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faid this, he breathed on them, and faid unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghoft: Whofe-foever fins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whofe-foever fin's ye retain, they are retained.

The fecond Sunday after Eafter.

The Collect.

Almighty God, who haft given only Son to be unto us both a facrifice for fin, and alfo an enfample of godly life; Give us grace, that we may always moft thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit, and alfo daily endeavour ourselves to follow the bleffed fteps of his moft holy life, through the fame Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epifle 1 S. Pet. 2. 19. THE HIS is thank-worthy, if a atman for confcience toward

God endure grief, fuffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye fhall take it patiently? But if when ye do well, and fuffer for it, ye take it patiently; this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called becaufe Chrift alfo fuffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye fhould follow his teps: who did no fin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he fuffer

ed, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteoufly: who his own felf bare our fins in his own body on the tree; that we being dead to fin, fhould live unto righteousness; by whofe ftripes ye were healed. For ye were as fheep going aftray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your Souls..

The Gospel. S. John 10. 11.)
ESUS faid, I am the good

giveth his life for the sheep. Bar he that is an hireling, and not the fhepherd, whofe own the fheep are not, feeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the theep, and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them, and fcattereth the fheep. The hireling fleeth, becaufe he is an hireling, and car

eth not for the sheep. I am the good fhepherd, and know my feep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even fo know I the Father: and Ilay down my life for the sheep. And other heep I have, which are not of this fold; them alfo I must bring, and they hall hear my voice; and there fhall be one fold and one fhepherd.

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him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praife 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.

The Gospel, S. John 16, 16. JE ESUS faid to his difciples, A little while and ye fhall 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 themfelves, What is this that he faith unto us, A little while and ye fall 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 saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he faith. Now Jefus knew that they were defirous to afk him, and faid unto them, Do ye enquire among yourfelves of that I faid, A little while and ye hall 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 fhall be forrowful, but your forrow fhall be turned into joy. A woman when the is in travail hath forrow, becaufe her hour is come: but as foon as the is delivered of the child, he remembereth no more the anguifh, 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.

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and affections of finful men; Grant unto thy people, thatthey may love the thing which thou commandeft, and defire that which thou dost promife: that fo among the fundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may furely there be fixed, where true joys are to found, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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The Epiftle. S. James 1. 17. Very good gift and every percometh down from the Father fect gift is from above, and of lights, with whom is no variablenefs, neither fhadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firft fruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be fwift to hear, flow to speak, flow to wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteoufnefs of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthinefs and fuperfluity of naugh tinefs, and receive with meek nefs the ingrafted word, which is able to fave your fouls,

The Gofpel. S. John 16. 5. ESUS faid unto his difciples,

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Now I go my way to him that fent me; and none of you afketh me. Whither goest thou? But becaufe I have faid these things unto you; forrow hath filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expe dient for you that for if I go not away, the Com-1 forter 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 un, and of righteousness, and of judgement: Offin, because they beli ve not on me; of righteoutnefs, becaufe 1 go to my Father, and extent, because incre; of judgement, because the prince

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The fifth Sunday after Eafter.
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 shall
not fpeak of himfelf; but what-
foever he fhall hear, that fhall
he fpeak and he will thew you
things to come. He fhall glorify
me: for he fhall receive of mine,
and fhall fhew it unto you. All
things that the Father hath are
mine: therefore faid I, that he
thall take of mine, and shall
thew it unto you.

The fifth Sunday after Eafter.
The Collect.
from when

things do come; Grant to
us thy humble fervants, that by
thy holy infpiration we may
think thofe things that be good,
and by thy merciful guiding
may perform the fame, through
our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.
The Epifte, S. James 1. 22.
BE
E ye doers of the word, and
not hearers only, deceiving
your own felyes. For if any be
a hearer of the word, and not a
doer, he is like unto a man be-
holding his natural face in a
glafs: for he beholdeth himself,
and goeth his way, and ftraight-
way forgetteth what manner of
man he was But whofo look-
eth into the perfect law of liber-
ty, and continueth therein; he
being not a forgetful hearer,
but a doer of the work, this man
fhall be bleffed in his deed. If
any man among you feem to be
religious, and bridleth not his
tongue, but deceiveth his own
heart, this man's religion is vain.

The Afcenfion Day. The Gospel. S. John 16. 23. Brily verily I fay unto you, Whatfoever ye shall afk the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye afked nothing in my name: Afk, and ye fhall receive, that your joy may be full. Thefe things have Ifpoken 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 fhail afk in my name; and I fay not unto you, That I will pray the Father for you: for the Father himself loveth you, becaufe 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 fpeakeft thou plainly, and fpeakelt no proverb: Now are

we fure that thou knoweft all things, and needeft not that any man fhould afk 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 shall be fcattered every man to his own, and thall leave me alone: and yet I am not a lone, because the Father is with me. These things I have 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.

The fcenfion day.

The Collect.
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fore God and the Father, is this, To vifit the fatherlefs and widows in their affliction, and to keep himfeif unspotted from the world.

Almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only-begotten Son our Lord Jefus Chrift to have afcended 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.

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made, o Theophilus, of all that Jefus began to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the Apoftles whom he had chofen: to whom alfo he fhewed himfelf 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 Ghoft not many days hence. When they therefore were come together, they afked of him, faying, Lord, wilt thou at this time reftore again the kingdom to 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 fhall receive power, after that the Holy Ghoft 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 fpoken thefe things, while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their fight. And while they looked ftedfaftly toward heaven, as he went up, behold, two men stood 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."

The Gofpel. S. Mark 16. 14. JESUS 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 faid unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature: He that believeth and is baptized, fhall be faved; but he that believeth not, fhall be damned. And these signs fhall follow them that believe in my Name fhall they caft out devils; they fhall fpeak with new tongues; they hall take up ferpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it fhall not hurt them; they fhall lay hands on the fick, and they fhall re

cover. So then after the Lord

had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and fat on the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with figns following.

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The Epiftle. 1 S. Pet. 4.7. HE end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore fober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent charity among yourfelves; for charity fhall cover the multitude of fins. Ufe hofpitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even fo minifter the fame one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God: if any man fpeak, let him fpeak as the oracles of God: if any man minifter, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth; that God in all things may be glorified through Jefus Chrift; to whom be praife and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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The Gospel. S. John 15.26. HEN the Comforter is come, whom I will fend unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he fhall teftify of me. And ye alfo thall bear witnefs, becaufe ye have been with me from the beginning. Thefe things have I poken unto you, that ye fhould not be offended. They hall put you out of the fynagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whofoever killeth you will think that he doeth God fervice. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father nor me: but these things have I told you, that when the time fhall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. JO WHIT-SUNDAY.

The Collect.

ment in all things, and evermore
to rejoice in his holy comfort,
through the merits of Chrift Je-
fus our Saviour, who liveth and
reigneth with thee, in the unity
of the fame Spirit, one God,
world without end. Amen.
For the Epifle. Acts 2. 1.

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was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place: And fuddenly there came a found from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were fitting. And there appeared un to them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it fat upon each of them: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and be gan to fpeak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utter ance. And there were dwelling at Jerufalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under hea ven. Now when this was noifed abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, becaufe that every man heard them fpeak in his own language. And they were all amazed, and marvelled, faying one to ano ther, Behold, are not all thefe which fpeak Galileans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mefopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Afia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and ftrangers of Rome, Jews and profelytes, Cretes and Arabians; we do hear them fpeak in our own tongues.

HEN the day of Pentecoft

OD, who as at this time, the wonderful works of God.

Gdidit teach the hearts of thy
faithful people, by the fending
to them the light of thy Holy
Spirit Grant us by the fame
Spirit to have a right judge

The Gofp 1. S. John 14. 15. Jf ye love me, keep my ESUS faid unto his difciplesy commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he hall

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