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
he said I pray thee therefore father send him to my Fathers house for I haue fiue brethren for to warne them least they come also into this place of torment Abraham said vnto him they haue Moises and the Prophets let them heare them And he said nay father Abraham but if one come vnto them from the dead they wyll repent He sayd vnto him if they heare not Moyses the Prophets neither wil they beleue though one rose frō death againe ¶ The second sunday after Trinitie Sunday The Epistle i. Iohn iii. MEruaile not my brethren though the world hate you We know that we are translated frō death vnto life because we loue the brethren He that loueth not his brother abideth in death Whosoeuer hateth hys brother is a manslear And ye know that no manslear hath eternall lyfe abiding in him Hereby perceiue we loue because he gaue his lyfe for vs and we ought to geue our liues for the brethren But who so hath this worldes good and seeth his brother haue neede and shutteth vp hys compassion from him how dwelleth the loue of God in him My babes let vs not loue in worde neyther in toung but in deede and verity Hereby we know that we are of the verity and can quiet our harts before him For if our hart condempne vs God is greater then our hart and knoweth althings Dearly beloued if our hart condempne vs not then haue we trust to God ward and whatsoeuer we aske we receiue of him because we keepe his commaundements and do those things which are pleasaunt in his sight And this is his commaundement that we beleue on the name of his Sonne Iesus Christ and loue one another as he gaue commaundemēt And he that kepeth hys commaundementes dwelleth in hym and he in him and hereby we know that he abideth in vs euen by the spirit which he hath geuen vs. ¶ The Gospel Luke xiiii A Certayne man ordeined a great supper and bad many sent his seruaunt at supper time to say to them that were bidden come for althings are now redy And they all at once began to make excuse The fyrst sayd vnto him I haue bought a farme I must needes go and see it I pray thee haue me excused And another said I haue bought fyne yoke of Oxen and I go to proue them I pray thee haue mee excused And an other sayd I haue maryed a wyfe and therefore I cannot come And the Seruaunt returned and brought his Maister woorde agayne therof Then was the good man of the house displeased and said vnto his seruant go out quickly into the streetes and quarters of the city bring in hither the poore and feble the halt blind And the seruant said Lord it is done as thou hast cōmaunded yet there is roume And the Lord sayd vnto the seruant go out into the hye waies and hedges compell them to come in that my house may be fylled For I say vnto you that none of these men which were bidden shall taste of my supper ¶ The third Sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle i. Peter v. SVbmit your selues euery man one to another knyt your selues together in lowlines of minde For God resisteth the proude and geueth grace to the humble Submit your selues therfore vnder the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you when the tyme is come Cast all your care vpon hym for he careth for you Be sober watch for your aduersary the deuil as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may deuour whom resist stedfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are appoynted vnto your brethren that are in the world But the God of all grace which hath called vs vnto his eternal glory by Christ Iesu shall hys own selfe after that ye haue suffered a little affliction make you perfect settle strength and stablish you To him be glory and dominion for euer and euer Amen ¶ The Gospell Luke xv THen resorted vnto him al the Publicans and synners for to heare hym And the Phariseys and Scribes murmured saying He receiueth sinners and eateth with them But he put foorth this parable vnto thē saying What man among you hauing an hūdred sheepe if he lose one of thē doth not leaue ninety and nine in the wildernes goeth after that which is lost vntill he finde it And when he hath founde it he layeth it on his shoulders with ioy And assoone as he commeth home he calleth together his louers and neighbours saying vnto them Reioyce with me for I haue found my shepe which was lost I say vnto you that likewise ioy shal be in heauen ouer one synner that repenteth more then ouer ninety and nine iust persons which nede no repentaunce Either what woman hauing ten groates if she loose one doth not light a candle swepe the house seke dilygently til she finde it and when she hath found it she calleth her louers and her neighbours together saying Reioyce with me for I haue found the groat which I lost Lykewise I say vnto you shall there be ioy in the presence of the Aungels of God ouer one synner that repenteth ¶ The fourth sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Roma viii I Suppose that the afflictions of this life are not worthy of the glory which shal be shewed vpon vs For the feruent desyre of the creature abydeth looking when the sonnes of God shall appeare because the creature is subdued to vanity against the wyll therof but for his wyll which hath subdued the same in hope For the same creature shall be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the gloryous liberty of the sonnes of god For we know that euery creature groneth with vs also and trauaileth in payne euen vnto this tyme not onely it but we also which haue the fyrst fruites of the spirit mourne in our selues also and wayte for the adopcion of the children of God euen the deliueraunce of our bodies ¶ The Gospell Luke vi BE ye mercyfull as your Father also is mercyfull Iudge not ye shal not be iudged condemn not and ye shal not be condemned Forgeue ye shal be forgeuen Geue and it shal be geuen vnto you good measure and pressed downe and shaken together and running ouer shall men geue into your bosomes For with the same measure that ye mete withal shal other men mete to you againe And he put forth a similitude vnto them Can the blind leade the blind do they not both fal into the ditche The disciple is not aboue hys maister Euery man shal be perfect euen as his maister is Why seest thou a mote in thy brothers eye but considerest not the beame that is in thine own eye Either how canst thou say to thy brother Brother let me pul out the mote that is in thine eye when thou seest not the beame that is in thine own eye First thou hipocrite cast out the beame out of thine own
prophet For this is hee of whom it is written Behold I sende my Messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee ¶ The fourth Sunday in Aduent The Epistle Phillip iiii REioyce in the Lord alway and againe I say reioyce Let your softnes be knowen to all men the Lord is euen at hand Be careful for nothing but in all prayer and supplication let your peticions be manyfest vnto God wyth geuing of thankes And the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding keepe your harts and mynds through Christ Iesu ¶ The Gospell Iohn i. THis is the recorde of Iohn when the Iewes sent Priestes and Leuites from Ierusalem to aske him what art thou And he confessed and denyed not and said plainely I am not Christ And they asked him what then art thou Helias And he sayd I am not Art thou that Prophet And he answered no. Then said they vnto him what art thou that we may geue an answer bnto thē that sent vs What saiest thou of thy selfe He said I am the voice of a Cryar in the wildernes make straight the way of the Lord as said the Prophet Esay And they which were sent were of the Phariseis and they asked him and sayde vnto him Why baptisest thou then if thou be not Christ nor Helias neither that Prophet Iohn answered thē saying I baptise with water but ther standeth one among you whom ye know not he it is which though he came after me was before me whose shooe latchet I am not worthye to vnloose These thinges were done in Bethabara beyond Iordan wher Iohn did baptise ¶ Christmas day The Epistle Hebrues i. GOd in times past diuersly many waies spake vnto the Fathers by Prophetes but in these last daies he hath spoken vnto vs by his own sonne whom he hath made Heire of al things by whom also he made the worlde Which Sonne being the bryghtnes of his glory and the very image of his substaunce ruling al things with the word of his power hath by his own person purged our sins sitteth on the right hand of the maiestie on hie being so much more excellent then the Angels as he hath by inheritaunce obteined a more excellent name thē they For vnto which of the Angels sayd he at any time Thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee And againe I wyl be his Father and hee shall be my Sonne And agayne when hee bryngeth in the first begotten Sonne into the worlde he sayth and let all the Angels of God woorship hym And vnto the Angels hee sayth hee maketh hys Angels spirites and hys Ministers a flame of fire But vnto the Sonne he sayth thy seate O God shall be for euer and euer The scepter of thy kingdome is a right scepter Thou hast loued righteousnes and hated iniquitie wherfore God euen thy God hath annoynted thee with oyle of gladnesse aboue thy felowes And thou Lord in the beginning hast layde the foundation of the earth and the heauens are the workes of thy handes They shall perish but thou endurest but they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment and as a vesture shalt thou chaunge them and they shall bee chaunged But thou art euen the same and thy yeares shall not fayle ¶ The Gospell Iohn i. IN the beginning was the word and the word was with God God was the word The same was in the beginning with god Althings were made by it without it was made nothing that was made In it was life the life was the light of men and the light shineth in the darknes the darknes comprehended it not There was sent from God a man whose name was Iohn The same came as a witnes to beare wytnes of the lyght that all men through him might beleue He was not that light but was sent to beare witnes of the light That lyght was the true light which lyghtneth euery man that commeth into the world He was in the worlde and the world was made by hym and the worlde knewe hym not He came amonge hys owne and his own receiued him not But as many as receiued him to them gaue he power to bee made the sonnes of God euen them that beleued on hys name whych were borne not of bloude nor of the wyll of the flesh nor yet of the wyll of man but of god And the same word became flesh and dwelt among vs we saw the glory of it as the glory of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father ful of grace and truth ¶ Saint Stephens day The Epistle Actes vii ANd Steuen being full of the holy Ghost looked vp stedfastelye with his eyes into heauen and sawe the glorye of God Iesus standing on the right hande of God and sayde beholde I see the heauens open and the sonne of man standing on the right hande of god Then they gaue a shoute with a loude voice and stopped theyr eares and ran vpon him al at once and cast him out of the City and stoned him And the wytnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans frete whose name was Saule And they stoned Steuen callyng on and saying Lord Iesu receyue my spirite And he kneeled down cryed with a loude voyce Lord laye not this synne to their charge And when he had thus spoken he fell a sleepe ¶ The Gospell Math. xxiii BEholde I send vnto you Prophets and wise men and Scribes and some of them ye shal kil and crucify and some of them shall ye scourge in your Sinagogs and persecute them from city to city that vpon you may come all the righteous bloude which hath bene shed vpon the earth from the bloude of righteous Abell vnto the bloud of Zacharias the Sonne of Barachias whom ye slew betwene the temple and the aulter Verelye I saye vnto you all these things shall come vpon this generation O Ierusalem Ierusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them which are sent vnto thee how often would I haue gathered thy children together euen as the Hen gathereth her Chicknes vnder her wings and ye would not Behold your house is left vnto you desolate For I saye vnto you ye shall not see me hence forth tyll ye say blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord. ¶ Saint Iohn Euangelistes day The Epistle i. Iohn i. THat whych was from the beginning whych we haue hearde which we haue seene with our eyes which wee haue looked vpon and our hands haue handeled of the worde of lyfe And the life appeared and we haue sene and beare wytnes and shewe vnto you that eternall life which was with the Father and appeared vnto vs That which wee haue seene and heard declare we vnto you that ye also may haue felowshyp with vs and that our felowship may be with the Father and hys Sonne Iesus Christ And this we write vnto you that ye may reioyce and that your ioye may be full And this is the tidinges
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
did not heare them I am the doore by me if any enter in he shal be safe shal go in out and finde pasture A theefe cōmeth not but for to steale kyll and destroy I am come that they might haue life that they might haue it more aboūdantly ¶ Trinitie Sunday The Epistle Apoca. iiii AFter this I looked behold a doore was open in heauen and the first voyce which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talkyng wyth me which sayde Come vp hither I wil shew thee things which must be fulfilled hereafter And immediately I was in the spirit And behold a seat was set in heauen one sat on the seat And he that sat was to looke vpon like vnto a Iaspar stone and a Sardine stone And there was a raine bow about the seat in sight lyke vnto an Emerauld And about the seate were .xxiiii. seates And vpon the seates .xiiij. elders sitting clothed in whyte rayment and had on their heades crownes of gold And out of the seate proceeded lightnings and thundrings and voyces and there were seuen lampes of fyre burning before the seate which are the seuen spirites of god And before the seate there was a sea of glas lyke vnto Christal and in the middest of the seate and round about the seate were foure beastes full of eyes before and behinde And the fyrst beast was lyke a Lion and the second beast was lyke a Calfe and the third beast had a face as a man and the fourth Beast was like a slying Eagle And the foure beastes had ech of thē sixe winges about him and they were ful of eyes with in And they did not rest day nor night saying Holy holy holy Lord god almighty which was and is is to come And when those beastes gaue glory honour and thankes to him that sat on the seate which liueth for euer euer the .xxiiij. Elders fel down before him that sat on the throne worshipped him that liueth for euer and cast their crownes before the throne saying thou art worthy O Lord our God to receiue glory and honour and power for thou hast created althings and for thy wyls sake they are and were created ¶ The Gospell Iohn iii. THere was a man of the Phariseis named Nicodemus a Ruler of the Iewes the same came to Iesus by night and said vnto him Rabbi we know that thou art a Teacher come from God for no man could do such myracles as thou doest except God were wyth hym Iesus aunswered and sayd vnto hym Verely verely I say vnto thee except a man be borne from aboue he cannot see the kingdome of god Nicodemus sayd vnto him how can a man be borne when hee is olde Can hee enter into hys mothers wombe and be born again Iesus answered verely verely I say vnto thee except a man be borne of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdome of god That which is borne of the flesh is flesh and that which is borne of the spirit is spirit Maruaile not thou that I sayd to thee ye must be borne from aboue The wynde bloweth where it lusteth and thou hearest the sound therof but thou canst not tell whence it commeth or whether it goeth So is euerye one that is borne of the spirit Nicodemus answered and sayd vnto him how can these things be Iesus answered and sayd vnto him Art thou a Maister in Israel and knowest not these thinges Verelye verelye I say vnto thee we speake that we know and testifye that we haue seene and ye receiue not our wytnes If I haue tolde you earthly thinges and ye beleue not how shal ye beleue if I tell you of heauenly thinges And no man ascendeth vp to heauen but he that came downe from heauen euen the sonne of man which is in heauen And as Moises lyft vp the Serpent in the wildernes euen so must the sonne of man be lift vp that whosoeuer beleueth on him perish not but haue euerlasting lyfe ¶ The first Sunday after Trinity Sunday The Epistle i. Iohn iiii DEarly beloued let vs loue one another for loue cōmeth of god And euery one that loueth is borne of God and knoweth god He that loueth not knoweth not God for God is loue In this appeareth the the loue of God to vs warde because that God sent his onely begotten son into the world that we might liue through him Herein is loue not that we loued God but that he loued vs and sent his sonne to be the agrement for our syns Dearly beloued if God so loued vs we ought also one to loue another No man hath seene God at any time If we loue one another god dwelleth in vs his loue is perfect in vs Hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in vs because he hath geuen vs of his Spirit And we haue seene and do testyfy that the father sent the son to be the sauior of the world Whosoeuer confesseth that Iesus is the sonne of God in him dwelleth God he in god And we haue knowē and beleued the loue that God hath to vs God is loue he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in god and God in him Herein is the loue perfect in vs that we should trust in the day of iudgemēt For as he is euen so are we in this world There is no feare in loue but perfect loue casteth out feare for feare hath painfulnes He that feareth is not perfect in loue We loue him for he loued vs fyrst If a man say I loue god and yet hate his brother he is a lyer for how can hee that loueth not his brother whom he hath seene loue God whom he hath not sene And this cōmaūdement haue we of him that he which loueth God should loue his brother also ¶ The Gospell Luke xvi THere was a certain ritch man which was clothed in purple and fyne white and fared deliciously euery day And ther was a certaine begger named Lazarus which lay at his gate full of sores desyring to be refreshed wyth the crummes which fell from the ritch mans boord no man gaue vnto him The dogs came also and lyked his sores And it fortuned that the begger dyed was caryed by the aungels into Abrahams bosome The ritch man also died was buried and being in hell in tormentes he lyft vp his eyes and saw Abraham a farre of and Lazarus in his bosome and he cryed and sayd father Abraham haue mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the typ of his finger in water and coole my toung for I am tormented in this flame But Abraham said Sonne remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasure contrary wise Lazarus receued paine But now he is comforted and thou art punished Beyonde all this betwene vs and you there is a great space set so that they which would go from hence to you cannot neither may come from thence to vs Then
eye thē shalt thou see perfectly to put out the mote that is in thy brothers eye ¶ The .v. Sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle i. Peter iii. BE ye all of one mynde of one hart Loue as brethren Be pityful be curteous meeke not rendryng euil for euil rebuke for rebuke but cōtrariwise blesse knowing that ye are therunto called euen that ye should be heires of the blessing For he that doth long after lyfe loueth to see good daies let him refrain his toung frō euyl and his lyps that they speake no guile Let hym eschew euil do good let him seeke peace and ensue it For the eyes of the Lord are ouer the righteous hys eares are open vnto their praiers Againe the face of the Lord is ouer them that do euil Moreouer who is he that wyl harme you if ye folow that which is good Yea happy are ye if any trouble happen vnto you for righteousnes sake Be not ye afrayd for any terrour of them neyther be ye troubled but sanctifie the Lorde God in your hartes ¶ The Gospel Luke v. IT came to passe that when the people preased vpon him to heare the woord of God he stood by the lake of Genazareth saw two shyps stand by the lakes side but the fisher men were gone out of them were washing their nets And he entred into one of the ships which pertained to Simon and prayed him that he would thrust out a litle frō the land And he sat down and taught the people out of the shyp When he had left speaking he sayd vnto Simō Launch out into the deepe and let slyp your nets to make a draught And Simon aunswered and sayd vnto him Mayster we haue laboured all night and haue taken nothing Neuertheles at thy commaundement I wyll loose foorth the net And when they had so done they inclosed a great multitude of fyshes But their net brake and they beckened to their felowes which wer in the other ship that they should come and helpe them And they came and fylled both the shyppes that they soonke agayne When Simon Peter saw this he fel downe at Iesus knees saying Lord go from me for I am a synfull man For he was astonyed and all that were with hym at the draught of Fishes which they had taken and so was also Iames and Iohn the sonnes of Zebede which were partners with Simon And Iesus sayd vnto Simon feare not from hence forth thou shalt catch men And they brought the ships to land and forsooke all and followed hym ¶ The sixt Sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Roma vi KNow ye not that al we which are baptised in Iesus Christ are baptised to die with him We are buried thē with him by baptisme for to dye That likewise as Christ was raysed from death by the glory of the Father euen so we also should walke in a newe life For if we be graft in death lyke vnto him euen so shall we be partakers of the holy resurrection Knowing this that your old man is crucified wyth him also that the body of synne might vtterly be destroyed that henceforth we should not be seruaunts vnto synne For he that is dead is iustified from syn Wherefore if we be dead with Christ we beleue that we shall also lyue with him knowing that Christ being raised frō death dieth no more Death hath no more power ouer hym For as touching that he dyed he dyed concerning syn once as touching that he liueth he liueth vnto god Likewise cōsider ye also that ye ar dead as touching syn but are aliue vnto God thorow Iesus Christ our lord ¶ The Gospell Math. v. IEsus said vnto his disciples except your righteousnes excede the righteousnes of the Scribes Phariseis ye cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen Ye haue heard that it was said vnto them of old tyme Thou shalt not kill whosoeuer killeth shal be in daunger of iudgement But I say vnto you that whosoeuer is angry with his brother vnaduisedly shal be in daunger of iudgement And whosoeuer sayth vnto his brother Racha shal be in daunger of a counsell But whosoeuer saith thou foole shall be in daunger of Hell fyre Therfore if thou offerest thy gift at the altar and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee leaue there thine offering before the altar and go thy way first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift Agree with thine aduersary quickely whiles thou art in the way with him least at any time the aduersary deliuer thee to the iudge and the iudge deliuer thee to the minister and then thou be cast into prison Verely I say vnto thee thou shalt not come out thence tyl thou haue payed the vttermost farthing ¶ The .vii. Sunday after Trinity Sunday The Epistle Roma vi I Speake grosly because of the infirmity of your flesh As ye haue geuen your members seruaunts to vnclennes and to iniquity from one iniquity to another euen so now geue ouer your members seruaunts vnto righteousnes that ye may be sanctified For when ye were seruaunts of syn ye were voide of righteousnes What frut had you then in those things wherof ye ar now ashamed for the end of those things are death But now are ye deliuered from syn and made the seruants of God and haue your fruite to be sanctified and the end euerlasting life For the reward of syn is death but eternall lyfe is the gyft of God through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Gospell Mark. viii IN those daies when ther was a very great company and had nothing to eate Iesus called his disciples vnto him and said vnto them I haue compassion on the people because they haue bene now with me three daies and haue nothing to eate and if I send them away fasting to theyr owne houses they shall faynt by the way for diuers of them came from far And his disciples answered him where should a man haue bread here in the wildernes to satisfy these And he asked thē how many loues haue ye They said seuen And he commaunded the people to syt down on the ground And he tooke the seuen loaues and whē he had geuen thanks he brake and gaue to his disciples to set before them And they did set them before the people And they had a few smal fishes And when he had blessed he cōmaunded them also to be set before them And they did eate and were suffised And they tooke vp of the brokē meate that was left seuen baskets full And they that dyd eate were about foure thousand And he sent them away ¶ The .viii. Sunday after Trinity Sunday The Epistle Roma viii BRethren we are debters not to the flesh to liue after the flesh For if ye liue after the flesh ye shal die but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deedes of the body ye shall liue For as many as are led by the
last of all he was seene of me as of one that was borne out of due time For I am the least of the Apostles which am not worthy to be called an apostle because I haue persecuted the congregation of god But by the grace of God I am that I am And his grace which is in me was not in vayne But I laboured more aboūdantly then they al yet not I but the grace of God which is with me Therfore whether it were I or they so we preached and so ye haue beleued ¶ The Gospell Luke xviii CHrist told this parable vnto certayne which trusted in thē selues that they wer perfect despised other Two men went vp into the temple to pray the one a Phacisey the other a Publican The Pharisey stood praied thus with him selfe God I thank thee that I am not as other men are extorcioners vniust adulterers or as this Publican I fast twise in the weke I geue tithe of al that I possesse And the Publican standing a far of would not lift vp his eyes to heauen but smot his brest saying God be merciful to me a synner I tel you this mā departed home to his house iustified more then the other For euery man that exalteth himself shal be brought low he the humbleth himself shal be exalted ¶ The .xii. sunday after Trinity The Epistle ii Corin. iii. SVch trust haue we through Christ to God ward not that we are sufficient of our selues to thynke anye thing of our selues but if we be able vnto any thyng the same cōmeth of God which hath made vs able to minister the new testament not of the letter but of the spirit For the letter killeth but the spirite geueth lyfe If the ministration of death through the letters figured in stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which glory is done away why shal not the ministration of the spirit be much more gloryous For if the ministracion of condēnation be glorious much more doth the ministration of righteousnes exceede in glory ¶ The Gospel Mark. vii IEsus departed from the coastes of Tire and Sidon and came vnto the sea of Galile through the myddest of the coastes of the tenne Cyties and they brought vnto hym one that was deafe and had an impediment in hys speeche and they prayed hym to put his hand vpon hym And when he had taken him aside from the people he put his fingers into his eares did spit and touched his toung and looked vp to heauen and sighed and sayd vnto him Ephata that is to say be opened And straight way his eares wer opened and the string of his toung was loosed and he spake plaine And he commaunded them that they should tell no man But the more he forbad them so much the more a great deale they published saying He hath done althings well he hath made both the deafe to heare and the dum to speake ¶ The .xiiii sunday after Trinity sunday The Epistle Gala. iii. TO Abraham his seede were the promises made He saith not in his seedes as of many but in thy sede as of one which is Christ This I say that the law which began afterward beyonde foure hundred thirty yeares doth not disanul the testament that was confirmed afore of God vnto Christward to make the promise of none effect For if the inheritaunce come of the law it cōmeth not now of promise But God gaue it to Abraham by promise Wherfore then serueth the law the law was added because of transgression tyll the seede came to whom the promise was made and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediatour A mediatour is not a Mediatour of one but God is one Is the law then against the promise of God God forbyd For if there had bene a law geuē which could haue geuen lyfe then do doubte righteousnes should haue come by the law But the Scripture concludeth althinges vnder syn that the promise by the faith of Iesus Christ should be geuen to them that beleue ¶ The Gospell Luke x. HAppy are the eies which see the things that ye see For I tell you that many Prophetes and kinges haue desyred to see those things which ye se and haue not seene them and to heare those things which ye heare and haue not heard them And beholde a certaine Lawyer stood vp and tempted him saying Maister what shall I do to enherite eternall lyfe He sayd vnto him what is written in the law How readest thou And he answered and said Loue the Lord thy God with all thy hart and with all thy soule and with al thy strength and with all thy mind and thy neighbour as thy selfe And he said vnto him thou hast aunswered right This do and thou shalt liue But he willing to iustify himself sayd vnto Iesus and who is my neighbour Iesus answered and said A certaine man descended from Ierusalem ro Hiericho and fel among theeues which robbed him of his raiment and wounded him and departed leauing him halfe dead And it chaunced that there came downe a certaine priest that same way and when he saw him he passed by And likewise a Leuit when he went nye to the place came and looked on him and passed by But a certayne Samaritan as he iourneied came vnto him and when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound vp his woundes and poured in oyle and wyne and set him on his owne beast and brought him to a common Inne and made prouision for hym And on the morow when he departed he tooke out two penre gaue them to the hoaste and sayd vnto him Take cure of him and whatsoeuer thou spendest more when I come againe I will recompence thee Which now of these three thinkest thou was neighboure vnto him that fell amonge the theeues And he sayd vnto him he that shewed mercy on hym Then sayd Iesus to him go and do thou likewise ¶ The .xiiii. sunday after Trinitie Sunday The Epistle Galarh v. I Say walke in the spirite and fulfill not the lust of the flesh for the flesh lusteth contrarye to the spiritr and the spirit contrary to the flesh these are contrary one to another so that ye cannot do what so euer ye would But and if ye be led of the Spirite then are yee not vnder the law The deedes of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication vncleanesse wantonnes worshipping of images witchcrafte hatred variaunce zeale wrath stryfe sedicions sectes enuiynge murder dronkennes gluttonye and such lyke Of the which I tell you before as I haue told you in tymes past that they which commit such thinges shall not bee inheritours of the kingdome of god Contrarily the fruite of the Spirit is loue ioye peace longsuffering gentlenesse goodnes faythfulnes meekenes temperaunce Against such there is no law They truly that are Christes
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
for you Herein is my father glorified that ye beare much fruit become my disciples As the father hath loued me euen so also haue I loued you Continue you in my loue If ye keepe my cōmaundements ye shal byde in my loue euen as I haue kept my fathers commaundements bide in his loue These things haue I spoken vnto you that my ioy might remaine in you and that your ioy might be full ¶ Saint Phillip and Iames day The Epistle Iames. i. IAmes the seruaunt of God and of the Lord Iesus Christ sendeth greting to the twelue Tribes which are scattered abroade My brethren count it for an exceeding ioy when ye fall into diuers temptacions knowing this that the trying of your fayth gendreth pacience and let pacience haue her perfect woorke that ye may be perfect and sound lacking nothing If any of you lack wisdome let hym aske of hym that geueth it euen God which geueth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth and it shal be geuen him But let hym aske in fayth and wauer not for he that doubteth is lyke a waue of the sea which is tost of the windes and caried with violence Neither let that man thinke that he shall receaue any thing of the Lorde A waueryng mynded man is vnstable in all hys wayes Let the brother which is of lowe degree reioyce when hee is exalted Againe let hym that is rytch reioyce when hee is made lowe For euen as the floure of the grasse shall hee passe awaye For as the sun riseth with heat and the gras withereth and his flower falleth away the beuty of the fashion of it perysheth euen so shal the ritch man perish in hys wayes Happy is the man that endureth temptacion For when he is tried he shall receiue the crown of lyfe which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him ¶ The Gospell Iohn xiiii ANd Iesus sayd vnto hys disciples let not your hartes be troubled if ye beleue in God beleue also in me In my Fathers house are many mansions If it were not so I would haue told you I go to prepare a place for you And if I go to prepare a place for you I wyll come agayne and receiue you euen vnto my selfe that where I am there may ye be also And whither I go you know and the way ye know Thomas sayth vnto him Lord we know not whither thou goest And how is it possible for vs to know the way Iesus sayd vnto him I am the way and the truth and the life No man commeth to the father but by me if ye had knowen me ye had knowen my Father also And now ye know him and haue seene him Phillip said vnto him Lord shew vs the father and it suffiseth vs Iesus saith vnto him haue I beene so long time with you and yet hast thou not knowen me Philip he that hath seene me hath seene my Father and how saiest thou then shew vs the Father beleuest not thou that I am in the father and the father in me The words that I speake vnto you I speake not of my selfe but the father that dwelleth in mee is he that doth the workes Beleue me that I am in the father and the father in me Or els beleue me for the workes sake Verely verely I say vnto you he that beleueth on me the works that I do the same shall he do also and greater workes then these shal he do because I go vnto my Father And whatsoeuer ye aske in my name that wyll I do that the Father may be glorified by the Sonne If ye shall aske any thing in my name I wyl do it ¶ Saynt Barnabes day the Apostle The Epistle Actes xi TIdinges of these things came vnto the eares of the congregation which was in Ierusalem And they sent foorth Barnabas that he should go vnto Antioch whych when he came and had seene the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all that with purpose of hart they would continually cleaue vnto the Lorde For he was a good man and full of the holy ghost and of fayth and much people was added vnto the lord Thē departed Barnabas to Tharsus to seke Saule And whē he had found him he brought him vnto Antioch And it chaunced that a whole yeare they had theyr conuersation with the congregation there and taught much people in so much that the disciples of Antioch were the first that were called Christians In those dayes came Prophets from the City of Ierusalem vnto Antioch And there stood vp one of them named Agabus and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world which came to pas in the Emperor Claudius dayes Then the disciples euery man according to theyr abilitye purposed to sende succour vnto the brethren which dwelt in Iewry whych thing they also dyd and sent it to the Elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saule ¶ The Gospell Iohn xv THis is my commaundement that ye loue together as I haue loued you Greater loue hath no man then thys that a man bestowe hys lyfe for hys friendes Ye are my friendes if ye do what soeuer I commaund you Hence forth cal I not you seruaunts for the seruaunt knoweth not what hys Lord doth But you haue I called friendes for all thinges that I haue heard of my Father haue I opened to you Ye haue not chosen me but I haue chosen you and ordayned you to go and bryng foorth fruite and that your fruite should remayne that what soeuer ye aske of the Father in my name he may geue it you ¶ Saynt Iohn Baptistes day The Epistle Esay xl BE of good chere my people O ye Prophetes comfort my people saith your God comfort Ierusalem at the hart tell her that her trauail is at an end that her offences is pardoned that she hath receiued of the Lords hand sufficient correction for al her syns A voice cried in wildernes prepare the way of the Lord in the wildernes make straight the path for our God in the desert Let all valeies be exalted euery mountaine and hyll be layde low What so is crooked let it bee made straight and let the rough bee made playne fieldes For the glory of the Lord shal appeare and al flesh shal at once see it for why the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it The same voyce spake Now cry And the Prohet answered what shal I cry That all flesh is grasse and that all the goodlynes thereof is as the floure of the field The grasse is wythered the floure falleth away Euen so is the people as grasse when the breath of the Lord bloweth vpon them Neuertheles whether the grasse wyther or that the floure vade away yet the woorde of our God endureth for euer Go vp vnto the hie hyll O Sion thou that bryngest good tidinges lyft vp thy voyce with power O thou Preacher Ierusalem Lyft it vp wythout feare