but to minifter, and to give them fhould be accounted the his life a ransom for many. Saint Bartholomew the Apostle. The Collect. greatest. And he faid unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise Oing God, who did give authority upon them are cal to thine Apostle Bartholomew BY the led benefactors. But ye shall grace truly to believe and to not be fo: but he that is preach thy Word; grant, we greatest among you, let him befeech thee, unto thy Church, be as the younger; and he to love that Word which he that is chief, as he that doth believed; and both to preach ferve. For whether is greater, and receive the fame, through he that fitteth at meat, or he Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. that ferveth? is not he that For the Epifle. Acts v. 12. fitteth at meat? but I am Y the hands of the Apof- among you as he that ferveth. tles were many figns and Ye are they which have conwonders wrought among tinued with me in my temptapeople (and they were all with tions. And I appoint unto one accord in Solomon's porch. you a kingdom, as my father And of the reft durft no man hath appointed unto me; that join himself to them; but the ye may eat and drink at my people magnified them. And table in my kingdom, and fit believers were the more added on thrones, judging the twelve to the Lord, multitudes both tribes of Ifrael. of men and women) infomuch that they brought forth the fick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the fhadow of Peter paffing by might overfhadow fome of them. There came alfo a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerufalem, bringing fick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits; and they were healed every one. The Gofpel. St. Luke xxii.24. ND there was alfo aftrife among them, which of A Saint Matthew the Apoftle. The Collect. Almighty God, who by thy bleffed Son didft call Matthew from the receipt of cuftom, to be an Apoftle and Evangelift; grant us grace to forfake all covetous defires, and inordinate love of riches; 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. The The Epifile. TH 2 Cor. iv. 1. finners came and fat down HEREFORE, feeing with him and his difciples. we have this miniftry, as And when the Pharifees faw we have received mercy, we it, they said unto his difciples, faint not; but have renounc- Why eateth your Mafter with ed the hidden things of dif- publicans and finners? But honefty, not walking in craf- when Jefus heard that, he said tinefs, nor handling the Word unto them, They that be of God deceitfully, but by whole, need not a physician, manifestation of the truth, but they that are fick. commending ourselves to every go ye and learn what that man's confcience in the fight meaneth, I will have mercy, of God. But if our gofpel be and not facrifice; for I am not hid, it is hid to them that come to call the righteous, are loft: In whom the God but finners to repentance. of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, left the light of the glori the image of God, thould shine unto them. For we But St. Michael and all Angels. The Collect. have bating God, who ftituted the fervices of Angels For the Epifle. Rev. xii. 7. A from thence, he faw a Angels fought against the dra- man named Matthew fitting at the receipt of cuftom: and he faith unto him, follow me. And he arofe, and followed him. And it came to pafs, as Jefus fat at meat in the house, behold many publicans and gon; and the dragon fought which deceiveth the whole world; he was caft out into the earth, and his angels were caft out with him. And I heard a loud voice faying in heaven, Now is come falvation and ftrength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Chrift: for the accufer of our brethren is caft down, which accufed them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their teftimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the fea for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a fhort time. A The Gospel. St. Matth. xviii. I. T the fame time came the difciples unto Jefus, faying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jefus called a little child unto him, and fet him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I fay unto you, Except be converted, and become ye as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of eft in the kingdom of heaven. And whofo fhall receive one fuch little child in my Name, receiveth me. But whofo fhall offend one of thefe little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a milftone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the fea. Woe unto the world because of offences: for it must needs be that offences come: but woe to that man by whom the offence 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 everlasting fire. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be caft into hell-fire. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I fay unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. Saint Luke the Evangelift. The Collect. LMIGHTY God, who heaven. Whofoever therefore A calledit Luke the Phy fhall humble himself as this fician, whofe praise is in the little child, the fame is great- Gofpel, to be an Evangelist and WA I T and Phyfician of the foul; may Alexander the copperfmith few pray ye therefore the miniftry. And Tychicus have I fent to Ephefus. The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comeft, bring with thee, and the books, but efpecially the parchments. Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apoftles. The Collect. the foundation of the Apof- them that believed not. And tles and Prophets, Jefus Chrift the angels which kept not himself being the head corner their firft eftate, but left their ftone; grant us fo to be own habitation, he hath rejoined together in unity of ferved in everlasting chains. fpirit by their doctrine, that under darkness, unto the we may be made an holy judgment of the great day. temple acceptable unto thee, Even as Sodom and Gothrough Jefus Chrift our morrha, and the cities about them, in like manner giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are fet forth for an example, fuffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewife also these filthy dream Lord. Amen. The Epiftle. St. Jude i. JUH TH UDE, the fervant of Jefus Chrift, and brother of James, to them that are fanctified by God the Father, and preferved in Jefus Chrift, ers defile the flesh, defpife and called: Mercy unto dominion, and speak evil of you, and peace and love be dignities. multiplied. Beloved, when The Gospel. St. John xv. 17. I gave all diligence to write HESE things I comunto you of the common falmand you, that ye love vation, it was needful for me one another. If the world to write unto you, and exhort hate you, ye know that it you, that ye fhould earneftly hated me before it hated you. contend for the faith which If ye were of the world, the was once delivered unto the world would love his own: faints. For there are certain but because ye are not of the men crept in unawares, who world, but I have chofen you were before of old ordained out of the world, therefore to this condemnation; un- the world hateth you. godly men, turning the grace member the word that I faid of our God into lasciviousness, unto you, The fervant is not and denying the only Lord greater than his lord; if they God, and our Lord Jefus have perfecuted me, they will Chrift. I will therefore put alfo perfecute you; if they you in remembrance, though have kept my faying, they will ye once knew this, how that keep your's alfo. But all these the Lord having faved the things will they do unto you people out of the land of for my Name's fake, because Egypt, afterward deftroyed they know not him that fent Re me. |