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if thou bring thy gift to the to iniquity, unto iniquity;

altar, and there remembereft that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; left at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be caft into prison. Verily I fay unto thee, thou fhalt by no means come out thence, till thou haft paid the uttermoft farthing.

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ORD of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things; graft in our hearts the love of thy name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the fame, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Epifle. Rom. vi. 19. Speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members fervants to uncleannefs, and

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even fo now yield your members fervants to righteousness, unto holiness. For when ye were the fervants of fin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in thofe things, whereof ye are now afhamed? for the end of thofe things is death. But now being made free from fin, and become fervants to God, ye have your fruit unto holinefs, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of fin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Gofpel. St. Mark viii. 1. N those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jefus called his difciples unto him, and faith unto them, I have compaffion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat and if I fend them away fafting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. And his difciples answered him, From whence can a man fatisfy thefe ment with bread here in the wildernefs? And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they faid, Seven. And he commanded the people to fit down on the ground and

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we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our fpirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs ; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Chrift: if fo be that we fuffer with him, that we may alfo be glorified together.

he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his difciples to fet before them; and they did fet them before the people. And they had a few fmall fishes; and he bleffed, and commanded to fet them alfo before them. So they did eat, and were filled; and they took up The Gospel. St. Matth. vii. 15.

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The Eighth Sunday after Trinity.

The Collect.

in theeps cloathing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye fhall know them

by their fruits: Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thiftles? Even fo every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit; neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down, and caft into the fire. Wherefore RETHREN, we are by their fruits ye fhall know

God, whose never-failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth; we humbly befeech thee to put away from us all hurtful things, and to give us thofe things which are profitable for us, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epifle. Rom. viii. 12.

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fhall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father, who is in heaven.

to live after the flesh: For if faith unto me, Lord, Lord, ye live after the flesh, ye fhall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit

of God, they are the fons of The Ninth Sunday after Trinity.

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The Collect.

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fuch things as are right; that we who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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ftroyed of ferpents. Neither murmur ye, as fome of them alfo murmured, and were deftroyed of the deftroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for enfamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he ftandeth, take heed left he fall. There hath no temptation taken you, but fuch as is common to man : but God is faithful, who will not fuffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

The Gofpel. St. Luke xvi. 1.

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1 Cor. x. I. RETHREN, I would not that ye fhould be ignorant, how that all our Fathers were under the cloud, and all paffed through the fea; and were all baptized unto Mofes in the cloud, and in the fea; and did all eat the fame fpiritual meat, and did all drink the fame fpiritual drink; (for they drank of that fpiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was Chrift.) But with many of them God was not well pleased; for they were rich man who had a steward; overthrown in the wilderness. and the fame was accused Now these things were our unto him, that he had wasted examples, to the intent we his goods. And he called him, fhould not luft after evil and said unto him, How is it things, as they alfo lufted. that I hear this of thee? Give Neither be ye idolaters, as an account of thy ftewardwere fome of them as it is fhip; for thou mayest be no written, The people fat down longer steward. Then the to eat and drink, and rofe up fteward faid within himself, to play. Neither let us com- What shall I do? for my lord mit fornication, as fome of taketh away from me the them committed, and fell in stewardship: I cannot dig; one day three and twenty to beg I am afhamed. I am thousand. Neither let us refolved what to do, that tempt Chrift, as fome of them when I am put out of the. alfo tempted, and were de- ftewardship, they may receive

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me into their houses. So he know that ye were Gentiles, called every one of his lord's carried away unto thefe dumb debtors unto him, and faid idols even as ye were led. unto the firft, How much Wherefore I give you to unowéft thou unto my lord? derftand, that no man, speakAnd he said, An hundred ing by the Spirit of God, calmeasures of oil. And he faid leth Jefus accurfed; and that unto him, Take thy bill, and no man can fay that Jefus is fit down quickly, and write the Lord, but by the Holy fifty. Then faid he to another, Ghoft. Now there are diver And how much oweft thou? fities of gifts, but the fame And he faid, An hundred mea- fpirit. And there are differfures of wheat. And he faid ences of administrations, but unto him, Take thy bill, and the fame Lord. And there write fourfcore. And the lord are diverfities of operations, commended the unjuft ftew- but it is the fame God, who ard, because he had done wife- worketh all in all. But the ly: for the children of this world manifeftation of the Spirit is are in their generation wifer given to every man to profit than the children oflight. And withal. For to one is given Ifay unto you, Make to your- by the Spirit the word of felves friends of the mammon wifdom; to another, the of unrighteoufnefs; that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

The Tenth Sunday after Trinity.
The Collect.

ET thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of thy humble fervants; and that they may obtain their petitions, make them to afk fuch things as fhall please thee, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epifle. Cor. xii. 1. ONCERNING fpiritual gifts, brethren, I would

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word of knowledge by the fame Spirit; to another, faith by the fame Spirit; to another, the gifts of healing by the fame Spirit; to another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, difcerning of fpirits; to another, divers kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues. But all thefe worketh that one and the felf-fame Spirit, dividing to every man feverally as he will.

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not have you ignorant. Ye city, and wept over it, faying,

If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days fhall come upon thee, that thine enemies fhall caft a trench about thee, and compafs thee round, and keep thee in on every fide, and fhall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee: and they fhall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou kneweft not the time of thy vifitation. And he went into the temple, and began to caft out them that fold therein, and them that bought, faying unto them, It is written, My houfe is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. And he taught daily in the temple.

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The Epiftle. 1 Cor. xv. 1. RETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which alfo ye have received, and wherein ye ftand; by which alfo ye are faved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you firft of all, that which I alforeceived, how that Christ died for ourfins, according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried; and that he rofe again the third day, according to the Scriptures; and that he was feen of Cephas; then of the twelve: After that, he was feen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this prefent; but fome are fallen afleep. After that he was feen of James; then of all the Apostles: and last of all

The Eleventh Sunday after he was feen of me alfo, as of

Trinity.

The Colle&t.

God, who declareft thy Almighty power chiefly in fhowing mercy and pity; mercifully grant unto us fuch a measure of thy grace, that we, running the way of thy commandments, may obtain thy gracious promifes, and be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

one born out of due time. For I am the leaft of the Apoftles, that am not meet to be called an Apoftle, because I perfecuted the Church of God. But, by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace, which was beftowed upon me, was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore, whether it were I, or they, fo we preach, and fo ye believed.

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