our confcience The Epistle. 2 Cor. iii. 4. have 15 Sthrough Chrift to Gode also hath made us able minif The Gospel. St. Luke xviii. 9. cy, forgiving us those things ESUS spake this parable whereof J unto certain which truft- afraid, and giving us those ed in themselves that they good things which we are not were righteous, and despised worthy to ask, but through others: Two men went up inthe merits and mediation of to the temple to pray; the one Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. a Pharifee, and the otheraPub- Amen. lican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or ward: Not that we are suffieven as this Publican: I fast cient of ourselves to think any twice in the week, I give tithes thing as of ourselves; but our of all that I poffess. And the fufficiency is of God. Who Publican standing afar off, would not lift up so much as ters of the New Testament; his eyes unto heaven, but not of the letter, but of the fimote upon his breast, saying, Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, dren of Ifrael could not ftedwas glorious, so that the chilfaftly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away; how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteoufness exceed in glory. God be merciful to me a finner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself, shall be abafed; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted. The Twelfth Sunday after A The Collect. LMIGHTY and everlafting God, who art always more ready to hear than wetopray, and art wont to give more than either we defire or The Gospel. St. Mark vii. 31. ESUS, departing from the coafts of Tyre and Sidon, J deserve; pour down upon came unto the fea of Galilee, us the abundance of thy mer- through the midst of the coafts Ka of i 1 T of Decapolis, and they bring The Epistle. Gal. iii. 16. unto him one that was deaf, O Abraham and his feed and had an impediment in his were the promises made. speech; and they beseech him He faith not, And to seeds, to put his hand upon him. as of many; but as of one, And he took him afide from And to thy feed, which is the multitude, and put his Chrift. And this I say, that fingers into his ears, and he the covenant that was conspit, and touched his tongue; firmed before of God in Chrift, and looking up to heaven, he the law, which was four hunfighed, and faith unto him, dred and thirty years after, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. cannot difannul, that it should And ftraightway his ears were make the promise of none opened, and the string of his effect. For if the inheritance tongue was loofed, and he be of the law, it is no more fpake plain. And he charged of promife; but God gave them that they should tell no it to Abraham by promife. man: but the more he charg- Wherefore then ferveth the *ed them, so much the more a great deal they published it; and were beyond measure aftonished, faying, He hath done all things well; he mak eth both the deaf to hear, -and the dumb to speak. law? It was added because of tranfgreffions, till the feed should come to whom the promife was made; and it hand of a mediator. Nowa was ordained by angels in the mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one. Is the The Thirteenth Sunday after law then against the promises Trinity. The Collect. LMIGHTY and mer- of God? God forbid; for if there had been a law given which could have given life, should verily righteousness of whose only gift it cometh that thy faith- and laudable service; grant, have been by the law. But the fcripture hath concluded all under fin, that the promife, by faith of Jefus Chrift, might be given to them that believe. fo faithfully serve thee in this mises, through the merits of B Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. that ye fee: For I tell you, that that many prophets and kings where he was : and when he have defired to fee those saw him, he had compaffion things which ye fee, and have on him, and went to him, not seen them; and to hear and bound up his wounds, those things which ye hear, pouring in oil and wine; and and have not heard them. set him on his own beaft, and And behold a certain lawyer brought him into an inn, and stood up, and tempted him, took care of him. And.on faying, Master, what shall I the morrow, when he departdo to inherit eternal life? ed, he took out two pence, He said unto him, What is and gave them to the hoft, written in the law? How readest thou? And he answering faid, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he faid unto him, thou hast anfwered right: this do, and thou shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, faid unto Jesus, and who is my neighbour? and Jesus anfwering faid, A certain man went and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he faid, He that showed mercy on him. Then faid Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewife.. The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity. The Collect. LMIGHTY and ever down from Jerufalem to Jeri, A lasting God, give unto cho, and fell among thieves, which stript him of his rai- us the increase of faith, hope, ment, and wounded him, and and charity; and that we may departed, leaving him half obtain that which thou dost dead. And by chance there promife, make us to love came down a certain Priest that which thou doft com. that way; and when he faw mand, through: Jesus Chrift him, he passed by on the our Lord. Amen. other fide. And likewise a I The Epistle. Gal. v. 16. Say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and paffed by on the other fide. But a certain Sa- the luft of the flesh. For the maritan, as he journied, came flesh lusteth against the Spi. was rit, and the Spirit against the them, he said unto them, Go flesh; and these are contrary show yourselves unto the the one to the other; so that priests. And it came to pass, ye cannot do the things that that, as they went, they were ye would. But if ye be led by cleansed. And one of them, the Spirit, ye are not under when he saw that he the law. Now the works of healed, turned back, and with the flesh are manifest, which a loud voice glorified God, are these, Adultery, fornica- and fell down on his face at tion, uncleanness, lasciviouf- his feet, giving him thanks: ness, idolatry, witchcraft, ha- and he was a Samaritan. And tred, variance, emulations, Jesus answering said, Were wrath, ftrife, seditions, he- there not ten cleansed? but refies, envyings, murders, where are the nine? There drunkenness, revellings, and are not found that returned fuch like: of the which I tell to give glory to God, save you before, as I have also told this stranger. And he said you in time past, that they unto him, Arife, go thy way: who do fuch things, shall not thy faith hath made thee inherit the kingdom of God. whole. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-fuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lufts. The Gospel. St. Luke xvii. 11. The Fifteenth Sunday after K Trinity. The Collect. ΕΕΡ, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy : And because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by help A Jefuit came to us from things hurtful, and lem, that he passed through lead us to all things profitable the midst of Samaria and Ga- to our salvation, through Jesus lilee. And as he entered into Christ our Lord. Amen. a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices, and faid, Jesus, Master, have mer- with mine own hand. And when he saw cy on us. letter The Epistle. Gal. vi. 11. Y As many as defire to make a fair show show in the flesh, they con- the life more than meat, and strain you to be circumcised; the body than raiment? Beonly left they should fuffer hold the fowls of the air: for perfecution for the cross of they sow not, neither do they Chrift. For neither they reap, nor gather into barns; themselves who are circum- yet your heavenly Father cised keep the law; but defire feedeth them. Are ye not to have you circumcised, that much better than they? they may glory in your flesh. Which of you, by taking But God forbid that I should thought, can add one cubit glory, save in the cross of our unto his stature? And why Lord Jesus Christ, by whom take ye thought for raiment ? the world is crucified unto Consider the lilies of the field, me, and I unto the world. how they grow: they toil not, For in Christ Jesus neither neither do they spin; and yet circumcifion availeth any I say unto you, that even Sothing, nor uncircumcifion, lomon in all his glory was not but a new creature. And as arrayed like one of these. many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Ifrael of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Chrift be with your spirit. Amen. N Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is caft into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, Oye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (for after all these things do the Gentiles seek :) for your heavenly Father knoweth that The Gospel. St. Matth. vi. 24. Ő man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love ye have need of all these the other: or else he will hold things. But seek ye first the to the one, and despise the kingdom of God, and his other: Ye cannot serve God righteousness, and all these and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on: Is not things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself: fufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. The |