ed, O God: depart from me, ye For they speak unrighteous- Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? Yea, I hate them right sore: even as though they were mine enemies. Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart : prove me, and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me and lead me in the way everlasting. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c. Lauda, anima mea. Psalm cxlvi. PRAISE the Lord, (0 my soul;) while I live will I praise the Lord: yea, as long as I have any being I will sing praises unto my God. O put not your trust in princhild of man : ces, nor in any for there is no help in them. For when the breath of man goeth forth he shall turn again to his earth and then all his thoughts perish. Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God; Which made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever; Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong: which feedeth the hungry. The Lord looseth men out of prison: the Lord giveth sight to the blind. The Lord helpeth them up that are fallen: the Lord careth for the righteous. The Lord careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow as for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down. The Lord thy God, O Sion, shall be King for evermore : and throughout all generations. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c. Then shall follow this Lesson, taken out of the fifteenth chapter to the Corinthians, the first Epistle. CHRIST is risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For by a man came death, and by a man came the resurrection of the dead. For as by Adam all die, even so by Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order the first is Christ, then they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he hath delivered up the kingdom to God the Father; when he hath put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. When all things are subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. Else what do they which are baptized over the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized over them? yea, and why stand we alway then in jeopardy? By our rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesu our Lord, I die daily. That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, after the manner of men, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die. Be not ye deceived: evil words corrupt good manners. Awake truly out of sleep, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame. But some man will say, How arise the dead? with what body shall they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And what sowest thou? Thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare corn, as of wheat zor of some other: but God giveth it a body at his pleasure, to every seed his own body. All flesh is not one manner of flesh; but there is one manner of flesh of men, a another manner of flesh of beasts, b another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and there are bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one manner glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another in glory. So is the resurrection of the dead: it is sown in corruption; it riseth again in incorruption : it is sown in dishonour; it riseth again in honour: it is sown in weakness; it riseth again in power: it is sown a natural body; it riseth again a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body: as it is also written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; and the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit, that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and then that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven (heavenly). As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly. This say I, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit uncorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, and that in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, by the last trump; for the trump shall blow, and the dead shall rise incorruptible, and we z or some other 1552. of fishes 1552. b and other a and other manner of flesh 1552. c and other of birds 1552. shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. When this corruptible hath put on incorruption, and this mortal hath put on immortality; then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is thy sting? Hell, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be unto God, which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. There fore, my dear brethren, be ye steadfast and unmovable, always rich in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know how that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Cor. xv. The Lesson ended, ethen shall the Priest say, Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Our Father which art in heaven, &c. Answer. But deliver us from evil. Amen. Priest. Enter not (O Lord) into judgment with thy servant. Answer. For in thy sight no living creature shall be justified. Priest. From the gates of hell. Answer. Deliver their souls, O Lord. Priest. I believe to see the goodness of the Lord. Answer. In the land of the living. Priest. O Lord, graciously hear my prayer. Answer. And let my cry come unto thee. Let us pray. O LORD, with whom do live the spirits of them that be dead, The Priest. ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of e the Priest shall say 1552. and in whom the souls of them that be elected, after they be delivered from the burden of the flesh, be in joy and felicity; Grant unto this thy servant, that the sins which he committed in this world be not imputed unto him; but that he, escaping the gates of hell, and pains of eternal darkness, may ever dwell in the region of light, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the place where is no weeping, sorrow, nor heaviness; and when that dreadful day of the general resurrection shall come, make him to rise also with the just and righteous, and receive this body again to glory, then made pure and incorruptible. Set him on the right hand of thy Son Jesus Christ, among thy holy and elect, that then he may hear with them these most sweet and comfortable words, Come to me, ye blessed of my Father, possess the kingdom which hath been prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Grant this, we beseech thee, Omerciful Father, through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen. them that depart hence in the Lord, and in whom the souls of them that be elected, after they be delivered from the burden of the flesh, be in joy and felicity; We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this N. our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world; beseeching thee, that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to haste thy kingdom; that we, with this our brother, and all other departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory. Amen. The Collect. O MERCIFUL God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life; in whom whosoever believeth shall live, though he die; and whosoever liveth and believeth in him, shall not die |