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women that followed him from | and reigneth with thee and the Galilee, stood afar off, behold- HOLY SPIRIT, one God, world ing these things. without end.

GOOD FRIDAY,

The Collects.

Amen.

The Epistle. Heb. x. 1.

THE law having a shadow

ALMIGHTY GOD, we be- of good things to come, and not seech thee graciously to behold the very image of the things, this thy family, for which our can never, with those sacrifices Lord JESUS CHRIST was conwhich they offered year by year tented to be betrayed, and given continually, make the comers up into the hands of wicked thereunto perfect. For then, men, and to suffer death upon would they not have ceased the cross, who now liveth and to be offered? because that reigneth with thee and the the worshippers, once purged, HOLY GHOST, ever one Gop, should have had no more conworld without end.

Amen.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting GOD, by whose Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified; receive our supplications and prayers, which we offer before thee for all estates of men in thy holy Church, that every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry, may truly and godly serve thee, through our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST. Amen.

science of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure: then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) O MERCIFUL GOD, who to do thy will, O GOD. Above, hast made all men, and hatest when he said, Sacrifice, and nothing that thou hast made, offering, and burnt-offerings, nor desirest the death of a sin- and offering for sin, thou ner, but rather that he should wouldest not, neither hadst be converted and live; have pleasure therein, which are mercy upon all Jews, Turks, offered by the law; then said Infidels, and Heretics; and he, Lo, I come to do thy will, take from them all ignorance, O GOD. He taketh away the hardness of heart, and contempt first, that he may establish the of thy word; and so fetch them second. By the which will we home, blessed LORD, to thy are sanctified, through the offerflock, that they may be saved ing of the body of JESUS CHRIST among the remnant of the true once for all. And every priest Israelites, and be made one standeth daily ministering and fold under one Shepherd, JESUS offering oftentimes the same CHRIST Our Lord, who liveth | sacrifices, which can never take

the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then came JESUS forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate

away sins. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified: whereof the HOLY GHOST also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the LORD; I will put my saith unto them, Behold the laws into their hearts, and in man. When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him; for I find no fault in him.

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of GoD.

their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now, where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of JESUS, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through When Pilate therefore the vail, that is to say, his flesh; heard that saying, he was the and having an high priest over more afraid; and went again the house of GOD; let us draw into the judgment-hall, and saith near with a true heart, in full unto JESUS, Whence art thou? assurance of faith, having our But JESUS gave him no answer. hearts sprinkled from an evil Then saith Pilate unto him, conscience, and our bodies Speakest thou not unto me? washed with pure water. Let Knowest thou not that I have us hold fast the profession of power to crucify thee, and have our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) and let us consider one another to provoke unto love, and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves toge-livered me unto thee hath the ther, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching,

The Gospel. St. John xix. 1.

PILATE therefore took JESUS, and scourged him. And

power to release thee? JESUS answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above; therefore he that de

greater sin. And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Cæsar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king, speaketh against Cæsar. When Pilate therefore heard

that saying, he brought JESUS | themselves, Let us not rend it, forth, and sat down in the but cast lots for it, whose it judgment-seat, in a place that shall be that the Scripture is called the Pavement, but in might be fulfilled, which saith, the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And They parted my raiment among it was the preparation of the them, and for my vesture they passover, and about the sixth did cast lots. These things hour and he saith unto the therefore the soldiers did. Now Jews, Behold your King. But there stood by the cross of they cried out, Away with him, JESUS, his mother, and his away with him, crucify him. mother's sister, Mary the wife Pilate saith unto them, Shall I of Cleophas, and Mary Magdacrucify your King? The chief lene. When JESUS, therefore, priests answered, We have no saw his mother, and the disciple king but Cæsar. Then delivered standing by whom he loved, he he him therefore unto them to saith unto his mother, Woman, be crucified and they took behold thy son. Then saith JESUS, and led him away. And he to the disciple, Behold thy he, bearing his cross, went mother. And from that hour forth into a place called the that disciple took her unto his place of a skull, which is called own home. After this, JESUS in the Hebrew Golgotha; where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and JESUS in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross; and the writing was, JESUS OF NA-gar, and put it upon hyssop, ZARETH, THE KING OF and put it to his mouth. When THE JEWS. This title then JESUS, therefore, had received read many of the Jews; for the the vinegar, he said, It is finishplace where JESUS was crucified ed: and he bowed his head, was nigh to the city; and it and gave up the ghost. The was written in Hebrew, and Jews, therefore, because it was Greek, and Latin. Then said the preparation, that the bodies the chief priests of the Jews to should not remain upon the Pilate, Write not, The King of cross on the sabbath-day, (for the Jews; but that he said, I that sabbath-day was an high am King of the Jews. Pilate day) besought Pilate that their answered, What I have written, legs might be broken, and that I have written. Then the sol- they might be taken away. diers, when they had crucified Then came the soldiers and JESUS, took his garments, (and brake the legs of the first, and made four parts, to every soldier of the other which was crucified a part) and also his coat: now with him. But when they came the coat was without seam, to JESUS, and saw that he was woven from the top throughout. dead already, they brake not his They said therefore among legs. But one of the soldiers

knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar and they filled a sponge with vine

with a spear pierced his side, | were saved by water. The like and forthwith came thereout figure whereunto, even Baptism, blood and water. And he that doth also now save us (not the saw it bare record, and his putting away the filth of the record is true: and he knoweth flesh, but the answer of a good that he saith true, that ye might conscience towards GoD) by the believe. For these things were resurrection of JESUS CHRIST: done, that the Scripture should who is gone into heaven, and be fulfilled, A bone of him shall is on the right hand of GoD; not be broken. And again angels, and authorities, and another Scripture saith, They powers, being made subject shall look on him whom they unto him. pierced.

EASTER-EVEN.

The Collect.

The Gospel. St. Matt. xxvii. 57.

WHEN the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, GRANT, O LORD, that as we who also himself was JESUS' are baptized into the death of disciple: he went to Pilate, thy blessed Son our Saviour and begged the body of JESUS. JESUS CHRIST, so by continual Then Pilate commanded the mortifying our corrupt affec- body to be delivered. And tions, we may be buried with when Joseph had taken the him; and that through the grave body, he wrapped it in a clean and gate of death we may pass linen cloth, and laid it in his to our joyful resurrection, for own new tomb, which he had his merits, who died, and was hewn out in the rock; and he buried, and rose again for us, rolled a great stone to the door thy Son JESUS CHRIST our of the sepulchre, and departed. Lord. Amen. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead; so the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a

The Epistle. 1 St. Peter iii. 17. IT is better, if the will of GOD be so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing. For CHRIST also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, (that he might bring us to GoD) being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of GoD waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing; wherein few, that is, eight souls,

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watch; go your way, make it we humbly beseech thee, that as sure as you can. So they as, by thy special grace prewent and made the sepulchre venting us, thou dost put into sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

EASTER-DAY,

At Morning Prayer, instead of the Psalm, (O come let us sing, &c.) these anthems shall be sung or said.

CHRIST our passover is sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the feast;

Not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness ; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Cor. v. 7.

CHRIST being raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

For in that he died, he died unto sin once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin; but alive unto GoD through JESUS CHRIST Lord. Rom. vi. 9,

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CHRIST is risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die; even so in CHRIST shall all be made alive. 1 Cor. xv. 20.

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY GOD, who through thine only begotten Son JESUS CHRIST hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life;

our minds good desires; so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord; who liveth and reignetha with thee and the HOLY GHOST, ever one GoD, world without end. Amen.

The Epistle. Col. iii. 1.

IF ye then be risen with CHRIST, seek those things which are above, where CHRIST sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth: for ye are dead, and your life is hid with CHRIST in GOD. When CHRIST, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry for which things' sake the wrath of GoD cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them.

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The Gospel. St. John xx. 1.

THE first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early when it was yet dark, unto th sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom JESUS loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not

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