The Epistle. Gal. vi.

YE see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. As many as desire with outward appearance to please carnally, the same constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For they themselves which are circumcised keep not the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they might rejoice in your flesh. God forbid that I should rejoice, but in the cross of our Lord Jesu Christ, whereby the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesu neither circumcision availeth any thing at all, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according unto this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon Israel that pertaineth to God. From henceforth let no man put me to business; for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesu. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesu Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

The Gospel. Matt. vi.

No man can serve two masters: for either he shall hate the one, and love the other; or else lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Be not careful for your life, what ye shall eat or drink; nor yet for your body, what raiment ye shall put on is not the life more worth than meat, and the body more of value than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor carry into the barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you (by taking careful thought) can add one cubit unto his sta ture? And why care ye for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his royalty was not clothed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, (which though it stand to-day, is to-morrow cast into the furnace,) shall he not much more do the same for you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or wherewith shall we be clothed? After all these things do the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But rather seek ye first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof,

and all these things shall be ministered unto you. Care not then for the morrow; for the morrow day shall care for itself: sufficient unto the day is the travail thereof.

The sixteenth Sunday.

At the Communion.

Feci judicium. Psalm cxix.

I DEAL with the thing that is lawful and right: O give me not over unto mine oppressors. Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good: that the proud do me no wrong.

Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health: and for the word of thy right

eousness.

O deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy : and teach me thy statutes.

I am thy servant, O grant me understanding: that I may know thy testimonies.

It is time for thee, Lord, to lay to thine hand: for they have destroyed thy law.

For I love thy commandments: above gold and precious stone.

Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments and all false ways I utterly abhor.

Glory be to the Father, and

to the Son, &c.

&c.

As it was in the beginning,

The Collect.

LORD, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy congregation; and, because it cannot continue in safety

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without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Epistle. Ephes. iii.

I DESIRE that you faint not because of my tribulations that I suffer for your sakes, which is your praise. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is m Father over all that is called father in heaven and in earth, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, might be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth and length, depth and height; and to know the excellent love of the knowledge of Christ, that ye might be fulfilled with all fulness which cometh of God. Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, be praise in the congregation by Christ Jesus, throughout all generations, from time to time. Amen.

The Gospel. Luke vii.

AND it fortuned, that Jesus went into a city called Naim; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people. When he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, which was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. And he came nigh, and touched the coffin, and they that bare him stood still; and he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak and he delivered him to his mother. And there came a fear on them all, and they gave the glory unto God, saying, A great prophet is risen up among us, and God hath visited his people. And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Jewry, and throughout all the regions which lie round about.

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The seventeenth Sunday.

Mirabilia. Psalm cxix.

THY testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

When thy word goeth forth: it giveth light and understanding even unto the simple.

I opened my mouth, and drew in my breath for my delight was in thy commandments.

O look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me: as thou usest to do unto those that love thy

name.

Order my steps in thy word: and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me.

O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of men: and so shall I keep thy commandments.

Shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servant : and teach me thy statutes.

Mine eyes gush out with water: because men keep not thy law.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the &c.

As it was in the beginning,

is now, and ever &c.

The Collect.

LORD, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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The seventeenth and eighteenth Sundays after Trinity.

The Epistle. Ephes. iv.

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I (which am a prisoner of the Lord's) exhort you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with humbleness of mind, forbearing one another through love; and be diligent to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: being one body and one spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling: let there be but one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, which is above all, and through all, and in you all.

The Gospel. Luke xiv.

Ir chanced that Jesus went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, and they watched him. And behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. And Jesus answered and spake unto the Lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; and answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? And they could not answer him again to these things. He put forth also a similitude to the guests, when he marked how they pressed to be in the highest rooms, and said unto them, When thou art Pbidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; and he (that bade him and thee) come and say to thee, Give this man room; and thou then begin with shame to take the lowest room. But rather, when thou art bidden, go and sit in the lowest room, that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, sit up higher then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be brought low, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. The eighteenth Sunday.

Justus es, Domine. Psalm cxix.

RIGHTEOUS art thou, O Lord : and true is thy judgment.

The testimonies that thou hast commanded are exceeding righteous and true.

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