The Epistle. Rom. vi. 19. I SPEAK after the manner them; and they did set them before the people. And they had a few small fishes; and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them. So of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity, they did eat, and were filled; unto iniquity; even and they took up of the broken that was left, seven yield your members servants meat to righteousness, unto holiness. baskets. And they that had For when ye were the servants eaten were about four thousand were free from And he sent them away. SO now of sin, ye The Gospel. St. Mark viii. 1. THE EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. The Collect. O GOD, whose never failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth; we humbly beseech thee to put away from us all hurtful things, and to give us those things which are profitable for us, CHRIST our through JESUS Lord. Amen. The Epistle. Rom. viii. 12. IN those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, JESUS called his BRETHREN, we are debtors disciples unto him, and saith not to the flesh, to live after unto them, I have compassion the flesh for if ye live after on the multitude, because they the flesh, ye shall die; but if have now been with me three ye through the SPIRIT do days, and have nothing to eat: mortify the deeds of the body, and if I send them away fasting ye shall live. to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven. And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before For as many as are led by the SPIRIT OF God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the spirit o adoption,whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The SPIRIT itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of GOD. And if children, then heirs; heirs of GOD, and joint heirs with CHRIST: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust The Gospel. St. Matt. vii. 15. | did all drink the same spiritual BEWARE of false prophets, drink; (for they drank of that which come to you in sheep's spiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall CHRIST.) But with many of know them by their fruits: do them GoD was not well pleased; men gather grapes of thorns, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A after evil things, as they also good tree cannot bring forth lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, evil fruit; neither can a corrupt as were some of them as it is tree bring forth good fruit. written, The people sat down Every tree that bringeth not to eat and drink, and rose up forth good fruit, is hewn down, to play. Neither let us commit and cast into the fire. Where- fornication, as some of them fore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father, who is in heaven. THE NINTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. The Collect. committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt CHRIST, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of GRANT to us, LORD, we the world are come. Wherebeseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as are right that we who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. 1 Cor. x. 1. BRETHREN, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud, and in the sea ; and did all eat the same spiritual meat, and fore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. The Gospel. St. Luke xvi. 1. JESUS said unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said The Epistle. 1 Cor. xii. 1. unto him, How is it that I hear through JESUS CHRIST our this of thee? Give an account Lord. Amen. of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. Then the steward said within CONCERNING spiritual himself, What shall I do? for gifts, brethren, I would not my lord taketh away from me have you ignorant. Ye know the stewardship: I cannot dig; that ye were Gentiles, carried. to beg I am ashamed. I am away unto these dumb idols resolved what to do, that when even as ye were led. Wherefore I am put out of the stewardship, I give you to understand, that they may receive me into their no man, speaking by the SPIRIT houses. So he called every oF GOD, calleth JESUS accursed; one of his lord's debtors unto and that no man can say that him, and said unto the first, JESUS is the LORD, but by the How much owest thou unto my HOLY GHOST. Now there are lord? And he said, An hundred diversities of gifts, but the same measures of oil. And he said SPIRIT. And there are differunto him, Take thy bill, and ences of administrations, but sit down quickly, and write the same LORD. And there fifty. Then said he to another, are diversities of operations, And how much owest thou? but it is the same God who And he said, An hundred worketh all in all. But the measures of wheat. And he manifestation of the SPIRIT is said unto him, Take thy bill, given to every man to profit and write fourscore. And the withal. For to one is given by lord commended the unjust the SPIRIT the word of wissteward, because he had done dom; to another, the word of wisely for the children of this knowledge by the same SPIRIT; world are in their generation to another, faith by the same wiser than the children of light. SPIRIT; to another, the gifts And I say unto you, make of healing by the same SPIRIT; to yourselves friends of the to another, the working of mammon of unrighteousness; miracles; to another, prophecy; that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. THE TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. The Collect. to another, discerning of spirits; to another, divers kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the self-same SPIRIT, dividing to every man severally as he will. LET thy merciful ears, 0 The Gospel. St. Luke xix. 41. LORD, be open to the prayers AND when he was come of thy humble servants; and near, he beheld the city, and that they may obtain their wept over it, saying, If thou petitions, make them to ask hadst known, even thou, at such things as shall please thee, least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! | of all, that which I also received, but now they are hid from how that CHRIST died for our thine eyes. For the days shall sins, according to the Scriptures; come upon thee, that thine and that he was buried; and enemies shall cast a trench that he rose again the third day, about thee, and compass thee according to the Scriptures; round, and keep thee in on and that he was seen of Cephas; every side, and shall lay thee then of the twelve: after that, even with the ground, and thy he was seen of above five children within thee: and they hundred brethren at once; of shall not leave in thee one stone whom the greater part remain upon another; because thou unto this present; but some are knewest not the time of thy fallen asleep. After that he visitation. And he went into was seen of James; then of all the temple, and began to cast the apostles: and last of all he out them that sold therein, and was seen of me also, as of one them that bought, saying unto born out of due time. For I am them, It is written, My house the least of the apostles, that is the house of prayer: but ye am not meet to be called an have made it a den of thieves. apostle, because I persecuted And he taught daily in the the Church of GOD. But, by temple. the grace of GoD, I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed upon me, was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of GOD O GOD, who declarest thy which was with me. Therefore, almighty power chiefly in show-whether it were I, or they, so ing mercy and pity; mercifully we preach, and so ye believed. grant unto us such a measure of thy grace, that we, running the way of thy commandments, may obtain thy gracious promises, and be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. The Epistle. 1 Cor. xv. 1. BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first The Gospel. St. Luke xviii. 9. JESUS spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: GoD, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican: I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the Publican standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto away; how shall not the heaven, but smote upon his ministration of the Spirit be breast, saying, GoD be merciful rather glorious? For if the to me a sinner. I tell you, this ministration of condemnation man went down to his house be glory, much more doth the justified rather than the other: ministration of righteousness for every one that exalteth exceed in glory. himself, shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted. THE TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. The Gospel. St. Mark vii. 31. JESUS, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis, and they bring unto The Collect. him one that was deaf, and hal ALMIGHTY and everlasting an impediment in his speech; GOD, who art always more and they beseech him to put his ready to hear than we to pray, hand upon him. And he took and art wont to give more than him aside from the multitude, either we desire or deserve; and put his fingers into his pour down upon us the abund- ears, and he spit, and touched ance of thy mercy, forgiving his tongue; and looking up to us those things whereof our heaven, he sighed, and saith conscience is afraid, and giving unto him, Ephphatha, that is, us those good things which we be opened. And straightway are not worthy to ask, but his ears were opened, and the through the merits and media-string of his tongue was loosed, tion of JESUS CHRIST thy Son our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. 2 Cor. iii. 4. SUCH trust have we through CHRIST to GOD-ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of GoD. Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done and he spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; and were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak. THE THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. ALMIGHTY and merciful GOD, of whose only gift it cometh that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable service; grant, we beseech thee, that we may so faithfully serve |