no more. I will make with them after those 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 Now where remiffion of these 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 flesh 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, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profeffion of our faith without wavering: (for he is faithful that promifed) And let us confider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forfaking the affembling of ourselves together, as the manner of fome is; but exhorting one another: and fo much the more, fee the day approaching. as ye PILA The Gospel. St John xix. 1. ILATE therefore took 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 officers faw him, they cried out, faying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate faith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him. The Jews anfwered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himfelf the Son of God. When Pilate therefore heard that faying, he was the more afraid; and went again into the judgment hall, and faith unto Jefus, Whence art thou? But Jefus gave him no answer. Then faith Pilate unto him, Speakeft thou not unto me? knoweft thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to releafe thee? Jefus anfwered, Thou couldeft have ne power 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 judgment-feat, 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: and he faith unto the Jews, Behold your king. But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate faith unto them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests anfwered, We have no king but Cæfar. Then delivered he him. therefore unto them to be crucified and they took Jefus, and led him away. And he, bearing his crofs, went forth into a place called the place of a fkull, which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha: where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either fide one, and Jefus in the midft. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the crofs. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where 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 answered, 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 also his coat: now the coat was without feam, woven from the top throughout. 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 crofs of Jefus, his mother, and his mother's fifter, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jefus therefore faw his mother, and the dif ciple standing by whom he loved, he faith unto his mother, Woman, Woman, behold thy fon. Then faith he to the difciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour that difciple took her unto his own home. After this, Jefus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, faith, I thirst. Now there was fet a vessel full of 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 faid, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghoft. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the crofs on the fabbath day (for that fabbath-day was an high 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 first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jefus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs. But one of the foldiers with a fpear pierced 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 Scripture faith, They fhall look on him whom they pierced, G Eafter-Even. The Collect. RANT, 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 pass to our joyful refurrection, for his merits, who died and was buried, and rofe again for us, thy Son Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. PARAPHRASE. On the COLLECT for Eafter-Eve. O Lord, we intreat thee to grant that as we are baptized into our Saviour's death, (Rom. xi. 6, 2.) fo by mortifying our inordinate affections, (Col. Tis better, if the will of God be fo, that ye fuffer for once fuffered for fins, the juft for the unjuft; (that he might bring us to God) being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which alfo he went and preached unto the fpirits in prifon; which fometime were difobedient, when once the long fuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing; wherein few, that is eight fouls, were faved by water. The like figure whereunto, even baptifm doth alfo now fave us (not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good confcience towards God) by the refurrection of Jefus Chrift: who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God, angels, and authorities, and powers being made fubject unto him. WH The Gofpel. St Matth. xxvii. 57. HEN the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Jofeph, who also himself was Jefus difciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jefus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be deli vered. And when Jofeph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great ftone to the door of the fepulchre, and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, fitting over against the fepulchre. Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priefts and Pharifees came together unto Pilate, faying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver faid, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rife again. Command therefore that the fepulchre be made fure until the third day, left his dif PARA PHRASE. (Col. iii. 5.) we may likewise be buried with him, (Rom. vi. 4 ) so that we may pafs through death, as a gate opened to admit us to a joyful refurrection, through the merits of Jefus Chrift, who died for our fins, and zole again for our juftification, (Rom. iv. 25.) Amen. PARA. ciples come by night, and fteal him away, and fay unto the people, He is rifen from the dead: fo the laft error fhall be worfe than the firft. Pilate faid unto them, Ye have a watch, go your way, make it as fure as you can. So they went and made the fepulchre fure, fealing the ftone, and fetting a watch. Eafter-day. At morning Prayer, inftead of the Pfalm, [O come, let us, &c.] thefe Anthems fhall be fung or faid: C HRIST our paffover is facrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feaft. Not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickednefs: but with the unleavened bread of fincerity and truth. 1 Cor. v. 7. C HRIST being raised from the dead, dieth no more: death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto fin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewife reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto fin: but alive unto God, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Rom. vi. 9. PARAPHRASE. On the first ANTHEM for Eafter-Day. Chrift, our pafchal lamb, is facrificed for us, let us therefore celebrate a feaft as the Jews did, but not with the leaven of the Jewish law, (1 Cor. 5. 7.) nor with that finful leaven wherewith our Saviour reproaches the Pharifees, (Matt. xvi. 6. Mark viii. 15.) but with the unleavened bread of fincerity and real piety, which is required of us by the holy religion that we profefs, as chriftians, Paraphrafe on the fecond ANTHEM for Eafter-Day. Chrift being risen from the dead, cannot die any more, having fubdued death by his divine power, and afcended into heaven, a place to which the dominion of death does not extend; forafmuch as it was requifite for him to die once, to expiate the fins of the world, fo the death of fuch a perfon was abundantly fufficient to make atonement for the fins of all men and forafmuch as he now liveth, he liveth for ever in the eternal glory of the Father: I therefore exhort you to improve this truth for your edification. Be alfo dead unto fin, and endeavour totally to lofe all per crption |