and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactours But ye shall not be so but he that is greatest among you let him be as the younger and he that is chief as he that doth serve For whether is greater he that sitteth at meat or he that serveth is not he that sitteth at meat But I am among you as he that serveth Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations And I appoint unto you a kingdom as my Father hath appointed unto me that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel And the Lord said Simon Simon behold Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat But I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not and when thou art converted strengthen thy brethren And he said unto him Lord I am ready to go with thee both into prison and to death And he said I tell thee Peter the cock shall not crow this day before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me And he said unto them When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes lacked ye any thing And they said Nothing Then said he unto them But now he that hath a purse let him take it and likewise his scrip and he that hath no sword let him sell his garment and buy one For I say unto you that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me And he was reckoned among the transgressours for the things concerning me have an end And they said Lord behold here are two swords And he said unto them It is enough And he came out and went as he was wont to the mount of Olives and his disciples also followed him And when he was at the place he said unto them Pray that ye enter not into temptation And he was withdrawn from them about a stones cast and kneeled down and prayed saying Father if thou be willing remove this cup from me nevertheless not my will but thine be done And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven strengthening him And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of bloud falling down to the ground And when he rose up from prayer and was come to his disciples he found them sleeping for sorrow and said unto them Why sleep ye rise and pray lest ye enter into temptation And while he yet spake behold a multitude and he that was called Judas one of the twelve went before them and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him But Jesus said unto him Judas betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss When they who were about him saw what would follow they said unto him Lord shall we smite with the sword And one of them smote the servant of the high Priest and cut off his right ear And Jesus answered and said Suffer ye thus far And he touched his ear and healed him Then Jesus said unto the chief Priests and captains of the temple and the Elders who were come to him Be ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves When I was daily with you in the temple ye stretched forth no hands against me but this is your hour and the power of darkness Then took they him and led him and brought him into the high Priests house and Peter followed afar off And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and were set down together Peter sat down among them But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire and earnestly looked upon him and said This man was also with him And he denied him saying Woman I know him not And after a little while another saw him and said Thou art also of them And Peter said Man I am not And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed saying Of a truth this fellow also was with him for he is a Galilean And Peter said Man I know not what thou sayest And immediately while he yet spake the cock crew And the Lord turned and looked upon Peter and Peter remembred the word of the Lord how he had said unto him Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice And Peter went out and wept bitterly And the men that held Jesus mocked him and smote him And when they had blind-folded him they struck him on the face and asked him saying Prophesie who is it that smote thee And many other things blasphemously spake they against him And as soon as it was day the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together and led him into their council saying Art thou the Christ tell us And he said unto them If I tell you you will not believe And if I also ask you you will not answer me nor let me go Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God Then said they all Art thou the Son of God And he said unto them Ye say that I am And they said What need we any further witness for we our selves have heard of his own mouth Thursday before Easter The Epistle 1 Cor. 11.17 IN this that I declare unto you I praise you not that you come together not for the better but for the worse For first of all when ye come together in the Church I hear that there be divisions among you and I partly believe it For there must be also heresies among you that they who are approved may be made manifest among you When ye come together therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lords supper For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken What have ye not houses to eat and to drink in or despise ye the Church of God and shame them that have not What shall I say to you shall I praise you in this I praise you not For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me After the same manner also he took the cup when he had supped saying This cup is the new testament in my bloud this do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and bloud of the Lord. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the Lords body For this cause many are
is worse then the first And it came to pass as he spake these things a certain woman of the company lift up her voice and said unto him Blessed is the womb that bare thee and the paps which thou hast sucked But he said Yea rather blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it The fourth Sunday in Lent The collect GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen The Epistle Gal. 4.21 TEll me that desire to be under the law do ye not hear the law For it is written that Abraham had two sons the one by a bond-maid the other by a free-woman But he who was of the bond-woman was born after the flesh but he of the free-woman was by promise Which things are an allegory for these are the two covenants the one from the mount Sinai which gendreth to bondage which is Agar For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children But Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all For it is written Rejoyce thou barren that bearest not break forth and cry thou that traivailest not for the desolate hath many mo children then she which hath an husband Now we brethren as Isaac was are the children of promise But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit even so it is now Nevertheless what saith the Scripture Cast out the bond-woman and her son for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman So then brethren we are not children of the bond-woman but of the free The Gospel S. John 6.1 JEsus went over the sea of Galilee which is the sea of Tiberias And a great multitude followed him because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased And Jesus went up into a mountain and there he sat with his disciples And the passover a feast of the Jews was nigh When Jesus then lift up his eyes and saw a great company come unto him he saith unto Philip Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat And this he said to prove him for he himself knew what he would do Philip answered him Two hundred peny-worth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one of them may take a little One of his disciples Andrew Simon Peters brother saith unto him There is a lad here which hath five barley-loaves and two small fishes but what are they among so many And Jesus said Make the men sit down Now there was much grass in the place So the men sat down in number about five thousand And Jesus took the loaves and when he had given thanks he destributed to the disciples and the disciples to them that were set down and likewise of the fishes as much as they would When they were filled he said unto his disciples Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost Therefore they gathered them together and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley-loaves which remained over and above unto them that had eaten Then those men when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did said This is of a truth that Prophet that should come into the world The fifth Sunday in Lent The collect WE beseech thee Almighty God mercifully to look upon thy people that by thy great goodness they may be governed and preserved evermore both in body and soul through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Heb. 9.11 CHrist being come an high Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building neither by the bloud of goats and calves but by his own bloud he entred in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us For if the bloud of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the bloud of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God And for this cause he is the mediatour of the new Testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance The Gospel S. John 8.46 JEsus said Which of you convinceth me of sin And if I say the truth why do ye not believe me He that is of God heareth Gods words ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God Then answered the Jews and said unto him Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil Jesus answered I have not a devil but I honour my Father and ye do dishonour me And I seek not mine own glory there is one that seeketh and judgeth Verily verily I say unto you If a man keep my saying he shall never see death Then said the Jews unto him Now we know that thou hast a devil Abraham is dead and the prophets and thou sayest If a man keep my saying he shall never taste of death Art thou greater than our father Abraham which is dead and the prophets are dead whom makest thou thy self Jesus answered If I honour my self my honour is nothing it is my Father that honoureth me of whom ye say that he is your God yet ye have not known him but I know him and if I should say I know him not I shall be a liar like unto you but I know him and keep his saying Your father Abraham rejoyced to see my day and he saw it and was glad Then said the Jews unto him Thou art not yet fifty years old and hast thou seen Abraham Jesus said unto them Verily verily I say unto you Before Abraham was I am Then took they up stones to cast at him but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple The Sunday next before Easter The collect ALmighty and everlasting God who of thy tender love towards mankind hast sent thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh and to suffer death upon the cross that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility Mercifully grant that we may both follow the example of his patience and also be made partakers of his resurrection through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Phil. 2.5 LEt this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself
word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending our selves to every mans conscience in the sight of God But if our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them For we preach not our selves but Christ Jesus the Lord and our selves your servants for Jesus sake For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ The Gospel S. Matth. 9.9 ANd as Jesus passed forth from thence he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the receit of Custom and he saith unto him Follow me And he arose and followed him And it came to pass as Jesus sat at meat in the house behold many Publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples And when the Pharisees saw it they said unto his disciples Why eateth your Master with Publicans and sinners But when Jesus heard that he said unto them They that be whole need not a Physician but they that are sick But go ye and learn what that meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not came to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Saint Michael and all Angels The collect O Everlasting God who hast ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order Mercifully grant that as thy holy Angels alway do thee service in heaven so by thy appointment they may succour and defend us on earth through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Rev. 12.7 THere was war in heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not neither was their place found any more in heaven And the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night And they overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death Therefore rejoyce ye heavens and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea for the devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time The Gospel S. Matth. 18.1 AT the same time came the disciples unto Jesus saying Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven And Jesus called a little child unto him and set him in the midst of them and said Verily I say unto you Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven And whoso shall receive one such little child in my Name receiveth me But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea Wo unto the world because of offences for it must needs be that offences come but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee cut them off and cast them from thee it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed rather then having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire And if thine eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye rather then having two eyes to be cast into hell-fire Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven Saint Luke the Evangelist The collect ALmighty God who calledst Luke the Physician whose praise is in the Gospel to be an Evangelist and Physician of the soul May it please thee that by the wholsom medicines of the doctrine delivered by him all the diseases of our souls may be healed through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 2 Tim. 4.5 WAtch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an Evangelist make full proof of thy ministry For I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also that love his appearing Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me For Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica Crescens to Galatia Titus unto Dalmatia Only Luke is with me Take Mark and bring him with thee for he is profitable to me for the ministry And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus when thou comest bring with thee and the books but especially the parchments Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil the Lord reward him according to his works Of whom be thou ware also for he hath greatly withstood our words The Gospel S. Luke 10.1 THe Lord appointed other seventy also and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself would come Therefore said he unto them The harvest truly is great but the labourers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest Go your ways behold I send you forth as lambs among wolves Carry neither purse nor scrip nor shoes and salute no man by the way And into whatsoever house ye enter first say Peace be to this house And if the son of peace be there your peace shall rest upon it if not it shall turn to you again And in the same house remain eating and drinking such things as they give for the labourer is worthy of his hire Saint Simon and Saint Jude Apostles The collect O Almighty God who hast built thy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the head corner-stone Grant us so to be joyned together in unity of spirit by their doctrine that we may be made an holy temple acceptable unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle S. Jude 1. JUde the servant of
the Lord ye that mind to come to the holy Communion of the body and bloud of our Saviour Christ must consider how Saint Paul exhorteth all persons diligently to try and examine themselves before they presume to eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. For as the benefit is great if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive that holy Sacrament for then we spiritually eat the flesh of Christ and drink his bloud then we dwell in Christ and Christ in us we are one with Christ and Christ with us So is the danger great if we receive the same unworthily For then we are guilty of the body and bloud of Christ our Saviour we eat and drink our own damnation not considering the Lords body we kindle Gods wrath against us we provoke him to plague us with divers diseases and sundry kinds of death Judge therefore your selves brethren that ye be not judged of the Lord repent you truly for your sins past have a lively and stedfast faith in Christ our Saviour amend your lives and be in perfect charity with all men so shall ye be meet partakers of those holy Mysteries And above all things ye must give most humble and hearty thanks to God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost for the redemption of the world by the death and passion of our Saviour Christ both God and man who did humble himself even to the death upon the Cross for us miserable sinners who lay in darkness and the shadow of death that he might make us the children of God and exalt us to everlasting life And to the end that we should alway remember the exceeding great love of our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ thus dying for us and the innumerable benefits which by his precious bloud-shedding he hath obtained to us he hath instituted and ordained holy Mysteries as pledges of his love and for a continual remembrance of his death to our great and endless comfort To him therefore with the Father and the Holy Ghost let us give as we are most bounden continual thanks submitting our selves wholly to his holy will and pleasure and studying to serve him in true holiness and righteousness all the days of our life Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say to them that come to receive the holy Communion YE that do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins and are in love and charity with your neighbours and intend to lead a new life following the commandments of God and walking from henceforth in his holy ways Draw near with faith and take this holy Sacrament to your comfort and make your humble confession to Almighty God meekly kneeling upon your knees ¶ Then shall this general Confession be made in the name of all those that are minded to receive the holy Communion by one of the Ministers both he and all the People kneeling humbly upon their knees and saying ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness Which we from time to time most grievously have committed By thought word and deed Against thy divine Majesty Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us We do earnestly repent And are heartily sorry for these our misdoings The remembrance of them is grievous unto us The burthen of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us Have mercy upon us most merciful Father For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christs sake Forgive us all that is past And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life To the honour and glory of thy Name Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest or the Bishop being present stand up and turning himself to the People pronounce this Absolution ALmighty God our heavenly Father who of his great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins to all them that with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your sins confirm and strengthen you in all goodness and bring you to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith unto all that truly turn to him COme unto me all that travel and are heavy laden and I will refresh you S. Matth. II. 28. So God loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son to the end that all that belive in him should not perish but have everlasting life S. John 3.16 Hear also what Saint Paul saith This is a true saying and worthy of all men to be received that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners I Tim. 1.15 Hear also what Saint John saith If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins I S. John 2.1 ¶ After which the Priest shall proceed saying Lift up your hearts Answer We lift them up unto the Lord. Priest Let us give thanks unto our Lord God Answer It is meet and right so to do ¶ Then shall the Priest turn to the Lords Table and say IT is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee O Lord * These words Holy Father must be omitted on Trinity Sunday Holy Father Almighty everlasting God ¶ Here shall follow the proper Preface according to the time if there be any specially appointed or else immediately shall follow THerefore with Angels and Archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnifie thy glorious Name evermore praising thee and saying Holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven and earth are full of thy glory Glory be to thee O Lord most High Amen ¶ Proper Prefaces ¶ Upon Christmas-day and seven days after BEcause thou didst give Jesus Christ thine only Son to be born as at this time for us who by the operation of the holy Ghost was made very man of the substance of the Virgin Mary his mother and that without spot of sin to make us clean from all sin Therefore with Angels c. ¶ Upon Easter-day and seven days after BUt chiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord for he is the very Paschal Lamb which was offered for us and hath taken away the sin of the world who by his death hath destroyed death and by his rising to life again hath restored to us everlasting life Therefore c. ¶ Upon Ascension-day and seven days after THrough thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord who after his most glorious resurrection manifestly appeared to all his Apostles and in their sight ascended up into heaven to prepare a place for us that where he is thither we might also ascend and reign with him in glory Therefore with Angels c. ¶ Upon Whitsunday and six
Minister he shall there Celebrate the holy Communion beginning with the Collect Epistle and Gospel here following The Collect. ALmighty everliving God maker of mankind who dost correct those whom thou dost love and chastise every one whom thou dost receive We beseech thee to have mercy upon this thy servant visited with thine hand and to grant that he may take his sickness patiently and recover his bodily health if it be thy gracious will and whensoever his soul shall depart from the body it may be without spot presented unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Heb. 12.5 MY son despise not thou the chastning of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him For whom the Lord loveth he chastneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth The Gospel S. John 5.24 VErily verily I say unto you He that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life ¶ After which the Priest shall proceed according to the Form before prescribed for the holy Communion beginning at these words Ye that do truly c. ¶ At the time of the distribution of the holy Sacrament the Priest shall first receive the Communion himself and after minister unto them that are appointed to Communicate with the Sick and last of all to the sick Person ¶ But if a man either by reason of extremity of sickness or for want of warning in due time to the Curate or for lack of company to receive with him or by any other just impediment do not receive the Sacrament of Christs Body and Bloud the Curate shall instruct him that if he do truly repent him of his sins and stedfastly believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the Cross for him and shed his Bloud for his Redemption earnestly remembring the benefits he hath thereby and giving him hearty thanks therefore he doth eat and drink the Body and Bloud of our Saviour Christ profitably to his souls health although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth ¶ When the sick person is visited and receiveth the holy Communion all at one time then the Priest for more expedition shall cut off the Form of the Visitation at the Psalm In thee O Lord have I put my trust and go straight to the Communion ¶ In the time of the Plague Sweat or such other like contagious Times of Sickness or Diseases when none of the Parish or Neighbours can be gotten to Communicate with the Sick in their Houses for fear of the Infection upon special request of the Diseased the Minister may only Communicate with him The ORDER for the BURIAL of the DEAD ¶ Here is to be noted That the Office ensuing is not to be used for any that die unbaptized or excommunicate or have laid violent hands upon themselves ¶ The Priest and Clerks meeting the Corps at the entrance of the Church-yard and going before it either into the Church or towards the Grave shall say or sing I Am the resurrection and the life faith the Lord he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die S. John 11.25 26. I Know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another Job 19.25 26 27. WE brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the Name of the Lord. 2 Tim. 6.7 Job 1.21 ¶ After they are come into the Church shall be read one or both of these Psalms following Dixi Custodiam Psal 39. I Said I will take heed to my ways that I offend not in my tongue I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my sight I held my tongue and spake nothing I kept silence yea even from good words but it was pain and grief to me My heart was hot within me and while I was thus musing the fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue Lord Let me know my end and the number of my days that I may be certified how long I have to live Behold thou hast made my days as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanity For man walketh in a vain shadow ana disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish I became dumb and opened not my mouth for it was thy doing Take thy plague away from me I am even consumed by means of thy heavy hand When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin thou makest his beauty to consume away like as it were a moth fretting a garment every man therefore is but vanity Hear my prayer O Lord and with thine ears consider my calling hold not thy peace at my tears For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Domine refugium Psal 90. LOrd thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another Before the mountains were brought forth or ever the earth and the world were made thou art God from everlasting and world without end Thou turnest man to destruction again thou sayest Come again ye children of men For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday seeing that is past as a watch in the night Assoon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass In the morning it is green and groweth up but in the evening it is cut down dried up and withered For we consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance For when thou art angry all our days are gone we bring our years to an end as it were a tale that is told The days of our age are threescore years and ten and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth so is thy displeasure So teach us to number our days that we may
I will consider thy heavens even the works of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him 5 Thou madest him lower then the angels to crown him with glory and worship 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet 7 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowls of the air and the fishes of the sea and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas 9 O Lord our Governour how excellent is thy Name in all the world Morning Prayer Confitebor tibi Psal 9. I Will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart I will speak of all thy marvellous works DAY ii 2 I will be glad and rejoyce in thee yea my songs will I make of thy Name O thou most Highest 3 While mine enemies are driven back they shall fall and perish at thy presence 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou art set in the throne that judgest right 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen and destroyed the ungodly thou hast put out their name for ever and ever 6 O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetual end even as the cities which thou hast destroyed their memorial is perished with them 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever he hath also prepared his seat for judgment 8 For he shall judge the world in righteousness and minister true judgment unto the people 9 The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble 10 And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast never failed them that seek thee 11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion shew the people of his doings 12 For when he maketh inquisition for bloud he remembreth them and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor 13 Have mercy upon me O Lord consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me thou that liftest me up from the gates of death 14 That I may shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion I will rejoyce in thy salvation 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken 16 The Lord is known to execute judgment the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the people that forget God 18 For the poor shall not alway be forgotten the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever 19 Up Lord and let not man have the upper hand let the heathen be judged in thy sight 20 Put them in fear O Lord that the heathen may know themselves to be but men Ut quid Domine Psal 10. WHy standest thou so far off O Lord and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble 2 The ungodly for his own lust doth persecute the poor let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined 3 For the ungodly hath made boast of his own hearts desire and speaketh good of the covetous whom God abhorreth 4 The ungodly is so proud that he careth not for God neither is God in all his thoughts 5 His ways are alway grievous thy judgments are far above out of his sight and therefore defieth he all his enemies 6 For he hath said in his heart Tush I shall never be cast down there shall no harm happen unto me 7 His mouth is full of cursing deceit and fraud under his tongue is ungodliness and vanity 8 He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent his eyes are set against the poor 9 For he lieth waiting secretly even as a lion lurketh he in his den that he may ravish the poor 10 He doth ravish the poor when he getteth him into his net 11 He falleth down and humbleth himself that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hands of his captains 12 He hath said in his heart Tush God hath forgotten he hideth away his face and he will never see it 13 Arise O Lord God and lift up thine hand forget not the poor 14 Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God while he doth say in his heart Tush thou God carest not for it 15 Surely thou hast seen it for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong 16 That thou mayest take the matter into thy hand the poor committeth himself unto thee for thou art the helper of the friendless 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious take away his ungodliness and thou shalt find none 18 The Lord is King for ever and ever and the heathen are perished out of the land 19 Lord thou hast heard the desire of the poor thou preparest their heart and thine ear hearkeneth thereto 20 To help the fatherless and poor unto their right that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them In Domino confido Psal 11. IN the Lord put I my trust how say ye then to my soul that she should flee as a bird unto the hill 2 For lo the ungodly bend their bow and make ready their arrows within the quiver that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart 3 For the foundations will be cast down and what hath the righteous done 4 The Lord is in his holy temple the Lords seat is in heaven 5 His eyes consider the poor and his eye-lids try the children of men 6 The Lord alloweth the righteous but the ungodly and him that delighteth in wickedness doth his soul abhor 7 Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares fire and brimstone storm and tempest this shall be their portion to drink 8 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness his countenance will behold the thing that is just Evening Prayer Salvum me fac Psal 12. HElp me Lord for there is not one godly man left for the faithful are minished from among the children of men 2 They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour they do but flatter with their lips and dissemble in their double heart 3 The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things 4 Which have said With our tongue will we prevail we are they that ought to speak who is Lord over us 5 Now for the comfortless troubles sake of the needy and because of the deep sighing of the poor 6 I will up saith the Lord and will help every one from him that swelleth against him and will set him at rest 7 The words of the Lord are pure words even as the silver which from the earth is tried and purified seven times in the fire 8 Thou shalt keep them O Lord thou shalt preserve him from this generation for ever
even with the wholsom strength of his right hand 7 Some put their trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God 8 They are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright 9 Save Lord and hear us O King of Heaven when we call upon thee Domine in virtute tua Psal 21. THe King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation 2 Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not denied him the request of his lips 3 For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head 4 He asked life of thee and thou gavest him a long life even for ever and ever 5 His honour is great in thy salvation glory and great worship shalt thou lay upon him 6 For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance 7 And why because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercy of the most Highest he shall not miscarry 8 All thine enemies shall feel thy hand thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee 9 Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of thy wrath the Lord shall destroy them in his displeasure and the fire shall consume them 10 Their fruit shalt thou root out of the earth and their seed from among the children of men 11 For they intended mischief against thee and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform 12 Therefore shalt thou put them to flight and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them 13 Be thou exalted Lord in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power Evening Prayer Deus Deus meus Psal 22. MY God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint 2 O my God I cry in the day-time but thou hearest not and in the night-season also I take no rest 3 And thou continuest holy O thou worship of Israel 4 Our fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them 5 They called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded 6 But as for me I am a worm and no man a very scorn of men and the out-cast of the people 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out their lips and shake their heads saying 8 He trusted in God that he would deliver him let him deliver him if he will have him 9 But thou art he that took me out of my mothers womb thou wast my hope when I hanged yet upon my mothers breasts 10 I have been left unto thee ever since I was born thou art my God even from my mothers womb 11 O go not from me for trouble is hard at hand and there is none to help me 12 Many oxen are come about me fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side 13 They gape upon me with their mouths as it were a ramping and a roring lion 14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joynt my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue cleaveth to my gums and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death 16 For many dogs are come about me and the council of the wicked layeth siege against me 17 They pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they stand staring and looking upon me 18 They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture 19 But be not thou far from me O Lord thou art my succour hast thee to help me 20 Deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the dog 21 Save me from the lions mouth thou hast heard me also from among the horns of the unicorns 22 I will declare thy Name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee 23 O praise the Lord ye that fear him magnifie him all ye of the seed of Jacob and fear him all ye seed of Israel 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor he hath not hid his face from him but when he called unto him he heard him 25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation my vows will perform in the sight of them that fear him 26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied they that seek after the Lord shall praise him your heart shall live for ever 27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves and be turned unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him 28 For the kingdom is the Lords and he is the Governour among the people 29 All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped 30 All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him and no man hath quickned his own soul 31 My seed shall serve him they shall be counted unto the Lord for a generation 32 They shall come and the heavens shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born whom the Lord hath made Dominus regit me Psal 23. THe Lord is my shepherd therefore can I lack nothing 2 He shall feed me in a green pasture and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort 3 He shall convert my soul and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his Names sake 4 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff comfort me 5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me thou hast anointed my head with oyl and my cup shall be full 6. But thy loving kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever Morning Prayer Domini est terra Psal 24. THe earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compass of the world and they that dwell therein DAY v. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas and prepared it upon the flouds 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord or who shall rise up in his holy place 4 Even he that hath clean hands and a pure heart and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity nor sworn to deceive his neighbour 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation 6 This is the generation of them that seek him even of them that seek thy face O Jacob. 7 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in 8 Who is the King of glory it is the Lord strong
none with me for I will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my fury and their bloud shall be sprinkled upon my garments and I will stain all my raiment For the day of vengeance is in mine heart and the year of my redeemed is come And I looked and there was none to help and I wondred that there was none to uphold therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me and my fury it upheld me And I will tread down the people in mine anger and make them drunk in my fury ana I will bring down their strength to the earth I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praises of the Lord according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us and the great goodness towards the house of Israel which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses For he said Surely they are my people children that will not lie so he was their Saviour In all their affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them and carried them all the days of old But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them Then he remembred the days of old Moses and his people saying Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock Where is he that put his holy spirit within him that led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm dividing the water before them to make himself an everlasting Name That led them through the deep as an horse in the wilderness that they should not stumble as a beast goeth down into the valley the spirit of the Lord caused him to rest so didst thou lead thy people to make thy self a glorious Name Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory Where is thy zeal and thy strength the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me are they restrained Doubtless thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel acknowledge us not thou O Lord art our Father our Redeemer thy Name is from everlasting O Lord why hast thou made us to err from thy ways and hardned our heart from thy fear Return for thy servants sake the tribes of thine inheritance The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while our adversaries have troden down thy sanctuary We are thine thou never barest rule over them they were not called by thy Name The Gospel S. Mark 14.1 AFter two days was the feast of the passover and of unleavened bread and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death But they said Not on the feast-day lest there be an uprore of the people And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper as he sat at meat there came a woman having an alabaster-box of ointment of spikenard very precious and she brake the box and poured it on his head And there were some that had indignation within themselves and said Why was this waste of the ointment made For it might have been sold for more then three hundred pence and have been given to the poor and they murmured against her And Jesus said Let her alone why trouble you her she hath wrought a good work on me For ye have the poor with you always and whensoever ye will ye may do them good but me ye have not always She hath done what she could she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying Verily I say unto you Wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her And Judas Iscariot one of the twelve went unto the chief priests to betray him unto them And when they heard it they were glad and promised to give him money And he sought how he might conveniently betray him And the first day of unleavened bread when they killed the passover his disciples said unto him Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover And he sendeth forth two of his disciples and saith unto them Go ye into the city and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water follow him And wheresoever he shall go in say ye to the good-man of the house The master saith Where is the guest-chamber where I shall eat the passover with my disciples And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared there make ready for us And his disciples went forth and came into the city and found as he had said unto them and they made ready the passover And in the evening he cometh with the twelve And as they sat and did eat Jesus said Verily I say unto you one of you which eateth with me shall betray me And they began to be sorrowful and to say unto him one by one Is it I and another said Is it I And he answered and said unto them It is one of the twelve that dippeth with me in the dish The Son of man indeed goeth as it is written of him but wo to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed good were it for that man if he had never been born And as they did eat Jesus took bread and blessed and brake it and gave to them and said Take eat This is my body And he took the cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them and they all drank of it And he said unto them This is my bloud of the new testament which is shed for many Verily I say unto you I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God And when they had sung un hymn they went out into the mount of Olives And Jesus saith unto them All ye shall be offended because of me this night for it is written I will smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered But after that I am risen I will go before you into Galilee But Peter said unto him Although all shall be offended yet will not I. And Jesus saith unto him Verily I say unto thee that this day even in this night before the cock crow twice thou shalt deny me thrice But he spake the more vehemently If I should die with thee I will not deny thee in any wise Likewise also said they all And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane and he saith to his disciples Sit ye here while I shall pray And he taketh with him Peter and James and John and began to be sore amazed and to be very heavy and saith unto them My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death tarry ye here and watch And he
went forward a little and fell on the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him And he said Abba Father all things are possible unto thee take away this cup from me nevertheless not what I will but what thou wilt And he cometh and findeth them sleeping and saith unto Peter Simon sleepest thou couldst not thou watch one hour Watch ye and pray lest ye enter into temptation the spirit truly is ready but the flesh is weak And again he went away and prayed and spake the same words And when he returned he found them asleep again for their eyes were heavy neither wist they what to answer him And he cometh the third time and saith unto them Sleep on now and take your rest it is enough the hour is come Behold the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners Rise up let us go lo he that betrayeth me is at hand And immediately while he spake cometh Judas one of the twelve and with him a great multitude with swords and staves from the chief Priests and the Scribes and the Elders And he that betrayed him had given them a token saying Whomsoever I shall kiss that same is he take him and lead him wa safely And as soon as he was come he goeth straightway to him and saith Master master and kissed him And they laid their hands on him and took him And one of them that stood by drew a sword and smote a servant of the high Priest and cut off his ear And Jesus answered and said unto them Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and with staves to take me I was daily with you in the temple teaching and ye took me not but the Scriptures must be fulfilled And they all forsook him and fled And there followed him a certain young man having a linen cloth cast about his naked boby and the young men laid hold on him And he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked And they led Jesus away to the high Priest and with him were assembled all the chief Priests and the Elders and the Scribes and Peter followed him afar off even into the the palace of the high Priest and he sat with the servants and warmed himself at the fire And the chief Priests and all the councel sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death and found none For many bare false witness against him but their witness agreed not together And there arose certain and bare false witness against him saying We heard him say I will destroy this temple that is made with hands and within three days I will build another made without hands But neither so did their witness agree together And the high Priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus saying Answerest thou nothing what is it which these witness against thee But he held his peace and answered nothing Again the high Priest asked him and said unto him Art thou the Christ the Son of the Blessed And Jesus said I am and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven Then the high Priest rent his clothes and saith What need we any further witnesses ye have heard the blasphemy what think ye And they all condemned him to be guilty of death And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him Prophesie and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands And as Peter was beneath in the palace there cometh one of the maids of the high priest and when she saw Peter warming himself she looked upon him and said And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth But he denied saying I know not neither understand I what thou sayest And he went out into the porch and the cock crew And a maid saw him again and began to say to them that stood by This is one of them And he denied it again And a little after they that stood by said again to Peter Surely thou art one of them for thou art a Galilean and thy speech agreeth thereto But he began to curse and to swear saying I know not this man of whom ye speak And the second time the cock crew And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him Before the crow twice thou shalt deny me thrice And when he thought thereon he wept Tuesday before Easter For the Epistle Isaiah 50.5 THe Lord God hath opened mine ear and I was not rebellious neither turned away back I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that plucked of the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting For the Lord God will help me therefore shall I not be confounded therefore have I set my face like a flint and I know that I shall not be ashamed He is near that justifieth me who will contend with me Let us stand together who is mine adversary let him come near to me Behold the Lord God will help me who is he that shall condemn me Lo they all shall wax old as a garment the moth shall eat them up Who is among you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the Name of the Lord and stay upon his God Behold all ye that kindle a fire that compass your selves about with sparks walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled This shall ye have of mine hand ye shall lie down in sorrow The Gospel S. Mark 15.1 ANd straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council and bound Jesus and carried him away and delivered him to Pilate And Pilate asked him Art thou the king of the Jews And he answering said unto him Thou sayest it And the chief priests accused him of many things but he answered nothing And Pilate asked him again saying Answerest thou nothing behold how many things they witness against thee But Jesus yet answered nothing so that Pilate marvelled Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner whomsoever they desired And there was one named Barabbas which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him who had committed murder in the insurrection And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them But Pilate answered them saying Will ye that I release unto you the king of the Jews For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy But the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barabbas unto them And Pilate answered and said again unto them What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the king of the Jews And they cried out again Crucifie him Then Pilate said unto them Why what evil hath he done And