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
wombe that bare thee the paps which gaue thee sucke But he sayd yea happy are they that heare the woord of God and keepe it ¶ The fourth sunday in Lent. The Epistle Gala. iiii TEll me ye that desyre to be vnder the law doo ye not heare of the law For it is written that Abraham had two sonnes the one by a bondmaid the other by a freewoman Yea and he which was borne of the bondwoman was born after the flesh but he which was borne of the freewoman was borne by promise which thinges are spoken by an Allegorye For these are two Testaments the one from the mount Syna which gendereth vnto bondage which is Agar For mount Sina is Agar in Arabia and bordereth vpon the city which is now called Ierusalem and is in bondage with hee children But Ierusalē which is aboue is free which is the mother of vs al. For it is written Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children breake foorth cry thou that trauelest not For the desolate hath many moe children then she which hath an Husband Brethren we are after Isaac the children of promise But as then hee that was borne after the flesh persecuted him that was borne after the spirit Euen so is it now Neuertheles what sayth the Scripture Put away the bondwoman her sonne For the sonne of the bondwoman shall not be heire with the sonne of the frewoman So then brethren we are not children of the bondwoman but of the freewoman ¶ The Gospell Iohn vi IEsus departed ouer the sea of Galile which is the sea of Tiberias a great multitude followed hym because thei saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased And Iesus went vp into a mountaine there he sat with his Disciples And Easter a feast of the Iewes was nye When Iesus then lift vp his eyes and saw a great company come vnto hym he sayd vnto Philip Whence shall we bye bread that these may eate This he sayd to proue him for he him selfe knew what he would do Philip answered him two hundreth penyworth of bread are not sufficient for them that euery man may take a litle One of his disciples Andrew Simon Peters brother sayth vnto him There is a Lad here which hath fiue barly loues two fishes but what are they among so many And Iesus sayd make the perple syt downe There was much grasse in the place so the men sat down in number about fiue thousand And Iesus tooke the bread and when he had geuen thanks he gaue it to the disciples the Disciples to them that wer set down likewise of the fishes asmuch as they would When they had eatē inough he said vnto his disciples gather vp the broken meat which remaineth that nothing be lost And they gathered it together filled .xij. baskets with the broken meate of the fiue barley loues which broken meate remained vnto them that had eaten Then those men when they had sene the miracle that Iesus did said this is of a truth the same Prophet that should come into the world ¶ The fift sunday in Lent. The Epistle Hebru ix CHrist being an hie priest of good things to come came by a greater and a more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building neither by the bloud of Goates Calues but by his own bloud he entred in once into the holy place and found eternall redemption For if the bloud of Oxen and of Goates and the ashes of a yong Cowe when it was sprinckled purifieth the vncleane as touching the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the bloude of Christ which through the eternall spirite offered him selfe without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works for to serue the liuing God And for this cause he is the Mediatour of the new testament that through death which chaunced for the redemptiō of those transgressions that were vnder the first testament they which are called myght receiue the promise of eternall inheritaunce ¶ The Gospell Iohn vii WHich of you can rebuke me of sinne If I saye the truth why do ye not beleue me He that is of God heareth Gods words Ye therfore heare them not because ye ar not of god Thē answered the Iewes said vnto him say we not wel that thou art a Samaritan and hast the deuill Iesus answered I haue not the deuil but I honour my father ye haue dishonoured me I seeke not mine own praise ther is one that seketh iudgeth Verely verely I say vnto you if a man keepe my saying he shall neuer see death Then said the Iewes vnto him now know we that thou hast the deuil Abrahā is dead and the Prophets thou saiest if a man keepe my saying he shal neuer tast of death Art thou greater then our father Abraham which is dead And the prophets are dead whom makest thou thy selfe Iesus answered if I honour my selfe my honour is nothing it is my father that honoureth me which you say is your God yet ye haue not knowen him but I know him if I say I know him not I shall be a lyer like vnto you But I know him and keepe his saying Your father Abraham was glad to see my day he saw it and reioyced Thē said the Iewes vnto him thou art not yet fyfty yere old hast the seene Abraham Iesus said vnto them Verely verely I say vnto you ere Abrahā was borne I am Then tooke they vp stones to cast at him but Iesus hid himselfe and went out of the temple ¶ The sunday next before Easter The Epistle Coll. iii. LEt the same mind be in you that was also in Christ Iesu which when he was in the shape of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God neuertheles he made himselfe of no reputaciō taking on him the shape of a seruant became like vnto man was found in his apparell as a man He humbled him self becam obedient to the death euen the death of the crosse Wherfore god hath also exalted him on hie geuē him a name which is aboue all names that in the name of Iesus euery knee shuld bow both of things in heauen things in earth and things vnder the earth that all tounges should confesse that Iesus Christ is the Lord vnto the praise of God the Father ¶ The Gospell Math. xxvi ANd it cam to pas when Iesus had finished al these sayinges he sayd vnto his disciples ye know that after .ij. dayes shal be easter the son of man shal be deliuered ouer to be crucified Then assēbled together the chiefe priests the Scribes the Elders of the people vnto the palace of the hye Prieste which was called Caiphas held a counsell that they might take Iesus by subtelty kill him But they said not on the holiday least ther be any vproare amōg the people Whē Iesus was in
is hee which was ordained of God to be the iudge of the quick and the deade To him geue all the prophetes witnes that through hys name whosoeuer beleueth in him shall receyue remission of syns ¶ The Gospell Luke xxiii BEhold two of the Disciples went that same day to a towne called Emaus which was from Ierusalem about .lx. furlongs and they talked together of all the thinges that had happened And it chaunced while they commoned together and reasoned Iesus hymselfe drew nere went with them But their eyes were holden that they should not know him And he sayd vnto them what maner of communications are these that ye haue one to another as ye walke and are sad And the one of them whose name was Cleophas aunswered and sayd vnto him art thou onely a straunger in Ierusalem and hast not knowen the things which haue chaunced ther in these daies He said vnto them what thinges And they sayd vnto hym of Iesus of Nazareth which was a Prophet mighty in deede and word before God and all the people and how the hie Priestes and our rulers deliuered him to be condemned to death haue crucified him But we trusted that it had bene he which should haue redemed Israel And as touching all these thinges to day is euen the third day that they were done Yea and certaine women of our company made vs astonied which came earely vnto the sepulchre found not his body and came saying that they had seene a vision of angels which said that he was aliue And certain of them which were with vs went to the sepulchre and found it euen so as the women had sayd but him they saw not And he sayd vnto them O fooles and flow of hart to beleue all that the Prophets haue spoken ought not Christ to haue suffered these things and to enter into his glory And he began at Moises and all the Prophets and interpreted vnto them in all scriptures which were written of hym And they drewe nye vnto the towne which they went vnto And he made as though he wold haue gon further And they constrained him saying abide with vs for it draweth towards night the day is far passed And he went in to tary with them And it came to passe as he sat at meat with them he tooke bread blessed it and brake gaue to them And their eies were opened they knew him he vanished out of their sight and they said betwene themselues did not our harts burne within vs while he talked with vs by the way and opened to vs the scriptures And they rose vp the same houre and returned to Ierusalem and found the eleuē gathered together them that were with them saying the Lord is risen in deede hath appeared vnto Simon And they told what things were done in the way and how they knew him in breaking of bread ¶ The Tuesday in Easter weeke The Epistle Actes xiii YE men and brethren children of the generation of Abraham and whosoeuer among you feareth God to you is this woord of saluation sent For the inhabiters of Ierusalem and their rulers because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the Prophets which are read euery Sabboth day they haue fulfilled them in condemning him And whē they found no cause of death in him yet desired they Pilate to kill him And when they had fulfilled all that was written of hym they tooke hym downe from the tree and put hym in a Sepulchre But God raysed him agayne from death the third day and he was sene many daies of them which went with him frō Galile to Ierusalem which ar witnesses vnto the people And we declare vnto you how that the promis which was made vnto the fathers god hath fulfilled vnto their children euen vnto vs in that he raised vp Iesus again Euen as it is written in the second Psalme thou art my sonne this day haue I begotten thee As concerning that he raised him vp from death now no more to returne to corruption he sayd on this wise The holy promises made to Dauid wyll I geue faithfully vnto you Wherefore he sayth also in an other place Thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to see corruptiō For Dauid after that he had in his time fulfylled the wyll of God fell on sleepe and was layd vnto his fathers and saw corruption But he whom God raised againe saw no corruption Be it knowen vnto you therfore ye men and brethren that through this man is preached vnto you forgeuenes of sinnes that by him all that beleue are iustified from al things from which ye could not be iustified by the law of Moises Beware therfore least that fall on you which is spoken of in the Prophets behold ye despisers wonder and perish ye for I do a worke in your daies which ye shal not beleue though a man declare it vnto you ¶ The Gospell Luke xxiiii IEsus stood in the middest of his Disciples and sayd vnto thē peace be vnto you It is I feare not But they were abashed and afraide and supposed that they had sene a spirit And he said vnto them why are ye troubled and why do thoughts arise in your harts Behold my handes and my feete that it is euen I my selfe Handle me and see for a spirit hath no flesh and bones as ye see me haue And when he had thus spokē he shewed them his hands his feete And while they yet beleued not for ioy and wondered he sayd vnto them Haue ye here any meate And they offered him a peece of broyled fysh and of a hoony combe And he tooke it and did eate before them And he said vnto thē these are the words which I spake vnto you whyle I was yet with you That all must needes be fulfylled which were wrytten of me in the law of Moyses and in the Prophets and in the Psalmes Then opened he their wits that they might vnderstand the scriptures said vnto them Thus it is wrytten thus it behoued Christ to suffer and to rise againe from death the third day and that repentaunce remission of syns should be preached in his name among all nacions and must begin at Ierusalem And ye ar witnes of these things ¶ The first Sunday after Easter The Epistle i. Iohn v. ALl that is born of God ouercōmeth the world And this is the victory that ouercōmmeth the world euen our fayth Who is he that ouercōmeth the world but he that beleueth that Iesus is the son of God This Iesus Christ is he that came by water and bloud not by water onely but by water and bloud And it is the spirit that beareth witnes because the spirit is truth For there are three which beare record in heauen the father the word and the holy Ghost these three are one And ther are three which beare record in earth the spirit water and bloud and these three are one
about the multitude came together were astonyed because that euery man heard them speake wyth hys own language They wondred all marueled saying among thēselues behold are not al these which speake of Galile And how heare we euery man his own toūg wherin we wer born Parthians Medes and Elamites and the inhahiters of Mesopotamia of Iewry and of Capadocia of Pontus Asia Phrigia and Pamphilia of Egipt of the parties of Libia which is beside Siren straungers of Rome Iewes Proselites Greekes and Arabians we haue heard them speake in our own toungs the great workes of God. ¶ The Gospell Iohn xiiii IEsus said vnto his disciples If ye loue me kepe my cōmaundements I wil pray the father he shall geue you another comforter that he may abide with you for euer euen the spirit of truth whō the world cannot receiue because the world seeth him not neither knoweth him But ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shal be in you I will not leaue you comfortles but wil come to you Yet a litle while and the worlde seeth me no more but ye see me For I liue and ye shall lyue At that day shall ye know that I am in my father and you in me I in you He that hath my commaundements and keepeth them the same is he that loueth me And he that loueth me shal be beloued of my father and I wil loue him and wil shew mine own selfe vnto him Iudas saith vnto him not Iudas Iscarioth Lord what is done that thou wilt shew thy selfe vnto vs and not vnto the world Iesus answered and said vnto them if a man loue me he will keepe my sayings and my Father wyll loue him and we wyll come vnto him and dwell with him He that loueth me not keepeth not my sayinges And the word which ye heare is not mine but the fathers which sent me These things haue I spoken vnto you being yet present with you But the comforter which is the holy ghost whom my Father wyll sende in my name he shall teach you althinges and bring althinges to your rememberaunce whatsoeuer I haue said vnto you Peace I leaue with you my peace I geue vnto you Not as the world geueth geue I vnto you Let not your harts be greued neither feare Ye haue heard how I said vnto you I go and come againe vnto you Yf ye loued me yee would verely reioyce because I sayd I go vnto the Father For the Father is greater then I. And now I haue shewed you before it came that when it is come to passe ye might beleue Hereafter wyll I not talke many wordes vnto you For the Prince of this world commeth and hath nought in me But that the world may know that I loue the Father And as the Father gaue me commaundement euen so do I. ¶ The Monday in whitson weeke The Epistle Actes x. THen Peter opened his mouth said of a truth I perceiue that there is no respect of persons wyth God but in all people he that feareth him worketh righteousnes is accepted with him Ye know the preaching that God sent vnto the chyldren of Israel preaching peace by Iesus Christ which is Lord ouer althinges which preaching was published throughout all Iewry and began in Galile after the baptisme which Iohn preached how God annointed Iesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost with power Which Iesus went about doyng good and healyng all that were oppressed of the deuyll For God was with him And we are witnesses of althings which he did in the land of the Iewes and at Ierusalem whom they slew and hanged on a tree Hym God raysed vp the third day and shewed him openly not to all the people but vnto vs witnesses chosen before of God for the same entent which dyd eate and drinke with him after hee rose from death And he commaunded vs to preache vnto the people and to testify that it is he which was ordayned of God to be the Iudge of the quick and the dead To hym geue all the Prophetes wytnes that through his name whosoeuer beleueth in hym shall receiue remission of syns While Peter yet spake these wordes the holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the preaching And they of the circumcision which beleued were astonied as many as came with Peter because that on the Gentiles also was shed out the gift of the holy ghost For they heard them speake with toūgs and magnify god Then answered Peter can any man forbid water that these should be baptised which haue receiued the holy Ghost as well as we And he commaunded them to be baptised in the name of the lord Then prayed they him to tary a few dayes ¶ The Gospell Iohn iii. SO God loued the world that he gaue hys onely begotten sonne that whosoeuer beleueth in him shuld not perish but haue euerlasting life For God sent not his sonne into the world to condemne the world but that the world through him might be saued But he that beleueth on him is not condemned But he that beleueth not is condempned all redy because he hath not beleued in the name of the onely begotten sonne of god And this is the condempnacion that light is come into the world and men loued darknes more thē light because their dedes were euil For euery one that doth euil hateth the light neither cōmeth to the light least his deedes should be reproued But he that doth the truth commeth to the lyght that his deedes may be knowen how that they are wrought in God. ¶ The Tuesday sn whitsun weeke The Epistle Actes viii WHen the Apostles which were at Ierusalem heard say that Samaria had receiued the woord of God they sent vnto them Peter and Iohn Which whē they were come down praied for them that they might receiue the holy Ghost For as yet he was come on none of them but they were baptised onely in the name of Christ Iesus Then they layd their handes on them and they receiued the holy Ghost ¶ The Gospell Iohn x. VErely verely I say vnto you he that entreth not in by the doore into the shepefold but climeth vp some other way the same is a theefe a murtherer But he that entreth in by the doore is the Shepheard of the sheepe To him the porter openeth the sheepe heare his voice he calleth his own shepe by name and leadeth them out And when he hath sent forth his owne shepe he goeth before them the shepe folow him for they know his voice A straunger wyl they not folow but wyll flee from hym for they know not the voyce of straungers This prouerbe spake Iesus vnto thē but they vnderstood not what things they were which he spake vnto them Then sayd Iesus vnto them againe Verely verely I say vnto you I am the doore of the shepe Al euen as many as came before me ar theues murtherers but the shepe
he said I pray thee therefore father send him to my Fathers house for I haue fiue brethren for to warne them least they come also into this place of torment Abraham said vnto him they haue Moises and the Prophets let them heare them And he said nay father Abraham but if one come vnto them from the dead they wyll repent He sayd vnto him if they heare not Moyses the Prophets neither wil they beleue though one rose frō death againe ¶ The second sunday after Trinitie Sunday The Epistle i. Iohn iii. MEruaile not my brethren though the world hate you We know that we are translated frō death vnto life because we loue the brethren He that loueth not his brother abideth in death Whosoeuer hateth hys brother is a manslear And ye know that no manslear hath eternall lyfe abiding in him Hereby perceiue we loue because he gaue his lyfe for vs and we ought to geue our liues for the brethren But who so hath this worldes good and seeth his brother haue neede and shutteth vp hys compassion from him how dwelleth the loue of God in him My babes let vs not loue in worde neyther in toung but in deede and verity Hereby we know that we are of the verity and can quiet our harts before him For if our hart condempne vs God is greater then our hart and knoweth althings Dearly beloued if our hart condempne vs not then haue we trust to God ward and whatsoeuer we aske we receiue of him because we keepe his commaundements and do those things which are pleasaunt in his sight And this is his commaundement that we beleue on the name of his Sonne Iesus Christ and loue one another as he gaue commaundemēt And he that kepeth hys commaundementes dwelleth in hym and he in him and hereby we know that he abideth in vs euen by the spirit which he hath geuen vs. ¶ The Gospel Luke xiiii A Certayne man ordeined a great supper and bad many sent his seruaunt at supper time to say to them that were bidden come for althings are now redy And they all at once began to make excuse The fyrst sayd vnto him I haue bought a farme I must needes go and see it I pray thee haue me excused And another said I haue bought fyne yoke of Oxen and I go to proue them I pray thee haue mee excused And an other sayd I haue maryed a wyfe and therefore I cannot come And the Seruaunt returned and brought his Maister woorde agayne therof Then was the good man of the house displeased and said vnto his seruant go out quickly into the streetes and quarters of the city bring in hither the poore and feble the halt blind And the seruant said Lord it is done as thou hast cōmaunded yet there is roume And the Lord sayd vnto the seruant go out into the hye waies and hedges compell them to come in that my house may be fylled For I say vnto you that none of these men which were bidden shall taste of my supper ¶ The third Sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle i. Peter v. SVbmit your selues euery man one to another knyt your selues together in lowlines of minde For God resisteth the proude and geueth grace to the humble Submit your selues therfore vnder the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you when the tyme is come Cast all your care vpon hym for he careth for you Be sober watch for your aduersary the deuil as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may deuour whom resist stedfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are appoynted vnto your brethren that are in the world But the God of all grace which hath called vs vnto his eternal glory by Christ Iesu shall hys own selfe after that ye haue suffered a little affliction make you perfect settle strength and stablish you To him be glory and dominion for euer and euer Amen ¶ The Gospell Luke xv THen resorted vnto him al the Publicans and synners for to heare hym And the Phariseys and Scribes murmured saying He receiueth sinners and eateth with them But he put foorth this parable vnto thē saying What man among you hauing an hūdred sheepe if he lose one of thē doth not leaue ninety and nine in the wildernes goeth after that which is lost vntill he finde it And when he hath founde it he layeth it on his shoulders with ioy And assoone as he commeth home he calleth together his louers and neighbours saying vnto them Reioyce with me for I haue found my shepe which was lost I say vnto you that likewise ioy shal be in heauen ouer one synner that repenteth more then ouer ninety and nine iust persons which nede no repentaunce Either what woman hauing ten groates if she loose one doth not light a candle swepe the house seke dilygently til she finde it and when she hath found it she calleth her louers and her neighbours together saying Reioyce with me for I haue found the groat which I lost Lykewise I say vnto you shall there be ioy in the presence of the Aungels of God ouer one synner that repenteth ¶ The fourth sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Roma viii I Suppose that the afflictions of this life are not worthy of the glory which shal be shewed vpon vs For the feruent desyre of the creature abydeth looking when the sonnes of God shall appeare because the creature is subdued to vanity against the wyll therof but for his wyll which hath subdued the same in hope For the same creature shall be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the gloryous liberty of the sonnes of god For we know that euery creature groneth with vs also and trauaileth in payne euen vnto this tyme not onely it but we also which haue the fyrst fruites of the spirit mourne in our selues also and wayte for the adopcion of the children of God euen the deliueraunce of our bodies ¶ The Gospell Luke vi BE ye mercyfull as your Father also is mercyfull Iudge not ye shal not be iudged condemn not and ye shal not be condemned Forgeue ye shal be forgeuen Geue and it shal be geuen vnto you good measure and pressed downe and shaken together and running ouer shall men geue into your bosomes For with the same measure that ye mete withal shal other men mete to you againe And he put forth a similitude vnto them Can the blind leade the blind do they not both fal into the ditche The disciple is not aboue hys maister Euery man shal be perfect euen as his maister is Why seest thou a mote in thy brothers eye but considerest not the beame that is in thine own eye Either how canst thou say to thy brother Brother let me pul out the mote that is in thine eye when thou seest not the beame that is in thine own eye First thou hipocrite cast out the beame out of thine own
that the scripture might be fulfilled he saith I thirst So there stood a vessell by ful of vineger therefore they filled a sponge with vineger and wound it about with isope and put it to his mouth Assoone as Iesus then receiued of the vineger he said it is finished and bowed his head and gaue vp the ghost The Iewes therfore because it was the preparing of the Sabboth that the bodies should not remaine vpon the cros on the Sabboth day for the Saboth day was an hie day besought Pilat that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken down Then came the soldiours and brake the legs of the first of the other which was crucified with him But when they came to Iesus and saw that he was dead already they brake not his legs but one of the soldiours with a spare thrust him into the syde forth with there came out bloud water And he that saw it bare record his record is true And he knoweth that he saith true that ye might beleue also For these things wer done that the scripture should be fulfilled ye shall not breake a bone of him And againe another scripture saith they shall looke vpon him whom they haue pearsed After thys Ioseph of Aramathia which was a disciple of Iesus but secretly for feare of the Iewes besought Pilat that he might take down the body of Iesus And Pilat gaue him licence He came therfore tooke that body of Iesus there came also Nicodemus which at the beginning came to Iesus by night brought of myr and aloes mingled together about an hundreth pounde weight Then tooke they the body of Iesus wound it in linnē clothes with the odours as the maner of the Iewes is to bury And in the place where he was crucified ther was a gardē in the garden a new Sepulchre wherin was neuer mā laid Ther laid they Iesus therfore because of the preparing of the Sabboth of the Iewes for the sepulchre was nie at hand ¶ Easter euen The Epistle i. Peter iii. IT is better if the wyl of God be so that ye suffer for wel doing thē for euil doing For as much as Christ hath once suffred for syns the iust for the vniust to bring vs to God and was killed as partayning to the flesh but was quickened in the spirit In which spirit he also went preached to the spirits that were in prison which somtime had bene disobedient whē the long suffering of God was once looked for in the daies of Noe while the Arke was a preparing wherin a few that is to say eight soules were saued by the water lyke as Baptisme also now saueth vs not the putting awaye of the fylth of the fleshe but in that a good conscience cōsenteth to God by the resurrectiō of Iesus Christ which is on the right hand of God is gone in to heauen angels powers might subdued vnto him ¶ The Gospell Math. xxvii WHen the euen was come there came a ritch man of Aramathia named Ioseph which also was Iesus Disciple He went vnto Pilate and begged the body of Iesus Then Pilat commaunded the body to be deliuered And when Ioseph had taken the body he wrapped it in a cleane linnē cloth laid it in his new toumbe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and roled a great stone to the doore of the Sepulchre departed And there was Mary Magdalen and the other Mary sitting ouer against the Sepulchre The next day that foloweth the day of preparing the hie Priestes and Phariseis came together vnto Pilat saying Syr we remember that this deceiuer said while he was yet aliue after three dayes I will rise againe Commaund therfore that the sepulchre be made sure vntill the third day least his disciples come and steale him away and the last errour shall be worse then the first Pilat sayd vnto them ye haue a watch go your way make it as sure as ye can So they went and made the Sepulchre sure with the watch men and sealed the stone ¶ Easter day The Epistle Colo. iiii IF ye be rysen againe with Christ seeke those things which are aboue where Chrlst sitteth on the right hand of god Set your affection on heauenly things not on earthly things For ye are dead your life is hid with Christ in God whensoeuer Christ which is our lyfe shal shew him selfe then shall ye also appeare with hym in glorye Mortifie therefore your earthly members fornication vnclennes vnnatural lust euil concupiscence and couetousnes which is woorshipping of idols for which thinges sake the wrath of God vseth to come on the children of vnbeleefe among whom ye walked sometime when ye lyued in them ¶ The Gospell Iohn xx THe first day of the sabbothes came Mary Magdalen earely when it was yet darke vnto the Sepulchre and saw the stone taken away from the graue Then shee ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Iesus loued and sayth vnto them they haue taken away the Lord out of the graue and we cannot tell where they haue layd hym Peter therfore went foorth and that other disciple and came vnto the Sepulchre They ran both together and that other disciple did out run Peter and came first to the Sepulchre And when he had stouped down he saw the linnen clothes lying yet went hee not in Then came Simon Peter folowing him and went into the Sepulchre and saw the linnen clothes lie and the napkin that was about hys heade not lying with the linnen clothes but wrapped together in a place by it selfe Then went in also that other Disciple which came first to the Sepulchre and he saw and beleued For as yet they knew not the scripture that he should rise againe from death Then the Dlsciples went away againe to their owne home ¶ The Monday in Easter weeke The Epistle Actes x. PEter opened his mouth and said of a truth I perceiue that there is no respect of persons with God but in al people he that feareth him and worketh righteousnes is accepted with him Ye know the preaching that God sent vnto the children of Israell preaching peace by Iesus Christ which is Lord ouer all things which preaching was published throughout al Iewry and began in Galile after the Baptisme which Iohn preached how God annoynted Iesus of Nazareth with the holy ghost with power Which Iesus went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the deuil for God was with him And we ar witnesses of all things which he did in the land of the Iewes and at Ierusalem whom they slew and hanged on tree Him God raised vp the third day and shewed him openly not to al the people but to vs witnesses chosen before of God for the same intent which did eate and drink with him after he arose from death And he commaunded vs to preach vnto the people and to testifye that it