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when I come again, I will repay thee. I he saw that he was healed, turned Which now of these three, thinkest hack, and with a loud voice glorified thou, was neighbour unto him that God, and fell down on his face at his fell among the thieves? And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

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feet, giving him thanks: and he was
a Samaritan. And Jesus answering
said, Were there not ten cleansed?
but where are the nine? There are
not found that returned to give glory
to God, eave this stranger. And he
said unto him, Arise, go thy way:
thy faith hath made thee whole.

The fifteenth Sunday after Trinity.
The Collect.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity; and that we may obtain that which thou dost promise, make us to love that which thou dost! command, through Jesus Christ ourj mercy: And because the frailty of Lord. Amen.

KEEP, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church, with thy perpetua.

man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle. Gal. vi. 11.

The Epistle. Gal. v. 16. I Say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot doYE see how large a letter I have the things that ye would. But if ye written unto you with mine own be led by the Spirit, ye are not under hand. As many as desire to make the law. Now the works of the flesh a fair show in the flesh, they constrain are manifest, which are these, Adul-you to be circumcised; only lest they tery, fornication, uncleanness, lasci- should suffer persecution for the cross viousness, idolatry, witchcraft, ha-of Christ. For neither they them tred, variance, emulations, wrath, selves who are circumcised keep the strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, law; but desire to have you circum murders, drunkenness, revellings, cised, that they may glory in your " and such like: of the which I tell you flesh. But God forbid that I should before. as I have also told you in glory, save in the cross of our Lord time past, that they who do such Jesus Christ, by whom the world things, shall not inherit the kingdom is crucified unto me, and I unto of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is the world. For in Christ Jesus love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentle neither circumcision availeth any ness, goodness, faith, meekness, tem- thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new perance against such there is no creature. And as many as walk ac law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.

cording to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

The Gospel. St. Matt. vi. 24. No man can serve two masters:

The Gospel. St. Luke xvii. 11. AN ND it came to pass, as Jesus went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him en men that were lepers, who stood afar for either he will hate the one, off. And they lifted up their voices, and love the other; or else he will and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy hold to the one, and despise the other. on us. And when he saw them, he Ye cannot serve God and mammon. said unto them, Go show yourselves Therefore I say unto you, Take no anto the priests. And it came to thought for your life, what ye shal! pass, that, as they went, they were eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet Cleaused. And one of them, when for your body, what ye shall put on.

The Gospel. St. Luke vii. 11. AND it came to pass the day after

Js not the life more than meat, and that ye might be filled with all the the body than raiment? Behold the fulness of God. Now unto him that fowls of the air: for they sow not, is able to do exceeding abundantly neither do they reap, nor gather into above all that we ask or think, abarns; yet your heavenly father feed-cording to the power that worketh in eth thein. Are yo not much better us, unto him be glory in the Church, than they? Which of you, by taking by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, thought, can add one cubit unto his world without end. Amen. stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the fieid, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore if God so clothe he grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat ? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (for after all these things do the Gentiles seek :) for your heavenly Father knoweth I say unto thee, Arise. And he that that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these Liugs shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for .he things of itself: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

The sixteenth Sunday after Trinity.
The Collect.

and

that Jesus went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people. Now, when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said into her, Weep not. And he came and touch ed the bier, (and they that bare him stood still.) and he said, Young man,

was dead sat up, and began to speak: and he delivered him to his mother. And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, that a great Prophet is risen up among us; and, that God hath visited his people. And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about.

The seventeenth Sunday after
Trinity.
The Collect.

O Lord, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend ny Church; and because it cannotORD, we pray thee, that thy continue in safety without thy suc- grace may always prevent and Cour, preserve it evermore by thy follow us; and make us continually nelp and goodness, through Jesus to be given to all good works, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen. The Epistle. Ephes. iii. 13. The Epistle. Eph. iv. 1. [Desire that ye faint not at my tri- Therefore, the prisoner of the bulations for you, which is your Lord, beseech you that ye walk glory. For this cause I bow my knees worthy of the vocation wherewith ye unto the Father of our Lord Jesus are called, with all lowliness and Christ, of whom the whole family in meekness, with long-suffering, for. heaven and earth is named, that he bearing one another in love; endeawould grant you, according to the vouring to keep the unity of the Spi-iches of his glory, to be strengthened rit in the bond of peace. There is one with might by his Spirit in the inner body, and one Spirit, even as ye are man; that Christ may dwell in your called in one hope of your calling; nearts by faith; that ye, being rooted one Lord, one faith,one baptism, one and grounded in love, may be able to God and Father of all, who is above comprehend, with all saints, what is all, and through all, and in you all. the breadth, and length, and depth, The Gospel. St. Luke xiv. 1. and height; and to know the love IT came to pass, as Jesus went into of Christ, which passeth knowledge, the house of one of the chief Pha

risees to eat bread, on the Sabbath-f The Gospel. St. Matt. xxii. 34. day, that they watched him. And be- WHEN the Pharisees had heard hold, there was a certain man before that Jesus had put the Sadduceer him who had the dropsy. And Jesus to silence, they were gathered toge answering spake unto the Lawyers ther. Then one of them, who was a and Pharisees, saying. Is it lawful to lawyer, asked him a question, tempheal on the Sabbath-day? And they ing him, and saying, Master, which is held their peace. And he took him, the great commandment in the law? and healed him, and let him go; and Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love auswered them, saying, Which of you the Lord thy God with all thy heart, shall have an ass or an ox fallen into and with all thy soul, and with all thy a pit, and will not straightway pull mind: This is the first and great him out on the Sabbath-day? And commandment. And the second is they could not answer him again to like unto it, Thou shalt love thy these things. And he put forth a pa- neighbour as thyself. On these twa zable to those who were bidden, when commandments hang all the law and he marked how they chose out the the prophets. While the Pharisees chief rooms; saying unto them, When were gathered together, Jesus asked thou art bidden of any man to a wed-them, saying, What think ye of Christ? ding, sit not down in the highest room, whose son is he? They say unto him, lest a more honourable man than The Son of David. He saith unto thou be bidden of him; and he that them, How then doth David in spirit hade thee and him come and say to call him Lord, saying, The Lord said thee, Give this man place; and thou unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right begin with shame to take the lowest hand, till I make thine enemies thy room. But when thou art bidden, footstool? If David then call him go and sit down in the lowest room; Lord, how is he his son? And no man that when he tha: bade thee cometh, was able to answer him a word, neibe may say unto thee, Friend, go up ther durst any man, from that day gher: then shalt thou have worship forth, ask him any more questions. in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. For whosoever exalteth himself, shall be abased: and te that humableth himself, shall be exalted.

The eighteenth Sunday after
Trinity.

The Collect.

LORD, we beseech thee, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil; and with pure hearts und minds to follow thee, the only God, through Jesus Chris: our Lord. Amen.

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The nineteenth Sunday after
Trinity.

The Collect.

O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; mercifully grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle. Ephes. iv. 17. THIS I say therefore, and testify

in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; having the The Epistle. 1 Cor. i. 4. understanding darkened, being alienThank my God always on your ated from the life of God, through behalf, for the grace of God which the ignorance that is in them, because is given you by Jesus Christ; that in of the blindness of their heart: who, every thing ye are enriched by him, being past feeling, have given themin all utterance, and in all knowledge; selves over to lasciviousness, to work even as the testimony of Christ was all uncleanness with greediness. But confirmed in you. So that ye come ye have not so learned Christ; if so behind in no git; waiting for the be that ye have heard him, and have corning of our Lord Jesus Christ, who been taught by him, as the truth is in shall also coufi: m you unto the end, Jesus: That ye put off, concerning that ye may be blameless in the day the former conversation, the old man, of our Lord Jesus Christ. which is corrupt according to the de

seiful lusts; and be renewed in the both in body and soul, may cheerfully spirit of your mind: and tha: ye put accomplish those things which thou on the new man, which after God is commandest, through Jesus Christ created in righteousness and true ho- our Lord. Amen. liness. Wherefore putting away ly The Epistle. Ephes. v. 15. ing, speak every man truth with his SEE then that ye walk circumneighbour: for we are members one spectly, not as fools, but as wise. ot another. Be ye angry, and sin redeeming the time, because the days not let not the sun go down upon are evil. Wherefore be ye not unyour wrath neither give place to the wise, but understanding what the will devil. Let him that stole, steal no of the Lord is. And be not drunk more; but rather let him labour, with wine, wherein is excess; but be working with his hands the thing filled with the Spirit: speaking to which is good, that he may have to yourselves in psalins and hymns and give to him that needeth. Let no spiritual songs, singing and making Corrupt communication proceed out melody in your heart to the Lord; of your mouth, but that which is good giving thanks always for all things to the use of edifying, that it may unto God and the Father, in the name minister grace unto the hearers. And of our Lord Jesus Christ; submitting grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, yourselves one to another in the fear whereby ye are sealed unto the day of of God. redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

The Gospel. St. Matt. xxii. 1. JESUS said, The kingdom of heaven

is like unto a certain king, whe made a marriage for his son; and sent forth his servants to call them. that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent The Gospel. St. Matt. ix. 1. forth other servants, saying, Teil JESUS entered into a ship, and them who are bidden, Behold, I have passed over, and came into his prepared my dinner my oxen and own city. And behold, they brought my fatlings are killed, and all things to him a man sick of the palsy, lying are ready: come unto the marriage. on a bed. And Jesus seeing their But they made light of it, and went faith, said unto the sick of the palsy, their ways, one to his farm, another Sou, be of good cheer, thy sins be for to his merchandise: and the remnant given thee. And behold, certain of the took his servants, and entreated them scribes said within themselves, This spitefully, and slew them. But when man blasphemeth. And Jesus, know-the king heard thereof, he was wroth: ing their thoughts, said, Wherefore and he sent forth his armies, and dethink ye evil in your hearts? For stroyed those murderers, and burnt whether is easier to say, Thy sins be up their city. Then saith he to his forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, and servants, The wedding is ready, but walk? But that ye may know that the they who were bidden were not worSon of man hath power on earth to thy. Go ye therefore into the highforgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. And he arose, and departed to his house. But when the multitude saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, who had given such power unto men. The twentieth Sunday after Trinity. The Collect.

Almighty and most merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready

ways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all, as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment. And he saith unto him. Friend, how camest thou in hither, not naving a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to th servants, Bind him hand and foe

and take him away, and cast him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ge into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.

The twenty-first Sunday after
Trinity.

will not believe. The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way, thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. The Collect. And as he was now going down, his ser RANT, we beseech thee, merciful vants met him, and told him, saying, Lord, to thy faithful people, par-Thy son liveth. Then inquired he of don and peace; that they may be them the hour when he began to cleansed from all their sins, and serve amend and they said unto him, thee with a quiet mind, through Jesus Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the Christ our Lord. Amen. fever left him. So the father knew that it was at the same hour in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth; and himself believed, and his whole house. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.

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The twenty-second Sunday after
Trinity.
The Collect.

household the Church in continual

The Epistle. Ephes, vi. 10. Y brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole LORD, we beseech thee to keep thy arinour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and godliness; that, through thy protec having done all, to stand. Stand tion, it may be free from all adversities, therefore, having your loins girt and devoutly given to serve thee in about with truth; and having on the good works, to the glory of thy name, breast-plate of righteousness; and through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith brance of you (always in every ye shall be able to quench all the fiery prayer of mine for you all making redarts of the wicked. And take the quest with joy) for your fellowship in helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Gospel from the first day until the Spirit, which is the word of God: now; being confident of this very praying always with all prayer and thing, that he who hath begun a good supplication in the Spirit, and watch-work in you, will perform it until the ing thereunto with all perseverance, day of Jesus Christ; even as it is and supplication for all saints; and meet for me to think this of you all, for me, that utterance may be given because I have you in my heart, inasunto me, that I may open my mouth much as both in my bonds, and in the boldly, to make known the mystery defence and confirmation of the Gos of the gospel; for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

The Epistle. Phil. i. 3.
I Thank my God upon every remem-

pel, ye all are partakers of my grace. For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. And this I pray, that The Gospel. St. Johu iv. 46. your love may abound yet move and THERE was a certain nobleman, more in knowledge, and in all judg whose son was sick at Caperna- ment: That ye may approve things um. When he heard that Jesus was that are excellent, that ye may be sin. come out of Judea into Galilee, he cere, and without offence till the day went unto him, and besought him, of Christ; being filled with the fruits that he would come down and heal of righteousness, which are by Jesus his son; for he was at the point of Christ, unto the glory and praise death. Then said Jesus unto him, God.

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