a wedding garment And he was euen spechles Then sayde the kyng to the ministers Take and bynde hym hand foote and cast hym into vtter darknes there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth For many are called but few be chosen ¶ The .xxi. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Ephe. vi MY brethren be strong through the Lord thorow the power of his myght Put on all the armour of God that ye may stand agaynst all the assaultes of the Deuyll For we wrestle not agaynst bloud and fleshe but agaynst rule agaynst power against worldly rulers euen gouernors of the darknes of this world agaynst spirituall craftynes in heauenly thinges Wherfore take vnto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to resist in the euyll day and stand perfect in althinges Stand therfore and your loines gyrt with the truth hauing on the brest plate of righteousnes hauing shoes on you feete that ye may be prepared for the Gospel of peace Aboue all take to you the shield of fayth wherewith ye may quentch all the firy dartes of the wicked And take the helmet of saluation and the sword of the spirit which is the woord of god And pray alwaies with al maner of praier and supplication in the spirit and watch therunto with all instaunce and supplications for all Sayntes and for me that vtterance may be geuen vnto me that I may open my mouth freely to vtter the secretes of my Gospel wherof I am a messenger in bondes that therein I may speake freely as I ought to speake ¶ The Gospel Iohn iiii THere was a certayne Ruler whose sonne was sicke at Capernaum assoone as the same heard that Iesus was come out of Iewry into Galile hee went vnto hym and besought hym that he would come downe and heale his sonne for he was euen at the poynt of death Then sayd Iesus vnto him except ye see signes and wonders ye wyl not beleue The ruler sayd vnto him Syr come downe or euer that my sonne dye Iesus said vnto him go thy way thy sonne lyueth The man beleued the woord that Iesus had spoken vnto hym And he went hys way and as hee was going downe the seruauntes met hym and told hym saying thy sonne lyueth Then enquired hee of them the houre when he began to amende And they sayd vnto him yesterday at the seuenth houre the feuer left him So the father knew that it was the same houre in the which Iesus sayd vnto him Thy sonne lyueth And he beleued and all his houshold This is agayne the seconde myracle that Iesus dyd when hee was come out of Iewry into Galile ¶ The .xxiii. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Phi. i. I Thanke my God with all remembraunce of you alwaies in all my praiers for you and pray with gladnes Because ye are come into the felowship of the Gospell from the fyrst day vntill now And am surely certified of this that hee which hath begone a good woorke in you shall performe it vntill the day of Iesus Christ as it becommeth me that I should so iudge of you all because I haue you in my hart for somuch as ye are all companions of grace with me euen in my bonds and in the defending and establishing of the gospell for God is my record how greatly I longe after you all from the verye hart roote in Iesus Christ And thys I praye that your loue may encrease yet more more in knowledge and in all vnderstanding that ye may accept the thinges that are most excellent that ye may be pure and such as offend no man vntyll the day of Christ being fylled with the fruit of righteousnes which commeth by Iesus Christ vnto the glory and prayse of God. ¶ The Gospell Math. xviii PEter sayd vnto Iesus Lord how ofte shall I forgeue my brother if he synne against me til seuen times Iesus saith vnto him I say not vnto thee vntill seuen tymes but seuenty tymes seuen tymes Therefore is the kingdome of heauen likened vnto a certaine man that was a king which would take accoumptes of his seruaunts And when he had begon to recken one was brought vnto hym which oughte him tenne thousande talentes but forasmuch as hee was not able to pay his Lord commaunded him to be solde and hys wyfe and children and all that he had and payment to be made The seruaunt fell downe and besought hym saying Syr haue pacience wyth me and I wyll pay thee all Then had the Lord pity on that seruaunt and loosed hym and forgaue hym the debt So the same seruaunt went out and found one of hys fellowes whych ought hym an hundred pence and he layde handes on hym and tooke hym by the throte saying paye that thou owest And hys fellow fell downe and besought hym saying haue pacience with me and I wyll pay thee all And he would not but went and cast him into pryson tyll hee should pay the debt So when hys fellowes saw what was done they were verye sorye and came and tolde vnto theyr Lorde all that had happened Then the Lorde called hym and sayde vnto hym O thou vngracious seruaunt I forgaue thee all that debt when thou desyredst me shouldest not thou also haue had compassion on thy fellowe euen as I had pitye on thee And hys Lord was wrothe and delyuered hym to the Iailers tyll hee shoulde paye all that was due vnto hym So lykewyse shall my heauenly Father doo also vnto you if ye from your hartes forgeue not euery one his brother their trespasses ¶ The .xxiii. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Philip. iii. BRethren be followers together of me and looke on them whych walke euen so as ye haue vs for an ensample For many walke of whom I haue told you often and now tell you weeping that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christ whose ende is damnation whose belly is their God glory to their shame which are worldly mynded But our conuersation is in heauen from whence we looke for the sauiour euen the Lord Iesus Christ which shall chaunge our vyle body that he may make it lyke vnto hys gloryous body according to the working whereby he is able also to subdue all thinges vnto hym selfe ¶ The Gospell Math. xxii THen the Pharisies went out and tooke counsayl how they might tangle hym in his wordes And they sent out vnto hym their disciples wyth Herodes Seruauntes saying Mayster wee knowe that thou art true and teachest the way of God truly neyther carest thou for anye man for thou regardest not the outwarde appearaunce of men Tell vs therefore how thinkest thou is it lawfull that tribute be geuen vnto Ceasar or not But Iesus perceyuing theyr wickednes sayde Why tempt ye me you hipocrites shew me the tribute money And they tooke hym a peny And he sayd vnto them whose is this image and superscription They sayd vnto hym Ceasars Then sayd hee vnto them geue therefore
prophet For this is hee of whom it is written Behold I sende my Messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee ¶ The fourth Sunday in Aduent The Epistle Phillip iiii REioyce in the Lord alway and againe I say reioyce Let your softnes be knowen to all men the Lord is euen at hand Be careful for nothing but in all prayer and supplication let your peticions be manyfest vnto God wyth geuing of thankes And the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding keepe your harts and mynds through Christ Iesu ¶ The Gospell Iohn i. THis is the recorde of Iohn when the Iewes sent Priestes and Leuites from Ierusalem to aske him what art thou And he confessed and denyed not and said plainely I am not Christ And they asked him what then art thou Helias And he sayd I am not Art thou that Prophet And he answered no. Then said they vnto him what art thou that we may geue an answer bnto thē that sent vs What saiest thou of thy selfe He said I am the voice of a Cryar in the wildernes make straight the way of the Lord as said the Prophet Esay And they which were sent were of the Phariseis and they asked him and sayde vnto him Why baptisest thou then if thou be not Christ nor Helias neither that Prophet Iohn answered thē saying I baptise with water but ther standeth one among you whom ye know not he it is which though he came after me was before me whose shooe latchet I am not worthye to vnloose These thinges were done in Bethabara beyond Iordan wher Iohn did baptise ¶ Christmas day The Epistle Hebrues i. GOd in times past diuersly many waies spake vnto the Fathers by Prophetes but in these last daies he hath spoken vnto vs by his own sonne whom he hath made Heire of al things by whom also he made the worlde Which Sonne being the bryghtnes of his glory and the very image of his substaunce ruling al things with the word of his power hath by his own person purged our sins sitteth on the right hand of the maiestie on hie being so much more excellent then the Angels as he hath by inheritaunce obteined a more excellent name thē they For vnto which of the Angels sayd he at any time Thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee And againe I wyl be his Father and hee shall be my Sonne And agayne when hee bryngeth in the first begotten Sonne into the worlde he sayth and let all the Angels of God woorship hym And vnto the Angels hee sayth hee maketh hys Angels spirites and hys Ministers a flame of fire But vnto the Sonne he sayth thy seate O God shall be for euer and euer The scepter of thy kingdome is a right scepter Thou hast loued righteousnes and hated iniquitie wherfore God euen thy God hath annoynted thee with oyle of gladnesse aboue thy felowes And thou Lord in the beginning hast layde the foundation of the earth and the heauens are the workes of thy handes They shall perish but thou endurest but they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment and as a vesture shalt thou chaunge them and they shall bee chaunged But thou art euen the same and thy yeares shall not fayle ¶ The Gospell Iohn i. IN the beginning was the word and the word was with God God was the word The same was in the beginning with god Althings were made by it without it was made nothing that was made In it was life the life was the light of men and the light shineth in the darknes the darknes comprehended it not There was sent from God a man whose name was Iohn The same came as a witnes to beare wytnes of the lyght that all men through him might beleue He was not that light but was sent to beare witnes of the light That lyght was the true light which lyghtneth euery man that commeth into the world He was in the worlde and the world was made by hym and the worlde knewe hym not He came amonge hys owne and his own receiued him not But as many as receiued him to them gaue he power to bee made the sonnes of God euen them that beleued on hys name whych were borne not of bloude nor of the wyll of the flesh nor yet of the wyll of man but of god And the same word became flesh and dwelt among vs we saw the glory of it as the glory of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father ful of grace and truth ¶ Saint Stephens day The Epistle Actes vii ANd Steuen being full of the holy Ghost looked vp stedfastelye with his eyes into heauen and sawe the glorye of God Iesus standing on the right hande of God and sayde beholde I see the heauens open and the sonne of man standing on the right hande of god Then they gaue a shoute with a loude voice and stopped theyr eares and ran vpon him al at once and cast him out of the City and stoned him And the wytnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans frete whose name was Saule And they stoned Steuen callyng on and saying Lord Iesu receyue my spirite And he kneeled down cryed with a loude voyce Lord laye not this synne to their charge And when he had thus spoken he fell a sleepe ¶ The Gospell Math. xxiii BEholde I send vnto you Prophets and wise men and Scribes and some of them ye shal kil and crucify and some of them shall ye scourge in your Sinagogs and persecute them from city to city that vpon you may come all the righteous bloude which hath bene shed vpon the earth from the bloude of righteous Abell vnto the bloud of Zacharias the Sonne of Barachias whom ye slew betwene the temple and the aulter Verelye I saye vnto you all these things shall come vpon this generation O Ierusalem Ierusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them which are sent vnto thee how often would I haue gathered thy children together euen as the Hen gathereth her Chicknes vnder her wings and ye would not Behold your house is left vnto you desolate For I saye vnto you ye shall not see me hence forth tyll ye say blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord. ¶ Saint Iohn Euangelistes day The Epistle i. Iohn i. THat whych was from the beginning whych we haue hearde which we haue seene with our eyes which wee haue looked vpon and our hands haue handeled of the worde of lyfe And the life appeared and we haue sene and beare wytnes and shewe vnto you that eternall life which was with the Father and appeared vnto vs That which wee haue seene and heard declare we vnto you that ye also may haue felowshyp with vs and that our felowship may be with the Father and hys Sonne Iesus Christ And this we write vnto you that ye may reioyce and that your ioye may be full And this is the tidinges
and vnto them that looke for hym shall he appeare againe without sinne vnto saluacion ¶ The Gospell Luke xxii THe feast of sweete bread drew nye which is called Easter and the hye Priestes and Scribes sought how they might kyll hym for they feared the people Then entred Sathan into Iudas whose sir name was Iscarioth which was of the number of the twelue and hee went his waye and communed with the hie Priestes and officers how he myght betray hym vnto them And they were glad and promised to geue him money And hee consented and sought oportunity to betray him vnto them when the people were away Then came the day of sweete breade when of necessity the Passeouer must be offered And he sent Peter and Iohn saying go and prepare vs the Passeouer that we may eate They sayd vnto him where wilt thou that we prepare and hee sayd vnto them behold when ye enter into the City there shall a man meete you bearing a pitcher of water him folow into the same house that he entreth in and ye shall say vnto the good man of the house the maister sayth vnto thee where is the gest chamber where I shall eate the passeouer with my Disciples And hee shall shew a great parler pauid there make readye And they went and found as he had sayd vnto them and they made ready the Passeouer And when the houre was come hee sat downe and the twelue Apostles with hym And he sayd vnto them I haue inwardly desired to eate this Passeouer with you before that I suffer For I say vnto you henceforth wyll I not eate of it any more vntyll it bee fulfilled in the kingdome of god And hee tooke the Cup and gaue thankes and sayd Take this and deuide it among you For I say vnto you I wyll not drynke of the fruite of this vyne vntill the kingdome of God come And hee tooke bread and when he had geuen thanks he brake it and gaue vnto them saying This is my body which is geuen for you this do in the remēbraunce of me Likewise also when he had supped he tooke the cup saying Thys cup is the new testament in my bloud which is shed for you Yet behold the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table And truely the sonne of man goeth as it is appointed but woe vnto that man by whom he is betrayed And they began to enquire among them selues which of them it was that should do it And there was a stryfe among them which of them should seeme to be the greatest And he said vnto them the kinges of nacions reigne ouer them and they that haue aucthoryty vpon them are called gracious but ye shall not so be But he that is greatest among you shall be as the yonger and hee that is chiefe shal be as he that doth minister For whether is greater he that sitteth at meat or he that serueth Is not he that litteth at meate But I am among you as he that ministreth Ye are they which haue biddē with me in my temptacions And I appointed vnto you a kingdome as my father hath appointed to me that ye may eate and drinke at my table in my kingdom sit on seates iudging the twelue tribes of Israell And the Lord said Simon Simon behold Satā hath desired to sift you as it were wheate but I haue praied for thee that thy fayth fayle not And when thou art conuerted strength thy brethren And he said vnto him lord I am ready to go with thee into prison and to death And he sayd I tel thee Peter the cock shall not crow thys day til thou haue denied me thrise that thou knowest me And he sayd vnto them when I sent you without wallet and scrip and shoes lacked ye any thing And they said no. Then sayd he vnto them but now he that hath a wallet let him take it vp likewise his scrip And he that hath no sworde let him sell his coate bie one For I say vnto you that yet the same which is written must be performed in me euen amōg the wicked was he reputed For those things which are written of me haue their end And they sayd Lord behold here are .ii. swords he said vnto thē it is inough And he came out went as he was wont to mount Oliuet and the disciples folowed him And when he came to the place he said vnto them pray lest ye fal into temptacion And he gat him selfe frō them about a stone cast and kneeled down praied saying Father if thou wilt remoue this cup frō me Neuertheles not my will but thine be fulfilled ther appeared an angel vnto him frō heauen cōforting him And he was in an agony praied the longer and his sweate was like drops of bloud trickling down to the ground And when he arose frō praier was come to his disciples he found them sleeping for heauines he said vnto thē why slepe ye Rise pray least ye fall into temptation While he yet spake behold ther came a cōpany and he that was called Iudas one of the twelue wēt before them preased nye to Iesus to kisse him But Iesus said vnto him Iudas betraiest thou the sonne of man with a kisse When they which were about him saw what would folow thei said vnto him lord shal we smite with the sword one of them smote a seruant of the hie priest stroke of his right eare Iesus answered sayd suffer ye thus far forth And when he touched his eare he healed him Then Iesus said vnto the hie Priestes rulers of the temple the elders which wer come to him Ye be come out as vnto a theefe with swords and staues When I was dayly with you in the temple ye streatched forth no handes against me but this is euen your very hour and the power of darknes Then tooke they him and led him and brought him to the hie Priestes house But Peter folowed a far of And when they had kinled a fire in the midst of the palace and were set down together Peter also sat down amonge them But when one of the wenches be helde him as he sat by the fire and looked vpon hym she sayd this same felow was also with him And he denied him saying womā I know him not And after a litle while another saw him and said thou art also of them And Peter sayd man I am not And about the space of an houre after another affirmed saying verely this felow was with him also for he is of Galile And Peter sayd mā I wot not what thou saiest immediately while he yet spake the Cock crew And the lord turned backe looked vpon Peter And Peter remembred the word of the Lord how he had sayd vnto hym before the Cock crow thou shalt deny me thrise Peter went out and wept bytterly And the men that tooke Iesus mocked him smot