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
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
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
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
did not heare them I am the doore by me if any enter in he shal be safe shal go in out and finde pasture A theefe cōmeth not but for to steale kyll and destroy I am come that they might haue life that they might haue it more aboūdantly ¶ Trinitie Sunday The Epistle Apoca. iiii AFter this I looked behold a doore was open in heauen and the first voyce which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talkyng wyth me which sayde Come vp hither I wil shew thee things which must be fulfilled hereafter And immediately I was in the spirit And behold a seat was set in heauen one sat on the seat And he that sat was to looke vpon like vnto a Iaspar stone and a Sardine stone And there was a raine bow about the seat in sight lyke vnto an Emerauld And about the seate were .xxiiii. seates And vpon the seates .xiiij. elders sitting clothed in whyte rayment and had on their heades crownes of gold And out of the seate proceeded lightnings and thundrings and voyces and there were seuen lampes of fyre burning before the seate which are the seuen spirites of god And before the seate there was a sea of glas lyke vnto Christal and in the middest of the seate and round about the seate were foure beastes full of eyes before and behinde And the fyrst beast was lyke a Lion and the second beast was lyke a Calfe and the third beast had a face as a man and the fourth Beast was like a slying Eagle And the foure beastes had ech of thē sixe winges about him and they were ful of eyes with in And they did not rest day nor night saying Holy holy holy Lord god almighty which was and is is to come And when those beastes gaue glory honour and thankes to him that sat on the seate which liueth for euer euer the .xxiiij. Elders fel down before him that sat on the throne worshipped him that liueth for euer and cast their crownes before the throne saying thou art worthy O Lord our God to receiue glory and honour and power for thou hast created althings and for thy wyls sake they are and were created ¶ The Gospell Iohn iii. THere was a man of the Phariseis named Nicodemus a Ruler of the Iewes the same came to Iesus by night and said vnto him Rabbi we know that thou art a Teacher come from God for no man could do such myracles as thou doest except God were wyth hym Iesus aunswered and sayd vnto hym Verely verely I say vnto thee except a man be borne from aboue he cannot see the kingdome of god Nicodemus sayd vnto him how can a man be borne when hee is olde Can hee enter into hys mothers wombe and be born again Iesus answered verely verely I say vnto thee except a man be borne of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdome of god That which is borne of the flesh is flesh and that which is borne of the spirit is spirit Maruaile not thou that I sayd to thee ye must be borne from aboue The wynde bloweth where it lusteth and thou hearest the sound therof but thou canst not tell whence it commeth or whether it goeth So is euerye one that is borne of the spirit Nicodemus answered and sayd vnto him how can these things be Iesus answered and sayd vnto him Art thou a Maister in Israel and knowest not these thinges Verelye verelye I say vnto thee we speake that we know and testifye that we haue seene and ye receiue not our wytnes If I haue tolde you earthly thinges and ye beleue not how shal ye beleue if I tell you of heauenly thinges And no man ascendeth vp to heauen but he that came downe from heauen euen the sonne of man which is in heauen And as Moises lyft vp the Serpent in the wildernes euen so must the sonne of man be lift vp that whosoeuer beleueth on him perish not but haue euerlasting lyfe ¶ The first Sunday after Trinity Sunday The Epistle i. Iohn iiii DEarly beloued let vs loue one another for loue cōmeth of god And euery one that loueth is borne of God and knoweth god He that loueth not knoweth not God for God is loue In this appeareth the the loue of God to vs warde because that God sent his onely begotten son into the world that we might liue through him Herein is loue not that we loued God but that he loued vs and sent his sonne to be the agrement for our syns Dearly beloued if God so loued vs we ought also one to loue another No man hath seene God at any time If we loue one another god dwelleth in vs his loue is perfect in vs Hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in vs because he hath geuen vs of his Spirit And we haue seene and do testyfy that the father sent the son to be the sauior of the world Whosoeuer confesseth that Iesus is the sonne of God in him dwelleth God he in god And we haue knowē and beleued the loue that God hath to vs God is loue he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in god and God in him Herein is the loue perfect in vs that we should trust in the day of iudgemēt For as he is euen so are we in this world There is no feare in loue but perfect loue casteth out feare for feare hath painfulnes He that feareth is not perfect in loue We loue him for he loued vs fyrst If a man say I loue god and yet hate his brother he is a lyer for how can hee that loueth not his brother whom he hath seene loue God whom he hath not sene And this cōmaūdement haue we of him that he which loueth God should loue his brother also ¶ The Gospell Luke xvi THere was a certain ritch man which was clothed in purple and fyne white and fared deliciously euery day And ther was a certaine begger named Lazarus which lay at his gate full of sores desyring to be refreshed wyth the crummes which fell from the ritch mans boord no man gaue vnto him The dogs came also and lyked his sores And it fortuned that the begger dyed was caryed by the aungels into Abrahams bosome The ritch man also died was buried and being in hell in tormentes he lyft vp his eyes and saw Abraham a farre of and Lazarus in his bosome and he cryed and sayd father Abraham haue mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the typ of his finger in water and coole my toung for I am tormented in this flame But Abraham said Sonne remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasure contrary wise Lazarus receued paine But now he is comforted and thou art punished Beyonde all this betwene vs and you there is a great space set so that they which would go from hence to you cannot neither may come from thence to vs Then
spirit of God they are the sons of god For ye haue not receiued the spirit of bondage to feare any more but ye haue receiued the spirit of adoption wherby ye cry Abba father The same spirit certifieth our spirit that we are the sonnes of god If we be sonnes then are we heires the heires I meane of God and heires annexed with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be glorified together with him ¶ The Gospell Math. vii BEware of false Prophetes which come to you in shepes clothing but inwardly they are rauening wolues Ye shall know them by theyr fruites Do men gather grapes of thornes or figs of thistles euen so euery good tree bringeth forth good fruites but a corrupt tree bringeth foorth euil fruits A good tree can not bring forth bad fruits neither can a bad tree bring forth good fruites Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire Wherfore by their fruites ye shall know thē Not euery one that saith vnto me Lord Lord shal enter into the kingdom of heauen but he that doth the will of my father which is in heauen he shal enter into the kingdom of heauen ¶ The .ix. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle i. Cor. x. BRethren I would not that ye should be ignoraunt how that our fathers were all vnder the cloude and all passed through the sea and were all baptised vnder Moyses in the cloud and in the sea and did all eate of one spirituall meate and did all drinke of one spiritual drinke And they dranke all of one spiritual Rocke that folowed them which Rocke was Christ But in many of them had God no delight For they wer ouerthrowē in the wildernes These are ensamples to vs that we should not lust after euyll thinges as they lusted And that ye should not be worshippers of images as were some of them according as it is written The people satte downe to eate and drinke and rose vp to playe Neyther let vs be defiled wyth fornication as some of them were defiled with fornication and fell in one day three and twenty thousande Neyther let vs tempt Christ as some of them tempted and were destroyed of serpentes Neyther murmur yee as some of them murmured and were destroyed of the Destroyer All these thinges happened vnto them for ensaumples But are wrytten to put vs in remembraunce whom the endes ot the worlde are come vpon Wherfore let him that thinketh he standeth take heede least he fall There hath none other temptacion taken you but such as folowed the nature of man But God is faithfull which shall not suffer you to be tempted aboue your strength but shall in the middest of temptacion make away that you may be able to beare it ¶ The Gospell Luke xvi IEsus said to his disciples There was a certain rich man which had a steward and the same was accused vnto him that he had wasted his goodes And he called him and said vnto him how is it that I heare this of thee Geue accoumpts of thy Stewardship for thou mayest be no longer Steward The Steward sayd within thy selfe what shall I do for my maister taketh away from me the stewardshyp I cannot dyg to beg I am ashamed I wote what to do that when I am put out of the stewardship they may receaue me into theyr houses So when he had called all his maisters detters together he sayd vnto the fyrst how much owest thou vnto my master And he said an hundred tunnes of oyle And he sayd vnto him take thy byl and sit downe quickly and write fifty Then sayd he to another how much owest thou and he said an hundred quarters of wheate He sayd vnto him take thy byl and write foure score And the Lord commended the vniust steward because he had done wysely For the children of this world are in their nation wiser then the childrē of light And I say vnto you Make you friends of the vnrighteous Mammon that when ye shall haue nede they may receiue you into euerlasting habitacions ¶ The .x. Sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle i. Cor. xii COncerning spirituall things brethren I would not haue you ignoraunt Ye know that ye were Gentils and went your way vnto dum Images euen as ye were lead Wherefore I declare vnto you that no man speaking by the spirit of God defieth Iesus Also no man can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost Ther are diuersities of giftes yet but one spirit And ther are differences of administrations and yet but one lord And there are diuers maners of operations yet one God which worketh al in all The gift of the spirit is geuen to euery man to edefy withal For to one is geuen through the spirite the vtterance of wysdome To another is geuen the vtterance of knowledge by the same spirit To another is geuen fayth by the same spirit To another the gift of healyng by the same spirit To another power to doo miracles To another prophecy To another iudgement to discerne spirites To another diuers toungs To another the interpretacion of tounges by these all worketh the selfe same spirite deuidyng to euerye man a seuerall gyft euen as he wyll ¶ The Gospell Luke xix ANd when he was come neare to Ierusalem he beheld the city wept on it saying If thou haddest knowen those thynges which belong vnto thy peace euē in this thy day thou wouldest take hede But now are they hid from thine eyes For the daies shall come vnto thee that thy enemies shal cast a banke about thee and compasse thee round keepe thee in on euery side and make thee euen with the ground and thy children which are in thee And they shall not leaue in thee one stone vpon another because thou knowest not the tyme of thy visitation And he went into the temple and began to cast out them that solde therein and them that bought saying vnto them It is written my house is the house of prayer but ye haue made it a denne of theeues And he taught dayly in the temple ¶ The .xi. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle i. Cor. i. BRethren as pertayning to the Gospell which I preached vnto you which ye haue accepted in the which ye continue by the which ye are also saued I do you to weete after what maner I preached vnto you if ye keepe it except ye haue beleued in vaine For first of al I deliuered vnto you that which I receiued how that Christ died for our syns agreing to the scriptures And that he was buried that he rose againe the third day according to the scriptures And that he was sene of Cephas then of the twelue After that he was seene of mo thē fiue hundred brethren at once of which many remayne vnto this day and many are fallen a sleepe After that appeared he to Iames then to all the Apostels And
art bidden to a wedding of any man syt not down in the hiest roume least a more honourable man then thou be bidden of hym and he that had him and thee come and say to thee geue thys man roume â–ª and thou begyn with shame to take the lowest roume But rather when thou art bidden go and sit in the lowest roume that when he that bad thee commeth he may say vnto thee friend syt vp higher Then shalt thou haue worship in the presence of them that syt at meate with thee For whosoeuer exalteth hym selfe shal be brought low and he that humbleth hym selfe shal be exalted ¶ The .xviii. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle i. Cor. iii. I Thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe for the grace of God which is geuen you by Iesus Christ that in all thinges ye are made rytche by hym in all vtteraunce and in all knowledge by the which things the testimony of Iesus Christ was confyrmed in you so that yee are behind in no gyft wayting for the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ which shall also strength you to the ende that you maye be blameles in the daye of the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ ¶ The Gospell Math. xvi WHen the Phariseis had heard that Iesus did put the Saduces to scilence they came together and one of them which was a doctor of law asked him a question tempting hym and saying Maister which is the greatest commaundement in the law Iesus sayd vnto him Thou shalt loue thy Lord God with all thy hart and with all thy soule and with al thy mind This is the fyrst and greatest commaundement And the second is like vnto it Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe In these two commaundements hang all the law and the Prophetes While the Pharises gathered together Iesus asked them saying what thinke ye of Christ whose sonne is he They said vnto him the Sonne of Dauid He sayd vnto them how then doth Dauid in spirite call hym lord saying The Lord said vnto my Lord sit thou on my right hand till I make thine ennemies thy footestoole If Dauid then call him Lord how is he then his Sonne And no man was able to answer him any thing neither durst any man from that day foorth aske hym any mo questions ¶ The .xix. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Ephe. iiii THis I say and testify through the Lord that ye hence forth walke not as other Gentiles walke in vanity of their mind while thei ar blinded in their vnderstanding being far froÌ„ a godly life by the meanes of the ignorance that is in them because of the blindnes of their hartes which being past repentance haue geuen theÌ„ selues ouer vnto wantoÌ„nes to worke al maner of vnclennes eueÌ„ with gredines But ye haue not so learned Christ if so be that ye haue heard of him haue bene taught in him as the truth is in Iesu as concerning the conuersacion in times past to lay from you the old man which is corrupt according to the deceiuable lusts To be renued also in the spirit of your mind and to put on that new man which after God is shapen in righteousnes and true holynes Wherfore put away lying and speake euery man truth vnto his neighbour forasmuch as we are members one of another Be angry and synne not Let not the sunne go down vpon your wrath neither geue place to the back biter Let hym that stole steale no more but let him rather labour wyth hys handes the thinge whych is good that he may geue hym that needeth Let not fylthye communication proceede out of your mouth But that which is good to edefy with all as oft as neede is that it may minister grace vnto the hearers and greue not the holy spirit of God by whom ye are sealed vnto the day of redemption Let all bitternes fearcenes and wrath and roaring and cursed speaking be put away from you with all malicyousnes Be ye courteous one to another mercyfull forgeuing one another euen as God for Christes sake hath forgeuen you ¶ The Gospell Math. vii IEsus entred into a shyp and passed ouer and came into hys owne City And beholde they brought to him a man sycke of the Paulsey lying in a bedde And when Iesus saw the faith of them he said to the sycke of the Paulsey Sonne be of good chere thy synnes be forgeuen thee And behold certaine of the Scrybes sayd within them selues this man blasphemeth And when Iesus saw their thoughts he sayd wherefore thinke you euill in your harts whether is it easyer to say thy synnes be forgeuen thee or to say arise and walke But that ye may know that the son of man hath power to forgeue synnes in earth Then sayth hee to the sicke of the Palsey Arise take vp thy bed and go vnto thine house And he arose and departed to his house But the people that saw it marueyled and gloryfied God which hath geuen such power vnto men ¶ The .xx. Sunday after Trinity Sunday The Epistle Ephe. v. TAke heede therefore how ye walke circumspectly not as vnwise but as wise men redeeming the time because the dayes are euill Wherfore be ye not vnwise but vnderstand what the will of the Lord is and be not dronken with wyne wherein is excesse But bee ye fylled with the spirite speaking vnto your selues in Psalmes and Himnes and spirituall songs synging and making melody to the Lorde in your hartes geuing thankes alwayes for all thinges vnto God the Father in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ submitting your selues one to another in the feare of God. ¶ The Gospell Math. xx IEsus sayd to hys Disciples The kingdome of heauen is lyke vnto a man that was a king which made a mariage for hys sonne and sent foorth hys seruauntes to call them that were bidden to the wedding and they would not come Againe hee sent foorth other seruauntes saying Tell them which are bidden behold I haue prepared my dinner myne Oxen and my fatlinges are killed and althings ar ready come vnto the mariage But they made light of it went their waies One to his farme place another to his marchaundise and the other â—â—oke his seruants and intreated them shamefully and slew them But when the kyng heard thereof he was wroth and sent forth hys men of warre and destroyed those murtherers and brent vp theyr City Then sayd he to his seruauntes The mariage in deede is prepared but they which wer bidden were not worthy Go ye therfore out into the hye wayes and as many as ye fynde byd them to the Mariage And the seruauntes went foorth into the hye wayes and gathered together all as many as they could fynde both good and bad And the weddyng was furnished with gestes Then the kyng came in to see the gestes and when he spyed ther a man which had not on a wedding garment he sayde vnto hym Friende how cammest thou in hether not hauing
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
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
for you Herein is my father glorified that ye beare much fruit become my disciples As the father hath loued me euen so also haue I loued you Continue you in my loue If ye keepe my cōmaundements ye shal byde in my loue euen as I haue kept my fathers commaundements bide in his loue These things haue I spoken vnto you that my ioy might remaine in you and that your ioy might be full ¶ Saint Phillip and Iames day The Epistle Iames. i. IAmes the seruaunt of God and of the Lord Iesus Christ sendeth greting to the twelue Tribes which are scattered abroade My brethren count it for an exceeding ioy when ye fall into diuers temptacions knowing this that the trying of your fayth gendreth pacience and let pacience haue her perfect woorke that ye may be perfect and sound lacking nothing If any of you lack wisdome let hym aske of hym that geueth it euen God which geueth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth and it shal be geuen him But let hym aske in fayth and wauer not for he that doubteth is lyke a waue of the sea which is tost of the windes and caried with violence Neither let that man thinke that he shall receaue any thing of the Lorde A waueryng mynded man is vnstable in all hys wayes Let the brother which is of lowe degree reioyce when hee is exalted Againe let hym that is rytch reioyce when hee is made lowe For euen as the floure of the grasse shall hee passe awaye For as the sun riseth with heat and the gras withereth and his flower falleth away the beuty of the fashion of it perysheth euen so shal the ritch man perish in hys wayes Happy is the man that endureth temptacion For when he is tried he shall receiue the crown of lyfe which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him ¶ The Gospell Iohn xiiii ANd Iesus sayd vnto hys disciples let not your hartes be troubled if ye beleue in God beleue also in me In my Fathers house are many mansions If it were not so I would haue told you I go to prepare a place for you And if I go to prepare a place for you I wyll come agayne and receiue you euen vnto my selfe that where I am there may ye be also And whither I go you know and the way ye know Thomas sayth vnto him Lord we know not whither thou goest And how is it possible for vs to know the way Iesus sayd vnto him I am the way and the truth and the life No man commeth to the father but by me if ye had knowen me ye had knowen my Father also And now ye know him and haue seene him Phillip said vnto him Lord shew vs the father and it suffiseth vs Iesus saith vnto him haue I beene so long time with you and yet hast thou not knowen me Philip he that hath seene me hath seene my Father and how saiest thou then shew vs the Father beleuest not thou that I am in the father and the father in me The words that I speake vnto you I speake not of my selfe but the father that dwelleth in mee is he that doth the workes Beleue me that I am in the father and the father in me Or els beleue me for the workes sake Verely verely I say vnto you he that beleueth on me the works that I do the same shall he do also and greater workes then these shal he do because I go vnto my Father And whatsoeuer ye aske in my name that wyll I do that the Father may be glorified by the Sonne If ye shall aske any thing in my name I wyl do it ¶ Saynt Barnabes day the Apostle The Epistle Actes xi TIdinges of these things came vnto the eares of the congregation which was in Ierusalem And they sent foorth Barnabas that he should go vnto Antioch whych when he came and had seene the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all that with purpose of hart they would continually cleaue vnto the Lorde For he was a good man and full of the holy ghost and of fayth and much people was added vnto the lord Thē departed Barnabas to Tharsus to seke Saule And whē he had found him he brought him vnto Antioch And it chaunced that a whole yeare they had theyr conuersation with the congregation there and taught much people in so much that the disciples of Antioch were the first that were called Christians In those dayes came Prophets from the City of Ierusalem vnto Antioch And there stood vp one of them named Agabus and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world which came to pas in the Emperor Claudius dayes Then the disciples euery man according to theyr abilitye purposed to sende succour vnto the brethren which dwelt in Iewry whych thing they also dyd and sent it to the Elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saule ¶ The Gospell Iohn xv THis is my commaundement that ye loue together as I haue loued you Greater loue hath no man then thys that a man bestowe hys lyfe for hys friendes Ye are my friendes if ye do what soeuer I commaund you Hence forth cal I not you seruaunts for the seruaunt knoweth not what hys Lord doth But you haue I called friendes for all thinges that I haue heard of my Father haue I opened to you Ye haue not chosen me but I haue chosen you and ordayned you to go and bryng foorth fruite and that your fruite should remayne that what soeuer ye aske of the Father in my name he may geue it you ¶ Saynt Iohn Baptistes day The Epistle Esay xl BE of good chere my people O ye Prophetes comfort my people saith your God comfort Ierusalem at the hart tell her that her trauail is at an end that her offences is pardoned that she hath receiued of the Lords hand sufficient correction for al her syns A voice cried in wildernes prepare the way of the Lord in the wildernes make straight the path for our God in the desert Let all valeies be exalted euery mountaine and hyll be layde low What so is crooked let it bee made straight and let the rough bee made playne fieldes For the glory of the Lord shal appeare and al flesh shal at once see it for why the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it The same voyce spake Now cry And the Prohet answered what shal I cry That all flesh is grasse and that all the goodlynes thereof is as the floure of the field The grasse is wythered the floure falleth away Euen so is the people as grasse when the breath of the Lord bloweth vpon them Neuertheles whether the grasse wyther or that the floure vade away yet the woorde of our God endureth for euer Go vp vnto the hie hyll O Sion thou that bryngest good tidinges lyft vp thy voyce with power O thou Preacher Ierusalem Lyft it vp wythout feare