him when they had blind folded him they stroke him on the face and asked him saying arede who is he that smot thee And many other thinges dispitfully sayd they against him And assoone as it was day the elders of the people the hie pristes Scribes came together and led him into their counsell saying art thou very Christ tell vs And he sayd vnto them if I tell you ye wil not beleue me and if I aske you you wil not answer me nor let me go hereafter shal the sonne of man sit on the right hand of the power of god Then said they al art thou then the son of God He sayd ye say that I am And they sayd what neede we any further witnes For wee our selues haue heard of his owne mouth ¶ The thursday before Easter The Epistle i. Cor. xi THis I warne you of commend not that ye come not together after a better maner but after a worse For first of al whē ye come together in the cōgregation I heare that ther is discention among you I partly beleue it For there must be sectes among you that they which are perfect among you may be knowen When ye come together therfore into one place the Lords supper cannot be eaten for euery man beginneth afore to eate his own supper and one is hungry an other is dronken Haue ye not houses to eate drink in despise ye the congregation of God and shame them that haue not What shall I say vnto you shal I praise you in this I praise ye not That which I deliuered vnto you I receiued of the lord For the Lord Iesus the same night in which he was betrayed tooke bread when he had geuen thanks he brake it said Take ye eate this is my body which is brokē for you This do ye in remēbraūce of me After the same maner also he tooke the cup whē supper was don saying this cup is the new testamēt in my blud this do as oft as ye drink it in remēbraunce of me For as often as ye shal eate this bread drink of this cup ye shal shew the Lords death til he come Wherfore whosoeuer shal eate of this bread drinke of this cup of the Lord vnworthely shal be gilty of the body bloud of the lord But let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of the bread and drink of the cup. For he that eateth drinketh vnworthely eateth drinketh his own damnation because he maketh no difference of the Lords body For this cause many are weake and sicke among you many sleepe For if we had iudged our selues we should not haue bene iudged But when we are iudged of the Lord we are chastened that we should not be damned with the world Wherfore my brethrē when ye come together to eate tary one for another If any man hunger let him eat at home that ye come not together vnto condemnacion Other things wil I set in order when I come ¶ The Gospell Luke xxii THe whole multitude of them arose led him vnto Pilate And they began to accuse him saying we found this felow peruerting the people and forbidding to paye tribute to Ceasar saying that hee is Christ a king And Pilate apposed him saying art thou the king of the Iewes He answered him said thou saiest it Then said Pilate to the hie Priests and to the people I fynd no fault in this man And they wer the more fierce saying he moueth the people teaching throughout all Iurye and begā at Galile euen to this place When Pilate hearde mention of Galile he asked whether the man were of Galile assone as he knew that he belonged to Herods iurisdiction he sent him to Herod which was also at Ierusalē at that tyme And when Herod saw Iesus he was exceding glad for he was desirous to see him of a long seasō because he had herd many things of him and he trusted to haue seene some miracles don by him Then he questioned with him many words But he answered him nothing The hie Priestes and Scribes stood forth and accused him straightly And Herod with his men of war despised hym And when he had mocked him he araied him in white clothing and sent him againe to Pilate And the same day Pilat and Herod were made Frendes together For before they were at variaunce And Pilat called together the hie Priestes and the rulers and the people and said vnto them ye haue brought this man vnto me as one that peruerteth the people and behold I examine him before you and finde no faulte in this man of those things whereof ye accuse him no nor yet Herod For I sent you vnto him and lo nothing worthy of death is done vnto him I wyll therfore chasten hym and let him loose For of necessity he must haue let one loose to them at that feast And all the people cried at once saying away with him and deliuer vs Barrabas which for a certaine insurrection made in the city and for a murther was cast into prison Pilate spake agayne vnto them willing to let Iesus loose But they cryed saying crucify him crucifye hym He sayd vnto them the third time what euill hath he done I finde no cause of death in hym I wil therfore chasten hym and let him go And they cried with loud voices requiring that he might be crucified And the voices of them and of the hie Priestes preuailed And Pilat gaue sentence that it should be as they requyred and he let loose vnto them him that for insurrection and murther was cast into prison whom they had desyred and he deliuered to them Iesus to do with him what they would And as they led him away they caught one Simon of Ciren coming out of the field and on him laide they the Crosse that he might beare it after Iesus And ther folowed him a great company of people and of women which bewayled and lamented him But Iesus turned back vnto them and sayd ye daughters of Ierusalem wepe not for me but wepe for your children For behold the daies wil come in the which they shall say Happy are the barren and the wombes that neuer bare and the pappes which neuer gaue sucke Then shal they begin to say to the Mountaines fal on vs and to the hils couer vs For if they do thys in a greene tree what shal be don in the dry And ther wer two euyll doers led with hym to be slayne And after that they were come to the place which is called Caluery there they crucified hym and the euyll doers one on the right hand and the other on the left Then said Iesus father forgeue them for they wote not what they do And they parted his raiment and cast lottes And the people stood and beheld And the rulers mocked him with them saying he saued other men let him saue him selfe if he be vecy Christ the
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
eye thē shalt thou see perfectly to put out the mote that is in thy brothers eye ¶ The .v. Sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle i. Peter iii. BE ye all of one mynde of one hart Loue as brethren Be pityful be curteous meeke not rendryng euil for euil rebuke for rebuke but cōtrariwise blesse knowing that ye are therunto called euen that ye should be heires of the blessing For he that doth long after lyfe loueth to see good daies let him refrain his toung frō euyl and his lyps that they speake no guile Let hym eschew euil do good let him seeke peace and ensue it For the eyes of the Lord are ouer the righteous hys eares are open vnto their praiers Againe the face of the Lord is ouer them that do euil Moreouer who is he that wyl harme you if ye folow that which is good Yea happy are ye if any trouble happen vnto you for righteousnes sake Be not ye afrayd for any terrour of them neyther be ye troubled but sanctifie the Lorde God in your hartes ¶ The Gospel Luke v. IT came to passe that when the people preased vpon him to heare the woord of God he stood by the lake of Genazareth saw two shyps stand by the lakes side but the fisher men were gone out of them were washing their nets And he entred into one of the ships which pertained to Simon and prayed him that he would thrust out a litle frō the land And he sat down and taught the people out of the shyp When he had left speaking he sayd vnto Simō Launch out into the deepe and let slyp your nets to make a draught And Simon aunswered and sayd vnto him Mayster we haue laboured all night and haue taken nothing Neuertheles at thy commaundement I wyll loose foorth the net And when they had so done they inclosed a great multitude of fyshes But their net brake and they beckened to their felowes which wer in the other ship that they should come and helpe them And they came and fylled both the shyppes that they soonke agayne When Simon Peter saw this he fel downe at Iesus knees saying Lord go from me for I am a synfull man For he was astonyed and all that were with hym at the draught of Fishes which they had taken and so was also Iames and Iohn the sonnes of Zebede which were partners with Simon And Iesus sayd vnto Simon feare not from hence forth thou shalt catch men And they brought the ships to land and forsooke all and followed hym ¶ The sixt Sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Roma vi KNow ye not that al we which are baptised in Iesus Christ are baptised to die with him We are buried thē with him by baptisme for to dye That likewise as Christ was raysed from death by the glory of the Father euen so we also should walke in a newe life For if we be graft in death lyke vnto him euen so shall we be partakers of the holy resurrection Knowing this that your old man is crucified wyth him also that the body of synne might vtterly be destroyed that henceforth we should not be seruaunts vnto synne For he that is dead is iustified from syn Wherefore if we be dead with Christ we beleue that we shall also lyue with him knowing that Christ being raised frō death dieth no more Death hath no more power ouer hym For as touching that he dyed he dyed concerning syn once as touching that he liueth he liueth vnto god Likewise cōsider ye also that ye ar dead as touching syn but are aliue vnto God thorow Iesus Christ our lord ¶ The Gospell Math. v. IEsus said vnto his disciples except your righteousnes excede the righteousnes of the Scribes Phariseis ye cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen Ye haue heard that it was said vnto them of old tyme Thou shalt not kill whosoeuer killeth shal be in daunger of iudgement But I say vnto you that whosoeuer is angry with his brother vnaduisedly shal be in daunger of iudgement And whosoeuer sayth vnto his brother Racha shal be in daunger of a counsell But whosoeuer saith thou foole shall be in daunger of Hell fyre Therfore if thou offerest thy gift at the altar and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee leaue there thine offering before the altar and go thy way first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift Agree with thine aduersary quickely whiles thou art in the way with him least at any time the aduersary deliuer thee to the iudge and the iudge deliuer thee to the minister and then thou be cast into prison Verely I say vnto thee thou shalt not come out thence tyl thou haue payed the vttermost farthing ¶ The .vii. Sunday after Trinity Sunday The Epistle Roma vi I Speake grosly because of the infirmity of your flesh As ye haue geuen your members seruaunts to vnclennes and to iniquity from one iniquity to another euen so now geue ouer your members seruaunts vnto righteousnes that ye may be sanctified For when ye were seruaunts of syn ye were voide of righteousnes What frut had you then in those things wherof ye ar now ashamed for the end of those things are death But now are ye deliuered from syn and made the seruants of God and haue your fruite to be sanctified and the end euerlasting life For the reward of syn is death but eternall lyfe is the gyft of God through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Gospell Mark. viii IN those daies when ther was a very great company and had nothing to eate Iesus called his disciples vnto him and said vnto them I haue compassion on the people because they haue bene now with me three daies and haue nothing to eate and if I send them away fasting to theyr owne houses they shall faynt by the way for diuers of them came from far And his disciples answered him where should a man haue bread here in the wildernes to satisfy these And he asked thē how many loues haue ye They said seuen And he commaunded the people to syt down on the ground And he tooke the seuen loaues and whē he had geuen thanks he brake and gaue to his disciples to set before them And they did set them before the people And they had a few smal fishes And when he had blessed he cōmaunded them also to be set before them And they did eate and were suffised And they tooke vp of the brokē meate that was left seuen baskets full And they that dyd eate were about foure thousand And he sent them away ¶ The .viii. Sunday after Trinity Sunday The Epistle Roma viii BRethren we are debters not to the flesh to liue after the flesh For if ye liue after the flesh ye shal die but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deedes of the body ye shall liue For as many as are led by the
vnto Ceasar the things which are Cesars and vnto God those things which are Gods. When they heard these words they marueiled and left hym and went theyr way ¶ The .xxiiii. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Colos i. WE geue thankes to God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ alwaies for you in our prayers for we haue heard of your fayth in Christ Iesu and of the loue which ye beare to all Sayntes for the hopes sake which is layd vp in store for you in heauen Of which hope ye heard before by the true word of the Gospell which is come vnto you euen as it is fruitfull and groweth as it is also among you from the day in the which ye heard of it and had experience in the grace of God through the truth as ye learned of Epaphra our deare fellowe seruaunt whych is for you a faythfull Minister of Christ which also declared vnto vs your loue which ye haue in the spirit For this cause we also euer synce the day we heard of it haue not ceased to pray for you and to desire that ye might be fulfilled with the knowledge of hys wyl in all wysdome and spirituall vnderstandyng that ye myght walke woorthye of the Lorde that in all thynges ye may please beyng fruitfull in all good workes and increasing in the knowledge of God strengthened with all might through his gloryous power vnto all pacience long suffering with ioyfulnes geuing thankes vnto the Father which hath made vs meete to be partakers of the inheritance of Saintes in light ¶ The Gospell Math. ix WHen Iesus spake vnto the people behold ther came a certaine Ruler and worshipped hym saying My daughter is euen now deceased but come and lay thy hand vpon her and she shal lyue And Iesus arose and followed hym and so dyd hys Disciples And behold a woman which was diseased with an issue of blond twelue yeres came behind him and touched the hem of his vesture For she sayd within herselfe If I may touch but euen his vesture onely I shall be safe But Iesus turned him about and when he saw her he sayd daughter be of good comfort thy fayth hath made thee safe And the woman was made whole euen the same tyme And when Iesus came into the rulers house and saw the Minstrels and people making a noyse he sayd vnto them get you hence for the maid is not dead but sleepeth And they laughed him to scorne But when the people were put foorth he went in and tooke her by the hand and sayd damosell aryse And the damosell arose And this noyse went abrode into all that land ¶ The .xxv. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Iere. xxiii BEhold the time commeth sayth the Lord that I wyll rayse vp the righteous braunch of Dauid which Kyng shall beare rule and he shall prosper with wisedome and shall set vp equity and righteousnes againe in earth In his time shall Iuda be saued and Israell shall dwell without feare And thys is the name that they shall call him euen the Lord our righteousnes and therefore behold the tyme commeth sayth the Lord that it shal be no more sayd the Lord lyueth which brought the children of Israell out of the land of Egypt But the Lord liueth which brought foorth and lead the seede of the house of Israell out of the North land and from all countries where I haue scattered them and they shall dwell in their own land agayne ¶ The Gospell Iohn vi WHen Iesus lyft vp his eyes and saw a great company come vnto him he sayd vnto Philip whēce shal we buy bread that these may eate This he said to proue him for he himselfe knew what he would do Philip aunswered hym two hundreth peniworth of bread are not sufficient for them that euery man may take a little One of his disciples Andrewe Simon Peters brother sayd vnto him There is a lad here which hath fiue barly loaues and two fishes but what are they among so many And Iesus sayd make the people sit down There was much gras in the place So the men sat downe in number about fyue thousand And Iesus tooke the breade and when he had geuen thankes he gaue to the disciples and the disciples to them that were set downe And likewise of the fishes as much as they would When they had eaten inough he sayd vnto his disciples Gather vp the broken meate which remayneth that nothing be lost And they gathered it together and fylled twelue baskets with the broken meate of the fyue barely loues which broken meate remained vnto them that had eaten Then those men when they had seene the miracle that Iesus did sayd thys is of a truth the same Prophet that should come into the world ¶ Saint Andrew the Apostles day The Epistle Roma x. IF thou knowledge with thy mouth that Iesus is the Lord ▪ beleue in thy hart that God raised him vp from death thou shalt be safe For to beleue with the hart iustifieth to knowledge with the mouth maketh a man safe For the scripture saith whosoeuer beleueth on him shal not be confounded There is no difference betwene the Iewe and the Gentile For one is Lord of al which is ritch vnto al that cal vpon him For whosoeuer doth cal on the name of the lord shal be safe How then shal they cal on him on whom they haue not beleued How shal thei beleue on him on whō thei haue not hearde How shall they heare without a Preacher And how shall they preache except they be sent As it is wrytten how beautifull are the feete of them which bring tydinges of peace and bring tidinges of good things But they haue not al obeyed to the gospell For Esay saith Lord who hath beleued our sayings So then fayth commeth by hearing and hearing cōmeth by the word of god But I aske haue they not heard No doubt their sound went out into al lands and their words into the ends of the world But I demaūd whether Israel did know or not First Moyses saith I wil prouoke you to enuy by thē that are no people by a foolish nation I wyll anger you Esay after that is bold faith I am foūd of them that sought me not I am manifest vnto them that asked not after me but against Israel he saith Al day long haue I stretched forth my hands to a people that beleueth not but speaketh against me ¶ The Gospell Math. iiii AS Iesus walked by the sea of Galile he saw two brethren Simon which was called Peter Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fisshers he saith vnto thē folow me I will make you to become fishers of men And they strait way left their nets and folowed him And when he was gone foorth from thence he saw other two brethren Iames the sonne of Zebede and Iohn hys brother in the ship with Zebede theyr father mending
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
Lord Christ And he came by inspiration into the temple ¶ Saynt Mathies day The Epistle Actes i. IN those dayes Peter stood vp in the midst of the disciples and sayd the number of names that were together were about an hundred and twenty Ye men and brethren the scripture must needes haue bene fulfilled which the holy ghost through the mouth of Dauid spake before of Iudas which was guide to them that tooke Iesus For he was nombred with vs and had obtayned felowship in this Ministration And the same hath now possessed a plot of ground with the reward of iniquity when he was hanged he burst a sunder in the middest and his bowels gushed out And it was knowen vnto all the inhabiters of Hierusalem in so much that the same fielde is called in their mother tounge Acheldema that is to say the bloudy fielde For it is written in the booke of Psalmes his habitation be voyd no man be dwelling therein and his bishopricke let another take Wherefore of these men which haue companied with vs al the time that the Lord Iesus had all his conuersation among vs beginning at the Baptisme of Iohn vnto the same day that he was taken vp from vs must one be ordeined to be a witnes with vs of his resurrection And they appointed two Ioseph which is called Barsabas whose sirname was Iustus and Mathias And when they prayed they sayd Thou Lord which knowest the hartes of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen that he may take the roume of thys Ministration and Apostleshyp from which Iudas by transgression fell that he might go to his owne place And they gaue foorth theyr lots and the lot fell on Mathias and he was coumpted with the eleuen Apostles ¶ The Gospell Math. xi IN that time Iesus answered and sayd I thanke thee O Father Lord of heauen and earth because thou hast hyd these thinges from the wyse and prudent and hast shewed them vnto babes Verely Father euen so was it thy good pleasure All things are geuen vnto me of my father And no man knoweth the Sonne but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father saue the Sonne and he to whom soeuer the sonne will open him Come vnto me all ye that labour and are laden and I wyll ease you Take my yoke vpon you and learne of me for I am meeke and lowly in hart and ye shall fynde rest vnto your soules for my yoke is easy and my burden is lyght ¶ The Annunciation of the virgin Mary The Epistle Esay vii GOd spake once again vnto Ahaz saying require a token of the lord thy God whether it be toward the depth beneath or toward the heyght aboue Then sayd Ahaz I wyll require none neyther will I tempt the lord And he sayd harken to ye of the house of Dauid is it not inough for you that ye be greeuous vnto men but ye must greeue my God also And therfore the Lord shall geue you a token Behold a vyrgin shal conceaue beare a sonne thou his mother shalt cal his name Emanuel Butter hony shal he eate that he may know to refuse the euill and chuse the good ¶ The Gospel Luke i. ANd in the syxt moneth the Aungel Gabriell was sent from God vnto a City of Galile named Nazareth to a virgin spoused to a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid and the virgins name was Marye And the Angell went in vnto her and sayd Hayle full of grace the Lord is with thee Blessed art thou among women When shee saw him shee was abashed at his saying and caste in her minde what maner of salutation that should be And the Angell sayd vnto her feare not Mary for thou hast found grace with god Behold thou shalt conceyue in thy wombe and beare a Sonne and shalt call hys name Iesus He shal be great and shal be called the sonne of the highest And the Lord God shall geue vnto hym the seate of his Father Dauid and he shall reigne ouer the house of Iacob for euer and of his kingdome there shal be none ende Then sayd Mary to the Aungell How shall this be seeing I know not a man And the Angell answered said vnto her The holy ghost shal come vpon thee and the power of the hyest shall ouershadow thee Therfore also that holy thing which shal be borne shal be called the son of god And behold thy Cosin Elizabeth she hath also conceiued a sonne in her age this is the sixt moneth which was called baren for with god nothing shal be vnpossible And Mary said behold the hand maid of the lord be it vnto me acording to thy woord And the Angell departed from her ¶ Saynt Markes day The Epistle Ephe. iiii VNto euery one of vs is geuen grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Wherefore he saith when he went vpon hie he led captiuity captiue and gaue gifts vnto men That he ascended what meaneth it but that he also descended first into the lowest parts of the earth He that descended is euen the same also that ascended vp aboue al heauens to fulfil althings And the very same made some Apostles some Prophets some Euangelists some shepheards teachers to the edifying of the saints to the worke and administratiō euen to the edifying of the body of Christ till we al come to the vnity of the faith knowledge of the son of God vnto a perfect man vnto the measure of the ful perfect age of Christ That we henceforth should be no more children wauering caried about with euery wind of doctrin by the wilines of mē through craftines wherby they lay awayt for vs to deceiue vs But let vs folow the truth in loue and in althings grow in him which is the head euen Christ in whom if al the body be coupled and knit together throughout euery ioynt wherwith one ministreth to another according to the operation as euery part hath his measure he encreaseth the body vnto the edifying of it selfe through loue ¶ The Gospell Iohn xv I Am the true vine and my father is a husbandman Euery braunch that beareth not fruit in me he wyll take away And euery braunch that beareth fruit wil he purge that it may bring foorth more fruit Now are ye clean through the words which I haue spokē vnto you Bide in me I in you As the braūch cannot beare fruit of it self except it bide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the vine ye are the braunches he that abideth in me I in him the same bringeth foorth much fruit For without me cā ye do nothing If a mā bide not in me he is cast foorth as a braunch is withered And men gather thē and cast them into the fire they burn If ye abide in me my words abide in you aske what ye wil and it shal be don