which we haue heard of hym and declare vnto you that God is lyght and in him is no darknes at all If we say we haue felowship wyth hym and walke in darknes we lie and do not the truth But and if we walke in light euen as he is in light then haue we felowshyp wyth hym and the bloud of Iesus Christ hys Sonne cleanseth vs from al syn If we say we haue no sinne we deceiue our selues and the truth is not in vs If we knowledge our synnes he is faythfull and iust to forgeue vs our synnes and to cleanse vs from al vnrighteousnes If we say we haue not synned we make him a lyer and hys worde is not in vs. ¶ The Gospell Iohn xxi IEsus said vnto Peter folow thou me Peter turned about and saw the Disciple whom Iesus loued folowing which also leaned on his breast at supper and said Lord which is he that betraieth thee When Peter therfore saw him he said to Iesus Lord what shal he here do Iesus said vnto him if I wil haue hym to tary till I come what is that to thee Folowe thou me Then went this saying abrode among the Brethren that that Disciple should not dye Yet Iesus said not to him he shal not die but if I wil that he tary tyl I come what is that to thee The same Disciple is he which testifieth of these thinges and wrote these things and we know that his testimonie is true Ther are also many other things which Iesus did the which if they should be wrytten euery one I suppose the world could not conteyne the bookes that should bee written ¶ Innocentes day The Epistle Apoca. xiii I Looked and lo a lambe stood on the Mount Sion and with him an C. and .xliiij. thousand hauing his name and hys Fathers name written in their foreheades And I heard a voyce from heauen as the sound of manye waters and as the voyce of a great thunder And I heard the voyce of Harpes harpynge wyth their Harpes And they soong as it were a newe songe before the seate and before the .iiij. beastes and the elders and no man could learne the songe but the hundred fortie and foure thousand which were redemed from the earth These are they which wer not defiled with womē for they are virgins These folow the Lambe wheresoeuer he goeth These were redeemed from men beinge the first fruites vnto God and to the Lambe and in their mouthes was found no guyle for they are without spot before the throne of God. ¶ The Gospell Math. ii THe Aungell of the Lord appeared to Ioseph in a sleepe saying aryse take the childe and his mother flee into Egipt be thou ther til I bring thee woord For it wil come to passe that Herod shal seeke the Child to destroy him So when he awoke he tooke the childe and his Mother by night and departed into Egypt and was there vnto the death of Herod that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying Out of Egipt haue I called my sonne Then Herode when he saw that he was mocked of the wyse men he was exceeding wroth and sent forth men of warre and slew all the children that were in Bethelem and in all the coastes as many as were two yeares old or vnder according to the tyme which he had diligently knowen out of the wise men Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by the Prophet Ieremy where as he said In Rama was ther a voyce heard lamentacion weeping and great mourning Rachel weping for her children and would not be comforted because they were not ¶ The Sunday after Christmas day The Epistle Gala. iiii ANd I say that the Heire so long as he is a chyld differeth not from a seruant though he be Lord of all but is vnder Tutours and Gouernours vntyll the tyme that the father hath appoynted Euen so we also when we were children were in bondage vnder the ordinances of the world but when the time was full come God sent his sonne made of a woman and made bond vnto the law to redeme them which wer bond vnto the law that we through election might receiue the inheritance that belongeth vnto the naturall sonnes Because ye are sonnes God hath sent the spirit of his sōne into your hartes which cryeth Abba Father wherefore now thou art not a seruaunt but a sonne If thou be a sonne thou art also an heire of God through Christ ¶ The Gospell Math. i. THys is the booke of the generation of Iesus Christ the sonne of Dauid the sonne of Abraham Abraham begat Isaac Isaac begat Iacob Iacob begat Iudas and hys brethren Iudas 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 Iesse Iesse begat Dauid the king Dauid the king begat Salomon of her that was the wife of Vrie Salomon begat Roboam Roboam begat Abia Abia begat Asa Asa begat Iosaphat Iosaphat begat Ioram Ioram begat Osias Osias begat Ioatham Ioatham begat Achas Achas begat Ezechias Ezechias begat Manasses Manasses begat Amon Amon begat Iosias Iosias begat Ieconias and his brethren about the time that they wer caried away to Babilō And after they were brought to Babylon Ieconias begat Salathiell Salathiel begat Zorobabel Zorobabel begat Abiud Abiud begat Eliachim Eliachim begat Azor Azor begat Sadoc Sodoc begat Achin Achin begat Eliud Eliud begat Marthan Marthan begat Iacob Iacob begat Ioseph the husband of Mary of whom was borne Iesus euen he that is called Christ And so all the generations from Abraham to Dauid are .xiiij. generations And from Dauid vnto the captiuitie of Babilon are .xiiij. generations And from the captiuitie of Babilon vnto Christ are .xiiij. generations The birth of Christ was on this wise when his mother Marye was maried to Ioseph before they came to dwel together she was found with child by the holy ghost Then Ioseph her husband because he was a righteous man would not put her to shame was minded priuelie to depart frō her But while he thus thought behold the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him in a sleepe saying Ioseph thou sonne of Dauid feare not to take vnto thee Mary thy wife for that which is conceiued in her commeth of the holy ghost She shall bring forth a sonne and thou shalt call his name Iesus for he shal saue his people from their synnes Al this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying Behold a mayde shal be with childe and shall bring forth a sonne and they shal call hys name Emanuel which if a man interpret is as much to say as God with vs And Ioseph assone as he awoke out of sleepe did as the Angel of the Lord had bidden him and he tooke hys wife vnto him and knew her not tyll
their nettes and he called them And they immediatly left the ship and theyr father and folowed him ¶ Saint Thomas Apostles day The Epistle Ephe. ii NOw ye are not straungers nor foreners but citezens with the sayntes and of the housholde of God and are buylt vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the head corner stone in whom what bulding soeuer is coupeled together it groweth vnto an holy temple of the Lord in whom also ye are builte together to be an habitacion of God through the holy Ghost ¶ The Gospell Iohn xx THomas one of the twelue which is called Didimus was not with them when Iesus came The other disciples therefore said vnto him we haue seene the lord But he sayd vnto them except I see in his handes the print of the nailes and put my finger into the print of the nailes and thrust my hand into his syde I wyl not beleue And after eight dayes againe his Disciples were within and Thomas with them Then came Iesus when the doores were shut and stood in the middest and sayd peace be vnto you And after that he sayd to Thomas bring thy fynger hither and see my handes and reach thy hand and thrust it into my syde and be not faithles but beleuing Thomas aunswered and sayd vnto hym my Lord and my God Iesus sayd vnto hym Thomas because thou hast seene me thou hast beleued blessed are they that haue not seene and yet haue beleued And many other signes trulye did Iesus in the presence of his disiples which are not writtē in this booke These are written that ye might beleue that Iesus Christ is the sonne of God and that in beleuing ye might haue lyfe through his name ¶ The Conuertion of Saynt Paule The Epistle Actes ix ANd Saule yet breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord went vnto the high Priest and desired of him letters to cary to Damasco to the Sinagoges that if he found any of thys way were they men or women he might bring thē bound to Ierusalem And when he iournied it fortuned that as he was come nigh to Damasco sodenly there shined round about him a lyght from heauen he fell to the earth herd a voyce saying to him Saul Saul why persecutest thou me And he sayd what art thou Lorde And the Lord sayd I am Iesus whom thou persecutest It is hard for thee to kicke against the pricke And he both trembling and astonied said Lord what wylt thou haue me to do And the lord sayd vnto him aryse and go into the City and it shal be told thee what thou must do The men which iourneyed with hym stood amased hearing a voyce but seeing no man And Saule arose from the earth and when he opened his eyes he saw no man But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damasco And he was three dayes without sight and neither did eate nor drinke And there was a certaine disciple at Damasco named Ananias and to him sayd the Lord in a vision Ananias he sayd behold I am here lord And the Lord sayd vnto him arise go into the streete which is called streight seeke in the house of Iudas after one called Saul of Tharsus For behold he praieth hath sene in a vision a man named Ananias comming vnto him and putting his handes on him that he might receiue his syght Then Ananias aunswered Lord I haue heard by many of this man howe much euyll he hath done to thy Saints at Ierusalem here he hath authority of the hye Priests to binde all that cal on thy name The Lord said vnto him go thy way for he is a chosen vessell vnto me to beare my name before the Gentiles kings and the childrē of Israel For I wyl shew hym how great thynges hee must suffer for my names sake And Ananias went his way entred into the house and put his handes on him sayd Brother Saul the Lord that appeared vnto thee in the way as thou cāmest hath sent me that thou mightest receue thy sight be filled with the holy Ghost And immediatly ther fel from his eyes as it had bene scales and he receiued syght arose and was baptised receiued meate and was comforted Then was Saul a certain dayes wyth the Disciples whych were at Damasco And straightway he preached Christ in the Sinagogs how that he was the sonne of god But all that heard him wer amased and said Is not this he that spoyled them which called on this name in Ierusalem came hether for that intent that he might bring them bound vnto the hye Priestes But Saul encreased the more in strength and confounded the Iewes which dwelt at Damasco affirming that this was very Christ ¶ The Gospell Math. xix PEter answered and sayd vnto Iesus Behold we haue forsaken all and folowed thee what shall we haue therfore Iesus sayde vnto them Verely I say vnto you that when the sonne of man shal syt in the seate of his Maiestye ye that haue folowed me in the regeneration shal syt also vpon .xij. seates iudge the twelue tribes of Israel And euery one that forsaketh house or brethren or systers or Father or Mother or wife or children or landes for my names sake shall receiue an hundred fold shall inherite euerlasting lyfe But many that ar first shal be last the last shal be first ¶ The Purification of the virgin Mary The Epistle Mala. iii. BEhold I send my Messenger which shall prepare the way before me and sodaynlye shall the Lord whō ye seeke come vnto his temple the messenger of the couenant whom ye desire Behold he cōmeth saith the Lord of Saboth Who shall endure in the day of his cōming or who shal stand to behold him For he is as a trying fire as the herbe that Fullers scoure withal and he shal syt trying purging siluer and shal purify the sonnes of Leuy and shal fine them as gold syluer and they shal bring offerings vnto the Lord of ryghteousnes and the Sacrifice of Iuda and Ierusalem shall be delicious vnto the Lord as in the old time and in the yeares that were in the beginning ¶ The Gospell Luke ii WHen the time of their purification after the law of Moyses was come they brought him to Ierusalem to present him to the Lord as it is written in the law of the Lord Euery Manchilde that first openeth the Matrix shal be called holy to the Lord to offer as it is sayd in the law of the Lord a paire of Turtle doues or .ii. yong Pigeons And behold ther was a mā in Ierusalē whose name was Simeon And the same man was iust godly and looked for the consolation of Israel and the holy ghost was in him And an answer had he receiued of the holy Ghost that he should not see death except he fyrst saw the
chosen of god The souldiours also mocked him and came and offered him viniger and said if thou be the king of the Iewes saue thy selfe And a superscription was written ouer him with letters of Greeke and Latin and Hebrue Thys is the king of the Iewes And one of the euyll doers which were hanged rayled on him saying If thou be Christ saue thy selfe vs But the other aunswered rebuked him saying fearest thou not God seeing thou art in the same damnatiō we are righteously punished for we receiue according to our dedes but this mā hath done nothing amisse And he sayd vnto Iesus Lord remember me when thou commest into thy kingdom And Iesus sayd vnto hym verely I say vnto thee to day shalt thou be with me in paradise And it was about the syxt hour ther was a darknes ouer all the earth vntill the ninth houre the sun was darkned and the vaile of the temple did rent euē through the midst And whē Iesus had cried with a loud voice he said Father into thy hands I cōmend my spirit And when he thus had said he gaue vp the gost When the Centurion saw what had happened he glorifed God saying verely this was a righteous man And all the people that came together to that syght and saw the things which had hapned smot their brestes and returned And al his acquaintance and the women that folowed him frō Galile stood a far of beholding these things And behold ther was a man named Ioseph a Counsailer he was a good man and a iust the same had not consented to the counsell deede of them which was of Aramathia a City of the Iewes which also wayted for the kingdome of God he went vnto Pilat and begged the body of Iesus and tooke it down wrapped it in a lynnen cloth and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewē in stone wherein neuer man before had bene laid And that day was the preparing of the Sabboth and the Saboth drew on The women that followed after which had come with him from Galile beheld the sepulchre how hys body was layd And they returned and prepared swete odours and oyntments but rested on the Sabboth day according to the commaundementes ¶ Good Friday The Epistle Hebru x. THe law which hath but a shadow of good things to come and not the very fashyon of things them selues can neuer with those Sacrifyces which they offer yeare by yeare continually make the commers therunto perfite For would not then those Sacrifices haue ceased to haue bene offered because that the offerers once purged should haue had no more conscience of synnes Neuertheles in those Sacrifices is ther mencion made of synnes euery yeare For the bloud of Oxen and Goates cannot take away synnes Wherfore when he commeth into the world he sayth Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not haue but a body hast thou ordained me Burnt offeringes also for sinne hast thou not allowed Then sayd I lo I am here In the beginning of the booke it is written of me that I should do thy wyll O god Aboue when he saith Sacrifice and offering and burnt sacrifices and sinne offeringes thou wouldest not haue neither hast thou alowed them which yet are offered by the law then sayd he Loe I am here to do thy wyll O God He taketh away the fyrst to establish the latter by the which wyll we are made holye euen by the offering of the body of Iesu Christ once for all And euery Priest is ready daylye ministring and offering often tymes one manner of oblation which can neuer take away syns But thys man after he had offered one sacrifice for syns is set down for euer on the right hand of God and from henceforth tarieth tyll his foes be made hys footestole For with one offering hath he made perfect for euer them that are sanctified The holy Ghost him selfe also beareth vs record euen when he told before Thys is the Testament that I wyll make vnto them After those daies sayth the Lord I wil put my lawes in their hartes and in their minds wyl I write them and theyr synnes and iniquities wyll I remember nomore And where remission of these things is there is no more offering for syns Seing therefore brethren that by the meanes of the bloud of Iesu we haue liberty to enter into the holy place by the new and liuing way which he hath prepared for vs through the vaile that is to say by his flesh And seing also that we haue an hie priest which is ruler ouer the house of God let vs draw nye with a true hart in a sure fayth sprinckled in our harts from an euil conscience and washed in our bodies with pure water let vs keepe the profession of our hope without wauering for he is faithfull that promised let vs consider one another to the entent that we may prouoke vnto loue to good works not forsaking the felowship that we haue among our selues as the maner of some is but let vs exhort one another that so much the more because ye see that the day draweth nie ¶ The Gospell Iohn xviii WHen Iesus had spoken these words he went forth with his disciples ouer the broke Cedron wher was a garden into the which he then entred with his disciples Iudas which also betraied him knew the place for Iesus oft times resorted thether with his Disciples Iudas then after he had receiued a band of men ministers of the hye priests Pharisies came thether with lanterns and fyrebrands and weapons And Iesus knowing all things that should come on him went foorth and sayd vnto them whom seeke ye They aunswered him Iesus of Nazareth Iesus said vnto them I am he Iudas also which betrayed him stood with them Assone thē as he had said vnto them I am he they went backward fell to the ground Then asked he them againe Whom seeke ye They sayd Iesus of Nazareth Iesus aunswered I haue told you that I am he If ye seeke me therfore let these go their way that the saying myght be fulfylled which he spake Of them which thou gauest me haue I not lost one Then Simon Peter hauing a sword drew it smote the hie Priests seruaunt and cut of his right eare The seruantes name was Malchus Therfore sayd Iesus vnto Peter put vp thy sword into thy sheath shall I not drinke of the cup which my father hath geuen me Then the company the captayn and the ministers of the Iewes tooke Iesus bound him and led him away to Annas first for he was father in law to Caiphas which was the hie priest the same yere Caiphas was he that gaue counsel to the Iewes that it was expedient that one man should die for the people And Simon Peter folowed Iesus so dyd another Disciple that disciple was knowen to the hie priest went in with Iesus into the palace of the hye Priest But
Lord Christ And he came by inspiration into the temple ¶ Saynt Mathies day The Epistle Actes i. IN those dayes Peter stood vp in the midst of the disciples and sayd the number of names that were together were about an hundred and twenty Ye men and brethren the scripture must needes haue bene fulfilled which the holy ghost through the mouth of Dauid spake before of Iudas which was guide to them that tooke Iesus For he was nombred with vs and had obtayned felowship in this Ministration And the same hath now possessed a plot of ground with the reward of iniquity when he was hanged he burst a sunder in the middest and his bowels gushed out And it was knowen vnto all the inhabiters of Hierusalem in so much that the same fielde is called in their mother tounge Acheldema that is to say the bloudy fielde For it is written in the booke of Psalmes his habitation be voyd no man be dwelling therein and his bishopricke let another take Wherefore of these men which haue companied with vs al the time that the Lord Iesus had all his conuersation among vs beginning at the Baptisme of Iohn vnto the same day that he was taken vp from vs must one be ordeined to be a witnes with vs of his resurrection And they appointed two Ioseph which is called Barsabas whose sirname was Iustus and Mathias And when they prayed they sayd Thou Lord which knowest the hartes of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen that he may take the roume of thys Ministration and Apostleshyp from which Iudas by transgression fell that he might go to his owne place And they gaue foorth theyr lots and the lot fell on Mathias and he was coumpted with the eleuen Apostles ¶ The Gospell Math. xi IN that time Iesus answered and sayd I thanke thee O Father Lord of heauen and earth because thou hast hyd these thinges from the wyse and prudent and hast shewed them vnto babes Verely Father euen so was it thy good pleasure All things are geuen vnto me of my father And no man knoweth the Sonne but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father saue the Sonne and he to whom soeuer the sonne will open him Come vnto me all ye that labour and are laden and I wyll ease you Take my yoke vpon you and learne of me for I am meeke and lowly in hart and ye shall fynde rest vnto your soules for my yoke is easy and my burden is lyght ¶ The Annunciation of the virgin Mary The Epistle Esay vii GOd spake once again vnto Ahaz saying require a token of the lord thy God whether it be toward the depth beneath or toward the heyght aboue Then sayd Ahaz I wyll require none neyther will I tempt the lord And he sayd harken to ye of the house of Dauid is it not inough for you that ye be greeuous vnto men but ye must greeue my God also And therfore the Lord shall geue you a token Behold a vyrgin shal conceaue beare a sonne thou his mother shalt cal his name Emanuel Butter hony shal he eate that he may know to refuse the euill and chuse the good ¶ The Gospel Luke i. ANd in the syxt moneth the Aungel Gabriell was sent from God vnto a City of Galile named Nazareth to a virgin spoused to a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid and the virgins name was Marye And the Angell went in vnto her and sayd Hayle full of grace the Lord is with thee Blessed art thou among women When shee saw him shee was abashed at his saying and caste in her minde what maner of salutation that should be And the Angell sayd vnto her feare not Mary for thou hast found grace with god Behold thou shalt conceyue in thy wombe and beare a Sonne and shalt call hys name Iesus He shal be great and shal be called the sonne of the highest And the Lord God shall geue vnto hym the seate of his Father Dauid and he shall reigne ouer the house of Iacob for euer and of his kingdome there shal be none ende Then sayd Mary to the Aungell How shall this be seeing I know not a man And the Angell answered said vnto her The holy ghost shal come vpon thee and the power of the hyest shall ouershadow thee Therfore also that holy thing which shal be borne shal be called the son of god And behold thy Cosin Elizabeth she hath also conceiued a sonne in her age this is the sixt moneth which was called baren for with god nothing shal be vnpossible And Mary said behold the hand maid of the lord be it vnto me acording to thy woord And the Angell departed from her ¶ Saynt Markes day The Epistle Ephe. iiii VNto euery one of vs is geuen grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Wherefore he saith when he went vpon hie he led captiuity captiue and gaue gifts vnto men That he ascended what meaneth it but that he also descended first into the lowest parts of the earth He that descended is euen the same also that ascended vp aboue al heauens to fulfil althings And the very same made some Apostles some Prophets some Euangelists some shepheards teachers to the edifying of the saints to the worke and administratiō euen to the edifying of the body of Christ till we al come to the vnity of the faith knowledge of the son of God vnto a perfect man vnto the measure of the ful perfect age of Christ That we henceforth should be no more children wauering caried about with euery wind of doctrin by the wilines of mē through craftines wherby they lay awayt for vs to deceiue vs But let vs folow the truth in loue and in althings grow in him which is the head euen Christ in whom if al the body be coupled and knit together throughout euery ioynt wherwith one ministreth to another according to the operation as euery part hath his measure he encreaseth the body vnto the edifying of it selfe through loue ¶ The Gospell Iohn xv I Am the true vine and my father is a husbandman Euery braunch that beareth not fruit in me he wyll take away And euery braunch that beareth fruit wil he purge that it may bring foorth more fruit Now are ye clean through the words which I haue spokē vnto you Bide in me I in you As the braūch cannot beare fruit of it self except it bide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the vine ye are the braunches he that abideth in me I in him the same bringeth foorth much fruit For without me cā ye do nothing If a mā bide not in me he is cast foorth as a braunch is withered And men gather thē and cast them into the fire they burn If ye abide in me my words abide in you aske what ye wil and it shal be don