ther, Woman, behold thy son. Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour that disciple took her nuto his own home. After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up 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 an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, 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 knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, A bone again, another Scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. EASTER EVEN. GRANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our corrupt affec tions we may be buried with him; and that through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection; for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. 1 St. Peter iii. 17. TT is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for welldoing, 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 pri son; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering 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 towards 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, Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple. He went to Pilate, and begged 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 cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. Now 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 sepulchre 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 sure as you can. So they went and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. EASTER-DAY. At Morning Prayer, instead of the Psalm, O come let us sing, &c. these Anthems shall be sung or said. HRIST our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast; Not with the old dead: and become the firstfruits of them that slept. HRIST is risen from the For since by man came death: by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die: even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Cor. xv. 20. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. The Collect. ΑΙ LMIGHTY God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee, that, as by thy special grace preventing 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 liv eth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. The Epistle. Col. iii. 1. with the leven of heaven, and I Christ, seek those things wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Cor. v. 7. CHRIST being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died muto sin once but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God Likewise reckon ye also your-earth; selves to be dead indeed unto sin: but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom, vi. 9. cometh on the children of diso- | gate of everlasting life; We bedience. In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. The Gospel. St. John xx. 1. TH HE first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together; and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre; and he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes he; and the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then 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. Then the disciples went away again unto. their own home. Monday in Easter-week. The Collect. ALMIGHTY God, who through thy only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the humbly beseech thee, that, as by thy special grace preventing 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. For the Epistle. Acts x. 34. PETER opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ; (he is Lord of all ;) that word (I say) ye know, which was published throughout all Judæa, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost, and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil: for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all things which he did, both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew, and hanged on a tree: Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he who was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. To him give all the prophets witness, that through his Name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission | him they saw not. Then he of sins. for Isaid unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that The Gospel. St. Luke xxiv. 13. the prophets have spoken: BEHOLD, two of his disci- ought not Christ to have sufples went that same day fered these things, and to enter to a village called Emmaus, into his glory? And beginning which was from Jerusalem aat Moses, and all the prophets, hout threescore furlongs. And he expounded unto them in all they talked together of all these the Scriptures the things conthings which had happened. cerning himself. And they And it came to pass, that while drew nigh unto the village whithey communed together, and ther they went, and he made reasoned, Jesus himself drew as though he would have gone near, and went with them. But further but they constrained their eyes were holden, that him, saying, Abide with 113, they should not know him. it is towards evening, and the And he said unto them, What day is far spent. And he went manner of communications are in to tarry with them. And it these that ye have one to an- came to pass, as he sat at meat other, as ye walk, and are sad? with them, he took bread, and And the one of them, whose blessed it, and brake, and gave name was Cleopas, answering, to them. And their eyes were said unto him, Art thou only a opened, and they knew him, stranger in Jerusalem, and hast and he vanished out of their not known the things which sight. And they said one to are come to pass there in these another, Did not our heart burn days? And he said unto them, within us, while he talked with What things? And they said us by the way, and while he unto him, Concerning Jesus of opened to us the Scriptures? Nazareth, who was a prophet And they rose up the same mighty in deed and word, be-hour, and returned to Jerusafore God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; and when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said; but lem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread. Tuesday in Easter-week. The Collect. ALMIGHTY God, who through thy only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee, that, as by thy special grace preventing M The Gospel, St. Luke xxiv. 36. JESUS himself stood in the us thou dost put into our minds | neration by the will of God, fell good desires, so by thy conti- on sleep, and was laid unto his nual help we may bring the fathers, and saw corruption: same to good effect; through But he whom God raised again Jesus Christ our Lord, who liv- saw no corruption. Be it known eth and reigneth with thee unto you therefore, men and and the Holy Ghost, ever one brethren, that through this man God, world without end. Amen. is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him For the Epistle. Acts xiii. 26. all that believe are justified EN and brethren, chil- from all things, from which ye dren of the stock of could not be justified by the Abraham, and whosoever a- law of Moses. Beware theremong you feareth God, to you fore, lest that come upon you is the word of this salvation which is spoken of in the prosent. For they that dwell at phets; Behold, ye despisers, Jerusalem, and their rulers, be- and wonder, and perish; for ĺ cause they knew him not, nor work a work in your days, a yet the voices of the prophets work which ye shall in no wise which are read every sabbath-believe, though a man declare day, they have fulfilled them in it unto you. condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And midst of them, and saith when they had fulfilled all that unto them, Peace be unto you. was written of him, they took But they were terrified and afhim down from the tree, and frighted, and supposed that laid him in a sepulchre. But they had seen a spírit. And he God raised him from the dead: said unto them, Why are ye and he was seen many days of troubled, and why do thoughts them which came up with him arise in your hearts? Behold from Galilee to Jerusalem, who my hands and my feet, that it are his witnesses unto the peo-is I myself: handle me, and ple. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another Psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own ge see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them. And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me. |