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the fame fpiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was Chrift. But with many of them God was not well pleafed: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now thefe things were our examples, to the intent we should not luft after evil things, as they alfo lufted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were fome of them as it is written, The people fat down to eat and to drink, and rofe up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as fome of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Chrift, as fome of them alfo tempted, and were deftroyed of ferpents. Neither murmur ye, as fome of them alfo murmured, and were deftroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for enfamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed left he fall. There hath no temptation taken you but fuch as is common to man :

but Ged is faithful, who will not fuffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to efcape, that ye may

be able to bear it.

The Gospel. S. Luke 16. 1. [ESUS faid unto his difciples,

There was a certain rich

man, which had a steward; and the fame was accufed unto him, that he had wafted his goods. And he called him, and faid unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy ftewardship: for thou mayeft be no longer fteward. Then the fteward faid within himfelf, What fhall I do? for

my lord taketh away from me the stewardship; I cannot dig, to beg I am afhamed. I am refolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and faid unto the firft, How much oweft thou unto my lord? And he faid, An hundred mea. fures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and fit down quickly, and write fifty. Then faid he to another, And how much oweft thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and write fourfcore. And the lord commended the unjust fteward, because he had done wifely; for the children of this world are in their generation wifer than the children of light. And I fay unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteoufnefs; that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlafting habitations.

The tenth Sunday after Trinity.

The Collect.

ET thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the pray ers of thy humble fervants; and that they may obtain their pe titions, make them to ask fuch things as fhall pleafe thee, thro Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epifile. 1 Cor. 12. 1. brethren, I would not have Oncerning fpiritual gifts, you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles carried away unto thefe dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man fpeaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jefus accurfed: and that no man can fay, that Jefus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

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Now, there are diverfities of The eleventh Sunday after Trinity. gifts, but the fame Spirit. And The Collect. there are differences of admi

niftrations, but the fame Lord. God, who declareft thy al

And there are diverfities of operations, but it is the fame God which worketh all in all. But the manifeftation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge, by the fame Spirit; to another, faith by the fame Spirity to another, the gifts of healing, by the fame Spirit; to another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to ano ther, difcerning of fpirits; to another, divers kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the felf-fame Spirit, dividing to every man feverally as he will.

The Gospel. S. Luke 19. 41.
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mighty power most chiefly in fhewing mercy and pity; Mercifully grant unto us fuch a me fure of thy grace, that we running the way of thy commandments, may obtain thy gracious promifes, and be made partakers of thy heavenly trea fure, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. 1 Cor. 15. 1. Brethren, I declare unto you,

Gofpel which I preached unto you, which alfo ye have received, and wherein ye itand; by which alfo ye are faved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I alfo received, how that Chrift died for our fins according to the Scriptures and that he was buried, and that he rofe again

A near, he beheld the city, the third day according to the

and wept over it; faying, if thou hadst known, even thou, at leaft in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days fhall come upon thee that thine enemies fhall caft a french about thee, and compafs thee round, and keep thee in on every fide, and fhall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one ftone upon another: because thou kneweft not the time of thy vifitation. And he went into the temple, and be gan to caft out them that fold therein, and them that bought, faying unto them, It is written, My houfe is the houfe of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And he taught daily in tlle temple.

Scriptures: and that he was feen of Cephas, then of the twelve. After that he was feen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this prefent, but fome are fallen afleep. After that he was feen of James; then of all the Apoftles. And laft of all he was feen of me alfo ; as of one born out of due time. For I am the leaft of the Apoftles, that am not meet to be called an Apoftle, because I perfecuted the Church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was betowed upon me, was not in vain; but I laboured more a bundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore whether it were I or they, fo we preach, and fo ye believed.

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The Golpel. S. Luke 18. 9. ESUS pake this parable unto certain which trusted in themfelves that they were righteous, and defpifed others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharifee, and the other a Publican. The Pharifee ftood and prayed thus with himfelf; God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjuft, adulterers, or even as this Publican: I faft twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I poffefs. And the Publican ftanding afar off, would not lift up f much as his eyes unto heaven, but fmote upon his breaft, faying, God be merciful to me a finner. I tell you,

eth, but the fpirit giveth life, But if the miniftration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, fo that the child. ren of Ifrael could not ftedfaftly behold the face of Mofes, for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away; how fhall not the miniftration of the fpirit be rather glorious? For if the miniftration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the miniftration of righteoufness exceed in glory.

this man went down to his houfe juft.fied rather than the other; for every one that exalteth himself fhall be abased: and he that humbleth himself Thall be exalted.

The Gofpel. S. Mark 7. 31. JESUS departing from the

coafts of Tyre and Sidon, came unto the fea of Galilee, through the midst of the coafts of Decapolis. And they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his fpeech: and they befeech him he took him afide from the multo put his hand upon him. And titude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he fpit, and touch

The twelfth Sunday after Trinity. ed his tongue. And looking up

The Collect.

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God, who more ready to hear, than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we defire or deferve; Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us thofe things whereof our confcience is afraid, and giving us thofe good things which we are not worthy to aik, but through the merits and mediation of Jefus Chrift thy Son our Lord. Amen.

The Epiftle. 2 Cor. 3. 4. SUCH truft have we through Chrift to God-ward: not that we are fufficient of our

opened. And ftraightway ears were opened, and the ftring of his tongue was loofed, and he fpake plain. And he charged them that they fhould tell no man: but the more he charged them, fo much the more a great deal they published it, and were beyond measure aftonished, faying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak,

The thirteenth Sunday after
Trinity.
The Collect.

felves to think any thing as ofALmighty and merciful God,

ourfelves; but our fufficiency is of God, who alfo hath made us able minifters of the New Teftament, not of the letter, but of the fpirit: for the letter kill

only gift it cometh, that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable fervice; Grant, we beseech thee, that we may fo faithfully ferve

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thee in this life, that we fail not finally to attain thy heavenly promifes, through the merits of Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The Epifle. Gal 16. O Abraham and his feed were the promifes made. He faith not, And to feeds, as of many; but as of one; And to thy feed, which is Chrift. And this I fay, That the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Chrift, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot difannul, that it fhould make the promife of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promife: but God gave it to Abraham by promife. Wherefore then ferveth the law? It was added because of tranfgreffions, till the feed Thould come to whom the promife was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one: but God is one. Is the law then against the promifes of God? God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs fhould have been by the law. But the Scripture hath concluded all under fin, that the promife by faith of Jefus Chrift might be given to them that believe.

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The Gofpel. S. Luke 10. 23. Bee the things that ye fee; Leffed are the eyes which For I tell you that many prophets and kings have defired to fee thofe things which ye fee, and have not feen them; and to hear thofe things which ye hear, and have not heard them. And behold, a certain lawyer. ftood up, and tempted him, faying, Mafter, what fhall I do to inherit eternal life! He said unto him, what is written in the law? How readeft thou?

And he anfwering faid, Thow fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy ftrength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he faid unto him, Thou hast anfwered right: this do, and thou fhalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jefus, And who is my neighbour And Jefus answering, faid, A certain man went down from Jerufalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which ftripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain prieft that way; and when he faw him, he paffed by on the other fide. And likewife a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and paffed by on the other fide. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was; and when he faw him, he had compaffion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and fet him on his own beaft, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow, when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the hoft, and faid unto him, Take care of him, and whatfoever thou fpendeft more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of thefe three, thinkeit thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he faid, He that fhewed mercy on him. Then faid Jefus unto him, Go, and do thou likewife..

The fourteenth Sunday after
Trinity.

The Cellect.. Lmighty and everlasting God, give unto us the in creafe of faith, hope, and chaE6 rity;

rity; and that we may obtain that which thou dost promife, make us to love that which thou doft command, through Jefus Chrift our Lord, Amen.

The Epiftle. Gal. 5, 16. I Say then, walk the

ye fhall not fulfil the luft of the flesh. For the flesh lufteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other; fo that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifeft,

ed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jefus anfwering faid, Were there not

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nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, fave this ftranger. And he faid unto him, Arife, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole.

The fifteenth Sunday after
Trinity.
The Collect.
EEP, we beseech thee, O

which are thefe, adultery, for-KLord, thy Church with thy

perpetual mercy: And because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our falvation, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

nication, uncleannefs, lafcivioufnefs, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, ftrife, feditions, herefies, envyings, murders, drunkennefs, revellings, and fuch like: of the which I tell you before, as I have alfo told you in time paft, that they who do fuch things mall not inherit the king-YE fee how large a letter I

dom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longfuffering, gentleness, goodnefs, faith, meeknefs, temperance: against fuch there is no law. And they that are Chrift's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lufts.

The Gofpel. S. Luke 17. 11. A fus went to Jerufalem, that ND it came to pafs, as Je

he paffed through the midft of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which ftood afar off. And they lifted up their voices, and faid, Jefus mafter, have mercy on us. And when he faw them, he said unto them, Go, fhew yourfelves unto the priests. And it came to pafs, that as they went, they were cleanfed. And one of them, when he faw that he was heal

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have written unto you with As many as mine own hand. defire to make a fair fhew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcifed; only left they fhould fuffer perfecution for the crofs of Chrift. For neither they themselves who are circumcifed keep the law; but defire they may glory in your fileth. to have you circumcifed, that

But God forbid that I fhould glory fave in the cross of our Lord Jefus Chrift, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Chrift Jefus neither circumcifion availeth any thing, nor uncircumcifion, but a new creature. And as 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

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