O God the sonne redemer of the worlde haue mercy vpon vs miserable synners O God the holy gost proceding from the father and the sonne haue mercy vpon vs miserable synners O God the holy gost proceding from the father and the sonne haue mercy vpon vs miserable synners O holy blessed and glorious Trinitie three persons and one God haue mercy vpon vs miserable synners O holy blessed and glorious Trinitie three persons and one God haue mercy vpon vs miserable synners Remember not lord our offences nor the offences of our forefather neither take thou vengeaunce of our synnes spare vs good Lorde spare thy people whom thou hast redemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lorde From al euil and mischiefe from synne from the craftes and assaultes of the deuill from thy wrath and from euerlasting damnacion Good Lorde delyuer vs. From all blindnes of heart from pryde vayne glory and hipocrisy from enuy hatered and malice and al vncharitablenes Good lorde delyuer vs. From fornicacion and al other deadly synne and from al the deceites of the worlde the flesh and the deuil Good Lord delyuer vs. From lightninges tempestes from plage pestilence famine from battayle murther and from sodayne death Good Lord deliuer vs. From all sedicion and priuie conspiracie from the tiranny of the Bishop of Rome all his detestable enormities from all false doctrine and heresy from hardnes of hearte and contempt of thy woord and commaundement Good Lord deliuer vs. By the mistery of thy holy incarnacion by thy holy Natiuitie and Cyrcumcision by thy Baptysme fastyng and temptacion Good Lord deliuer vs. By thyne agony and bloudy sweat by thy crosse passion by thy precious death buriall by thy glorious resurreccion and ascencion and by the coming of the holy ghost Good Lord deliuer vs. In all time of our tribulacion in al time of our wealth in the houre of death and in the day of iudgement Good lord deliuer vs. We sinners doe beseche thee to heare vs O Lord God and that it way please thee to rule and gouerne thy holye churche vniuersally in the right way We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it maye please thee to kepe Edwarde the sixth thy seruaunt our kyng and gouernour We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his hearte in thy fayth feare and loue that he maye always haue affyaunce in thee and euer seke thy honour and glory We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to be hys defender and keper geuing him the victory ouer all his enemies We beseche thee to heare vs good lord That it may please thee to illuminate all Bisshops Pastours Ministers of the Church with true knowledge vnderstanding of thy word that both by theyr preachyng and liuing they may set it furth and shewe it accordyngly We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lordes of the counsayle and all the nobilitie with grace wysdome and vnderstanding We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and kepe the Magistrates geuing them grace to execute iustice and to mayntayn trueth We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and kepe all thy people We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it maye please thee to geue to all nacions vnitie peace and concord We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it maye please thee to geue vs an hearte to loue and dreade thee and diligently to liue after thy commaundementes We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it maye please thee to geue all thy people encrease of grace to heare mekely thy woord and to receiue it with pure affeccion and to bring furth the fruites of the spirite We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to bring in to the way of trueth all such as haue erred and are deceiued We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthē such as do stand to comfort and helpe the weake harted to rayse them vp that fall finally to beate down Satan vnder out fete We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to succour helpe and comforte all that be in daunger necessitie and tribulacion We beseche thee to heare vs good lord That it may please thee to preserue all that trauayle by land or by water all weomen labouryng of child all sicke persons and yong children and to shewe thy pietie vpon all priesoners and captiues We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it maye please thee to defende and prouyde for the fatherles children and widdowes and all that be desolate and oppresed We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to haue mercy vpon all menne We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to forgeue our enemies persecutours and slaunderers and to turne their heartes We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to geue and preserue to our vse the kindly fruites of the earth so as in due tyme we maye enioye them We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. That it maye please thee to geue vs true repentaunce to forgeue vs all our synnes negligences and ignorances and to endue vs with the grace of thy holy spirite to amend our lyues according to the holy worde We beseche thee to heare vs good Lord. Sonne of God we beseche thee to heare vs. Sonne of God we beseche thee to heare vs. O lambe of God that takest awaye the synnes of the worlde Graunt vs thy peace O lambe of God that takest awaye the synnes of the worlde Haue mercy vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. ¶ Our father whiche art in heauen c. And leade vs not into temptacion But delyuer vs from euill The versicle O Lorde deale not with vs after our synnes The aunswere Neyther rewarde vs after our iniquities ¶ Let vs praye O God merciful father that despysest not the sighing of a contrite hearte nor the desyre of such as be sorowful mercifully assist oure prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and aduersyties whensoeuer they oppresse vs. And graciously heare vs that those euils whiche the craft and subtiltie of the deuil or man worketh against vs be brought to naught and by the prouidence of thi goodnes they may be dispersed the we thy seruauntes beyng hurt by no persecucions may euermore geue thankes vnto thee in thy holy churche through Iesu Christ our Lorde O Lord aryse helpe vs and deliuer vs for thy names sake O
c. ¶ The Epistle i. thes iii WE beeseche you brethren and exhorte you by the lord Iesus that ye encrease more more euē as ye haue receyued of vs how ye ought to walke and to please God For ye know what cōmaundementes we gaue you by our Lorde Iesus Chryste For thys is the wyl of God euen your holynes that ye should absteyne from fornicacion and that euery one of you should knowe howe to kepe his vessel in holynes and honour and not in the lust of concupisence as doe the Heathen whiche knowe not God that no man oppresse and defraude hys brother in bargayninq beecause that the Lorde is the auenger of all suche thinges as we tolde you before and testified For god hath not called vs vnto vnclennes but vnto holynesse He therfore that despiseth despiseth not man but God whiche hath sent hys holy spirite among you ¶ The Gospell Math. xv IEsus went thence and departed into the coastes of Tyre Sidō and behold a woman of Canaā whiche came oute of thesame coastes cryed vnto hym saying haue mercye on me O Lorde thou sonne of Dauid My doughter is piteously vexed with a deuyll But he aunswered her nothyng at all And his disciples came and besougt hym saying send her awaye for she cryeth after vs. But he aunswered and sayd I am not sent but to the lost shepe of the house of Israel Then came the and worshipped him saying Lorde helpe me He aunswered said it is not mete to take the childrens bread and cast it to dogges She aunswered and said trueth lord for the dogges eate of the crummes which fal from their maysters table Then Iesus aunswered and said vnto her O Womā great is thy fayth be it vnto thee euē as thou wilte And her doughter was made whole euen thesame tyme. ¶ The thyrd Sunday in Lent ¶ The Collect. We beseche thee almightie god loke vpon the heartye desyres of thy humble seruauntes and stretche forth the right hande of thy maiestie to be our defence agaynst al our enemies through Iesus Christ our Lorde ¶ The Epistle Ephesi v BE you the folowers of God as dere children and walke in loue euen as Christ loued vs and gaue hymself for vs an offering a sacrifice of a swete sauour to God As for fornicacion and al vnclennesse or couetousnes let it not be once named among you as it becommeth Sainctes or filthinesse or foolyshe talking or iesting whiche are not comely but rather geuing of thankes For thys ye knowe that no whoremonger eyther vncleane person or couetous person whiche is a worshypper of ymages hath any inheritaunce in the kyngdome of Christe and of God Lette no man deceyue you with vayne wordes For because of suche thynges cometh the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience Be not ye therfore companions of them Ye mere sumtimes darkenes but now are ye light in the Lord walke as children of lighte for the fruite of the spirite consisteth in all goodnes righteousnes trueth Accept that which is pleasing vnto the Lord haue no felowship with the vufruitful workes of darkenes but rather rebuke them For it is a shame euen to name those thynges which are done of them in secrete but all thinges when they are brought forth by the lyghte are manifest For whatsoeuer is manifest thesame is light wherfore he sayeth a wake thou that slepest and stande vp from death and Christ geue thee lyght ¶ The Gospell Luke xi IEsus was casting of a Deuill that was dumme And when he had cast oute the deuill the dumme spake and the people wondered But some of them sayed he casteth out deuils throughe Beelzebub the chiefe of the deuils And other tempted hym and required of him signe from heauen But he knowing their thoughtes sasyd vnto them Euery kingdome deuyded agaynst it selfe is desolate and one house doeth fall vpon another If Sathan also be deuided agaynst hymselfe howe shal hys kyngdome endure Because ye say I cast out deuils through Beelzebub If I by the helpe of Beelzebub cast out deuils by whose helpe do your children cast them out Therefore shall they bee youre iudges But if I with the finger of God cast out deuils no doubt the kingdom of God is come vpon you Whē a strong man armed watcheth hys house the thinges that he possesseth are in peace But when a stronger then he cometh vpō hym and ouercometh hym he taketh from hym al his harnesse wherin he trusted deuideth his goodes He that is not with me is agaynste me And he that gathereth not with me scatereth abroade When the vncleane spirite is gone out of a man he walketh through drye places seking reste And when he findeth none he sayeth I wil returne agayn into my house whence I came oute And when he cometh he findeth it swepte garnished Then goeth he and taketh to hym seuen other spirites worse then himself and they entre in and dwel there And the ende of that mā is worse thē the beginning And it fortuned the as he spake these thinges a certayne woman of the companye lyfte vp her voyce and sayed vnto hym happy is the wombe that bare thee and the pappes whiche gaue thee sucke But he sayd yea happy are they that heare the worde of God and kepe it The fourth Sunday in Lent ¶ The Collecte GRaunte we beseche thee almightie god that we which for our euil dedes are worthely punisshed by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieued throughe oure Lorde Iesus Chryst ¶ The Epistle Gala. iiii TEll me ye that desyre to bee vnder the lawe doe ye not heare of the lawe for it is wrytten that Abraham had two sonnes the one by a bondmayde the other by a free woman Yea and he whiche was borne of the bondwoman was borne after the fleshe but he whiche was borne of the freewoman was borne by promes which thinges are spoken by an allegory For these are two Testamentes the one from the mounte Sina whiche gendreth vnto bondage whiche is Agar For mount Sina is Agar in Arabia and bordreth vpō the citie which is now called Ierusalem and is in bondage with her children But Ierusalem whyche is aboue is fre which is the mother of vs al. For it is written Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children breake foorth and crye thou that trauaylest not For the desolate hath many moe chyldren then she whiche hath an husband Brethren we are after Isaac the chyldren of promesse But as then he that was borne after the flesshe persecuted hym that was borne after the spirite Euen so is it nowe Neuerthelesse what sayeth the scrypture putte awaye the bondwoman and her sonne For the sonne of the bondwoman shall not bee heyre with the sonne of the free woman So then brethren we are not children of the bond womā but of the free woman ¶ The Gospell Iohn vi IEsus departed ouer the sea of Galile whiche
mā is preached vnto you forgeuenes of sinnes and that by hym al that beleue are iustifyed from al thinges from whiche ye coulde not be iustifyed by the law Moses Beware therfore lest that fall on you whiche is spoken of in the prophetes beholde ye despisers and wonder and perishe ye for I doe a worke in youre dayes whiche ye shall not beleue though a man declare it vnto you ¶ The Gospell Lu. xxiiii IEsus stode in the middes of his disciples and sayde vnto them peace bee vnto you It is I feare not But they were abashed and afraide and supposed that they had seene a spirite And he sayd vnto them why are ye troubled why doe thoughtes arise in youre heartes Beholde my handes and my feete that it is euen I my selfe Handle me and see for a spirite hath no fleshe and bones as ye see me haue And when he had thus spoken he shewed them hys handes and hys feete And while they yet beleued not for ioye and wondred he sayde vnto them Haue ye here any meate And they offered him a piece of a broiled fishe and of an Honey combe And he tooke it and did eate before them And he sayd vnto them these are the wordes which I spake vnto you while I was yet with you That all muste nedes be fulfilled whiche were written of me in the law of Moses in the prophetes and in the Psalmes Then opened he their wittes that they myght vnderstande the Scriptures and sayde vnto them Thus it is written and thus it behoued Christ to suffre and to ryse again from death the third day and that repentaunce and remission of sinnes shoulde bee preached in hys name among al nacions and must begin at Ierusalem And ye are wytnesses of these thynges ¶ The first Sundaye after Easter ¶ The Collecte Almightie God c. As at the Communion on Easter daye ¶ The Epistle i. Iohn v. AL that is borne of god ouercometh the world And thys is the victorye that ouercometh the world euē our faith Who is he that ouercometh the world but he that beleueth that Iesus is the sonne of God This Iesus Christ is he that came by water and bloude not by water onely but by water and bloud And it is the spirite that beareth witnes because the spirite is trueth For there are three which beare recorde in heauen the father the word and the holy gost and these three are one And there are three which beare recorde in earth the spirite and water and bloud and these three are one If we receyue the witnesse of menne the witnesse of God is greater For this is the witnes of god that is greater which he testified of hys sonne He that beleueth on the sonne of god hath the witnesse in hymselfe He that beleueth not god hath made hym a lyer because he beleueth not the recorde that God gaue of his sonne And this is the record how that God hath geuen vnto vs eternall lyfe and thys lyfe is in hys sonne He that hathe the sonne hathe lyfe and he that hath not the sonne of God hath not lyfe ¶ The Gospell Ion. xx THesame daye at nyght whiche was the fyrst daye of the Sabbothes when the dores were shut where the disciples were assembled together for feare of the Iewes came Iesus stode in the middes and sayde vnto them Peace bee vnto you And when he had so sayd he shewed vnto thē hys handes and hys syde Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord. Then sayd Iesus to them agayne Peace be vnto you As my father sent me euen so sende I you also And when he had sayde these wordes he breathed on them and sayde vnto them receyue ye the holy goste Whosoeuers sinnes ye remitte they are remitted vnto them And whosoeuers synnes ye retayne they are retayned ¶ The second Sunday after Easter ¶ The Collecte ALmightie God which hast geuen thy holy sonne to be vnto vs both a sacrifice for synne and also an example of godly life Geue vs the grace that we maye alwayes most thankfully receyue that hys inestimable benefyte and also dayly indeuoure oure selues to folowe the blessed steppes of hys most holy lyfe ¶ The Epistle i. Pete ii THis is thanke worthy yf a man for conscience toward God endure griefe and suffre wrong vndeserued For what praise is it if when ye be buffeted for youre faultes ye take it paciently But and if when ye doe well ye suffre wrong take it paciently thē is there thanke with God For hereunto verely were ye called For Christ also suffered for vs leauing vs an ensaūple that ye should folow his steppes which did no sinne neither was there guyle founde in his mouthe which when he was reuiled reuiled not agayne whē he suffered he threatned not but committed the vengeaunce to him that iudgeth rightously which his owne self bare our sinnes in hys body on the tree that we beyng deliuered from synne shoulde lyue vnto ryghteousnesse By whose stripes ye were healed For ye were as shepe going astray but are now turned vnto the shepeheard and bysshop of youre soules ¶ The Gospell Iohn x. CHrist said vnto his disciples I am the good shepeheard a good shepeheard geueth hys life for the shepe An hyred seruaunt and he which is not the shepeheard nether the shepe are his own seeth the wolfe coming and leaueth the shepe and fleeth and the wolfe catcheth and skattereth the shepe The hired seruaunt fleeth because he is an hired seruaunt and careth not for the shepe I am the good shepeheard know my shepe am knowen of mine As my father knoweth me euē so know I also my father And I geue my lyfe for the shepe and other shepe I haue which are not of this folde Them also must I bryng and they shal heare my voice and there shal be ohe folde and one shepeheard The third Sunday after Easter ¶ The Collect. ALmightie god which shewest to al men that be in errour the lyght of thy trueth to the entent that they may returne into the way of righteousnesse Graunt vnto all thē that be admitted into the felowship of Christes religiō that they may exchew those thinges the be contrary to their profession and folowe all suche thynges as be agreable to the same through our Lorde Iesus Christ ¶ The Epistle i. Pete ii DErely beloued I beseche you as straungers and pilgremes abstain frō fleshly lustes which fighte against the soule and see that ye haue honest conuersacion among the gentiles that wheras they backbite you as euil doers thei may see your good workes and prayse god in the daye of visitacion Submytte youre selues therfore to euery man for the lordes sake whether it be vnto the kyng as vnto the chief head eyther vnto rulers as vnto them the are sent of hym for the punishment of euyll doers but for the laude of thē that doe wel For so is the
speaking of the kyngdome of God and gathered them together and commaunded them that they should not depart from Ierusalem but to wayte for the to promysse of the father whereof sayeth he ye haue heard of me For Iohn truely baptised with water but ye shall be baptysed with the holye goste after these fewe dayes When they therefore were come together they asked of hym saying Lorde wilt thou at this time restore agayne the kyngdome of Israel And he sayd vnto them it is not for you to knowe the tymes or the seasons which the father hath put in his owne power But ye shall receiue power after the holy gost is come vpon you And ye shal be witnesses vnto me not onely in Ierusalem but also in all Iewrye and in all Samaria and euen vnto the worldes ende And when he had spoken these thynges whyle they behelde he was taken vp on hye and a cloude receyued hym vp oute of their sighte And while they loked stedfastly vp toward heauen as he went beholde two men stoode by them in white apparell whiche also sayed ye menne of Galile why stande ye gasyng vp into heauen This same Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauē shal so come euen as ye haue seen hym goe into heauen ¶ The Gospell Mar. xvi IEsus appeared vnto the eleuen as they sate at meate and caste in theyr teeth their vnbeliefe and hardens of heart because they belieued not them which had seen that he was risen again from the dead and he sayd vnto them Goe ye into all the world and preache the gospell to al creatures he that belieueth and is baptised shall bee saued But he that beleueth not shall bee damned And these tokens shall folowe them that beleue In my name they shal cast out deuils thei shal speake with newe tongues they shal driue awaye serpentes And if they drinke any deadly thyng it shall not hurte them They shall lay their hande on the sicke and shal recouer So then when the Lord had spoken vnto them he was receiued into heauen and is on the right hand of God And they went forth and preached euery where the Lord working with them and confirming the worde with miracles folowing ¶ The Sunday after the Ascencion daye ¶ The Collect. O God the king of glory which hast exalted thyne only sonne Iesus Christe with great triumphe vnto thy kingdom in heauen we beseche thee leaue vs not coumfortles but send to vs thine holy gost to comfort vs and exalte vs vnto the same place whither our sauiour Christ is gone before who liueth and reigneth c ¶ The Epistle i. Pe. iiii THe ende of all thinges is at hande be ye therfore sobre and watche vnto prayer But aboue all thynges haue feruente loue among youre selues for loue shall couer the multitude of linnes Be ye herberous one to another without grudging As euery mā hath receyued the gifte euen so minister thesame one to another as good ministers of the manifold graces of god If any man speake let him talke as the wordes of God If any man ministre let hym doe it as of the habilitie whiche God ministreth to hym that God in all thynges maye bee glorifyed through Iesus Christ to whome bee prayse and dominion for euer and euer Amen ¶ The Gospell Iohn xv WHen the comforter is come whom I wil send vnto you from the father euen the spirite of trueth which procedeth of the father he shal testifie of me And ye shal be are witnes also beecause ye haue been with me from the beeginning These thynges haue I sayed vnto you becaus ye should not be offended They shal excommunicate you yea the tyme shall come that whosoeuer killeth you wil thinke that he doeth god seruice And such thinges wyl they doe vnto you because they haue not knowen the father neyther yet me But these thynges I haue told you that whan the time is come ye may remembre then that I tolde you ¶ Whitsunday ¶ The Collect. GOd which as vpon this day hast taught the heartes of thy faithful people by the sending to them the light of holy spirite Graunt vs by the same spirite to haue a right iudgement in al thynges and euermore to reioice in his holy comfort through the merites of Christ Iesu our sauyour who liueth and reigneth with thee in the vnitie of thesame spirite one God world withoute ende ¶ The Epistle Actes ii WHen the fiftie dayes were come to an ende they were all with one accorde together in one place And sodeynly there came a sound from heauen as it had been the cummyng of a mightye wynde and it fylled all the house where they sate And there appeared vnto them clouen tongues lyke as they had been offyre and it fate vpon eche one of them and they were all fylled filled with the holy ghoste and began to speake with other tonges euen as the same spirite gaue them vtterance Thē were dwelling at Ierusalem Iewes deuout men out of euery nacyon of them that are vnder heauen When thys was noysed about the multitude came together and were astonied because that euery man heard them speake wyth hys own language They wondred all and meruailed saying among themselues beholde are not all these whiche speake of Galile And how heare we euery man hys owne tong wherin we were borne Partians and Medes and Elamites and the inhabiters of Mesopotamia of Iewry and of Capadocia of Pontus and Asia Phrigia and Pamphilia of Egipt and of the parties of Libia whiche is besyde Syrene and straungers of Rome Iewes and Proselites Grekes and Arrabians we haue heard them speake in our own tongues the great workes of god ¶ The Gospell Ioh. xiiii IEsus sayd vnto hys disciplines Yf ye loue me kepe my commaundmentes and I wil praie thee father and he shall geue you another coumforter that he may abide with you for euer euen the spirite of trueth whom the world cannot receiue because the world seeth him not neyther knoweth hym But ye knowe him for he dwelleth with you and shall bee in you I wyll not leaue you coumfortles but wil come to you Yet a litle whyle and the world seeth me no more but ye see me For I lyue and ye shall lyue That daye shall ye knowe that I am in my father and you in me and I in you He that hath my commaundementes and kepeth them the same is he that loueth me And he that loueth me shall beeloued of my father and I wyll loue hym and wyl shewe myne own selfe vnto hym Iudas sayeth vnto hym not Iudas Iscarioth Lorde what is done that thou wylte shewe thy selfe vnto vs and not vnto the world Iesus aunswered and sayed vnto them if a man loue me he wil kepe my sayinges and my father will loue hym and we will come vnto hym and dwell with him He that loueth me not kepeth not my sayinges And the worde which ye heare is
speake euery man truth vnto hys neighbour forasmuche as we are membres one of another Be angry sinne not Let not the sunne go downe vpon youre wrathe neither geue place to the backbyter Let hym that stole steale nomore but let hym rather laboure with his handes the thing which is good that he may geue vnto him that nedeth Let no filthy communicacion procede out of your mouth but that which is good to edifye withal as ofte as nede is that it may minster grace vnto the heaters And grieue not the holye spirite of God by whom ye are sealed vnto the day of redempcion Let all bitternes and fiercenes and wrath and roaryng and cursed speakyng be put awaye from you with al maliciousnes Be ye curteous one to another mercyfull forgeuyng one another euen as God for Christes sake hath forgeuen you ¶ The Gospell Math. ix IEsus entred into a shyp passed ouer and came into hys owne citie And beholde they brought to hym a man sicke of the paulsey lying in a bedde And when Iesus sawe the fayth of them he sayde to the sycke of the Paulsey Sonne bee of good there thy sinnes bee forgeuen thee And behold certayn of the Scribes sayde within themselues this man blasphmeth And when Iesus sawe theyr thoughtes he sayd wherefore thinke ye euill in youre heartes Whether is it easier to say thy sinnes bee forgeuen thee or to saye aryse and walke But that ye maye knowe that the sonne of man hathe power to forgeue sinnes in earth Then sayeth he to the sicke of the Paulsey Aryse take vp thy bed and goe vnto thyne house And he arose and departed to his house But the people that saw it meruayled and glorified God which hath geuen such power vnto menne ¶ The .xx. Sundaye after Trinitie ¶ The Collecte ALmighty and merciful God of thy bountifull goodnes Kepe vs from all thinges that may hurt vs that we being ready both in body and soule maye with fre heartes accomplishe those thinges that thou wouldest haue done thorow Iesus Christe oure Lorde ¶ The Epistle Ephe. v TAke hede therfore howe ye walke circumspectly not as vnwyse but as wise menne redemyng the time because the dayes are euill Wherefore bee ye not vnwise but vnderstande what the will of the Lorde is and bee not dronken with wine wherin is excesse But be fylled with the spirite speakyng vnto your selues in Psalmes and Nimnes and spirituall songes syngyng and makyng melody to the lord in your heartes geuing thankes alwayes for all thynges vnto God the father in the name of our Lorde Iesus Chryste submitting your selues one to another in the feare of God ¶ The Gospell Mat. xxii IEsus saide to hys disciples The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a man that was a Kyng whyche made a mariage for his sonne and sent furthe hys seruauntes to call them that were bydden to the wedding and they would not come Agayne he sent furth other seruauntes saying Tell them whiche are bidden beeholde I haue prepared my diner myne Oxen and my fatlynges are kylled and all thynges are ready come vnto the manage But they made lyght of it and went theyr wayes One to hys farme place another to his marchaundise and the remnaunt toke his seruauntes intreated them shamefully and flewe them But when the kyng heard thereof he was wroth and sente furth his men of warre and destroied those murtherers and brēt vp theyr city Then said he to his seruauntes the mariage in dede is prepared but they whiche were bidden were not worthy Goe ye therfore oute into the hye wayes and as many as ye fynd byd them to the mariage And the seruauntes went furth into the hye wayes and gathered together all as many as they coulde fynde bothe good and bad and the wedding was furnished with geastes Then the kyng came in to see the geastes and when he spyed there a man whiche had not on a wedding garmente he said vnto hym frend how camest thou in hither not hauing a wedding garment And he was euen specheles Then said the king to the ministers take and bind him hand and foote and cast hym into vtter darkenes there shal be wepyng and gnashyng of teeth For many bee called but few are chosen The .xxi. Sundaye aftter Trinitie ¶ The Collecte GRaunte we beseche thee mercifull Lorde to thy faythfull people pardon and peace that they maye be clensed from all theyr sinnes and serue thee with a quiet mynde through Iesus Christe oure Lorde ¶ The Epistle Ephe. vi MY brethren bee strong throughe the Lorde and through the power of hys myghte Put on all the armour of God that ye may stand against all the assaultes of the deuill for we wrestle not agaynste bloud and fleshe but against rule againste power agaynste worldlye rulers euen gouernours of the darkenes of thys worlde againste spirituall craftines in heauenlye thynges Therefore take vnto you the whole armour of God that ye may be hable to resiste in the euyll day and stande perfect in all thynges Stande therfore and your loynes gyrd with the trueth hauyng on the brestplate of ryghteousnesse and hauyng shooes on youre feete that ye maye bee prepared for the gospell of peace Aboue all take to you the shyelde of faythe wherewith ye maye quenche all the fyery dartes of the wicked And take the helmet of saluacyon and the sweord of the spirite which is the worde of God And pray alwaies with all maner of prayer and supplycacion in the spirite and watche therunto with all instaunce and supplicacion for all sainctes and for me that vtteraunce may be geuen vnto me that I may open my mouthe freely to vtter the secretes of my gospell wherof I am a messenger in bondes that therein I may speake freely as I ought to speake ¶ The Gospell Iohn iiii THere was a certayn ruler whose sōne was sycke at Capernaū A ssone as thesame hearde that Iesus was come out of Iewry into Galile he went vnto him and besought him that he woulde come downe and heale his sonne For he was euen at the poynte of death Then said Iesus vnto him except ye see signes and wonders ye will not beleue The ruler sayd vnto hym Sir come downe or euer that my sonne dye Iesus sayeth vnto him Goe thy waye thy sonne liueth The man beeleued the word that Iesus had spoken vnto him he went his way And as he was going downe the seruauntes met hym and tolde hym saying thy sonne liueth Then enquired be of thē the houre when he began to amende And they sayde vnto him yesterday at the seuenth houre the feuer lefte him So the father knewe that it was the same houre in the whych Iesus sayde vnto him thy sonne liueth and he beleued and all his housholde This is agayn the second miracle that Iesus did when he was come out of Iewry into Galile ¶ The .xxii. Sundaye after Trinitie ¶ The Collecte LOrde we beseche
sente me Yf I had not come and spoken vnto them they should haue had no sinne but now haue they nothing to cloke their synne withall He that hateth me hateth my father also Yf I had not done amōg thē the workes whiche none other man did they should haue had no synne But now haue they both seen and hated not onely me but also my father But this happeneth that the saying myghte be fulfilled the is written in their law They hated me without a cause But when the comforter is come whom I wyll send vnto you frō the father euen the spirite of trueth which procedeth of the father he shal testify of me And ye shal beare witnes also because ye haue been with me frō the beginning ¶ All Sainetes ¶ The Collect. ALmightie God whiche hast knit together thy elect in one Communion felowship in the mistical body of thy sonne Christ our Lord graunt vs grace so to folow thy holy Sainctes in al vertues and godly liuing that we maye come to those inspeakeable ioyes which thou hast prepared for them that vnfainedly loue thee Through Iesus Christe our Lord. The Epistle Apoc. vii BEholde I Iohn sawe another Aungell ascende from the rising of the Sunne which had the seale of the liuing God and he cryed with a loude voyce to the foure Aungels to whō power was geuen to hurt the earth and the sea saying Hurt not the earth nether the sea nether the trees tyll we haue sealed the seruauntes of our God in their foreheades And I heard the numbre of them which were sealed and there were sealed an C. and .xliiii. thousande of all the trybes of the children of Israel Of the tribe of Iuda were sealed .xii. M. Of the tribe of Ruben were sealed .xii. M. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed .xii. M. Of the trybe of Aser were sealed .xii. M. Of the trybe of Neptalim were sealed .xii. M. Of the trybe of Manasses were sealed .xii. M. Of the trybe of Simeon were sealed .xii. M. Of the trybe of Leui were sealed .xii. M. Of the tribe of Isachar were sealed .xii. M. Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed .xii. M. Of the tribe of Ioseph were sealed .xii. M. Of the tribe of Beniamin were sealed .xii. M. After this I beheld and loe a great multitude whiche no man can numbre of all nacions and people and tonges stode before the seate before the lambe clothed with long white garmentes and Palmes in their handes and cryed with a loude voyce saying saluacion be ascribed to him that sitteth vpon the seate of our God and vnto the lambe And all the Aungels stode in the compasse of the seate and of the Elders and the foure beastes and fell before the seate on theyr faces and worshipped God saying Amen Blessyng and glory and wisdome and thanke and honor and power and might be vnto our god for euermore Amen ¶ The Gospell Math. v. IEsus seing the people went vp into the mountayn and when he was set his disciples came to him after that he had opened his mouth he taught them saying Blessed are the poore in spirite for theirs is the kingdom of heauen Blessed are they that mourne they shall receiue coumforte Blessed are the meke for they shall receiue the enheritaunce of the earth Blessed are they which hunger thyrste after righteousnes for they shal be satisfied Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtayn mercy Blessed are the pure in heart for they shal see god Blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called the children of God Blessed are they whiche suffre persecucion for ryghteousnesse sake for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen Blessed are ye when menne reuile you and persecute you and shall falsely saye al maner of euill sayinges against you for my sake reioyce and be gladde for greate is youre rewarde in heauen For so persecuted they the Prophetes which mere before you ¶ The ordre for the administracion of the Lordes Supper or holy Communion SO many as entend to be partakers of the holy Communion shall signifie their names to the Curate ouernight or els in the morning afore the beginning of morning prayer or immediatly after And if any of those be an open and notorious euyll liuer so that the congregacion by him is offended or haue done any wrong to his neighbours by worde or dede The Curate hauing knowledge therof shal ral him and aduertise him in any wise not to presume to the Lordes Table vntil he haue openly declared himself to haue truly repented amended his former naughty lyfe that the congregacion may therby be satisfied whiche afore were offended and that he haue recompensed the partyes whom he hath done wrong vnto or at the least declare himselfe to bee in full purpose so to doe as sone as he conueniently maye Thesame ordre shall the Curate vse with those betwixt whom he perceiueth malice and hatred to raygne not suffering them to be partakers of the Lordes Table vntill he knowe them to be reconciled And if one of the parties so at variaunce be content to forgeue from the bottome of his heart al that the other hath trespassed against hym and to make amendes for that he himself hath offended and the other partie wil not be perswaded to a godly vnitie but remayne styll in hys frowardnes and malyce The minister in that ease ought to admytte the penitente person to the holy Communion and not hym that is obstinate ¶ The Table hauing at the Communion tyme a fayre whyte lynnen cloth vpon it shall stande in the body of the Churche or in the chaunsell where Morning prayer and Euening prayer be appointed to be sayed And the Pryest standyng at the Northsyde of the Table shall saye the Lordes prayer with this Collect folowyng ALmightie god vnto whom al heartes be open all desyres knowen and from whom no secretes are hid clense the thoughtes of oure heartes by the inspiraciō of thy holy spirite that we may perfectly loue thee and worthely magnifie thi holi name through Christ our Lorde Amen Then shall the Priest rehearse distinctly all the .x. commaundementes and people kneling shal after euery Commaundement asake Gods mercy for their transgression of the same after thys sorte Minister God spake these wordes and sayd I am the lord thy god Thou shalt haue none other Goddes but me People Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encline our heartes to kepe thys lawe Minister Thou shalte not make to thy selfe any grauen ymage nor the likenes of any thyng that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath nor in the water vnder the earth Thou shalte not bowe downe to them nor worshippe them for I the Lorde thy God am a gelous God and vistte the synne of the fathers vpon the children vnto the thyrd and fourth generacyon of them that hate me and shewe mercye vnto thousandes in them that loue me and kepe my commaundementes People Lord haue mercy vpon
tyme they broughte children vnto Christ that he shoulde touche them and his disciples rebuked those that brought them But whē Iesus sawe it he was displeased and sayde vnto them suffre litle children to come vnto me and forbid them not for to suche belongeth the kingdome of god Verelye I saye vnto you whosoeuer doeth not receyue the kingdome of God as a litle childe he shall not entre therein And when he had taken them vp in his armes he putte hys handes vpon them and blessed them After the Gospell is readde the Minister shall make thys briefe exhortacion vpon the wordes of the Gospell FRendes you heare in this Gospel the wordes of oure Sauioure Christe that he commaunded the children to bee brought vnto him Now he blamed those that woulde haue kepte them from hym Nowe he exhorted all men to folowe theyr innocencie You perceiue how by his outwarde gesture and dede he declared hys good wyll toward them For he embraced thē in his armes he layd his handes vpon them and blessed them doubt not ye therfore but earnestlye belieue that he wyll likewyse fauourablye receyue these presente infantes that he wyll embrace them with the armes of hys mercye that he wyll geue vnto them the blessyng of eternal lyfe and make thē partakers of his euerlastyng kyngdome Wherefore we being thus perswaded of the good wil of our heauenly father towarde these infantes declared by his sonne Iesus Christe nothing doubting but that he fauourably alloweth this charitable worke of ours in bringing these childrē to his holy Baptisme let vs faithfully and deuoutlye geue thankes vnto him and say ALmightie euerlasting god heauenly father we geue thee humble thankes that thou haste vouchsafed to call vs to the knowledge of thy grace and fayth in thee encrease thys knowledge and confirme this fayth in vs euermore Geue thy holy spirite to thse infantes that they may be borne again and be made heyres of euerlasting saluacion through our Lord Iesus Christ who liueth and reigneth with thee and the holy spirite now for euer Amen ¶ Then the Priest shall speake vnto the Godfathers and Godmothers on thys wyse WElbeloued frendes ye haue brought these childrē here to be Baptised ye haue praied that our Lord Iesus Christ would vouchsafe to receiue them to laye his handes vpon thē to blesse thē to release them of their sinnes to geue them the kyngdome of heauen and euerlastyng lyfe Ye haue heard also that our lord Iesus Christ hath promised in his gospel to graūt al these thinges that ye haue praied for which promyse he for his parte wyl moste surely kepe and perfourme Wherefore after thys promyse made by Chryste these infantes must also faythfully for their part promyse by you that be their suerties that they wil forsake the deuil and al his workes and constantly beleue gods holy word and obediently kepe his commaundementes Then shall the Priest demaunde of the Godfathers and Godmothers these questions folowyng Doest thou forsake the deuil and al his workes the vaine pompe and glory of the world with al couetouse desyres of the same the carnall desyres of the fleshe so that thou wylte not folowe nor be led by them Aunswere I forsake them all Minister Doest thou beleue in god the father almightie maker of heauen and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely begotten sonne our lord and that he was conceiued by the holy gost borne of the virgin Mary that he suffered vnder Poncyus Pilate was crucified dead and buried that he went down into hell and also did rise agayne the thyrd daye that he ascended into heauen and litteth at the right hande of god the father almightie and from thence shal come again at the end of the world to iudge the quicke and the dead And doest thou beleue in the holy gost the holy Catholique Churche the cōmunion of sainctes the remiss ion of synnes the resurrecciō of the fleshe and euerlasting life after death Aunswere All this I stedfastly beleue Minister Wylt thou be Baptysed in thys fayth Aunswere That is my desyre Then shall the Priest saye O Merciful god graunt that the olde Adam in these children may be so buried that the new man may be raysed vp in them Amen Graunte that all carnall affecions may dye in them and that all thynges belongyng to the spyryte maye lyue and growe in them Amen Graunt that they may haue power and strength to haue victory and to triumphe against the deuill the world and the fleshe Amen Graunt that whosoeuer is here dedicated to thee by oure office and ministery may also be endued with heauenly vertues euerlastynglye rewarded through thy mercy O blessed lord God who doest liue and gouerne all thinges world without ende Amen ALmightie euerliuing God whose moste dearelye beloued sōne Iesus Christ for the forgeuenes of our sinnes did shead out of his most precious side bothe water bloud and gaue commaundement to hys disciples that they should goe teache all nacyons and baptise them in the name of the father the sonne and of the holy ghost Regarde we beseche thee the supplicacions of thy congregacion and graunt that all thy seruauntes whyche shall bee baptised in thys water may receyue the fulnes of thy grace and euer remaine in the noumbre of thy faithfull and elect children throughe Iesus Chryst our Lorde Then the Priest shal take the childe in his handes and aske the name and naming the childe shall dippe it in the water so it be discretely and warely done saying N I Baptise thee in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy goste Amen And yf the child bee weake it shall suffise to powre water vpon it saying the foresayd wordes N I Baptise thee in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy gost Amen Then the Priest shall make a crosse vpon the childes forehead saying WE receyue thys childe into the congregacion of Christes stocke and doe sygne hym with the sygne of the crosse in tokē that hereafter he shall not bee ashamed to confesse the fayth of Chryste crucified and manfully to fight vnder his banner agaynst sinne the worlde and the deuill and to continue Christes faythfull souldioure and seruaunt vnto hys lyues ende Amen Then shall the Priest saye SEyng now derely beloued brethren that these children be regenerate and grafted into the body of Christes congregacyon let vs geue thankes vnto God for these benefites with one accorde make oure prayers vnto almyghtye God that they maye leade the rest of theyr lyfe accordyng to this begynnyng Then shal be sayde Our father whiche arte in heauen c. Then shall the Priest saye WE yelde thee hearty thankes most merciful father that it hath pleased thee to regenerate thys infant with thy holy sprite to receyue hym for thy owne child by adopcion and to incorporate hym into thy holy congregacion And humblye we beseche thee to graunte that he being dead vnto
the vyrgyn Marye that he suffered vnder Poncyus Pylate was crucifyed dead and buryed that he wente downe into hell and also did ryse agayn the thyrd daye that he ascended into heauen and sitteth at the right hand of god the father almightie and from thence he shall come agayne at the ende of the worlde to iudge the quicke and the dead And doe you in hys name belieue in the holy ghost The holy Catholyque Church The Communion of Sainctes The remyssyon of synnes Resurreccyon and euerlastyng lyfe after deathe ¶ Aunswere All thys I stedfastly belieue ¶ Let vs praye ALmightie and euerlastyng God heauenly father we geue thee humble thankes for that thou haste vouchsaued to cal vs to the knowledge of thy grace and faith in thee encrease this knowledge and cōfyrme thys faythe in vs euermore Geue thy holye spyrite to thys infante that he beyng borne agayne and beeyng made heyre of euerlastyng saluacyon throughe oure Lorde Iesus Christ may continue thy seruaunt and attaine thy promise throughe thesame oure Lorde Iesus Christ thy sonne who liueth and reigneth with thee in the vnytie of the same holye spirite euerlastyngly Amen Then shall the Minister make this exhortacion to the Godfathers and Godmothers FOrasmuche as thys chylde hathe promised by you to forsake the deuyll and all hys workes to belieue in God and to serue hym you muste remembre that it is youre parte and duetye to see that thys infant bee taughte so soone as he shal be hable to learne what a solemne vowe promyse and profession he hathe made by you and that he maye knowe these thinges the better ye shall call vpon him to heare sermons And chiefly ye shall prouide that he maye learne the Crede the Lordes prayer and the ten Commaundementes in the englyshe tong and all other thynges whiche a christian man ought to knowe and belieue to his soules health and that this child may be vertuously brought vp to leade a godly and a christen lyfe Remembring alwaye that Baptisme doth represent vnto vs our profession whiche is to folowe the exaumple of oure sauioure Christe and bee made lyke vnto hym that as he died and rose agayn for vs so should we whyche are baptised dye from synne and rise agayne vnto righteousnes continually mortifying all oure euill and corrupte affeccyons and daylye procedyng in all vertue and Godlynes of liuyng And so furth as in Publyque Baptisme But yf they which bryng the infantes to the Church doe make an vncertayn aunswere to the priestes questions and saye that they cānot tell what they thought did or sayd in that great feare and trouble of mynde as oftentimes it chaunceth then let the priest baptise hym in fourme aboue written concernyng Publique baptisme sauyng that at the dyppyng of the childe in the Fonte he shall vse thys fourme of woordes If thou be not Baptised already N. I Baptise thee in the name of the father and of the Sonne and of the holy Goste Amen ¶ Confirmacion wherin is conteyned a Cathechisme for children TO the end that Confirmacion may be ministred to the more edifying of such as shall receiue it accordyng vnto S. Paules doctrine who teacheth that all thynges shoulde bee done in the Churche to the edificacyon of the same it is thought good that none herafter shal be confirmed but suche as can saye in theyr mother tong the Articles of the faythe the Lordes prayer and the .x. Commaundementes And can also aunswere to such questyons of thys shorte Cathechisme as the Bisshoppe or such as he shall appoynt shall by hys discretion appose them in And thys ordre is most conuenient to bee obserued for diuerse consideracions Fyrst because that when children come to the yeres of discretion and haue learned what theyr Godfathers and Godmothers promised for thē in Baptysme they may then themselues with theyr owne mouth with theyr owne consent openly before the Churche ratifye and confirme thesame and also promise that by the grace of God they wyll euermore endeuoure themselues faythfully to obserue and kepe such thynges as they by theyr owne mouthe and confession haue assented vnto Secondly forasmuch as Confirmacion is ministred to them that bee Baptised that by imposicion of handes and prayer they maye receyue strength and defence against all temptacyons to sinne and the assaultes of the world and the Deuil it is most mete to be minystred when childrē come to that age that partly by the fraylty of theyr owne fleshe partly by the assaultes of the world and the Deuill they begyn to be in daunger to fall into sondrye kyndes of synne Thirdly for that it is agreable with the vsage of the Church in times past wherby it was ordeyned that Confirmacion shoulde be ministred to them that were of perfect age that they being instructed in Chrystes religion shoulde openlye professe theyr owne fayth and promise to be obedient vnto the will of God And that no man shall thynke that anye detriment shall come to chyldren by deferryng of theyr Confyrmacion he shal knowe for trueth that it is certayne by Goddes woorde that chyldren beeyng baptised haue all thynges necessarie for theyr saluacyon and be vndoubtedly saued A Cathechisme that is to say an instruccion to be learned of euery childe before he be brought to be Confirmed of the Bysshop Question What is your name Aunswere N. or M. Question Who gaue you thys name Aunswere My godfathers and godmothers in my Baptisme wherin I was made a member of Chryst the childe of God and an inheritour of the kingdome of heauen Question What did your godfathers and godmothers then for you Aunswere They dyd promyse and vowe three thynges in my name First that I shoulde forsake the deuill and all hys workes and pompes the vanities of the wicked worlde and all the synful lustes of the flesshe Secondly that I shoulde beleue al the articles of the christen faith And thirdly that I should kepe Goddes holy wil and commaundementes and walke in thesame all the dayes of my lyfe Question Doest thou not thinke that thou art bounde to beleue and to doe as they haue promised for thee Aunswere Yes verely And by Gods helpe so I wil. And I hertelye thanke oure heauenly father that he hath called me to thys state of saluaciō through Iesus Christ our sauiour And I pray god to geue me his grace that I maye continue in the same vnto my lyues ende Question Rehearse the articles of thy beliefe Aunswere I Beleue in god the father almightie maker of heauen of earth And in Iesus Christ his only sonne our lorde Whiche was conceyued of the holye ghoste borne of the of virgin Mary Suffred vnder Pōce Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell The thyrde daye he rose agayne from the dead He ascended into heauen and sitteth at the right hande of god the father almightie From thence he shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead I beleue in the holy gost The holy Catholyke Churche
whole study care in keping of thy holy lawe And that we may laboure and trauaile for oure necessities in this lyfe like the birdes of the ayre and the lilies of the fielde without care For thou hast promised to bee carefull for vs and hast commaunded that vpō thee we should cast all our care which liuest and reignest world without end Amen A prayer necessarye for all persones O Mercifull God I a wretched bed sinner reknowledge my selfe bounde to kepe thy holy commaundementes but yet vnable to perfourme them and to bee accepted for iuste without the righteousnes of Iesu Christe thy onely sonne who hath perfectly fulfilled thy lawe to iustify al men that beleue and trust in him Therefore graunt me grace I beseche thee to bee occupyed in dooynge of good woorkes whyche thou commaundeste in holye Scrypture all the dayes of my lyfe to thy glorye and yet to truste onelye in thy mercy in Christes merites to be pourged from my sinnes and not in my good workes be they neuer so many Geue grace to loue thy holy word feruently to searche the Scritptures diligentlye to reade them humblye to vnderstand them truely to liue after them effectually Order my life to O Lorde that it be alway acceptable vnto thee Geue me grace not to reioyce in any thing that displeaseth thee but euermore to delyte in those thynges that please thee be they neuer so contrarye to my desyres Teache me so to praye that my peticions may be graciously hearde of thee Kepe me vpryghte among diuersitie of opinions and iudgementes in the worlde that I neuer swarue from thy trueth taught in holye scripture In prosperitie O Lorde saue me that I waxe not proude In aduersitie helpe me that I neither dispayre nor blaspheme thy holye name but taking it pacientlye to geue thee thankes and trust to be deliuered after thy pleasure When I happen to fall into synne thorowe frayltie I beseche thee to woorke true repentaunce in my hearte that I may be sorye withoute desperacion trust in thy mercye without pres umpcion that I maye amende my lyfe and become truely religious without hipocrisie lowlye in hearte without faynyng faythfull and trustie withoute deceitpte merye withoute lightnesse sad without mistrust sober without slouthfulnes content with mine owne without couetousnes To tell my neighbour his faultes charitably without dissimulacion To instructe my housholde in thy lawes truelye To obeye oure Kyng and all gouernours vnder him vnfaynedlye To receiue all lawes and cōmon ordinaunces which disagreeth not from thy holy woord obediently To paye euerye man that which I owe vnto him truely To backebyte no man nor slaunder my neyghboure secretlye and to abhorre all vyce louing all goodnes earnestlye O Lorde graunte me thus to doe for the glory of thy holy name Amen ¶ A prayer necessary to be sayd at all tymes O Bountiful Iesu O swete sauiour O Christ the sonne of God haue pietie vpon me mercifully heare me and despyse not my prayers Thou hast created me of nothing thou hast redemed me frō the bondage of synne death and hell neither with golde nor siluer but with thy most precious body once offered vpō the crosse thine own blud shed once for al for my raūsome therfore cast me not away whō thou by thy great wisdom hast made despise me not whom thou hast redemed with such a precious treasure Nor let my wickednes destroy that which thy goodnes hath builded Now whiles I liue O Iesu haue mercye on me for if I dye out of thy fauour it wil be to late afterwarde to call for thy mercy whiles I haue time to repent loke vpon me with thy merciful eyes as thou didst vouchsafe to loke vpon Peter thyne Apostle that I maye bewayle my sinfull life and obtein thy fauour and dye therin I reknowoledge that if thou shouldest deale with me according to verye iustice I haue deserued euerlasting deathe Therefore I appeale to thy high throne of mercy trusting to obteyn Gods fauoure not for my merites but for thy merites O Iesu who hast geuen thy selfe an acceptable sacrifice to thy father to appease his wrath and to bring all sinners truely repenting and amending theyr euil life into hys fauour agayn Accept me O lorde among the number of them that shal be saued forgeue me my sinnes geue me grace to leade a godly innocēt life graūt me thy heauēly wisdō inspire my heart with fayth hope charitie geue me grace to bee hūble in prosperitie paciēt in aduersitie obedient to my rulers faithful vnto thē that trust me dealing truely with al men to liue chastly in wedlocke abhorre adulterye fornicacion al vnclēnes to do good after my power vnto al mē to hurt no man the thy name may be glorified in me during this presēt life that I afterward may obtein euerlasting life thorow thi merci the merites of thi passiō amē ¶ Certayne prayers taken oute of the seruice dayly vsed in the Quenes house Mondai ALmighty god the father of mercy god of al comfort the which onely forgeuest sinne forgeue vnto vs our synnes good Lorde forgeue vnto vs our sinnes that by the multitude of thy mercies they maye be couered not imputed vnto vs by the operacion of the holy ghoste we maye haue power and strength herafter to resist synne by our sauiour and Lord Iesu Christ Amen Tuesday O Lord God which despysest not a contrite heart forgeattest the sinnes and wickednes of a sinner in what houre soeuer he doth mourne lament his olde maner of liuing Graunt vnto vs O lord true contricion of heart that we may vehemently despyse our synneful life past and wholely be conuerted vnto thee by our Sauiour and Lord Iesus Christ Amen Wednesdaye O Mercifull father by whole power strength we may ouercome our enemies both bodely gostly graunte vnto vs O Lorde that accordyng to oure promyse made in baptisme we may ouercome the chief enemies of our soule that is the desires of the world the pleasures of the flesh the suggestions of the wicked spirit so after leade our liues in holines righteousnes the we may serue thee in spirit in trueth that by our sauiour lord Iesus Christ Amen Thursdaye O Almightie euerlasting god which not onelye geuest euerye good and perfite gifte but also encreasest those giftes the thou hast geuē we most humbly beseche thee mercifull God to encreafse in vs the gifte of faith that we maye truly beleue in thee in thy promises made vnto vs that neither by our negligence nor infirmitie of the fleshe nor by greuousnes of temptacion nether by the subtil craftes assaultes of the deuil we be drieuen from fayth in the bloud of our sauiour and Lord Iesu Christ Amen Fryday GRaunt vnto vs O mercifull God we most hartely beseche thee knowledge and true vnderstandyng of thy word that all ignoraūce expelled we may knowe what thy wil pleasure is
or hys deputie shall appoynt the place the chauncels shall remayne as they haue done in tymes past And here is to be noted that the Minister at the tyme of the communion and at all other tymes in hys ministracion shall vse neyther Albe Vestment nor Cope but beeyng Archebisshop or Bisshop he shall haue and weare a rochet and being a Priest or Deacon he shal haue and weare a surples onelye ¶ An ordre for Morning prayer daylye throughoute the yeare At the beginning both of Morning praier lykewise of Euening prayer the Minister shal reade with a loude voyce some one of these sentences of the scriptures that folowe And then he shall saye that whiche is wrytten after the sayde sentences Ezechiel xviii AT what tyme soeuer a sinner dooeth repente hym of his synne frō the bottome of his heart I wyll putte all hys wickednes out of my remembraunce sayeth the Lorde Psal li. I doe knowe myne owne wickednes and my synne is alwaye agaynst me Psal li. Turne thy face awaye from oure synnes O Lorde and blot out all oure offences Psalm li A sorowfull spirite is a sacrifice to God despyse not O Lorde humble and contryte heartes Ioel. ii Rente youre heartes and not your garmentes and turne to the Lord youre God because he is gentle and merciful he is paciente and of muche mercy and suche a one that is sory for youre affliccyons Dani. ix To thee O Lorde God belongeth mercy and forgeuenes for we haue gone awaye from thee and haue not harkened to thy voyce wherby we might walke in thy lawes whyche thou hast appoynted for vs. Ierem. ii Correct vs O Lord and yet in thy iudgement not in thy furye leste we shoulde be consumed and brought to nothing Math. iii Amend your lyues for the kyngdome of God is at hand Luke xv I wyll goe to my father and saye to him father I haue synned agaynste heauen and agaynste thee I am no more worthy to bee called thy sonne Psa cxlii Entre not into iudgement with thy seruauntes O lorde for no fleshe is righteous in thy sighte i. Iohn i. Yf we saye that we haue no synne we deceyue our selues and there is no trueth in vs. DEarely beloued brethren the scripture moueth vs in sondrye places to acknowledge and confesse our manifold sinnes and wickednes that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of almyghtie God oure heauenly father but confesse them with an humble lowely penitent and obedient heart to th ende that we may obtayne forgeuenes of the same by his infinite goodnes and mercy And although we oughte at all times humbly to knowledge our sinnes before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do whē we assemble and mete together to rendre thankes for the greate benefites that we baue receyued at his handes to set foorth his moste worthy prayse to heare his most holy worde and to aske those thinges whych be requisite and necessarie aswell for the body as the soule Wherfore I praye and beseche you as many as be here present to accompanie me with a pure heart and humble voyce vnto the throne of the heauenly grace saying after me ¶ A generall confession to bee sayde of the whole congregacion after the Minister kneelyng ALmighty and most merciful father we haue erred straied from thy waies lyke lost shepe We haue folowed to much the deuises desires of our own heartes We haue offended against thy holy lawes We haue lefte vndone those thynges whiche we oughte to haue done and we haue done those thynges whyche we oughte not to haue done and there is no healthe in vs but thou O Lorde haue mercy vpon vs myserable offendours Spare thou them O God which confesse theyr faultes Restore thou them that be penitent accordyng to thy promyses declared vnto mankynde in Christe Iesu oure Lorde And graunt O most mercyfull father for hys sake that we may hereafter lyue a godly ryghteous and sobre lyfe to the glory of thy holy name Amen ¶ The absolucion to be pronounced by the Minister alone ALmightye God the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ whiche desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turne from hys wyckednes liue and hath geuen power and commaundement to hys ministers to declare pronounce to hys people being penitent the absolucion and remission of theyr synnes he pardoneth and absolueth all them whyche truely repent vnfaynedly beleue hys holy ghospell Wherfore we beseche him to graunte vs true repentaunce and hys holy spirite that those thynges maye please hym whiche we doe at thys presente and that the rest of our lyfe hereafter may bee pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternall ioye through Iesus Christe oure Lorde ¶ The people shall aunswere Amen Then shall the Minister begyn the Lordes prayer with a loude voyce OVre father which arte in heauen halowed bee thy name Thy kingdome come Thy wyll bee done in earth as it is in heauen Geue vs thys day our dayly bread And forgeue vs oure trespasses as we forgeue them that trespasse agaynste vs. And leade vs not into temptacion But delyuer vs from euell Amen ¶ Then lykewyse he shall saye O Lorde open thou oure lippes Aunswer And our mouth shall shewe foorth thy prayse ¶ Priest O God make spede to saue vs. ¶ Aunswer O Lorde make hast to helpe vs. ¶ Priest Glory be to the father and to the sonne to the holy ghoste As it was in the beginnyng is nowe and euer shall bee worlde without ende Amen Prayse ye the Lorde ¶ Then shal be sayd or song this Psalme folowyng O Come let vs syng vnto the Lord let vs hartely reioyce in the strength of oure saluacyon Let vs come before hys presence with thankesgeuyng and shewe oure selfe glad in hym with Psalmes For the Lorde is a great God and a great kyng aboue al Goddes In hys hand are all the corners of the earthe and the strength of the hylles is hys also The sea is hys and he made it and his handes prepared the drye lande O come let vs worship and fall downe and knele before the Lorde oure maker For he is the Lorde oure God and wee are the people of his pasture and the shepe of hys handes To daye yf ye wyll heare hys voyce harden not youre heartes as in the prouocacion and as in the day of temptacyon in the wyldernes When your fathers tempted me proued me and sawe my workes Fortie yeares long was I grieued with this generacion and sayde it is a people that doe erre in theyr heartes for they haue not knowen my wayes Vnto whom I sware in my wrathe that they shoulde not entre into my reste Glory be to the father and to the sōne to the holy ghost As it was in the beginning is nowe and euer shall be worlde wythout ende Amen Then
Prophete of the highest for thou shalt goe before the face of the Lord to prepare hys wayes To geue knowledge of saluacion vnto his people for the remission of theyr synnes Through the tender mercy of our God wherby the daye spryng from an high hath visited vs. To geue light to them that sit in darkenes and in the shadowe of death and to guide our fete into the way of peace Glorye bee to the father and to the sonne and to the holy gost As it was in the beginning is nowe and euer c. Or els thys Psalme Iubilate deo psa c O Be ioyfull in the lord al ye landes serue the lord with gladnes and come before his presence with a song Be ye sure that the lord he is god it is he that hath made vs and not we our selues we are his people and the shepe of his pasture O goe youre waye into hys gates with thankesgeuing and into his courtes with prayse be thankefull vnto hym and speake good of hys name For the Lord is gracious his mercy is euerlasting and hys trueth endureth from generacion to generacion Glory be to the father and to the sonne and to the. c. As it was in the beginning is now and euer shal be world without ende Amen Then shal be sayd the Crede by the Minister and the people standing I Beleue in god the father almightie maker of heauen and earth And in Iesus Chryste hys onely sonne our Lorde Which was conceiued by the holy goste borne of the virgin Marye Suffred vnder Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buryed he descended into hell The thyrd daye he rose agayn from the dead He ascended into heauen and sitteth on the right hande of God the father almightye From thence shall he come to iudge the quicke and the dead I beleue in the holye goste The holye Catholyke Churche The communyon of Saynctes The forgeuenesse of synnes The resurreccyon of the body And the lyfe euerlastyng Amen ¶ And after that these prayers folowyng aswel at Euenyng prayer as at Morning prayer all deuoutely knelyng The Minister first pronouncyng with a loude voyce The Lorde be with you Aunswere And with thy spirite The Minister ¶ Let vs pray Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. ¶ Then the Minister Clerkes and people shall saye the Lordes prayer in Englishe with a loude voyce ¶ Our father which art in heauen c. Then the Minister standing vp shal saye O lorde shewe thy mercy vpon vs. Aunswere And graunt vs thy saluacion ¶ Priest O Lorde saue the kyng Aunswere And mercifully heare vs when we call vpon thee ¶ Priest Indue thy ministers with righteousnes Aunswere And make thy chosen people ioyfull Priest O lord saue thy people Aunswere And blesse thyne enheritaunce Priest Geue peace in our tyme O Lorde Aunswere Because there is none other that fighteth for vs but onely thou O God Priest O God make cleane our heartes within vs. Aunswere And take not thyne holy spirite from vs. Then shall folowe three Collectes The first of the day which shal be the same that is appointed at the Communion The second for peace The third for grace to liue wel And the two last Collectes shal neuer alter but dayly be said at Morning prayer throughout all the yeare as foloweth The second Collecte for Peace O God whiche arte aucthour of peace and louer of concorde in knowledge of whom standeth oure eternall lyfe whose seruice is perfecte freedome defende vs thy humble seruauntes in al assaultes of our enemies that we surely trustyng in thy defence may not feare the power of any aduersaryes through the might of of Iesu Christ our lord Amen The thyrd Collect for grace O Lord our heauenly father almightie and euerlasting god which hast safely brought vs in the beginning of thys daye defende vs the same with thy mightie power and graunte that this day we fall into no synne neither runne into any kinde of daunger but that all our doynges maye be ordered by thy gouernaunce to doe alwayes that is righteous in thy syghte throughe Iesus Chryste oure Lorde Amen ¶ An ordre for Euening prayer throughout the yeare The Priest shall saye ¶ Our father which art c Then lykewyse he shall saye O Lorde open thou our lyppes Aunswere And our mouth shall shewe foorth thy prayse Priest O God make spede to saue vs. Aunswere Lord make hast to helpe vs. Priest Glory bee to the father to the sonne to the holy goste As it was in the beginning is nowe and euer shall be world without ende Amen Prayse ye the Lorde Then Psalmes in ordre as they be appoynted in the Table for Psalmes excepte there be proper Psalmes appoynted for that daye Then a Lesson of the olde Testamente as is appoynted lykewyse in the Kalender except there be proper Lessons appoynted for that day After that Magnificat in Englishe as foloweth Magnificat MY soule doeth magnifie the Lorde and my spirite hath reioysed in God my Sauioure For he hath regarded the lowelines of his handmayden For behold from henceforth al generacions shal cal me blessed For he that is mightie hath magnified me and holy is hys name And hys mercy is on them that feare hym throughout al generacions He hath shewed strēgth with hys arme he hath scattered the proude in the ymaginacyon of theyr heartes He hath put down the mightie from their seate and hath exalted the humble and meke He hath fylled the hungrye with good thynges and the riche he hath sente emptye awaye He remembryng his mercy hathe holpen hys seruaunte Israel as he promised to our forefathers Abraham and hys seede for euer Glory bee to the father and to the sonne to the holy ghost As it was in the beginnyng is nowe and euer shal be worlde without ende Amen ¶ Or els this Psalme Cantate domino psa xcviii O Syng vnto the Lorde a newe song for he hathe done merueylous thynges With his owne ryght hand and with hys holye arme hath he gotten hymselfe the victory The Lorde declared hys saluacyon hys ryghteouseness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen He hathe remembred hys mercye and trueth towarde the house of Israel and all the endes of the world haue seen the saluacyon of oure God Shew youre selues ioyfull vnto the Lorde all ye landes sing reioyce and geue thankes Prayse the Lorde vpon the harpe syng to the harpe with a Psalme of thankesgeuyng With trompettes also shawmes O shewe youre selues ioyfull before the Lorde the kyng Let the sea make a noyse and all that therein is the round worlde and they that dwell therein Let the floudes clappe theyr handes and let the hylles be ioyfull together before the Lorde for he is come to iudge the earthe With righteousnes shall he iudge the world and the people with equitie Glory be to the father c. As it was in the
then art thou Helias he saieth I am not Art thou the Prophet he aunswered no. Then sayd they vnto him what art thou that we may geue an aunswere vnto thē that sent vs what sayest thou of thy selfe he saide I am the voyce of a cryer in the wildernes make straight the way of the lord as said the prophet Esay And they which were sente were of the Phariseis and they asked hym and sayde vnto hym Why baptisest thou then if thou bee not Christ nor Helias nether that Prophet Iohn aunswered them saying I baptise with water but there stādeth one among you whom ye know not he it is whiche though he came after me was before me whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to vnlooce These thynges were done at Bethabara beyond Iordan where Iohn did Baptise ¶ Christmas daye ¶ The Collecte ALmightie God which hast geuē vs thy onely begottē sonne to take our nature vpon him and this day to bee borne of a pure virgin Graunt that we being regenerate and made thy childrē by adopcion and grace may dayly be renued by thy holy spirite through thesame oure Lord Iesus Christ who lyueth and reygneth with c. Amen ¶ The Epistle Hebre. i. GOd in times past diuersly and many wayes spake vnto the fathers by Prophetes but in these laste daies he hath spoken to vs by his owne sōne whō he hath made heyre of al thinges by whom also he made the world Whiche sonne beyng the bryghtnes of hys glory and the veri ymage of his substaūce ruling al thinges with the worde of his power hath by his owne person purged our sinnes and sitteth on the right hand of the maiestye on high being so much more excellent then the Aungels as he hathe by inheritaunce obteyned a more excellent name then they For vnto whiche of the Aungels saide he at any tyme Thou art my sonne this daye haue I begotten thee And agayn I wil be his father and he shal be my sōne And again when he bringeth in the first begotten sonne into the worlde he sayth and let al the Aūgels of God worship him And vnto the Aungels he sayth He maketh his Aungels spirites his ministers a flame of fire But vnto the sonne he sayeth thy seate O god shal be for euer and euer The scepter of thy kingdom is ryght scepter Thou hast loued righteousnes and hated iniquitie wherfore God euen thy God hath annoynted thee with oyle of gladnes aboue thy felowes And thou Lorde in the beginning hast layd the foundacyon of the earth and the heauens are the workes of thy handes They shall peryshe but thou endurest But they all shall waxe olde as dooeth a garmente and as a vesture shalte thou chaunge them and thei shal be chaunged But thou art euen thesame and thy yeares shall not fayle The Gospell Iohn i. IN the beginnyng was the word and the word was with God and God was the word The same was in the beginnyng with God All thynges were made by it and without it was made nothyng that was made In it was lyfe and the life was the light of men and the light shineth in the darkenes and the darkenes cōprehended it not There was sent frō God a mā whose name was Iohn Thesame came as a witnesse to beare witnesse of the lyghte that all men throughe him mighte belieue He was not that lyghte but was sent to beare witnesse of the lyghte That lyghte was the true lyght whyche lyghteth euery man that cometh into the worlde He was in the world and the worlde was made by him and the worlde knewe him not He came among hys owne and his owne receyued him not But as many as receyued him to thē gaue he power to be made sōnes of God euen them that beleued on hys name whych were borne not of bloude nor of the wyll of the fleshe nor yet of the wyll of man but of God And the same word became fleshe dwelt among vs and we saw the glory of it as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father full of grace and trueth ¶ Sainct Stephens daye ¶ The Collecte GRaunt vs O Lorde to learne to loue oure enemies by the example of thy martyr Sainct Stephē who prayed for hys persecutours to thee whiche lyuest c. Then shall folow a Collecte of the Natiuitie whiche shal be sayde continually vnto Neweyeares daye ¶ The Epistle Actes vii ANd Stephen being full of the holy ghost loked vp stedfastly with his eyes into heauen and saw the glory of God Iesus standyng on the ryght hand of God said behold I seethe heauens opē the sonne of man standing on the right hand of God Then they gaue a shoute with a loude voyce stopped their eares ranne vpon him all at once and cast him out of the citie and stoned hym And the witnesses layd downe theyr clothes at a yong mans feete whose name was Saule And they stoned Stephen callyng on and saying Lord Iesu receyue my spirite And he kneled downe and cryed with a loude voyce Lord laye not thys synne to theyr charge And when he had thus spoken he fell a slepe ¶ The Gospell Mathew xxiii BEholde I sende vnto you Prophetes and wyse menne and Scribes and some of them ye shall kil and crucifye and some of them shall ye scourge in youre Sinagogues and persecute them from citie to citie that vpon you maye come all the ryghteous bloude whiche hathe been shed vpon the earthe from the bloud of ryghteous Abel vnto the bloud of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias whom ye shew betwene the temple and the aultare Verely I say vnto you all these thynges shall come vpon thys generacyon O Ierusalem thou that killest the Prophetes and stonest them whiche are sent vnto thee howe often woulde I haue gathered thy children together euen as the henne gathereth her chickens vnder her winges ye would not Behold your house is left vnto you desolate For I say vnto you ye shall not see me henceforth til that ye say Blessed is he the cometh in the name of the lord Sainct Iohn Euangelistes day ¶ The Collecte MErciful lord we beseche thee to cast thy bright beames of lighte vpon thy Churche that it beyng lightened by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and Euangeliste Iohn maye attayne to thy euerlastyng giftes Throughe Iesus Christe our Lorde Amen ¶ The Epistle i. Iohn i. THat whiche was from the begynnyng whyche we haue hearde whyche we haue seene with oure eyes whiche we haue loked vpon and our handes haue handled of the worde of life And the life appeared and we haue seen and beare witnes and shew vnto you that eternall lyfe whiche was with the father and appeared vnto vs. That whiche we haue seene and hearde declare we vnto you that ye also maye haue felowship with vs and that oure felowship may bee with the father and his sonne Iesus Chiste And this
furth a sonne and thou shalt call hys name Iesus for he shall saue hys people from their sinnes Al this was done that it might be fulfilled whiche was spoken of the Lorde by the Prophete saying Beholde a mayde shall be with childe and shasll bryng foorth a sonne and they shall call hys name Emanuell whiche if a man interprete is asmuche to saye as God with vs. And Ioseph assone as he a woke out of slepe did as the Aungell of the Lord had bidden him and he toke his wyfe vnto hym and knew her not til she had brought forth her fyrst begotten sonne and called his name Iesus ¶ The Cyrcumcision of Christ ¶ The Collect. ALmightie God whiche madest thy blessed sonne to be circumcised and obedient to the law for man graunte vs the circumcision of the spirite that our heartes and all our membres being mortifyed from all worldlye and carnal lustes may in al thynges obey thy blessed wil through thesame thy sonne Iesus Christ our Lorde ¶ The Epistle Rom. iiii BLessed is that man to whom the Lorde will not impute sinne Came this blessednes then vpon the vncyrcumcision or vpon the cyrcumcision also for we say that fayth was rekoned to Abraham for righteousnes How was it then rekoned when he was in the cyrcumcision or when he was in the vncircumcisiō not in tyme of cyrcumcision but when he was yet vncyrcumcised And he receiued the sygne of cyrcumcision as a seale of the righteousnes of fayth which he had yet beeyng vncyrcumcised that he should be the father of al them that belieue though they be not cyrcumcised that righteousnes might bee imputed to them also and that he might bee the father of cyrcumcision not vnto them onely which came of the cyrcumcised but vnto thē also that walke in the steppes of the faythe that was in oure father Abraham beefore the tyme of cyrcumcision For the promyse that he shoulde be heyre of the worlde happened not to Abraham or to hys sede through the lawe but through the ryghteousnesse of fayth For if they whiche are of the lawe be heyres then is fayth but vayn and the promise of none effecte ¶ The Gospell Luke ii ANd it fortuned assone as the Angels wer gone away from the shepeheardes into heauen they saide one to another let vs goe now euen vnto Bethleem and see this thing that we heare saye is happened whiche the Lorde hath shewed vnto vs. And they came with hast and found Mary and Ioseph and the babe layde in a maunger And when they had seene it they published abroade the saying that was tolde them of that chylde And all they that heard it wondred at those thinges which were tolde them of the shepeheardes But Mary kept all those sayinges and pondred them in her hearte And the shepeheardes returned praysyng and laudyng God for all the thynges that they had hearde and seene euen as it was tolde vnto them And when the eyght daye was come that the chylde should bee circumcised hys name was called Iesus whyche was named of the Aungell before he was conceyued in the wombe Yf there bee a Sundaye betwene the Epiphanye and the Circumcision then shal be vsed the same Collecte Epistle Gospell at the communion whiche was vsed vpon the daye of Circumcision ¶ The Epiphanie ¶ The Collecte O God whiche by the leadyng of a starre diddest manyfeste thy onely begotten sonne to the Gentyles Mercifullye graunte that we whiche knowe thee nowe by fayth maye after thys lyfe haue the fruicion of thy glorious Godhead throughe Chryste oure Lorde ¶ The Epistle Ephe. iii. FOr thys cause I Paule am a prysoner of Iesus Chryst for you Heathen yf ye haue heard of the ministracion of the grace of God whiche is geuen me to you warde For by reuelacion shewed he the misterye vnto me as I wrote afore in fewe wordes whereby when ye reade ye maye vnderstande my knowledge in the misterie of Christe whiche mistery in tymes paste was not opened vnto the sonnes of men as it is nowe declared vnto his holye Apostles and Prophetes by the spirite that the Gentiles should be inheritours also and of the same body partakers of hys promyse of Christe by the meanes of the gospell whereof I am made a minister accordyng to the gyfte of the grace of God whyche is geuen vnto me after the woorkyng of hys power Vnto me the leaste of all saynctes is thys grace geuen that I shoulde preache among the Gentyles the vnsearcheable ryches of Chryste and to make all menne see what the felowship of the mistery is whyche from the beginning of the worlde hathe been hid in God whiche made all thynges throughe Iesus Christe to the entent that nowe vnto the rulers and powers in heauenly thynges myght be knowen by the congregacyon the manifolde wysedome of God according to the eternall purpose which he wroughte in Christe Iesu our Lorde by whō we haue boldenes and entraunce with the cōfidence whiche is by the fayth of hym ¶ The Gospell Mat. ii WHen Iesus was borne in Bethleem a cytie of Iury in the tyme of Herod the kyng Beholde there came wise menne from the Easte to Ierusalem saying where is he that is borne kyng of the Iewes For we haue seen hys starre in the Easte and are come to wurshippe hym When Herod the kyng had hearde these thynges he was troubled and all the citie of Ierusalē with hym And when he had gathered all the chiefe priestes and Scribes of the people together he demaunded of them where Chirste shoulde bee borne And they sayde vnto him at Bethleem in Iury. For thus it is wrytten by the Prophete And thou Bethleem in the lande of Iury arte not the leaste among the Princes of Iuda for oute of thee there shal come vnto me the capitayne that shall gouerne my people Israel Then Herode when he had priuely called the wyse menne he enquired of them dylygently what tyme the starre appeared and he bad them goe to Bethleem and sayde goe youre waye thether and searche diligently for the chylde And when ye haue founde hym bryng me woorde agayne that I maye come and wurshyp hym also When they had hearde the kyng they departed and loe the starre whyche they sawe in the Easte wente before them tyll it came and stoode ouer the place wherein the childe was When they sawe the starre they were exceadyng glad and wente into the house and founde the chylde with Marye hys mother and fell downe flat and wurshipped him and opened theyr treasures and offered vnto hym gyftes Golde Frankyncense and Mirre And after they were warned of God in slepe that they should not goe again to Herode they returned into their own countrey another way ¶ The first Sunday after the Epiphanie ¶ The Collecte LOrde we beseche thee mercifully to receiue the praiers of thy people which cal vpon thee and graunt that thei may both perceiue and know what thynges they oughte
is the sea of Ciberias and a greate multitude folowed hym because they sawe his miracles which he dyd on them that were diseased And Iesus went vp into a mountayne and there he sate with his disciples And Easter a feast of the Iewes was nie Whē Iesus then lift vp hys eyes and sawe a greate company come vnto him he saied vnto Philip whence shall we bye bread that these may eate This he said to proue him for he hymselfe knew what he would doe Philip aunswered him two hundreth peniworth of bread are not sufficient for thē that euery mā may take a litle One of his disciples Andrewe Simon Peters brother sayth vnto hym There is a ladde which hath fiue barley loaues two fisshes but what are they among so many And Iesus sayd make the people sit down There was much grasse in the place so the men sate downe in numbre aboute fyue thousande And Iesus toke the bread and when he had geuen thankes he gaue to the disciples and the disciples to them that were sette down and likewise of the fisshes as muche as they woulde When they had eaten ynough he sayed vnto his disciples gather vp the broken meate whiche remayneth that nothyng bee lost And they gathered it together and filled .xii. baskets with the broken meate of the fiue barley loaues which broken meate remayned vnto them that had eaten Then those men when they had seen the miracle that Iesus dyd sayd this is of a trueth thesame Prophete that should come into the worlde The fifth Sunday in Lent ¶ The Collecte WE beseche thee almightie God mercifully to looke vpon thy people that by thy great goodnes they may bee gouerned and preserued euermore both in boby soule through Iesus Christ our Lorde ¶ The Epistle Hebre. ix CHriste beeyng an hye Priest of good thynges to come came by a greater a more perfecte tabernacle not made with handes that is to saye not of this building neither by the bloud of Goates and Calues but by his owne bloud he entred in once into the holy place and founde eternall redempcion For yf the bloud of Oxen of Goates and the asshes of a yong kowe when it was sprinkled purifieth the vncleane as touchyng the purifying of the fleshe howe muche more shall the bloud of Christ which through the eternal spirite offred him selfe withoute spotte to God purge youre conscyence from dead workes for to serue the liuing god And for this cause he is the mediatoure of the new Testament that through death which chaunsed for the redempcyon of those transgressions that were vnder the fyrste Testamente they whych are called myghte receyue the promesse of eternall inheritaunce ¶ The Gospell Iob. viii WHich of you can rebuke me of sinne Yf I saye the trueth why doe ye not beleue me He that is of God heareth goddes wordes Ye therfore heare thē not because ye are not of god Then aunswered the Iewes and sayd vnto hym say we not wel that thou art a Samaritane and hast the deuill Iesus aunswered I haue not the deuil but I honor my father and ye haue dishonoured me I seeke not myne owne prayse there is one that seketh iudgeth Verely verely I say vnto you if a man kepe my saying he shal neuer see death Then sayd the Iewes vnto him nowe know we that thou hast the deuil Abrahā is dead and the Prophetes thou sayest if a man kepe my saying he shall neuer tast of death Art thou greater then our father Abraham whiche is dead And the Prophetes are dead whom makest thou thy selfe Iesus aunswered Yf I honoure my selfe mine honor is nothing it is my father that honoureth me whiche you saye is youre God and yet ye haue not knowen hym but I know hym if I say I know him not I shal be a lier like vnto you But I know him and kepe his saying Your father Abraham was glad to see my daye he saw it and reioysed Then sayd the Iewes vnto him Thou art not yet fifty yeare olde haste thou seene Abraham Iesus sayd vnto them Verely verely I say vnto you ere Abraham was borne I am Then toke they vp stones to cast at hym but Iesus hidde himselfe and went out of the temple ¶ The Sunday next before Easter ¶ The Collecte ALmighty and euerlastyng God whiche of thy tender loue towardes man hast sēt our sauiour Iesus Christ to take vpon hym oure fleshe and to suffre deathe vpon the crosse that all mankynde shoulde folow the example of hys greate humilitie mercifully graunte that we both folowe the example of his pacience and be made partakers of hys resurreccion thorow thesame Iesus Christ our Lorde ¶ The Epistle Philip. ii LEt thesame mynde bee in you that was also in Christ Iesu whiche when he was in the shape of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God neuerthelesse he made him selfe of no reputacion taking on him the shape of a seruaunt and became lyke vnto man and was found in his apparel as a man He humbled himselfe and became obedient to the death euen the death of the crosse Wherfore God hathe also exalted him on highe geuen hym a name whiche is aboue all names that in the name of Iesus euery knee shoulde bowe bothe of thynges in heauen and thinges in earth and thynges vnder the earth and that all tongues shoulde confesse that Iesus Christe is Lord vnto the prayse of God the father ¶ The Gospell Mat. xxvi ANd it came to passe when Iesus had finished all these sayinges he sayde vnto hys disciples ye know that after two dayes shal be Easter and the sonne of manne shal be delyuered ouer to bee crucifyed Then assembled together the chiefe Priestes and the Scribes and the elders of the people vnto the palace of he hygh Priest which was called Caiphas and held a coūsel that they might take Iesus by subteltie and kil him But they sayde not on the holy daye leste there bee an vproare among the people Whē Iesus was in Bethanie in the house of Simon the Leper there came vnto him a woman hauing an Alabaster boxe of precious ointmēt and powred it on his head as he satte at the boarde But when his disciples sawe it they had indignacion saying wherto serueth this waste This oyntment migtht haue been well solde and geuen to the poore When Iesus vnderstode that he sayd vnto them why trouble ye the woman for she hath wrought a good worke vpon me For ye haue the poore alwayes with you but me ye shall not haue alwayes And in that she hathe caste thys oyntmente on my body she did it to bury me Verely I saye vnto you wheresoeuer thys Gospell shal be preached in all the worlde there shall also this be tolde that she hathe done for a memoriall of her Then one of the twelue which was called Iudas Iscarioth went vnto the chiefe Priestes and sayd vnto them what will ye
will of god that with well doing ye maye stop the mouthes of foolishe and ignoraunt men as free and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnes but euen as the seruaūtes of God Honoure all men loue brotherly felowshippe feare God honour the kyng ¶ The Gospell Iohn xvi IEsus sayed to hys disciples After a while ye shal not see me againe after a while ye shall see me for I goe to the father Thē said some of his disciples betwene thēselues what is thys that he sayeth vnto vs after a while ye shall not see me and agayn after a whyle ye shal see me and that I goe to the father They sayd therefore what is this that he sayth after a whyle We cannot tel what he saith Iesus perceiued that they would aske hym and saied vnto them ye enquire of this betwene your selues because I sayd after a while ye shal not see me and agayne after a whyle ye shal see me Verely verely I say vnto you ye shall wepe lament but contrary wyse the world shall reioyce Ye shall sorowe but youre sorowe shal be turned to ioye A woman when she trauaileth hath sorow because her houre is come But assone as she is deliuered of the childe she remembreth no more the anguishe for ioye that a man is borne into the world And ye now therfore haue sorow but I wil see you agayne and your heartes shal reioice and your ioye shal no man take from you The fourth Sundaye after Easter ¶ The Collecte ALmightie god which doest make the mindes of al faithful men to be of one wil Graunt vnto thy people that they may loue the thyng which thou commaundest and desyre that which thou doest promyse that emong the sondry and manifolde chaunges of the worlde oure heartes maye surely there be fixed wheras true ioyes are to be founde Through Christ our Lorde ¶ The Epistle Iames. i EVery good gift euery perfect gift is frō aboue and cometh down frō the father of lightes with whō is no variablenes nether shadow of chaūge Of hys own wil begate he vs with the worde of trueth that we shoulde be the first fruite of his creatures Wherfore dere brethren let euery man be swifte to heare slowe to speake slowe to wrath For the wrath of mā worketh not that which is righteous before God Wherfore lay aparte all filthinesse and superfluitie of maliciousnes and receiue with mekenes the word that is graffed in you which is hable to saue your soules ¶ The Gospell Iohn xvi IEsus sayed vnto his disciples now I goe my waye to hym that sent me and none of you asketh me whither I goe But because I haue sayd such thynges vnto you your heartes are full of sorowe Neuerthlesse I tell you the trueth it is expedient for you the I goe awaye For if I goe not awaye that comforter will not come vnto you But if I depart I will sende him vnto you And whē he is come he wyll rebuke the world of synne and of righteousnesse and of iudgemente Of synne because they beleue not on me Of rightousnes because I goe to my father and ye shal se me no more Of iudgemente because the prince of this world is iudged already I haue yet many thynges to say vnto you but ye cannot beare them awaie nowe howbeit when he is come which is the spirite of trueth he wil leade you into al trueth He shall not speake of hymselfe but whatsoeuer he shal heare that shal he speake and he wil shew you thinges to come He shal gloryfy me for he shall receiue of mine and shall shewe vnto you All thynges that the father hath are mine therfore said I vnto you that he shal take of mine and shewe vnto you ¶ The fifth Sunday after Easter ¶ The Collect. LOrd from whom al good thinges doe come graunt vs thy humble seruauntes that by thi holy inspiracion we may thynke those thynges that be good and by thy mercyful guiding may perfourme thesame through out lord Iesus Christ ¶ The Epistle Iames. i. SE that ye be doers of the word and not hearers only deceiuing your own selues For if any mā heare the worde and declareth not thesame by his workes he is lyke vnto a man beholdyng hys bodely face in a glasse For assone as he hath loked on hymselfe he goeth his way and forgeatteth immediately what his fashion was But whoso loketh in the perfect law of libertie and continueth therein if he be not a forgeatful hearer but a doer of the worke thesame shal be happi in his dede If any mā emong you seme to be deuout and refrayneth not hys tong but deceiueth his own heart this mans deuocyon is in vayne Pure deuocion vndefiled before God the father is this to visit the fatherles and wiedowes in their aduersitie and to kepe himself vnspotted of the world ¶ The Gospell Iohn xvi VErely verely I saye vnto you whatsoeuer ye aske the father in my name he wil geue it you Hitherto haue ye asked nothyng in my name Aske and ye shall receiue that your ioy may be ful These thynges haue I spoken vnto you by prouerbes The time wil come when I shall no more speake vnto you by prouerbes but I shall shewe you plainly from my father At that day shall ye aske in my name And I say not vnto you that I wil speake vnto my father for you For the father himselfe loueth you beecause ye haue loued me and haue beleued that I came out frō god I wente out from the father and came into the worlde Agayne I leaue the world and goe to the father His disciples sayed vnto hym Loe nowe thou talkest playnlye and speakest no prouerbe Nowe are we sure that thou knowest all thynges and nedest not that any man shoulde aske thee any questiō therfore beleue we that thou camest frō god Iesus aūswered thē now ye doe beleue Behold the houre draweth nie is already come that ye shal be scatered euery mā to hys owne and shall leaue me alone And yet am I not alone for the father is with me These wordes haue I spoken vnto you that in me ye myghte haue peace for in the world shal ye haue tribulacion but be of good chere I haue ouercome the world The Ascencion daye ¶ The Collect. GRaunt we beseche thee almightie God that lyke as we doe beleue thy onely begotten sonne oure Lorde to haue ascended into the heauens so we may also in hert and mind thither ascend and with him continually dwell ¶ The Epistle Actes i. IN the former treatise deare Theophilus we haue spoken of all that Iesus began to doe and teache vntil the day in which he was taken vp after that he throughe the holy goste had geuen commaundementes vnto the Apostles whom he had chosen to whom also he shewed himselfe aliue after his passyon and that by many tokens appearing vnto them fortye dayes and
that is taughte in the worde ministre vnto hym that teacheth in all good thynges Be not deceiued God is not mocked for whatsoeuer a manne soweth that shall he reape Gala. vi Whyle we haue tyme lette vs doe good vnto all menne and specyallye vnto them whyche are of the householde of faythe i. Tim. vi Godlines is great riches if a man be contented with that he hath for we brought nothing into the world neither may we cary any thyng oute i. Tim. vi Charge them which are riche in this worlde that they be ready to geue and glad to distribute laying vp in store for themselues a good foundacyon agaynste the tyme to come that they may attayne eternall lyfe Heb. vi God is not vnrighteous that he wil forgeat your workes labour that procedeth of loue whiche loue ye haue shewed for his names sake whiche haue ministred vnto sainctes yet doe ministre Heb. xiii To doe good and to distribute forgeat not for with suche sacrfices God is pleased i Ioh. iii. Whoso hathe this worldes good and seeth hys brother haue nede and shutteth vp his compassion from hym howe dwelleth the loue of God in him Tob. iiii Geue almose of thy goodes and turne neuer thy face from any poore man and then the face of the Lord shal not be turned awaye from thee Tob. iiii Be mercifull after thy power If thou haste muche geue plenteouslye If thou haste litle doe thy diligence gladlye to geue of that little for so gatherest thou thy selfe a good rewarde in the day of necessitie Prou. xix He that hath pitie vpon the poore lendeth vnto the Lorde and loke what he layeth out it shal be payed hym agayne Psal lxi Blessed be the man that prouideth for the sycke and nedy the Lord shall deliuer hym in the tyme of trouble Then shall the church wardens or some other by them appoynted gather the deuocion of the people and put the same into the poore mens bore and vpō the offring daies appoynted euery man and woman shall pay to the curate the due and accustomed offringes after whiche done the priest shall saye Let vs praye for the whole state of Christes Churche militante here in earth ALmightie and euerliuing God whiche by thy holy Apostle haste taught vs to make prayers and supplicacyons and to geue thankes for all menne we humbly beseche thee moste mercifullye to accepte our almose If there bee none almose geuē vnto the pore then shal the wordes of acceptyng our almes be lefte oute vnsayde and to receyue these oure prayers which we offer vnto wordes thy deuine maiestye besechyng thee to inspire contynually the vniuersall churche with the spirite of trueth vnitie and our concorde and graunte that all they that doe confesse thy holye name maye agree in the trueth of thy holy woord and lyue in vnitye and godlye loue We beeseche thee also to saue and defende all chrystian Kynges Prynces and gouernours and specially thy seruaunt Edward oure Kyng that vnder hym we maye bee godly and quietly gouerned and graunte vnto hys whole counsayle and to all that bee put in auctoritie vnder hym that they may truelye and indifferentlye minister iustice to the punyshmente of wyckednes and vice and to the maintenaunce of Goddes true religion and vertue Geue grace O heauenlye father to all Bisshoppes Pastours and Curates that they may bothe by theyr lyfe and doctryne sette foorthe thy true and lyuelye woord and rightly and duely administer thy holy Sacramentes and to all thy people geue thy heauenly grace and especiallye to thys congregacion here presente that with meke heart and due reuerence they maye heare and receyue thy holy woorde truely seruing thee in holynes and ryghteousnes all the dayes of theyr lyfe And we moste humbly beseche thee of thy goodnes O Lorde to comfort and succour all them whiche in this transitory life be in trouble sorowe nede syckenes or anye other aduersitie Graunte this O father for Iesus Christes sake oure only mcdiatour and aduocate Amen Then shall folow this exhortacion at certayne tymes when the Curate shall see the people negligent to come to the holy Communion WE be come together at this time dereli beloued brethren to fede at the Lordes supper vnto the whiche in Gods behalfe I did you all that bee here present and beseche you for the Lorde Iesus Christes sake the ye wyll not refuse to come therto being so louinglye called and bidden of God himself Ye knowe howe grieuouse and vnkynde a thyng it is when a man hathe prepared a ryche feaste decked his table with all kynde of prouisyon so that there lacketh nothyng but the geastes to sitte downe and yet they whyche bee called withoute any cause moste vnthankefullye refuse to come Whyche of you in suche a case woulde not bee moued Who moulde not thynke a greate iniurye and wrong doone vnto hym Wherfore moste dearelye beloued in Chryste take ye good hede leste ye with drawing youre selues from thys holye supper prouoke Goddes indygnacyon agaynste you It is an easye matter for a man to saye I wyll not communicate because I am otherwyse letted with worldlye busines but suche excuses bee not so easelye accepted and allowed before God If anye man saye I am a grieuouse sinner and therefore am afrayde to come wherefore then doe you not repent and amend When God calleth you bee you not ashamed to saye you wyll not come when you should returne to God wyll you excuse youreselfe and saye that you bee not readye Consydre earnestlye with youre selues howe lyttle suche fayned excuse shall auayle beefore God They that refused the feaste in the Gospell beecause they hadde boughte a farme or woulde trye theyr yokes of oxen or beecause they were maryed were not so excused but counted vnwoorthy of the heauenlye feaste I for my parte am here presente and accordyng vnto myne offyce I bydde you in the name of GOD I call you in Chrystes behalfe I exhorte you as you loue youre owne saluacyon that ye wyll bee partakers of thys holye Communyon And as the sonne of God dyd vouchesafe to yelde vp hys soule by deathe vpon the Crosse for youre healthe euen so it is youre duetye to receyue the Communyon together in the remembraunce of hys deathe as he hymselfe commaunded Nowe yf you wyll in nowyse thus dooe considre with youre selues howe greate iniurye you dooe vnto GOD and howe sore punyshemente hangeth ouer youre heades for the same And whereas you offend GOD so fore in refusyng thys holye Banquete I admonyshe exhorte and beeseche you that vnto thys vnkyndenesse ye wyll not adde any more Whyche thyng ye shall dooe yf ye stande by as gasers and lookers on them that dooe communycate and bee no partakers of the same youre selues For what thyng can this bee accoumpted els then a further contempt and vnkindenes vnto God Truely it is a great vnthankefulnes to say nay when ye
The cōmunion of Sainctes The forgeuenes of sinnes The resurreccion of the body And the lyfe euerlastyng Amen Question What doest thou chiefllye learne in these articles of thy beliefe Aunswere Fyrst I learne to beleue in god the father who hath made me and al the worlde Secondly in God the sonne who hath redemed me and al mankynde Thirdly in god the holy gost who sanctifieth me and al the elect people of god Question You sayd that your godfathers and godmothers dyd promise for you that you should kepe gods commaundementes Tell me howe many there be Aunswere Tenne Question Which be they Aunswere THesame which God spake in the .xx. Chapiter of Exodus saying I am the Lorde thy god whyche haue broughte thee out of the lande of Egipte out of the house of bondage i. Thou shalt haue none other Goddes but me ii Thou shalte not make to thy selfe any grauen ymage nor the likenes of any thyng that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath nor in the water vnder the earth Thou shalte not bowe downe to them nor worshippe them for I the Lord thy god am a gelous god and visite the synnes of the fathers vpon the childrē vnto the thyrd and fourth generacion of them that hate me and shew mercy vnto thousandes in thē that loue me kepe my commaundementes iii. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy god in vayne for the lord wil not hold him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne iiii Remember thou kepe holy the Sabboth day Sixe dayes shalt thou laboure doe al that thou hast to doe but the seuenth daye is the Sabboth of the Lorde thy God In it thou shalte doe no maner of woorke thou and thy sonne and thy daughter thy man seruaunte and thy mayde seruaunte thy Cattell and the straunger that is wythin thy gates for in sixe dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day Wherefore the Lorde blessed the seuenth daye and hallowed it v. Honour thy father and thy mother that thy daies may be long in the lande whiche the Lorde thy god geueth thee vi Thou shalt doe no murther vii Thou shalt not commit adultery viii Thou shalt not steale ix Thou shalt not beare false witnes agaist thi neighbour x. Thou shalte not coueite thy neyghbours house thou shalte not coueite thy neighbours wyfe nor hys seruaunte nor his maid nor his oxe nor his asse nor any thing that is his Question What dooeste thou chieflye learne by these commaundementes Aunswere I learne two thinges My duetie towardes god and my duetye towardes my neighboure Question What is thy duetie towardes God Aunswere My duetie towardes God is to beleue in hym to feare hym and to loue hym with all my hearte wyth all my mynde with all my soule and with all my strength To worshyppe hym To geue him thankes To put my whole trust in hym To call vpon hym To honoure his holy name and his word and to serue hym truly al the dayes of my life Question What is thy duetie towardes thy neighbour Aunswere My duetie towardes my neighbour is to loue him as my selfe And to doe to al men as I would they should doe vnto me To loue honoure and succoure my father and mother To honoure and obey the kyng and hys ministers To submitte my selfe to al my gouernours teachers spiritual Pastours and Maisters To ordre my self lowly and reuerētly to all my betters To hurte no body by worde nor dede To be true and iust in al my dealyng To beare no malyce nor hatred in my heart To kepe my handes from picking and stealing and my tongue from euill speaking lying and slaundering To kepe my body in temperaunce sobernesse and chastitie Not to couet nor desyre other mennes goodes But learne and labour truly to geat mine own liuing and to do my duetie in that state of life vnto which it shal please God to call me Question My good childe knowe thys that thou art not hable to doe these thynges of thy self nor to walke in the cōmaundemētes of God and to serue him without hys special grace whiche thou muste learne at al tymes to call for by diligent prayer Let me heare therfore if thou canst sate the Lordes prayer Aunswere OVr father whiche art in heauen hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy wyll be done wyll be done in earth as it is in heauē Geue vs this day our dayly bread And forgeue vs oure trespasses as we forgeue them that trespasse against vs. And leade vs not in to temptacion But deliuer vs from euil Amen Question What desirest thou of God in thys prayer Aunswere I desyre my Lorde God our heauenly father who is the geuer of all goodnes to sende his grace vnto me and to all people that we maye worship him serue hym and obey him as we oughte to doe And I pray vnto God that he wyll sende vs all thynges that be nedeful both for our soules and bodyes And that he will be mercifull vnto vs and forgeue vs oure synnes and that it will please hym to saue and defende vs in al daungers gostly and bodely And that he wil kepe vs from all synne and wickednes and from our gostly enemy and from euerlastyng death And this I trust he wil doe of his mercye and goodnesse throughe our Lorde Iesu Christ And therfore I saye Amen So be it So sone as the children can saye in their mother tong the Articles of the faith the Lordes praier the .x. commaundementes and also can aunswere to suche questions of this shorte Cathechisme as the Bishop or suche as he shall appoynte shal by his discrecion appose them in then shal they be brought to the Bisshoppe by one that shal be his Godfather or Godmother that euery chylde maye haue a witnesse of his confirmacion And the Bisshoppe shall confyrme them on thys wyse ¶ Confirmacion Our helpe is in the name of the Lorde Aunswere Which hath made both heauen and earth Minister Blessed is the name of the Lorde Aunswere Hencefurth world without ende Minister Lorde heare our prayer Aunswere And let our crye come to thee ¶ Let vs praye ALmightie euerliuyng God who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these thy seruaūtes by water and the holy gost and hast geuen vnto them forgeuenes of al their synnes strengthen them we beseche thee O lord with the holy gost the comforter and dayly encrease in them thy manifolde giftes of grace the spirite of wysedome and vnderstanding the spirite of counsel and gostely strength the spirite of knowledge and true godlynesse and fulfyll them O Lorde with the spirite of thy holy feare Amen Then the Bisshop shal lay hys hande vpon euery child seuerally saying Defende O Lorde this childe with thy heauenlye grace that he may continue thyne for euer and dayly encrease in thy holy spirite more and more vntil he come vnto thy euerlastyng kyngdome Amen Then shall
the Bisshoppe saye ALmighti euerliuing god which makest vs both to wyl and to doe those thinges that be good and acceptable vnto thy Maiestie we make our hūble supplicacions vnto thee for these children vpon whome after the exaumple of thy holy Apostles we haue layd our handes to certifie them by thys sygne of thy fauour and gracious goodnes toward them let thy fatherly hande we beseche thee euer be ouer them let thy holy spirite euer be with them and so leade them in the knowledge and obedience of thy word that in the ende they maye obteyne the euerlasting lyfe through out Lord Iesus Christ who with thee and the holy gost liueth and reigneth one God world without ende Amen Then the Bisshoppe shall blesse the children thus saying The blessing of god almightie the father the sonne and the holy goste be vpon you and remaine with you for euer Amen ¶ The Curate of euery Paryshe or some other at hys appoyntment shal diligently vpon Sundayes and holy daies halfe an houre before Euensong openly in the churche instruct and examine so many chyldren of his paryshe sent vnto hym as the tyme wyll serue and as he shall thynke conuenient in some parte of thys Cathechisme And al fathers mothers Maisters and Dames shall cause their chyldren seruauntes and prentises whiche haue not learned theyr Cathechisme to come to the Churche at the tyme appointed and obediently to heare be ordered by the Curate vntil such time as they haue learned al that is here appointed for them to learne And whensoeuer the Bisshoppe shal geue knowledge for children to be brought afore hym to any conuenient place for theyr confirmacion Thē shall the Curate of euery paryshe either bring or send in writting the names of al those children of hys paryshe which can say the Articles of their fayth the Lordes prayer and the .x. commaundementes and also how many of them can aunswere to thother questions conteyned in this Cathechisme And there shall none be admitted to the holy Communion vntil such time as he can say the Cathechisme and be confirmed ¶ The fourme of Solemnizacion of Matrimonie ¶ Fyrst the bannes must be asked three seuerall Sundayes or holy dayes in the tyme of seruice the people being present after the accustomed maner And if the persones that woulde bee maried dwell in dyuerse Parishes the bannes must be asked in both parishes and the Curate of th one Parishe shall not solemnize Matrimonie betwixt them without a certificate of the bannes beyng thryse asked from the Curate of the other Parishe At the daye appoynted for Solemnizacion of Matrimonie the persones to bee maried shall come into the bodye of the Churche with their frendes and neighbours And there the Prieste shall thus saye DEarely beloued frendes we are gathered together here in the syghte of God and in the face of his congregaciō to ioyne together thys man and thys woman in holye matrimonie which is an honorable estate instituted of God in paradise in the tyme of mans innocencie signifying vnto vs the misticall vnion the is betwixt Christ and his churche which holy estate Christ adourned beautified with his presence and first miracle that he wroughte in Cana of Galile and is commended of Sainct Paule to be honorable among al men therfore is not to be enterprised not taken in hande vnaduisedly lightly or wantonly to satisfye mens carnall lustes and appetites lyke bruite beastes that haue no vnderstanding but reuerently discretely aduisedly sobrely in the feare of god Duely considering the causes for which Matrimonie was ordeyned One was the procreacion of children to be broughte vp in the feare and nurtour of the Lord and prayse of God Secondlye it was ordeyned for a remedy agaynst sinne to auoyde fornicacion that such persons as haue not the gyft of continencie might marrye kepe themselues vndefyled membres of Christes bodye Thirdly for the mutuall societie helpe comfort that the one ought to haue of the other both in prosperitie and aduersitie into the which holye estate these two persones present come to be ioyned Therfore if any man can shewe any iust cause why they may not lawfully be ioyned together lette him nowe speake or els hereafter for euer holde his peace ¶ And also speaking to the persones that shal be maried he shall saye I require and charge you as you will aunswere at the dreadful day of iudgement when the secretes of al heartes shal be disclosed that if eyther of you doe knowe any impedimente why ye maye not bee lawfullye ioyned together in Matrimonie that ye confesse it For bee ye well assured that so many as be coupled together otherwise then Gods woord doeth allowe are not ioyned together by God neyther is theyr Matrimonie lawfull At whiche daye of mariage if any man doe allege and declare anye impediment why they maye not be coupled together in matrimonie by Goddes law or the lawes of this Realme and will be bounde and sufficient sureties with hym to the parties or ells put in a caucion to the full value of suche charges as the persons to be maried doth sustayne to proue his allegacion then the Solemnizacion must be deferred vnto suche tyme as the trueth bee tryed If no impediment bee alleged then shall the Curate saye vnto the man N Wilt thou haue this woman to thy wedded wyfe to liue together after Gods ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimonie Wilte thou loue her coumforte her honour and kepe her in sickenes and in healthe And forsakyng al other kepe thee onelye to her so long as you bothe shalt liue ¶ The man shall aunswere I will ¶ Then shall the priest saye to the woman N Wilt thou haue this man to thy wedded housbande to liue together after Goddes ordinaunce in the holy estate of Matrimonie Wilt thou obey hym and serue him loue honour and kepe him in sickenes and in healthe and forsaking all other kepe thee onelye vnto hym so long as you both shall liue The woman shall aunswere I wyll ¶ Then shall the Minister saye Who geueth thys woman to be maried vnto this man And the Minister receiuing the womā at her father or frendes handes shal cause the man to take the woman by the right hand and so either to geue their trouth to other The man fyrst saying I N. take thee N. to my wedded wife to haue and to holde from this day forewarde for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickenes and in health to loue and to cherish til death vs depart according to gods holi ordinaunce And thereto I plight thee my trouth Then shal they loose their handes the woman taking agayne the man by the right hande shall saye I N. take thee N. to my wedded husband to haue and to holde from thys day foreward for better for worse for rycher for poorer in sickenes and in health to loue cherishe to obeye tyll death vs depart according to goddes holy
then shall it bee to late to knocke when the dore shal be shut and to late to crye for mercye when it is the tyme of iustice O terrible voyce of moste iuste iudgemente whyche shal be pronounced vpon them when it shal be sayde vnto them goe ye cursed into the fyre euerlastyng whiche is prepared for the deuill and hys Aungels Mat. xxv therefore brethren take we hede betime while the day of saluacion lasteth ii Cor. vi for the night cometh when none can woorke Ioh. ix but let vs whyle we haue the lyght beleue in the lyghte and walke as the chyldren of the lyght that we bee not cast into the vtter darknes where is weping and gnashyng of teeth Mat. xxv Let vs not abuse the goodnes of God whyche calleth vs mercyfully to amendmente and of hys endlesse pietie promiseth vs forgeuenesse of that which is past yf with a whole minde and true heart we returne vnto hym for though our sinnes bee redde as scarlet they shal be as whyte as Snowe Esai i. Ezechiel xxviii and thoughe they be lyke purple yet shall they be as whyte as wolle Turne you clene sayth the Lorde from all your wickednesse and your sinne shall not bee your destruccion Cast awaye from you al your vngodlines that ye haue done make you new heartes and a newe spirite wherefore wyll ye dye O ye house of Israel Seeing that I haue no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the lord god i. Iohn ii Turne you then you shall liue Althoughe we haue sinned yet haue we an aduocate with the father Iesus Christe the righteous Esai liii and he it is that obteyneth grace for oure sinnes for he was wounded for oure offences and smitten for oure wyckednes Let vs therfore returne vnto hym who is the mercifull receiuer of al true penitent sinners assuryng our selfe that he is readye to receue vs and moste willing to pardon vs if we come to hym with faytfull repentaunce If we wyll submyt oure selues vnto him from hencefurth walke in his waies If we wil take his easy yoke light burden vpon vs to folow hym in lowlines pacience and charitie Math. xi be ordred by the gouernaunce of his holy spirite seking alwayes his glory scruyng him duelye in our vocacion with thankes geuyng This yf we doe Christe will deliuer vs from the curse of the lawe and from the extreme malediccion whiche shall light vpon them that shal be sette on the left hand Mat. xxv and he wyll sette vs on his ryghte hand and geue vs the blessed benediccyon of hys father cōmaunding vs to take possession of his glorious kingdome vnto the whiche he vouchsafe to bryng vs all for hys infinite mercy Amen Then shal they al knele vpon theyr knees the Priestes and Clerkes knelyng where they are accustomed to saye the Letany shall saye thys Psalme Miserere mei deus Psalm li HAue mercye vpon me O God after thy great goodnesse according to the multitude of thy mercyes doe away myne offences Washe me throughly fro my wickednes and clense me from me synne For I knowledge my faultes and my synne is euer beefore me Agaynst thee only haue I sinned and done this euil in thy sight that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying and cleare when thou art iudged Beholde I was shapen in wickednes and in sinne hathe my mother conceyued me But loe thou requirest trueth in inwarde parties shalt make me to vnderstande wisedome secretly Thou shalte purge me with Isope and I shal be cleane thou shalt washe me and I shal be whyter then Snowe Thou shalte make me heare of ioye and gladnesse that the bones whiche thou hast broken may reioyce Turne thy face from my sinnes and putte oute al my misdedes Make me a cleane hearte O God and renewe a righte spirite within me Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirite from me O geue me the comforte of thy helpe agayne and stablishe me with thy free spirite Then shall I teache thy wayes vnto the wicked and sinners shal be conuerted vnto thee Deliuer me from bloudguiltinesse O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall syng of thy righteousnesse Thou shalte open my lippes O Lorde my mouthe shall shewe thy prayse For thou desirest no sacrifice els woulde I geue it thee but thou delitest not in burnt offerynges The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirite a broken and a contrite hearte O God shalt thou nor despise O be fauourable and gracious vnto Sion build thou the walles of Hierusalem Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of rightousnes with the burnt offerings and oblacions then shal they offer yong bullockes vpon thyne altare Glory be to the father and to the sonne and. c. As it was in the beginnyng and is now c Amen Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. ¶ Our father which art in heauen c And leade vs not into temptacyon Aunswere But delyuer vs from euill Amen Minister O Lorde saue thy seruauntes Aunswere Which put theyr truste in thee Minister Sende vnto them helpe from aboue Aunswere And euermore mightely defende them Minister Helpe vs O God our sauiour Aunswere And for the glory of thy names sake delyuer vs be merciful vnto vs sinners for thy names sake Minister O Lorde heare our prayers Aunswere And let our crye come vnto thee ¶ Let vs praye O Lord we beseche thee mercifully heare oure praiers and spare all those which confesse theyr sinnes to thee that they whose consciences by sinne are accused by thy mercifull pardon may be absolued Throughe Chryste oure Lorde Amen O Most mightie god and merciful father which hast compassiō of al men and hatest nothing that thou hast made whiche wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turne from sinne be saued mercyfully forgeue vs our trespasses receyue and comfort vs which bee greued and weryed which the burthen of our sinne Thy propertie is to haue mercy to thee onely it apperteineth to forgeue sinnes spare vs therfore good lord spare thy people whom thou haste redemed Entre not into iudgement with thy seruauntes whiche bee vyle earth and miserable sinners but so turne thy yre frō vs which mekely knowledge our vilenes truly repent vs of our faultes so make haste to helpe vs in this worlde that we may euer lyue with thee in the worlde to come through Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen Then shall the people saye thys that foloweth after the Minister TVrne thou vs O good Lorde and so shall we bee turned be fauourable O lorde bee fauourable to thy people which turne to thee in weping fastyng and praying for thou arte a mercifull God full of compassion long sufferyng and of a great pietie Thou sparest when we deserue punishment and in thy
seate of thy holy Temple O plucke me not awaye neyther destroy me with the vngodly and wycked doers whyche speake frendlye to theyr neighbours but imagine mischiefe in their heartes Reward them accordyng to their dedes and accordyng to the wickednes of their owne inuencions Recompence them after the worke of their handes paye them that they haue deserued For they regarde not in their mind the workes of the lord nor the operaciō of his handes therfore shal he breake them downe and not build them vp Praised be the lord for he hath heard the voice of my humble peticions The Lorde is my strength and my shield my hearte hath trusted in hym and I am holpē therefore my heart daunceth for ioye and in my song will I prayse hym The lord is their strength and he is the wholesome defence of hys annoynted O saue thy people and geue thy blessyng vnto thine enheritaunce fede them and set them vp for euer Afferte domino psal xxix BRing vnto the Lorde O ye mightye bring young Rammes vnto the Lorde ascribe vnto the Lorde worship and strength Geue the lord the honour due vnto hys name worshyp the lord with holy worship It is the Lorde that commaundeth the waters it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder It is the Lorde that ruleth the sea the voyce of the lorde is mightye in operacion the voyce of the Lorde is a gloryous voyce The voice of the Lorde breaketh the Cedre trees yea the lord breaketh the Cedres of Libanus He made them also to skip lyke a calfe Libanus also and Syrion like a young vnicorne The voyce of the Lorde deuydeth the flames of fyre the voice of the lorde shaketh the wyldernesse yea the lorde shaketh the wyldernes of Cades The voice of the lord maketh the Hindes to bryng furth young and discouereth the thicke busshes in hys Temple doeth euery man speake of his honour The lord sitteth aboue the water floud and the lorde remayneth a kyng foreuer The lord shal geue strength vnto hys people the lord shal geue his people the blessyng of peace Exaltabo te domine psal xxx Mornīg prayer I Wil magnifie thee O Lord for thou hast set me vp and not made my foes to triumphe ouer me O lord my god I cryed vnto thee and thou haste healed me Thou Lord hast brought my soule out of hell thou hast kept my lyfe from them that goe down to the pyt Sing prayses vnto the lord O ye Sainctes of hys and geue thankes vnto him for a remēbraunce of his holynesse For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and in hys pleasure is lyfe heauines may endure for a nighte but ioy cometh in the morning And in my prosperitie I sayd I shal neuer be remoued thou lorde of thy goodnes hadst made my hyll so strong Thou didst turne thy face fro me and I was troubled Then cryed I vnto thee O lorde and gat me vnto my lorde ryght humbly What profite is there in my bloud when I goe down to to the pyt Shall the dust geue thankes vnto thee or shal it declare thy trueth Heare O Lord and haue mercy vpon me Lorde be thou my helper Thou hast turned my heauines to ioye thou hast putte of my sackecloth and gyrded me with gladnes Therfore shal euery good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I wil geue thankes vnto the for euer In te domine speraui psal xxxi IN thee O lord haue I put my trust let me neuer be put to confusion deliuer me in thy righteousnes Bowe down thine eare to me make hast to deliuer me And be thou my strong rocke and house of defence that thou mayest saue me For thou art my strong rocke and my castel be thou also my gyde and leade me for thy names sake Drawe me out of the nette that they haue layd prieuely for me for thou art my strength Into thy handes I commende my spirite for thou hast redemed me O Lord thou God of trueth I haue hated them that holde of supersticious vanities and my trust hath been in the Lorde I wil be glad and reioice in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble and hast knowē my soule in aduersitie Thou hast not shutte me vp into the hand of the enemy but hast set my fete in a large rowme Haue mercy vpon me O lord for I am in trouble mine iye is consumed for veri heauines euē my soule my body For my life is waxen olde with heauines and my yeres with mourning My strength faileth me because of mine iniquitie and my bones are corrupt I became a reprofe among al mine enemies but specially emong my neighbours and they of mine acquaintaunce were afrayde of me and they that did see me without conueyed themselues from me I am cleane forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am become like a broken vessell For I haue hearde the blasphemy of the multitude and feare is on euery side while they conspire together against me and take theyr counsell to take away my life But my hope hath been in thee O Lorde I haue sayde thou art my God My tyme is in thy hande deliuer me from the hande of myne enemies and from them that persecute me Shew thy seruaunt the light of thy countenaunce and saue me for thy mercies sake Let me not be confounded O lorde for I haue called vpon thee let the vngodly be put to confusion and be put to sylence in the graue Let the lying lippes be putte to silence whiche cruellye disdaynfully dispitefully speake agaynst the ryghteous O how plentifull is thy goodnes which thou hast layde vp for them that feare thee and that thou hast prepared for thē that put their trust in thee euen before the sonnes of mē Thou shalt hide them prieuely by thyne owne presence from the prouoking of al men thou shalt kepe them secretly in thy tabernacle from the stryfe of tongues Thankes be to the lord for he hath shewed me marueilous great kindnes in a strong citie And when I made hast I said I am cast out of the sight of thine iyes Neuerthelesse thou hardest the voice of my prayer when I cryed vnto thee O loue the lord al ye his Sainctes for the lorde preserueth them that are faithful and plenteously rewardeth the proude doer Be strong and he shall stablishe your heart all ye that put your trust in the Lord. Beati quorum Psalm xxxii Euenīg prayer Blessed is he whose vnrighteousnes is forgeuen and whose sinne is couered Blessed is the man vnto whom the lorde imputeth no synne and in whose spirite there is no gyle For whyle I helde my tong my bones consumed awaie through my dayly complayning For thy hand is heauy vpon me day and nighte and my moisture is lyke the drouth in the Sommer I wil knowledge my sinne vnto thee and myne vnryghteousnesse haue I not hyd I sayd I wyll confesse my sinnes vnto
the earth that he may iudge hys people Gather my sainctes together vnto me those that haue made a couenaunt with me with sacrifice And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes for God is iudge hymselfe Heare O my people and I wil speake I my selfe wyl testifie against thee O Israel for I am God euen thy God I wil not reproue thee because of thy sacrifices or for thy burnt offeringes because they were not alwaye before me I wil take no bullocke out of thy house nor he goates out of thy foldes For all the beastes of the forest are myne and so are the rattelles vpon a thousande hylles I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes and the wylde beastes of the fielde are in my syght If I be hungry I will not tell thee for the whole worlde is myne and all that therein is Thinkest thou that I will eate bulles fleshe and drinke the bloud of goates Offre vnto god thankes geuing and pay thy vowes vnto the most hiest And call vpon me in the tyme of trouble so wil I heare thee and thou shalt prayse me But vnto the vngodly fayd God why doest thou preache my lawes and takest my couenaunt in thy mouth Whereas thou hatest to bee refourmed and hast caste my wordes behynde thee When thou sawest a thefe thou consentedst vnto him and hast been partaker with the aduouterers Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednes and with thy tongue thou hast set furth disceite Thou sattest and spakest against thy brother yea and hast slaundered thyne owne mothers sonne These thinges haste thou done and I helde my tongue and thou thoughtest wickedly that I am euen suche a one as thy selfe but I wyll reproue thee and sette beefore thee the thynges that thou hast done O considre this ye that forgeat god lest I plucke you awaye and there be none to deliuer you Whoso offereth me thankes praise he honoreth me and to hym that ordereth his conuersacion righte will I shewe the saluacion of God Miserere mei deus psal li. HAue mercy vpon me O god after thy great goodnes accordyng vnto the multitude of thy mercyes doe away myne offences Washe me througlye fro my wyckednesse and clense me from my synne For I knowledge my faultes my sine is euer before me Against thee onely haue I synned done this euil in thy sight that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying and cleare when thou art iudged Beholde I was shapen in wickednes and in synne hath my mother conceyued me But loe thou requirest trueth in the inward partes and shalt make me to vnderstande wysedome secretly Thou shalt pourge me with I sope and I shal be cleane thou shalt washe me and I shal be whiter then snowe Thou shalte make me heare ioye and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken maye reioyce Turne thy face frō my synnes put out all my misdedes Make me a cleane heart O God and renewe a ryghte spirite within me Cast me not awaye from thy presence and take not thy holy spirite from me O geue me the comfort of thy helpe agayne and stablyshe me with thy free spirite Then shall I teache thy wayes vnto the wicked sinners shal be conuerted vnto thee Delyuer me from bloud giltines O god thou that art the god of my health my tong shal syng of thy ryghteousnes Thou shalt open my lyppes O lord my mouth shall shewe thy prayse For thou desirest no sacrifice els would I geue it thee but thou delightest not in burnte offerynges The sacrfice of God is a troubled spirite a broken and a contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise O be fauourable and gracious vnto Sion builde thou the walles of Ierusalem Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of rightousnes with the burnte offerynges and oblacyons then shal they offer yong bullockes vpon thyne alter Quid gloriaris in malicia Psalm lii WHy boastest thou thy selfe thou tyrante that thou canste doe mischiefe Whereas the goodnes of god endureth yet daily Thy tongue ymagineth wickednesse and with lyes thou cuttest lyke a shar pe rasor Thou hast loued vngraciousnes more then goodnes and to talke of lyes more then righteousnes Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that may doe hurt O thou false tongue Therefore shall God destroye thee for euer he shall take thee and plucke thee oute of thy dwelling and roote thee out of the land of the lyuing The righteous also shall see this and feare and shall laugh hym to scorne Loe thys is the man that toke not God for his strengthe but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches and strengthed himselfe in hys wickednes As for me I am lyke a grene Olyue tree in the house of god my trust is in the tender mercy of god for euer and euer I will alwaye geue thankes vnto thee for that thou hast done and I wyll hope in thy name for thy saynctes lyke it well Dixit insipiens Psalm liii Euening prayer The foolyshe body hath sayd in hys hearte there is no God Corrupt are they and become abhominable in their wickednes there is none that doth good God loked downe from heauen vpon the children of men to see if there were any that would vnderstand seke after God But they are all gone oute of the way they are altogether become abhominable there is also none that doeth good no not one Are not they without vnderstandyng that worke wickednes eatyng vp my people as if they would eate bread they haue not called vpon god They were afrayde where no feare was for God hathe broken the bones of him that besieged thee thou hast put thē to confusion because God hath despysed them Oh that the saluacion wer geuen vnto Israel out of Sion Oh that the Lorde would delyuer hys people out of captiuitie Thē should Iacob reioyce Israel should be right glad Deus in nomine tuo Psalm liiii SAue me O god for thy names sake and auēge me in thy strength Heare my prayer O God and herken vnto the wordes of my mouth For straungers are riesen vp agaynste me and tyrauntes whiche haue not god before theyr eyes seke after my soule Beholde God is my helper the Lorde is with them that vpholde my soule He shall rewarde euill vnto myne enemies destroye thou them in thy trueth An offeryng of a free hearte will I geue thee and prayse thy name O Lorde because it is so comfortable For he hathe delyuered me out of al my trouble and mine eie hath seen hys desire vpon mine enemies Exaudi deus Psalm lv HEare my prayer O God and hyde not thy selfe frōmy peticion Take hede vnto me and heare me how I mourne in my prayer and am vexed The enemy crieth so and the vngodly cometh on so faste for they are minded to doe me some mischief so maliciouslye are they set agaynst me My hearte is disquieted within me and the feare of death is fallen vpon me Fearefulnes
earth and then all hys thoughtes peryshe Blessed is he that hath the God of Iacob for hys helpe and whole hope is in the Lord hys god Which made heauen and earth the Sea and al that therin is which kepeth hys promyse for euer Which helpeth them to ryght that suffre wrong whiche fedeth the houngry The lord loseth men out of prieson the lord geueth syght to the blynde The lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the ryghteous The lord careth for the straūgers he defendeth the fatherlesse and widdowe as for the waye of the vngodly he turneth it vpsyde downe The lorde thy god O Sion shall be kyng for euermore and thorowout all generacions Laudate dominum psal cxlvii Euenīg prayer O Prayse the lorde for it is a good thyng to syng prayses vnto our God yea a ioyfull and pleasaunt thyng is it to be thankefull The lord doth build vp Hierusalem and gather together the outcastes of Israel He healeth those that are broken in heart and geueth medecine to heale their sickenes He telleth the number of the starres and calleth them al by their names Great is our lord and great is his power yea his wisdom is infinite The lorde setteth vp the meke and bringeth the vngodly down to the grounde O sing vnto the lord with thankesgeuing sing praise vpon the harpe vnto our god Whiche couereth the heauen with cloudes and prepareth raine for the earth and maketh the grasse to growe vpon the mountaynes and hearbe for the vse of men Which geueth fodder vnto the cattell and fedeth the young rauens that call vpon hym He hath not pleasure in the strength of an horse neither delighteth he in any mans legges But the lordes delight is in them that feare hym and put theyr trust in hys mercy Prayse the Lorde O Ierusalem prayse thy God O Syon For he hath made faste the barres of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth the with floure and wheate He sendeth furth his commaundement vpon earth and his word runneth very swiftly He geueth snowe lyke wolle and scattereth the hoare frost lyke asshes He casteth foorth hys yse lyke morselles who is hable to abide his frost He sendeth out his worde and melteth them he bloweth with his winde and the waters slowe He sheweth his woorde vnto Iacob hys statutes and ordinaunces vnto Israel He hath not dealte so with any nacion neyther haue the Heathen knowledge of hys lawes Laudate dominum de celis psalm cxlviii O Prayse the lorde of heauen praise him in the heigth Praise him al ye Aungels of his praise him al his host Prayse him sunne and Mone praise him al ye starres and lyght Prayse him al ye heauens and ye waters that be aboue the heauens Let them prayse the name of the Lorde for he spake the worde and they were made he cōmaunded and they were created He hath made them fast for euer and euer he hath geuen them a lawe whiche shall not be broken Prayse the Lorde vpon earth ye dragons all diepes Fier and haile snow and vapors winde and storme fulfilling his worde Mountaynes and al hils fruitefull trees and al Cedres Beastes and all cattel wormes and fethered foules Kinges of the earth and all people princes and al iudges of the worlde Young men and maidens olde men and children praise the name of the Lorde for his name onely is excellent and hys prayse aboue heauen and earth He shall exalte the horne of his people al his saintes shal praise him euen the children of Israel euen the people that serueth hym Cantate domino psalm cxlix O Sing vnto the Lorde a newe song let the congregacion of sainctes prayse him Let Israel reioyce in him that made him and lette the children of Syon be ioyefull in theyr Kyng Let them prayse hys name in the daunce let them syng prayses vnto him with tabret and harpe For the Lorde hathe pleasure in his people and helpeth the meke hearted Let the sainctes be ioyefull with glory let them reioyce in theyr beddes Let the praises of God be in their mouth and a two edged sweorde in theyr handes To bee auenged of the Heathen and to rebuke the people To bynde theyr kinges in chaynes and theyr nobles with linkes of yron That they may be auenged of them as it is written such honour haue all his sainctes Laudate dominum psalm cl O Prayse God in his holines praise hym in the firmament of his power Prayse hym in hys noble actes prayse hym according to his excellent greatnesse Prayse hym in the sound of the trumpet prayse hym vpon the lute and harpe Prayse him in the cimbals and daunces prayse hym vpon the stringes and pype Prayse hym vpon the well tuned cimbals prayse hym vpon the loud cimbals Let euery thyng that hath breath prayse the Lorde ¶ The ende of thys Booke ¶ Certain godly prayers to be vsed for sondrye purposes ¶ A generall confession of sinnes to be sayd euery mornyng O Almightye God oure heauenly father I confesse and knowledge that I am a miserable a wretched synner and haue manyfolde wayes moste grieuously transgressed thy most godli commaundementes thorowe wicked thoughtes vngodly lustes synfull woordes and dedes and in my whole lyfe In synne am I borne and conceued and there is no goodnes in me inasmuch as if thou shouldest entre into thy narrow iudgemente with me iudgeyng me accordyng vnto thesame I were neuer able to suffre or abide it but must nedes perishe and bee damned for euer So little helpe coumforte or succour is there eyther in me or in anye other creature Onely this is my coumfort O heauenly father that thou didst not spare thy onely deare beloued sonne but diddest geue him vp vnto the most bitter and moste vile and slaunderous death of the crosse for me that he mighte so paye the raunsome for my sinnes satisfie thy iudgement stil and pacifie thy wrath reconcile me againe vnto thee and purchase me thy grace fauour and euerlastyng lyfe Wherfore thorow the merite of his most bitter death and passion and thorow his innocēt bloudsheding I beseche thee O heauenly father that thou wilt vouchsafe to be gracious and merciful vnto me to forgeue and to pardon me all my sinnes to lighten my hearte with thy holye spirite to renue confirme and strengthen me with a ryght and a perfect fayth and to enflame me in loue toward thee and my neighboure that I maye hencefoorthe with a willyng and a gladde hearte walke as it becometh me in thy most godly commaundementes and so gloryfye prayse thee euerlastyngly And also that I maye with a free concyence and quiete hearte in all maner of temptacyons afflyccyons or necessyties euen in the verye pangues of deathe crye boldelye and merelye vnto thee and saye I beeleue in God the father almyghtye maker of heauen and earthe And in Iesus Christ c. But O lord God
in al thinges how to doe our dueties truely to walke in our vocacion and that also we maye expresse in our liuing those thinges that we do know that we be not only knowers of thy worde good Lorde but also bee workers of the same by our sauiour and Lord Iesu Christ Amen Saterdaye O Alimightie god which hast prepared euerlasting life to all those that be thy faythfull seruauntes graunt vnto vs lord sure hope of the life euerlasting that we beeyng in thys miserable worlde may haue some tast and felyng of it in our heartes and that not by our deseruing but by the merites deseruing of our sauiour and lord Iesu Christ Amē O Mercifull god our only aide succour strength at al tymes graunt vnto vs O lord the in the tyme of prosperitie we be not proude and so forgeat thee but that with our whole power and strength we waye cleane vnto thee and in the time of aduersitie that we fal not to infidelitie and desperacion but that alwaies with a constant faith we may cal for helpe vnto the graunt this O lord for our aduocate sake and sauioure Iesu Christ Amen Sunday O Almightie and mercyful lorde which geuest vnto thy elect people the holy gost as a sure pledge of thy heauenly kingdom Graunt vnto vs O Lord this holy spirite that he may beare witnes with our spirite that we bee thy children and heyres of thy kyngdom and that by the operacion of thys spirite we way kyl all carnall lustes vnlawfull pleasures concupiscence euill affeccions contrary vnto thy wil by our Sauiour and Lord Iesu Christ Amen ¶ A prayer for trust in God THe beginning of the fal of man was trust in himselfe The beginning of the restoring of mā was distruste in him selfe trust in god O most gracious most wise guide our sauiour Christ which doest leade them the right way to immortal blessednes which truely and vnfainedly trusting in thee committe them selfe to thee Graunt vs that like as we bee blynde and feeble in deede so we maye take and repute oure selues that wee presume not of oure selues to see to oure selues but so farre to see that alwaye we maye haue thee before our eyes to folowe thee beeyng our guide to be ready at thy call most obediently and to commit our selues wholy vnto thee that thou which onely knowest the way mayest leade vs thesame waye vnto our heauenly desyres To thee with the father and the holy goste be glory for euer Amen ¶ A prayer for the concorde of Christes Churche ARise lorde let thyne enemyes be scattered thy haters put to flight the righteous and Christes disciples make pleasaunt and mery let thē sing prayses pleasaunte songes vnto thee let them blowe abrode thy magnificence let them most highly auaunce thy maiestie let thi glory grow let the kingdom of Christ from heauen among the chosen be enlarged be thou the father of the fatherles the iudge of the widdowes and the protectour of thē namely whom the world forsaketh whose conscyences be troubled whom the worlde pursueth for Christes sake which be nedy and wrapped ful of mysery In thy house O Lorde let vs dwell in peace and concord geue vs all one heart one mynd one true interpretacion vpō thy word Plucke of the bandes aswel from the consciences as from the bodyes of the miserable captiues of thē also which as yet be hedged in within the listes of death and vnaduisedly striue agaynst grace How drye Lorde is the flocke of thine heritage I pray thee powre down largely the showres of thi graces let a more plenteous fruitefulnes chaunce let thy people be strengthened with thy spirite Graunt vs lord thy worde aboundauntly so that there may be many preachers of thy Gospell which may within them selues holily conspire and agree Let the Churche the spouse of Chryste deale large spoyles of the conquered Sathan All that beeleue in thee by Chryste O Lorde GOD of health moughte lifte thee vp with prayses myghte renoume thee and extoll thee We be entered into the voyage of saluacyon Conducte vs luckelye vnto the porte that beyng deliuered by thee from the very death we may escape and come to the very lyfe Fynyshe the thyng that thou hast begonne in vs make vs to increase from fayth to fayth leaue vs not to oure owne will and choise for it is slippery redy to fall To the thunderboltes of thy word put violence that we may geue the glory to thee alonely Geue to thy people courage and power to withstand sinne and to obey thy woorde in all thinges O Lorde God most glorious and excellent ouer all ¶ A Prayer against the enemies of Christes trueth DElyuer me O lorde from the vngodly and stiffe necked persons for thou seest how in theyr heartes they ymagine mischiefe and haue great pleasure to picke quarelles theyr tongues bee more sharpe than any adders sting and vnder theyr lyppes lurketh poison of adders But O merciful Lord let me not fal into theyr handes that they handle not me after theyr owne lustes Thou onely arte my God thou muste heare my pieteous plaint Lord that rulest all together that art the strength and power of my defence bee thou as a sallet on my head whensoeuer the vngodlye shall assault me neyter suffer thou not the wicked thus to prosper in their matters Suffer not their croked and malicious stomackes to encrease and spitefullye reuyle thee Looke vpon thy poore wretches cause and ridde me oute of these dayly greuaunces then shall I with a ryght vp hearte and pleasaunt countenaunce extoll and magnifie thy holye name Amen ¶ A Prayer for pacience in trouble NOwe haste thou O Lorde humbled and plucked me downe I dare now vnnethes make my prayers vnto thee for thou art angry with me but not without my deseruing Certaynly I haue sinned Lord I confesse it I will not denye it But Oh my god pardon my trespasses release my dettes render nowe thy grace agayne vnto me stop my woundes for I am al to plaged and beatē yet lord this notwithstanding I abide paciently and geue mine attēdaunce on thee cōtinually wayting for reliefe at thy hand and that not withoute skyll for I haue receyued a token of thy fauoure and grace towardes me I meane thy worde of promyse concernyng Christ who for me was offered on the crosse for a raunsome a sacrifice and pryce for my synnes wherfore accordyng to that thy promyse defende me Lorde by thy right hād and geue a gracious eare to my requestes for all mans stayes are but vayne Beate downe therefore myne enemyes thyne owne selfe with thy power whyche arte myne onely ayder and protectour O Lord god almightye Amen ¶ A Prayer to be sayde at nyghte goyng to bed O Mercifull Lorde God heauenly father whether we slepe or wake liue or die we are alwaies thine Wherfore I beseche thee heartely that thou wilt vouchsafe to take care and charge of me and not to suffre me to perishe in the woorkes of darkenesse but to kindle the lyghte of thy countenaunce in my hearte that thy godly knowledge may dayly increase in me thorow a ryght and pure faithe that I may alwayes be founde to walke and lyue after thy will and pleasure thorowe Iesus Christ oure Lorde and Sauioure Amen ¶ A Prayer to be sayde at the houre of death O Lorde Iesu whiche arte the only health of all men liuyng and the euerlastyng lyfe of them whiche dye in faith I wretched sinner geue submitte my self wholy vnto thy most blessed wil. And I being sure that the thing cannot perish which is committed vnto thy mercy willingly now I leaue this frayle and wicked fleshe in hope of the resurrection whyche in better wise shall restore it to me agayne I beseche thee most merciful lord Iesus Christ that thou wilt by thy grace make strong my soule against al tēptacions and that thou wilt couer defēd me with the buckler of thy mercye against all the assaultes of the deuil I see and knowledge that there is in my selfe no helpe of saluacyon but all my confidence hope trust is in thy most mercyfull goodnes I haue no merites nor good workes which I may allege before thee Of sinnes and euil workes alas I see a great heape but through thy mercy I trust to be in the numbre of thē to whom thou wilt not impute theyr synnes but take and accept me for righteous and iust to be the inheritour of euerlastyng lyfe Thou mercifull Lorde werte borne for my sake thou didst suffre both hunger thirste for my sake thou didst preache teache thou didst pray and fast for my sake thou didst all good workes dedes for my sake thou sufferedst moste greuous paines and tormentes for my sake And finally thou gauest thy most precious body to die and thy bloud to be shed on the crosse for my sake Now most mercifull sauiour lette all these thinges profite me whyche thou freely haste geuen me that hast geuen thy selfe for me Let thy bloud clēse and wash away the spottes foulenesse of my sinnes Let thy righteousnes hyde and couer my vnrighteousnes Let the merites of thy passion bloud be the satisfaccion for my sinnes Geue me lorde thy grace that my fayth saluacion in thy bloud wauer not in me but euer bee firme and constant that the hope of thy mercy life euerlasting neuer decaie in me that charitie waxe not colde in me finallye that the weakenesse of my fleshe bee not ouercome with the feare of death Graunt me mercyfull sauiour that when death hathe shut vp the eyes of my bodye yet that the eyes of my soule may still behold loke vpon thee that whē deathe hath taken away the vse of my tongue speache yet that my heart may cry and say vnto thee In manus tuas domine commendo spiritum meum that is to saie O lorde into thy handes I geue and committte my soule Dommine Iesu accipe spiritum meum Lorde Iesu receyue my soule vnto thee Amen ¶ Imprinted at London in Fletestrete at the signe of the Sunne ouer agaynste the Conduyte by Edward Whytchurche
Iesus Christe whiche is father of all that called father in heauen and in earth that he woulde graunte you accordyng to the riches of hys glory that ye maye bee strengthed with myghte by hys spirite in the inner man that Chryste may dwell in your heartes by faythe that ye being rooted and grounded in loue might be hable to comprehend with all Sainctes what is the bredthe lengthe depthe and height and to know the excellent loue of the knowledge of Christe that ye might be fulfilled with all fulnesse whyche cometh of God Vnto hym that is hable to doe excedyng aboundauntly aboue all that wee aske or thinke according to the power that worketh in vs be prayse in the congregacion by Chryst Iesus throughout all generacyons from time to tyme. Amen ¶ The Gospell Luke vii ANd it fortuned that Iesus wente into a cytie called Naim and many of hys disciples wente with hym and muche people When he came nye to the gate of the citye beholde there was a dead man caryed oute whyche was the onely sonne of his mother and she was widowe and muche people of the cytye was with her And when the Lord saw her had compassion on her and sayde vnto her wepe not And he came nye and touched the coffen and they that bare hym stode styll And he sayde yong man I saye vnto thee aryse And he that was dead sat vp and beegan to speake And he delyuered hym to hys mother And there came a feare on them all And they gaue the glory vnto God saying A great Prophet is risen vp among vs and God hathe visited hys people And thys rumoure of hym went forthe throughout all Iewry and throughout all the regions whyche lye rounde aboute ¶ The .xvii. sundaye after Trinitie ¶ The Collecte LOrd we pray thee that thy grace may alwayes preuent and folow vs and make vs continually to be geuē to all good workes throughe Iesu Christ our Lorde ¶ The Epistle Ephe. iiii I Whiche am a priesoner of the Lordes exhort you that ye walke worthy of the vocacyon wherwith ye are called with all lowlines mekenes with humblenes of mynde forbearyng one another through loue and be diligēt to kepe the vnitie of the spirite throughe the bonde of peace beeyng one body and one spirite euen as ye are called in one hope of youre callyng Let there be but one Lorde one faythe one baptisme one God and father of all whiche is aboue all and througbe all and in you all ¶ The Gospell Luke xiii IT chaunced that Iesus wente into the house of one of the chiefe Phariseis to eate bread on the Sabboth day and they watched him And beholde there was a certayne man before him which had the dropsye And Iesus answered and spake vnto the Lawiers and Phariseis saying Is it lawfull to heale on the Sabboth daye And they helde their peace And he toke hym and healed hym and let hym goe and aunswered them saying which of you shal haue an Asse or an Oxe fallen into a pitte and wil not strayght way pull hym out on the Sabboth day And they coulde not aunswer hym agayn to these thynges He put foorth also a similitude to the geastes whē he marked how they preaced to be in the highest roumes and sayd vnto them when thou art bidden to a wedding of any man syt not downe in the hiest roume lest a more honorable man then thou be biddē of hym and he that bad him and thee come and say to thee geue this man roume and thou begin with shame to take the lowest roume But rather when thou arte bidden goe and sit in the lowest roume that when he that bad thee cometh he may saye vnto thee frend sit vp hyer Then shalt thou haue worship in the presence of them that sit at meate with thee For whosoeuer exalteth himselfe shall bee broughte lowe and he that humbleth himselfe shal be exalted ¶ The .xviii. Sundaye after Trinitie ¶ The Collect. LOrd we beseche thee graunte thy people grace to auoid the infeccions of the deuil and with pure hearte mind to folow thee the onely god through Iesus Christ our lord ¶ The Epistle i. Corin. i I Thanke my god alwayes on your behalfe for the grace of god which is geuē you by Iesus Christ that in all thynges yeare made ryche by him in al vtteraunce and in all knowledge by the whyche thynges the testimonye of Iesus Christe was confyrmed in you so that ye are behynde in no gyfte waytyng for the appearyng of oure Lorde Iesus Chryste whyche shall also strength you to the ende that you maye bee blameies in the day of the comyng of our Lorde Iesus Christe ¶ The Gospell Mat. xxii WHen the Phariseis had heard that Iesus dyd put the Saduceis to silence they came together and one of them whiche was a doctor of law asked him a question tempting him and saying Maister whiche is the greatest commaundemente in the lawe Iesus sayde vnto him Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule and with all thy mynde This is the first and greatest commaundemente And the second is lyke vnto it Thou shalt loue thy neyghbour as thy self In these two commaundementes hang all the lawe and the Prophetes Whyle the Phariseis were gathered together Iesus asked them saying what thinke ye of Christ whose sonne is he They sayde vnto him the sonne of Dauid He sayde vnto them how then doeth Dauid in spirite cal him Lord saying The Lorde sayd vnto my Lorde sit thou on my righte hand tyll I make thine enemies thy fotestole If Dauid then call hym Lord how is he then his sonne And no man was hable to aunswer him any thing neither durst any man from that daye foorth aske hym any moe questions ¶ The .xix. Sundaye after Trinitie ¶ The Collect. O God forasmuch as withoute thee we are not hable to please thee Graūt that the working of thy mercy may in all thynges direct and rule out heartes Throughe Iesus Christ our Lorde ¶ The Epistle Eph. iiii THis I saye and testifie throughe the Lord that ye hencefoorthe walke not as other Gentyles walke in vanitye of theyr mynde whyle they are blynded in theyr vnderstanding beeyng farre from a Godly lyfe by the meanes of the ignoraunce that is in them and because of the blyndnesse of theyr heartes whiche beeyng past repentaunce haue geuen themselues ouer vnto wantonnes to woorke all maner of vnclennes euen with gredines But ye haue not so learned Christe If so bee that ye haue hearde of hym and haue been taught in him as the trueth is in Iesu as concerning the conuersacion in times past to lay from you the olde man whiche is corrupt according to the deceiuable lustes To be renued also in the spirite of your mind and to put on that new man whiche after God is shapen in righteousnes and true holynes Wherfore put a way lying and