company come unto him, he Al give such grace unto thy

AL

a

Egypt; but, The Lord liveth, 9 If there be any more Sundays before ad

vent-Sunday, the Service of some of those who brought up, and who led

Sundays that were omitted after the Epithe seed of the house of Israel phany, shall be taken in to supply so many out of the north country, and

as are here wanting. And if there be

fewer, the overplus may be omitted : Profrom all countries whither I had vided that this last Collect, Epistle, and driven them; and they shall

Gospel, shall always be used upon the Sun

day next before Advent. dwell in their own land. The Gospel. St. John vi. 5. Saint Andrew's Day. THEN Jesus then lift up

The Collect. eyes, and saw a

LMIGHTY God, who didst saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may that he readily obeyed the call

holy Apostle Saint Andrew, eat? (and this he said to prove ing of thy Son Jesus Christ, and him; for he himself knew what he would do.) Philip answered

followed him without delay; him, Two hundred penny-worth grant unto us all, that we, being of bread is not sufficient for called by thy holy word, may them, that every one of them forthwith give up ourselves obe

, may take a little. One of his diently to fulfil thy holy comdisciples, Andrew, Simon Pe- mandments, through the same

,

Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ter's brother, saith unto him, There is a lad here, who hath

The Epistle. Rom. x. 9.

F what

mouth Lord so many? And Jesus said, shalt believe in thine heart that Make the men sit down. Now God hath raised him from the there was much grass in the dead, thou shalt be saved. For place. So the men sat down, with the heart man believeth in number about five thousand. unto righteousness, and with And Jesus took the loaves, and the mouth confession is made when he had given thanks, he unto salvation. For the Scripdistributed to the disciples, and ture saith, Whosoever believeth the disciples to them that were on him shall not be ashamed. set down, and likewise of the For there is no difference befishes, as much as they would. tween the Jew and the Greek: When they were filled, he said for the same Lord over all, is unto his disciples, Gather up the rich unto all that call upon him. fragments that remain, that no- For whosoever shall call upon thing be lost. Therefore they the name of the Lord, shall be gathered them together, and saved. How then shall they call filled twelve baskets with the on him in whom they have not fragments of the five barley- believed? And how shall they loaves, which remained over believe in him of whom they and above unto them that had have not heard? And how shall eaten. Then those men, when they hear without a preacher ? they had seen the miracle that And how shall they preach, exJesus did, said, This is of a cept they be sent? As it is writtruth that Prophet that should ten, How beautiful are the feet come into the world.

of them that preach the gospel

five barley-loawes,

and twosmall Intbath shalt confess with thy

of peace, and bring glad tidings suffer thy holy Apostle Thomas of good things? But they have to be doubtful in thy Son's renot all obeyed the gospel. For surrection; grant us so perfectly, Esaias saith, Lord, who hath and without all doubt, to believe believed our report? So then, in thy Son Jesus Christ, that faith cometh by hearing, and our faith in thy sight may never hearing by the word of God. be reproved: Hear us, O Lord, But I say, Have they not heard? through the same Jesus Christ; Yes, verily, their sound went to whom, with thee and the into all the earth, and their words Holy Ghost, be all honour and unto the ends of the world. But glory, now and for evermore. I say, Did not Israel know? Amen. First, Moses saith, I will pro- The Epistle. Ephes. ii. 19. voke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a NOW therefore ye are no

more strangers and foreignfoolish nation I will anger you, ers, but fellow-citizens with the But Esaias is very bold, and saints, and of the household of saith, I was found of them that God; and are built upon the sought me not; I was made foundation of the Apostles and manifest unto them that asked Prophets, Jesus Christ himself not after me. But to Israel he being the chief corner-stone; in saith, All day long have I stretch- whom all the building, fitly ed forth my hands unto a diso- framed together, groweth unto bedient and gainsaying people.

an holy temple in the Lord: in The Gospel. St. Matt. iv. 18. whom ye also are builded toJES ESUS walking by the sea of gether for an habitation of God,

Galilee, saw two brethren, through the Spirit. Simon, called Peter, and An- The Gospel. St. John xx. 24. drew his brother, casting a net into the sea : (for they were fish. THOMAS one of the twelve,

called Didymus, was not ers.) And he saith unto them, with them when Jesus came. Follow me, and I will make you The other disciples therefore fishers of men. And they said unto him, We have seen straightway left their nets, and the Lord. But he said unto followed him. And going on them, Except I shall see in his from thence, he saw other two hands the print of the nails, and brethren, James the son of Zebe

put my finger into the print of dee, and John his brother, in a the nails, and thrust my hand ship with Zebedee their father, into his side, I will not believe. mending their nets; and he call- And after eight days, again his ed them. And they immediate- disciples were within, and Tholy left the ship and their father, mas with them: Then came and followed him.

Jesus, the doors being shut, and Saint Thomas the Apostle.

stood' in the midst, and said,

Peace be unto you. Then said The Collect.

he to Thomas, Reach hither thy A LMIGHTY and everliving finger, and behold my hands;

God, who, for the greater and reach hither thy hand, and confirmation of the faith, didst thrust it into my side; and be

not faithless, but believing. him with one accord, and cast And Thomas answered and said him out of the city, and stoned unto him, My Lord, and my him: and the witnesses laid God. Jesus saith unto him, down their clothes at a young

. Thomas, because thou hast seen man's feet, whose name was me, thou hast believed; blessed Saul. And they stoned Stephen, are they that have not seen, and calling upon God, and saying; yet have believed. And many Lord Jesus, receive my spirit

. other signs truly did Jesus in And he kneeled down, and cried the presence of his disciples, with a loud voice, Lord, lay not which are not written in this this sin to their charge. And book. But these are written, when he had said this, he fell

. that ye might believe that Jesus asleep. is the Christ, the Son of God; The Gospel. St. Matt. xxiii

, 34. and that believing, ye might have life through his name. BEI

EHOLD, I send unto you

prophets, and wise men, Saint Stephen's Day. and scribes; and some of them The Collect.

ye shall kill and crucify; and

some of them shall ye scourge all

our sufferings here upon in your synagogues, and perse. earth, for the testimony of thy cute them from city to city; truth, we may steadfastly.look that upon you may come all the up to heaven, and by faith be- righteous blood shed upon the hold the glory that shall be re- earth, from the blood of righte. vealed; and being filled with ous Abel, unto the blood of the Holy Ghost, may learn to Zacharias, son of Barachias, love and bless our persecutors, whom ye slew between the temby the example of thy first mar- ple and the altar. Verily I say tyr Saint Stephen, who prayed unto you, All these things shall for his murderers to thee, O come upon this generation. O blessed Jesus, who standest at Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that the right hand of God, to suc- killest the prophets, and stonest cour all those who suffer for them which are sent unto thee; thee, our only Mediator and how often would I have gatherAdvocate. Amen.

ed thy children together, even Then shall follow the Collect of the Nati; as a hen gathereth her chickens vity, which shall be said continually until

under her wings, and ye would New-Year's Eve. For the Epistle. Acts vii. 55. not ! Behold, your house is left STEPHEN, being full of the unto you desolate For I say

up , not see steadfastly into heaven, and saw henceforth, till ye shall say, the glory of God, and Jesus Blessed is he that cometh in the standing on the right hand of name of the Lord. God; and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the

Saint John the Evangelist's Son of man standing on the

Day. right hand of God. Then they

The Collect. cried out with a loud voice, and MERE

,

ERCIFUL Lord, we bestopped their ears,

seech thee to cast thy

a

bright beams of light upon thy The Gospel. St. John.xxi. 19. by the doctrine of thy blessed JESUS said

unto Peter, Fol.

low me. Then Peter turnApostle and Evangelist Si.John, ing about, seeth the disciple may so walk in the light of thy whom Jesus loved, following, truth, that it may at length at. (which also leaned on his breast tain to everlasting life, through at supper, and said, Lord, which Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. is he that betrayeth thee?) Pe

The Epistle. 1 John i. 1. ter seeing him, saith to Jesus, The THAT which was from the Lord, and what shall this man

beginning, which we have do? Jesus saith unto him, If I heard, which we have seen with will that he tarry till I come, our eyes, which we have looked what is that to thee? Follow upon,

and our hands have hand- thou me. Then went this say. led of the word of life; (forthe life ing abroad among the brethren, was manifested, and we have that that disciple should not die: seen it, and bear witness, and yet Jesus said not unto him, He show unto you that eternal life shall not die: but if I will that which was with the Father, he tarry till I come, what is that and was manifested unto us;) to thee ?

to thee? This is the disciple that which we have seen and which testifieth of these things, heard, declare we unto you, and wrote these things, and we that ye also may have fellow. know that his testimony is true. ship with us; and truly our fel. And there are also many other lowship is with the Father, and things which Jesus did, the with his Son Jesus Christ. which, if they should be written And these things write we unto every one, I suppose that even you, that your joy may be full. the world itself could not conThis then is the message which tain the books that should be we have heard of him, and de- written. clare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

The Innocents Day. If we say that we have fellow

The Collect. ship with him, and walk in darkness , we lie, and do not the O Almighty God, who out

of the mouths of babes truth: But if we walk in the and sucklings hast ordained light, as he is in the light, we strength, and madest infants to have fellowship, one with ano- glorify thee by their deaths: ther, and the blood of Jesus mortify and kill all vices in us, Christ his Son cleanseth us from and so strengthen us by thy all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, our lives, and constancy of our

grace, that by the innocency of and the truth is not in us. If faith even unto death, we may we confess our sins, he is faith- glorify thy holy name, through ful and just to forgive us our sins, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that For the Epistle. Rev. xiv. 1. We have not signed, we make I Looked, and lo, a Lamb him liarword

Sion, and with him an hundred forty

in us.

and four thousand, having his to the time which he had dili-
Father's name written in their gently inquired of the wise men.
foreheads. And I heard a voice Then was fulfilled that which
from heaven, as the voice of was spoken by Jeremy the pro-
many waters, and as the voice phet, saying, In Rama was there
of a great thunder: and I heard a voice heard, lamentation, and
the voice of harpers harping with weeping, and great mourning,
their harps: and they sung as it Rachel weeping for her children,
were a new song before the and would not be comforted,
throne, and before the four because they are not.
beasts, and the elders: and no
man could learn that song, but The Conversion of St. Paul.
the hundred and forty and four

The Collect.
thousand, which were redeem-
ed from the earth. These are

O

God, who, through the they which were not defiled with preaching of the blessed women, for they are virgins: Apostle Saint Paul, hast caused these are they which follow the the light of the gospel to shine Lamb whithersoever he goeth: throughout the world; grant, these were redeemed from we beseech thee, that

we,

hav. among men, being the first-fruits ing his wonderful conversion in unto God, and to the Lamb. remembrance, may show forth And in their mouth was found our thankfulness unto thee for no guile; for they are without the same, by following the holy fault before the throne of God. doctrine which he taught,

.

through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Gospel. St. Matt. ï. 13.

Amen. TH! "HE angel of the Lord appeareth toJoseph in a dream,

For the Epistle. Acts ix. 1. young child and his mother

, and AND Saul, yet breathing out , flee into Egypt, and be thou against the disciples of the Lord, there until I bring thee word; went unto the High Priest, and for Herod will seek the young desired of him letters to Dachild to destroy him. When mascus to the synagogues, that he arose, he took the young if he found any of this way, child and his mother by night, whether they were men or woand departed into Egypt; and men, he might bring them bound was there until the death of He- unto Jerusalem. And as he rod: that it might be fulfilled journeyed, he came near Dawhich was spoken of the Lord mascus: and suddenly there by the prophet, saying, Out of shined round about him a light Egypt have I called my son. from heaven. And he fell to the Then Herod, when he saw that earth, and heard a voice saying he was mocked of the wise men, unto him, Saul, Saul, why perwas exceeding wroth, and sent secutest thou me? And he said, forth, and slew all the children who art thou, Lord? And the that were in Bethlehem, and in Lord said, I am Jesus whom all the coasts thereof, from two thou persecutest: It is hard for years old and under, according thee to kick against the pricks.