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cuted the Church of God. pray, and art wont to give But, by the grace of God, I more than either we desire or am what I am; and his grace, deserve; pour down upon us which was bestowed upon me, the abundance of thy mercy, was not in vain; but I labour-forgiving us those things ed more abundantly than they whereof our conscience is all: yet not I, but the grace afraid, and giving us those of God which was with me. good things which we are not Therefore, whether it were I, worthy to ask, but through the or they, so we preach, and so merits and mediation of Jesus ye believed. Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.

The Gospel. St. Luke xviii. 9.

JESUS spake this parable The Epistle. 2 Cor. iii. 4.

certain which trusted

SUCH

in themselves that they were CH trust have we through righteous, and despised others: Christ to God-ward: Not Two men went up into the that we are sufficient of ourtemple to pray; the one aselves to think any thing as of Pharisee, and the other a Pub-ourselves; but our sufficiency lican. The Pharisee stood and is of God. Who also hath prayed thus with himself made us able ministers of the God, I thank thee, that I am New Testament; not of the not as other men are, extor-letter, but of the Spirit: for tioners, unjust, adulterers, or the letter killeth, but the Spirit even as this Publican: I fast giveth life. But if the ministwice in the week, I give tithes tration of death, written and of all that I possess. And the engraven in stones, was gloPublican standing afar off, rious, so that the children of would not lift up so much as Israel could not steadfastly his eyes unto heaven,but smote behold the face of Moses for upon his breast, saying, God the glory of his countenance, be merciful to me a sinner. which glory was to be done I tell you, this man went down away; how shall not the mito his house justified rather nistration of the Spirit be rathan the other for every one ther glorious? For if the mithat exalteth himself, shall be nistration of condemnation be abased; and he that humbleth glory, much more doth the himself, shall be exalted. ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

The Twelfth Sunday after

Trinity.

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY and everlast

The Gospel. St. Mark. vii. 31.

JESUS, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon,

ing God, who art always came unto the sea of Galilee, more ready to hear than we to through the midst of the coasts

of Decapolis, and they bring of many; but as of one, And unto him one that was deaf, to thy seed, which is Christ. and had an impediment in his And this I say, that the covespeech; and they beseech nant that was confirmed before him to put his hand upon him. of God in Christ, the law, And he took him aside from which was four hundred and the multitude, and put his thirty years after, cannot disfingers into his ears, and he annul, that it should make the spit, and touched his tongue ; promise of none effect. for and looking up to heaven, he if the inheritance be of the sighed, and saith unto him, law, it is no more of promise; Ephphatha, ti.at is, be open-but God gave it to Abraham ed. And straightway his ears by promise. Wherefore then were opened, and the string serveth the law? It was added of his tongue was loosed, because of transgressions, till and he spake plain. And he the seed should come to whom charged them that they the promise was made; and it should tell no man: but the was ordained by angels in the more he charged them, so hand of a mediator. Now a much the more a great deal mediator is not a mediator of they published it; and were one: but God is one. Is the beyond measure astonished, law then against the promises saying, He hath done all of God? God forbid; for if things well; he maketh both there had been a law given the deaf to hear, and the which could have given life, dumb to speak. verily righteousness should have been by the law. But The Thirteenth Sunday after the Scripture hath concluded

A

Trinity.

The Collect.

all under sin, that the promise,
by faith of Jesus Christ, might

LMIGHTY and merciful be given to them that believe.
God, of whose only gift it

cometh that thy faithful people The Gospel. St. Luke x. 23.

do unto thee true and laudable

service; grant, we beseech B

LESSED are the eyes which see the things that For I tell you, that

ye see:

thee, that we may so faithfully serve thee in this life, that we fail not finally to attain thy many prophets and kings have heavenly promises, through desired to see those things the merits of Jesus Christ our which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. And behold

Lord. Amen.

The Epistle. Gal. iii. 16.

To Abraham and his seed a certain lawyer stood up, and were the promises made. tempted him, saying, Master, He saith not, And to seeds, as what shall I do to inheriteter

nal life? He said unto him.neighbour unto him that fell What is written in the law among the thieves? And he How readest thou? And he an-said, He that showed mercy swering said, Thou shalt love on him. Then said Jesus unto the Lord thy God with all thy him, Go, and do thou like. heart, and with all thy soul, wise.

and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast an

Trinity.

swered right, this do, and thou The Fourteenth Sunday after shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? And Jesus answering said, A

The Collect.

certain man went down from ALMIGHTY and everlastJerusalem to Jericho, and fel ing God, give unto us the among thieves, which stript increase of faith, hope, and him of his raiment, and wound-charity; and that we may obed him, and departed, leaving tain that which thou dost probim half dead. And by chance mise, make us to love that there came down a certain which thou dost command, Priest that way; and when he through Jesus Christ our Lord. saw him, he passed by on the Amen. other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samher

The Epistle. Gal. v. 16.

SAY then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fultan, as he journeyed, came fil the lust of the flesh. For where he was and when he the flesh lusteth against the saw him, he had compassion Spirit, and the Spirit against on him, and went to him, and the flesh; and these are conbound up his wounds, pouring trary the one to the other; so in oil and wine; and set him that ye cannot do the things on his own beast, and brought that ye would. But if ye be him into an inn, and took care led by the Spirit, ye are not of him. And on the morrow, under the law. Now the when he departed, he took out works of the flesh are manitwo pence, and gave them to fest, which are these, Adulthe host, and said unto him.tery, fornication, uncleanness, Take care of him; and what-lasciviousness, idolatry, witchsoever thou spendest more, craft, hatred, variance, emulawhen I come again, I will re-tions, wrath, strife, seditions, pay thee. Which now of heresies, envyings, murders, these three, thinkest thou, was drunkenness, revellings, and

such like: of the which I tell The Fifteenth Sunday after you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things, shall not inherit

Trinity.

The Collect.

the kingdom of God. But the KEEP, we beseech thee, O fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, Lord, thy Church with peace, long-suffering, gentle-thy perpetual mercy: And beness, goodness, faith, meek-cause the frailty of man withness, temperance against such out thee cannot but fall, keep there is no law. And they us ever by thy help from all that are Christ's have crucifi-things hurtful, and lead us to ed the flesh, with the affec-all things profitable to our saltions and lusts. vation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Gospel. St. Luke. xvii. 11.

AND it came to pass, as

us.

The Epistle. Gal. vi. 11.

Yhave written unto you

E see how large a letter I

Jesus went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the with mine own hand. As many midst of Samaria and Galilee. as desire to make a fair show And as he entered into a cer-in the flesh, they constrain you tain village, there met him ten to be circumcised; only lest men that were lepers, who they should suffer persecution stood afar off. And they lift-for the cross of Christ. For ed up their voices, and said, neither they themselves who Jesus, Master, have mercy on are circumcised keep the law; And when he saw them, but desire to have you circumhe said unto them, Go show cised, that they may glory in yourselves unto the priests. your flesh. But God forbid And it came to pass, that, as that I should glory, save in the they went, they were cleansed. cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, And one of them, when he by whom the world is crucified saw that he was healed, turn unto me, and I unto the world. ed back, and with a loud voice For in Christ Jesus neither cir glorified God, and fell down cumcision availeth any thing, on his face at his feet, giving nor uncircumcision; but a new him thanks: and he was a creature. And as many as. Samaritan. And Jesus an-walk according to this rule, swering said, Were there not peace be on them, and mercy, ten cleansed? but where are and upon the Israel of God.. the nine? There are not found From henceforth let no man that returned to give glory to trouble me, for I bear in my God, save this stranger. And body the marks of the Lord he said unto him, Arise, go Jesus. Brethren, the grace of thy way: thy faith hath made our Lord Jesus Christ be with the whole.. your spirit. Amen..

The Gospel. St. Matt. vi. 24. and all these things shall be O man can serve two mas-added unto you. Take there

Noman can serve the will fore no thought for the mnt

hate the one, and love the row for the morrow shall other; or else he will hold to take thought for the things of the one, and despise the other itself: sufficient unto the day Ye cannot serve God and is the evil thereof. mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for The your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on: Is not the life

Sixteenth Sunday after
Trinity.

The Collect.

more than meat, and the body O LORD, we beseech thee,

I

Ephes. iii. 13.

let thy continual pity than raiment? Behold the cleanse and defend thy Church; fowls of the air for they sow and because it cannot continue not, neither do they reap, nor in safety without thy succour, gather into barns; yet your preserve it evermore by thy heavenly father feedeth them. help and goodness, through Are ye not much better than Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. they? Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit The Epistle. unto his stature ? And why DESIRE that ye faint not take ye thought for raiment? at my tribulations for you, Consider the lilies of the field, which is your glory. For this how they grow: they toil not cause I bow my knees unto the neither do they spin; and yet Father of our Lord Jesus I say unto you, that even So-Christ, of whom the whole lomon in all his glory was not family in heaven and earth is arrayed like one of these.named, that he would grant Wherefore if God so clothe you, according to the riches the grass of the field, which of his glory, to be strengthento-day is, and to-morrow ised with might by his Spirit in cast into the oven; shall he the inner man; that Christ not much more clothe you, O may dwell in your hearts by ye of little faith? Therefore faith; that ye, being rooted take no thought, saying, What and grounded in love, may be shall we eat? or, What shalifable to comprehend, with all we drink? or, Wherewithalsaints, what is the breadth, shall we be clothed? (for after and length, and depth, and all these things do the Gentiles height; and to know the love seek :) for your heavenly Fa-of Christ, which passeth knowther knoweth that ye haveliedge, that ye might be filled need of all these things. But with all the fulness of God. seek ye first the kingdom of Now unto him that is able to God, and his righteousness, [do exceeding abundantly above

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