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son, till he should pay the debt. So gle him in his talk. And they sent when his fellow-servants saw what out unto him their disciples, with the was done, they were very sorry, and Herodians, saying, Master, we know came and told unto their lord all that that thou art true, and teachest the was done. Then his lord, after that way of GOD in truth, neither carest he had called him, said unto him, O thou for any man; for thou regardest thou wicked servant, I forgave thee not the person of mer.. Tell us, all that debt, because thou desiredst therefore, what thinkest thou? Is it me: shouldest not thou also have had lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or compassion on thy fellow-servant, not? But JESUS perceived their even as I had pity on thee? And his wickedness, and said, Why tempt lord was wroth, and delivered him to ye me, ye hypocrites? Show me the the tormentors, till he should pay all tribute-money. And they brought that was due unto him. So likewise unto him a penny. And he saith shall my heavenly Father do also unto them, Whose is this image and unto you, if ye, from your hearts, superscription? They say unto him, forgive not every one his brother Cæsar's. Then saith he unto them, their trespasses.

THE TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY
AFTER TRINITY.
The Collect.

O GOD, our refuge and strength,

Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's; and unto GOD the things that are GOD'S When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.

AFTER TRINITY.

The Collect.

who art the author of all godli- THE TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY ness; be ready, we beseech thee, to hear the devout prayers of thy Church; and grant that those things which we ask faithfully, we may obtain effectually, through JESUS

CHRIST Our Lord.

Amen.

you

The Epistle. Phil. iii. 17. BRETHREN, be followers to gether of me, and mark them who walk so, as ye have us for an ensam. ple. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of CHRIST; whose end is destruction, whose god is their Selly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven,

O LORD, we beseech thee, absolve thy people from their offences; that, through thy bountiful goodness, we may all be delivered from the bands of those sins which by our frailty we have committed: Grant this, O heavenly Father, for JESUS CHRIST's sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

The Epistle. Col. i. 3.

heard of

your

Father of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, WE give thanks to GOD, and the praying always for you, since we faith in CHRIST JE. SUS, and of the love which ye have to all the saints; for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the unto you, as it is in all the world, truth of the Gospel; which is come and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of GoD in The Gospel. St. Matt. xxii. 15. truth. As ye also learned of EpaTHEN went the Pharisees, and phras, our dear fellow-servant, who took counsel how they might entan-is for you a faithful minister of

from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord JESUS CHRIST; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working, whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

CHRIST; who also declared unto us | ple; that they plenteously bringing your love in the spirit. For this forth the fruit of good works, may cause we also, since the day we heard by thee be plenteously rewarded, it, do not cease to pray for you, and through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. to desire that ye might be filled with Amen. the knowledge of his will in all wis dom and spiritual understanding: that ye might walk worthy of the

BEHOLD, the days come, saith the For the Epistle. Jer. xxiii. 5. LORD unto all pleasing, being fruitful LORD, that I will raise unto David a in every good work, and increasing righteous branch; and a king shall in the knowledge of GOD; strength-reign and prosper, and shall execute ened with all might, according to his judgment and justice in the earth. In his days, Judah shall be saved, this is his name whereby he shall be and Israel shall dwell safely: and called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTE days come, saith the LORD, that they OUSNESS. Therefore, behold, the shall no more say, The LORD liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but, The LORD liveth, who brought up, and

glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering, with joyfulness; giving thanks unto the FATHER, who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

The Gospel. St. Matt. ix. 18. WHILE JESUS spake these things unto John's disciples, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even who led the seed of the house of now dead; but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. And JESUS arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples. (And behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, The Gospel. St. John vi. 5. came behind him, and touched the WHEN JESUS then lift up his hem of his garment: for she said eyes, and saw a great company come within herself, If I may but touch his unto him, he saith unto Philip, garment, I shall be whole. But JE- these may eat? (and this he said to Whence shall we buy bread, that sus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of prove him; for he himself knew good comfort, thy faith hath made what he would do.) Philip answerthee whole. And the woman was ed him, Two hundred penny-worth made whole from that hour.) And of bread is not sufficient for them, when JESUS came into the ruler's that every one of them may take a house, and saw the minstrels and the Simon Peter's brother, saith unto little. One of his disciples, Andrew, people making a noise, he said unto him, There is a lad here, who hath them, Give place, for the maid is not five barley-loaves, and two small dead, but sleepeth. And they laugh-fishes; but what are they among so ed him to scorn. But when the people were put forth, he went in, and many? And JESUS said, Make the took her by the hand, and the maid men sit down. Now there was much arose. And the fame hereof went down, in number about five thousand. grass in the place. So the men sat

abroad into all that land.

THE TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY
AFTER TRINITY.

And JESUS took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down, and likewise of the fishes, as much STIR up, we beseech thee, O as they would. When they were LORD, the wills of thy faithful peo-filled, he said unto his disciples,

The Collect.

Gather up the fragments that remain, | how shall they hear without a preachthat nothing be lost. Therefore they er? And how shall they preach exgathered them together, and filled cept they be sent? As it is written, twelve baskets with the fragments of How beautiful are the feet of them the five barley-loaves, which remain that preach the Gospel of peace, and ed over and above unto them that bring glad tidings of good things! had eaten. Then those men, when But they have not all obeyed the they had seen the miracle that JE Gospel. For Esaias saith, LORD, sus did, said, This is of a truth that who hath believed our report? So Prophet that should come into the then, faith cometh by hearing, and world. hearing by the Word of GOD. But I say, have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. But I say, Did not Israel know? First, Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. But to Israel he saith, All day long have 1 stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and

If there be any more Sundays before AdventSunday, the Service of some of those Sundays that were omitted after the Epiphany, shall be taken in to supply so many as are here wanting. And if there be fewer, the overplus may be omitted: Provided that this last Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, shall always be used upon

the Sunday next before Advent.

SAINT ANDREW'S DAY,

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY GOD, who didst give such grace unto thy holy apostle Saint Andrew, that he readily obeyed the calling of thy Son JESUS CHRIST, gainsaying people. and followed him without delay; grant unto us all, that we, being called by thy holy word, may forthwith give up ourselves obediently to fulfil thy holy commandments, through the same JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

The Gospel. St. Matt. iv. 18.

The Epistle. Rom. x. 9.

JESUS, walking by the sea of Ga. lilee, saw two brethren, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother; cast. ing a net into the sea: (for they were fishers.) And he saith unto them, Follow me, and. I will make you fishers of men. And they straightIF thou shalt confess with thy way left their nets, and followed him. mouth the Lord JESUS, and shalt be- And going on from thence, he saw lieve in thine heart that God hath other two brethren, James the son of raised him from the dead, thou shalt Zebedee, and John his brother, in a be saved. For with the heart man ship with Zebedee their father, mendbelieveth unto righteousness, and ing their nets; and he called them, with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same LORD over all, is rich unto all that call upon ALMIGHTY and everliving him. For whosoever shall call upon GOD, who, for the greater confirmathe name of the LORD, shall be tion of the faith, didst suffer thy holy saved. How then shall they call on apostle Thomas to be doubtful in thy him in whom they have not believed? Son's resurrection; grant us so perand how shall they believe in him fectly, and without all doubt, to be of whom they have not heard? And lieve in thy Son JESUS CHRIST, that

And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE.

The Collect.

our faith in thy sight may never be reproved. Hear us, O LORD, through the same JESUS CHRIST; to whom, with thee and the HOLY GHOST, be all honor and glory, now and for evermore. Amen.

The Epistle. Ephes. ii. 19.

SAINT, STEPHEN'S DAY.

The Collect.

sufferings here upon earth, for the GRANT, O LORD, that in all our testimony of thy truth, we may stead fastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealNOW therefore ye are no more ed; and being filled with the HOLY strangers and foreigners, but fellow-GHOST, may learn to love and bless citizens with the saints, and of the our persecutors, by the example of household of GOD; and are built thy first martyr Saint Stephen, who upon the foundation of the apostles prayed for his murderers to thee, O and prophets, JESUS CHRIST him- blessed JESUS, who standest at the self being the chief corner-stone; in right hand of GOD, to succor all those whom all the building, fitly framed who suffer for thee, our only Mediatogether, groweth unto a holy temple in the LORD in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of GOD, through the SPIRIT.

The Gospel. St. John xx. 24.

tor and Advocate. Amen.

Then shall follow the Collect of the Nativity, which shall be said continually until New Year's Eve.

For the Epistle. Acts vii. 55.

kneeled down and cried with a loud

STEI HEN, being full of the HoTHOMAS, one of the twelve, callLY GHOST, looked up steadfastly into ed Didymus, was not with them when heaven, and saw the glory of GCD, JESUS came. The other disciples and JESUS standing on the right hand therefore said unto him, We have of GOD; and said, Behold, I see the seen the LORD. But he said unto heavens opened, and the Son of man them, Except I shall see in his hands standing on the right hand of God. the print of the nails, and put my and stopped their ears, and ran upon Then they cried out with a loud voice, finger into the print of the nails, and him with one accord, and cast him thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days, the witnesses laid down their clothes out of the city, and stoned him: and again his disciples were within, and Thoinas with them: then came JE- at a young man's feet, whose name SUS, the doors being shut, and stood was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, in the midst, and said, Peace be unto calling upon GOD, and saying, Lord you. Then said he to Thomas, Reach JESUS, receive my spirit. And he hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord, and my GOD. JESUS BEHOLD, I send unto you prosaith unto him, Thomas, because thou phets, and wise men, and scribes; hast seen me, thou hast, believed; and some of them ye shall kill and blessed are they that have not seen, crucify; and some of them shall ye and yet have believed. And many scourge in your synagogues, and per. other signs truly did JESUS in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written, that ye might believe that JESUS is the CHRIST, the SON OF GOD; and that believing, ye might have life through his name.

voice, LORD, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

The Gospel. St. Matt. xxiii. 34.

secute them from city to city; that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you,

All these things shall come upon this | JESUS CHRIST his Son cleanseth us generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusa- from all sin. If we say that we have lem, thou that killest the prophets, no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the and stonest them which are sent unto truth is not in us. If we confess our thee; how often would I have gather-sins, he is faithful and just to forgive ed thy children together, even as a us our sins, and to cleanse us from hen gathereth her chickens under her all unrighteousness. If we say that wings, and ye would not! Behold, we have not sinned, we make him a your house is left unto you desolate. liar, and his word is not in us. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me benceforth, till ye shall say, Bless ed is he that cometh in the name of the LORD.

The Gospel. St. John xxi. 19. JESUS said unto Peter, Follow me. Then Peter turning about, seeth the disciple whom JESUS loved, following, (which also leaned on

SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST's his breast at supper, and said, Lord,

DAY.

The Collect.

MERCIFUL LORD, we beseech thee to cast thy bright beams of light upon thy Church, that it being instructed by the doctrine of thy bless ed apostle and evangelist Saint John, inay so walk in the light of thy truth, that it may at length attain to everlasting life, through JESUS CHRIST, our Lord. Amen.

which is he that betrayeth thee?) Peter seeing him, saith to JESUS, Lord, and what shall this man do? JESUS saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me.

Then went

this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet JESUS said not unto him, He shall not die: but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote

THE INNOCENTS' DAY.

The Collect.

The Epistle. 1 John i. 1. THAT which was from the begin.these things, and we know that his ning, which we have heard, which testimony is true. And there are also we have seen with our eyes, which many other things which JESUS did, we have looked upon, and our hands the which, if they should be written have handled of the word of life; (for world itself could not contain the every one, I suppose that even the the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show books that should be written unto you that eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) that which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you, that O ALMIGHTY GOD, who out of ye also may have fellowship with the mouths of babes and sucklings us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son JESUS infants to glorify thee by their deaths: hast ordained strength, and madest CHRIST. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. mortify and kill all vices in us, and This then is the message which we so strengthen us by thy grace, that have heard of him, and declare unto by the innocency of our lives, and you, that God is light, and in him is constancy of our faith even no darkness at all. If we say death, we may glorify thy holy name, have fellowship with him, and walk through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as For the Epistle. Rev. xiv. 1. he is in the light, we have fellowship I LOOKED, and lo, a Lamb stood one with another, and the blood of on the mount Sion, and with him a

that we

Amen.

unto

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