doft, except God be with him. The first Sunday after Trinity. Jefus answered and faid unto him, Verily verily I fay unto thee, Except a man be born The Collect. God, the ftrength of all them that put their truft again, he cannot fee the king in thee; Mercifully accept our dom of God. Nicodemus faith prayers: and because through unto him, How can a man be the weakness of our mortal naborn when he is old? can he ture we can do no good thing enter the second time into his without thee, grant us the help mothers womb, and be born? of thy grace, that in keeping. Jefus answered, Verily verily thy commandments we may 1 fay unto thee, Except a man please thee both in will and be born of water and of the deed, through Jesus Christ our Spirit, he cannot enter into the Lord. Amen. kingdom of God. That which The Epiftle. 1 S. John 4. 7. born Eloved, let us love one ano and that which is born of the Btve, for love is of God, Spirit, is fpirit. Marvel not that and every one that loveth, is I faid unto thee, Ye muft be born of God,and knoweth God born again. The wind blow. He that loveth not, knoweth eth where it lifteth, and thou not God; for God is love. In heareft the found thereof; but this was manifefted the love of eanft not tell whence it cometh, God towards us, because that and whither it goeth; fo is God fent his only begotten Son every one that is born of the into the world, that we might Spirit. Nicodemus answered, live through him. Herein is and faid unto him, How can love, not that we loved God, these things be? Jefus answered but that he loved us, and fent and faid unto him, Art thou a his Son to be the propitiation mafter of Ifrael, and knoweft for our fins. Beloved, if God fo not there things? Verily verily loved us, we ought alfo to love 1 fay unto thee, We speak that one another. No man hath we do know, and teftifies that feen God at any time. If we we have feen, and ye receive love one another, God dwelleth not our witnefs. If I have told in us, and his love is perfected you earthly things, and ye be- in us. Hereby know we that lieve not; how fhall ye be- we dwell in him, and he in us, lieve if I tell you of heavenly because he hath given us of his things? And no man hath a- Spirit. And we have seen and ended up to heaven, but he do teftifie, that the Father fent ame down from heaven, the Son to be the Saviour of Son of man who is in the world. Whofoever fhall: heaven. And as Mofes lifted up confefs that Jefus is the Son of the ferpent in the wilderness: God, God dwelleth in him, and even fo muft the Son of man be he in God. And we have known lifted up; that whofoever be and believed the love that God lieveth in him, fhould not pe- hath to us. God is love; and rifh, but have eternal life. he that dwelleth in love, dwell that even the eth eth in God, and God in him. ceivedft thy good things, and Herein is our love made per- likewife Lazarus evil things: fect, that we may have boldness but now he is comforted, and in the day of judgment, because thou art tormented. And beas he is, fo are we in this world. fides all this, between us and There is no fear in love, but you there is a great gulf fixed: perfect love cafteth out fear; fo that they who would pass because fear hath torment: He from hence to you, cannot that feareth, is not made per- neither can they país to us, fect in love. We love him, be- that would come from thence. cause he first loved us. It a nian Then he faid, I pray thee therefay, I love God, and hateth his fore, father, that thou wouldft brother, he is a liar: for he that fend him to my fathers houfe: loveth not his brother whom for I have five brethren; that he hath feen, how can he love he may teftifie unto them, left God, whom he hath not feen? they also come into this place And this commandment have of torment. Abraham faith we from him, that he who unto him, They have Mofes loveth God, love his brother and the prophets; let them alfo. hear them. And he faid, Nay, -The Gospel. S. Luke 16. 19, father Abraham; but if one Here was a certain rich went unto them from the dead, TH man, who was clothed in they will repent. And he faid purple and fine linen, and fared unto him, If they hear not fumptuously every day. And Mofes and the prophets, nei there was a certain beggar na- ther will they be perfwaded, med Lazarus, who was laid at though one rofe from the dead. his gate full of fores; and de firing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich mans The fecond Sunday after Trinity table: moreover, the dogs came and licked his fores. And it The Collect Lord, who never faileft came to pafs, that the beggar to help and govern them died, and was carried by the whom thou doft bring up in angels into Abrahams bofom: thy ftedfaft fear and love; Keep the rich man alfo died, and was us, we befeech thee, imder the buried. And in hell he lift up protection of thy good provihis eyes, being in torments, and dence, and make us to have a feeth Abraham afar off, and perpetual fear and love of thy Lazarus in his bofom. And he holy Name, thro' Jefus Chrift cried, and faid, Father Abra- our Lord. Amen. ham, have mercy on me, and The Epifle. 1 S. John 3.13. fend Lazarus that he may dip Arvel not, my brethren, the tip of his finger in water, if the world hare you and cool my tongue, for I am We know that we have paffed tormented in this flame. But from death unto life, because Abraham faid, Son, remember we love the brethren: he that that thou in thy life-time re- loveth not his brother, abider MA im in death. Whosoever hateth excufe: the first faid unto his brother, is a murderer; and him, I have bought a piece of ye know that no murderer hath ground, and I muft needs go eternal life abiding in him. and fee it; I pray thee have me Hereby perceive we the love of excufed. And another faid, I God, because he laid down his have bought five yoke of oxen, life for us and we ought to and I go to prove them; I pray lay down our lives for the bre- thee have me excufed. And thren. But whofo hath this another faid, I have married a worlds good, and feeth his bro- wife, and therefore I cannot ther have need,and fhutteth up come. So that fervant came, his bowels of compaffion from and fhewed his Lord these him; how dwelleth the love of things. Then the mafter of the God in him? My little chil- houfe being angry, faid to his dren, let us not love in word, fervant, Go out quickly into neither in tongue, but in deed, the ftreets and lanes of the city, and in truth. And hereby we and bring in hither the poor, know that we are of the truth, and the maimed, and the halt, and fhall affure our hearts bc- and the blind. And the ferfore him. For if our heart vant faid, Lord, it is done as condemn us, God is greater thou haft commanded, and yet than our heart, and knoweth there is room. And the Lord 'all things. Beloved, if our faid unto the fervant, Go out heart condemn us not, then i to the high-ways, and hedges, have we confidence towards and compel them to come in, God. And whatfoever we ask, that my houfe may be filled. we receive of him, becaufe we For I fay unto you, that none keep his commandments, and of thofe men which were biddo thofe things that are plea- den, fhall tafte of my supper. fing in his fight. And this is his commandment, that we The third Sunday after Trinity. hould believe on the Name of his Son Jefus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. And he that keep The Collect. Lord, we befeech thee mercifully to hear us; and eth his commandments, dwell- grant that we, to whom thou eth in hiin, and he in him: haft given an hearty defire to and hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.. The Gofpel. S. Luke 14. 16. A Curtain, man made a great and fupper, and bade many. pray, may by thy mighty aid be defended and comforted in all dangers and adverfities, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The Epifle. I S. Pet. 5. 5. of you be fubject A to another, and be tot ond time to fay to them that were with humility: for God refiftbidden, Come, for all things eth the proud, and giveth grace are now ready. And they all to the humble. Humble your with one confent began to make felves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he of filver, if the lofe one piece, may exalt you in due time; doth not light a candle, and cafting all your care upon him, fweep the houfe, and feek dilifor he careth for you. Be fo- gently till fhe find it? And ber, be vigilant, because your when the hath found it, the adverfary the devil, as a ro- calleth her friends and her ring lion,walketh about feeking neighbours together, faying, whom he may devour. Whom Rejoyce with me, for I have refift stedfaft in the faith, found the piece which I had knowing that the fame afflicti- loft. Likewife I fay unto you, ons are accomplished in your there is joy in the prefence of brethren that are in the world. the angels of God, over one But the God of all grace, who finner that repenteth. hath called us into his eternal glory by Chrift Jefus, after that ye have fuffered a while, make The you perfect, ftablifli, ftrengthen, fettle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. The Gospel. S. Luke 15. 1. TH all the publicans and fin fourth Sunday after Trinity. The Collect. that truft in thee, without God, the protector of all whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; Increate and multiply upon us thy mercy, that thou being our ruler and guide, we mayfo pafs through things temporal, that we finally lote not the things eternal: Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jefus Christs fake our Lord. Amen. The Epiftle. Rom. 8. 18. ners for to hear him. And the Pharifees and Scribes murmured, faying, This man receiveth finners, and eateth with them. And he spake this parable unto them, faying, What man of you having an hundred fleep, Reckon that the fufferings if he lofe one of them, doth not of this present time are not leave the ninety and nine in the worthy to be compared with wilderness, and go after that the glory which fhall be revealwhich is loft, until he find it? ed in us. For the carneft exAnd when he hath found it, he pectation of the creature waitlayeth it on his fhoulders, re- eth for the manifeftation of the joycing. And when he cometh fons of God. For the creature home, he calleth together his was made fubject to vanity, not friends and neighbours, faying willingly, but by reafon of him unto them, Rejoyce with me, who hath fubjected the fame in for I have found my fheep hope: Because the creature it which was loft. I fay unto you, felf also shall be delivered from that likewife joy fall be in the bondage of corruption, into heaven over one finner that re- the glorious liberty of the chilpenteth, more than over ninety dren of God. For we know and nine just perfons, which that the whole creation groanneed no repentance. Either eth, and travaileth in pain to what woman, having ten pieces gether until now. And not on ly ly they, but our felves alfo, thy Church may joyfully ferve which have the firft-fruits or thee in all godly quietnefs, the Spirit, even we our felves through Jefus Chrift our Lord. grone within our felves, wait- Amen. ing for the adoption, to wit, The Epiftle. 1 S. Pet. 3. 8. the redemption of our body. Eye all of one mind, haBving cu of The Gofpel. S. Luke 6. 36. E therefore merciful, as other, love as brethren, be pitiByour Father also is merci- ful, be courteous; not rendring ful. Judge not, and ye fhall not evil for evil, or railing for rail be judged: condemn not, and ing; but contrariwife, blefye fhall not be condemned: for- fing; knowing that ye are give, and ye all be forgiven: thereunto called, that ye fhould give, and it fhall be given un- inherit a bleffing. For he that to you: good measure, preffed will love life, and fee good days, down, and fhaken together, let him refrain his tongue from and running over fhall men evil, and his lips that they speak give into your bofom. For with no guile. Let him efchew evil, the fame measure that ye mete and do good; let him feck withal, it fhall be meafured to peace, and enfue it. For the you again. And he fpake a pa- eyes of the Lord are over the rable unto them, Can the blind righteous, and his ears are open lead the blind? fhall they not unto their prayers: but the face both fall into the ditch? The of the Lord is against them that difciple is not above his mafter; do evil. And who is he that but every one that is perfect will harm you, if ye be followfhall be as his mafter. And why ers of that which is good? But beholdeft thou the mote that and if ye fuffer for righteouf is in thy brothers eye, but per- nefs fake, happy are ye, and be ceiveft not the beam that is in not afraid of their terror, nei thine own eye? Either how ther be troubled; but fanctifie canft thou fay to thy brother, the Lord God in your hearts. Brother, let me pull out the The Gofpel. S. Luke 5. 1. mote that is in thine eye, when people preffed upon him to T came to pass, that as the thou thy felf beholdeft not the beam that is in thine own eye? hear the word of God, he ftood Thou hypocrite, caft out firft by the lake of Gennefareth; the beam out of thine own eye, and faw two fhips ftanding by and then fhalt thou fee clearly the lake: but the fishermen to pull out the mote that is in thy brothers eye. The fifth Sunday after Trinity. Gane, that the webffe on a were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entred into one of the fhips, which was Simons, and prayed him that he would thrust out little from the land; and he thee, that the courfe of fat down and taught the peothis world may be fo peaceably ple out of the fhip. Now when ordered by thy governance, that he had left fpeaking, he said unro |