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evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well. For fo is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to filence the ignorance of foolish men: as free, and not ufing your liberty for a cloke of malicioufnefs, but as the fervants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

JES

The Gospel. St. John xvi. 16.

ESUS faid to his difciples, A little while, and ye shall not fee me: and again, a little while, and ye fhall fee me, because I go to the Father. Then faid fome of his difciples among themselves, What is this that he faith unto us, A little while, and ye fhall not fee me: and again, a little while, and ye fhall fee me: and, Because I go to the Father? They faid therefore, What is this that he faith, A little while? we cannot tell what he faith. Now Jefus knew that they were defirous to ask him, and faid unto them, Do ye enquire among yourfelves of that I faid, A little while, and ye fhall not fee me: and again, a little while, and ye fhall fee me? Verily, verily, I fay unto you, that ye fhall weep and lament, but the world fhall rejoice: and ye shall be forrowful, but your forrow fhall be turned into joy. A woman when he is in travail hath forrow, because her hour is come: but as foon as fhe is delivered of the child, the remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have forrow: but I will fee you again, and your heart fhall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

The Fourth Sunday after Eafter.
The Collect.

Almighty God, who alone canft order the unruly wills and affections of finful men; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou com

The Collect This prayer for an attachment to the things which are above, was compofed in 1549, and altered at the laft review, 1662, to the form it now wears, from the following commencement: "Almighty God, which doft make the minds of all men to be of one will, grant," &c. The introitus was the lxxxiiid pfalm.

mandeft, and defire that which thou doft promife; that fo among the fundry and manifold changes of the world our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle. St. James i. 17.

EVERY good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above,

and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we fhould be a kind of firft-fruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, flow to fpeak, flow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and fuperfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to fave your fouls.

JES

The Gospel. St. John xvi. 5.

ESUS faid unto his difciples, Now I go my way to him that fent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? But because I have faid these things unto you, forrow hath filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you: but if I depart, I will fend him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of fin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of fin, because they believe not on me; Of righteoufnefs, because I go to my Father, and ye fee me no more; Of judgment, becaule the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to fay unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he fhall not fpeak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that fhall he fpeak, and he will fhew you things to come. He fhall glorify me: for he fhall receive of mine, and fhall fhew it unto you. things that the Father hath are mine: therefore faid I, that he fhall take of mine, and fhall fhew it unto you.

All

The fifth Sunday after Eafter.
The Collect.

Lord, from whom all good things do come; Grant to us thy humble fervants, that by thy holy inspi ration we may think thofe things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the fame, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.

The Epiflc. St. James i. 22.

BE ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, decei

ving your ownfelves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glafs: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and ftraightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whofo looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein; he being not a a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To vifit the fatherlefs and widows in their afflictions, and to keep himself unfpotted from the world.

The Gospel. St. John xvi. 23.

VERILY, verily, I fay unto you,

fhall

Whatsoever ye afk the Father in my name, he will give it you.

The Collect This prayer for grace to know and fulfil our duty was adopted in 1549 from the Sacramentarium of Gregory. The introitus was the lxxxivth pfalm. This Sunday is called Rogation-Sunday, and the three days preceding the Afcenfion are called Rogation-Days, and were first made holy-days by Mamercus bishop of Vienne, about the middle of the fifth century. They receive their name from the Latin word rogatio, or the supplication, that was on thefe days offered up in folemn proceffion. At the Reformation, when all proceffions were abolifhed as fuperftitions; yet for retaining the perambulation of parishes, it was ordered, “That the people fhall once a year, at the time accustomed, with the curate and fubftantial men of the parish, walk about the parishes as they were accuftomed to do, and at their return to church make their common prayers." In the fame injunctions, drawn up in the reign of Elizabeth, the curate is ordered upon thefe occafions to use "fuch order of prayer as fhall be hereafter appointed." No fuch order was ever drawn up, but an appropriate homily is provided, divided into four parts; the firft for the use of Monday; the fecond for Tuesday; the third for Wednesday; and the fourth for Thursday, the day on which the proceffion is made.

Hitherto have ye afked nothing in my name: Afk, and ye fhall receive, that your joy may be full. Thele things have I fpoken unto you in proverbs: the time cometh, when I fhall no more fpeak unto you in proverbs, but I fhall fhew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye fhall alk in my name: and I fay not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: for the Father himfelf loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. His difciples faid unto him, Lo, now speakeft thou plainly, and fpeakeft no proverb. Now are we fure that thou knoweft all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou cameft forth from God. Jefus anfwered them, Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye fhall be scattered, every man to his own, and fhall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things have 'I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye fhall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

GR

The Afcenfion-Day.

The Collect.

RANT, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only-begotten Son our Lord Jefus Chrift to have ascended into the heavens; fo we may also in heart and mind thither afcend, and with him continually dwell, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoft, one God, world without end. Amen.

The Epiftle. Acts i. 1.

HE former treatise I have made, O Theophilus, of all that Jefus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghoft had given commandments unto the apoftles

The Collect] This prayer for heavenly-mindednefs was adopted in 1549 from Gregory's Sacramentarium. The introitus was pfalm xlvii.

whom he had chofen: To whom alfo he fhewed himself alive after his paffion, by many infallible proofs, being feen of them forty days, and fpeaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: and being affembled together with them, commanded them that they fhould not depart from Jerufalem, but wait for the promife of the Father, which, faith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye fhall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, faying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Ifrael? And he faid unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the feafons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye fhall be witneffes unto me both in Jerufalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermoft part of the earth. And when he had spoken thefe things, while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their fight. And while they looked ftedfastly toward heaven, as he went up, behold, two men ftood by them in white apparel; which also faid, Ye men of Galilee, why ftand ye gazing up into heaven? This fame Jefus, which is taken up from you into heaven, fhall fo come in like manner, as ye have feen him go into heaven.

JES

The Gofpel. St. Mark xvi. 14.

ESUS appeared unto the eleven, as they fat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had feen him after he was rifen. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gofpel to every crea He that believeth and is baptized, fhall be faved; but he that believeth not, fhall be damned. And these figus fhall follow them that believe; in my name shall they caft out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

ture.

Saved Shall be in a state of falvation; in a frame of mind likely to work out his falvation by fulfilling the precepts of my gospel.

Damned] A miftranflation for condemned; fhall be in a state of condemnation; becaufe he is likely to continue in thofe fins, which led him to reject the miraculous proofs of my miffion. Vide John iii. 19.

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