GOOD FRIDAY.

The Collects.

ALMIGHTY GOD, we beseech thee

vered JESUS to their will. And as dom. And JESUS said unto him, they led him away, they laid hold Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming thou be with me in Paradise. And out of the country, and on him they it was about the sixth hour, and there laid the cross, that he might bear it was darkness over all the earth until after JESUS. And there followed him the ninth hour. And the sun was a great company of people, and of darkened, and the vail of the temple women, who also bewailed and la- was rent in the midst. And when mented him. But JESUS turning JESUS had cried with a loud voice, he unto them, said, Daughters of Jeru- said, Father, into thy hands I comsalem, weep not for me, but weep for mend my spirit: and having said thus, yourselves, and for your children. he gave up the ghost. Now when the For behold, the days are coming, in Centurion saw what was done, he the which they shall say, Blessed are glorified GOD, saying, Certainly this the barren, and the wombs that never was a righteous man. And all the bare, and the paps which never gave people that came together to that suck. Then shall they begin to say sight, beholding the things that were to the mountains, Fall on us; and to done, smote their breasts and rethe bills, Cover us. For if they do turned. And all his acquaintance, these things in a green tree, what and the women that followed him shall be done in the dry? And there from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding were also two other malefactors, led these things. with him to be put to death. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him and the malefactors; one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said JESUS, Father, forgive graciously to behold this thy family, them, for they know not what they do.for which our Lord JESUS CHRIST And they parted his raiment, and was contented to be betrayed, and cast lots. And the people stood beholding: and the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be CHRIST the chosen of GOD. And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to ALMIGHTY and everlasting him, and offering him vinegar, and GOD, by whose Spirit the whole body saying, If thou be the King of the of the Church is governed and sancJews, save thyself. And a super-tified; receive our supplications and scription also was written over him prayers, which we offer before thee in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. And one of the malefactors, which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thou be CHRIST, save thyself and us. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, O MERCIFUL GOD, who hast Dost not thou fear GOD, seeing thou made all men, and hatest nothing art in the same condemnation? And that thou hast made, nor desirest the we indeed justly; for we receive the death of a sinner, but rather that he due reward of our deeds: but this man should be converted and live; have hath done nothing amiss. And he mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infi said unto JESUS, Lord, remember dels, and Heretics; and take from me when thou comest into thy king-them all ignorance, hardness of heart,

given up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the cres, who now liveth and reigneth with thee and the HOLY GHOST, ever one GOD, world without end. Amen.

for all estates of men in thy holy Church, that every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry, may truly and godly serve thee, through our Lord and Saviour JE. SUS CHRIST. Amen.

The Epistle. Heb. x. 1.

and contempt of thy word; and so whereof the HOLY GHOST also is a fetch them home, blessed LORD, to witness to us: for after that he had thy flock, that they may be saved said before, This is the covenant that among the remnant of the true Is- I will make with them after those days, raelites, and be made one fold under saith the LORD; I will put my laws one Shepherd, JESUS CHRIST our into their hearts, and in their minds Lord, who liveth and reigneth with will I write them; and their sins and thee and the HOLY SPIRIT, one iniquities will I remember no more. GOD, world without end. Amen. Now, where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Having, therefore, brethren, boldness THE law having a shadow of good to enter into the holiest by the blood things to come, and not the very im- of JESUS, by a new and living way, age of the things, can never, with which he hath consecrated for us those sacrifices which they offered through the vail, that is to say, his year by year continually, make the flesh; and having a high priest over comers thereunto perfect. For then, the house of GOD; let us draw near would they not have ceased to be with a true heart, in full assurance offered? because that the worship- of faith, having our hearts sprinkled pers, once purged, should have had from an evil conscience, and our bo no more conscience of sins. But in dies washed with pure water. Let those sacrifices there is a remem- us hold fast the profession of our brance again made of sins every faith without wavering; (for he is year. For it is not possible that the faithful that promised;) and let us blood of bulls and of goats should consider one another to provoke unto take away sins. Wherefore, when love, and to good works; not for. he cometh into the world, he saith, saking the assembling of ourselves Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest together, as the manner of some is; not, but a body hast thou prepared but exhorting one another: and so me: in burnt-offerings and sacrifices much the more, as ye see the day for sin thou hast had no pleasure: approaching. then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O GOD. Above, PILATE therefore took JESUS, when he said, Sacrifice, and offering, and scourged him. And the soldiers and burnt-offerings, and offering for platted a crown of thorns, and put it sin, thou wouldest not, neither hadst on his head, and they put on him a pleasure therein, which are offered purple robe, and said, Hail, King of by the law; then said he, Lo, I come the Jews! and they smote him with to do thy will, O GOD. He taketh their hands. Pilate therefore went away the first, that he may establish forth again, and saith unto them, Bethe second. By the which will we hold, I bring him forth to you, that are sanctified, through the offering of ye may know that I find no fault in the body of JESUS CHRIST once for him. Then came JESUS forth, wearall. And every priest standeth daily ing the crown of thorns, and the purministering and offering oftentimes ple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, the same sacrifices, which can never Behold the man. When the chief take away sins. But this man, after priests therefore and officers saw he had offered one sacrifice for sins, him, they cried out, saying, Crucify for ever sat down on the right hand him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto of GOD; from henceforth expecting them, Take ye him, and crucify till his enemies be made his footstool. him; for I find no fault in him. The For by one offering he hath perfected Jews answered him, We have a law, for ever them that are sanctified: land by our law he ought to die, be

The Gospel. St. John xix. 1.

cause he made himself the SON OF Then the soldiers, when they had GOD. When Pilate therefore heard crucified JESUS, took his garments, that saying, he was the more afraid; (and made four parts, to every soldier and went again into the judgment- a part) and also his coat: now the hall, and saith unto JESUS, Whence coat was without seam, woven from art thou? But JESUS gave him no the top throughout. They said thereanswer. Then saith Pilate unto him, fore among themselves, Let us not Speakest thou not unto me? Know-rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it est thou not that I have power to cru- shall be: that the Scripture might be cify thee, and have power to release fulfilled, which saith, They parted thee? JESUS answered, Thou could- my raiment among them, and for my est have no power at all against me, vesture they did cast lots. These except it were given thee from above; things therefore the soldiers did. Now therefore he that delivered me unto there stood by the cross of JESUS, his thee hath the greater sin. And from mother, and his mother's sister, Mary thenceforth Pilate sought to release the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Maghim; but the Jews cried out, saying, dalene. When JESUS, therefore, saw If thou let this man go, thou art not his mother, and the disciple standing Cæsar's friend: whosoever maketh by whom he loved, he saith unto his himself a king, speaketh against mother, Woman, behold thy son. Cæsar. When Pilate therefore heard Then saith he to the disciple, Behold that saying, he brought JESUS forth, thy mother. And from that hour that and sat down in the judgment-seat, disciple took her unto his own home. in a place that is called the Pave- After this, JESUS knowing that all ment, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. things were now accomplished, that And it was the preparation of the the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, passover, and about the sixth hour: I thirst. Now there was set a vesand he saith unto the Jews, Behold sel full of vinegar: and they filled your King. But they cried out, Away a sponge with vinegar, and put it with him, away with him, crucify him. upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify When JESUS, therefore, had received your King? The chief priests answer the vinegar, he said, It is finished: ed, We have no king but Cæsar. Then and he bowed his head, and gave up delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified: and they took JESUS, and led him away. And he, bearing his cross, went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha; where they erueified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross; and the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews; for the place where JESUS was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.

the ghost. The Jews, therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day, (for that sabbath-day was a high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be brok en, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to JESUS, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came thereout blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he know eth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken

And again another Scripture saith, rock; and he rolled a great stone to They shall look on him whom they the door of the sepulchre, and depierced.

So,

parted. And there was Mary Mag-
dalene, and the other Mary, sitting
Now
over against the sepulchre.
the next day that followed the day of
the preparation, the chief priests and
Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
saying, Sir, we remember that that
deceiver said, while he was yet alive,
After three days I will rise again.
Command therefore that the sepul-
chre be made sure until the third
day, lest his disciples come by night,
and steal him away, and say unto the
people, He is risen from the dead: so
the last error shall be worse than the
first. Pilate said unto them, Ye have
a watch; go your way, make it as
So they went and
sure as you can.
made the sepulchre sure, sealing the
stone, and setting a watch.

EASTER-DAY.

At Morning Prayer, instead of the Psalm, (0 come let us sing, &c.) these anthems shall be sung or said.

CHRIST our passover is sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the feast;

Not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Cor. v. 7.

CHRIST being raised from the

The Epistle. 1 St. Peter iii. 17. IT is better, if the will of GOD be that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing. For CHRIST also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, (that he might bring us to GOD) being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-ffering of GOD waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing; wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. The like figure whereunto, even Baptism, doth also now save us (not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward GOD) by the resurrection of JESUS CHRIST: who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of GOD; angels, and authorities, and powers, being made subject unto him. The Gospel. St. Matt. xxvii. 57. WHEN the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was JESUS' disciple: he went to Pilate, and beg ged the body of JESUS. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen For as in Adam all die; even so cloth, and laid it in his own new in CHRIST shall all be made alive, tomb, which he had hewn out in the 1 Cor. xv. 20.

dead, dieth no more; death hath no

more dominion over him.

For in that he died, he died unto sin once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin; but alive unto God through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Rom. vi. 9.

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CHRIST is risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

The Collect.

went into the sepulchre, and seeth ALMIGHTY GOD, who through the linen clothes lie; and the napkin thine only begotten Son JESUS that was about his head not lying CHRIST hast overcome death, and with the linen clothes, but wrapped opened unto us the gate of everlast-together in a place by itself. Then ing life; we humbly beseech thee, that as, by thy special grace prevent ing us, thou dost put into our minds good desires; so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the HOLY GHOST, ever one GOD, world without end. Amen.

went in also that other disciple which
came first to the sepulchre, and he
saw, and believed. For as yet they
knew not the Scripture, that he must
rise again from the dead.
disciples went away again unto their
own home.

Then the

MONDAY IN EASTER-WEEK.
The Collect.

ALMIGHTY GOD, who through

The Epistle. Col. iii. 1. IF ye then be risen with CHRIST, seek those things which are above, thine only begotten Son JESUS where CHRIST sitteth on the right CHRIST hast overcome death, and hand of GOD. Set your affection on opened unto us the gate of everlasting things above, not on things on the life; we humbly beseech thee, that earth: for ye are dead, and your life as, by thy special grace preventing is hid with CHRIST in GOD. When us, thou dost put into our minds good CHRIST, who is our life, shall ap- desires; so by thy continual help we pear, then shall ye also appear with may bring the same to good effect, him in glory. Mortify therefore your through JESUS CHRIST our Lord; members which are upon the earth; who liveth and reigneth with thee fornication, uncleanness, inordinate and the HOLY GHOST, ever one affection, evil concupiscence, and co- GOD, world without end. Amen. vetousness, which is idolatry: for which things' sake the wrath of GOD cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them.

For the Epistle. Acts x. 34. said, Of a truth I perceive that GOD PETER opened his mouth, and is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him and The Gospel. St. John xx. 1. worketh righteousness, is accepted THE first day of the week cometh with him. The word which GOD Mary Magdalene early, when it was sent unto the children of Israel, yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and preaching peace by JESUS CHRIST; seeth the stone taken away from the (he is LORD of all:) that word, 1 sepulchre. Then she runneth and say, ye know, which was published cometh to Simon Peter, and to the throughout all Judea, and began from other disciple whom JESUS loved, Galilee, after the baptism which John and saith unto them, They have taken preached: how GOD anointed JESUS away the Lord out of the sepulchre, of Nazareth with the HOLY GHOST, and we know not where they have and with power; who went about laid him. Peter therefore went forth, doing good, and healing all that were and that other disciple, and came to oppressed of the devil: for GOD was the sepulchre. So they ran both to- with him. And we are witnesses of gether; and the other disciple did all things which he did, both in the outrun Peter, and came first to the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem: sepulchre; and he, stooping down whom they slew, and hanged on a and looking in, saw the linen clothes tree. Him God raised up the third lying, yet went he not in. Then com- day, and showed him openly; not to eth Simon Peter following him, and all the people, but unte witnesses