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
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
Peter stood at the doore without Then went out that other Disciple which was knowen to the hye priest and spake to the damosel that kept the doore brought in Peter Then said the damosel that kept the doore vnto Peter art not thou also one of this mans disciples He said I am not The seruants ministers stood ther which made a fire of coales for it was cold they warmed them selues Peter also stood among thē and warmed him self The hie priest then asked Iesus of his disciples of his doctrine Iesus answered him I spake openly in the world I euer taught in the Sinagoge in the temple whither al the Iewes haue resorted and in secret haue I sayd nothyng Why askest thou me Aske thē which heard me what I said vnto them Behold they can tell what I said When he had thus spoken one of the ministers which stood by smot Iesus on the face saying answerest thou the hie priest so Iesus answered him if I haue euil spoken beare wytnes of the euill but if I haue well spoken why smitest thou me And Annas sent him bound vnto Caiphas the hye Priest Simon Peter stood and warmed himselfe Then sayd they vnto hym art not thou also one of hys disciples He denyed it and sayd I am not One of the seruants of the hye priestes his cosyn whose eare Peter smote of sayd vnto him did not I see thee in the garden with him Peter therfore denied againe and immediatly the Cock crew Then led they Iesus from Caiphas into the hall of iudgement It was in the morning they them selues went not in to the iudgement hall least they shuld be defiled but that they might eate the Passeouer Pilat then went out to them said What accusation bring you agaynst thys man They answered said vnto him if he were not an euyll doer we would not haue deliuered hym vnto thee Then said Pilat vnto them take ye him iudge him after your own law The Iewes therfore said vnto him it is not lawful for vs to put any man to death that the wordes of Iesus might be fulfilled which he spake signifiyng what death he should dye Thē Pilat entred into the iudgement hall againe called Iesus said vnto him Art thou the king of the Iewes Iesus answered saiest thou that of thy selfe or did other tell it thee of me Pilat answered am I a Iew Thyne own nation hie priests haue deliuered thee vnto me what hast thou done Iesus answered my kingdome is not of this world If my kyngdome were of thys world then would my ministers surely fight that I should not be deliuered to the Iewes but now is my kingdome not from hence Pilate therefore sayd vnto him Art thou a kyng then Iesus aunswered thou sayest that I am a kyng For this cause was I borne for this cause came I into the world that I should beare witnes vnto the truth And al that are of the truth heare my voice Pilate sayd vnto him what thyng is truth And when he had said this he went out againe to the Iewes said vnto them I find in him no cause at all Ye haue a custome that I should deliuer you one loose at Easter wyl ye that I lose vnto you the king of the Iewes Then cried they all agayne saying Not hym but Barrabas the same Barrabas was a murtherer Then Pilate tooke Iesus therfore scourged him And the soldiours wound a crowne of thornes put it on his head And they dyd on him a purple garment came vnto him said Haile king of the Iewes they smote him on the face Pilat went forth agayne and said vnto them behold I bring him forth to you that ye may know that I finde no fault in him Then came Iesus forth wearing a crowne of thorne and a robe of purple And he said vnto them behold the man When the Priestes therfore the ministers saw hym they cryed Crucify him crucify him Pilate sayd vnto them take ye him crucify him for I finde no cause in him The Iewes answered him we haue a law by our law he ought to dye because he made him selfe the sonne of god When Pilat heard that saying he was the more afraid and went againe into the iudgement hall sayd vnto Iesus whence art thou But Iesus gaue him none answer Then sayd Pilate vnto hym Speakest thou not vnto me Knowest thou not that I haue power to crucify thee and haue power to loose thee Iesus answered thou couldest haue no power at all agaynst me except it were geuen thee from aboue Therfore he that deliuered me vnto thee hath the more synne And from thenceforth sought Pilate meanes to lose him but the Iewes cried saying if thou let him go thou art not Cesars friend for whosoeuer maketh him self a king is against Cesar Whē Pilat heard that saying he brought Iesus forth sat downe to geue sentence in a place that is called the Pauement but in the Hebrue toūg Gabbatha It was the preparyng day of Easter about the sixt hour And he said vnto the Iewes behold your king They cryed saying away with him away with him crucify hym Pilate sayd vnto them shal I crucify your king The hye priestes answered we haue no king but Cesar Then deliuered he him to them to be crucified And they tooke Iesus led him away and he bare his crosse went forth into a place which is called the place of dead mens sculs but in Hebrue Golgotha wher they crucified him and two other with him on either side one Iesus in the midst And Pilat wrote a title put it vpon the crosse The writing was Iesus of Nazareth king of the Iewes Thys title read many of the Iewes for the place wher Iesus was crucified was nere to the city And it was written in Hebrue Greeke Latin. Then said the hie priests of the Iewes to Pilate write not king of the Iewes but that he sayd I am king of the Iewes Pilate answered what I haue written that haue I wrytten Then the soldiours when they had crucified Iesus tooke his garments made foure parts to euery soldiour a part and also hys coate The coate was without seame wrought vpon throughout They said therfore among themselues let vs not deuide it but cast lottes for it who shall haue it that the scripture might be fulfilled saying They haue parted my rayment among them and for my coate did they cast lots And the soldiours did such things in deede There stood by the crosse of Iesus his mother his mothers sister Mary the wyfe of Cleophas and Mary Magdalen When Iesus therfore saw his mother and the disciple whom he loued standing he saith vnto his mother woman behold thy sonne Then said he to the disciple behold thy mother and from that houre the disciple tooke her for his owne After these things Iesus knowing that althings wer now perfourmed
is hee which was ordained of God to be the iudge of the quick and the deade To him geue all the prophetes witnes that through hys name whosoeuer beleueth in him shall receyue remission of syns ¶ The Gospell Luke xxiii BEhold two of the Disciples went that same day to a towne called Emaus which was from Ierusalem about .lx. furlongs and they talked together of all the thinges that had happened And it chaunced while they commoned together and reasoned Iesus hymselfe drew nere went with them But their eyes were holden that they should not know him And he sayd vnto them what maner of communications are these that ye haue one to another as ye walke and are sad And the one of them whose name was Cleophas aunswered and sayd vnto him art thou onely a straunger in Ierusalem and hast not knowen the things which haue chaunced ther in these daies He said vnto them what thinges And they sayd vnto hym of Iesus of Nazareth which was a Prophet mighty in deede and word before God and all the people and how the hie Priestes and our rulers deliuered him to be condemned to death haue crucified him But we trusted that it had bene he which should haue redemed Israel And as touching all these thinges to day is euen the third day that they were done Yea and certaine women of our company made vs astonied which came earely vnto the sepulchre found not his body and came saying that they had seene a vision of angels which said that he was aliue And certain of them which were with vs went to the sepulchre and found it euen so as the women had sayd but him they saw not And he sayd vnto them O fooles and flow of hart to beleue all that the Prophets haue spoken ought not Christ to haue suffered these things and to enter into his glory And he began at Moises and all the Prophets and interpreted vnto them in all scriptures which were written of hym And they drewe nye vnto the towne which they went vnto And he made as though he wold haue gon further And they constrained him saying abide with vs for it draweth towards night the day is far passed And he went in to tary with them And it came to passe as he sat at meat with them he tooke bread blessed it and brake gaue to them And their eies were opened they knew him he vanished out of their sight and they said betwene themselues did not our harts burne within vs while he talked with vs by the way and opened to vs the scriptures And they rose vp the same houre and returned to Ierusalem and found the eleuē gathered together them that were with them saying the Lord is risen in deede hath appeared vnto Simon And they told what things were done in the way and how they knew him in breaking of bread ¶ The Tuesday in Easter weeke The Epistle Actes xiii YE men and brethren children of the generation of Abraham and whosoeuer among you feareth God to you is this woord of saluation sent For the inhabiters of Ierusalem and their rulers because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the Prophets which are read euery Sabboth day they haue fulfilled them in condemning him And whē they found no cause of death in him yet desired they Pilate to kill him And when they had fulfilled all that was written of hym they tooke hym downe from the tree and put hym in a Sepulchre But God raysed him agayne from death the third day and he was sene many daies of them which went with him frō Galile to Ierusalem which ar witnesses vnto the people And we declare vnto you how that the promis which was made vnto the fathers god hath fulfilled vnto their children euen vnto vs in that he raised vp Iesus again Euen as it is written in the second Psalme thou art my sonne this day haue I begotten thee As concerning that he raised him vp from death now no more to returne to corruption he sayd on this wise The holy promises made to Dauid wyll I geue faithfully vnto you Wherefore he sayth also in an other place Thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to see corruptiō For Dauid after that he had in his time fulfylled the wyll of God fell on sleepe and was layd vnto his fathers and saw corruption But he whom God raised againe saw no corruption Be it knowen vnto you therfore ye men and brethren that through this man is preached vnto you forgeuenes of sinnes that by him all that beleue are iustified from al things from which ye could not be iustified by the law of Moises Beware therfore least that fall on you which is spoken of in the Prophets behold ye despisers wonder and perish ye for I do a worke in your daies which ye shal not beleue though a man declare it vnto you ¶ The Gospell Luke xxiiii IEsus stood in the middest of his Disciples and sayd vnto thē peace be vnto you It is I feare not But they were abashed and afraide and supposed that they had sene a spirit And he said vnto them why are ye troubled and why do thoughts arise in your harts Behold my handes and my feete that it is euen I my selfe Handle me and see for a spirit hath no flesh and bones as ye see me haue And when he had thus spokē he shewed them his hands his feete And while they yet beleued not for ioy and wondered he sayd vnto them Haue ye here any meate And they offered him a peece of broyled fysh and of a hoony combe And he tooke it and did eate before them And he said vnto thē these are the words which I spake vnto you whyle I was yet with you That all must needes be fulfylled which were wrytten of me in the law of Moyses and in the Prophets and in the Psalmes Then opened he their wits that they might vnderstand the scriptures said vnto them Thus it is wrytten thus it behoued Christ to suffer and to rise againe from death the third day and that repentaunce remission of syns should be preached in his name among all nacions and must begin at Ierusalem And ye ar witnes of these things ¶ The first Sunday after Easter The Epistle i. Iohn v. ALl that is born of God ouercōmeth the world And this is the victory that ouercōmmeth the world euen our fayth Who is he that ouercōmeth the world but he that beleueth that Iesus is the son of God This Iesus Christ is he that came by water and bloud not by water onely but by water and bloud And it is the spirit that beareth witnes because the spirit is truth For there are three which beare record in heauen the father the word and the holy Ghost these three are one And ther are three which beare record in earth the spirit water and bloud and these three are one
about the multitude came together were astonyed because that euery man heard them speake wyth hys own language They wondred all marueled saying among thēselues behold are not al these which speake of Galile And how heare we euery man his own toūg wherin we wer born Parthians Medes and Elamites and the inhahiters of Mesopotamia of Iewry and of Capadocia of Pontus Asia Phrigia and Pamphilia of Egipt of the parties of Libia which is beside Siren straungers of Rome Iewes Proselites Greekes and Arabians we haue heard them speake in our own toungs the great workes of God. ¶ The Gospell Iohn xiiii IEsus said vnto his disciples If ye loue me kepe my cōmaundements I wil pray the father he shall geue you another comforter that he may abide with you for euer euen the spirit of truth whō the world cannot receiue because the world seeth him not neither knoweth him But ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shal be in you I will not leaue you comfortles but wil come to you Yet a litle while and the worlde seeth me no more but ye see me For I liue and ye shall lyue At that day shall ye know that I am in my father and you in me I in you He that hath my commaundements and keepeth them the same is he that loueth me And he that loueth me shal be beloued of my father and I wil loue him and wil shew mine own selfe vnto him Iudas saith vnto him not Iudas Iscarioth Lord what is done that thou wilt shew thy selfe vnto vs and not vnto the world Iesus answered and said vnto them if a man loue me he will keepe my sayings and my Father wyll loue him and we wyll come vnto him and dwell with him He that loueth me not keepeth not my sayinges And the word which ye heare is not mine but the fathers which sent me These things haue I spoken vnto you being yet present with you But the comforter which is the holy ghost whom my Father wyll sende in my name he shall teach you althinges and bring althinges to your rememberaunce whatsoeuer I haue said vnto you Peace I leaue with you my peace I geue vnto you Not as the world geueth geue I vnto you Let not your harts be greued neither feare Ye haue heard how I said vnto you I go and come againe vnto you Yf ye loued me yee would verely reioyce because I sayd I go vnto the Father For the Father is greater then I. And now I haue shewed you before it came that when it is come to passe ye might beleue Hereafter wyll I not talke many wordes vnto you For the Prince of this world commeth and hath nought in me But that the world may know that I loue the Father And as the Father gaue me commaundement euen so do I. ¶ The Monday in whitson weeke The Epistle Actes x. THen Peter opened his mouth said of a truth I perceiue that there is no respect of persons wyth God but in all people he that feareth him worketh righteousnes is accepted with him Ye know the preaching that God sent vnto the chyldren of Israel preaching peace by Iesus Christ which is Lord ouer althinges which preaching was published throughout all Iewry and began in Galile after the baptisme which Iohn preached how God annointed Iesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost with power Which Iesus went about doyng good and healyng all that were oppressed of the deuyll For God was with him And we are witnesses of althings which he did in the land of the Iewes and at Ierusalem whom they slew and hanged on a tree Hym God raysed vp the third day and shewed him openly not to all the people but vnto vs witnesses chosen before of God for the same entent which dyd eate and drinke with him after hee rose from death And he commaunded vs to preache vnto the people and to testify that it is he which was ordayned of God to be the Iudge of the quick and the dead To hym geue all the Prophetes wytnes that through his name whosoeuer beleueth in hym shall receiue remission of syns While Peter yet spake these wordes the holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the preaching And they of the circumcision which beleued were astonied as many as came with Peter because that on the Gentiles also was shed out the gift of the holy ghost For they heard them speake with toūgs and magnify god Then answered Peter can any man forbid water that these should be baptised which haue receiued the holy Ghost as well as we And he commaunded them to be baptised in the name of the lord Then prayed they him to tary a few dayes ¶ The Gospell Iohn iii. SO God loued the world that he gaue hys onely begotten sonne that whosoeuer beleueth in him shuld not perish but haue euerlasting life For God sent not his sonne into the world to condemne the world but that the world through him might be saued But he that beleueth on him is not condemned But he that beleueth not is condempned all redy because he hath not beleued in the name of the onely begotten sonne of god And this is the condempnacion that light is come into the world and men loued darknes more thē light because their dedes were euil For euery one that doth euil hateth the light neither cōmeth to the light least his deedes should be reproued But he that doth the truth commeth to the lyght that his deedes may be knowen how that they are wrought in God. ¶ The Tuesday sn whitsun weeke The Epistle Actes viii WHen the Apostles which were at Ierusalem heard say that Samaria had receiued the woord of God they sent vnto them Peter and Iohn Which whē they were come down praied for them that they might receiue the holy Ghost For as yet he was come on none of them but they were baptised onely in the name of Christ Iesus Then they layd their handes on them and they receiued the holy Ghost ¶ The Gospell Iohn x. VErely verely I say vnto you he that entreth not in by the doore into the shepefold but climeth vp some other way the same is a theefe a murtherer But he that entreth in by the doore is the Shepheard of the sheepe To him the porter openeth the sheepe heare his voice he calleth his own shepe by name and leadeth them out And when he hath sent forth his owne shepe he goeth before them the shepe folow him for they know his voice A straunger wyl they not folow but wyll flee from hym for they know not the voyce of straungers This prouerbe spake Iesus vnto thē but they vnderstood not what things they were which he spake vnto them Then sayd Iesus vnto them againe Verely verely I say vnto you I am the doore of the shepe Al euen as many as came before me ar theues murtherers but the shepe
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
vnto Ceasar the things which are Cesars and vnto God those things which are Gods. When they heard these words they marueiled and left hym and went theyr way ¶ The .xxiiii. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Colos i. WE geue thankes to God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ alwaies for you in our prayers for we haue heard of your fayth in Christ Iesu and of the loue which ye beare to all Sayntes for the hopes sake which is layd vp in store for you in heauen Of which hope ye heard before by the true word of the Gospell which is come vnto you euen as it is fruitfull and groweth as it is also among you from the day in the which ye heard of it and had experience in the grace of God through the truth as ye learned of Epaphra our deare fellowe seruaunt whych is for you a faythfull Minister of Christ which also declared vnto vs your loue which ye haue in the spirit For this cause we also euer synce the day we heard of it haue not ceased to pray for you and to desire that ye might be fulfilled with the knowledge of hys wyl in all wysdome and spirituall vnderstandyng that ye myght walke woorthye of the Lorde that in all thynges ye may please beyng fruitfull in all good workes and increasing in the knowledge of God strengthened with all might through his gloryous power vnto all pacience long suffering with ioyfulnes geuing thankes vnto the Father which hath made vs meete to be partakers of the inheritance of Saintes in light ¶ The Gospell Math. ix WHen Iesus spake vnto the people behold ther came a certaine Ruler and worshipped hym saying My daughter is euen now deceased but come and lay thy hand vpon her and she shal lyue And Iesus arose and followed hym and so dyd hys Disciples And behold a woman which was diseased with an issue of blond twelue yeres came behind him and touched the hem of his vesture For she sayd within herselfe If I may touch but euen his vesture onely I shall be safe But Iesus turned him about and when he saw her he sayd daughter be of good comfort thy fayth hath made thee safe And the woman was made whole euen the same tyme And when Iesus came into the rulers house and saw the Minstrels and people making a noyse he sayd vnto them get you hence for the maid is not dead but sleepeth And they laughed him to scorne But when the people were put foorth he went in and tooke her by the hand and sayd damosell aryse And the damosell arose And this noyse went abrode into all that land ¶ The .xxv. sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Iere. xxiii BEhold the time commeth sayth the Lord that I wyll rayse vp the righteous braunch of Dauid which Kyng shall beare rule and he shall prosper with wisedome and shall set vp equity and righteousnes againe in earth In his time shall Iuda be saued and Israell shall dwell without feare And thys is the name that they shall call him euen the Lord our righteousnes and therefore behold the tyme commeth sayth the Lord that it shal be no more sayd the Lord lyueth which brought the children of Israell out of the land of Egypt But the Lord liueth which brought foorth and lead the seede of the house of Israell out of the North land and from all countries where I haue scattered them and they shall dwell in their own land agayne ¶ The Gospell Iohn vi WHen Iesus lyft vp his eyes and saw a great company come vnto him he sayd vnto Philip whēce shal we buy bread that these may eate This he said to proue him for he himselfe knew what he would do Philip aunswered hym two hundreth peniworth of bread are not sufficient for them that euery man may take a little One of his disciples Andrewe Simon Peters brother sayd vnto him There is a lad here which hath fiue barly loaues and two fishes but what are they among so many And Iesus sayd make the people sit down There was much gras in the place So the men sat downe in number about fyue thousand And Iesus tooke the breade and when he had geuen thankes he gaue to the disciples and the disciples to them that were set downe And likewise of the fishes as much as they would When they had eaten inough he sayd vnto his disciples Gather vp the broken meate which remayneth that nothing be lost And they gathered it together and fylled twelue baskets with the broken meate of the fyue barely loues which broken meate remained vnto them that had eaten Then those men when they had seene the miracle that Iesus did sayd thys is of a truth the same Prophet that should come into the world ¶ Saint Andrew the Apostles day The Epistle Roma x. IF thou knowledge with thy mouth that Iesus is the Lord ▪ beleue in thy hart that God raised him vp from death thou shalt be safe For to beleue with the hart iustifieth to knowledge with the mouth maketh a man safe For the scripture saith whosoeuer beleueth on him shal not be confounded There is no difference betwene the Iewe and the Gentile For one is Lord of al which is ritch vnto al that cal vpon him For whosoeuer doth cal on the name of the lord shal be safe How then shal they cal on him on whom they haue not beleued How shal thei beleue on him on whō thei haue not hearde How shall they heare without a Preacher And how shall they preache except they be sent As it is wrytten how beautifull are the feete of them which bring tydinges of peace and bring tidinges of good things But they haue not al obeyed to the gospell For Esay saith Lord who hath beleued our sayings So then fayth commeth by hearing and hearing cōmeth by the word of god But I aske haue they not heard No doubt their sound went out into al lands and their words into the ends of the world But I demaūd whether Israel did know or not First Moyses saith I wil prouoke you to enuy by thē that are no people by a foolish nation I wyll anger you Esay after that is bold faith I am foūd of them that sought me not I am manifest vnto them that asked not after me but against Israel he saith Al day long haue I stretched forth my hands to a people that beleueth not but speaketh against me ¶ The Gospell Math. iiii AS Iesus walked by the sea of Galile he saw two brethren Simon which was called Peter Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fisshers he saith vnto thē folow me I will make you to become fishers of men And they strait way left their nets and folowed him And when he was gone foorth from thence he saw other two brethren Iames the sonne of Zebede and Iohn hys brother in the ship with Zebede theyr father mending