The Epiftle. Rom. 8. 12. the flesh. For if ye live after the fleth, ye thall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye thall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the fons of God. For ye have not received the fpirit of bondage again to fear: but ye have received the fpirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itfelf beareth witnefs with our fpirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God. and joint heirs with Chrift: if fo be that we fuffer with him, that we may be alfo glorified together. The Gospel S. Matth. 7. 15. BEWARE of false prophets, which come to you in theep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye thall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles Even fo every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree hat bringeth not forthgood fruit ishewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye thall know them. Not every one that faith unto me, Lord, Lord, thall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. The ninth Sunday after Trinity. The Collect. RANT to us, Lord, we be Gfeech thee, the Spirit to think and do always fuch things as be rightful: that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The Epifle. I Cor. 10. 1. ORETHREN, I would not that ye thould be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all pafled through the fea; and were all baptized un to Mofes in the cloud, and in the fpiritual meat; and did all drink the fame fpiritual drink. (For they drank of that fpiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was Chrift.) But with many of them God was not well pleated: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now thefe things were our examples, to the intent we thould not luft after evil things, as they alto 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 commit. ted, and fell in one day three and, twenty thousand. Neither let us temut Chrift, as fome of them alfo tempted, and were deftroy. ed of ferpents. Neither murmur ye, as fome of them alfo murmured, and were deftroyed of the deltroyer. Now all the fe things happened unto them for enfamples: and they are writ ten for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are cone. Wherefore let him that thinketh he flandeth take heed left he fall. There hath no temptati n taken you, but fuch as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not fulfer you to be tempted above that ye are able: but will with the temptaton alfo make a way to efcape, that ye may be able fo bear it. The Gofpel, S. Luke 16. 1. ESUS faid unto his di ciples, There was a certain rich man who had a fteward; and the fame was accufed unto him, that he had wafted his goods.' And he called him, and faid unto rim, 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 himself, What fhall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the ftewardihip: I cannot dig, to beg I am athamed. I am refolved what to do, that when I am. put out of the ftewardship, they may re ceive me into their houfes. So 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 meafures of oil. And he faid unto him, Take thy bill, and fit down quickly, and wrice fifty. Then faid he to another, And how much oweft thou? And he faid, An hundred measures of wheat. And he faid unto him, Take thy bill, and write four fcore. And the lord commend ed the unjuft fteward, becaufe 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 yourfelves friends of the mammon of unrighteoufnefs; that when ye tail, they may receive you into everlafting habitations. ET thy merciful cars, O Lord LET be open to the prayers of thy humble fervants; and that they may obtain their petitions, thall pleafe thee, through Jefus make them to ask fuch things as Chrift our Lord. Amen. CONCE The Epifle. 1 Cor. 12. 1. ONCERNING fpiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto thefe dumb idols, even as ye 1 were led. Wherefore I give you to underftand, 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 Ghoft. Now there are diverfities of gifts, but the fame Spirit. And there are differences of adminiftrations, but the fame Lord. And there are diverfities of operations, but it is the fame God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation 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 Spirit; to another, the gifts of healing by the fame Spirit; to another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, difcerning of spirits; to another, divers kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues. But all thefe worketh that one and the felfsame Spirit, dividing to every man feverally as he will. The Gospel. S. Luke 19. 41. AND when he was come near, Α he beheld the city, and wept over it, faying, if thou in this thy day, the things which hadft known, even thou at leaft belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days thall come upon thee, that thine enemies thall caft thee round, and keep thee in on a trench about thee, and compafs every fide, and thall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee: and they thall not leave in thee one ftone kneweft not the time of thy vifiupon another; because thou tation. And he went into the temple, and began to caft out It is written, My houfe is the them that fold therein, and them that bought, faying unto them, houfe of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. And he taught daily in the temple. The eleventh Sunday after Trinity. The Collect. GOD, who declareft thy Almighty power moft chiefly in thewing mercy and pity; Mercifully grant unto us fuch a meafure of thy grace, that we running the way of thy commandments. may obtain thy gracious promifes, and be made partakers of thy heavenly treafure, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen The Epiflle. 1 Cor. 15. 1. ORETHREN, I declare unto you unto you, which alfo ye have received, and wherein ye ftand; by which alfo ye are faved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have be lieved in vain. For I delivered unto unto you firft of all, that which I alto received, how that Chrift died for our fins according to the Scriptures; and that he was bu ried, and that he rofe again the third day, according to the 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 ready to hear, than we to pray, The Epifle 2 Cor. 3. 4. feen of James, then of all the S Chrift to Godward: not that 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 Apostles, 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 am: and his grace, which was beftowed upon me, was not in vain: but I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore whether it were 1, or they, fo we preach, and fo ye believed. we are fufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves: but our fufficiency is of God. Who alfo hath made us able minifters of the new teftament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Svirit giveth lite. But if the miniftration of death, written and engraven in ftones, was glorious; to that the children of Ifrael could not ftedfaftly behold the face of Mofes, for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away; how thall The Gofpel S. Luke 18. 9. not the miniftration of the Spirit ESUS pane this parable unto be rather glorious? For if the certain which his miniftration of condemna ion be trufted in themfelves that they were righteous, glory, much more doth the miand d.fpifed others: Two men ceed in glory. nistration of righteoufnefs exwent up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharifee, and the other a Publican. The Pharifee ftood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as o her men are, extortioners, unjuft, adulterers, or even as this Publican: I faft twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I polleis. And the Publican, ftand ing afar off, would not lift up fo much as his eyes unto heaven, but fmote upon his breaft, faying, God be merciful to me a finner. I tell you this man went down to his houfe juftified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himfelt thall be abafed; and he that humbleth himself thall be exalted. The Gospel. S. Mark 7. 31. Joyre and Sidon, came unto the fea of Galilee, through the And they bring unto him one midft of the coafts of Decapolis. that was deaf, and had an impediment in his fpeech; and they befcech him to put his hand upfrom the multitude, and put his on him. And he took him afide fingers into his ears, and he fpi, and touched his tongue: And looking up to heaven, he fighed, and faith un o him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And ftraightway his cars were opened, and the ftring of his tongue was loofed. and he fpake plain. And he charged them that they thould tell no man: but the more he charged them, fo much the more a great des they published it, and were beyond meafure aftonifhed, faying, He hath done all departing from the coafts thingswell: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to fpeak. and tempted him, faying, Mafter, what fhall I do to inherit eternal life? He faid unto him, What is written in the law? How readeft thou And he answering faid, hou fhalt love the Lord thy The Collect. God with all thy teart, and with LMIGHTYandmercifulGod, all thy foul, and with all thy The thirteenth Sunday after Trinity. A of whofe only gift it cometh, that thy faictiful people do unto thee true and laudable fervice; Grant, we beseech thee, that we may to faithfully ferve thee in this life, that we fail not finally to attain thy heavenly promifes, through the merits of Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.. The Epille. Gal. 3. 16. Twere the promites made O Abraham and his feed He falth not, And to feeds, as of many; but as of one; And to hy feed, which is Christ. And this I fay, that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot difannul, that it thould make the promise 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 be caufe 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 aga nit the promifes of God? God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs should 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. The Gospel, S. Luke 10. 23. LESSED are the eyes which fee thethings that ye fee: For I tell you, that many prophe.s and defired to fee, thofe, things which ye ice, and have not teen them; and to hear thofe things which ye bear, and have not heard them. And, behold, a certain lawyer food up, ftrength, and with all thy mind and thy neighbour as thyfelf. And he faid unto him, Thou haft anfwered right: this do, and thou fhalt live. But he willing to justify himfelf, faid unto Jefus, And who is my neighbour? And Jefus anfwering faid, A certain man went down from Jerufalem to Jericho, and fell him of his raiment, and woundamong thieves, which firipped ed him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there canre 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 compaflion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and fet him on his own beatt, 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 whaifoever thou fpendeft more, when come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkeft thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he faid, He that thewed mercy on him. Then faid Jefus unto him, Go, and do thou likewife. The fourteenth Sunday after LMIGHTY and everlafting A God, give unto us the in creafe af faith, hope, and charity; and that we may obtain that which thou doft promife, make us to love that which thou doft com command, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The Epiftle. Gal. 5. 16. and ye shall not fulfil the luft of the flesh. For the fleth lufteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit againft the fleth: and thefe 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 fleth are manifeft, which are The fifteenth Sunday after Trinity. The Colle&. K Lord, thy Church with thy EEP, we beseech thee, O the frailty of man without thee thefe, adultery, fornication, un-YE fee how large a letter I cleannefs, 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 thall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longfuffering, gentlenefs, goodness, faith, meeknefs, temperance: againft fuch there is no law. And they that are Chrift's have crucified the fleth with the affections and lufts. The Gospel. S. Luke 17. 11. Ave it came to pass, as Jefus ND it came to pafs, as Jefus went to Jerufalem, that 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, who flood arar off. And they lifted up their voices, and faid, Jefus, Mafter, have mercy on us. And when he faw them, he faid unto them, Go thew your felves unto the priefts. And it came to pafs, that as they went, they were cleanfed. And one of them, when he faw that he was healed, 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 ten cleanfed but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, fave this ftranger. And he faid unte him, Arife, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole. have written unto you with fire to make a fair fhew in the mine own hand. As many as defire to make a fair fhew in the fleth, they conftrain you to be circumcifed, only left they fhould fuffer perfecution for the cross of Chrift. For neither they themfelves who are circumcifed keep the law; but defire to have you circumcifed, that they may glory that I thould glory, fave in the in your fleth. But God forbid Crofs of our Lord Jefus Chrift. by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Chrift Jefus neither cir cumcifion 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 Jefus. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift be with your fpirit. Amen. Nters: for either he will The Gospel. S. Matth. 6. 24. hate the one, and love the other; or elfe he will hold to the one, and defpife the other. Ye cannot ferve God and Mammon. Therefore I fay unto you, Take no thought for your lie, what ye thall eat, or what ye thall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye thall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they fow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Fa her feedeth them. Are ye not much man can ferve two maf better |