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B00937	The Epistels and Gospels for euery Sonday and holy day throughout the whole yeare. After the vse of the Church of England.; Bible. N.T. Epistles. English. 1574. Selections.		1574 (1574)	STC 2982; ESTC S124412	95,256	158

she had brought foorth her fyrst begotten Sonne and called his name Iesus ¶ The Circumcision of Christ The Epistle Roma iiii BLessed is that man to whom the Lord will not impute syn Came this blessednes then vpon the vncircumcision or vpon the circumsicion also For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousnes How was it then reckoned when he was in the circumcision or when he was in the vncircumcision Not in tyme of circumcision but when he was yet vncircumcised And he receyued the signe of circumcision as a seale of the righteousnes of fayth which he had yet beyng vncircumcised that he should be the Father of all them that beleue though they be not circūcised that righteousnes might be imputed to them also and that he might be the Father of circumcision not vnto them onely which came of the circumcised but vnto them also that walke in the steps of the faith that was in our father Abraham before the time of circumcision For the promise that he should be heire of the world happened not to Abrahā or to his sede through the law but through the righteousnes of faith For if they which are of the law be heires thē is faith but vain the promis of none effect ¶ The Gospell Luke ii ANd it fortuned assoone as the Angels were gone away from the Shepheardes into heauen they sayd one to another let vs go euen now vnto Bethelem and see this thing that we heare say is hapned which the Lord hath shewed vnto vs And they came with hast and found Mary and Ioseph and the Babe layd in a maunger And when they had sene it they published abroad that saying that was tolde them of that child And al they that heard it wondred at those things which were told them of the Shepheards But Mary kept al these sayings and pondred them in her hart And the Shepheards returned praysing and lauding God for all thinges that they had heard and sene euen as it was told vnto them And when the eight day was come that the Childe should be circumcised hys name was called Iesus which was named of the Aungell before he was conceiued in the wombe ¶ The Epiphany The Epistle Ephes iii. FOr this cause I Paule a prysoner of Iesus Christ for you Heathen if you haue heard of the ministration of the grace of God which is geuen me to you ward For by reuelation shewed he the mistery vnto me as I wrote afore in few woordes whereby when ye reade ye may vnderstand my knowledge in the mistery of Christ which mistery in times past was not opened vnto the sonnes of men as it is now declared vnto his holy Apostels and Prophetes by the spirite that the Gentiles should be inheritours also of the same bodye and partakers of his promise in Christ by the meanes of the Gospel wherof I am made a Minister according to the gift of the grace of God which is geuen vnto me after the working of his power Vnto me the least of all Saintes is this grace geuen that I should preache among the Gentiles the vnsearchable ritches of Christ to make all men see what the felowship of the mistery is which from the beginning of the world hath bene hid in God which made all thinges through Iesus Christ to th entent that now vnto the rulers powers in heauenly things might be knowen by the congregation the manifold wisdome of God according to the eternall purpose which he wrought in Christ Iesu our Lord by whom we haue boldnes entrance with the confidence which is by the fayth of him ¶ The Gospell Math. ii WHen Iesus was borne in Bethelem a City of Iewry in the time of Herod the king behold ther came wise men from the East to Ierusalem saying Where is hee that is borne Kyng of the Iewes For we haue sene his starre in the East and are come to worship him When Herod the kyng had heard these thinges he was troubled and all the city of Ierusalem with hym And when he had gathered al the chiefe Priests Scribes of the people together he demaunded of them where Christ should be borne And they sayd vnto him at Bethelem in Iewry For thus it is written by the Prophet And thou Bethlem in the land of Iewry art not the least among the Princes of Iuda for out of thee there shall come vnto me the Captaine that shal gouern my people Israel Then Herod when he had priuely called the wyse men he enquired of them diligently what tyme the starre appeared and he bad them go to Bethlem and said go your way thether and search diligently for the chylde And when ye haue found him bring me word agayne that I may come and woorship him also When they had heard the king they departed and loe the starre which they saw in the East went before them tyll it came and stood ouer the place wherin the child was When they saw the starre they were exceeding glad and went into the house and found the child with Mary his mother and fell downe flat and worshipped him and opened their treasures and offered vnto him gifts gold Frankincens and Mirre And after they were warned of God in a slepe that they should not go againe to Herod they returned into their owne countrey another way ¶ The fitst sunday after the Epiphany The Epistle Roma xii I Besche you therfore brethren by the mercyfulnes of of God that yee make your bodies a quicke sacrifice holy and acceptable vnto God which is your reasonable seruing of God and fashion not your selues lyke vnto this world but be ye chaunged in your shape by the renuing of your minde that ye may proue what thing that good and acceptable and perfecte wyll of God is For I say through the grace that vnto me geuē is to euery man among you that no man stande high in his own conceite more then it becommeth him to esteme of himselfe but so iudge of himselfe that ht be gentell and sober according as God hath dealt to euery man the measure of faith For as we haue many members in one body and al members haue not one office so we being many are one body in Christ and euery man among our selues one a nothers members ¶ The Gospell Luke ii THe Father and Mother of Iesus went to Ierusalem after the custome of the feast day And when they had fulfylled the dayes as they returned home the Childe Iesus abode styll in Ierusalem and his father mother knew not of it but they supposing him to haue bene in the company came a daies iourney and sought him amongest their kinsfolke and acquaintaunce And whē they found him not they went back agayne to Ierusalem and sought him And it fortuned that after three dayes they found him in the temple sitting in the middest of the Doctours hearing them and posing them And all that heard hym wer astonied at his vnderstanding and