say vnto the cities of Iuda Behold your God behold the Lord God shall come with power and beare rule with his arme Behold he bringeth his treasure with him and his workes go before him He shal feede his flocke lyke an Heardman Hee shall gather the Lambes together with his arme and cary them in hys bosome and shall kindly intreate those that beare young ¶ The Gospel Luke i. ELizabethes time came that she shuld be deliuered she brought forth a sonne And her neyghbours and her Cosen 's heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy vpon and reioyced with her And it fortuned that in the eyght day they came to circumcise the childe and called his name Zachary after the name of his father And his mother answered and sayd not so but his name shall be called Iohn And they sayde vnto her There is none in thy kynred that is named with this name And they made sygnes to hys father how he would haue him called And he asked for writing tables and wrote saying his name is Iohn And they maruayled all And hys mouth was opened immediately and his toung also he spake and praysed god And feare came on all them that dwelt nye vnto him And al these sayings was noised abrod throughout all the hye country of Iewry and they that heard them layd them vp in their hartes saying what maner of child shal this be And the hand of the Lord was with him And his father Zacharias was fylled wyth the holy Ghost prophecied saying Praysed be the Lord God of Israell for he hath visited and redemed his people And raised vp an horne of saluation vnto vs in the house of his seruaunt Dauid Euen as he promised by the mouth of his holy Prophetes which were since the world began that we should be saued frō our enemies frō the hand of all that hate vs That he would deale mercifully with our fathers and remember his holy couenaunt he would performe the oth which he sware to our father Abraham for to geue vs That we being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies might serue hym wythout feare all the dayes of our lyfe in such holines and righteousnes as are acceptable for him And thou childe shalt be called the Prophet of the highest for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his waies To geue knowledge of saluacion vnto his people for the remission of syns Through the tender mercy of our God whereby the day spring from an hye hath visited vs To geue light to them that sat in darknes and in the shadow of death to guide our feete into the way of peace And the Childe grewe and waxed strong in spirit was in wildernes till the day came when he should shew himselfe vnto the Israelits ¶ Saynt Peters day the Apostle The Epistle Actes xii AT the same time Herod the king stretched foorth his handes to vexe certain of the congregation And he kylled Iames the Brother of Iohn with the sworde And because he saw it pleased the Iewes he proceded further and tooke Peter also Then were the dayes of swete bread And when hee had caught him he put hym in prison also and deliuered hym to four quarternions of souldiers to bee kept intending after Easter to bringe him foorth to the people And Peter was kepte in prison but prayer was made with out ceasing of the congregation vnto God for him And when Herod woulde haue brought him out vnto the people the same night slepte Peter betwene two soldiers bound with two chaines and the kepers before the doore kept the prison And behold the Aungell of the Lord was there present and a light shined in the habitation And he smot Peter on the side and stirred him vp saying arise vp quickly And his chaines fel from his hands And the Aungell sayd vnto him girde thy selfe and bind on thy sandales And he so did And he sayde vnto him cast thy garment about thee and folow me And he came out and folowed him and wist not that it was truth which was done by the Angell but thought hee had seene a vision When they were past the first and second watch they came vnto the yron gate that leadeth vnto the city which opened to them by the owne accord and they went out and passed thorow one streete foorthwith the Angel departed from him And when Peter was come to himselfe he sayd now I know of a suretye that the Lord hath sent his angel and hath deliuered me out of the hand of Herod and from all waiting of the people of the Iewes ¶ The Gospell Math. xv WHen Iesus came into the coastes of the City which is called Cesarea Philippy he asked his disciples saying whom do men say that I the son of man am They sayd Some say that thou art Iohn Baptist some Helias some Ieremias or one of the Prophets He said vnto them but whom say ye that I am Simon Peter aunswered and sayde Thou art Christ the son of the liuing god And Iesus aunswered and said vnto him Happy art thou Simon the sonne of Ionas for flesh and bloud hath not opened that vnto thee but my father which is in heauen And I say vnto thee that thou art Peter and vpon this rocke I will builde my congregacion And the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it And I wil geue vnto thee the keies of the kingdome of heauen And whatsoeuer thou bindest in earth shal be bound in heauen and whatsoeuer thou loosest in earth shal be loosed in heauen ¶ Saint Iames the Apostle The Epistle Actes xi IN those dayes came Prophetes from the City of Ierusalem vnto Antioch and there stood vp one of them named Agabus and signified by the spirite that there should be great dearth throughout all the world which came to passe in the Emperour Claudius dayes Then the disciples euery man according to hys abilitye purposed to send succour vnto the brethren which dwelt in Iewry which thing they also did and sent it to the elders by the handes of Barnabas and Saule At the same time Herod the kinge stretched foorth his handes to vexe ceriaine of the congregation And hee killed Iames the brother of Iohn with the sword And because he saw it pleased the Iewes he proceeded further and tooke Peter also ¶ The Gospell Math. xx THen came to him the mother of Zebedes children with her sonnes worshipping him and desiring a certain thing of him and he sayd vnto her what wilt thou Shee sayd vnto him Graunt that these my two Sonnes may syt the one on thy right hand and the other on thy lefte in thy kingdome But Iesus answered and sayd yee wote not what ye aske are ye able to drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of and to be baptised with the baptisme that I am baptised with They said vnto him we are He sayd vnto them ye shal drink in deede of my cup
⧠THE Epistels and Gospels for euery Sonday and Holy day throughout the whole yeare After the vse of the Church of England 1574 Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdeley dwellyng in little Brittain streete without Aldersgate ¶ Cum priuilegio ¶ The Epistles and Gospels for euery Sunday and Holy day throughout the whole yeare ¶ The first Sunday in Aduent The Epistle Roma iii. OWe nothing to any man but thys that ye loue one another For he that loueth another fulfilleth the law For these commaundements Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not kyl Thou shalt not steale Thou shalt not beare false witnes Thou shalt not lust and so foorth if there be any other commaundement it is all comprehended in this saying namely Loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Loue hurteth not hys neighbour therefore is loue the fulfilling of the lawe This also we know the season how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleepe for now is our saluation nerer then when we beleued The night is passed the day is come nye let vs therefore cast awaye the deedes of darknes and let vs put on the armour of light Let vs walke honestlye as it were in the day light not in eating and drinking neither in chambring nor wantonnes neither in strife and enuying but put ye on the Lord Iesus Christ and make no prouision for the flesh to fulfill the lustes of it ¶ The Gospell Math. xxi ANd when they drew nye to Ierusalem and were come to Bethphage vnto mount Oliuet then sent Iesus two of his Disciples saying vnto them Go into the towne that lieth ouer against you and anon you shall finde an Asse bound and her Colt with her loose them bring them vnto me And if any man say ought vnto you say ye the Lord hath nede of them straight way he wyl let them go Al this was done that it might be fulfylled which was spoken by the Prophet saying Tell ye the daughter of Sion behold thy king commeth vnto thee meeke sytting vpon an Asse a Colt the foale of the Asse vsed to the yoke The Disciples went and did as Iesus commaunded them and brought the Asse and the Colt and put on them their clothes and set hym thereon And many of the people spread their garments in the way Other cut downe braunches from the trees and strawed them in the way Moreouer the people that went before and they that came after cryed saying Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest And when he was come to Ierusalem all the City was moued saying Who is this And the people sayd this is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a city of Galile And Iesus went into the Temple of God cast out all them that sold and bought in the Temple and ouerthrew the tables of the money chaungers and the seates of them that sold Dooues and sayd vnto them It is written my house shall be called the house of prayer but ye haue made it a denne of theeues ¶ The second Sunday in Aduent The Epistle Roma xv WHat soeuer thinges are written aforetyme they are written for our learning that we through pacience and comfort of the scriptures myght haue hope The God of pacience and consolation graunt you to bee lyke mynded one towardes another after the ensample of Christ Iesu that ye all agreeing together may with one mouth praise God the Father of our Lord Iesu Christ Wherfore receyue ye one another as Christ receiued vs to the prayse of god And this I say that Iesu Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirme the promises made vnto the fathers and that the Gentiles might praise god for his mercy as it is writtē For this cause I wil praise thee among the Gentils and singe vnto thy name And againe he sayth Reioyce ye Gentils with his people And againe praise the Lord all ye Gentils and laude him all ye nations together And agayne Esay sayth There shall bee the roote of Iesse he that shal ryse to raigne ouer the Gentiles in him shal the Gentils trust The God of hope fill you with al ioy and peace in beleuing that ye may be rytch in hope through the power of the holy ghost ¶ The Gospell Luke xxi THer shal be signes in the sunne and in the moone and in the stars and in the earth the people shall be at their wittes ende thorow dispaire The sea and the water shal roare and mens harts shal faile thē for feare and for looking after those thinges which shal come on the earth For the powers of heauen shall moue And then shall they see the Sonne of man come in a cloude with power and great glorye When these thinges beginne to come to passe then looke vp and lift vp your heads for your redemption draweth nye And he shewed thē a similitude Behold the Figtree and al other trees whē they shoote foorth their buds ye see know of your own selues that summer is then nie at hād So likewise ye also whē ye see these things come to passe be sure that the kyngedome of God is nye Verely I say vnto you this generation shall not passe tyll all bee fulfyled Heauen and earth shall passe but my woordes shall not passe ¶ The third Sunday in Aduent The Epistle i. Cor. iiii LEt a man this wyse esteeme vs euen as the ministers of Christ and Stewardes of the secretes of god Furthermore it is required of the Stewarde that a man be founde faythfull with me it is but a very small thing that I should be iudged of you eyther of mans iudgement no I iudge not mine owne selfe for I knowe nought by my selfe yet am I not thereby iustified It is the Lord that iudgeth me Therefore iudge nothing before the time vntyll the Lord come which wyll lyghten thynges that are hyd in darknes and open the counsayles of the hartes and then shall euery man haue praise of God. ¶ The Gospell Math. xi WHen Iohn being in prison heard the works of Christ he sent two of his Disciples and sayd vnto him Art thou he that shal come or do we looke for another Iesus aunswered said vnto them Go and shew Iohn agayne what ye haue heard and seene The blinde receiue theyr sight the lame walke the leapers are clensed and the deafe heare the deade are raysed vp and the poore receiue the glad tidinges of the Gospell and happy is he that is not offended by me And as they departed Iesus began to say vnto the people concerning Iohn What went ye out into the wildernes to see A reede that is shaken with the wind Or what went you out to see A man clothed in soft raymēt Behold they that weare soft clothing are in kinges houses But what went you out for to see A Prophet Verely I say vnto you and more then a
that the scripture might be fulfilled he saith I thirst So there stood a vessell by ful of vineger therefore they filled a sponge with vineger and wound it about with isope and put it to his mouth Assoone as Iesus then receiued of the vineger he said it is finished and bowed his head and gaue vp the ghost The Iewes therfore because it was the preparing of the Sabboth that the bodies should not remaine vpon the cros on the Sabboth day for the Saboth day was an hie day besought Pilat that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken down Then came the soldiours and brake the legs of the first of the other which was crucified with him But when they came to Iesus and saw that he was dead already they brake not his legs but one of the soldiours with a spare thrust him into the syde forth with there came out bloud water And he that saw it bare record his record is true And he knoweth that he saith true that ye might beleue also For these things wer done that the scripture should be fulfilled ye shall not breake a bone of him And againe another scripture saith they shall looke vpon him whom they haue pearsed After thys Ioseph of Aramathia which was a disciple of Iesus but secretly for feare of the Iewes besought Pilat that he might take down the body of Iesus And Pilat gaue him licence He came therfore tooke that body of Iesus there came also Nicodemus which at the beginning came to Iesus by night brought of myr and aloes mingled together about an hundreth pounde weight Then tooke they the body of Iesus wound it in linnē clothes with the odours as the maner of the Iewes is to bury And in the place where he was crucified ther was a gardē in the garden a new Sepulchre wherin was neuer mā laid Ther laid they Iesus therfore because of the preparing of the Sabboth of the Iewes for the sepulchre was nie at hand ¶ Easter euen The Epistle i. Peter iii. IT is better if the wyl of God be so that ye suffer for wel doing thē for euil doing For as much as Christ hath once suffred for syns the iust for the vniust to bring vs to God and was killed as partayning to the flesh but was quickened in the spirit In which spirit he also went preached to the spirits that were in prison which somtime had bene disobedient whē the long suffering of God was once looked for in the daies of Noe while the Arke was a preparing wherin a few that is to say eight soules were saued by the water lyke as Baptisme also now saueth vs not the putting awaye of the fylth of the fleshe but in that a good conscience cōsenteth to God by the resurrectiō of Iesus Christ which is on the right hand of God is gone in to heauen angels powers might subdued vnto him ¶ The Gospell Math. xxvii WHen the euen was come there came a ritch man of Aramathia named Ioseph which also was Iesus Disciple He went vnto Pilate and begged the body of Iesus Then Pilat commaunded the body to be deliuered And when Ioseph had taken the body he wrapped it in a cleane linnē cloth laid it in his new toumbe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and roled a great stone to the doore of the Sepulchre departed And there was Mary Magdalen and the other Mary sitting ouer against the Sepulchre The next day that foloweth the day of preparing the hie Priestes and Phariseis came together vnto Pilat saying Syr we remember that this deceiuer said while he was yet aliue after three dayes I will rise againe Commaund therfore that the sepulchre be made sure vntill the third day least his disciples come and steale him away and the last errour shall be worse then the first Pilat sayd vnto them ye haue a watch go your way make it as sure as ye can So they went and made the Sepulchre sure with the watch men and sealed the stone ¶ Easter day The Epistle Colo. iiii IF ye be rysen againe with Christ seeke those things which are aboue where Chrlst sitteth on the right hand of god Set your affection on heauenly things not on earthly things For ye are dead your life is hid with Christ in God whensoeuer Christ which is our lyfe shal shew him selfe then shall ye also appeare with hym in glorye Mortifie therefore your earthly members fornication vnclennes vnnatural lust euil concupiscence and couetousnes which is woorshipping of idols for which thinges sake the wrath of God vseth to come on the children of vnbeleefe among whom ye walked sometime when ye lyued in them ¶ The Gospell Iohn xx THe first day of the sabbothes came Mary Magdalen earely when it was yet darke vnto the Sepulchre and saw the stone taken away from the graue Then shee ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Iesus loued and sayth vnto them they haue taken away the Lord out of the graue and we cannot tell where they haue layd hym Peter therfore went foorth and that other disciple and came vnto the Sepulchre They ran both together and that other disciple did out run Peter and came first to the Sepulchre And when he had stouped down he saw the linnen clothes lying yet went hee not in Then came Simon Peter folowing him and went into the Sepulchre and saw the linnen clothes lie and the napkin that was about hys heade not lying with the linnen clothes but wrapped together in a place by it selfe Then went in also that other Disciple which came first to the Sepulchre and he saw and beleued For as yet they knew not the scripture that he should rise againe from death Then the Dlsciples went away againe to their owne home ¶ The Monday in Easter weeke The Epistle Actes x. PEter opened his mouth and said of a truth I perceiue that there is no respect of persons with God but in al people he that feareth him and worketh righteousnes is accepted with him Ye know the preaching that God sent vnto the children of Israell preaching peace by Iesus Christ which is Lord ouer all things which preaching was published throughout al Iewry and began in Galile after the Baptisme which Iohn preached how God annoynted Iesus of Nazareth with the holy ghost with power Which Iesus went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the deuil for God was with him And we ar witnesses of all things which he did in the land of the Iewes and at Ierusalem whom they slew and hanged on tree Him God raised vp the third day and shewed him openly not to al the people but to vs witnesses chosen before of God for the same intent which did eate and drink with him after he arose from death And he commaunded vs to preach vnto the people and to testifye that it
their nettes and he called them And they immediatly left the ship and theyr father and folowed him ¶ Saint Thomas Apostles day The Epistle Ephe. ii NOw ye are not straungers nor foreners but citezens with the sayntes and of the housholde of God and are buylt vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the head corner stone in whom what bulding soeuer is coupeled together it groweth vnto an holy temple of the Lord in whom also ye are builte together to be an habitacion of God through the holy Ghost ¶ The Gospell Iohn xx THomas one of the twelue which is called Didimus was not with them when Iesus came The other disciples therefore said vnto him we haue seene the lord But he sayd vnto them except I see in his handes the print of the nailes and put my finger into the print of the nailes and thrust my hand into his syde I wyl not beleue And after eight dayes againe his Disciples were within and Thomas with them Then came Iesus when the doores were shut and stood in the middest and sayd peace be vnto you And after that he sayd to Thomas bring thy fynger hither and see my handes and reach thy hand and thrust it into my syde and be not faithles but beleuing Thomas aunswered and sayd vnto hym my Lord and my God Iesus sayd vnto hym Thomas because thou hast seene me thou hast beleued blessed are they that haue not seene and yet haue beleued And many other signes trulye did Iesus in the presence of his disiples which are not writtē in this booke These are written that ye might beleue that Iesus Christ is the sonne of God and that in beleuing ye might haue lyfe through his name ¶ The Conuertion of Saynt Paule The Epistle Actes ix ANd Saule yet breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord went vnto the high Priest and desired of him letters to cary to Damasco to the Sinagoges that if he found any of thys way were they men or women he might bring thē bound to Ierusalem And when he iournied it fortuned that as he was come nigh to Damasco sodenly there shined round about him a lyght from heauen he fell to the earth herd a voyce saying to him Saul Saul why persecutest thou me And he sayd what art thou Lorde And the Lord sayd I am Iesus whom thou persecutest It is hard for thee to kicke against the pricke And he both trembling and astonied said Lord what wylt thou haue me to do And the lord sayd vnto him aryse and go into the City and it shal be told thee what thou must do The men which iourneyed with hym stood amased hearing a voyce but seeing no man And Saule arose from the earth and when he opened his eyes he saw no man But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damasco And he was three dayes without sight and neither did eate nor drinke And there was a certaine disciple at Damasco named Ananias and to him sayd the Lord in a vision Ananias he sayd behold I am here lord And the Lord sayd vnto him arise go into the streete which is called streight seeke in the house of Iudas after one called Saul of Tharsus For behold he praieth hath sene in a vision a man named Ananias comming vnto him and putting his handes on him that he might receiue his syght Then Ananias aunswered Lord I haue heard by many of this man howe much euyll he hath done to thy Saints at Ierusalem here he hath authority of the hye Priests to binde all that cal on thy name The Lord said vnto him go thy way for he is a chosen vessell vnto me to beare my name before the Gentiles kings and the childrē of Israel For I wyl shew hym how great thynges hee must suffer for my names sake And Ananias went his way entred into the house and put his handes on him sayd Brother Saul the Lord that appeared vnto thee in the way as thou cāmest hath sent me that thou mightest receue thy sight be filled with the holy Ghost And immediatly ther fel from his eyes as it had bene scales and he receiued syght arose and was baptised receiued meate and was comforted Then was Saul a certain dayes wyth the Disciples whych were at Damasco And straightway he preached Christ in the Sinagogs how that he was the sonne of god But all that heard him wer amased and said Is not this he that spoyled them which called on this name in Ierusalem came hether for that intent that he might bring them bound vnto the hye Priestes But Saul encreased the more in strength and confounded the Iewes which dwelt at Damasco affirming that this was very Christ ¶ The Gospell Math. xix PEter answered and sayd vnto Iesus Behold we haue forsaken all and folowed thee what shall we haue therfore Iesus sayde vnto them Verely I say vnto you that when the sonne of man shal syt in the seate of his Maiestye ye that haue folowed me in the regeneration shal syt also vpon .xij. seates iudge the twelue tribes of Israel And euery one that forsaketh house or brethren or systers or Father or Mother or wife or children or landes for my names sake shall receiue an hundred fold shall inherite euerlasting lyfe But many that ar first shal be last the last shal be first ¶ The Purification of the virgin Mary The Epistle Mala. iii. BEhold I send my Messenger which shall prepare the way before me and sodaynlye shall the Lord whō ye seeke come vnto his temple the messenger of the couenant whom ye desire Behold he cōmeth saith the Lord of Saboth Who shall endure in the day of his cōming or who shal stand to behold him For he is as a trying fire as the herbe that Fullers scoure withal and he shal syt trying purging siluer and shal purify the sonnes of Leuy and shal fine them as gold syluer and they shal bring offerings vnto the Lord of ryghteousnes and the Sacrifice of Iuda and Ierusalem shall be delicious vnto the Lord as in the old time and in the yeares that were in the beginning ¶ The Gospell Luke ii WHen the time of their purification after the law of Moyses was come they brought him to Ierusalem to present him to the Lord as it is written in the law of the Lord Euery Manchilde that first openeth the Matrix shal be called holy to the Lord to offer as it is sayd in the law of the Lord a paire of Turtle doues or .ii. yong Pigeons And behold ther was a mā in Ierusalē whose name was Simeon And the same man was iust godly and looked for the consolation of Israel and the holy ghost was in him And an answer had he receiued of the holy Ghost that he should not see death except he fyrst saw the
be baptised with the baptisme that I am baptised with but to syt on my right hand and on my left is not mine to geue but it shall chaunce vnto them that it is prepared for of my Father And when the .x. heard this they disdayned at the two brethren But Iesus called them vnto hym and sayd ye know that the princes of the nacions haue dominion ouer them and they that are great men exercise aucthority vpon them It shall not be so among you But whosoeuer will be great among you let him bee your minister and whosoeuer wyll be chiefe among you let him be your seruaunt Euen as the sonne of man came not to be ministred vnto but to minister and to geue his life a redemption for many ¶ Saynt Bartholmewes day the Apostle The Epistle Actes v. BY the handes of the Apostels were many signes and wonders shewed among the people And they were all together with one accord in Salomons porch And of other durst no man ioyne hym selfe to them neuertheles the people magnified them The numbre of them that beleued in the Lord both of men and women grew more and more insomuch that they brought the sick into the streetes and layde them on beds and couches that at the least way the shadow of Peter when he came by might shadow some of them There came also a multitude out of the Cytyes round about vnto Ierusalem bringing sicke folkes and them which were vexed with vncleane spirites and they were healed euery one ¶ The Gospell Luke xxii ANd ther was a strife among them which of them should seeme to be the greatest And he sayd vnto them the kinges of nations raign ouer them and they that haue auctority vpon them are called gracious Lords But ye shall not so be But he that is greatest among you shal be as the yonger and he that is chiefe shal be as he that doth minister For whether is greater he that sitteth at meate or he that serueth Is not he that sitteth at meate But I am among you as he that ministreth Ye are they which haue bidden with me in my temptaciōs And I appoint vnto you a kingdome as my Father hath appointed vnto me that yee may eate and drinke at my table in my kingdome and syt on seates iudgeing the twelue Tribes of Israell ¶ Saynt Mathewes day The Epistle ii Cor. iiii SEing that we haue such an office euen as God hath had mercy on vs we go not out of kind but haue cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestye and walke not in craftines neyther handle we the woord of God deceitfully but open the truth and report our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of god If our Gospell be yet hyd it is hyd amonge them that are lost in whom the God of thys world hath blinded the minds of them which beleue not least the light of the Gospell of the glorye of Christ which is the image of God should shine vnto them For we preach not our selues but Christ Iesus to be the Lord and our selues your seruauntes for Iesus sake For it is God that commaūdeth the light to shine out of darknes which hath shined in our hartes for to geue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ ¶ The Gospell Math. ix ANd as Iesus passed foorth from thence he saw a man named Mathew sytting at the receipt of custome and he sayd vnto him folow me And he arose and folowed him And it came to pas as Iesus sat at meate in his house behold many Publicans also and synners that came sat down with Iesus and his Disciples And when the Phariseis saw it they sayd vnto his disciples why eateth your maister with Publicans and sinners But whē Iesus heard that he said vnto them They that be strong neede not the Phisition but they that are sicke Go ye rather and learne what that meaneth I wyll haue mercy and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but synners to repentaunce ¶ Saynt Michael and all Angels day The Epistle Apo. ii THere was a great battayle in heauen Michael his Aungels fought with the Dragon and the Dragon fought with his Aungels and preuailed not neither was their place found any more in heauen And the great dragon that old serpent called the Deuyll and Sathanas was cast out which deceiueth all the world And he was cast into the earth and his angels were cast out also with him And I heard a loud voyce saying in heauen is now made saluation and strength and the kingdome of one God and the power of hys Christ For the accuser of our brethren is cast downe which accused them before God day and night And they ouercame him by the bloud of the Lambe by the woorde of their testimonye and they loued not their lyues vnto the death Therfore reioyce heauens and ye that dwell in them Wo vnto the inhabitours of the earth and of the sea for the Deuyll is come downe vnto you which hath great wrath because hee knoweth that he hath but a short tyme. ¶ The Gospell Math. xviii AT the same time came the Disciples vnto Iesus saying Who is the greatest in the kyngdome of heauē Iesus called a child vnto him and set him in the mydst of them sayd verely I say vnto you except ye turne and become as children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heauen Whosoeuer therfore humbleth himselfe as this child that same is the greatest in the kyngdome of heauen And who so euer receyueth such a childe in my name receueth me but who so doth offend one of these litle ones which beleue in me it wer better for him that a mylstone were hanged about his necke that he were drowned in the depth of the sea Wo vnto the world because of offences necessary it is that offences come But wo vnto the man by whō the offences cōmeth Wherfore if thy hand or thy foote hinder thee cut him of cast it from thee It is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed rather then thou shouldest hauing two hands or two feete be cast into euerlasting fire And if thine eye offēd thee pluck it out cast it from thee it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye rather then hauing two eyes to be cast into hel fire Take hede that ye despise not one of these litle ones for I say vnto you that in heauē their angels do alwaies behold the face of my father which is in heauen ¶ Saint Luke the Euangelist The Epistle ii Timo. iiii WAtch thou in althinges suffer afflictions do the woorke throughly of an Euangelist fulfyll thine office vnto the vttermost be sober For I am now ready to be offered and the tyme of my departing is at hand I haue fought a good fight I haue fulfilled my course I haue kept the fayth From henceforth their