life: no man cometh unto the Father The Epistle. St. James i. 1. JAMES, a servant of GOD, and but by me. If ye had known me, ye of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, to the should have known my Father also: twelve tribes which are scattered and from henceforth ye know him, abroad, greeting. My brethren, count and have seen him. Philip saith unit all joy when ye fall into divers to him, LORD, show us the Father, temptations: knowing this, that the and it sufficeth us. JESUS saith unto trying of your faith worketh patience. him, Have I been so long time with But let patience have her perfect you, and yet hast thou not known work, that ye may be perfect and en-me, Philip? He that hath seen me, tire, wanting nothing. If any of you hath seen the Father; and how sayack wisdom, let him ask of GOD, est thou then, Show us the Father? that giveth to all men liberally, and Believest thou not that I am in the upbraideth not; and it shall be given Father, and the Father in me? The him. But let him ask in faith, words that I speak unto you, I speak nothing wavering: for he that wa- not of myself; but the Father that vereth is like a wave of the sea, driven dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. with the wind, and tossed. For let Believe me, that I am in the Father, not that man think that he shall re- and the Father in me; or else believe ceive any thing of the LORD. Ame for the very works' sake. Verily, double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted, but the rich in that he is made low; because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD hath promised to them that love him. " go verily, I say unto you, He that be- SAINT BARNABAS THE APOSTLE. O LORD GOD Almighty, who didst endue thy holy apostle Barnabas with singular gifts of the HOLY GHOST; leave us not, we beseech thee, destitute of thy manifold gifts, nor yet of grace to use them alway to thy honor and glory, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. The Gospel. St. John xiv. 1. AND JESUS said unto his disciples, Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in GOD, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many For the Epistle. Acts xi. 22. mansions; if it were not so, I would TIDINGS of these things came have told you. I go to prepare a lunto the ears of the Church which 'place for you. And if I go and pre- was in Jerusalem: and they sent pare a place for you, I will come forth Barnabas, that he should go as again, and receive you unto myself; far as Antioch: who, when he came, that where I am, there ye may be and had seen the grace of God, was also. And whither I go, ye know, glad; and exhorted them all, that and the way ye know. Thomas saith with purpose of heart they would unto him, LORD, we know not whi-cleave unto the LORD. For he was ther thou goest, and how can we a good man, and full of the HOLY know the way? JESUS saith unto GHOST, and of faith and much peohim, I am the way, the truth, and the ple was added unto the LORD. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to the truth's sake, through JESUS seek Saul: and when he had found CHRIST our Lord. Amen. unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea. Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. For the Epistle. Isa. xl. 1. COMFORT ye, comfort ye my The voice of him that crieth in the wil him, he brought him unto Antioch, And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the Church, and taught much people: people, saith your GOD. Speak ye and the disciples were called Chris-comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry tians first in Antioch. And in these unto her, that her warfare is accom. days came prophets from Jerusalem for she hath received of the LORD'S plished, that her iniquity is pardoned: unto Antioch. And there stood up hand double for all her sins. one of them, named Agabus, and signified by the SPIRIT, that there should be great dearth throughout all derness, Prepare ye the way of the the world: which came to pass in LORD, make straight in the desert a the days of Claudius Cæsar. Then highway for our GOD. Every val the disciples, every man according to ley shall be exalted, and every mounthis ability, determined to send relief ain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken The Gospel. St. John xv. 12. it. The voice said, Cry. And he THIS is my commandment, That said, What shall cry? All flesh is ye love one another, as I have loved grass, and all the goodliness thereof is you. Greater love hath no man than as the flower of the field. The grass this, that a man lay down his life for withereth, the flower fadeth, because his friends. Ye are my friends, if the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon ye do whatsoever I command you. it: surely the people is grass. The Henceforth I call you not servants; grass withereth, the flower fadeth; for the servant knoweth not what his but the word of our GOD shall stand lord doeth: but I have called you for ever. O Zion, that bringest good friends; for all things that I have tidings, get thee up into the high heard of my Father, have made mountain: O Jerusalem, that bring. known unto you. Ye have not chosen est good tidings, lift up thy voice me, but I have chosen you, and or dained you, that ye should go and Dring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, may give it you. he SAINT JOHN BAPTIST'S DAY. The Collect. with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; ALMIGHTY GOD, by whose providence thy servant John Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare The Gospel. St. Luke i. 57. the way of thy Son our Saviour, by ELIZABETH'S full time came preaching repentance; make us so to that she should be delivered; and she follow his doctrine and holy life, that brought forth a son. And her neighwe may truly repent according to his bors and her cousins heard how the preaching; and after his example LORD had showed great mercy upon constantly speak the truth, boldly re- her; and they rejoiced with her. buke vice, and patiently suffer for And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the into the way of peace. And the child child; and they called him Zachari- grew, and waxed strong in spirit; as, after the name of his father. And and was in the deserts till the day of his mother answered and said, Not his showing unto Israel. so; but he shall be called John. And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name. And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. SAINT PETER'S DAY. O ALMIGHTY GOD, who, by And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all. And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake and praised GOD. And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judea. And all they that had heard them, laid them up in their hearts, For the Epistle. Acts xii. 1. saying, What manner of child shall ABOUT that time, Herod the king this be? And the hand of the LORD stretched forth his hands to vex cerwas with him. And his father Za-tain of the Church. And he killed charias was filled with the HOLY James the brother of John with the GHOST, and prophesied, saying, sword. And because he saw it pleasBlessed be the LORD GOD of Israel; ed the Jews, he proceeded further to for he hath visited and redeemed his take Peter also. (Then were the people, and hath raised up a horn of days of unleavened bread.) And salvation for us, in the house' of his when he had apprehended him, he servant David; as he spake by the put him in prison, and delivered him mouth of his holy prophets, which to four quaternions of soldiers, to keep have been since the world began: him; intending after Easter to bring that we should be saved from our him forth to the people. Peter thereenemies, and from the hand of all fore was kept in prison; but prayer that hate us: to perform the mercy was made without ceasing of the promised to our fathers, and to re- Church unto God for him. And member his holy covenant: the oath when Herod would have brought him which he sware to our father Abra- forth, the same night Peter was sleepham, that he would grant unto us, ing between two soldiers, bound with that we, being delivered out of the two chains; and the keepers before hands of our enemies, might serve the door kept the prison. And behold, him without fear, in holiness and the angel of the LORD came upon righteousness before him, all the days him, and a light shined in the prison: of our life. And thou, child, shalt be and he smote Peter on the side, and called the prophet of the Highest: raised him up, saying, Arise up for thou shalt go before the face of the quickly. And his chains fell off from LORD, to prepare his ways; to give his hands. And the angel said unto knowledge of salvation unto his peo- him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy ple by the remission of their sins, sandals: and so he did. And he through the tender mercy of our saith unto him, Cast thy garment GOD; whereby the Day-Spring from about thee, and follow me. And he on high hath visited us, to give light went out, and followed him; and to them that sit in darkness, and in wist not that it was true which was the shadow of death, to guide our feet done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth IN those days came prophets from unto the city, which opened to them Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there of its own accord: and they went out, stood up one of them named Agabus, and passed on through one street, and and signified by the SPIRIT, that forthwith the angel departed from there should be great dearth through. him. And when Peter was come to out all the world: which came to himself, he said, Now I know of a pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar. surety that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. When they were past For the Epistle. Acts xi. 27, and part of Chapter xii. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea. Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. Now about that time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church. And he killed The Gospel. St. Matt. xvi. 13. WHEN JESUS came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am? And they James the brother of John with the said, Some say that thou art John sword. And because he saw it the Baptist; some, Elias; and others, pleased the Jews, he proceeded furJeremias, or one of the prophets. ther to take Peter also. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art CHRIST, the SON of the living GOD. And JESUS answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Ye know not what ye The Gospel. St. Matt. xx. 20. THEN came to him the mother of Zebedee's children, with her sons, tain thing of him. And he said unto worshipping him, and desiring a cer her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, dom. But JESUS answered and said, and the other on the left, in thy king. able to drink of the cup that I shall ask. Are ye drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? And he saith unto them, Ye shall They say unto him, We are able. drink indeed of my cup, and be bap tized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them GRANT, O merciful GOD, that as for whom it is prepared of my Father. thine holy apostle Saint James, leav- And when the ten heard it, they were ing his father and all that he had, moved with indignation against the without delay was obedient unto the two brethren. But JESUS called calling of thy Son JESUS CHRIST, them unto him, and said, Ye know and followed him; so we, forsaking that the princes of the Gentiles exerall worldly and carnal affections, may cise dominion over them, and they be evermore ready to follow thy that are great exercise authority upon holy commandments, through JESUS them. But it shall not be so among CHRIST Our Lord. Amen. you: but whosoever will be great SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE. among you, let him be your minister; | that serveth? is not he that sitteth at and whosoever will be chief among meat? but I am among you as he you, let him be your servant: even that serveth. Ye are they which as the Son of man came not to be have continued with me in my ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE. The Collect. temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. SAINT MATTHEW THE APOSTLE. The Collect. O ALMIGHTY GOD, who by O ALMIGHTY and everlasting GOD, who didst give to thine apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach thy word; grant, we beseech thee, unto thy Church, to thy blessed Son didst call Matthew love that word which he believed: from the receipt of custom, to be an and both to preach and receive the apostle and evangelist; grant us same, through JESUS CHRIST our grace to forsake all covetous desires, Lord. Amen. and inordinate love of riches; and to follow the same thy Son JESUS CHRIST, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the HOLY GHOST, one GOD, world without end. For the Epistle. Acts v. 12. Amen. BY the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people, (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. The Epistle. 2 Cor. iv. 1. And of the rest durst no man join THEREFORE, seeing we have himself to them; but the people mag- this ministry, as we have received nified them. And believers were the mercy, we faint not; but have remore added to the LORD, multitudes nounced the hidden things of dishoboth of men and women) insomuch nesty, not walking in craftiness, nor that they brought forth the sick into handling the Word of GOD deceit. the streets, and laid them on beds fully, but by manifestation of the and couches, that at least the shadow truth, commending ourselves to eveof Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits; and they were healed every one. The Gospel. St. Luke xxii. 24. AND there was also a strife among them which of them should be accounted the greatest. And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upen them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he ry man's conscience in the sight of GOD. But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the GOD of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of CHRIST, who is the image of GOD, should shine unto them. For we JESUS the Lord; and ourselves your preach not ourselves, but CHRIST servants for JESUS' sake. For GOD, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our ledge of the glory of God, in the hearts, to give the light of the knowface of JESUS CHRIST. The Gospel. St. Matt. ix. 9. AND as JESUS passed forth from thence, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the receipt of custom: |