Sivut kuvina
PDF
ePub

3

on my left, is not mine to give, into the streets, and laid them
but it fhall be given to them on beds and couches, that at
for whom it is prepared of my the leaft the fhadow of Peter
Father. And when the ten paffing by, might_overshadow
heard it, they were moved fome of them. There came
with indignation against the alfo a multitude out of thecities
two brethren. But Jefus cal- round about unto Jerufalem,
led them unto him, and faid, bringing fick folks, and them
Ye know that the princes of which were vexed with unclean
the Centiles exercife dominion fpirits, and they were healed
over them, and they that are every one.
great, exercife authority up-
on them. But it fhall not be

The Gospel. S. Luke 22. 24.
Nd there was also a ftrife
fo among you: but whofover A
among them, which of
will be great among you, let them fhould be accounted the
him be your minister ; and greateft. And he faid unto
whofoever will be chief among them, The kings of the Gentiles
you, let him be your fervant: exercife lordship over them;
even as the Son of man came and they that exercife authori
not to be miniftred unto, but ty upon them, are called bene-
to minifter, and to give his life factors. But ye fhall not be fo:
a ranfom for many.

Saint Bartholomew the Apostle.
The Collect.

but he that is greatest among and he that is chief, as he that you, let him be as the younger; doth ferve. For whether is Almighty and everlasting greater, he that fitteth at meat, God, who didft give to or me that ferveth ? is not he thine Apoftle Bartholomew that fitteth at meat? but I am grace truly to believe and to among you as he that ferveth. preach thy Word; Grant, we Ye are they which have conbefeech thee, unto thy Church, tinued with me in my temptato love that Word which he be- tions. And I appoint unto you Elieved, and both to preach and a kingdom, as my Father hath receive the fame, through Je- appointed unto me; that ye fus Chrift our Lord. Amen. For the Epiftle. Ats 5. 12. may eat and drink at my table BY Y the hands of the Apoftles thrones, judging the twelve in my kingdom, and fit on were many figns and won- tribes of Ifrael. ders wrought among the people, (and they were all with one accord in Solomons porch. And of the reft durft no man Almighty God, who by joyn himself to them: but the thy bleffed Son' didft call people magnified them. And Matthew from the receipt of believers were the more added cuftom, to be an Apoftle and to the Lord, multitudes both of Evangelift; Grant us grace to men and women) Infomuch forfake all covetous defires that they brought forth the fick and inordinate love of riches,

Saint Matthew the Apoftle.
The Collect.

and

and to follow the fame thy Son Jefus Chrift, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghoft, one God, world without end. Amen.

TH

cateth your Master with publi cans and finners? But when Jesus heard that, he faid unto them, They that be whole need not a phyfician, but they that are fick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not facrifice; for I am not come to call the righteous, but finners to repentance.

Saint Michael and all Angels.

The Collect. ordained and constituted Everlafting God, who haft

The Epiftle. 2 Cor. 4. 1. Herefore feeing we have this miniftry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending our felves to every mans confcience in the fight of God. But if our Gospel the fervices of Angels and men be hid, it is hid to them that in a wonderful order; Merciare loft: in whom the god of fully grant, that as thy holy this world hath blinded the Angels alway do thee service in minds of them which believe heaven; fo by thy appointment not, left the light of the glori- they may fuccour and defend ous Gofpel of Chrift, who is the us on earth, through Jesus image of God, fhould fnine Chrift our Lord. Amen. unto them. For we preach not For the Epiftle. Rev. 12. 7. "Here was war in heaven: our felves, but Chrift Jefus the Michael and his Angels Lord; and our felves your fervants for Jefus fake. For God fought against the dragon, and who commanded the light to the dragon fought and his anfhine out of darkness, hath fli- gels; and prevailed not, neined in our hearts, to give the ther was their place found any light of the knowledge of the more in heaven. And the great glory of God, in the face of dragon was caft out, that old Jefus Chrift. ferpent, called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was caft out into the

The Gofpel. S. Matth. 9. 9.
Nd as Jefus paffed forth

THE

A from thence, he faw a carth, and his angels were

man named Matthew, fitting caft out with him. And I heard at the receit of cuftom: and a loud voice saying in heaven, he faith unto him, Follow me. Now is come falvation, and And hearofe, and followed him. ftrength, and the kingdom of And it came to pass, as Jefus our God, and the power of his fat at meat in the house, be- Chrift: for the accufer of our hold, many publicans and fin- brethren is caft down, which ners came and fat down with accused them before our God him and his difciples. And day and night. And they overwhen the Pharifees faw it, they came him by the word of the faid unto his difciples, Why Lamb, and by the blood of their

[ocr errors]

teftimony;

teftimony; and they loved not it is better for thee to enter intheir lives unto the death. to life with one eye, rather Therefore rejoyce, ye heavens, than having two eyes to be caft and ye that dwell in them. into hell-fire. Take heed that Wo to the inhabiters of the ye defpife not one of these earth, and of the fea : for the little ones; for I fay unto you, devil is come down unto you, that in heaven their angels having great wrath, because he do always behold the face of knoweth that he hath but a my Father which is in heafhort time.

The Gofpel. S. Matth. 18. 1.
T the fame time came the

A difciples unto Jefus, fay

ing, Who is the greatest in the

ven.

[blocks in formation]

Amighty God, who cal

kingdom of heaven? And Jefus ledit Luke the Physician, called a little child unto him, whose praise is in the Gofpel, and fet him in the midft of to be an Evangelift and Phyfithem, and said, Verily I fay un- cian of the foul; May it please to you, Except ye be converted, thee, that by the wholfom meand become as little children, dicines of the doctrine deliverye fhall not enter in king- ed by him, all the diseases of dom of heaven. Wnofoever our fouls may be healed thro' therefore fall humble himself the merits of thy Son Jefus as this little child, the fame is Christ our Lord. Amen. greatest in the kingdom of heavera. And whofo fhall receive endure afflictions, do The Epiftle. 2 Tim. 4.5. one fuch little child in my Watch thou in all things. Name, receiveth me. But whofo fhall offend one of thefe little ones which believe in me, I it were better for him that a, milftone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the fea. Wo unto the world becaufe of offences: for it muft needs be that offences come; but wo to that man by whom the of fence cometh. Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and caft them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be caft into everlafting fire. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and caft it from thee:

the work of an Evangelift, make full proof of thy miniftry. For am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my courfe, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous Judge fhall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them alfo that love his appearing. Do thy diligence to come fhortly unto me: For Demas hath forfaken me, having loved this prefent world, and is departed unto Theffalonica; Crefcens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and

:

[ocr errors]

bring him with thee: for he is felf being the head cornerprofitable to me for the mini- ftone; Grant us fo to be joyned ftry. And Tychicus have I fent together in unity of spirit by to Ephefus. The cloke that I their doctrine, that we may be left at Troas with Carpus, when made an holy temple acceptthou comeft, bring with thee, able unto thee, through Jefus and the books, but especially Christ our Lord. Amen. the parchments. Alexander the copper-fmith did me much The Epifle. S. Jude 1. evil the Lord reward him Ude the fervant of Jesus according to his works. Of Chrift,and brother of James, whom be thou ware alfo, for to them that are fanctified by he hath greatly withstood our God the Father, and preserved words. in Jefus Chrift, and called: The Gofpel. S. Luke 10. 1. Mercy unto you, and peace, and He Lord appointed other love be multiplied. Beloved, two and two before his face write unto you of the common into every city and place, whi- falvation, it was needful for me ther he himself would come. to write unto you, and exhort Therefore faid he unto them, you, tye fhould earnestly The harvest truly is great, but contena for the faith which was the labourers are few; pray ye once delivered unto the faints. therefore the Lord of the har- For there are certain men crept veft, that he would fend forth in unawares, who were before labourers into his harvest. Go of old ordained to this condemyour ways, behold, I fend you nation; ungodly men, turning forth as lambs among wolves. the grace of our God into lafciCarry neither purfe, nor fcrip, vioufnefs, and denying the onnor fhoes, and falute no man ly Lord God, and our Lord Je by the way. And into what- fus Chrift. I will therefore put foever houfe ye enter, firft fay, you in remembrance, though Peace be to this houfe. And if ye once knew this, how that the fon of peace be there, your the Lord having faved the peopeace fhall rest upon it: if not, ple out of the land of Egypt, it fhall turn to you again. And afterward deftroyed them that in the fame house remain, eat- believed not. And the angels ing and drinking fuch things as which kept not their first ethey give for the labourer is ftate, but left their own habiworthy of his hire. tation, he hath reserved in e-verlafting chains under darkSaint Simon and Saint Jude, nefs, unto the judgment of the

Apostles.

The Collect.

great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about

them, in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after ftrange flesh,are

Almighty God, who haft built thy Church upon the foundation of the Apoftles and Prophets, Jefus Chrift him- fet forth for an example, fuf

D

fering

fering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewife also these filthy dreamers defile the fem, de

All Saints Day.

The Collet.

[ocr errors]

fpife dominion, and speak evil Almighty God, who hast

of dignities.

knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowThe Gofpel. S. John 15.17. fhip, in the mystical body of Hefe things I command thy Son Chrift our Lord Trout, that ye love one ano- Grant us grace fo to follow ther. If the world hate you, thy bleffed faints in all virtuye know that it hated me be- ous and godly living, that we fore it hated you. If ye were may come to those unspeakable of the world, the world would joys, which thou hast prepared love his own but because ye for them that unfeignedly love are not of the world, but I have thee, through Jesus Christ our chofen you out of the world, Lord. Amen. therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I faid unto you, The fervant is not

For the Epiftle. Rev. 7. 2.
Nd 1 another angel

greater than the Lord; if they A afcending from the cat,

have perfecuted me, they will having the feal of the living alfo perfecute you; if they God, and he cried with a loud have kept my faying, they will voice to the four angels, to keep yours alfo. But all thefe whom it was given to hurt the things will they do unto you for earth and the sea, saying, Hurt my Names fake, because they not the earth, neither the tea, know not him that fent me. If I nor the trees, till we have had not come and spoken unto fealed the fervants of our them, they had not had fin: God in their foreheads. And but now they have no cloke for I heard the number of them their fin. He that hateth me, which were fealed; and there hateth my Father alfo. If I had were fealed an hundred and not done among them the works forty and four thousand, of all which none other man did,they the tribes of the children of had not had fin, but now have Ifrael. they both feen, and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pafs, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law,They hated me without a caufe. But when 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 teftifie of me. And ye alfo fhall bear witnefs, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

Of the tribe of Juda were fealed twelve thousand.

Of the tribe of Reuben were fealed twelve thousand.

Of the tribe of Gad were fealed twelve thousand.

Of the tribe of Afer were fealed twelve thoufand.

Of the tribe of Nephthalim were fealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manaffes were fealed twelve thousand.

Of the tribe of Simeon were fealed twelve thousand.

« EdellinenJatka »