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
is layd vp for me a crowne of righteousnes which the Lord that is a righteous iudge shal geue to me at that day not to mee onelye but to all them that loue hys comming Do thy diligence that thou mayest come shortly vnto me For Demas hath forsaken me and loueth this present world and is departed vnto Thessalonica Cresens is gone to Galacia Titus vnto Dalmacia onely Lucas is with me Take Marke and bring him with thee for he is profitable vnto me for the ministration and Tichicus haue I sent to Ephesus The cloke that I left at Troada with Carpus when thou commest bringe with thee and the bookes but specially the parchment Alexander the Coppersmith did me much euill the Lord reward hym according to hys deedes of whom be thou ware also For he hath greatly withstood our woords ¶ The Gospel Luke x. THe Lord appoynted other seuentye also and sent them two and two before him into euerye Citye and place whyther hee hym selfe woulde come Therefore he sayd vnto them the haruest is great but the labourers are few Pray ye therefore the Lord of the haruest to send foorth labourers into the haruest Go your waies behold I sende you foorth as Lambes among Wolues beare no wallet neither scrip nor shoes and salute no man by the way into whatsoeuer house you enter fyrst say peace be to this house And if the son of peace be there your peace shall rest vpon him if not it shal returne to you againe And in the same house tary styll eating and drinking such as they geue for the labourer his worthy of his reward ¶ Simon and Iudes day Apostles The Epistle Iude. i. IVdas the seruaunt of Iesu Christ the brother of Iames to them which are called and sanctifyed in God the Father and preserued in Iesu Christ Mercy vnto you and peace and loue be multiplied Beloued when I gaue al diligence to write vnto you of the common saluation it was needefull for me to wryte vnto you to exhort you that ye should continually labour in the fayth which was once geuen vnto the Sayntes For there are certayne vngodly men craftely crept in of which it was written afore tyme vnto such iudgement They turne the grace of our God vnto wantones and deny God which is the onely Lord and our Lord Iesu Christ My minde is therfore to put you in remēbraunce for asmuch as ye once know this how that the Lord after that he had deliuered the people out of Egipt destroied thē which after beleued not The Angels also which kept not their first state but left their own habitaciō he hath reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darknes vnto the iudgement of the great day euen as Sodom and Gomor the Cities about them which in lyke maner defiled themselues with fornication and followed straunge flesh are set foorth for an example suffer the payne of eternall fire lykewise these being deceiued by dreames defyle the flesh despyse rulers and speake euyll of them that are in aucthority ¶ The Gospell Iohn xv THis I commaund you that ye loue together If the world hate you ye know it hated me before it hated you If ye were of the world the world would loue his own how be it because ye are not of the world but I haue chosen you out of the world therfore the world hateth you Remember the word that I sayd vnto you the seruaunt is not greater then hys lord If they haue persecuted me they wyll persecute you if they haue kept my saying they wyl keepe yours also But all these things wyll they do vnto you for my names sake because they haue not knowen him that sent me If I had not come and spoken vnto them they should haue had no synne but now haue they nothing to cloke theyr synne withall He that hateth me hateth my Father also If I had not done among them the woorkes which none other man did they should haue had no synne But now haue they both seene and hated not onely me but also my Father But this happeneth that the saying might be fulfylled that is written in their law They hated me without a cause But when the comforter is come whom I wyll sende vnto you from the Father euen the spirit of truth which proceedeth of the Father hee shall testifie of me And ye shall beare witnes also because ye haue beene with me from the beginning ¶ All Saintes day The Epistle Apo. vii BEholde I Iohn saw another Angel ascend from the rising of the Sunne which had the seale of the lyuing God and hee cryed with a loud voyce to the foure Aungels to whom power was geuen to hurt the earth and the Sea saying hurt not the earth neither the Sea neither the trees tyll we haue sealed the Seruauntes of our God in their foreheades And I heard the number of them which were sealed and there were sealed an C. and .xliiij. thousande of all the Tribes of the children of Israel Of the tribe of Iuda were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Ruben were sealed xij M. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Asset were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Neptalim were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Leui were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Isachat were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Ioseph were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Beniamin were sealed .xij. M. After this I behelde and lo a great multitude which no man can number of all nacions and people and tounges stoode before the seate and before the Lambe and clothed with long white garmentes and Palmes in their handes and cried with a loud voice saying saluacion be ascribed to him that sitteth vpon the seate of God and vnto the Lambe And all the Aungels stood in the compasse of the seate and of the elders and the foure beastes and fell before the seate on their faces and worshipped God saying Amen Blessing and glory and wisdome and thankes and honour and power and mighte be vnto our God for euermore Amen ¶ The Gospell Math. v. IEsus seing the people went vp into the mountaine and when hee was set hys Disciples came to hym and after that hee had opened his mouth he taught them saying Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen Blessed are they that mourne for they shall receiue comfort Blessed are the meeke for they shall receyue the inheritaunce of the earth Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after ryghteousnes for they shall bee satisfied Blessed are the mercyfull for they shall obtayne mercye Blessed are the pure in hart for they shall see god Blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called the chyldren of god Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen Blessed are ye when men reuyle you and persecute you and shall falsely say all maner of euyl sayinges agaynste you for my sake Reioyce and bee glad for great is your reward in heauen for so persecuted they the Prophetes which were before you FINIS ⧠Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely dwelling in little Britaine streete without Aldersgate
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
she had brought foorth her fyrst begotten Sonne and called his name Iesus ¶ The Circumcision of Christ The Epistle Roma iiii BLessed is that man to whom the Lord will not impute syn Came this blessednes then vpon the vncircumcision or vpon the circumsicion also For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousnes How was it then reckoned when he was in the circumcision or when he was in the vncircumcision Not in tyme of circumcision but when he was yet vncircumcised And he receyued the signe of circumcision as a seale of the righteousnes of fayth which he had yet beyng vncircumcised that he should be the Father of all them that beleue though they be not circūcised that righteousnes might be imputed to them also and that he might be the Father of circumcision not vnto them onely which came of the circumcised but vnto them also that walke in the steps of the faith that was in our father Abraham before the time of circumcision For the promise that he should be heire of the world happened not to Abrahā or to his sede through the law but through the righteousnes of faith For if they which are of the law be heires thē is faith but vain the promis of none effect ¶ The Gospell Luke ii ANd it fortuned assoone as the Angels were gone away from the Shepheardes into heauen they sayd one to another let vs go euen now vnto Bethelem and see this thing that we heare say is hapned which the Lord hath shewed vnto vs And they came with hast and found Mary and Ioseph and the Babe layd in a maunger And when they had sene it they published abroad that saying that was tolde them of that child And al they that heard it wondred at those things which were told them of the Shepheards But Mary kept al these sayings and pondred them in her hart And the Shepheards returned praysing and lauding God for all thinges that they had heard and sene euen as it was told vnto them And when the eight day was come that the Childe should be circumcised hys name was called Iesus which was named of the Aungell before he was conceiued in the wombe ¶ The Epiphany The Epistle Ephes iii. FOr this cause I Paule a prysoner of Iesus Christ for you Heathen if you haue heard of the ministration of the grace of God which is geuen me to you ward For by reuelation shewed he the mistery vnto me as I wrote afore in few woordes whereby when ye reade ye may vnderstand my knowledge in the mistery of Christ which mistery in times past was not opened vnto the sonnes of men as it is now declared vnto his holy Apostels and Prophetes by the spirite that the Gentiles should be inheritours also of the same bodye and partakers of his promise in Christ by the meanes of the Gospel wherof I am made a Minister according to the gift of the grace of God which is geuen vnto me after the working of his power Vnto me the least of all Saintes is this grace geuen that I should preache among the Gentiles the vnsearchable ritches of Christ to make all men see what the felowship of the mistery is which from the beginning of the world hath bene hid in God which made all thinges through Iesus Christ to th entent that now vnto the rulers powers in heauenly things might be knowen by the congregation the manifold wisdome of God according to the eternall purpose which he wrought in Christ Iesu our Lord by whom we haue boldnes entrance with the confidence which is by the fayth of him ¶ The Gospell Math. ii WHen Iesus was borne in Bethelem a City of Iewry in the time of Herod the king behold ther came wise men from the East to Ierusalem saying Where is hee that is borne Kyng of the Iewes For we haue sene his starre in the East and are come to worship him When Herod the kyng had heard these thinges he was troubled and all the city of Ierusalem with hym And when he had gathered al the chiefe Priests Scribes of the people together he demaunded of them where Christ should be borne And they sayd vnto him at Bethelem in Iewry For thus it is written by the Prophet And thou Bethlem in the land of Iewry art not the least among the Princes of Iuda for out of thee there shall come vnto me the Captaine that shal gouern my people Israel Then Herod when he had priuely called the wyse men he enquired of them diligently what tyme the starre appeared and he bad them go to Bethlem and said go your way thether and search diligently for the chylde And when ye haue found him bring me word agayne that I may come and woorship him also When they had heard the king they departed and loe the starre which they saw in the East went before them tyll it came and stood ouer the place wherin the child was When they saw the starre they were exceeding glad and went into the house and found the child with Mary his mother and fell downe flat and worshipped him and opened their treasures and offered vnto him gifts gold Frankincens and Mirre And after they were warned of God in a slepe that they should not go againe to Herod they returned into their owne countrey another way ¶ The fitst sunday after the Epiphany The Epistle Roma xii I Besche you therfore brethren by the mercyfulnes of of God that yee make your bodies a quicke sacrifice holy and acceptable vnto God which is your reasonable seruing of God and fashion not your selues lyke vnto this world but be ye chaunged in your shape by the renuing of your minde that ye may proue what thing that good and acceptable and perfecte wyll of God is For I say through the grace that vnto me geuē is to euery man among you that no man stande high in his own conceite more then it becommeth him to esteme of himselfe but so iudge of himselfe that ht be gentell and sober according as God hath dealt to euery man the measure of faith For as we haue many members in one body and al members haue not one office so we being many are one body in Christ and euery man among our selues one a nothers members ¶ The Gospell Luke ii THe Father and Mother of Iesus went to Ierusalem after the custome of the feast day And when they had fulfylled the dayes as they returned home the Childe Iesus abode styll in Ierusalem and his father mother knew not of it but they supposing him to haue bene in the company came a daies iourney and sought him amongest their kinsfolke and acquaintaunce And whē they found him not they went back agayne to Ierusalem and sought him And it fortuned that after three dayes they found him in the temple sitting in the middest of the Doctours hearing them and posing them And all that heard hym wer astonied at his vnderstanding and
is hee which was ordained of God to be the iudge of the quick and the deade To him geue all the prophetes witnes that through hys name whosoeuer beleueth in him shall receyue remission of syns ¶ The Gospell Luke xxiii BEhold two of the Disciples went that same day to a towne called Emaus which was from Ierusalem about .lx. furlongs and they talked together of all the thinges that had happened And it chaunced while they commoned together and reasoned Iesus hymselfe drew nere went with them But their eyes were holden that they should not know him And he sayd vnto them what maner of communications are these that ye haue one to another as ye walke and are sad And the one of them whose name was Cleophas aunswered and sayd vnto him art thou onely a straunger in Ierusalem and hast not knowen the things which haue chaunced ther in these daies He said vnto them what thinges And they sayd vnto hym of Iesus of Nazareth which was a Prophet mighty in deede and word before God and all the people and how the hie Priestes and our rulers deliuered him to be condemned to death haue crucified him But we trusted that it had bene he which should haue redemed Israel And as touching all these thinges to day is euen the third day that they were done Yea and certaine women of our company made vs astonied which came earely vnto the sepulchre found not his body and came saying that they had seene a vision of angels which said that he was aliue And certain of them which were with vs went to the sepulchre and found it euen so as the women had sayd but him they saw not And he sayd vnto them O fooles and flow of hart to beleue all that the Prophets haue spoken ought not Christ to haue suffered these things and to enter into his glory And he began at Moises and all the Prophets and interpreted vnto them in all scriptures which were written of hym And they drewe nye vnto the towne which they went vnto And he made as though he wold haue gon further And they constrained him saying abide with vs for it draweth towards night the day is far passed And he went in to tary with them And it came to passe as he sat at meat with them he tooke bread blessed it and brake gaue to them And their eies were opened they knew him he vanished out of their sight and they said betwene themselues did not our harts burne within vs while he talked with vs by the way and opened to vs the scriptures And they rose vp the same houre and returned to Ierusalem and found the eleuē gathered together them that were with them saying the Lord is risen in deede hath appeared vnto Simon And they told what things were done in the way and how they knew him in breaking of bread ¶ The Tuesday in Easter weeke The Epistle Actes xiii YE men and brethren children of the generation of Abraham and whosoeuer among you feareth God to you is this woord of saluation sent For the inhabiters of Ierusalem and their rulers because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the Prophets which are read euery Sabboth day they haue fulfilled them in condemning him And whē they found no cause of death in him yet desired they Pilate to kill him And when they had fulfilled all that was written of hym they tooke hym downe from the tree and put hym in a Sepulchre But God raysed him agayne from death the third day and he was sene many daies of them which went with him frō Galile to Ierusalem which ar witnesses vnto the people And we declare vnto you how that the promis which was made vnto the fathers god hath fulfilled vnto their children euen vnto vs in that he raised vp Iesus again Euen as it is written in the second Psalme thou art my sonne this day haue I begotten thee As concerning that he raised him vp from death now no more to returne to corruption he sayd on this wise The holy promises made to Dauid wyll I geue faithfully vnto you Wherefore he sayth also in an other place Thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to see corruptiō For Dauid after that he had in his time fulfylled the wyll of God fell on sleepe and was layd vnto his fathers and saw corruption But he whom God raised againe saw no corruption Be it knowen vnto you therfore ye men and brethren that through this man is preached vnto you forgeuenes of sinnes that by him all that beleue are iustified from al things from which ye could not be iustified by the law of Moises Beware therfore least that fall on you which is spoken of in the Prophets behold ye despisers wonder and perish ye for I do a worke in your daies which ye shal not beleue though a man declare it vnto you ¶ The Gospell Luke xxiiii IEsus stood in the middest of his Disciples and sayd vnto thē peace be vnto you It is I feare not But they were abashed and afraide and supposed that they had sene a spirit And he said vnto them why are ye troubled and why do thoughts arise in your harts Behold my handes and my feete that it is euen I my selfe Handle me and see for a spirit hath no flesh and bones as ye see me haue And when he had thus spokē he shewed them his hands his feete And while they yet beleued not for ioy and wondered he sayd vnto them Haue ye here any meate And they offered him a peece of broyled fysh and of a hoony combe And he tooke it and did eate before them And he said vnto thē these are the words which I spake vnto you whyle I was yet with you That all must needes be fulfylled which were wrytten of me in the law of Moyses and in the Prophets and in the Psalmes Then opened he their wits that they might vnderstand the scriptures said vnto them Thus it is wrytten thus it behoued Christ to suffer and to rise againe from death the third day and that repentaunce remission of syns should be preached in his name among all nacions and must begin at Ierusalem And ye ar witnes of these things ¶ The first Sunday after Easter The Epistle i. Iohn v. ALl that is born of God ouercōmeth the world And this is the victory that ouercōmmeth the world euen our fayth Who is he that ouercōmeth the world but he that beleueth that Iesus is the son of God This Iesus Christ is he that came by water and bloud not by water onely but by water and bloud And it is the spirit that beareth witnes because the spirit is truth For there are three which beare record in heauen the father the word and the holy Ghost these three are one And ther are three which beare record in earth the spirit water and bloud and these three are one
say vnto the cities of Iuda Behold your God behold the Lord God shall come with power and beare rule with his arme Behold he bringeth his treasure with him and his workes go before him He shal feede his flocke lyke an Heardman Hee shall gather the Lambes together with his arme and cary them in hys bosome and shall kindly intreate those that beare young ¶ The Gospel Luke i. ELizabethes time came that she shuld be deliuered she brought forth a sonne And her neyghbours and her Cosen 's heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy vpon and reioyced with her And it fortuned that in the eyght day they came to circumcise the childe and called his name Zachary after the name of his father And his mother answered and sayd not so but his name shall be called Iohn And they sayde vnto her There is none in thy kynred that is named with this name And they made sygnes to hys father how he would haue him called And he asked for writing tables and wrote saying his name is Iohn And they maruayled all And hys mouth was opened immediately and his toung also he spake and praysed god And feare came on all them that dwelt nye vnto him And al these sayings was noised abrod throughout all the hye country of Iewry and they that heard them layd them vp in their hartes saying what maner of child shal this be And the hand of the Lord was with him And his father Zacharias was fylled wyth the holy Ghost prophecied saying Praysed be the Lord God of Israell for he hath visited and redemed his people And raised vp an horne of saluation vnto vs in the house of his seruaunt Dauid Euen as he promised by the mouth of his holy Prophetes which were since the world began that we should be saued frō our enemies frō the hand of all that hate vs That he would deale mercifully with our fathers and remember his holy couenaunt he would performe the oth which he sware to our father Abraham for to geue vs That we being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies might serue hym wythout feare all the dayes of our lyfe in such holines and righteousnes as are acceptable for him And thou childe shalt be called the Prophet of the highest for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his waies To geue knowledge of saluacion vnto his people for the remission of syns Through the tender mercy of our God whereby the day spring from an hye hath visited vs To geue light to them that sat in darknes and in the shadow of death to guide our feete into the way of peace And the Childe grewe and waxed strong in spirit was in wildernes till the day came when he should shew himselfe vnto the Israelits ¶ Saynt Peters day the Apostle The Epistle Actes xii AT the same time Herod the king stretched foorth his handes to vexe certain of the congregation And he kylled Iames the Brother of Iohn with the sworde And because he saw it pleased the Iewes he proceded further and tooke Peter also Then were the dayes of swete bread And when hee had caught him he put hym in prison also and deliuered hym to four quarternions of souldiers to bee kept intending after Easter to bringe him foorth to the people And Peter was kepte in prison but prayer was made with out ceasing of the congregation vnto God for him And when Herod woulde haue brought him out vnto the people the same night slepte Peter betwene two soldiers bound with two chaines and the kepers before the doore kept the prison And behold the Aungell of the Lord was there present and a light shined in the habitation And he smot Peter on the side and stirred him vp saying arise vp quickly And his chaines fel from his hands And the Aungell sayd vnto him girde thy selfe and bind on thy sandales And he so did And he sayde vnto him cast thy garment about thee and folow me And he came out and folowed him and wist not that it was truth which was done by the Angell but thought hee had seene a vision When they were past the first and second watch they came vnto the yron gate that leadeth vnto the city which opened to them by the owne accord and they went out and passed thorow one streete foorthwith the Angel departed from him And when Peter was come to himselfe he sayd now I know of a suretye that the Lord hath sent his angel and hath deliuered me out of the hand of Herod and from all waiting of the people of the Iewes ¶ The Gospell Math. xv WHen Iesus came into the coastes of the City which is called Cesarea Philippy he asked his disciples saying whom do men say that I the son of man am They sayd Some say that thou art Iohn Baptist some Helias some Ieremias or one of the Prophets He said vnto them but whom say ye that I am Simon Peter aunswered and sayde Thou art Christ the son of the liuing god And Iesus aunswered and said vnto him Happy art thou Simon the sonne of Ionas for flesh and bloud hath not opened that vnto thee but my father which is in heauen And I say vnto thee that thou art Peter and vpon this rocke I will builde my congregacion And the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it And I wil geue vnto thee the keies of the kingdome of heauen And whatsoeuer thou bindest in earth shal be bound in heauen and whatsoeuer thou loosest in earth shal be loosed in heauen ¶ Saint Iames the Apostle The Epistle Actes xi IN those dayes came Prophetes from the City of Ierusalem vnto Antioch and there stood vp one of them named Agabus and signified by the spirite that there should be great dearth throughout all the world which came to passe in the Emperour Claudius dayes Then the disciples euery man according to hys abilitye purposed to send succour vnto the brethren which dwelt in Iewry which thing they also did and sent it to the elders by the handes of Barnabas and Saule At the same time Herod the kinge stretched foorth his handes to vexe ceriaine of the congregation And hee killed Iames the brother of Iohn with the sword And because he saw it pleased the Iewes he proceeded further and tooke Peter also ¶ The Gospell Math. xx THen came to him the mother of Zebedes children with her sonnes worshipping him and desiring a certain thing of him and he sayd vnto her what wilt thou Shee sayd vnto him Graunt that these my two Sonnes may syt the one on thy right hand and the other on thy lefte in thy kingdome But Iesus answered and sayd yee wote not what ye aske are ye able to drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of and to be baptised with the baptisme that I am baptised with They said vnto him we are He sayd vnto them ye shal drink in deede of my cup