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
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
shall take of mine and shew vnto you ¶ The fyft Sunday after Easter The Epistle Iames. i. SEe that ye be doers of the worde and not hearers onely deceiuing your own selues For if any man heare the word and declareth not the same by hys workes he is like vnto a man beholding his bodely face in a glas For assoone as he hath looked on himself he goeth his way and forgetteth immediatly what his fashion was But whoso looketh in the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein if he be not a forgetfull hearer but a doer of the worke the same shal be happy in his deede If any man among you seeme to be deuout and refrayneth not his tounge but deceyueth his owne hart this mans deuotion is in vayne Pure deuotion and vndefyled before God the father is this to visyt the fatherles widdowes in their aduersity and to keepe him selfe vnspotted of the world ¶ The Gospell Iohn xvi VErely verely I say vnto you whatsoeuer ye aske the father in my name he wil geue it you Hitherto haue ye asked nothing in my name Aske and ye shall receiue that your ioy may be ful These things haue I spokē vnto you by prouerbes The time wil come when I shall no more speake vnto you by prouerbes but I shall shew you plainly frō my father At that day shal ye aske in my name And I say vnto you that I will speake vnto my father for you For the father himselfe loueth you because ye haue loued me haue beleued that I cam out frō god I went out frō the father cam into the world Again I leaue the world go to the father His Disciples said vnto him Lo now thou talkest plainly and speakest no prouerbe Now are we sure that thou knowest althings and nedest not that any man should aske thee any question therfore beleue we that thou cammest from god Iesus answered thē now ye do beleue Behold the houre draweth nie and is already come that ye shal be scattered euery man to his owne and shall leaue me alone And yet I am not alone for the Father is with me These wordes haue I spoken vnto you that in me ye might haue peace for in the world shal ye haue tribulacion but be of good chere I haue ouercome the world ¶ Ascention day The Epistle Actes i. IN the former treatise deare Theophilus we haue spoken of al that Iesus began to do teach vntil the day in which he was takē vp after that he through the holy ghost had geuen commaundements vnto the Apostles whom he had chosen to whom also he shewed himselfe aliue after his passion and that by many tokens appearing vnto them forty daies speaking of the kingdom of God and gathered them together and commaunded them that they should not depart from Ierusalem but to waite for the promise of the father wherof saith he ye haue heard of me For Iohn truly baptised with water but ye shal be baptised with the holy ghost after these few daies When they therfore wer come together they asked of him saying Lord wilt thou at this time restore againe the kingdome of Israel And he said vnto them it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power But ye shall receaue power after the holy ghost is come vpō you And ye shall be witnes vnto me not onely in Ierusalem but also in all Iewry in all Samaria and euen vnto the worlds end And when he had spoken these thinges while they beheld he was taken vp on hye and a cloud receiued him vp out of theyr sighte And while they looked stedfastly vp toward heauen as he went behold two men stood by thē in white aparel which also said ye men of Galile why stand ye gasing vp into heauen This same Iesus which is takē vp from you into heauen shal come euē as ye haue sene him go into heauen ¶ The Gospell Mark. xv IEsus appeared vnto the eleuen as they sat at meate and cast in their teeth their vnbeliefe and hardnes of hart because they beleued not them which had seene that he was risen again from the dead and he said vnto them Go ye into al the world preach the Gospel to all creatures he that beleueth is baptised shal be saued but he that beleueth not shal be damned And these tokens shal folow them that beleue In my name they shal cast out deuils they shal speake with new tonges they shal driue away serpents if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt thē They shal lay theyr hand of the sick they shal recouer So then when the Lord had spoken vnto them he was receiued into heauen and is on the right hand of god And they went forth and preached euery where the Lord working with them and confirming the woord with miracles folowing ¶ The Sunday after the Ascencion day The Epistle i. Peter iiii THe end of all things is at hand be ye therfore sober and watch vnto praier But aboue all things haue feruent loue among your selues for loue shal couer the multitude of synnes Be ye herberous one to another without grudging As euery mā hath receued the gift euen so minister the same one to another as good ministers of the manifold graces of god If any man speake let him talke as the words of god If any mā minister let him do it as of the hability which god ministreth to him that God in al things may be glorified through Iesu Christ to whom be praise dominion for euer euer ¶ The Gospell Iohn xv WHen the Comforter is come whom I wil send vnto you from the father euen the spirit of truth which procedeth of the father he shal testify of me And ye shal beare witnes also because ye haue bene with me from the beginning These things haue I said vnto you because ye should not be offended They shal excommunicate you Yea the time shal come that whosoeuer killeth you wil thinke that he doth God seruice And such things wyl they do vnto you because they haue not knowen the father neither yet me But these thinges I haue told you that when the time is come ye may remember then that I told you ¶ VVhitsonday The Epistle Actes ii WHen the fifty dayes were at an ende they were all with one accord together in one place sodaynly ther came a sound frō heauen as it had bene the comming of a mighty winde it filled all the house where they sat And there appeared vnto them clouen toūgs like as they had bene of fire and it sat vpon ech one of them they were all filled with the holy Ghost began to speake with other tounges euen as the same spirit gaue them vtteraunce Then were dwelling at Ierusalem Iewes deuout men out of euery nation of them that are vnder heauen When this was noysed
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
is layd vp for me a crowne of righteousnes which the Lord that is a righteous iudge shal geue to me at that day not to mee onelye but to all them that loue hys comming Do thy diligence that thou mayest come shortly vnto me For Demas hath forsaken me and loueth this present world and is departed vnto Thessalonica Cresens is gone to Galacia Titus vnto Dalmacia onely Lucas is with me Take Marke and bring him with thee for he is profitable vnto me for the ministration and Tichicus haue I sent to Ephesus The cloke that I left at Troada with Carpus when thou commest bringe with thee and the bookes but specially the parchment Alexander the Coppersmith did me much euill the Lord reward hym according to hys deedes of whom be thou ware also For he hath greatly withstood our woords ¶ The Gospel Luke x. THe Lord appoynted other seuentye also and sent them two and two before him into euerye Citye and place whyther hee hym selfe woulde come Therefore he sayd vnto them the haruest is great but the labourers are few Pray ye therefore the Lord of the haruest to send foorth labourers into the haruest Go your waies behold I sende you foorth as Lambes among Wolues beare no wallet neither scrip nor shoes and salute no man by the way into whatsoeuer house you enter fyrst say peace be to this house And if the son of peace be there your peace shall rest vpon him if not it shal returne to you againe And in the same house tary styll eating and drinking such as they geue for the labourer his worthy of his reward ¶ Simon and Iudes day Apostles The Epistle Iude. i. IVdas the seruaunt of Iesu Christ the brother of Iames to them which are called and sanctifyed in God the Father and preserued in Iesu Christ Mercy vnto you and peace and loue be multiplied Beloued when I gaue al diligence to write vnto you of the common saluation it was needefull for me to wryte vnto you to exhort you that ye should continually labour in the fayth which was once geuen vnto the Sayntes For there are certayne vngodly men craftely crept in of which it was written afore tyme vnto such iudgement They turne the grace of our God vnto wantones and deny God which is the onely Lord and our Lord Iesu Christ My minde is therfore to put you in remēbraunce for asmuch as ye once know this how that the Lord after that he had deliuered the people out of Egipt destroied thē which after beleued not The Angels also which kept not their first state but left their own habitaciō he hath reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darknes vnto the iudgement of the great day euen as Sodom and Gomor the Cities about them which in lyke maner defiled themselues with fornication and followed straunge flesh are set foorth for an example suffer the payne of eternall fire lykewise these being deceiued by dreames defyle the flesh despyse rulers and speake euyll of them that are in aucthority ¶ The Gospell Iohn xv THis I commaund you that ye loue together If the world hate you ye know it hated me before it hated you If ye were of the world the world would loue his own how be it because ye are not of the world but I haue chosen you out of the world therfore the world hateth you Remember the word that I sayd vnto you the seruaunt is not greater then hys lord If they haue persecuted me they wyll persecute you if they haue kept my saying they wyl keepe yours also But all these things wyll they do vnto you for my names sake because they haue not knowen him that sent me If I had not come and spoken vnto them they should haue had no synne but now haue they nothing to cloke theyr synne withall He that hateth me hateth my Father also If I had not done among them the woorkes which none other man did they should haue had no synne But now haue they both seene and hated not onely me but also my Father But this happeneth that the saying might be fulfylled that is written in their law They hated me without a cause But when the comforter is come whom I wyll sende vnto you from the Father euen the spirit of truth which proceedeth of the Father hee shall testifie of me And ye shall beare witnes also because ye haue beene with me from the beginning ¶ All Saintes day The Epistle Apo. vii BEholde I Iohn saw another Angel ascend from the rising of the Sunne which had the seale of the lyuing God and hee cryed with a loud voyce to the foure Aungels to whom power was geuen to hurt the earth and the Sea saying hurt not the earth neither the Sea neither the trees tyll we haue sealed the Seruauntes of our God in their foreheades And I heard the number of them which were sealed and there were sealed an C. and .xliiij. thousande of all the Tribes of the children of Israel Of the tribe of Iuda were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Ruben were sealed xij M. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Asset were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Neptalim were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Leui were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Isachat were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Ioseph were sealed .xij. M. Of the tribe of Beniamin were sealed .xij. M. After this I behelde and lo a great multitude which no man can number of all nacions and people and tounges stoode before the seate and before the Lambe and clothed with long white garmentes and Palmes in their handes and cried with a loud voice saying saluacion be ascribed to him that sitteth vpon the seate of God and vnto the Lambe And all the Aungels stood in the compasse of the seate and of the elders and the foure beastes and fell before the seate on their faces and worshipped God saying Amen Blessing and glory and wisdome and thankes and honour and power and mighte be vnto our God for euermore Amen ¶ The Gospell Math. v. IEsus seing the people went vp into the mountaine and when hee was set hys Disciples came to hym and after that hee had opened his mouth he taught them saying Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen Blessed are they that mourne for they shall receiue comfort Blessed are the meeke for they shall receyue the inheritaunce of the earth Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after ryghteousnes for they shall bee satisfied Blessed are the mercyfull for they shall obtayne mercye Blessed are the pure in hart for they shall see god Blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called the chyldren of god Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen Blessed are ye when men reuyle you and persecute you and shall falsely say all maner of euyl sayinges agaynste you for my sake Reioyce and bee glad for great is your reward in heauen for so persecuted they the Prophetes which were before you FINIS ⧠Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely dwelling in little Britaine streete without Aldersgate
If we receiue the witnes of men the witnes of God is greater For this is the witnes of God that is greater which he testified of his sonne He that beleueth on the sonne of God hath the witnes in himselfe He that beleueth not God hath made him a lier because he beleueth not the record that God gaue his sonne And this is the record how that God hath geuen vnto vs eternal life this life is in his sonne He that hath the sonne hath life and he that hath not the sonne of God hath not life ¶ The Gospell Iohn xx THe same day at night which was the fyrst day of the Sabboths when the doers were shut where the Disciples were assembled together for feare of the Iewes came Iesus and stood in the middest sayd vnto them Peace be vnto you And when he had so sayd he shewed vnto them hys hands and hys side Then wer the disciples glad when they saw the Lord Then said Iesus vnto them againe Peace be vnto you As my Father sent me euen so send I you also And when he had sayd these wordes he breathed on them and sayd vnto them receiue ye the holy ghost Whosoeuers syns ye remit they are remitted vnto them And whosoeuers syns ye retaine they are retayned ¶ The second Sunday after Easter The Epistle i. Peter ii THis is thanke worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure griefe and suffer wrong vndeserued For what praise is it if whē ye be buffeted for your faultes ye take it paciently But if when ye do well ye suffer wronge and take it paciently then is there thanke with god For hereunto verely were ye called For Christ also suffered for vs leauing vs an ensample that we shuld folow his steps which did no sin neither was ther guile found in his mouth which whē he was reuiled reuiled not again when he suffred he threatned not but committed the vengeaunce to him that iudgeth righteously which his own selfe bare our sins in his body on the tree that we being deliuered from syn should liue vnto righteousnes By whose strips ye were healed For ye were as shepe going astray but are now turned vnto the shepehard and Bishop of your soules ¶ The Gospell Iohn x. CHrist sayd vnto his Disciples I am the good shephard a good shephard geueth hys lyfe for the sheepe An hyred seruaunt and hee which is not the shepheard neither the shepe are his own seeth the Woolfe comming and leaueth the shepe and fleeth and the Woolfe catcheth and scattereth the sheepe The hyred seruaunt fleeth because he is an hyred seruaunt and careth not for the sheepe I am the good shepheard and know my sheepe and am knowen of mine as my father knoweth me euen so know I also my father And I geue my life for the sheepe and other sheepe I haue which are not of this folde Them also must I bring and they shall heare my voyce and there shall be one folde and one shepheard ¶ The third Sunday after Easter The Epistle .i. Peter ii DErely beloued I besech you as straungers and pilgrimes abstaine from fleshly lusts which fight against the soule and see that ye haue honest conuersation among the Gentyls that wher as they backbite you as euil doers they may see your good workes and prayse God in the day of visitacion Submit your selues therfore to euery man for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the king as vnto the chiefe head either vnto rulers as vnto them that are sent of him for the punishment of euyl doers but for the laud of them that do wel for so is the wl of God that with wel doing ye may stop the mouthes of folish ignorant men as free not as hauing the liberty for a clock of maliciousnes but euen as the seruants of god Honour all men loue brotherly felowship feare God honour the king ¶ The Gospell Iohn xvi IEsus sayd to his disciples After a while ye shal not see me and again after a while ye shal see me for I go to the Father Then said some of his disciples betwene themselues what is this that he saith vnto vs after a while ye shall not see me againe after a while ye shal see me that I go to the father They said therfore what is this that he saith after a wyle We cannot tell what he saith Iesus perceyued that they would aske him and sayd vnto them ye enquire of this betwene your selues because I said after a while ye shal not see me and again after a while ye shall see me Verely verely I say vnto you ye shall weepe and lament but contrarywise the world shal reioyce Ye shal sorow but your sorow shal be turned into ioy A woman when she trauaileth hath sorow because her houre is come but assoone as she is delyuered of the Child shee remēbreth no more the anguish for ioy that a man is borne into the world And ye now therfore haue sorow but I will see you againe and your hearts shal reioyce and your ioy shall no man take from you ¶ The fourth Sunday after Easter The Epistle Iames. i. EVery good gift euery perfect gift is from aboue and commeth down from the father of lights with whō is no variablenes neither shadow of chaunge Of his own wil begat he vs with the word of truth that we should be the first fruites of his creatures Wherfore deare brethren let euery man be swift to heare slow to speeke slow to wrath For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before god Wherfore lay apart al filthines and superfluity of maliciousnes and receiue with mekenes the word that is graffed in you which is able to saue your soules ¶ The Gospell Iohn xvi IEsus said vnto his disciples now I go my way to him that sent me none of you asketh me whether I go But because I haue said such things vnto you your harts are ful of sorow Neuertheles I tel you the truth it is expedient for you that I go away For if I go not away the cōforter will not come vnto you But if I depart I wil send him vnto you And when he is come he will rebuke the world of synne and of righteousnes and of iudgement Of syn because they beleue not on me Of righteousnes because I go to my father and ye shal see me no more Of iudgement because the prince of this world is iudged already I haue yet many things to say vnto you but ye cannot beare them away now how be it when he is come which is the spirit of truth he wyll leade you into all truth He shall not speake of him selfe but whatsoeuer he shall heare that shall he speake and he wyll shew you things to come He shal glorify me for he shal receyue of mine and shal shew vnto you Althinges that the Father hath are mine therefore sayd I vnto you that he