fetch them home, bleffed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be faved among the remnant of the true Ifraelites, and be made one fold under one Shepherd, Jefus Chrift our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. The Epiftle. Heb. x. 1. TH HE law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never with thofe facrifices which they of fered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect. For then, would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers, once purged, fhould have had no more confcience of fins, But in thofe facrifices there is a remembrance again made of fins every year. For it is not poffible that the blood of bulls and of goats fhould take away fins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he faith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldeft not, but a body haft thou prepared me: In burntofferings and facrifices for fin thou haft had no pleasure Then faid I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. Above, when he faid, Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and offering for fin, thou wouldeft not, neither hadft pleafure therein, which are offered by the law; Then faid he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the fecond. By and our bodies washed with the which will we are fanctified, pure water. Let us hold faft through the offering of the the profeffion of our faith, body of Jefus Chrift once for without wavering; (for he is all. And every prieft ftandeth faithful that promifed;) and daily miniftering and offering let us confider one another to oftentimes the fame facrifices, provoke unto love, and to which can never take away good works; not forfaking the fins. But this man, after affembling of ourfelves togehe had offered one facrifice ther, as the manner of fome is; for fins, for ever fat down on but exhorting one another: the right hand of God; from and fo much the more, as ye henceforth expecting till his fee the day approaching. enemies be made his footftool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are fanctified: whereof the Holy Ghoft alfo is a witnefs to us: For after that he had faid before, this is the covenant that I will make with them afterthofe days, faith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their fins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now, that Now, where remiffion of thefe is, there is no more offering for fin. Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holieft by the blood of Jefus, by a new and living way, which he hath confecrated for us through the vail, that is to fay, his fiefh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart, in full affurance of faith, having our hearts fprinkled from an evil confcience, The Gospel. St. John xix. 1. ILATE therefore took P. Jefus, and fcourged him. And the foldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, and faid, Hail, king of the Jews! And they. fmote him with their hands. Pilate therefore went forth again, and faith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then came Jefus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate faith unto them, Behold the man. When the chief priests therefore and offi H cers cers faw him, they cried out, and he faith unto the Jews, faying, Crucify him, crucify Behold your King. But they hima. Pilate faith unto them, cried out, Away with him, Take ye him, and crucify him; away with him, crucify him. for I find no fault in him. The Pilate faith unto them, Shall Jews anfwered him,We have a I crucify your King? The law, and by our law he ought chief priefts answered, We to die, because he made him- have no king but Cæfar. felf the Son of God. When Then delivered he him therePilate therefore heard that fore unto them to be crucifaying, he was the more afraid; fied: and they took Jefus, and went again into the judg- and led him away. And he, ment-ball, and faith unto Je- bearing his cross, went forth fus, Whence art thou? But into a place called the place Jefus gave him no anfwer. of a kull, which is called Then faith Pilate unto him, in the Hebrew, Golgotha; Speakeft thou not unto me? where they crucified him, and Knoweft thou not that I have two other with him, on either power to crucify thee, and fide one, and Jefus in the have power to releafe thee? Jefus answered, Thou couldeft have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above; therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater fin. And from thenceforth Pilate fought to release him; but the Jews cried out, faying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Cæfar's friend: Whofoever maketh himfelf a king, fpeaketh against Cæfar. When Pilate therefore heard that faying, he brought Jefus forth, and fat down in the judgmentfeat, in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation of the paffover, and about the fixth hour: midft. And Pilate wrote atitle and put it on the crols; and the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews; for the place were Jefus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then faid the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, the King of the Jews; but that he faid, I am the King of the Jews. Pilate anfwered, What I have written, I have written. Then the foldiers, when they had crucified Jefus, took his garments, (and made four parts, to every foldier a part) and alfo his coat: now the coat was without feam, woven from the top through- that fabbath-day was an high out. They faid therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but caft lots for it, whofe it fhall be: that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which faith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did caft lots. These things therefore the foldiers did. Now there ftood by the cross of Jefus, his mother, and his mother's fifter, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jefus therefore faw his mother, and the difciple ftanding by, whom he loved, he faith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy fon. Then faith he to the difciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. After this, Jefus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, faith, I thirft. Now there was fet a veffel full of day) befought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the foldiers and brake the legs of the firft, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jefus, and faw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs. But one of the foldiers with a fpearpierced his fide, and forthwith came thereout blood and water. And he that faw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he faith true, that ye might believe. For thefe things were done, that the Scripture fhould be fulfilled, A bone of him fhall not be broken. And again, another fcripture faith, They fhall look on him whom they pierced. Eafter-Even. GRANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy bleffed Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift, fo by continual mortifying our corrupt affections, we may be buried with him; and that through the grave and gate of death we may pafs to our joyful refurrection, for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rofe again for us, thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. H 2 vinegar: and they filled a fpunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyffop, and put it to his mouth. When Jefus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghoft. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies fhould not remain upon the crofs on the fabbath-day, (for The It The Epifle. 1 St. Pet. iii. 17. had taken the body, he wrapT is better, if the will of ped it in a clean linen cloth, God be fo, that ye fuffer and laid it in his own new for well-doing, than for evil- tomb, which he had hewn doing. For Chrift alfo hath out in the rock; and he rolled once fuffered for fins, the juft a great ftone to the door of for the unjuft (that he might the fepulchre, and departed. bring us to God) being put And there was Mary Magdato death in the flesh, but lene, and the other Mary, fitquickened by the fpirit: by ting over against the fepulwhich alfo he went and chre. Now the next day that preached unto the fpirits in followed the day of the preprifon; which fometime were paration, the chief priefts and difobedient, when once the Pharifees came together unto long-fuffering of God waited Pilate, faying, Sir, we rememin the days of Noah, while ber that that deceiver said, the ark was a preparing; while he was yet alive, After wherein few, that is, eight three days I will rife again. fouls, were faved by water. Command therefore that the The like figure whereunto, fepulchre be made fure until even Baptifm, doth alfo now the third day, left his difcifave us (not the putting away ples come by night, and steal the filth of the flesh, but the him away, and fay unto the anfwer of a good confcience people, He is rifen from the towards God) by the refurrec- dead; fo the laft error shall be tion of Jefus Chrift: Who is worfe than the first. Pilate gone into heaven, and is on the faid unto them, Ye have a right hand of God; angels, watch; go your way, make it as fure as you can. So they and authorities, and powers, being made subject unto him. went and made the fepulchre fure, fealing the ftone, and fetting a watch. The Gospel. St. Matt. xxvii. 57. HEN the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Jofeph, who alfo himself was Jefus difciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jefus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Jofeph Eafter-Day. |