, make the comers therefore, brethren, boldness to thereunto perfect. For then, enter into the holiest by the blood would they not have ceased to be of Jesus, by a new and living way, offered? because that the wor- which he hath consecrated for us shippers, once purged, should through the vail, that is to say, have had no more conscience of his flesh; and having an high sins. But in those sacrifices there priest over the house of God; let is a remembrance again made of us draw near with a true heart, in sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure: Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. Above, when he said, Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and offering for sin, thou wouldThe Gospel. St. John xix 1. est not, neither hadst pleasure PILATE therefore took Jesus, therein, which are offered by the and scourged him. And the law; Then said he, Lo, I come soldiers platted a crown of thorns, to do thy will, O God. He taketh and put it on his head, and they away the first, that he may esta-put on him a purple robe,and said, blish the second. By the which Hail, King of the Jews! and they will we are sanctified, through smote him with their bands. Pithe offering of the body of Jesus late therefore went forth again, Christ once for all. And every and saith unto them, Behold, I priest standeth daily ministering bring him forth to you, that ye and offering oftentimes the same may know that I find no fault in sacrifices, which can never take him. Then came Jesus forth, away sins. But this man, after he wearing the crown of thorns, and had offered one sacrifice for sins, the purple robe. And Pilate for ever sat down on the right saith unto them, Behold the man hand of God; from henceforth When the chief priests there expecting till his enemies be made fore and officers saw him, they

full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed. with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) and let us consi der one another to provoke unto love, and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is; but exhorting one an other: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching

brew, and Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am the King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written, 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: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture

cried out, saying, Crucify him, it on the cross; and the writing crucify him. Pilate saith unto was, JESUS OF NAZARETH, them, Take ye him, and crucify THE KING OF THE JEWS. him; for I find no fault in him. This title then read many of the The Jews answered him, We Jews: for the place where Jesus have a law, and by our law he was crucified was nigh to the ought to die, because he made city; and it was written in Hehimself the Son of God. When Pilate therefore heard that say. ing, he was the more afraid; and went again into the judgmentball, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above; therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Cæsar's friend: they did cast lots. These things Whosoever maketh himself a therefore the soldiers did. Now king, speaketh against Cæsar. there stood by the cross of Jesus, When Pilate therefore heard that his mother, and his mother's sissaying, he brought Jesus forth, ter, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and sat down in the judgment- and Mary Magdalene. When seat, in a place that is called the Jesus, therefore, saw his mother, Pavement, but in the Hebrew, and the disciple standing by Gabbatha. And it was the prepa- whom he loved, he saith unto his ration of the passover, and about mother, Woman, behold thy son. the sixth hour: and he saith unto Then saith he to the disciple, Bethe Jews, Behold your King. But hold thy mother. And from that they cried out, Away with him, hour that disciple took her unto away with him, crucify him. Pi- his own home. After this, Jesus late saith unto them, Shall I cru- knowing that all things were now tify your King? The chief priests accomplished, that the Scripture answered, We have no king but might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Cæsar. Then delivered he him Now there was set a vessel full therefore unto them to be cruci- of vinegar: and they filled a fed: and they took Jesus, and led spunge with vinegar, and put it him away. And he, bearing his upon hyssop, and put it to his cross, went forth into a place mouth. When Jesus, therefore, called the place of a skull, which is had received the vinegar, he said called in the Hebrew Golgotha; It is finished: and he bowed his where they crucified him, and head, and gave up the ghost. The two others with him, on either Jews, therefore, because it was side one, and Jesus in the midst. the preparation, that the bodies And Pilate wrote a title, and put) should not remain won the cross

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answer of a good conscience to-
wards God) by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into
heaven, and is on the right hand
of God; angels, and authorities,
and powers, being made subject
unto him.

The Gospel. St. Matt. xxvii. 57.
THEN the even was come,
WH
there came a rich man of

on the sabbath-day, (for that sab- | whereunto, even Baptism, doth bath-day was an high day) be- also now save us (not the putting sought Pilate that their legs might away the filth of the flesh, but the be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers and brake 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 brake not his legs. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that Arimathea, named Joseph, who saw it bare record, and his record also himself was Jesus' disciple: is true: and he knoweth that he He went to Pilate, and begged saith true, that ye might believe. the body of Jesus. Then Pilate For these things were done, that commanded the body to be delithe Scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another Scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

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Easter-Even.
The Collect.

RANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our corrupt affections, we may be buried with him; and that through the grave and gate of death we may pass to our joyful resurrection, for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

vered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that 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 by night, and steal

The Epistle. 1 St. Peter iii. 17. IT is better, if the will of God him away, and say unto the peobe so, that ye suffer for well-ple, He is risen from the dead; doing, than for evil-doing. For so the last error shall be worse Christ also hath once suffered for than the first. Pilate said unto sins, the just for the unjust (that them, Ye have a watch; go your he might bring us to God) being way, make it as sure as you can. put to death in the flesh, but So they went and made the sequickened by the spirit: by which pulchre sure, sealing the stone, also he went and preached unto and setting a watch. the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing; wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. The like figure

At Morning Prayer, instead of the Easter-Day. Psalm (0 come let us sing, &c.) these Anthems shall be sung or said.. HRIST our passover is sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the feast;

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Not with the old leaven, nei- inordinate affection, evil conther with the leaven of malice cupiscence, and covetousness, and wickedness; but with the which is idolatry: for which unleavened bread of sincerity things' sake the wrath of God and truth. 1 Cor. v. 7. cometh on the children of disoYHRIST being raised from the bedience. In the which ye also dead, dieth no more; death walked sometime, when ye lived hath no more dominion over him. in them. For in that he died, he died un

The Gospel. St. John xx. 1.
HE first day of the week com-

to sin once; but in that he liveth, Teth Mary Magdalene early,

ae liveth unto God.

Likewise reckon ye also your-when it was yet dark, unto the selves to be dead indeed unto sepulchre, and seeth the stone sin; but alive unto God through taken away from the sepulchre. Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. vi.9. Then she runneth and cometh

CHRIST is risen from the dead, to Simon Peter, and to the other and become the first fruits of disciple whom Jesus loved, and them that slept. saith unto them, They have taken For since by man came death, away the Lord out of the sepulby man came also the resurrecchre, and we know not where tion of the dead. they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together; and the other disciple did outrun

Foras in Adam all die; even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Cor. xv. 20.

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY God, who through Peter, and came first to the sethine only begotten Son Je-pulchre; and he, stooping down sus Christ hast overcome death, and looking in, saw the linen and opened unto us the gate of clothes lying, yet went he not in. everlasting life; we humbly be- Then cometh Simon Peter folseech thee, that as, by thy special lowing him, and went into the grace preventing us, thou dost sepulchre, and seeth the linen put into our minds good desires; clothes lie; and the napkin that so by thy continual help we was about his head not lying with may bring the same to good ef- the linen clothes, but wrapped fect, through Jesus Christ our together in a place by itself. Lord, who liveth and reigneth Then went in also that other diswith thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

The Epistle. Col. iii. 1. IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: For ye are

ciple which came first to the se-
pulchre, and he saw, and believ-
ed. For as yet they knew not
the Scripture, that he must rise
again from the dead. Then the
disciples went away again unto
their own home.

Monday in Easter-Week.
The Collect.
LMIGHTY God, who through

dead, and your life is hid with Athine only begotten Son Je

Christ in God. When Christ,

who is our life, shall appear, then sus Christ hast overcome death, shall ye also appear with him in and opened unto us the gate of glory. Mortify therefore your everlasting life; we humbly beinembers which are upon the seech thee, that as, by thy speearth fornication, uncleanness, cial grace preventing us, thou

dost put into our minds good de-ther of all these things which had sires; so by thy continual help happened. And it came to pass, we may bring the same to good that while they communed toeffect, through Jesus Christ our gether, and reasoned, Jesus himLord; who liveth and reigneth self drew near, and went with with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

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them. But their eyes were holden, that they should not know him. Andbe said unto them,What manFor the Epistle. Acts x. 34. ner of communications are these ETER opened his mouth, and that ye have one to another, as ye said, Of a truth I perceive that walk, and are sad? And one of God is no respecter of persons, them, whose name was Cleopas, but in every nation he that fear- answering, said unto him, Art eth him and worketh righteous-thou only a stranger in Jerusaness, is accepted with him. The lem, and hast not known the word which God sent unto the things which are come to pass children of Israel, preaching there in these days? And he said peace by Jesus Christ; (he is unto them, What things? And Lord of all:) that word, I say, ye they said unto him, Concerning know, which was published Jesus of Nazareth, who was a throughout all Judea, and began prophet mighty in deed and from Galilee, after the baptism word, before God and all the which John preached: How God people: And how the chief priests anointed Jesus of Nazareth with and our rulers delivered him to the Holy Ghost, and with power; be condemned to death, and have who went about doing good, and crucified him. But we trusted healing all that were oppressed that it had been he who should of the devil: for God was with have redeemed Israel: and beside him. And we are witnesses of all this, to-day is the third day all things which he did, both in since these things were done. the land of the Jews, and in Je-Yea, and certain women also of rusalem; whom they slew, and our company made us astonished, hanged on a tree. Him God who were early at the sepulchre; raised up the third day, and and when they found not his boshowed him openly; not to all dy, they came, saying, that they the people, but unto witnesses had also seen a vision of angels, chosen before of God, even to which said that he was alive. us, who did eat and drink with And certain of them who were him after he rose from the dead. with us went to the sepulchre, And he commanded us to preach and found it even so as the wounto the people, and to testify men had said; but him they saw that it is he who was ordained not. Then he said unto them, of God to be the judge of quick O fools, and slow of heart to beand dead. To him give all the lieve all that the prophets have prophets witness, that through spoken! ought not Christ to have his name, whosoever believeth suffered these things, and to enin him, shall receive remission ter into his glory? And beginof sins. ning at Moses and all the proThe Gospel. St. Luke xxiv. 13.phets, he expounded unto them BEHOLD, two of his disciples in all the Scriptures, the things went that same day to a vil- concerning himself. And they lage called Emmaus, which was drew nigh unto the village from Jerusalem about threescore whither they went: and he made furlongs. And they talked toge-as though he would have gone

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